Pope Francis exhorts us, with the help of Edith Stein: Let us be spurred on by the signs of holiness that the Lord shows us through the hu...

I took some time to read Gaudete et exsultate . Anything I would say about it generally has already been posted here and there, so there...

This afternoon we have returned home from our annual community retreat. It was held, as has been usual in time my time here, at our house in...

A pastoral issue came up during table talk among the friars recently: what to do for a penitent who comes to confession and says he hates Po...

This was filmed in February 2016 here at the Capuchin General Curia and at our friary in Frascati, outside of Rome. I was happy to be ab...

"Which of you, having a son or an ox that fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a sabbath day?" (Luke 14:5) T...

An Irish priest sent me this gem of a footnote on Capuchin ignorance from Ulrich L. Lehner's Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers: Crim...