Assisi: Solemnity of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Francis and Feast of...
On May 24, 2022, the Solemnity of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, after years of the pandemic, this year,...
Mexico: Intergenerational Meeting of the Solemnly Professed
On May 17-19, 2022, twelve solemnly professed friars of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico gathered at the La Purísima Concepción...
Ghana: Diaconal Ordinations
On May 12, 2022, four friars of the Provincial Custody of St. Anthony of Padua in Ghana were ordained to the diaconate by the...
Poland: Statutes of the Franciscan Academic Society Adopted
On Saturday, May 21, 2022, the General Assembly of the Franciscan Academic Society (FTN) was held in Cracow, Poland. The participants in the Assembly...
Vietnam: Formation Events
New Postulants
On May 21, 2022, during the celebration of Mass for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, the Custos of the Provincial Custody of St....
The Philippines: Custodial Chapter – Part II
On May 2-6, 2022, the friars of the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception and Bl. Bonaventure of Potenza in the Philippines celebrated the...
Argentina-Uruguay: Provincial Assembly
For the first time in two and a half years, the friars of the “Rioplatense” Province of St. Anthony of Padua in Argentina-Uruguay met...
Feeding the Hungry, Healing the Ill
The Assumption Parish in Syracuse, New York, USA, where the friars have served for over one hundred years, is well known as a center...
USA-OLC: Ordinary Provincial Chapter – Part I
On May 16-19, 2022, the Province of Our Lady of Consolation in the USA (OLC) conducted its Ordinary Provincial Chapter at Mount St. Francis,...
Lay Brothers Can Become Major Superiors
With a rescript dated May 18, 2022, Pope Francis changed canon law to allow for non-clerical religious, those belonging to clerical institutes of pontifical...