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St. Francis and His ‘Canticle of the Creatures’
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Our Lady of Sorrows
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Our Lady of Sorrows

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The Beauty of the Beatitudes

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Which Path Will You Take?

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Understanding Sins of Omission

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News

An Italian policeman watches as immigrants board a van after they disembarked from an Italian coast guard boat at the port in Lampedusa, Italy, July 9. The day before in Lampedusa, Pope Francis lamented the sufferings of people who flee their homeland and mourned those who have died doing so. The island has been a landing point for scores of immigrants from Africa attempting to make their way to Europe. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (July 9, 2013)

Migrants are not enemies, just brothers and sisters in need, Pope Leo says

Commentator Charlie Kirk appears at a Utah Valley University speaking event in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10, 2025.

Bishops, officials call for prayer after Charlie Kirk shot and killed

A hunter's moon rises behind a statue of St. Francis of Assisi on the grounds of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Champion, Wisconsin.

Franciscans celebrate 800th anniversary of “The Canticle of the Creatures”

Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, poses for a photo near the beginning of the Jubilee procession to the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sept. 6, 2025.

LGBTQ Catholics process through Holy Door at St. Peter’s

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Let’s Reclaim Our Creativity 

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Podcast

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Wm. Paul Young

Trinity, Union, and the Lie of Separation
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Chloe Valdary

Three Principles to Heal Division
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Margaret Carney

Saint Clare’s Leadership in a Time of Division
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Richard Rohr

Eager to Love

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September 2025 Issue
A Bill That’s Anything but Beautiful 

Eunice Park

July/August 2025 Issue
On the Road Paved by St. Francis 

Murray Bodo, OFM

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Mary: Mother and Mystic 

Darleen Pryds, PhD

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Living ‘The Canticle of the Creatures’ 

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Our Lady of Sorrows

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Ask20092020Q1

Understanding Sins of Omission