Our cause
Our Work
There’s a saying that firefighters rush toward danger when everyone else is fleeing. The same could be said about the Franciscan Friars – who hasten to the cries of everyone: the poor, desperate, hungry, homeless, addicted, mentally ill, jobless, incarcerated, sick, elderly, and other communities and individuals that society finds easier to ignore than embrace.
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
– St. Francis of Assisi
FRANCISCAN FRIARS Charities powers the work of the Friars, who quench the flames of poverty, hardship and despair for millions of people who come to the collective Franciscan doorstep in the United States, Puerto Rico, Cuba and at missions in Jamaica. From Texas, New Mexico, Missouri and Wisconsin, to Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts – and urban and rural locales in between – the friars live and serve in solidarity with those on the margins.
