+Giles Carie, OFM Conv.: Scholar, historian, canon lawyer
He was a scholar of theology, an amateur historian, and a self-taught canon lawyer, but Fr. Giles Carie, OFM Conv., was first and always a Conventual Franciscan Friar. Born George…
Read More A Twin Cities Reunion
A group of former Mount St. Francis students gathered in the Twin Cities on April 1, 2012. They met at RedRossa Italian Grille in Bloomington for a few hours of…
Read More Lent: A Focus on Conversion
By: Friar Jim Kent, OFM Conv. This stain-glass image depicts St. Francis receiving the sacred Stigmata, the wounds of Christ on the hands, feet and side. Francis was drawn so…
Read More I Have Accomplished What the Lord Gave Me To Do
Father Peter Nickels, OFM Conv., died Saturday, February 11, 2012, in Mesilla Park, NM. A native of Lansing, MI, he was born Harold Robert Nickels, June 20, 1934, to Harold…
Read More A Chapter of Great Hope in Central America
L to R: Friar Jim Kent, Friar Edgar Ramirez Arias (newly elected Custos) The Friars of the Custody of Mary, Mother of the Poor (MMP), in Central America, celebrated an…
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