In Conversation With Friar John Burkhard

Friar John J. Burkhard OFM Conv, PhD, taught systematics at the former Washington Theological Union; at Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota; and in Ghana, West Africa. He writes primarily on…

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Mission to the People of Amazonia

Friar Erick Marin of the Central American Custody Mary, Mother of the Poor, departs in early February on mission to the people of Amazonia.He was born in Costa Rica and joined…

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The Divine Comedy – Inferno

Dante and the Franciscans, Part Five Journey into the realms of the afterlife was not a new story in literature. It had occurred most famously in the Aeneid, written by…

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Friar Field Note No. 1
Photo from NCR article by Melissa Cedillo (Courtesy of Josh Burg)

Friar Field Note No. 1

This past November, an NCR EarthBeat Article “More than 250 people fast in solidarity with climate hunger strikers in DC” featured our very own: friar Cristofer Fernández, OFM Conv. In…

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Dante the Author
Allegorical painting of Dante late 16th c.; Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington

Dante the Author

Dante and the Franciscans, Part Four Universally known as the author of The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri wrote other works before his great achievement. When he still resided in Florence,…

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Franciscan Hospitality

Serving Those With Nowhere Else to Go Even before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla Park, New Mexico, had begun a Ministry of Hospitality,…

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