A religious vocation to serve in the Holy Land is demanding, but there is nothing like walking where Christ walked to strengthen the life of a Christian, the Franciscans of the Holy Land maintain. Fr.

Sister Marlene Weidenborner, a Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, N.Y., is seen in this undated photo. She celebrated her 65th anniversary of religious life Oct. 30, 2021, during the “Religious Jubilee ...

On Saturday, July 6, twin brothers George and Johnny Jallouf, friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, were ordained priests in their hometown of Aleppo, Syria. It marked the first priestly ordination ...

Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - For 800 years the Franciscans have been responsible for the care of the Holy Places and the "Living Stones" that inhabit them. The "Custody of the Holy Land" operates in ...

As the vocation director for the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal, Franciscan Sister Clare Matthiass helps young women discern whether they are called to religious life. But when she began discerning ...

Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - South Asia and Oceania are parts of the world experiencing “a positive response to vocations to the Franciscan religious life,” which is a sign of hope for the Franciscan ...

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — An incredible milestone was celebrated at the Franciscan Villa as Sister Eugene Marie Schneider marked her 100th birthday. Sister Eugene, who joined the sisterhood in 1942, has ...

One of my favorite passages from my collection of spiritual books is a section on vocation from Thomas Merton’s No Man is an Island. Speaking of St. Francis of Assisi, Merton writes: The remarkable ...

In this 2016 file photo, Franciscan Father Francesco Patton, custos of the Holy Land, sprinkles holy water on tombstones in the cemetery at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington to ...

Sister Monica (Grace Anthony) Zmolek, 93, died Thursday at the Franciscan Villa in Syracuse. Zmolek was born in Clutier, Iowa. She received a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A National Catholic Youth Conference encouraged the nearly 24,000 teenagers attending to consider religious vocations and help reverse the declining number of priests, sisters and ...

Zoey Stapleton, a postulant with the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, attends Mass in Toronto, Ohio on Nov. 7, 2024. AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski PALMYRA, Pa. — It was a ...