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.