How Francis lived in relation to a leprosy pandemic makes him a source of insight to as well as a potential critic of contemporary responses to COVID.
Saint Francis and the Lepers Catch Up with COVID
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A Narrative Analysis of Greccio’s Christmas Celebration
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The significance of Greccio’s Christmas celebration can be sought in its artistic value, its theological message of the Incarnation, and its influence on the nativity scene today.
How Do We Make Humility Important Again?
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“Humility is the first step in self-reflection,” writes Christopher M. Bellitto in his new book, Humility: The Secret of a Lost Virtue.
Spiraling into God
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This book offers a systematic account of the Seraphic Doctor’s doctrine of grace across his speculative-academic, mystical, hagiographical, and pastoral texts.
Being the Teaching
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On the many 'ordinary’ men and women – Franciscan non-writing non-friars and non-nuns – living penitential lives in their own homes or in religious communities.