The Holy Dormition/St. Clare Secular Franciscan Fraternity has a spiritual retreat scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at St. John Bosco Catholic Church, 573 Route 73, Conyngham. In an event release, ...

Pope Francis urged Secular Franciscans on Monday to embrace the “path of conversion” taken by St. Francis of Assisi. The pope spoke to participants in the general chapter of the Secular Franciscan ...

As part of local and regional synodal meetings for Franciscan friars, Franciscans share a laugh as they take part in a table exercise in Prior Lake, Minn., in October 2024, in which participants ...

April 18 marked the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Franciscan order. Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the occasion at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, along with nearly two thousand ...

As a worldwide religious order, Franciscan friars need to find new and better ways to welcome the diversity of their members and allow it to challenge the ways they live the Gospel in the world, said ...