If you're an architecture buff, take some time to check out the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, which was constructed beginning in 1869. Located a block east of the Santa Fe Plaza ...

St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi; and St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus. The pontiff concluded by saying that pilgrims of hope are “children and young people who have encountered the Lord ...

Holy Virgin Mary, there is none like you among women born in the world. Daughter and handmaid of the heavenly Father, the almighty King, Mother of our most high Lord Jesus Christ, and Spouse of ...

Assisi celebrates Canticle of the Creatures. The pilgrimage town of Assisi in Italy's central Umbria region lights up at Christmas to mark the 800th anniversary of St Francis's best-known text, the ...

plate 13.7 x 20cm (5 3/8 x 7 7/8in) ...

Using a 38-8 run to close out the final 10 minutes of the first half, the Terps cruised to a 111-57 shellacking of visiting Saint Francis Tuesday night before an announced 10,555 at Xfinity Center.

Pope Francis is seen opening a Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica to welcome the jubilee of 2016. Getty Images After that Christmas Eve ritual, Pope Francis will open a symbolic door inside the ...

Pope Francis, who turns 88 on Dec. 17 ... of 85 and went on to live almost another decade as pope emeritus. Pope St. John Paul II was almost 85 when he died in 2005. The world is getting used ...

The first-ever Iraq visit by a pope could've ended disastrously, but a foiled assassination plot has enabled Pope Francis to write about the event in retrospect. "Almost everyone advised me ...

God looks down at the Franciscan and says, “Son of St. Francis, what do you believe?” The Franciscan says, “I believe in your Son Jesus Christ and in serving him by helping the poor!” ...

Pope Francis is the head of the Roman Catholic Church ... When I take children in my arms during the audiences in St. Peter’s Square, they mostly smile; but others, when they see me dressed ...

"I invite every individual, and all people of all nations ... to become pilgrims of hope, to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions," the pope said from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica ...