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The 201st Extraordinary General Chapter of the Friars Minor Conventual will begin Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at 5:00 p.m., at the Centro Ad Gentes...
Assisi: Anniversary of the Dedication of the Basilica
Immediately after St. Francis’ canonization, on July 16, 1228, Pope Gregory IX ordered that a specialis ecclesia, a Basilica, should be built in Assisi...
Fraternus Nuntius 1/2018
The new newsletter, covering January through March, 2018, is now available >>>.
In this issue, we have various news items (pp. 6-12): the meeting of...
Italy: Assisi—Day of Prayer for Peace
On Friday, April 27, 2018, the ecclesial and civil authorities of the city of Assisi organized a day of prayer for peace in Syria.
The...
Warsaw: President of Poland Given Relics of Pariacoto Martyrs
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej DUDA, was given relics of Poland’s first blessed missionary martyrs, Friars Zbigniew STRZAŁKOWSKI and Michał TOMASZEK....
Poland: Music Album to Benefit Peace
The spokesman for the Conventual Franciscan Province in Cracow, Poland, reports there is a new and interesting musical initiative in Poland.
The band "Jaspis" has...
Worldwide: Twelve Stars in Mary’s Crown
In his Message for the World Day of Peace in 2004, John Paul II made this appeal: “Humanity needs now more than ever to...
Prayer for Missionary Martyrs
On Saturday, March 24, 2018, the Church celebrated a day of commemoration and prayer for contemporary missionary martyrs. This is a special day in...
Vatican: New Conventual Judge
On Thursday 22 March 2018, Pope Francis appointed three new judges of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Vicariate of Vatican City. One of them...
Rome / Seraphicum: Feast of the Faculty
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, the feast of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure (Seraphicum) was held in honor of the Faculty’s patron...