During his time in California, Junipero Serra baptized, confirmed, married, and buried thousands of Native Americans.

Weighed down by life, a woman finds respite in her church.

Joy is the gist of the Christian Good News. Yet, only if we open wide our senses will we be able to drink from the source of this joy. Only then will the Good News prove truly good and ever new.

The Franciscan life is a high calling. But if God has given us this vocation, he will also give us his grace to carry it out.

Eternity will be the revelation not only of all God’s love and goodness, but also of all that we have meant to each other.

God’s will for humans—and for all creation—is to exercise an agency of co-creation: to bring about on earth a greater fullness.

We understand how our own hands are so important in expressing our love and care for one another—a touch, a protective hold. That image also tells us about God.

Opening ourselves to this fierce love through prayer, and then acting out of it—personally and in our public policies—is the only pathway to peace.

At both the personal and transpersonal levels, I experience an unceasing process of birth-death-rebirth. This paradoxical dynamic is insinuated into every aspect of our contemporary world.