Three images created by Michael Reyes, OFM, for the Franciscan provincial synod held in January 2025

More About the Franciscan Synod

Franciscan Media March 13, 2025

Two lay participants who took part in the Franciscan synod were struck by different elements of the process that spoke to them.

Pope John Paul I walks at the Vatican in 1978. The editorial director of Vatican News, Andrea Tornielli, wrote in a June 21 article that Archbishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I, had hoped that Pope Paul VI would liberalize church teaching on artificial birth control, but when he didn't, the archbishop helped promote acceptance of "Humanae Vitae." (CNS file photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

John Paul I’s 33-Day Papacy

Mo Guernon March 13, 2025

Though brief, Pope John Paul I’s papacy had a far-reaching influence on future Church leaders.

This icon of the archangels is one of four new icons at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in New Westminster, British Columbia. The parish is working to sponsor the families of the iconographers, who are now in Poland after fleeing Ukraine. (CNS photo/Nicholas Elbers, B.C. Catholic)

Praying with Icons

Jeannette de Beauvoir March 13, 2025

We’re used to communicating to God through words, but icons have a special power.

Stewardship and Sustainability

Paul Lipowski March 13, 2025

St. Francis revered all creation as a gift from God, advocating for responsible stewardship of the earth. Embracing simplicity allows us to live in harmony with nature and future generations.

Lent with Padre Pio: First Thursday

Franciscan Media March 13, 2025

The act of baring one’s soul and sins before God was extremely important to Pio and he expected that same respect for the sacrament from those seeking absolution.

GOOD FRIDAY | Photo by Rui Silva sj on Unsplash

Embracing Good Friday

Brian Doyle March 12, 2025

Every year on Good Friday I sit in the balcony of the campus chapel, behind a whopping oaken pillar, and I weep copiously at the sheer human pain and grace of the whole thing.

Jesus: Our Source of Healing, Wholeness, and Love

Barbara Hosbach March 12, 2025

Jesus extends God’s compassion to each of us.

My Parents, the Secular Franciscans

Brian Doyle March 12, 2025

Here is a story close to my heart about two Secular Franciscans. When I was about 10 years old, my mother and father, devout Catholics

Desire the Will of God

Edward Sri March 12, 2025

In reciting the Hail Mary throughout the rosary, we participate over and over again the wonder-filled response of Gabriel and Elizabeth to the mystery of Christ.