For writer and music lover Stephen Copeland, Franciscan spirituality offers the words for a kind of listening that is vital to being a human fully alive.
Faith Seeking Understanding: How should Christians engage with the internet and social media? The wisdom of the 800-year-old Franciscan spiritual tradition has some robust and surprising insights for our 21st century context.
Faith Seeking Understanding: St. Angela of Foligno was someone that women and men, lay and religious, sought out for insight — both spiritual and practical. She makes for a great wisdom figure in our own time, too.
Burning Question: Beyond the birdbaths and the blessing of pets on his Oct. 4 feast day, Francis of Assisi is also known as the patron saint of ecology. What does that mean? Who made that decision? And why?
The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration announced on July 31 a gift of $1.5 million to NCR’s endowment earmarked to support and amplify “integral ecological education and journalism reflecting the spirit of Laudato Si’.” The gift marks the establishment of the Laudato Si' Fund at NCR.
After more than seven decades of ministry by Franciscans in the Diocese of Charleston, the religious order's Holy Name Province has told a group of its friars they are being withdrawn from South Carolina.
Eight centuries ago, St. Francis of Assisi took a risk when he crossed the battlefield between Crusader and Muslim forces near Damietta, Egypt, desiring to meet Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil and preach his faith in Jesus Christ.
