Encounter with a stranger
Moving is disorienting, no matter how often a person has done it. Bruce and Bryant Hausfeld stopped in recently. They’ve moved so many times that they switch up the biblical...
Shanghai Summer
This summer, John Boissy could have given his brain a rest. Instead, he took on the academic Olympics: He went to China and studied Mandarin Chinese.
Inspired by his Asian...
Wheelchair Basketball at Friars Club
More than a game, it’s a lesson in living with disabilities
The words “disability” and “defeat” do not belong in the same sentence, according to Jake Counts.
Physically challenged...
Franciscan Joy: Strumming feeds his spirit
One of the things that brings me joy as a Franciscan is music. All my life I have been blessed with a good singing voice. As a young...
Standing up and standing together for immigrants
Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv
Nothing is more American than the stories of immigrants who risked everything to be here.
But Bishop John Stowe wonders what’s happened to that...
Reception of Novices
Fourteen novices were received into the Order on July 16 in Santa Barbara, Calif., in a simple ceremony that included four provincials, three secretaries of formation and a host...
Coming to America
The travels of Friar William Unterthiner, a province pioneer, May 13 - July 23, 1844.
...Franciscan Joy: God’s loving presence in nature
The whisper of wind through the trees; the gentle sound of water in a babbling brook; the thunderous roar of waves crashing onto a beach; the majesty of mountains...
Franciscan Joy: A Puzzling Way to Pass the Time
When I was a child, working jigsaw puzzles was a frequent recreation in our home. My mother was especially fond of doing jigsaw puzzles, and I got caught up in...
March for Our Lives
"It was a whirlwind trip," says Fr. Henry Beck, who met friends in Alexandria, Va., last Friday and joined them for several hours Saturday in the March for Our Lives...
Franciscan Joy: We Are United By a Sense of Purpose
In my 14 years as a friar, my family, friends and other many friars have cited my "great passion" for living the Franciscan way of life. I appreciate the...
Saving a Shrine
BY TONI CASHNELLI
The statues are peeling. The parking lot is a crazy quilt of patch work. And the chain link fence has taken a few hits.
But Friar Alex Kratz looks...
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