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

Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life,” said Carlo Musso, the Italian editor of Pope Francis’ ...

Doctor of the Church relied on divine grace and the maternal care of the Virgin Mary to temper that vice and become a man of ...

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 ...

When you meet a guy, for example, like Francis of Assisi ... Saint, and the restlessness of the subject is shared by the author. His book, Leppin writes, “does not present itself as a biography ...

Be who you are and be that well.” On today’s feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Talking Saints hosts, Pete Sanchez and Laurie ...

The people of Lucera were known to compare him with St. Francis of Assisi, from whom he derived his name. He died in 1742 and was canonized in 1986.

There's a tranquility to St. Francis that we all need right now,” Pasadena Waldorf School teacher Blair Manzke tells PEOPLE ...

Given this, we have an obvious patron saint–St. Clare of Assisi ... She and a friend walked to the Portiuncula Church where they were met by Francis of Assisi and a few of his followers. Francis cut ...

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 ...