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Hundreds of prayer warriors watched their social media accounts this past April for updates on a baby named Francis Roy Lilly ...

Let’s go to the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. Thousands of people from 200 countries will gather at this event. Among ...

Colin Hortman, the son of Mark of Melissa, gave the prayer alongside his fiancée. He recited the Prayer of St. Francis, a copy of which he says Melissa Hortman kept in her wallet.

We should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of ...

Pope Leo XIV has written a warm and detailed letter to Cardinal Raymond Burke, thanking the American cardinal for 50 years of ...

Lacy Apfelbeck, founder of Edge of the Red Sea Ministries — a Christian nonprofit based in St. Francis that helps families and individuals find physical, emotional and spiritual healing — believed it ...

My trip around the world included some time in the footsteps of St. Francis Xavier, and a poignant moment at his tomb in Goa.

I wonder whether the framing of the liturgy itself in instrumentalizing terms may unintentionally reinscribe problematic ...

Pope Francis’ encyclical, “‘Laudato Si’,” has now guided the Catholic Church and many people of goodwill for ten years. May ...

As the Solemn Novena to St. Ann enters its second century, the faithful will celebrate a message that “hope never fails” as ...

ROME — Pope Francis woke up and was continuing his therapies Monday after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for a complex lung infection that has provoked the early stages of ...