The visual signs of Viterbo University’s Franciscan heritage are hard to miss. On Assisi Courtyard, there are statues of St. Francis and one of his earliest followers, St. Clare. Numerous depictions ...

St. Francis of Assisi's remains will be displayed at his basilica in Italy during 2026 to commemorate 800 years since the beloved saint's death in 1226.

Andrew Keogh, an Irishman helped to get sober and off the streets by the Poland-based foundation Barka, is pictured in Assisi, Italy, Nov. 11, 2021. He now works for the foundation in England and ...

With a pilgrim's staff and mantle, Pope Francis entered Assisi's Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels with 500 economically or socially disadvantaged people and the volunteers who walk alongside them.

The cross didn't speak to Rick Artman like it is said to have spoken to St. Francis of Assisi some 800 years ago. But as Artman, president of Viterbo University, gazed at the San Damiano Cross during ...

I went because: Traveling with friends in Tuscany, I was drawn to visit the lovely hometown of San Francisco's patron saint. Don't miss: The Porziuncola, St. Francis' original church, now located ...

With a pilgrim's staff and mantle, Pope Francis entered Assisi's Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels with 500 economically or socially disadvantaged people and the volunteers who walk alongside them.

Bishop O’Connell, 68, was in Italy to lead a pilgrimage of 20 priests and two members of the diocese’s staff to holy sites in Rome and Assisi. Bishop David O'Connell of the Diocese of Trenton, New ...

Pope Francis greets Abdul Razaq Quadery, left, and his wife Salima, second from left, two refugees from Afghanistan, at a meeting of listening and prayer inside the Basilica of Santa Maria degli ...