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The Holy Ordinary
Mark Longhurst
September 19, 2025
Thomas Merton once wrote, “Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.” The busyness …
Becoming Wounded Healers
Richard B. Patterson, PhD
August 16, 2025
In the year 1202, a young Giovanni Bernardone, who we would come to know as St. Francis of Assisi, was captured in a conflict between Assisi and Perugia and held as a prisoner of war for about a year. This ...
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Trinity, Union, and the Lie of Separation
Wm. Paul Young
July 25, 2025
The Trinity is a central component of Christian theology, and certainly Franciscanism as well, as seen in the mystical theology of St. Bonaventure and other Franciscan theologians. But there’s a problem: The Trinity often feels un-relatable, esoteric, or just downright ...
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Three Principles to Heal Division
Chloe Valdary
July 11, 2025
Chloé Simone Valdary is a writer and entrepreneur whose company, Theory of Enchantment, teaches social and emotional learning, as well as diversity and inclusion in companies and government agencies. She has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street ...
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The Catholic Imagination
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, PhD
June 13, 2025
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, PhD, teaches English, Creative Writing, and courses in American Catholic Studies at Fordham University in New York City. She also serves as Associate Director of Fordham’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. O’Donnell was awarded the New ...
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Listening, Following, Re-Discovering, Healing
Maureen O'Brien
May 30, 2025
Maureen O’Brien’s award-winning short stories and poems have been published widely in magazines and anthologies. She lives in Connecticut, where she taught creative writing to teenagers for 25 years. She holds an MA in creative writing and a BA in ...
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Pope Leo XIV: From Missionary to Pontiff
James Sabak, OFM
May 19, 2025
On May 8, 2025, Robert Francis Prevost was elected Bishop of Rome and took the name Pope Leo XIV. In this special episode, Father Jim Sabak, OFM, a Franciscan friar of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Deacon ...
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