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View of Eremo delle Carceri, Assisi, Italy, July 2025.

PHOTOS: Where St. Francis slept on stone, pilgrims still find peace

Jul 27, 2025

By Emma Silvestri

The Hermitage of St. Francis is a little known sanctuary in Assisi that still preserves the spirit of St. Francis. Read more

Pope Francis delivers a Laudato Si' video message May 24, 2021.

Pope Francis to release second Laudato Si’ on Oct. 4

Aug 30, 2023

By Hannah Brockhaus

The pope’s follow-up environmental document will be released on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Read more

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Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest.

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Leo XIV eliminates commission for donations to Holy See created by Pope Francis

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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Catholic bishops back Trump’s removal of gender ideology in refugee forms

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol.

Dozens of Congress members urge court to allow Ten Commandments display in public schools

Bishop Michael Fisher outside the meeting hall during the 2019 USCCB General Assembly, June 12, 2019.

Buffalo bishop will allow faithful to meet at parishes to oppose closures, mergers

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

Pope Francis receives the bishops of England and Wales for their ad limina visit at the Vatican, Sept. 28, 2018.

Did leak in England suggest broader shift in Vatican policy on the Latin Mass?

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Archbishop Broglio: Drug cartels must be stopped, but not with ‘violence outside the law’

Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee.

Discalced Carmelites prepare to celebrate jubilee year of St. John of the Cross

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