From a balcony, Francis greeted hundreds of people waiting outside the hospital where he had been treated for respiratory ...

Barbara A. Heim, 91, of Gettysburg, PA passed away peacefully at home on March 8, 2025 following a brief illness.

Two New York Jets players from last season will be back in the fold in 2025 under new head coach Aaron Glenn. Offensive lineman Xavier Newman and special teamer Irv Charles were tendered by the Jets.

Pope Francis was awake and resting Thursday after ... the Vatican said. The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter without the pope's participation.

Mardi Gras celebrations are already underway ahead of Fat Tuesday, including at St. Francis Xavier Church in McKean. Fat Tuesday is the Tuesday before Lent leading into Ash Wednesday. But parishioners ...

Born in the Castle of Xavier near Sanguesa, in Navarre, on April 7, 1506. Francis Xavier ... of thousands of pagans being baptized into the Church. He also went further east and made it all ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — As Pope Francis approaches nearly two weeks in the hospital battling heath concerns, Western New York Catholics ... you want the church to be a field hospital for those ...

Xavier fans across the country took a giant ... Big East Tournament is completely insignificant. What if you leave New York City with at least 21 victories? In 2007, West Virginia (22-9) and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Vatican No. 2 led faithful in a somber night-time prayer on Monday as Pope Francis continued to battle ...

He was also the first pope to choose Francis as his name, thus honoring St. Francis of Assisi ... He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of his predecessors had done before.

(The Conversation) — A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world ... thus honoring St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th-century mystic whose love ...