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by bcadmin | Jun 27, 2022 | Colorado Rockies, Fathers Casey Cole, Featured, Franciscan Friars, Local News, News, Roberto "Tito" Serrano, Roberto Serrano, Twins | 0 |
Fathers Casey Cole and Roberto “Tito” Serrano, both Franciscan friars, met in their second year of formation and bonded over their love of baseball and their Franciscan vocations.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Franciscan Friars, Mississippi, News | 0 |
A Catholic elementary school that primarily serves Black and Hispanic families in the Mississippi Delta is closing after more than 70 years, following a sex abuse scandal, declining enrollment and a steep decrease in donations.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 12, 2022 | Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic News Service, Franciscan Friars, News, Obituary | 0 |
Franciscan Father James E. Goode, whose evangelizing work among Black Catholics became known throughout the United States and earned him the title “dean of Black Catholic preachers,” died in his sleep March 4 in New York. He was 81.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2022 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Bishop Nelson J. Perez, Catholic colleges, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Dominicans, FOCUS, Franciscan Friars, Legionaries of Christ, News | 0 |
A regional event of the annual SEEK22 conference of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students brought together 200 college students from Philadelphia-area campuses Feb. 5 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 29, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Christian unity, Church in the US, Ecumenism, Episcopal Church, Franciscan Friars, News, Nostra aetate, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Religious brothers, Second Vatican Council, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity | 0 |
Franciscan Father Jim Gardiner told those gathered Jan. 23 at an Episcopal church in Massey that they should have “no doubt” that “the unity of Christians is an attainable and worthy goal.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 24, 2022 | Abortion, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Franciscan Friars, Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, March for Life, News, Roe v. Wade, the pro-life movement | 0 |
Though not every participant at the annual March for Life in Washington is Catholic, the faithful presence of those who are is made abundantly apparent every year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Franciscan Friars, Franciscans, News, Order of Friars Minor, Vatican | 0 |
As a worldwide religious order, Franciscan friars need to find new and better ways to welcome the diversity of their members and allow it to challenge the ways they live the Gospel in the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 16, 2021 | Archbishop William Brady, Cedarcrest Elementary School, CFIC, Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception, Conventual Franciscan friars, Father Finnegan, Father James Chitteth, Featured, Franciscan Friars, Local News, News, St. Bonaventure | 0 |
Two Conventual Franciscan friars celebrated the first Sunday Mass for the newly formed St. Bonaventure parish Feb. 8, 1959, at Cedarcrest Elementary School in Bloomington. Friars had arrived at the parish that January, fulfilling a promise to Archbishop William Brady and establishing a presence that has lasted more than six decades. Father Finnegan served as the first pastor.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 17, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Franciscan Friars, Mexico, murdered priest, News | 0 |
A young Franciscan friar was shot at one of western Mexico’s most important Catholic sites in what local church officials are calling “an isolated incident.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 22, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Franciscan Friars, Mississippi, News | 0 |
The trial for a former Catholic Church friar accused of sex abuse at a Mississippi school has been postponed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2020 | Assisi, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Franciscan Friars, lead, News, Poverty | 0 |
This year the Franciscan friars in Assisi have decided to give the proceeds from an annual fundraiser to people in financial difficulty due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, including a high number of young people now unemployed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 27, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Diocese of Jackson, Franciscan Friars, Mississippi, News, U.S. Congress | 0 |
A congressman is asking the Department of Justice to investigate settlements to two men who say they were victims of clergy abuse at a Catholic school in Mississippi.
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