Italy's parliament voted on Wednesday to restore a national holiday in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the country's patron saints, almost half a century after it was abolished. The annual ...

Italy’s Senate Constitutional Affairs Committee, deliberating in session Wednesday, Oct. 1, approved a bill reinstating Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of Italy, as a ...

Italy’s Senate on Wednesday gave overwhelming support to a bill restoring a public holiday on October 4th in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Statue of St Francis of Assisi, Italy’s patron saint. Credit : Bikenbark, Shutterstock Italy could soon see October 4 reinstated as a national holiday in honour of St Francis of Assisi, after the ...

LITTLE ITALY -- A pasta-themed tradition dating back nearly a century will draw throngs Sunday to the 96th Italian Spaghetti Dinner at Little Italy's St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Visitors ...

A Senate panel on Wednesday approved re-instituting a national holiday for St Francis of Assisi, one of Italy's two national saints along with St Catherine of Siena, on his feast day of October 4, ...

Carlos Acutis has been called “God’s influencer,” “The Sneaker Saint,” and the “first millennial saint,” among other things. But in this context, his most significant title is “Patron Saint of the ...

Italy's parliament has voted to reinstate a national holiday on October 4 in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, marking the 800th anniversary of the revered saint's death. The move comes nearly fifty ...

Pet owners and animal lovers are invited to bring their companions for a special Blessing of the Animals on Sunday, Oct. 5, from 5 to 6 p.m. at North Liberty Fi ...

What would a Tablet retreat be like? That question has been at the front of our minds over the past few weeks. We’ve been colleagues and friends for more than three decades: first at the Catholic ...

Francis' canticle was groundbreaking in its embrace of all creation as equal to humanity. Today, it reads as a call to embrace our fragile universe and earth and all its inhabitants.