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After years of research and writing, Santa María: Priestly Mother of Mercy is complete—now it just has to get past the series editors. The book explores...

Four days after the Franciscan Family marked the 8th Centenary of Francis's Stigmata in 2024, I found myself still turning the image over in prayer. Like the nails that pierced our Savior's body, the wounds of our brother and founder have penetrated the spirituality of all three Orders that claim him. Carrying that legacy forward means keeping the love of the Crucified Lord at the center of who we are.

My reflection on the Stigmata owes a great debt to my teacher Chiara Frugoni and her...

I am getting my Religious Priesthood course ready for the Fall 2026 semester, and every time I open my lecture notes and PowerPoints for this class, I remember that it did not start out this way. I developed this course many years ago as a spirituality course. While I was away from Catholic Theological Union and working for the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome, it was transformed into what it is now: “Theology and Spirituality of Religious Priesthood,” a required course for our MDiv...

I love the month of August. It begins with the Feast of the Pardon in honor of Santa Maria degli Angeli, patroness of the Franciscan famiglia, and moves through various saints like San Lorenzo, Santo Domingo, Santa Rosa de Lima, San Agustín and his mother Mónica. It also celebrates the birth of significant people in my life like Brat Joachim, Brat Juraj, Frate Graziano, Friar Jimmy. mi sobrinita Emma, mis padres Gilberto y Emma, mi cuñada Norma, mis primas Juanita y Linda, and ends with el...