Jan 14, 2021 | Care for Creation, Issues
St. Bonaventure tells us that to love God, we need to love all that God created. With this in mind, on February 13, 2021 Franciscan Action Network (FAN) again took the #PolarBearChallenge to Keep Winter Cold. This year’s plunge was a bit different as for the...
Dec 8, 2020 | Consistent Ethic of Life, Human Rights, Issues
Over the last several months, Franciscan Action Network has joined several of our faith partners in speaking out against the federal death penalty, which after 17 years was reinstated this year by Attorney General William Barr. As Franciscans we work to promote that...
Nov 23, 2020 | Care for Creation, Issues
UPDATE, December 14, 2020: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) requires hard copies of comments and so FAN printed out more than 800 letters from FAN members like you and mailed them to Alaska before the comment period ended on Dec. 17th. Thank you for taking action...
Nov 20, 2020 | Issues, Poverty
The Little Portion Farm is a ministry of the Franciscan Friars Conventual, Our Lady of the Angels Province who are FAN Members. It is located on the grounds of The Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott City, MD. Recently we were contact by Candace Blase, a volunteer at...
Nov 18, 2020 | Issues, Peacemaking
The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (Ed Fund) released a report last week, “The Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention,” which outlines how a public health approach can be applied to reducing the U.S. epidemic of gun violence. In recent...
Nov 9, 2020 | Immigration, Issues, Poverty
FAN Member Carolyn D. Townes, OFS is the National Animator of Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation for the U.S. Secular Franciscan Order and has shared with us this Migrants Novena, developed by the National Immigration Focus Group of the Secular Franciscan Order....
