Eight hundred years after his death, the bones of St. Francis of Assisi have been placed on public display for the first extended public viewing in history, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims ...

Already, nearly 400,000 people have registered to pray before the relics and Stoppini estimates the number could well reach a half-million before the bones go back into their tomb March 22.

The remains of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time, marking 800 years since the saint’s ...

For the first time in eight centuries, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are being exposed for an extended period of public veneration, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from around ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD – Eleven different players recorded at least one point on Friday night, as the Cardinals boys hockey team defeated Notre Dame West Haven (CT) by a final score of 7-1 to open the Pope ...

Ignazio Silone’s novel “Bread and Wine” tells the story of Pietro Spina, a socialist and revolutionary who is a wanted man in Fascist Italy, and who, in order to elude capture, disguises himself as a ...

Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret decrees that gave ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret ...

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Emergency crews pulled off a bluff rescue on Oct. 1 for an injured man on the shore of Lake Michigan at Bay View Park, according to the St. Francis Fire Department.The fire department said they ...