What's the difference between Franciscans and Catholics?

[svspa04]

I don’t want to appear ignorant, but what is the difference between the Franciscan order and the Catholic order? It’s my understanding that Franciscans fall under the Catholic religion. But, I’m not really sure and would like to know.

 

[Michelle_Arnold]

Catholicism is a religion. Franciscans – or at least legitimate expressions of that order, which was founded by the Catholic saint, St. Francis of Assisi – are a religious order that profess the Catholic religion.