"St. Francis ... in front of the seemingly sleeping young man, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 and is generating a devotion that astonishes even Assisi's bishop. "I'm seeing here a volcano ...

G.K. Chesterton wrote of St. Francis of Assisi, “But after all, this man was a man and not half ... Pope Francis made a point of washing the feet of 12 young people at a juvenile detention ...

Mine happened to be St. Francis of Assisi. Even at a young age, I thought it was a good ... Even those who weren't people of faith. He was a man who walked the talk of St. Francis.

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi ... name because he’s the man of peace, of the poor, of brotherhood.