Nearly 20 years after missing an opportunity to visit St. John Paul II’s home country as a Franciscan University student studying in Gaming, Austria, Heather (Prush ’96) Perry was reading an issue of Franciscan Way magazine when she came across an ad for a pilgrimage to Poland. Coming off spinal surgery and with five children…
When François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, pioneer of the Romantic literary movement, future member of the Académie française, and steadfast defender of the Catholic Church, visited America in 1792, he wrote of the stunning beauty of the Hudson Valley, the tribal customs of the Native Americans, and an inspirational, heartfelt meeting with George Washington outside Philadelphia. …
For to us a child is born. A child of hair and nails and teeth; a child of shoulders and ankles and wrists and knees; a child of muscles that strained and bones that broke and cartilage that twisted and rubbed and wore and tore. A child who could, and who would, feel the pain…
On May 29, 2017—Memorial Day—the Most Reverend Timothy Broglio, JCD, archbishop for the Military Services, announced that the United States Armed Forces might soon have a patron saint. After a four-year inquiry, the archdiocese had formally submitted Father Vincent Capodanno’s cause for sainthood to the Vatican. In Queens, New York, Father Mark Bristol ’11 couldn’t…
The genesis story of Trinity Clothing Corporation starts with a restless night, an unused LLC, and a little nudging from God. Before she arrived at Franciscan University in August 2017, Kendal Huntsman was a California teenager working three jobs in order to save up enough money for college. But, after a string of sleepless…
In the final scene of his masterpiece novel, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh captures the radically different nature of freedom Christians are called to embrace compared to the kind of freedom championed by the secular societies in which they live. Legally divorced from their spouses, protagonists Charles Ryder—at that point an agnostic—and Julia Flyte—a “half-heathen,” in…
“It may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won’t quite of despair me in the end.” -Julia Flyte in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited Early morning on I-20 comes slowly. Even from the driver seat of a…
Lent doesn’t need to be all about giving things up. It can also be about deepening our desire to grow closer to God through adding items and activities to our life. One way to do that is picking up a good book. From spiritual devotions to biographies to novels, here are six suggestions for good…