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The Franciscan Spirit podcast brings listeners insightful conversations with authors, artists, and educators who explore faith, spirituality, and the human experience through a Franciscan lens.
Sometimes we can only break the bonds of disordered attachments when God leads us to the desert.
St. Francis embraced all journeys of life—and even his own death—with a willing heart.
Francis and Clare did not let the old get in the way of the new, but like all religious geniuses, revealed what the old was saying all along.
Stephanie Nix did not take the head cook position at the school just because she loves to prepare food. For her, it’s helping kids grow in their faith.
When God sees the shining saints, God once again looks on creation and finds it very good. The saints aren’t dour, but fun to be around.
In episode 3 of Franciscan Media’s Off the Page podcast, Father Murray Bodo, OFM, discusses the creative action of partnering with God to make one’s soul, quoting poet John Keats’ notion of the world being a “vale of soul-making.”
St. Katharine Drexel came from a wealthy, philanthropic family in Philadelphia. She was willing to offer financial support to the cause of providing educations for children of color.
Inside the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France for the celebration of the 11 a.m. Mass on Jan. 1 — the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God — Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond and 600 worshipers struggled to make sense of the death and carnage perpetrated by a man who drove a pickup truck into a dense crowd of early-morning New Year’s revelers just five blocks away on Bourbon Street.
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the nation’s patronal church, has been named a special place of pilgrimage for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year 2025, the theme for which is “Pilgrims of Hope.”
