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

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 ...

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

A jubilee is held every 25 years in the Vatican and Francis has declared that this quarter century’s jubilee theme is “Pilgrims of Hope”, tying into the title of the book. "Hope" covers the ...

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

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 ...