The following short refections help introduce particularly Franciscan and Catholic approaches to the decision-making process each of us undergoes in an election season. Given their brevity, these pieces are not intended to address the complexity of the issues, but rather to provide broad parameters for use in our discernment of “what is ours to do.” […]
Archives for October 2012
Happy Feast of St. Francis
On October 4th, the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Francis! Francis of Assisi was a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit and without a sense of self-importance. Serious illness […]