When you meet a guy, for example, like Francis of Assisi. Genius or crackpot? Both. Sensuous embracer of life or ...

While "synodality" might be a new concept to Catholics surprised by the Vatican's request that dioceses worldwide engage in ...

Keith Warner, director of renewal for the friars' synod process, says it's new to most people, but it's an ancient practice ...

Father Roberto Pasolini, recently appointed as preacher of the Papal Household, opens up about his journey from teenage faith struggles to becoming a Scripture scholar.

(Mark 16:15) In the early 13th century, it was St Francis of Assisi — an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar, who came up with the idea of a live depiction of the nativity scene. There were ...

John earned a Bachelor of Theology and a Master of Sociology, both from Catholic ... and fellow friar, Fr. John Felice, who was Guardian at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street.

Stapleton, a recent graduate of Franciscan University, a Catholic college in Ohio, will be among the less than 1 percent of nuns in the United States today who are 30 or younger. That number has ...

Even if you won’t be able to visit Italy next year, here are some ways to bring Italy home for Jubilee 2025.

Sister Simona Brambilla will head the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi; and St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus. The pontiff concluded by saying that pilgrims of hope are “children and young people who have encountered the Lord ...

But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from three and “took a leap of faith,” revealing to them that she wanted to become a nun. And ...