On the 27th October 2026, Pope Leo XIV will return to Assisi - for the third time in his pontificate - for the... On the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi, a ...

In Madagascar, on the high plateau, I saw the friars bent over the red earth. A farm: rice fields, vegetable g... In Rabat, Morocco, on September 22 and 23, a joyful and serene meeting took place, ...

The Holy Father Francis has appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Baie-Comeau in Canada, Br. Pierre Charland, OFM, member of our Province of the Holy Spirit in Canada, until now Provincial Minister of ...

From April 8 to 12, COTAF held its (lay) brother conference at Domus Madonna delle Rose of our Franciscan Sisters Missionaries of Mary (FMM) in Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi. Brothers from all ...

From the bulletin of the Holy See Press Office, 14th May 2024. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Ángel Falzón, OFM, until now parish priest of Inmaculada Concepción in Aguanqueterique, as ...

In the framework of the celebrations of the Eighth Centenary of the death of St. Francis 1226-2026, in the commemorative year of the Stigmata 2024, on Sunday 20 October Pope Francis will proclaim ...

In Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, the assembly of the Franciscan Network for Peace and Integral Ecology of Asia was ...

On the 27th January 2025, the Holy Father Francis received in audience Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, and authorized the Dicastery to promulgate the ...

On August 17, 2023, fifty friars from the Franciscan Province of Ireland and the Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Great Britain, gathered in Chapter at the Dromantine ...

From the bulletin of the Holy See Press Office, 4th October 2024. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Benigno Condori Chuchi, O.F.M., until now parish priest of San Antonio de Padua in Puno ...

The Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, Br. Massimo Fusarelli, currently visiting the Holy Land, se ...

Giovanni Stefano Allegra was born on the 26th December 1907 in San Giovanni La Punta (CT, Italy); at the age of 11 he entered the Seraphic College of Acireale and on the 13th October 1923 he began his ...