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St. Francis established three different Orders. The first one is for the friars; the second is for nuns, such as the Poor Clares; and the third is the Secular Franciscan Order.
More than two months after 5-year-old Loan Peña went missing in the northeastern Argentina town of Nueve de Julio, the church continues to promote marches to demand his captors release him.
If I would be honest, our Trinitarian mystics sometimes make me wonder if I am in on the full Mystery myself yet.
Clare often called herself the “little plant of St. Francis.” And while St. Francis may have helped start her growth, she certainly did most of the growing and spreading on her own.
Francis was holding on to existence by a thread, and the San Damiano cross was his lifeline to his future.
To be human is to be always in motion, either growing into the fullness of our humanity or going backward, declining to become more like the God whose image is revealed to us in Jesus.
Curious and worried friends came to talk to Francis—some to join him, some to convince him to return to the safety inside the city walls.
A growing movement seeks to blur the line between Church and state by imposing Christian values on others, which goes against the teaching of the Church and poses a threat to democracy.
Padre Pio continues to inspire the faith lives of believers worldwide.
The return to the Portiuncula was by way of Borgo San Sepolcro, Monte Casale, and Citta di Castello.
