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

Francis Omondi has been consecrated as the second Bishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya, Diocese of Garissa. Omondi, who has ...

It began not with thunder, but with a curl of white smoke against a bright blue Roman sky. For a brief moment, all sound in ...

As cardinals prepare to meet in a conclave at the Vatican to elect a new pope, Catholic bishops in Cameroon and around Africa ...

Camilla Howard-Luck with Labor supporters at at the Altavilla club in Norwood Picture: Kelly Barnes The lawyer and former Norwood, Payneham and St Peters councillor was joined by Premier Peter ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Mr Cutri was one of “nearly a thousand” people that attended a special mass at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide on Sunday, mourning the death of Pope Francis. It comes as mourners were ...

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 ...

He articulated the mission just days after his 2013 election and it explained the name he chose as pope, honoring St. Francis of Assisi “who had the heart of the poor of the world,” according ...