Joe: Outcasts is a documentary produced by Grassroots Films about the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFRs). I’ve been pretty close to the CFRs since 1988, so I kind of feel like I had the inside ...

“It is time to return to that fruitful alliance between the Church and artists which has deeply marked the path of Christianity in the two millenniums. This presumes your ability, dear Christian ...

ST. LOUIS — “We are kind of monks on the move, so we live together but we are in the cities,” says Father Mark Mary. They are not exactly what you think of when you hear…Catholic monks. “We kind of ...

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 ...

TOTOWA, N.J. – Father Benedict J. Groeschel, who was a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, a leading anti-abortion figure and popular author, retreat master, and preacher, died Oct. 3 at ...

“Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” This is the admonition that Christ gives us in Matthew 25:45. This caution was at the forefront of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Though not every participant at the annual March for Life in Washington is Catholic, the faithful presence of those who are is made abundantly apparent every year. Among the annual ...

While pro-life supporters nationwide fight for the life of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, whose feeding tube is scheduled to be removed March 18 th, New York’s Franciscan Friars of the Renewal are ...

Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, is pictured celebrating Mass in Washington in this 2006 file photo. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec) NEW YORK-- Fr. Benedict Groeschel, a ...