Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde will be the honored guest at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America Annual Mass ...

A 59-year-old Franciscan friar at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America in Northeast D.C. was the first person to die in the city of the novel coronavirus, the monastery confirmed to ...

John-Sebastian Laird-Hammond, 59, was the District’s first known death of the coronavirus. (Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America) A member of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in ...

Eighty years ago two of the world's deadliest weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, bringing near-total destruction. But a Catholic monastery built in Nagasaki by a future martyr and ...

The future of a major hotel renovation at Kennebunk’s Franciscan monastery now hinges on a zoning board review.

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — The newest member of St. Francis Monastery in Cochabamba, Bolivia, is furry and has four legs. His name is Friar Carmelo, but they’ve nicknamed him Friar Bigotón (Spanish for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — Seventy-six Catholic nuns have ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Franciscan friar is the first person known to have died as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the District of Columbia. Br. John-Sebastian Laird-Hammond was hospitalized with ...