St. Francis was accepted into the church by the bishop as an advocate of the poor and went on to found a religious order that’s still active globally today, the Franciscans. For Assisi’s ...

But St. Mary was one of Francis' favorite places in Rome and a church with deep personal significance to him. “It's especially beautiful because of Pope Francis' love for the basilica of Mary ...

Hundreds of priests, diplomats and community members gathered at the Church of St. Francis in the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi for a special memorial dedicated to the late Pope. During his ...

She smelled like lemons. I was raised at Baltimore’s St. Francis Xavier Church, the oldest Black Catholic church in Maryland — a gray, gothic structure heavy with history, joy and contradiction.

Through charmingly uplifting performances, depicting unrelenting determination in the face of hard knocks, St. Francis Xavier High School’s timely production of Annie proves that even in the darkest ...

In Bend, clergy at St. Francis of Assisi Church remembered Francis as a humble and compassionate leader, who set an example for others to follow. Francis died Monday at the age of 88, one day ...

A picture of Pope Francis sits at the front of Bellarmine Chapel at Xavier University, marking a space where people can gather to pray and reflect on his legacy. "It's going to be a moment of ...

I FEEL LIKE GOD WILL LEAD THEM IN THE RIGHT WAY Many students went to St. Ignatius Church in Mount Vernon on Tuesday night to pray and reflect on the legacy of Pope Francis, who died Monday at the ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

Mr Cutri was one of “nearly a thousand” people that attended a special mass at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide ... while he was singing in his church choir. He brought his son Sanea ...

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- As the sun rose on St. Michael the Archangel Church in Cary, thousands of Catholics and Christians worldwide said their final farewell to Pope Francis. "They've been praying ...