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

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) ...

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

With the terrorist you can negotiate” – Francis confides that every day for 40 years he has said St Thomas More’s ... the poor man of Assisi, and clinches it by refusing to move into ...

The book is the fruit of a six-year process to put the Holy Father’s memoirs into writing.

In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world leader we know as Pope Francis — is a story finally told in his own words. But ...

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 ...