Franciscan Spirit

Mother Marie de Gonzague, the superior at the cloistered convent at Carmel, wrote this of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: “Tall and strong, with the air of a child, with a tone of voice and an expression that hide in her ...

The young religious sister whom Saint Pius X described as “the greatest saint of modern times,” spent nine years in a cloistered convent in northern France.

Since his death, St. Francis of Assisi has been the subject of some of the world’s most admired works of art.

Ecological spirituality is a way of love, a way of moderation, gratitude, wonder, praise, care, and communion with creation.

God as like a friend. Still others, including Jesus of Nazareth, speak of God as a father or a mother.

I think “I’m sorry” are the two hardest words to say.