"An examination of some of the most notable works of Franciscan art will help us better appreciate the legacy of the Italian ...

Francis' coffin reached St. Mary Major Basilica, his chosen burial place, following Mass in the morning at St. Peter's Square ...

Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff, died at age 88 after a cerebral stroke. Francis stressed humility over hubris ...

A former priest in the Diocese of Cloyne in Co Cork has lost a personal appeal to Pope Francis against his dismissal from the priesthood after the pontiff found a canonical court was right to defrock ...

The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, died on Easter Monday aged 88, and since then the Catholic world has been in mourning, paying tribute to the religious ...

Br. Michael Perry was elected on July 15 to lead the largest province of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor in the United ...

Amid the hullabaloo of his first trip to the United States as pontiff, Pope Francis suddenly asked his driver to stop. The pope had just landed at the Philadelphia airport, and he was leaving the ...

'The Way of Francis – The Way of Light' routes are being promoted as part of celebrations to mark 800 years since the death ...

At Mass outside the Portiuncula, the Pope urged 2,500 participants in the GO! Franciscan Youth Meeting to embrace evangelical freedom and go to the margins.