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St. Francis and His ‘Canticle of the Creatures’
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Chloé Valdary: A Modern Mystic
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Young pilgrims process through rural Oklahoma during the 2024 Three Hearts Pilgrimage. Each year in October, the Three Hearts Pilgrimage takes place in the foothills of Oklahoma, a two-day, 35-mile penitential walk in the medieval style. (OSV News photo/Michelle Buscemi, Three Hearts Pilgrimage)

Annual Three Hearts Pilgrimage seeks to unite families, pray for country

Members of the Leo High School Choir appear on stage during the 20th season finale of the talent competition series "America's Got Talent" on Sept. 24, 2025. (OSV News photo/Trae Patton, NBC)

Catholic high school boys choir wows in ‘AGT’ season finale

This is a still from the documentary film “Nuns vs. The Vatican” written and directed by Lorena Luciano.

Father Rupnik’s alleged victim receives standing ovation at documentary premiere

Law enforcement personnel are seen outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, field office after a shooting in Dallas Sept. 24, 2025. Investigators say "anti-ICE" rhetoric was written on bullets found at the scene of the shooting that left one person dead and another two people wounded.

ICE detainee killed and 2 others injured in shooting at Dallas ICE facility

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Current Issue

October

Dear Reader

Embracing New Seasons

Editorial

Follow Francis, Serve God 

Feature

Autumn’s Mini Holy Season 

Feature

Finding True Joy 

Faith and Family

Medicine of Mercy

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Columns

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Welcome, Pope Leo XIV 

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I Walk the Line

Imagination and prayer

The Imagination’s Pathway to Prayer 

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Becoming a Practicing Mystic

Blessed Mother and Lady Liberty

Blessed Mother & Lady Liberty: Finding Safe Harbor

Profiles & Vocations

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Podcast

Episode 23

Mark Longhurst

The Holy Ordinary
Episode 21

Wm. Paul Young

Trinity, Union, and the Lie of Separation
Episode 15

Darleen Pryds, PhD

How the Canticle Invites a Spirituality of Letting Go
Episode 13

Margaret Carney, OSF

Saint Clare’s Leadership in a Time of Division

Voices

Peter Feuerherd

October 2025 Issue
Brent Suter: Baseball, Faith, and the Environment 

Susan Hines-Brigger

September 2025 Issue
A Bill That’s Anything but Beautiful 

Richard B. Patterson, PhD

July/August 2025 Issue
Turn to the Beatitudes 

Eunice Park

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

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