franciscanponderings

Back Seat: Pope Francis with Argentinians in the chapel of Casa Santa Marta The Italian media are speaking of “a revolution of small ge...

Pope Francis kisses man with severe disabilities. Before the Mass in St Peter's Square at which he formally inaugurated his Petrine ...

Ronald Knox mused: “Perhaps it would be a good thing if every Christian, certainly if every priest,could dream once in his life that he ...

On Shrove Tuesday the community here came together to reflect on the Pope’s Lenten Message. Little did we realise when we decided on this...

I have finished reading The Duty of Delight , an abridged version of the diaries of Dorothy Day (1897-1980), the founder the Catholic Wo...

St Francis used to tell his friars, ‘Let us begin again for up to now we have done little or nothing.’ He had the capacity ...

Writing of London in the days before Christmas, John Betjeman's poem Christmas captures the rush and fuss that precedes the celebrat...