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  1. ** Historic Gesture of Reparations **: A #Wisconsin order of Franciscan Sisters just sold their two-acre lakefront property back to a band of Lake Superior Chippewa people for a fraction of its present-day $2.6 million value.

    #Chippewa #nativeamerican #indigenouspeople #Franciscan #Catholic

    19thnews.org/2025/11/catholic-

  2. What is sad is not #PopeFrancis's death per se: it is the knowing that the #catholic #church has so few leaders like him in its ranks. The #Pope chose #Francis of Assisi as his namesake, who put the vow of #poverty at the heart of the #franciscan order. Very unlike other residents of the #Vatican. He was routinely accused of #wokeness for pointing the finger at the corrupting power of money & for embodying #compassion for all people (incl. #LGBTQ & #indigenous leaders) & #nature (#LaudatoSi).RIP

  3. Congratulations to Dr. Meghomita Das, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on the structure of a preserved subduction plate interface on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay.
    meghomita.com/research/

  4. 8 January 1894 | Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, OFM, was born in Zduńska Wola.

    As a prisoner of Auschwitz (no. 16670) on 29 July 1941, he sacrificed his life to save a person selected for starvation death after an escape of a prisoner. On 14 August 1941, he was murdered with a phenol injection.

    #Auschwitz #history #otd #priest #christianity #religion #sacrifice #starvation #death #remember #memory #NeverForget #ww2 #Kolbe #Saint #Franciscan #OFM Poland #Nazis #Germany

  5. Okay, an #introduction
    I'm a mostly-lifelong Catholic, recently ordained a Deacon for the Diocese of Burlington, Vermont.
    My spirituality leans #Franciscan; my ideology leans #CatholicWorker.
    Also a big #fantasy / #sci-fi
    / #comic book nerd. Majored in #film in college, mostly because I wanted all the Creative Arts and couldn't settle on one, and film seemed like a good umbrella for all of them.
    Thirty years later I still haven't made up my mind which to focus on.

  6. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floren

    The #FlorentineCodex, a 16th-century ethnographic research study in #Mesoamerica by the #Spanish #Franciscan friar #BernardinodeSahagún. The work of 2,400 pages organized into twelve books; 2,000+ illustrations by #native #artists provide vivid images. It documents the #culture, #religious #cosmology & #ritual practices, #society, economics & #naturalhistory of the #Aztec people. Described as "one of the most remarkable accounts of a #nonWestern #culture ever composed."