While Assisi was largely sheltered from a major coronavirus outbreak during Italy's lockdown, ten Franciscan friars and eight novices at the landmark pilgrimage destination tested positive this week ...

Fr. Castimir Timothy Ivan Majic was born January 9, 1914 in Vitina. He became a Franciscan novice at the novitiate in Humac on July 2, 1933. He studied philosophy and theology in Mostar and in Rome, ...

ROME (Reuters) - Ten Franciscan monks and eight trainees in Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis, have tested positive for coronavirus and gone into isolation, the Catholic order said on Monday.

NEVER TRUST those who look through the hole of a hood, the French scholar and wit Rabelais, once a Franciscan novice, is said to have warned. But for Sean Patrick O’Malley, the religious hood may just ...

Nearly 400 Franciscans pose Aug. 1, 2019, during a four-day gathering in Denver. It is one of the largest gatherings of Franciscans in the United States, with the purpose of friars getting to know ...