Pope Francis honors St. Francis of Assisi's legacy of peace, poverty, and respect for creation in Assisi, Italy.

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the Catholic Church’s newest saint.

Members of the clergy from Staten Island celebrate the Church of St. Clare's centennial with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, center, ...

For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and ...

Assisi, the medieval Italian town revered ... offers a relatable path to holiness. "St. Francis, St. Clare, of course, important saints who marked an epoch – but that’s far removed from ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St. Peter’s Square.

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have ... Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27.