Pope Francis Visits Namesake's Tomb At Assisi

There are reports that Pope Francis is in the Umbrian hillside town of Assisi to pray at the shrine of the 13th-Century saint - a name he adopted when became elected earlier this year.

He is accompanied by eight cardinals, with whom he has spent the past three days discussing a radical programme of reform for the Vatican.

He says he wants today's Catholic Church to resemble Francis of Assisi's "Church of the poor".

Speaking in same hall where St Francis was said to have thrown off his robes in a gesture of humility, the Pope called on the Catholic Church and its followers not to get themselves occupied with earthly concerns.

"The Church, all of us should divest ourselves of worldliness. Worldliness is a murderer because it kills souls, kills people, kills the Church.

"Without divesting ourselves, we would become pastry-shop Christians, like beautiful cakes and sweet things but not real Christians," he said.
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