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Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church's most celebrated ...

The group lined up to enter the Santuario della Spogliazione — a somber church ... teaching about both St. Francis and Acutis, focusing on the teen's charity and his custom of sitting down ...

Pilgrims flock to Assisi ahead of canonisation of first millennial saint - The London-born teen shows faithful ‘it’s possible ...

This Sunday is a day of some significance in the world’s two dominant religions, Christianity and Islam. For Christians it is ...

Faithful leave the the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore after visiting the tomb of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who ...

The legend of St. Francis of Assisi and Brother Wolf tells a story not of taming a wild creature, but of cooperation and ...

It was a close call, but Francis’ emergence from Gemelli Hospital ensures that implementation of the Synod on Synodality's ...

Before an empty and rain-covered St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis held Eucharistic adoration and gave a blessing, praying for ...

An historic Catholic church in downtown New Britain is on course to be demolished sometime later this year despite the ...