COMMENTARIUM ORDINIS FRATRUM MINORUM SANCTI FRANCISCI CONVENTUALIUM. – Official organ of the Conventual Friars, published in Rome under the title Notitiae ex Curia Fratrum minorum conventualium from November 1907 (with news also concerning 1904–1906), and under its current title of Commentarium from January 1915.
Its purpose is to inform the religious of the Order about the principal acts of the see and of the general curia, and about the various activities of the provinces and convents in different parts of the world. Published monthly, in Latin, it contains the following sections: Ex Actis Apostolicae Sedis (with the acts of the popes and of the Roman Sacred Congregations); Acta Ordinis: Curia generalitia, Procura generalis, Postulatio generalis, Provinciae Ordinis, Ad historiam Ordinis, Necrologia, and Bibliography. The current editor is Fr. Giovanni Bastianini, general secretary of the Order’s missions. Giovanni Odoardi