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.

The Western New York Land Conservancy has created yet another nature preserve on Grand Island. With the newly named 38.3-acre Jim and Edna Braddell Preserve, the nonprofit land trust says they ...

Once farmland, the Meachem Preserve in Racine County is being used as a site to innovate stormwater management. The Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network (WIN) and KCI Technologies are partnering ...

Fifteen fire departments, coordinated by the Tinley Park Fire Department, responded to the blaze at 6 p.m., according to Carl Vogel, director of communications for the Cook County Forest Preserve ...

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 ...

Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on a project to preserve the shoes of the war's smallest victims. Survivors of the Holocaust gathered at one of the scenes of the Nazis' gravest ...

Push-ups are a great full-body exercise, but let's be honest–they're not easy. It takes a lot of upper body strength to do a proper push-up, but with some practice, they can be perfectly performed no ...

Ashville, Ohio (January 27, 2025) — The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) invites nature lovers of all ages to join a guided Winter Hike at Stage’s Pond State Nature Preserve on February 15 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 ...

Sullivan Upper will now host Belfast Royal Academy in the Schools’ Cup quarter-finals after they overcame Banbridge Academy in the first round of 16 clash to be played out at Ravenhill.

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 ...