I don’t know where the list is but I can give you a couple.
The Franciscan Friars of the Renewal or “CFRs” are going strong in New York and just founded a friary in Fort Worth, Texas. I think they may also have one in New Mexico. They serve the poor and do some pro-life work; they also give “Youth 2000” retreats with Adoration. Fr. Benedict Groeschel is the current superior, I believe.
The Franciscans of the Immaculate are mostly in Italy but they have several friaries in the States. Their website is
MaryMediatrix.com. They evangelize through media–they have a publishing house which prints books on vocations, Our Lady, and other things, and in Italy they may have some radio programs. I’m not sure what they do in the States. I met some of their Sisters in Italy and found them very hospitable and solid. They say some of their Hours in Latin (while driving around Rome at top speed as everyone does, rather a unique experience) and told me that they like to have Mass in Latin when they can.
The Benedictines at Clear Creek, Oklahoma, are one of several new communities devoted to the Tridentine Mass (aka “Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite”) and the older Breviary. They are a daughter congregation, I believe, of Solesmes, the French monastery which revived Gregorian Chant in the 19th century. I have not visited them, but a close friend has gone there often this summer over weekends with her family, who intend to move nearby and farm, and has nothing but good to say of it.
Father Frank Pavone, of Priests for Life, is also starting a group called the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life, in Amarillo, Texas. This will be a priestly society (not just an association like Priest for Life, but a community) working in the Pro-Life movement. A friend hopes to enter there in a few years.
