The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Francis of Assisi every year on Oct. 4. Known as the patron saint of animals ...

October is the day to remember St Francis of Assisi. It is also World Animal Day, and the day when some churches hold ...

TODAY the Church around the world celebrates the feast of St Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved saints in history.

I never met my Uncle Jamie. He died in 1963, well before I was born. He was my father’s eldest brother. Growing up, my aunts ...

Oct. 4 will therefore be a public holiday in Italy starting in 2026, after having been a public holiday until 1977.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. – St. Francis of Assisi Back in the day ...

Legend has it that St. Francis of Assisi was tending his garden one day when someone stopped him to ask, “What would you do ...

A reader suggested that the death of Father Carmen Anthony Carlone in May 2020 set in motion the end of St. Francis Medical Center.

Observed each October, the feast honors the patron saint of animals, whom San Francisco was named after, with blessings offered for pets of all kinds, from dogs and cats to birds and reptiles.

Pet owners can bring pets to Mission San Luis — a reconstructed 17th-century Spanish and Apalachee living history museum for ...

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, marked many firsts when he was elected as the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first Latin American pope, first Jesuit pope and first ...