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 Catholic Traditions

Franciscan Media October 14, 2024

Just like a good Jewish family keeps kosher, Catholic families need to be mindful of Catholic traditions. The Catholic lifestyle, in which many of us

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.

aerial view photo of Sisters of St. Joseph 220-acre motherhouse property in Brentwood, N.Y.

‘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.”

Contractor Jim Oswalt works with students at a homesite in Stephens City, Va., during WorkCamp June 26, 2024. During each summer camp, teams of teens, guided by adult building contractors, site managers, and chaperones, come alongside people struggling with poverty to make their living spaces and conditions "safer, warmer and dryer," as a shared work camp motto goes. (OSV News photo/Jim Hale, Arlington Catholic Herald)

Catholic summer camps help youth meet Jesus, serve others

OSV News August 14, 2024

WINCHESTER, Va. (OSV News) — Summer is mission trip season — which usually conjures up images of a few dozen Catholic teenagers and their chaperones

Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley welcomes Archbishop Richard G. Henning in the cardinal's offices in the Archdiocese of Boston's Pastoral Center in Braintree, Mass., Aug. 5, 2024, after Pope Francis accepted Cardinal O'Malley's resignation and named then-Bishop Henning of Providence, R.I., as his successor.

Pope appoints Rhode Island bishop to succeed Cardinal O’Malley as Boston archbishop

OSV News August 6, 2024

Ending months of speculation about the future leadership of the Archdiocese of Boston, Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley and appointed Bishop Richard G. Henning of Providence, Rhode Island, to succeed him as the archdiocese’s 10th bishop and seventh archbishop.

Campers enjoy canoeing on the lake at Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp in Huttonsville, W.Va., in this undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp)

Carlo Acutis Youth Camp officials overjoyed about namesake’s canonization

OSV News June 18, 2024

Its mission is to lead young people to a deep relationship with Jesus Christ through his church. And the Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp does just that each summer for young Catholics in West Virginia.

Children sit in a Native American boarding school

Trauma and Truth: Native American Boarding Schools

Daniel Imwalle May 24, 2024

Both the US government and the Catholic Church had a hand in the establishment and operation of Native American boarding schools, where, for nearly a century, thousands of children were sent without their parents’ consent.