Pope: Christian Media Must Unite People
By Junno Arocho Esteves – In a time when social networks can tend to divide people, Christian media must instead...
Franciscans
Franciscans open general chapter focusing on diversity, evangelisation
By Cindy Wooden – As a worldwide religious order, Franciscan friars need to find new and better ways to welcome...
Pope urges Franciscans to recognise God’s presence in the poor
By Cindy Wooden – The renewal of the Franciscan order must start, like the order itself did, from being with...
Franciscans Mark 600 years as Guardians of Christendom’s Most Sacred Sites
By Julie Asher – Before he became guardian and commissary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington...
Archbishop William Slattery Looks Back
After 25 years as a bishop, Archbishop William Slattery OFM is now retired – but he still has many plans. ERIN...
Meet Franciscans in Training!
Fr Nkosinathi Njoko OFM is seen with the novices and youth of St Francis of Assisi parish in Reiger Park...
6: Waiting for ladder to fall
Occasionally I am asked about my favourite place in the Holy Land. It is a difficult question to answer. For...
2: Where Jesus and Mary stood
When the author Mark Twain made his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1869, he found Nazareth “wonderfully interesting because...
