Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of Assisi – a reality that lies at the heart of Volker Leppin’s evenly ...

Bergoglio accepted the name Pope Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th century Italian who gave up his possessions and wealth and dedicated his life to the poor. Since he was elected ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Many of these will be living presepi for which the Bel Paese is rightly famed, starting with the iconic nativity scene founded in the northern Lazio village of Greccio by St Francis of Assisi in 1223.