Franciscan Institute News, Publications & Research

SBU's Couturier receives certificate of achievement from Harvard

Feb 13, 2025 | Fr. David B. Couturier, O.F.M., Cap., associate professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies and director of the Franciscan Institute, received a certificate of achievement from Harvard University's School of Graduate Education in Educational Justice.

SBU's Couturier presents paper to regional association of churches

Feb 13, 2025 | Fr. David B. Couturier, O.F.M. Cap., associate professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies and director of the Franciscan Institute, presented a paper to the Greater Olean Association of Churches on Feb. 2.

Franciscan Institute scholars publish interdisciplinary volume on trust

Jan 10, 2025 | Three scholars from the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University have joined in the publication of a new international volume titled “Trust: Franciscan Connections in Theology, Spirituality, Economics and Beyond.”

SBU’s Franciscan Institute launches a new international society for Franciscan Studies

Oct 03, 2024 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has partnered with the Franciscan Study Center at Tilburg University, Netherlands, to launch a new association of scholars, teachers and students around the world to collaborate in the study of the Franciscan movement.

St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Institute graduates cohort in Franciscan mission-based leadership

Jun 13, 2024 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University celebrated the achievement of 23 people today as they completed the Padua Program, the Franciscan mission-based leadership program, on the Feast of St. Anthony of Padua (June 13).

Scholars from St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Institute publish volume on moral conversion

May 23, 2024 | Four scholars from the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University have joined in the publication of a new international volume edited by Krijn Pansters and Anton ten Klooster titled “Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society.”

SBU’s Franciscan Institute sponsors scholars at International Medieval Congress

May 13, 2024 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University is sponsoring two of its scholars to attend the International Congress on the Study of the Middle Ages at the University of Leeds in England, July 1-4, as part of the institute’s initiative examining “St. Bonaventure as a Reader of St. Albert the Great.”

SBU’s Franciscan Institute appoints Research Fellow for Poor Clare studies

Apr 23, 2024 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has announced the appointment of Michael Shane Harless as its 2024-2025 Research Fellow

SBU’s Franciscan Institute appoints Dr. Krijn Pansters as general editor of Franciscan Studies

Feb 28, 2024 | Fr. David B. Couturier, O.F.M. Cap., executive director of the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University, has appointed Dr. Krijn Pansters as the new general editor of the institute’s premier academic journal, Franciscan Studies.

SBU’s Franciscan Institute publishes a new book on St. Francis’ Earlier Rule

Oct 13, 2023 | Franciscan Institute Publications of St. Bonaventure University has published a new study of St. Francis of Assisi’s rule of 1221.

Franciscan scholar Cusato writes new biography of St. Francis

Oct 05, 2023 | A new biography of Francis of Assisi by Fr. Michael Cusato, scholar-in-residence at St. Bonaventure Friary, represents decades of original research and reflection by the author, one of the leading historians of the Franciscan phenomenon working in the world today.

SBU’s Franciscan Institute provides yearlong formation in Franciscan mission to Midwest Health System

Jun 09, 2023 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has completed a one-year program in Franciscan mission and leadership training for the Hospital Sisters Health System headquartered in Springfield, Illinois.

St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Institute publishes first volume of Franciscan Mission and Leadership Series

Mar 29, 2023 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has published the first in a new series of books on Franciscan mission and leadership.

The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure publishes a new book on Franciscan ethics

Feb 01, 2023 | Ten years after the release of its groundbreaking work on Franciscan ethics (“The Franciscan Moral Vision”), the Franciscan Institute has published a new volume titled “Lesser Ethics: Morality as Goodness-in-Relationship.”

SBU’s Franciscan Institute publishes ‘The Virtuous Economy: Reforms in the Franciscan Tradition’

Nov 08, 2022 | Franciscan Institute Publications at St. Bonaventure University has published a new book on economic reforms.

Dr. Luke Togni and Dr. Drew Belfield launch a new Franciscan institute Initiative

Nov 02, 2022 | Leadership at St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan Institute are excited to announce the institute has helped launch a new research initiative, “St. Bonaventure as a Reader of St. Albert the Great,” sponsoring its inaugural session at the 47th Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance (PMR) Conference held at Villanova University Oct. 21-23.

Couturier presents workshop to treasurers of religious institutions

Oct 06, 2022 | Fr. David B. Couturier, O.F.M. Cap., associate professor of theology and Franciscan studies, and director of the Franciscan Institute, presented a three-day workshop to the Association of Treasurers of Religious Institutes of Canada, from Sept. 23-26, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

SBU’s Franciscan Institute welcomes Fulbright scholar for research sabbatical

Aug 30, 2022 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has announced the appointment of Dr. Iulian Mihai Damian as a Fulbright scholar in residence and research fellow of the Franciscan Institute for the fall semester.

The Franciscan Institute attracts more than 600 people to its summer 2022 classes

Aug 05, 2022 | As a new academic year at St. Bonaventure University approaches, the Franciscan Institute closes its summer season of Franciscan learning with a record number of participants in a variety of classes, seminars and workshops.

Franciscan Institute graduates 12 individuals as Franciscan mission officers and leaders

Aug 01, 2022 | Twelve individuals from various Franciscan institutions across the world have graduated from the Franciscan Institute’s Padua Program for the training of Franciscan mission officers and leaders.