Welcome to the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America, located in Washington, D.C. The Monastery of Mount St. Sepulchre, designated a National Historic Site in 1991, has been a place of worship and pilgrimage for thousands of visitors since the church's dedication in 1899. We invite you to visit us when you are in the nation's capital. Directions to the Monastery
The Catholic Church has increasingly focused on educating and mobilizing its youth base around its antiabortion ideology. The rally and march held on January 23, hosted by the Archdiocese of Washington, drew busloads of Catholic schoolchildren from across the metropolitan area and the country.