General Secretariat

Rome, July 14, 2024  Dear confreres, On July 14, 2004, the first General Custos in Russia, Friar Gregory CIOROCH, lost his life in Belarus while returning...

The 203rd General Chapter begins In less than eleven months. Preparations for the Chapter are already underway and so far everything is proceeding according to...

On June 24th of this year, I was saddened to hear the news of the death of our confrere Archbishop Gianfranco Agostino GARDIN, former Minister General and member of the Italian Province of St. Anthony of Padua (Northern Italy). He led our Order with fraternal wisdom and foresight from 1995 to 2001, before being consecrated a bishop (August 26, 2006) and taking on the role of Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Finally, he passionately served the Church in Treviso, Italy, as a diocesan bishop from 2009 to 2019.

If God wills it, and the world has not ended beforehand, we will begin the 203rd General Chapter with Mass in the chapel of...

On Sunday, June 1, 2025, less than thirteen months or 9500 hours away, our Order will begin celebrating its 203rd General Chapter, if God...

On April 9, 2024, at midday, in Rome, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis had appointed our confrere, Friar Michael Thomas MARTIN, as...

The Conference of the Franciscan Family is pleased to announce that a plenary indulgence has been granted from December 8, 2023, the Solemnity of...

One day the Gospel was being read in that church about how the Lord sent out his disciples to preach. The holy man...

In March of 2023, the Minister General and his Definitory appointed Friar Joseph WOOD, a member of the Province of St. Bonaventure in the...

We are beginning a penitential season: Lent, in a year in which we commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Later Rule. We are the...