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Franciscan Connections is an international Franciscan blog that connects, communicates, and conveys the best of Franciscan learning in the twenty-first century.

St. Francis Answers Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's criticism of Christian charity is perhaps the most serious philosophical challenge to our Catholic commitment to social justice.

Franciscan Studies

Franciscan Studies, the scholarly (peer-reviewed) journal published by the Franciscan Institute, has a new General Editor and a new editorial board.

The Not-Yet God

The complex human can no longer be simplified to one view or another: one must see the whole of our existence or one does not see at all.

Research and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

The “Catholic Intellectual Tradition” is a concept often invoked to help characterize the warrant for a conversation staged between the sciences and the humanities.