Saint Francis de Sales Oratory (St. Louis, Missouri) — St. Francis de Sales mosaic. (Photo by Nheyob / CC BY-SA 4.0) Francis de Sales was born August 21, 1567, into a noble Savoyard family.

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But one radical misfit in particular, Francis of Assisi, seems to loom larger—and provoke greater fascination—than any other. His life story, shrouded in legend, continues to inspire many ...

In 1995, I interviewed Matthew Coon Come, who served as grand chief of the Grand Council of the Cree in Quebec. The Cree and Inuit have rights over the northern two-thirds of Quebec and rejected ...

Pope Francis warned of the "scourge of antisemitism" in his Angelus prayer on Sunday, the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the ...

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As US President Donald Trump began his promised deportation campaign, a war of words erupted between Trump’s border czar Tom Homan and Pope Francis after the pontiff expressed disapproval of the plan ...

The millions of New Yorkers who start their day with a bacon, egg and cheese won’t love this news — a new study has linked consumption of the beloved Big Apple breakfast with an heightened ...