Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...
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6 months after devastating fire, rebuilding starts at St. Francis of Assisi school
Six months after a fire ripped through the classrooms of St. Francis of Assisi elementary school in Springfield, ...
Who’s St. Francis, whose love for the poor, creation, and peace inspires Pope Francis?
St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace.
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Pope Francis cared deeply for the poor, opened up Catholic Church
He was also the first pope to choose Francis as his name, thus honoring St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th-century ... He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of his predecessors had ...