Brazil’s Black Awareness Day Highlights Indigenous Peoples Friar Erick G. Marin Carballo OFM Conv. lives with other religious and laity who are part of his itinerant team. Their shared life…
In 2020, an early snowfall in Las Cruces, New Mexico, inspired Friar Tom Smith to build a snowman. He decided to sculpt a Franciscan friar using pinecones for the eyes…
A group of people committed to the goals of Laudato Sí meets regularly at Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla Park, New Mexico, to promote education, ecological conversion, and action…
The Letter: 1 Million Views in 2 Days! After the early morning Mass in the Lower Basilica in Assisi, on the Feast of Saint Francis, I went down to say…
After eight days by boat, going up the Amazon River, we arrived at Tabatinga, on the triple border of Brazil-Colombia-Peru. We left the port of Manaus amid backpacks, hammocks of…
Here's Part Four (and the end) of friar Leopold's 'Cosmic Musings of a Franciscan Scientist.' (If you missed any of this four-part series: Part One; Part Two; Part Three)It more than…