Franciscan Papers

This section features papers in English and Italian on various Franciscan themes. Many of the papers have been published in the Franciscan Cultural Review “Life and Spirit”. The papers cover a variety of topics, ranging from the spirituality of the Writings of Saint Francis and Saint Clare, to the Sources of their lives, Franciscan history, and Franciscan theology.

• PROFESSOR HORATIO CAESAR ROGER VELLA Scholar and Benefactor of our Franciscan Archives

• Ancient Arabic manuscripts in the Franciscan Provincial archives to be restored
• A great crowd of the imperfect: Reflections during the General OFM Chapter
• The Cave – Church of Apocalypse on Patmos
• Frate Egidio di Assisi
  

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• In Difesa dell’Indulgenza della Porziuncola

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• 800 years since st. Clare joined Francis at the Portiuncula

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• Birth of St. Francis

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• Bonaventure’s Theology of the Cross

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• Fra Diego Bonanno ofm

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• Franciscan rights to clericial ministry

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• Franciscans and “Summorum Pontificum”

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• Il-Maltin fl-Eġittu

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• Il-Meditazzjoni Franġiskana
  

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• La Cena del Signore
  

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• La Chiesa negli scritti di S. Chiara
  

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• La Chiesa negli scritti di S. Francesco
  

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• Luke Wadding ofm
  

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• On Ministry of the Friars
  

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• Relazzjoni S. Klara ma’ S. Franġisk
  

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• Saint Francis in front of Pope Innocent III (1209)
  

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• San Damiano
  

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• San Francesco e l’Eucaristia
  

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• Santa Marija ta’ Ġesù
  

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• Scotus and the Immaculate Conception
  

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• Scotus u l-Immakulata
  

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• Septimo Iam: 100 years ago
  

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• St. Clare Foundress?

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• St. Francis and the Eucharist

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• St. Joseph in Franciscan Theology
  

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• The Lord’s Supper
  

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• The Missal St. Francis consulted
  

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• Spiritwalità ta’ Madre Margherita
  

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• Il-Passjoni ta’ Kristu fl-Ispiritwalità Franġiskana

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• The meeting of Saint Francis and Saint Dominic in the franciscan sources
  

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• St. Clare and Palm Sunday
  

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• Saint Bonaventure and his vision of saint Francis and the theology of history in the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI 
  

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• Francis new Adam
  

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• “Guardate la vostra dignità, fratelli sacerdoti” La visione sanfrancescana del sacerdozio ministeriale
  

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• “Ad servitium et communem utilitatem fratrum” The concept of goverment of the fraternity according to the mind of saint Francis