Franciscan Media

September 15, 2025

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Which Path Will You Take?

September 15, 2025

As director of a Guadalajara hospital, Madre Nati chose not to treat the soldiers entering the building with the same disrespect that their government showed Catholics.

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The Beauty of the Beatitudes

September 15, 2025
As Christians, the beauty of the beatitudes is that they remind us that this world is not our home.
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An Italian policeman watches as immigrants board a van after they disembarked from an Italian coast guard boat at the port in Lampedusa, Italy, July 9. The day before in Lampedusa, Pope Francis lamented the sufferings of people who flee their homeland and mourned those who have died doing so. The island has been a landing point for scores of immigrants from Africa attempting to make their way to Europe. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (July 9, 2013)

Migrants are not enemies, just brothers and sisters in need, Pope Leo says

September 15, 2025
At a time when people feel powerless to help migrants and refugees, Christians must continue to insist that "there is no justice without compassion, no legitimacy without listening to the pain of others," Pope Leo XIV said.
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Understanding Sins of Omission

September 15, 2025
I realize that I can sin by some action (for example, murder or theft), but I have never understood how someone can sin by inaction, by not doing something. How is that possible?
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