Acceptance of changing tides was a major theme at the recent Conference of Major Superiors of Men National Assembly.

From 1982 to 1993, he served in the province's missions in Honduras. In 1993, he and two other friars reestablished the Conventual Franciscan Order in Denmark. He served in Denmark from 1993 to 2001.

Friar Charles J. McCarthy, OFM Conv., (73) was called home by Sister Death on November 28, 2024, in Albuquerque, NM. Friar Charles was a priest-friar in the Conventual Franciscans of the Province o… ...

The availability of confession, even in churches heavily frequented by tourists, presents the Catholic Church as a welcoming space for an encounter with God, Pope Francis said. Marking the 250th ...

Pope Francis recently shocked Catholics in Italy when he named Father Marco Tasca, a two-term superior general of the Conventual Franciscans (Grey Friars), to head the Archdiocese of Genoa. The pope ...

The Rev. Enzo Fortunato, a spokesman for the Conventual Franciscans, one of the larger three Franciscan orders, said the decision was the Third Order Regular's alone.