In the newly restored Redentore gardens on Venice’s Giudecca island, drifts of lavender and agapanthus tremble in the breeze, ...

In a moment of civil and spiritual crisis, the brilliant Capuchin monk rallied Christian forces — not with a sword, but with Scripture, a crucifix and unwavering faith.

On a recent episode of the history podcast You’re Dead To Me, coffee historian and author Professor Jonathan Morris revealed that the name “cappuccino” has surprisingly religious origins. The warming ...

In the harbor of Brittany’s St. Malo last week a trim, white two-masted ketch named St. Yves rocked at her moorings. In a hall in Paris a hulking, brown-eyed, brown-bearded Capuchin monk ...

Fr. Solanus Casey, the Capuchin monk who is on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church, died in 1957. That means there aren't many folks left who remember meeting Casey, speaking to him ...

When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest ...

Actor Shia LaBeouf has converted to Catholicism after being confirmed on New Year's Eve at a Mass presided over by Capuchin Franciscan friars. The Capuchin Franciscans-Western America Province ...