For Bro. Domingo Martinez, OFM, Labor Day is more than an excuse for an end-of-the-summer barbecue.

Brother Maikel Gómez Pérez, OFM, grew up in Cuba, a country where the presence of the Catholic Church and the Franciscan order have long been repressed. But as it has with so many others, the Francis story still broke through to him, even in the face of government repression.