Pope Francis put the Catholic Church on the side of the environmental movement by embracing science and our responsibility ...

The Ugandan Martyrs challenge today’s culture to rediscover the meaning of purity, courage and spiritual fatherhood.

Cesar Galan belonged to a violent Los Angeles street gang. Then a shooting changed the way he saw the world and led him to ...

Antonia Salzano wasn't particularly religious until she saw faith through her son. Others can follow his example, she said ...

Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology -- St. Francis of Assisi -- died the day before Earth Day ...

The feast of St. Rita of Cascia, celebrated May 22, reminds us of the healing power of prayer, penance and forgiveness — and her spiritual kinship with Pope Leo XIV, the Church’s new Augustinian pope.

Father David Michael Moses of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston has noticed an eye-opening link between Carlo Acutis, who will be come the first millennial saint, and Pope Leo XIV.

On Oct. 4, Roman Catholics celebrate the feast of St. Francis ... Francis in this path. In Assisi, he overcame his fear of disease to kiss the hand of a leper. Afterward, he made a pilgrimage to Rome, ...

WAITING for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...