The feast of St. Clare was interesting here in Rome. On Friday afternoon I came home from school very tired, both from the week itself and a...

In the quiet of a Friday afternoon yesterday, I finally got around to seeing Rebecca Cammisa's God Is the Bigger Elvis , the short film ...

In today's gospel (John 8:21-30), Jesus is asked, "Who are you?" It fascinates me that he answers by talking about the Father....

This morning was one of the first in a while on which it was actually warm enough to walk to the Poor Clare monastery for Mass (as opposed t...

The blogosphere is alive with posts for the feast of St. Clare today. Here are some to check out: View from the Choir has posted Clare'...

One of the treasures of the Franciscan liturgical calendar is having proper prefaces for Francis and Clare. Here is the preface for Clare...

Yesterday I watched the film Clare and Francis . Directed by Fabrizio Costa and originally produced as a mini-series for Italian TV, this 20...

Thanks be to God I'm safely back from pilgrimage! It was really a wonderful time--good brothers, good directors, places of such grace. O...

The Trinity is not just a doctrine of God. Among other things, it is a doctrine of our spiritual life, of our interface with the divine life...