The body of St. Francis will be moved from his tomb, located in the crypt, and placed at the foot of the papal altar in the ...

St. Francis of Assisi's remains will be displayed at his basilica in Italy during 2026 to commemorate 800 years since the ...

I never met my Uncle Jamie. He died in 1963, well before I was born. He was my father’s eldest brother. Growing up, my aunts and uncles would, on occasion, tell stories about Jamie. Pretty much all of ...

The remains of St. Francis of Assisi, the namesake of San Francisco's first mission and later the city itself, will be ...

The two-legged congregants of Congregational Church of La Jolla were joined by some of their four-legged friends during the ...

One of the world’s most important religious sites, the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi, in Italy, recently underwent a major ...

Alle-Kiski Valley churches were among those celebrating the Feast of St. Francis this weekend with pet blessings. St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Brackenridge held its blessing service on Saturday, ...

Pets and their owners Sunday gathered for the annual Blessing of the Animals at Trinity Episcopal Church in Galveston.

Video show pets such as dogs, cats and even horses visit the Catholic ceremony for the Blessing of the Animals on St. Francis ...

The recent Legionnaires’ disease outbreak caused the Catholic Church, St. Francis of Assisi Parish, to relocate the annual ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, who died on Monday, had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even created words in a combination of his native Spanish with the Italian that he ...