Argentinian-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the Catholic Church's the first ever from Latin America. He also was the first pope to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi, who serviced the poor and ...

He also was the first pope to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi, ... "It's a really sad day, but, you know, my heart is full of optimism for what the church can be." In San Francisco, ...

Mathews worked at Saint Francis of Assisi church in North Beach. The church says she was fired, not for the reasons she claims, but because she stole from them. San Francisco police are ...

Originally built in 1849, St. Francis of Assisi Church was rebuilt after being destroyed in the 1906 quake and fire. ... The San Francisco copy of St. Francis's Porziuncola in Assisi by the numbers: ...

One of San Francisco's oldest Catholic churches has been rocked by a kinky sex, spanking and embezzlement scandal. The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi has been hit by allegations its ...

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI is more than just a “lover of animals.” This simple and humble man’s total focus was to love, serve and imitate Our Lord, and to live the Gospel exactly and in its ...

San Francisco church remembers Pope Francis' message of inclusion 03:02 The sounds of music fill the colorful Cathedral in the Castro, the Most Holy Redeemer Church. Grace Renaud leads the way.

Such criticism isn’t likely to bother members of the religious order that Francis founded, said Friar Francisco Nahoe of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco.

CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2023 / 04:00 am. In the Italian town of Gubbio, some 130 miles north of Rome, sits the church of San Francisco della Pace — the Church of St. Francis “of the Peace.” ...

At first, St. Francis interpreted this revelation as an instruction for him to physically rebuild the dilapidated little church, which he eagerly did for some time: brick by brick.