The Trump administration's plans to acquire Greenland for the U.S. are being met with concern, sometimes fear and "a quiet ...

Today the Holy Father announced the appointment of Father William Patrick Callahan as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Bishop-elect Callahan is a Conventual Franciscan serving as ...

The Conventual Franciscan friars at Assumption Church in Syracuse, New York are suing a music and event venue for disrupting their way of life through hosting loud concerts, blocking the friars’ ...

ROME — Conventual Franciscans said they will be present at a statue of the Immaculate Conception in the center of Rome to offer a “blessing from afar” to families who pass by on the feast day. Despite ...

Dec. 9—Friar Charles J. McCarthy, OFM Conv. Friar Charles J. McCarthy, OFM Conv., (73) was called home by Sister Death on November 28, 2024, in Albuquerque, NM. Friar Charles was a priest-friar in the ...

Assumption Church, on the north side of Syracuse, N.Y., is the foundation church of the Conventual Franciscan Friars in the United States. The roots of the parish date to 1843, when 24 German-speaking ...

Pope Francis recently shocked Catholics in Italy when he named Father Marco Tasca, a two-term superior general of the Conventual Franciscans (Grey Friars), to head the Archdiocese of Genoa. The pope ...

Father Mauro Gambetti, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a ceremony at the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy March 29, 2019. Abdullah was awarded the Lamp of ...