Judi Painter is a Secular Franciscan candidate at the St. Francis Fraternity of the St. Katharine Drexel Region. She is a retired hospital trauma chaplain as well as a spiritual advisor for Scouting America. She is active as a Lay Eucharistic Minister in her Catholic church community and lives in Warren County, New Jersey.
Teresa Redder, OFS, regional minister of the St. Katharine Drexel Secular Franciscan Order in Philadelphia, is a shining example of what Franciscan leadership can look like.