A painting of George Washington is being used by the Trump administration to argue the founders were devout Christians, but ...

The Christian tradition is inherently a storytelling religion. Jesus almost never expressed propositional claims about what constitutes right belief ("orthodoxy") and rarely spoke in a didactic form ...

The University of Saint Francis has opened a new campus in Lafayette, its founding city. The university was originally founded in Lafayette in 1890 but relocated to Fort Wayne in 1944. The new campus, ...

When we purchased our river cabin in 2012 in Mysterious Waters, a small community on the Wakulla River, we did not have the idea that we would ever live in it full time. The improvements we made to ...

(OSV News) — As tensions escalate following the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, we share this prayer to St. Francis of Assisi — a timeless intercessor for peace — which Pope Leo XIV shared with ...

Each year, the season of Lent comes to us as a gift—40 days in which the Church invites us to return to the Lord with all our hearts. Prayer, fasting and almsgiving are not ends in themselves; they ...

The relics of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved saints in history, will be put on display in Italy next year. Vatican News, the official outlet of the Vatican, reported the news on Oct. 4 ...

Find today’s readings here. 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 and uncles would, on occasion, tell stories ...

This year marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi's composition of the "Canticle of the Creatures." The poetic and theologically rich prayer, which language historians consider to be one ...

The pontiff was elected on May 8 after a two-day conclave Vatican News - English/YouTube Pope Leo XIV led the Regina caeli prayer at Saint Peter's Basilica on Sunday, May 11 In his remarks, the ...

About 250,000 people attended the funeral service for Pope Francis on Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, before the late leader of the Catholic Church was transported to the Papal ...