Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the youngest of the Roman churches, which was built in the basilica style. On the left is the "Fatherland a...

(Jerusalem) Abuna Nirwan is a Franciscan from Iraq. Before his ordination he had completed a medical examination. When he went to the Hol...

(Rome) Cardinal Vinko Puljic, Archbishop of Sarajevo and member of the Pontifical Commission of Inquiry, which is mandated to study the p...

Franciscans at Spiritual Exercises  (Madrid) In the shadow of the great Franciscan religious innovator, mystic and preacher of repentan...

Orontem region especially dangerous for Christians. Aleppo / Jerusalem (kath.net/ KNA) A week ago in the Syrian province of Idlib, a kidnap...

Franciscans at Prayer (Assisi / Rome) the information is still scarce and the situation is quite opaque.  The headline is, however: Is ...

(Innsbruck) And again a monastery less.  The last four brothers of the Franciscan Friary in the town of Reutte in the Tyrol have left the...

Edit: where the Apostles hid for fear of the Jews. (Jerusalem)  On Tuesday, a fire broke out in the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition ...

(Ancona) The traditional new  Franciscan Order of the Immaculate revives old, abandoned monasteries of other orders. One of the latest exam...

Philosopher Robert Spaemann pins great hopes on the new Pope, criticized "modernists" in the church and welcomed people leaving ...

Doyen  of Exorcists Dies - Father Matteo La Grua, "Am just a servant of my Lord" (Palermo) Yesterday Father Matteo La Grua wa...

Editor: Franciscans are "friars" not monks . God Willed It The unbelievable story of Father Pietro Lavini: From 1954 to 2003...

For many centuries Monastic medicine was the only hope for the sick -- today modern researchers are tapping the old knowledge. Plants from t...