The Franciscan School of Formation for Formators in Africa is a new initiative of the four branches of the Franciscan First Order.

The sixteenth annual meeting of the new provincial ministers and custodes with the General Minister and his Council was held in Frascati from April 8 to 15.

Growing smaller is the name of the challenge, that Mid- and North European capuchins are facing these years.

Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis

Watch! was the exhortation of Br. Raniero Cantalamessa, Capuchin and Preacher to the Papal Household, at the day of recollection he gave this past December 5.

“Witnessing to the joy of living the gospel in brotherhood is the primary task of Franciscan missionaries,” insisted Br. Mauro Jöhri, General Minister of the Capuchin friars, while addressing the eleven participants of Inter-Franciscan Mission Course in Brussels.

The fifth meeting of the International Formation Council was held at the General Curia of the Capuchin Friars Minor from November 9 to 15, 2017.