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 ...

SOUTH HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – A Franciscan friar stole the show at a high school football game – showing off some fancy footwork that thrilled a Long Island crowd. Brother David Migliorino is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - Franciscan monks have put the baby Jesus in a crib made of bullet shells in a yearly "provocation" nativity scene designed to draw attention to those suffering in the world.

"He's really old." That was Beate's first thought when she saw Ulrich Heinen, a Franciscan monk, for the first time - and she remembers that till this day. But at 65 at the time, it was not like she ...