by Steve Patti | Aug 12, 2018 | Pastor's Column
You may have heard over the past week or so that Pope Francis declared that the death penalty is never permissible, which is a change from previous teaching that the death penalty might be permissible in certain cases. The announcement was big news around the world...
by Steve Patti | Jul 29, 2018 | Pastor's Column
You may have heard that we have been having a series on Pope Francis’ recent exhortation “On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World.” We have met on three Tuesday evenings in July in Anthony Hall Founders Room. Gladys Whitehouse and I have facilitated the discussions –...
by Steve Patti | Jun 24, 2018 | Pastor's Column
One of the values that we hold as Franciscans is the idea of mission, the root meaning of which is “to be sent” (the same root from which we get the word for “mass” – to be sent out into the world as modern-day disciples of Jesus Christ). Francis of Assisi himself...
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