A new book illustrates that far from being pastoral fantasies wasting land, money and energy, they are a valuable cultural export, part of the country’s enduring soft power ...

There's a tranquility to St. Francis that we all need right now,” Pasadena Waldorf School teacher Blair Manzke tells PEOPLE ...

Pope Francis Invites Famous Comedians to Vatican to Promote 'Love' as He’s Accused of Using Homophobic Slur Again Earlier this month, the pontiff addressed members of the Union of St.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn’t break his arm ...

The Samajwadi Party has chosen the Mahakumbh to project its founder, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, as a saint. A wing of the party has installed his statue in the mela area ...

Father Francis Mann is scheduled to deliver the closing benediction at Trump’s second inauguration in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20. The Brooklyn Diocese told CNA that Mann was unavailable for an ...

Pope Francis has increasingly shown his age in recent years, as he now almost always uses a wheelchair to move around and has occasional problems with breathlessness. At Christmas Eve Mass in St.

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square.

A version of this story originally ran on April 25, 2014. Bob Uecker passed away on Thursday at 90. MILWAUKEE -- When the Brewers first proposed another Bob Uecker statue at Miller Park, he rejected ...

rather than at St Peter’s where all recent popes are buried. [ Pope Francis knows threats and warnings can never be the way to win over peopleOpens in new window ] One of the few revelations in ...