Summer offers people additional opportunities to spend time in favorite pursuits, such as “extreme” adventures, touring the sites or leisurely activities.

The Mass readings during the 13th and 14th Sundays in Ordinary Time offer timely inspiration to strengthen our call to holiness in gratitude.

Featuring prominently in the chapel of the new hall at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady in Baton Rouge, is a giant, two-story high San Damiano cross.

The documentary “The Letter” captures scenes of wreckage caused by the environmental crisis in the lives and communities thousands of miles away. The film may resonate in ways that hit close to home for residents of Louisiana, which is beleaguered with its own environmental issues.

St. Francis Hall dedicated at FranU