Franciscan Spirituality
All Souls’ Day: The Beauty of Each Life
On my first visit to Rome, I rushed to see St. Peter’s. It was a church I had drawn when I was in third grade after I read This is Rome by Miroslav Šašek. Of all the pictures in that ...
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The Unfolding of Peace
Often, I am haunted and healed by the words of the Spanish mystic Unamuno: “May God deny you peace but give you glory.” Unamuno’s tragic sense of life suggests that what too often passes for peace in our world is ...
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Singular Holiness
Francis’s greatness, I think, comes from his ability to transfer, and transform, his internal conversations to the physical reality of the external world.
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Five Truths to Remember as Political Tensions Intensify
Franciscans believe that God’s trajectory in the world is a humble one. God poured God’s very self into the universe, setting it into motion, and also became human through the person of Jesus Christ. So, what are the implications of ...
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Friendship and Self-Giving Love
For Clare of Assisi, friendship with Christ entailed a friendship of self-giving love.
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Prayer on the Road
One of the earliest accounts of Francis, the “Legend of Perugia,” quotes Francis as telling the first friars, “You only know as much as you do.”
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Being and Making Peace Today
It may be my personality; it may be my mistrust of “righteous causes,” but I’ve never been one to join protest groups or to “work …