Eight hundred years ago, around the feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), Francis of Assisi received the “stigmata,” the five wounds of Jesus in his own body. He bore the wounds until his ...

Parishioners gathered at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Harrisburg to mark Good Friday with services, followed by the Stations of the Cross devotion and a procession through the neighborhood ...

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to satanism. Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV also traveled to the city of Montefalco, where he celebrated Mass in the monastery of the Augustinian nuns, which was erected in the 13th century.