St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace. ASSISI, Italy — As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, ...

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

That denial of privilege is a parallel with St. Francis, to whom Acutis was so devoted that he asked to be buried in Assisi, said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato, who spent most of his religious career ...