Franciscan Media

September 29, 2025

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Like a Land Without Water

September 29, 2025

God is the rest our weariness seeks, the sustenance we hunger for, the solace for which we thirst. In fact, as Augustine famously said: “Our hearts are restless until we rest in God.”

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor and former California governor, poses for a photo with Brazilian Cardinal Jaime Spengler of Porto Alegre, left, and Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli, secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, right, after a Vatican press conference on “Raising Hope for Climate Justice” Sept. 30, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Schwarzenegger says joint action needed to ‘terminate’ pollution

September 29, 2025
Arnold Schwarzenegger told reporters he knows that people get "pumped up" spiritually at Mass, but he wishes he could go to Mass at least once and hear a homily on what Catholics can and should do to reduce pollution.
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The Cowl Doesn’t Make the Monk

September 29, 2025
Who decreed that all clergy and the majority of the many orders of brothers and sisters must wear black?
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