Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...
National Catholic Reporter8dOpinion
What St. Francis and Brother Wolf teach us about cooperating with creation
The legend of St. Francis of Assisi and Brother Wolf tells a story not of taming a wild creature, but of cooperation and ...
Carlo Acutis: Pilgrims flock to Assisi ahead of canonisation of first millennial saint
Pilgrims flock to Assisi ahead of canonisation of first millennial saint - The London-born teen shows faithful ‘it’s possible ...
The Irish Times4d
Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint – An empathetic and evenly paced treatment of the medieval saint
Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of Assisi – a ... of the medieval saint. Defined against the bourgeoisie ...
Houston Chronicle5d
Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw
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 ...