We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.

Pope Leo XIV has seen and experienced the Church in more contexts than perhaps any other person currently living...’ ...

Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

Christopher Bellitto, a church historian at Kean University in New Jersey, said that if the ... pope's simple style and his namesake, Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of the poor.

One of the most poignant images after Pope Francis's death was a close-up photograph of his shoes as he lay in his open coffin inside St. Peter's Basilica. Scuffed, worn and workaday, they were a ...

Chris Packham has posed as St Francis of Assisi in a portrait celebrating him as a “living saint”. The portrait of the presenter and environmental campaigner is now on show on the altar of the ...

Chris Packham with his portrait, which it is said depicts him as “a living saint”, in the Fitzrovia Chapel - Richard Ansett/Radio Times ...

Angels of Assisi has spent several years preparing to move into a new, modern facility, and it's made some major progress recently. 'Into the mouth of Trump hell'? South African president says ...

We have a new pope, but the challenges he faces are not. Pope Francis fashioned himself as a reformer, starting with his name — taken in part from St. Francis of Assisi, who was tasked by God ...