The procession also reflected the Jesuit pope's simple style and his namesake, Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of the poor. Francis’ wooden coffin traveled through the Eternal City on a ...

The late Pope Francis donated all his remaining money to a youth rehabilitation project inside a Roman prison in one of his final acts as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Before his death ...

selecting the pontifical name "Francis" after St. Francis of Assisi, a choice that set the tone for the rest of his papacy. Fox News' Caitlin McFall, Emma Colton and Chris Massaro contributed ...

G.K. Chesterton wrote of St. Francis of Assisi, “But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems inconsistency to you did not seem inconsistency to him.” We should keep ...

In a world increasingly shaped by polarization, inequality, and uncertainty, Pope Francis was a rare and steady voice of conscience. His decade of leadership was not defined by institutional power ...

Pope Francis echoed the words of St. Francis of Assisi, who considered all of creation “like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us” (LS ...

He was the first Pope to take the name of Francis, after Saint Francis of Assisi and, like his namesake, Francis chose simplicity and humility. When he was selected Pope and stepped onto the ...

Pope Francis’ funeral brought world leaders, monarchs, and hundreds of thousands of people to Rome on Saturday to bid him farewell in a ceremony of breathtaking spectacle that offered age-old ...

Francis never did. It began with his choice to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi, an evangelist to the poor and the patron saint of ecology and of Italy. It made this pope instantly ...

after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ecologists and champion of the poor. It was a befitting choice. Pope Francis was the fiercest climate and environm ...

He articulated the mission just days after his 2013 election and it explained the name he chose as pope, honoring St. Francis of Assisi “who had the heart of the poor of the world,” according ...