Almost 70 years after his death, the Solanus Casey Foundation is building momentum to make the Wisconsin-born priest a saint.

Pope Francis appears on a balcony as the “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and to the World”) message is delivered, at St. Peter’s Square, on Easter Sunday, in the Vatican, on April 20, 2025.

The 2.5-mile procession from St. Francis of Assisi Church in midtown Manhattan to the World Trade Center is dedicated to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and named in honor of ...

One of Francis’s Jesuit peers, the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, was less thrilled about the prospect of another “Saint Francis.” “I am against canonizing popes.

Carlos Acutis is set to become the first millennial saint. His canonization was moved to next Sunday in St. Peter's Square after the death of Pope Francis.

A relic of Carlo Acutis, who will be canonized as the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint, was venerated at St. Florian ...

St. Francis of Assisi, known as a patron saint of animals and the environment, took a hard and sometimes controversial stand on some major issues, says Stanley Hauerwas, a professor of theological ...

St. Francis of Assisi, after whom Pope Francis has taken his name, captures the spirit of Catholics because he’s the pre-eminent figure in imitating Christ.

St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists. And some are patron saints of multiple things. That includes Clare of Assisi, Francis' contemporary, who is the patron saint of eye disorders and ...

To get in touch with the miraculous Francis, the folkloric Francis, read the Fioretti, or The Little Flowers of St. Francis, a 14th-century collection of tales about the saint and his friars. It ...