Tag: St. Francis of Assisi

ROME (OSV News) -- At the stroke of midnight Oct. 4, church bells tolled across the Italian hilltown of Assisi to mark the 800th...

By MaryAnn Wallen Diocese of Wilmington During this special Year of St. Francis, our observance of Respect Life Month invites us to follow the saint’s example...

Scripture readings for Sunday. Oct. 4,2026,  Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 5:1-7  Ps 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20  Phil 4:6-9  Mt 21:33-43 Most people probably...

Each year on Oct. 3, the followers of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) -- friars; nuns; laypeople -- mark the globally popular saint's own...

St. Francis of Assisi's father, Pietro di Bernardone dei Moriconi, was a gregarious and generous man, a very ambitious and successful businessman. He was...

By Thomas Craughwell, OSV News Associating a saint with a particular cause is usually the work of the people in the pews. They hear the...

By Josephine Peterson, Catholic News Service ROME -- Eight hundred years after his death, the bones of St. Francis of Assisi have been placed on...

GRECCIO, Italy — Eight centuries ago St. Francis of Assisi came to this hillside village to show the world that God chose to be...

Throughout 2024, Franciscans around the world commemorate the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata on Sept. 17, 1224, the appearance...

By Mary DeTurris Poust, OSV News Out in my perennial garden, nestled among the bleeding hearts and hyacinths, stands a well-worn clay statue of St....