Four words in Latin are embedded at the entrance to a North Beach chapel dedicated to St. Francis, the patron saint of San Francisco: Hic Locus Sanctus Est, which means "This place is holy." But the ...

Two years ago in Assisi, Italy, Angela Alioto and some friends got down on their knees in the Porziuncola, the little stone chapel where St. Francis found his calling. But they weren't praying. They ...

Fr Richard Stanley Zammit’s two letters (February 22 and May 13) about the Porziuncola Retreat House offer the opportunity to comment on this very disappointing story due to the gross mistake in ...

The Franciscan friary in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, celebrated its platinum jubilee earlier this month on the feast of Our Lady of the Angels of Porziuncola, an important observance in their ...