St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace.

After all, Lent is a purposeful 40-day period of sacrifice and spiritual discipline leading up to Easter Sunday's ...

Deacons and lectors can give validly and licitly only those blessings expressly allowed by law. 2. Both constitutive and invocative blessings are invalid if the forms prescribed by the Church are ...