St. Francis of Assisi, also known as "Father Francis," was an Italian religious figure and mystic from the 12th and 13th centuries, revered as the patron saint of animals and ecology. His life was ...

The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Francis of Assisi every year on Oct. 4. Known as the patron saint of animals and ecology, the 13th-century Italian friar is often remembered for his ...

The Italian Parliament this week took a major step toward making the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi a national holiday. The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Italy’s Parliament, voted to ...

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest - Carlo Acutis, ...

Two weeks after a massive fire ravaged and destroyed a Delaware County Catholic school, it was hugs Monday for students as they returned to class at a different school. The two-alarm fire started late ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been ...