On Wednesday hooded attackers assaulted Franciscan monks at a monastery in the Alps foothills near Turin, leaving one priest severely injured and the three other victims hospitalized. The Archbishop ...

Franciscan monks in charge of churches in the Holy Land are struggling to keep pilgrimage sites open for Christians stuck amid the ongoing conflict. The Custody of the Holy Land, the Catholic priory ...

The sudden death this week of Brother Donald Paul Martel, one of three monks at a Franciscan monastery in Bucksport, has led to the closure of the town's only craft beer-maker, Friars’ Brewhouse ...

This 16th-century Franciscan convent that’s just outside the small Tuscan town of Pitigliano has been completely restored and updated by its longtime owner, Holly Lueders, a designer from New York.

For Brother David Migliorino, principal of Notre Dame Regional High School, joining the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, N.Y., 40 years ago was like love at first sight. He first met the group at St.

On the island of Lopud, a tiny landmass off the southern coast of Croatia, a collection of ancient buildings overlooks the island's coast. The stone buildings date back to 1483 when the location ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROME (Reuters) - Ten Franciscan monks and eight trainees in Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis, have tested positive for ...

ST. LOUIS — “We are kind of monks on the move, so we live together but we are in the cities,” says Father Mark Mary. They are not exactly what you think of when you hear…Catholic monks. “We kind of ...