Folk legend Joan Baez, 83, surprised protesters in San Francisco by performing “Gracias A La Vida” during nationwide “No ...

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner's 'The Choral' is a pleasant, low-key wartime tale that pushes ...

The tomb of Saint Francis of Assisi will be unsealed to display his remains to the public for the first time in 800 years.

The choir also performed at a cultural exchange at the Chinese Embassy in Italy on September 5, where they expressed ...

Residents of San Francisco de Asis in Venezuela's Aragua state celebrated the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi on Friday (October 3) with a tortoise race featuring 80 painted and decorated ...

The only animal to be blessed that wasn't a dog was Aziza, a turkey owned by Deborah Nasmyth, who sat silent and calm in a ...

Parliament approves new holiday for patron saint of Italy Prime minister hails "extraordinary man" who unites Italians Holiday abolished in 1977 to save money, returns in 2026 ROME, Oct 1 (Reuters) - ...

Summer in the Bay Area doesn’t always promise golden sunshine, but it delivers its own kind of magic. From Aug. 8 to 10, Outside Lands Music Festival (OSL) weekend arrived draped in its signature ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Authorities in the ...

Eight centuries ago, Saint Francis of Assisi composed a poem that remains familiar today, inspiring hymns, art and the titles of two of the late Pope Francis’s teaching documents on integral ecology. ...

ASSISI, Italy (CNS) — Soon-to-be St. Carlo Acutis is a fresh “shoot” budding from the 800-year-old spiritual “vine” of Sts. Francis and Clare in Assisi, said the rector of the shrine housing the ...

A hunter’s moon rises behind a statue of St. Francis of Assisi on the grounds of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Champion, Wis., Oct 8, 2022. OSV News photo/Sam Lucero, CNS Eight ...