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Francis and Clare realized that to be faithful to Jesus, they needed to incarnate Jesus’s message in their time and place.
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Francis and Clare realized that to be faithful to Jesus, they needed to incarnate Jesus’s message in their time and place.

The message of Franciscan spirituality can awaken a vision of hope amid the challenges we face.

The wisdom and traditions of the past must be integrated with God’s movement toward the fresh horizons of the future.

God’s call unites our inner and outer journeys, and what is private is eventually revealed in the challenges of daily life and social involvement.

Churches in Jordan are canceling Christmas celebrations in solidarity with Gaza as violence in the Palestinian enclave mounts.

Unplanned moments awaken us to holy adventures in which guidance appears out of nowhere and mysticism leads to mission.

Indigenous cultures have much to offer the Catholic faith, especially with regard to care for God’s creation. With healing and dialogue, we can take steps to deepen our faith and build up God’s kingdom.

Compassion suggests that we put ourselves into others’ shoes and try to look at the world from their perspective.

An explosion at the St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church campus in Gaza has left the administration building in ruins, and at least 17 people dead, though numbers have not yet been officially confirmed.

The Vatican, especially Pope Francis, must double its efforts and urge the international community to end the massacre of Palestinians killed in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war, Palestine’s ambassador to Denmark said.