Deacon Joseph Rafferty, then-principal of Saint Rose of Lima Elementary School, Haddon Heights, holds a banner announcing the ...

Tap on the blue circle to take a look at photos from the funeral for Pope Francis. 1 of 28 The coffin of Pope Francis arrives at St. Mary Major ... Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, Herrera ...

Francis, who took his name after Saint Francis of Assisi, was known for his outreach ... to groups including Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago; Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, Texas ...

Going to Catholic school, we all knew our patron saints. Mine happened to be St. Francis of Assisi. Even at a young age, I thought it was a good fit due to my Italian heritage and my love and ...

1 A Jesuit pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name honors St. Francis of Assisi, and the first Jesuit – a ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name honors St. Francis of Assisi ... s residential school system for ...

A pope of many firsts, Francis was the first Latin American pontiff and first Jesuit. Naming himself for Saint Francis of Assisi ... the tone” for the Jesuit school, adding Francis emphasized ...

the first whose papal name honors St. Francis of Assisi, and the first Jesuit – a Catholic religious order founded in the 16th century. Those Jesuit roots shed light on Pope Francis’ approach ...

Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw “St. Francis ... helping his classmates in school, defending the teens who were bullied.” ...

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 Fr. Enzo Fortunato, who spent most of his religious career there ...