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+ Friar Briant (Jerome) William Cullinane, OFM Conv.
Friar Briant (Jerome) William Cullinane, OFM Conv., 94, a Franciscan Friar of Our Lady of the Angels Province, died peacefully on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025 at Enfield, Conn. Born in Elizabeth, N.J., on Aug. 17, 1931, he was the youngest of ...
The 2025 National Chapter of Secular Franciscans opened with a Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit at the Bon Secours Retreat Center in Marriottsville, Maryland, on Tuesday, Sept. 9. The celebrant was Friar Gary Johnson, OFM Conv., vicar provincial and ...

Friar Peter George Flynn, OFM Conv., ordained to the priesthood
On the morning of Saturday, August 30, 2025, at the Conventual Franciscan parish of Our Lady of the Visitation in Dublin, Ireland, Deacon Peter George Flynn, OFM Conv. was ordained a friar-priest. The ordaining bishop, the Most Rev. Paul Dempsey, auxiliary ...