Franciscan Charism Globalization Since Vatican II
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Thu, Sep 17 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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2201 LAGUNA STREET
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S.B. Mission Archive-Library (SBMAL)
September 17, 2026 | Featuring: Keith Warner, OFM & Jack Clark Robinson, OFM – “The Globalization of the Franciscan Charism Since Vatican II”
🗣 The Vatican Council of 1963-1965 (Vatican II) called for religious communities to renew themselves by doing two things: 1) Examining their founding charisms – why were they founded? 2) Exploring the signs of the times – what do they have to offer the world today? Responding to those two questions has led to growing global Franciscan influence, even as Franciscans have declined in number in Europe and the US. What does this mean for the present and the future?
📍 Location: Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
💲 Cost: $30 public ($25 members) admission fee to support the work of the Archive-Library
ℹ️ Logistics: RSVP Required | Light Refreshments | Doors at 5:30pm
About the series: Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take.
About our speakers:
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, Ph.D. — Keith Douglass Warner OFM serves as the incoming President of the Franciscan School of Theology in San Diego. This presentation draws from his most recent research project, which will result in a book of this same name. Before becoming President, he was Academic Co-director for the new EdD in Catholic Social Thought in Practice that FST has launched with the University of San Diego. He teaches moral theology, Catholic social thought, and Franciscan philosophy. He is a long-time member of the Commission on the Franciscan Intellectual-Spiritual Tradition. He is an affiliated scholar with Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC.
Jack Clark Robinson, OFM has been a Franciscan friar for over forty years and in love with history for sixty years. A perpetual student, he has degrees in speech and drama, law, ministry, and a PhD in history from the US Santa Barbara. He was ordained a priest at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico and his former ministries include missionary, pastor, Franciscan formator and administrator, as well as college professor. He returned to Santa Barbara in 2022 to serve as Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library, where he has the joy of sharing history all the time!
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