Pope sends message to Argentine slum priests sick with coronavirus
- Jul 10, 2020
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Once homeless himself, shelter director helping others turn lives around
- Jun 14, 2020
The St. Francis shelter serves the homeless in Tuscon.
Holy Land Franciscans to observe popular St. Anthony novena, feast online
- Jun 7, 2020
The June 13 feast of St. Anthony of Padua and the novena, the nine days of prayer leading up to it, mark some of the busiest times at Washington’s Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America — and any temple worldwide, for that matter, that observes his feast.
St. Anthony of Padua still inspirational model for today, pope says
- Jun 4, 2020
Pope Francis asked that the world’s Franciscans and devotees of St. Anthony of Padua be inspired by this 13th-century saint by being “restless” to hit the road and share God’s love through word and deed.
As unemployment grows, Sao Paulo Franciscans serve up to 4,000 meals daily
- Apr 29, 2020
Since March 24, when the city installed stay-at-home measures to combat the new coronavirus, the number of people seeking food more than quadrupled.
Franciscans in Brazil use frevo music in video urging people to stay home
- Apr 8, 2020
To the soundtrack of the official hymn of Recife’s Galo da Madrugada, said to be the largest carnival block in the world, Franciscans from five convents in northeastern Brazil dance to a typical Brazilian rhythm known as the frevo with one request: “Fique em Casa” (Stay Home).
First U.S. clergy fatality from COVID-19 a deacon in Washington
- Mar 25, 2020
A Franciscan friar who was on his way to join a new religious community in New York became Washington’s first COVID-19 fatality March 20 and the first known U.S. Catholic cleric to die after contracting the coronavirus.
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