When Christmas is at hand, like most emigrants my thoughts turn to home – Wexford Town, in my case. After I escort a tour group to Ireland every October, I spend a week’s vacation at the Wexford Opera ...

This is a screen shot of the Franciscan Media website with a Dec. 5 message from the Franciscan Friars of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe announcing that "after much prayer and discernment," ...

(OSV News) — Franciscan Media, a long-running U.S.-based Catholic news and evangelization outlet, has announced it will shut down at the end of 2025, amid a broader contraction in Catholic news ...

With his long beard, twinkling eyes, and Franciscan habit, Father Columba Jordan, of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, doesn’t seem like much of a social-media personality. Yet this Irish friar ...

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Every Sunday, when Joseph Murray presses the keys of the pipe organ in the choir loft of Our Lady of Victory Church, he is part of a long line of musicians stretching back 130 ...

The Most Rev. Nicholas Polichnowski TOR, a member of the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular, Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, was called home to the Lord on Thursday at the age of ...

The Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute (GEII)—a ministry of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement—invites the public and press to attend the inaugural New York City based Paul Wattson ...

The origins of Christianity in Ireland trace back as far as the 5th century, when the Bishop Palladius was sent from Rome on a mission to convert the Irish people in 431 AD. Palladius was followed a ...

Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde will be the honored guest at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America Annual Mass and Benefit Dinner in Washington Nov. 1. “I am truly humbled and really ...

STEUBENVILLE — Franciscan University of Steubenville will host its annual Homecoming Weekend Friday through Sunday. The weekend festivities will begin on Friday with tours of the newly renovated ...