Franciscans

The offering placed before the altar on Sept. 11, 2001, was unlike any ever seen at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Manhattan’s Financial District: the lifeless body of 68-year-old Franciscan …

Father Michael Perry, minister provincial of the Franciscans’ Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe, thanked God “for this gift to the Church.”

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given August 9, 2026, at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday! Today’s …

“The implications of a Holy Land without a mediating Christian community is dire,” the Franciscan leaders told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a letter.

“Many families have managed to get by thanks to this animal, and now it seems we are forgetting that part of our history.”

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher remains a place of continuous prayer despite restricted access to the faithful, according to a statement released by the Custody of the Holy Land.

For the first time in eight centuries, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are being exposed for an extended period of public veneration.

(OSV News) — After Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the Jubilee Year of St. Francis from Jan. 10, 2026, to Jan. 10, 2027, the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary also issued a decree granting …

An official closing session of the diocesan phase of the canonization process followed the Feb. 9 Mass, where the cause’s leaders ceremoniously sealed several boxes containing the diocesan phase’s documents …

The words of “Dilexi Te” (“I Have Loved You”) — the apostolic exhortation on love for the poor released by the Vatican Oct. 9 — come from the pen of …