A piece of cord once worn by St. Francis of Assisi will be at the Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott City for three days, including an outdoor, live Nativity prayer service.

By Hannah Brockhaus It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble ...

St. Francis is one of the most famous saints in Church history. He’s so significant that the current pope — Pope Francis — chose to take his name. Oct. 4 is his memorial day. He was born in 1181 or ...

Pope Francis will travel to Assisi on Oct. 3. to sign a new encyclical on human fraternity at the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi, the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, and the press ...

Cardinal Jorge Mario Begoglio became Francis I when he was elected pope at the Vatican in Rome on Wednesday. With this new pope comes two key firsts: Begoglio is the first Jesuit pope and the first to ...

Students impacted by a fire this week at St. Francis of Assisi School in Delaware County will temporarily attend class at the old Saint Kevin School building in Springfield starting Monday, Oct. 21, ...

Worshippers attending churches across the United States in the past few days may have been confronted by an unusually large number of animals among the congregation. That's because pastors and priests ...

Classes at St. Francis of Assisi School in Springfield, Delaware County, are canceled for the rest of the week after a fire destroyed the building Monday evening. The building has a gaping hole in the ...

St. Francis of Assisi Church, at 4700 Long Beach Blvd. in Brant Beach, has a new seasonal addition to the parish grounds: a life-size Nativity set, which, said The Rev. Francis DiSpigno, church pastor ...

Every expanding church parish is bound to experience growing pains. Father Frank Maroney , who for 15 years has led congregants of St. Francis Assisi Catholic Church, knows what that is like. As the ...

Oct. 10—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — In the early 20th century, when Johnstown's Roman Catholic churches were divided by ethnicity, many Slovak immigrants who lived in the Morrellville and Oakhurst neighborhoods ...