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

Many young people took part in the process. The U.S. Franciscans' synod is part of a global discernment led by the Order of Friars Minor, which invited their entities across the world — friars ...

It's a lens." In October 2023, the coast-to-coast Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe was formed through the unification of five legacy Franciscan provinces -- a regional unit of the international Order ...

Founded in 1913, The Order of the Red Friars was technically a semi-secret society at Duke University. New members were initiated, or "tapped" by a member of the Order donned in a red hood and robe.