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To many, he was known as "the doorkeeper," and they would share with him their personal struggles with faith, family, life's ...

Poor Clare, written by Chiara Atik and directed by Blanche McIntyre, tells the story of how Clare (Arsema Thomas) is influenced by fellow Assisi resident Francis (Freddy Carter) to abandon her life of ...

Evoking St. Francis of Assisi Francis lived in the Vatican hotel rather than the Apostolic Palace, wore his old orthotic shoes rather than the traditional red loafers, and used compact cars.

IN a statement announcing Br Kevin’s death on 2 July at Mount Desert nursing home in Cork, the Capuchins said he was known ...

While “The Saint Who Wore Sneakers” sounds like a summer Disney movie, it is a scenario being celebrated at a Northwest Side ...

What do you know about St Clare?The founder of the Poor Clares, perhaps? A great contemplative who twice saved Assisi from ...

IN 1898, when Evelyn Underhill was 22, she and her mother began what would become an annual series of spring holidays in ...

Outside the art world, few may recognize the name of Lander’s Eagle Bronze Foundry. But sculptures created there are ...

Nine years after taking part in the Unity Productions Foundation (UPF) film “The Sultan and the Saint,” Fr. Calabria plays a ...

The relics of Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis, who are set to be canonized later this year, will be displayed ...

Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis — will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth July 28-Aug. 3, ...