The custos serves as a unique provincial minister within the Franciscan order, leading a community of friars while also being ...

Wrapping up a Vatican summit on the rights of children, Pope Francis announced he was going to publish a papal document ...

"This is not exclusive to Franciscans," conceded Franciscan Father Roger Lopez, a former schoolteacher who serves as provincial council. "But we have a flavor; a charism. It's a lens." In October ...

Franciscan Father Michael S. Murray was appointed pastor of St. John Neumann Church in Reston Jan. 2. Bishop Michael F.

"They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people," he told reporters. "This is a great honor to sign this." ...