Minute Meditations

Clare often called herself the “little plant of St. Francis.” And while St. Francis may have helped start her growth, she certainly did most of the growing and spreading on her own.

We live in a hurting world. Suffering overwhelms people. We are not removed from that reality.

While collegiate and professional sports are big business in this country, the Olympics feel like a purer celebration of sport somehow.

All around the world people are looking for meaning and finding it in strange, even destructive places.

Anthony traveled tirelessly in both northern Italy and southern France, choosing to enter the cities where the heretics were strongest.

As strange as it sounds, I don’t believe our world has much desire left in it.