Franciscan Spirituality
The Place You Call Holy
Forget your cell, your cave, your place of prayer and be where you are—and in no other place.
Dear Reader: ‘Peace to This House’
Francis of Assisi had rather specific instructions for how his brothers should go about their lives.
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I’d Like to Say: We Need to Stop ‘Othering’
The time-honored practice of labeling and excluding those who differ from us is eating away at our Christian call to love one another.
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Saint Anthony Is Second to Nobody
Saint Anthony often plays for second with his brother, Saint Francis. But we love them both equally.
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Pope Recognizes Miracle Needed for Church’s First ‘Millennial’ Saint
Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager whose birth in 1991 will make him the first “millennial” to become a saint.
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His lifelong dream was to be a saint, Blessed Carlo Acutis’ mother says