Holy Virgin Mary, there is none like you among women born in the world. Daughter and handmaid of the heavenly Father, the almighty King, Mother of our most high Lord Jesus Christ, and Spouse of ...

"Seeds of Peace and Hope" is the theme for the World Day of Prayer for Creation, which will be celebrated Sept. 1.

For Assisi’s current bishop, the Rev. Domenico Sorrentino, St. Francis’ renunciation of material encumbrances also signaled ...

VATICAN: The 2025 edition of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation takes place during the Jubilee Year, which also ...

Following prayer ... peace, the people of Gubbio would feed the wolf and the wolf would protect them. In turn, the wolf would no longer harm their livestock or residents. Thus, the legend of St ...

By Jason Horowitz Reporting from Vatican City When Pope Francis first appeared to the world on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica ... are holding prayer sessions. Even Francis’ opponents ...

He spent the day as usual in prayer ... Francis called on all who work in the field of communications “to feel the full importance of words” and use them to promote harmony, not division ...

the Vatican released the text of Francis' prepared Sunday Angelus prayer. It is the seventh straight Sunday that his illness has prevented him from delivering the blessing from a window over St.

Peter's Basilica, gathered in prayer and passed through the Holy Door." Pope Francis appears for the first time since his return to the Vatican, in St ... to pray for peace: in the tormented ...