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 the diversity of their members and allow...
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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 and learning to really see poor and...
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 in 2013, Franciscan Father Larry Dunham made...
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 CARELSE spoke to him. Now that he...
Meet Franciscans in Training!
Fr Nkosinathi Njoko OFM is seen with the novices and youth of St Francis of Assisi parish in Reiger Park in Boksburg, part of the Johannesburg archdiocese....
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 me, there are three: the entire area...
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 the town has an air about it...
