"A music video of a skateboarding Franciscan, who spent 14 years living in Western Australia, received an Emmy at the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on 7 November.The video, Salve Regina, produced by US-based Spirit Juice Studio, displays the finely honed skills of Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate, Gabriel Cortes, as he skates through the streets and countryside of Chicago, clothed in the flowing traditional robes of his Order."
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"Dear brothers,May the Lord give you peace!
In this letter we would like to inform you about a recent project which centres on the establishment of a new Pontifical Franciscan University in Rome…" CLICK HERE for Full Article and PDF Language Options 
"Some 20,000 people are expected to attend today’s beatification ceremony in the town of Chimbote of three Peruvian Martyrs, two Polish Franciscan friars and an Italian priest killed by guerillas in 1991....
Michał Tomaszek, Zbigniew Strzałkowski and Alessandro Dordi were killed by the guerrillas of Shining Path, Peru’s Maoist insurgency. They were targeted because of their pastoral work among the inhabitants of the Andes and the assistance they granted to those in need. In August 1991, the guerrillas escalated their violence against the Roman Catholic Church and announced that they would kill a priest every week in the Diocese of Chimbote. The first priest they picked out luckily escaped execution. On 9 August, they abducted two Polish friars from the church at the end of the evening's Eucharistic celebration. After a brief show trial, they were led out of the village and killed near the cemetery, along with the local mayor. On 25 August, they ambushed the car in which Father Alessandro Dordi was travelling to a church and executed him after he got out of the vehicle." CLICK HERE for Full Article 
"The Franciscan Kitchen in downtown Louisville serves lunch to 400 - 500 homeless and poor Mondays through Fridays. When asked what could be done to help, I was told they need blankets to ward off the cold, some to use in the shelters, some will not come in off the streets. William and I set about trying to collect 400 - 500 blankets. We currently have 187. Maybe you'd like to help but see blankets aren't cheap! Maybe you can just donate a little and your money will be pooled with others to buy more blankets. Any money donated will be used to buy more blankets."
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"Conventual Franciscan Father Linus DeSantis, who ministered in education for 45 years, died Dec. 1. He was 72"
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"STEUBENVILLE - The Rev. Richard Davis, TOR, returned to the university campus where he spent 21 years as one of four former Franciscan University of Steubenville employees to be honored by the school at the 66th annual Founders' Association Dinner Saturday night."I ran this dinner for so many years and I never thought I would be asked for this. I am truly honored and humbled. So many others deserve this this honor more than I do but I am very appreciative," said Davis.
Davis left the university in 2013 to become minister provincial for the Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus of the Third Order Regular Franciscans and also serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees at Franciscan University and the University of St. Francis." CLICK HERE for Full Article |
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