Francis − a pope who has cared deeply for the poor and opened up the Catholic Church
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
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Where the popes are buried - and why Pope Francis wants to break tradition when he dies
But when Pope Francis's time does come, he will not be buried with most of his predecessors in the grottoes beneath St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. At the end of 2023, the Pope revealed he had ...
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St. Francesco Antonio Fasani
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.
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The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
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 ...
Christianity Today29d
The ‘Real’ Francis of Assisi Includes the Stuff of Legend
Maybe that is part of their charisma, suggests Volker Leppin in his biography Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint, newly translated after first being published in German. For a ...