The Vatican said the funeral will be held on Saturday in St ... donated by Francis in 2023, sits among candlesticks under the icon. Before reaching the chapel entrance, there is a statue of ...

NASA Issues Geostorm Alert After Massive Solar Flare Detected Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology How Pope Francis' body is being preserved ...

Actor Jennifer Beals rose to fame in the 1980s after starring in 'My Bodyguard' and "Flashdance." In 2004 she joined the cast of groundbreaking drama "The L Word" and recently released a book with ...

Carlo Acutis, set to become the Catholic Church 's first millennial saint, is already drawing crowds of pilgrims to Assisi, Italy. His remains, dressed casually in sneakers, jeans, and a sweatshirt, ...

Russian journalist Yekaterina Barabash, who faces up to 10 years in prison for criticizing the military, is the subject of an arrest warrant after she disappeared while under house arrest.

Francis was the first Black President of Xavier University and held the position for 47 years. NEW ORLEANS — This year Xavier ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval saint who founded the Franciscans, one of the largest ...

Schmalz titled “Be Welcoming” was installed in St. Peter’s Square on Tuesday ... 29, 2019, Pope Francis blessed that statue on the occasion of the Church’s 105th World Day of Migrants ...

NEWARK − The Rev. David Sizemore, pastor at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church for eight years, told parishioners Sunday in a tear-filled homily he will leave the parish to become pastor at ...

Francis. It was inspired by St Francis of Assisi - the saint of the poor, the humble and the earth. From day one, Pope Francis lived by the name. He skipped the lavish Vatican residence for a ...

March 13, 2013: Elected 266th pope, the first from the Americas, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name of Francis, after St. Francis ... steal Indigenous statues from Vatican-area ...

BENSONHURST — St. DOMINIC CHURCH in Bensonhurst dedicated new statues of St. John XXIII and St. Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa) on May 4, replacing those destroyed by a vandal in June ...