Being a Franciscan in the Digital Age

How can Franciscans live their charism in the Digital Age? The new social context presents new challenges and therefore requires a new life.

The Franciscan perspective fits well with the horizontal, intuitive and interactive communication that prevails today, and Francis of Assisi is universally valued as a model of dialogue and integral ecology, proclaimed patron saint “of those who promote ecology.” Standing against the technocratic paradigm and the colonization of information, this book invites all to take up the motivations of Franciscan spirituality “for a more passionate concern for the protection of our world” and to re-establish authentic human communication.

Part I looks at a glorious history of service and self-giving: revitalizing consecrated life, Francis as mystic and pilgrim, the Franciscan contribution to economics, science and society. Part II, “A great history still to be accomplished,” turns to hearing the cry of the earth and of the poor, contemplating the faces of God, discernment in a hyper-accelerated society, dialogue in the Spirit of Assisi and the economic sustainability of the Franciscan family.

Translated from the Spanish original, Ser franciscano en la era digital (Ed. Franciscana Arantzazu, 2020).