ROME — Assisi is celebrating the beatification of computer programming teen Carlo Acutis in October with more than two weeks of liturgies and events that the bishop hopes will be an evangelizing force ...

Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino shares the faithful legacy of young Blessed Carlo Acutis, who is buried in the hometown of St. Francis, and those who saved Jews in the Umbrian city during World War II.

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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 ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims will have yet another reason to visit the hilltop Umbrian town of Assisi, as the bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and ...

The bones of St Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired the late Pope Francis and generations of Christians before him, have gone on public display in Italy for the first time ever. His ...

Located in the hills of central Italy, Assisi is the hometown of St. Francis. It's where he was born, lived and worked — and where he died. Today tourists flock to this town, which sits atop a hill ...