Responding with Compassion

Bruce Epperly March 18, 2023

Reflect From time to time, someone says something that hurts my feelings or elicits feelings of anger. I am tempted to say something to put

Sharing the Word for March 16, 2023

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk March 16, 2023

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent March 16, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Jeremiah 7:23-28 Today God censures his people because they haven’t listened

Lent with St. Clare: Third Wednesday

Franciscan Media March 15, 2023

Love was at the heart of everything St. Clare did. Her love for Christ was her purpose. Her love for St. Francis was her compass.

Vatican accepts ‘positio’ in Mother Lange’s cause; dicastery to review documents on her life

OSV News March 10, 2023

ARBUTUS, Md. (OSV News) — The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world’s first sustained women’s religious community for Black women, has

Polish experts reject claim JPII ‘covered up abuse,’ urge all church records be opened to give full context

OSV News March 9, 2023

KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) — The fact that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla — the future Pope John Paul II — knew about abuse when he was

Thousands gather at funeral Mass for LA’s Bishop O’Connell, recalled as ‘soul friend’ to all

OSV News March 6, 2023

LOS ANGELES (OSV NEWS) — Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell was remembered as a man “gripped by grace” and “at ease with movers

Lent with St. Clare: Second Sunday

Franciscan Media March 5, 2023

Most of us will never be canonized as saints. We are flawed individuals trying to live a life worthy of Christ’s sacrifice. That does not mean, however, that we are not called to do our very best to follow “the path of the Lord,” as St. Clare said.

Woman with ashes on her melon | Lent with St. Clare

Lent with St. Clare: Ash Wednesday

Franciscan Media February 22, 2023

Today is the start of our Lenten journey. On our foreheads we wear ashes, a sign that we are made of dust and to dust we shall return. Such an outward sign conveys a message that words do not.