On September 14, the Catholic Church marks the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis of Assisi’s stigmata, the first known in church history. What is it exactly? What is the meaning of this ...

According to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, at age 15 she felt the call to religious life and entered the Institute ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in Assisi was started in 1228. The painter Cimabue (also called Cenni di Pepo) ...

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has promulgated a decree recognizing that five Spanish Franciscans were killed “in ...

The Christian misfits did not lead comfortable lives. For this reason, among others, they tended to make others uncomfortable ...

By signing the decree in the sainthood cause of the Georgia martyrs Jan. 27, the pope cleared the way for their beatification ...

In a decree signed on Jan. 27, Pope Francis formally recognized the five Franciscan missionaries as having been killed for their faith, clearing the way for their beatification.

Pope Francis emphasized how suffering can become “an occasion for a transformative encounter” with God in a new message released Monday, describing three distinct ways the divine draws close to those ...

A long-lost Cimabue panel discovered on a kitchen wall north of Paris in 2019 is at the heart of a landmark exhibition on the ...

Historical examples of those regarded, by themselves and/or others, as having received stigmata — ranging from St Francis to Padre Pio — were well documented. Ted, however, used his journalistic ...

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Pope Francis' arm is in a sling Thursday after the Vatican confirmed he was injured in a fall, the second such incident in a matter of weeks. The Vatican said Francis fell inside his residence ...