Umbria is best explored slowly: by foot, bike, or unhurried drives along winding country roads. Walk a stretch of the Via di ...

Saint Francis' hometown of Assisi has once again been illuminated with Giotto’s frescoes this Christmas season. The frescoes from the interior of the Basilica of St. Francis are being projected each ...

Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy, processes with a reliquary containing a relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis during Mass at St. Anthony’s High School in South ...

A visit to the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi was not expected to result in big news from Pope Leo XIV on ...

Charging through dark and quiet Assisi -- a town stony with history -- I was rushing back to my favorite restaurant, hoping to get there before the kitchen closed. At 10 p.m., the pink marble streets ...

ASSISI, Italy Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the ...

Following the example of St. Francis of Assisi, bishops are called to be close to the people in their dioceses and ...

Pope Leo XIV also traveled to the city of Montefalco, where he celebrated Mass in the monastery of the Augustinian nuns, ...

ASSISI, Italy-- It isn't every day that the Vatican shares the papal stage with a nonbeliever. Then again, Julia Kristeva was no flame-throwing atheist. Some sentences of her speech could have been ...