The Commission on the Franciscan Intellectual-Spiritual Tradition (CFIT) was established in 2001 by the English-Speaking Conference of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM) to promote a contemporary retrieval of the distinctive theological and spiritual vision that animates the Franciscan movement. Continue Reading Commission on the Franciscan Intellectual-Spiritual Tradition
Here are books and articles on care for creation, eco-spirituality, and climate change. Continue Reading Bibliography: Care for Creation, Eco-Spirituality & Climate Change
A compilation of resources from faith based and government organizations for best practices on and how to transition to sustainable land management. Continue Reading Land Management Resources
A compilation of creation care formational, spiritual, and educational resources from various organizations. Continue Reading Resources on Care for Creation: Formation, Education and Spirituality
This issue of Spirit+Life is dedicated to the great mystery of our salvation, which Francis lived in a tangible form during the Christmas celebration in Greccio, where the town of Bethlehem (the house of bread), was rendered visible in the Bread of Life, the Word made flesh, in the manger. Francis contemplated the Nativity of Christ and lived the experience of poverty and humility of the Incarnation. Greccio became a new Bethlehem. Continue Reading Quarterly Journal of Franciscan Culture focused on Greccio
In the fall of 2022, Franciscan Action Network, the Franciscan Federation and the Franciscan Friars (OFM) US-6 JPIC Working Group offered a 4-part webinar series on Confronting Environmental Racism. Access the recordings here. Continue Reading Confronting Environmental Racism Collaborative Series
Haversack, a Franciscan review, was started in 1977 by a group of Franciscan women and men who were living and working in Uptown Chicago. They felt the need to connect their own experience of working for God’s world and God’s justice with the experience of Francis, Clare and their early sisters and brothers outside Assisi in the early 1200s. At some point, they decided to share their journey in writing in order to connect with Franciscans and others on the same path outside of Chicago. For twenty-one years, long before social media, Haversack generated relationships of mutual encouragement, challenge, celebration, even angst, reaching Franciscans in thirty-seven countries. Haversack became an exploration of the critical issues of the time – issues no less critical nowadays – and a rediscovery of the insights the early Franciscans had into the Gospel message of Jesus and its direct applications to human challenges. Continue Reading Haversack: A Franciscan Review
Originally developed by the Rule and Life Committee of the Franciscan Federation and updated by the Spirit and Life Committee, this resource provides formation directors in TOR congregations with guidelines for the development of the Franciscan person. This resource is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Continue Reading Development of the Franciscan Person
This short introduction offers groups a model to engage in a study of the encyclical Fratelli Tutti. Continue Reading Fratelli Tutti Study Guide