Franciscan Family

First Order

• Order of Friars Minor (Ordo Fratrum Minorum)
• Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum)
• Order of Friars Minor Conventual (Ordo Fratrum Minorum Conventualium)

Second Order

• Poor Clares (Ordinem Sanctae Clarae)

Third Order

• Secular Franciscan Order (Ordo Franciscanus Saecularis)
  –  National Fraternity of the OFS – USA
• Third Order Regular (Tertius Ordo Regularis)

Neighboring OFS Regional Fraternities

• Divine Mercy Regional Fraternity (Lower Michigan; Toledo, OH)
• Franciscans of the Prairie Regional Fraternity (Central Illinois)
• La Verna Regional Fraternity (Upper Michigan, Wisconsin)
• Our Lady of Indiana Regional Fraternity (Indiana)

Church

Dioceses

• Archdiocese of Chicago
• Diocese of Joliet
• Diocese of Rockford

General

• U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Vatican

Resources

Franciscan

• Franciscan Resources

General

• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Code of Canon Law
• General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM)
• New American Bible

Other

• Franciscan Outreach
• Port Ministries