and we all need renewal after the seemingly endless COVID and its variants. After St. Francis’ conversion, he repaired and restored an ancient church. He renewed it. While most scholars focus on ...

This new English translation was borne out of efforts to spark a renewal in our full and active participation in the worship of God. Discussion of the translation was full of vitality—good ...

The book’s publishers say Francis wished for Hope to come out after his death, but brought it forward for the current Catholic jubilee year and the “needs of our times”. Once intrigued by Argentine ...

ON February 7, 1945, under a cold winter sky, Yugoslav Partisans stormed the Franciscan Monastery at Siroki Brijeg in now-Bosnia and Herzegovina. The soldiers dragged 30 Franciscan friars into the ...