The Christian misfits did not lead comfortable lives. For this reason, among others, they tended to make others uncomfortable ...

With the publication of this autobiography, Pope Francis cements his monumental project of demystifying the papacy.

Gian Maria Vian, a former editor in chief of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, said that he appreciated the “many personal details” the book added to Francis’ biography ...

Pope Francis was born in 1936, and grew up in Buenos Aires, in the barrio of Flores, a simple neighbourhood. After spells working in a sock factory, Francis became a Jesuit novice in 1958 ...

Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life and is the thread that holds together this long narrative, ...

Volker Leppin’s Francis of Assisi, newly translated from the German ... His book, Leppin writes, “does not present itself as a biography in the classic sense.” Which is not to suggest ...

Desperate to impoverish himself, he tries to donate a large amount of his father’s money to a local church; the priest, ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in Assisi was started in 1228. The painter Cimabue (also called Cenni di Pepo) ...

If you're an architecture buff, take some time to check out the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, which was constructed beginning in 1869. Located a block east of the Santa Fe Plaza ...

“Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life and is the thread that holds together this long narrative, even in the pages in which he recounts true horrors,” commented ...