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 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.

Two days in Santa Fe, New Mexico, wasn’t enough time to explore all the delights, but my friend Marilyn and I made the best ...

Father David Michael Moses of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston has noticed an eye-opening link between Carlo Acutis, who ...

Religious pilgrimages are arguably enjoying a level of popularity today that hasn’t been seen since medieval times when ...

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 ...

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