Children have always been vulnerable, but the vulnerability they face today seems almost overwhelming. All over the world, ...

Renaissance painter’s fresco cycle depicting the life of the saint in Assisi, Italy, took an innovative, vibrant approach to ...

Then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio washes the feet of residents of a shelter for drug users during Holy Thursday Mass in 2008 at a church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (CNS photo/Enrique Garcia Medina, ...

Greg Heille, O.P., joins “Preach” host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., to reflect on the homiletic legacy of Pope Francis: always on message, spoken from the heart, simple without losing depth.

Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld reflects on what the next generation of leaders can learn from the late pope. ‌ ...

In a world increasingly shaped by polarization, inequality, and uncertainty, Pope Francis was a rare and steady voice of conscience. His decade of leadership was not defined by institutional power ...

St. Francis de Sales Catholic School, one of Riverside’s oldest schools, is set to close in June after 107 years because of low enrollment and rising costs. But parents are rallying to raise ...

St. Francis of Assisi." (Chicago Tribune/Scott Stantis) Scott Stantis, the political cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, said distilling any life into an obituary cartoon is a tall order ...

The tomb of Pope Francis opened for visitors at St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome on Sunday, a day after world leaders and a crowd of hundreds of thousands attended the funeral of the late leader of ...

Pope Francis, elected in 2013, chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar who renounced his wealth. Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure on ...

after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ecologists and champion of the poor. It was a befitting choice. Pope Francis was the fiercest climate and environm ...

a name he chose in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, people were immediately struck by the simple appearance of the Church’s new pontiff elected to lead the world’s approximately 1.4 billion ...