"Christians, meanwhile, will be marking the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, also on Oct. 4. Across the country, religious communities are using the calendar's coincidence as a launch pad for interfaith projects around topics ranging from the political to the spiritual."
First of all, are there any non-Catholics that actually celebrate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi? Secondly, what are some of these "interfaith projects" that are spiritual in nature? Count me out of those.
No.
Lots of us very religious types don't participate in any of the mentioned festivities, other than to celebrate the Lord's resurrection on the Sundays that bookend them.