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Al Jazeera reporter Nour Abu Rokba works as Palestinian emergency personnel celebrate in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip

Holy Land patriarch welcomes news of initial peace deal

Pope Leo XIV signs his first apostolic exhortation, "Dilexi Te" ("I Have Loved You"), in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2025, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

Pope Leo XIV releases apostolic exhortation

Worshippers attend a noon prayer at Hagia Sophia Mosque in the Turkish northwestern town of Iznik Oct. 8, 2025, which was built by Romans as a place of worship, then converted to a church and later into a mosque by the Ottomans. Pope Leo XIV is expected to visit Turkey in Nov. 27-30 for the 1,700th anniversary of the First Nicaea Council, as part of his first trip outside Italy.

Vatican confirms papal trip to Turkey, Lebanon Nov. 27-Dec. 2

People gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on the first day of its new term Oct. 6, 2025.

Supreme Court begins fall term

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I Walk the Line

Plants of Clare

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God's flowers for St. Francis

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A Franciscan Perspective on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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God Beyond Our Making: Atheism, Mysticism, and the Dark Night

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Podcast

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Gregory Cellini, OSF

A Franciscan Path to Purpose
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Darleen Pryds, PhD

How the Canticle Invites a Spirituality of Letting Go
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Margaret Carney, OSF

Saint Clare’s Leadership in a Time of Division
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Garrett Galvin, OFM

Renewal in a Franciscan Key

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A Franciscan Perspective on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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

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The Sacrament of Now

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