For St. Francis of Assisi, following Christ meant imitating his humility and forsaking riches, power and status; the men who call themselves Franciscans today believe they are called to embrace the ...

Punches and kicks hurled at Franciscan friars by Greek Orthodox monks at Jerusalem's church of the Holy Sepulchre were "unprovoked and without any real reason", the Franciscans say. A "holy" brawl ...

When Pope Francis travels to Assisi on Friday to visit the home of his 13th-century namesake, he might consider how St. Francis emphasized the individual person over institutions, the leader of the ...

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 ...

Francis first visited the Holy Land in the early 13th century. Like Pope Francis today, St. Francis went to the strife filled land with a message of peace and a plea for nonviolence. Ever since then, ...

Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Free a thousand prisoners, detained for minor offenses in Indian jails, granting them a special "pardon" in the Jubilee Year: is what the Indian Franciscans submit to the ...

Before he became guardian and commissary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington in 2013, Franciscan Father Larry Dunham made his first trip to the Holy Land, where his order has ...

A Brigham Young University sociology professor has released a book relating the experiences of Catholic Franciscan missionaries among the Navajo people from 1898-1921. Howard Bahr's "The Navajo as ...