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 ...

Prince Alban Lowenstein Wertheim Freudenberg was formerly a Captain in the Hanover Uhlans. General von Reichlin-Meldegg was formerly military commander of Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Both are now Franciscan ...

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 ...

ROME (Reuters) - Usually, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sings for people, but this time the Franciscan monks in Assisi sang for his supper as they feted the international superstar on his 54th birthday ...