Catholic Interfaith Dialogue and Why it Matters
Catholic interfaith dialogue examples show how prayer, service, and honest encounter build trust, witness to Christ, and strengthen local communities....
Why Do Catholics Do Missionary Work?
Why do Catholics do missionary work? Learn how faith, witness, service, dialogue, and solidarity shape Catholic mission across cultures....
Inauguration and Blessing of New Church in Thailand
Fr. Giovanni Matteazi Our first missionaries to Thailand in 2011, Frs. Thierry Kamga, Giovanni Matteazzi, Thiago Rodrgues, and Alessandro Brai began with language and cultural studies for more than a year. We were given the care of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Parish in Tak where tribes are strewn...
The Nexus of Mission and Violence Today
Fr. Carl Chudy, SX Last November 2017, the U.S. moved forward with extraditing a former high-ranking El Salvador military official to Spain to face murder charges for allegedly plotting the killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter in 1989. Inocente Orlando Montano Morales failed in his final...
World Mission Sunday 2017
Every third Sunday of October the Church worldwide celebrates a special commemoration called World Mission Sunday. We celebrate the opportunity as Christians we have to receive Christ, in order to share Him in every corner of the earth. Take a look at the message of Pope Francis for this year’s...
Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith
The gist behind this simple but extraordinary book is how a missionary, called to cross cultural and faith boundaries, to live as a foreigner, and to share their life in concrete and powerful ways with the dispossessed and the poor, shares friendship, love and solidarity. These gifts are the...
The Final Vows of Sister Susana Miranda Jimenez
On October 8, 2015, Sister Susana Miranda Jimenez professed her final vows as a religious missionary sister with the Xaverian Missionary of Mary Sisters. Sr. Susi (as we lovingly call her) is from Mexico and spent considerable time in her dedication to the Lord and to the global...