Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
With bittersweet emotions, the staff and board of the Franciscan Action Network gathered on November 7th, 2019 at St. Francis Hall to celebrate Patrick Carolan, our Executive Director for the past 9 years and honored him with the FAN award at our annual...
Oct 25, 2019 | Care for Creation
Inspired by youth activists as well as Reverend Barber’s Moral Mondays and Randall Robinson’s often daily anti-apartheid protests, actress and activist Jane Fonda has moved to Washington, D.C. and instituted weekly demonstrations she calls Fire Drill Fridays at the US...
Oct 23, 2019 | Care for Creation
The Franciscan Action Network (FAN) holds at its core a deep care for creation which stems from our patron, St. Francis of Assisi. FAN sees the interconnectedness of all creation and the common origin of humanity as rooted in God’s loving design for the earth and all...
Oct 17, 2019 | Care for Creation
In the nationwide migration to clean and renewable energy, there is great need to implement a just transition that attends to the social dimensions of economic change and to learn from our collective experience when designing policies around best practices. Just...
