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by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Bonaventure, Featured, Franciscans, News, Saints, St. Francis of Assisi | 0 |
“One day when Francis went out to meditate in the fields he was passing by the church of San Damiano which was threatened to collapse because of extreme age. Inspired by the Spirit, he went inside to pray. Kneeling before an image of the Crucified, he was filled with great fervor and consolation as he […]
by bcadmin | Sep 11, 2022 | Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Documentary, Franciscans, News, religious sister, Sainthood cause | 0 |
A new documentary on Sister Thea Bowman shines a light on her life and work as an advocate for racial justice and intercultural understanding.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 30, 2022 | Blessed Sacrament, Eucharist, Featured, Franciscans, Kerygma, Knights of the Holy Eucharist, News, Real Presence | 0 |
In response to a 2019 Pew Study that showed only 30 percent of Catholics believe in the Real Presence, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is launching a three-year long Eucharistic Revival, which starts on the Feast of Corpus Christi June 19. The first pillar of the Revival is: Foster encounters with Jesus through […]
by bcadmin | May 21, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Franciscans, Native Americans, News | 0 |
In what may have been the first such ceremony held by a Catholic religious community in Wisconsin, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross hosted a land acknowledgment ceremony on the grounds of St. Francis Convent May 14.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Franciscans, lead, Mississippi, News | 0 |
A former Franciscan friar was convicted Wednesday of sexually abusing a grade school student during the 1990s at a Mississippi Catholic school.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, Franciscans, Lent, News, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11). Before Lent begins, Catholics around the world discern and decide their plan of what they will give up. Dessert, or maybe even coffee, can be some difficult options, but committing to doing something extra is also a type of sacrifice. This Lent, there […]
by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2022 | Assisi, Cardinal, Catholic News Service, Daily Mass, Franciscans, News, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Vatican City State | 0 |
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti said earning a degree in mechanical engineering helped him learn that order and precision could be part of creativity, even though he is still, in his words, “a lover of improvisation and spontaneity.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, Football, Franciscans, News, Religious Sisters | 0 |
On the far west side of Manitowoc, atop a hill overlooking picturesque Silver Lake, sits the historic Holy Family Convent.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, Football, Franciscans, News, NFL, Religious Sisters, Super Bowl, Wisconsin | 0 |
A core group of Franciscan sisters has been Packers fans “forever.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 15, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Franciscans, News, Pope Francis, St. Francis of Assisi, Vatican | 0 |
Like St. Francis of Assisi, Christians are called to live among ordinary people as “mirrors of Christ,” Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 13, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of St. Petersburg, Franciscans, Jubilees, News, Religious Life, religious sister | 0 |
Right after high school, Sister Marlene Weidenborner entered the religious community of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York, although she had no intention of staying.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 4, 2021 | Dominican Friars, Franciscans, News, Order of Friars Minor, Order of Preachers, Sean Sullivan, Spirituality, St. Dominic, St. Francis of Assisi, Vocations | 0 |
For this feast day of St. Dominic, Catholic Digest reached out to both a Dominican friar and Franciscan friar to ask them both about a unique tradition. Each year, on the feast days of the respective saints of their orders (St. Dominic on Aug. 8; St. F…
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