St. Francis Laid the Path
Richard Rohr, OFM
July 25, 2025
Imagine how different Western history and religion could have been if we had walked so tenderly and lovingly upon the earth, as Francis and Jesus did.
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Richard Rohr, OFM
Richard Rohr, OFM, is founder and codirector of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Foundational Love
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 16, 2025
Great religion seeks utter awareness and full consciousness, so that we can, in fact, receive all. Everything belongs and everything can be received.
Francis and Clare: Something Old, Something New
Richard Rohr, OFM
February 21, 2025
Francis and Clare did not let the old get in the way of the new, but like all religious geniuses, revealed what the old was saying all along.
Prayer on the Road
Richard Rohr, OFM
October 29, 2024
One of the earliest accounts of Francis, the “Legend of Perugia,” quotes Francis as telling the first friars, “You only know as much as you do.”
Simplicity Is Our Goal
Richard Rohr, OFM
October 24, 2024
When you agree to live simply, the ethics and economics of war reveal themselves in all their evil and stupidity.
Francis: A Natural Spiritual Genius
Richard Rohr, OFM
October 4, 2024
If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. Francis succeeded in living in this single-hearted way and thus turned
God Acts Out of Love
Richard Rohr, OFM
September 18, 2024
For Scotus, God never merely reacts but always supremely and freely acts, and acts totally out of love.