HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. – Three Franciscan friars charged with allowing a suspected sexual predator to hold jobs where he molested more than 100 children surrendered Friday in Pennsylvania, where they were ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) – Three Franciscan friars charged with allowing a suspected sexual predator to hold jobs where he molested more than 100 children in Pennsylvania have surrendered on child ...

Seven Native American tribes in Arizona and New Mexico should soon receive official notice explaining how tribal members who are clergy sex abuse survivors can file claims against the Franciscan ...

What began as charity at home has crossed an ocean and a continent to war-torn Ukraine, where money raised by a Manhattan ministry is feeding and sheltering refugees. In the darkest days of the ...

Franciscan friars pray during Mass July 3, 2021, at the opening of the Order of Friars Minor's general chapter, a gathering in Rome of 116 Franciscan leaders and delegates representing some 13,000 ...

A Franciscan friar serving time on a state conviction for blocking women from entering a Westchester County clinic was hit with federal charges Thursday for allegedly padlocking the doors to a Planned ...

ST. LOUIS — “We are kind of monks on the move, so we live together but we are in the cities,” says Father Mark Mary. They are not exactly what you think of when you hear…Catholic monks. “We kind of ...

The Franciscan Friars of California announced this week that they have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy over dozens of sexual abuse allegations filed against the religious order. The Franciscans of the ...

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has affirmed the 2022 conviction of a former Franciscan friar in the 1990s sexual abuse of a student at a Catholic school. In a split decision Tuesday, a majority of ...

A Roman Catholic organization in California that is devoted to serving the poor has filed for bankruptcy as it faces nearly 100 lawsuits related to sex abuse claims stretching as far back as the 1940s ...