Our Global Human Family
The San Damiano Friary in San Antonio, Texas, is a house of formation for many of our student friars. On April 23, 2022, a new expansion providing twelve more bedrooms…
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Our Global Human Family
A Discernment Diptych
Panel I: Wounded Men Make the Best Friars My freshmen used to revel in peppering me with religious “what if…” questions. Centuries before them, medieval theologians reveled in peppering one…
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A Discernment Diptych
A Missionary of Heroic Virtue
One of the thriving younger Conventual Franciscan Fraternities around the world is the Proto-Martyrs Province in Zambia. The number of professed friars and the continuing number of new vocations is…
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A Missionary of Heroic Virtue
Visit With Our Friars in Lviv, Ukraine
From March 31st to April 1st 2022, Friar Carlos A. Trovarelli, Minister General, visited the Convent of St. Francis of Assisi in Lviv, Ukraine. Also present were the Guardian of…
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Visit With Our Friars in Lviv, Ukraine
An International Friary for a Global Order
Friar Tom Merrill recently visited our friary and house of studies in San Antonio, Texas. Student friars from around the world live together there, growing in their commitment to Conventual…
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An International Friary for a Global Order
United in Prayer for the Ukraine
Conventual Franciscan Federations United in Prayer The General Delegate for Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC), Friar Michael J. Lasky, invites all of the Conventual Franciscan Federations to pray…
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United in Prayer for the Ukraine