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.

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 ...