Franciscan Spirituality

As we Catholics believe in the redemption of all things, we can imagine other animals and creatures present in God’s kingdom as well. 

My mind goes to this quote from Pope Francis: “Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel. If we are to know the Lord, we must go to him. Listen to him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach him ...

St. Francis of Assisi understood the spiritual and psychological toll that life could bring.

I spend my last night of my pilgrimage to Italy on the balcony of my hotel room drinking wine and looking up at a heavy sky.

Francis of Assisi may not have written the words of the Peace Prayer attributed to him, but he certainly lived them.

God can and does communicate in ways we can’t imagine. If a mother can communicate to her infant, would we ever say that God does not? God is in communication with us by his very presence. It may well be ...