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St. Francis: Giving Comfort to Weary Soldiers

Women religious and the Church

The Nuns Are OK: Building a Sustainable Future for Women Religious 

Michele Dunne and others

A Diplomat’s Journey to Activism 

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A Practical Guide to Death for Catholics  

News

Agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detain a man after conducting a raid at the Cedar Run apartment complex in Denver Feb. 5, 2025.

Pope calls treatment of migrants in U.S. ‘extremely disrespectful’

Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. blesses the cemetery at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bowie, Md. Nov. 15, 2025.

Washington Archdiocese’s project honors those enslaved by Catholic Church in Maryland

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Pope asks big names in film to continue to challenge, inspire, give hope

A wampum belt, from what is now Quebec, symbolizing Indigenous people forming an alliance with French Catholic colonizers is seen in this 2008 file photo from the Vatican Museums' ethnological collection.

Pope returns Indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums to Canada

Commentary

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Welcome Home, Soldier

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Sisters and Brothers in the Spirit 

Jesus said: Love the Poor

Dilexi te’s Urgent Plea: Risk the Poor or Lose Jesus

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We Are the Bricks of the Church 

Inspiration

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Elizabeth of Hungary: Beloved Sister in a Troubled World

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St. Bonaventure: Loving God with Heart and Mind 

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Communion of Saints: Deepening our Relationships with Those We’ve Lost

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Francis: A Natural Spiritual Genius

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Whispers of Prayer from St. Clare 

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Finding God on the Camino

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Columns

Don Cheadle stars in a scene from the movie "Hotel Rwanda." The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents are strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo from United Artists) (Oct. 19, 2009) See MEDIA NOTEBOOK Oct. 19, 2009.

Hollywood and Holiness: How Film Can Be a Teacher

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Maternal Wisdom on the Mother Road

Rolheiser-grief

What to Do When There’s Nothing You Can Do

Medicine of Mercy

Medicine of Mercy

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Living Hope 

Don Cheadle stars in a scene from the movie "Hotel Rwanda." The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents are strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo from United Artists) (Oct. 19, 2009) See MEDIA NOTEBOOK Oct. 19, 2009.

Hollywood and Holiness: How Film Can Be a Teacher

empty desert road on Route 66

Maternal Wisdom on the Mother Road

Rolheiser-grief

What to Do When There’s Nothing You Can Do

Medicine of Mercy

Medicine of Mercy

Cuban artwork on a wall

Living Hope 

Profiles & Vocations

Celebrity chef Father Leo Patalinghug displays a Lenten seafood pasta meal he prepared in his Baltimore kitchen Feb. 24, 2016. During a Nov. 22, 2019, session at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis, Father Patalinghug, better known as the "the cooking priest," provided a different kind of recipe, "Five Steps to Become a Teenage Saint," to help youths get to heaven. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)

Father Leo Patalinghug: Connecting Food and Faith

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Mark Anthony Zarate, OFM: Being One with the Poor in the Philippines

Brother Clark Berge, SSF

Brother Clark Berge, SSF: Running with the Spirit of Francis 

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Sister Kathy Warren, OSF: A Franciscan Journey of Renewal, Dialogue, and Service

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Teresa Redder, OFS: Secular Franciscan and Servant Leader

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Sister Margaret Carney, OSF: A Lifetime of Footsteps on the Franciscan Way 

Podcast

Episode 25

Ronald Rolheiser, OMI

A Spirituality of Aging and Letting Go
Episode 22

Richard B. Patterson, PhD

Becoming Wounded Healers
Episode 18

Maureen O'Brien

Listening, Following, Re-Discovering, Healing
Episode 12

Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, PhD

The Legacies of Helen Prejean and Religious Sisters

Voices

Tyler Grudi, OFM

Online: Franciscan Spirit
Dilexi te’s Urgent Plea: Risk the Poor or Lose Jesus

Patricia Breen McNeil

Nov/Dec 2025 Issue
What Is Mine to Do? 

Daniel Imwalle

September 2025 Cover
Sister Norma Pimentel’s Mission 

Richard Rohr, OFM

Online: Franciscan Spirit
Francis: A Natural Spiritual Genius

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Were All the Apostles Single?