Giving spirit permeates St. Francis Academy | Faith Matters

Eighth-graders Jaxon Gajewski and Jorge Yepez guided me on a tour of the renovated old convent at St. Francis Academy in Union City. They included the new early childhood classrooms, small reading and math rooms, as well as an art room, a new music room and dance studio, a new science room, a state-of-the-art nurse’s office, admissions and development.

They did not have to point out the life-size cardboard cutout of Pope Francis in the hallway. Jesuit Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio is the first pope to take Francis as his papal name and he has modeled his papacy on Franciscan charisms..