Day of the Dead: A Communion of Saints
María Ruiz Scaperlanda
November 1, 2024
Catholics the world over keep this tradition of honoring ancestors and departed loved ones.
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Advent: Worth the Wait
Mark Pattison
October 25, 2024
We live in a culture of instant gratification where most anything we want is just one click away. Advent invites us to slow down and savor the season of expectation, longing, and hope.
Carlo Acutis: Miracles, Holy Bread, and a Teen Saint in the Making
Maureen O'Brien
October 25, 2024
“Not me, but God,” Blessed Carlo Acutis is quoted as saying. When this author visited Assisi, she discovered the growing excitement surrounding the millennial teenager’s life, legacy, and sainthood cause.
Editorial: Far More Than What St. Francis Expected
Pat McCloskey, OFM
October 25, 2024
The crèche may be the most popular Christian devotional practice and example of inculturation (situating Jesus in every culture).
Study & Theology: A Franciscan Feast
Donna Foley, OFS
October 16, 2024
When I was young, Thanksgiving dinners were never held in anyone’s house. My grandmother and her sisters decided that no one’s Philadelphia row house was big enough for the entire clan. Smart women that they were, we always took over a restaurant for the meal.
Theology school was like that for me. A space apart from the usual spaces to be fed, to laugh, to argue, to hear from the oldest and the youngest.
Following God
Franciscan Media
October 15, 2024
Seekers, pilgrims, disciples; all are wayfarers who find themselves stumbling along the stony path toward integrity. They are people trying to live into life’s lessons
Rediscovering God
Franciscan Media
October 14, 2024
Just like a good Jewish family keeps kosher, Catholic families need to be mindful of how to “keep” Catholicism. The Catholic lifestyle, in which many
Our Lady of Champion
Maureen O'Brien
October 9, 2024
There is only one Church-approved apparition of Mary in the United States. Our Lady of Champion, in gleaming light among autumnal trees, appeared three times to Adele Brise in Champion, Wisconsin, in 1859.
I’d Like to Say: St. Francis Reminds Us of Our Place in Creation
Franciscan Media
September 24, 2024
There weren’t ecologists in the Middle Ages, at least by our modern understanding of environmentalism. But St. Francis changed all that with a new vision of creation as a reflection of God’s love and the Incarnation.
‘Green nuns’ model how to put into action Pope Francis’ call to care for creation
OSV News
September 20, 2024
Throughout America — and indeed, the world — thousands of religious sisters are daily witnessing to the environmental care commitment urged by Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” and its 2023 sequel, “Laudate Deum.”
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