Br. Michael Charron, OFM, and his father Robert Loving my father for who he is ~ “Sons and daughters talk of our fathers in terms of what they teach us and how they love us.  Fathers and…

Br. Jerry Beetz, OFM My dad had two profound influences on my life. First he was a man of prayer and devotion to Mary the Mother of God. Second was his deep baritone voice that rang out in…

The Schneider family on the occasion of Otto and Anna’s 25th wedding anniversary in 1941. Top row L-R: Victor (Fr. Bernardin, OFM) Marcella, Jeannette, Otto, Anna, Cecilia, Dorothy, Bertrand (Fr. Chris, OFM), Bottom row L-R: Kenneth, Norbert, Raymond…

What do a small, Catholic bookstore, an inner city Episcopal church, a suburban Buddhist temple, a reform Jewish synagogue and a Muslim community center have in common? ~ Care for their neighbors – that’s what.