In the 2010 book “On Heaven and Earth,” written alongside his friend the Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Francis denounced the cruelty that confronts elderly people. He shamed families who shut their ...

Erik Brady looks back on the legacy of Paul Horgan, a chronicler of Southwest history who never lost his love for his ...

There’s a social media meme asking, “who is the patron saint of group emails?” The answer is, of course, “Francis of a CC”.

ASSISI, Italy — As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to ...

St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace.

From the soccer field to the seminary, Pope Francis’ life story is filled with surprising twists and turns. A selective life ...

As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to make their way to this hilltop town to pray at the tomb of St. Francis, the hometown medieval ...

"One of the great curiosities of his papacy was the fact that, unlike his predecessors, Francis never visited his native ...

We have come in the Christian year to the season of Lent. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, which falls this year on March 5.

To the heart of the people.” Across town, Romans and others gathered in St. Peter's Square for the nightly Rosary prayer, presided over by Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. Doctors said that ...

Francis regularly approves decrees from the Vatican's saint-making office when he is at the Vatican, albeit during audiences with the head of the office, not Parolin. A consistory, which is a ...

“Popes are very important figures,” said Michael W. Higgins (no relation), author of the biography of Pope Francis, “The Jesuit Disruptor,” in an interview with the National Post. “One man can change ...