July 4 is Independence Day. It is also the feast day of one of the most popular Catholic saints, Pier Giorgio Frassati. The United States declared its liberty from Britain on this day in 1776. Pier ...

Gurrieri, together with members of the all-Italian cast and a niece and nephew of Frassati, were present at the Italian premiere of the film at Farnese Cinema in Rome on March 18. Poster for “To the ...

Italian Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was a struggling student who excelled in mountain climbing.(CNS file photo) (Aug. 19, 2005) My hands folded, I stared at the woodgrain of the table. I didn’t even ...

Pope Leo XIV canonized Pier Giorgio Frassati on Sunday (September 7), along with Carlo Acutis, became the first saints of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy, with Frassati notable as a “beacon for lay spirituality ...

Images of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati appear beside and on his tomb at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin, Italy, in this file photo from February 2006. (CNS file photo/Carol Glatz) VATICAN ...

Pope Francis said that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati "will be a saint soon." Known as "the Man of the Eight Beatitudes," he was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1990 after his sainthood cause was ...

The saint of the Millennials, Carlo Acutis, the Milanese boy who 'tinkered' with computers and who, before being struck down by leukemia, sought answers to the meaning of life by questioning ...

Mario Enzler is a senior adviser to the president of The Heritage Foundation and the author of “I Served a Saint.” On Sept. 7, 80,000 worshippers gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Kevin Becker was a college student when he fell off a roof, fracturing his skull in five places, and was given little chance by doctors of surviving or living a normal life if he did make it. But as ...

Four hundred sixty-one voters turned out to the online polls on Friday, Nov. 16 — Mascot Election Day — to be part of shaping the history of Frassati Catholic. The mascot candidate that carried the ...