Secularization as the "sign of the times"
Fr. Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Jesuits delivered an intervention at the Synod of Bishops on youth. On Thursday, October 11, Father General spoke during the session of the Synod of Bishops on youth, faith and vocational discernment. His presentation focused on the theme of secularization. Fr. Sosa...
Oscar Romero: ‘Starting from the world of the poor’
On 14 October, 2018 Pope Francis will declare Archbishop Oscar Romero a saint, along with Pope Paul VI and several other beati. Martin Maier SJ, who has a longstanding connection with El Salvador, traces Romero’s personal transformation up to the moment of his martyr’s death in the middle of...
The Clash of Objectivism and the Common Good in America
Recently the editorial staff of Missione Oggi, our mission magazine for Italy, asked me to write an article on the Catholic Church in America after more than a year in the term of President Donald Trump. The clash between the present vision of the government and Catholic social teaching...
Orientation for New Religious Missionaries in Sierra Leone, West Africa
Orientation Program for New Missionaries in Sierra Leone The University of Makeni (Unimak) in partnership with the Religious Conference of Superiors of Sierra Leone offered an orientation program for new religious men and women in Sierra Leone, that is, those who have arrived in the country less than two...
Re-imagining Interfaith Dialogue
Fr. Carl Chudy, SX On a steamy afternoon in our nation’s capital an unlikely group of people gathered at the Marvin Center of George Washington University from far flung places like Japan, a number of countries of Europe, Africa, Latin America. Lay Buddhists, Christians of various denominations, secular humanists,...
African Traditional Beliefs & Christian Faith
Sharing Christ across cultural and national boundaries, as missionaries do, impels us to engage with the traditional religiosity of those to whom we are sent. Out of great respect for a faith already present, we seek to find the signs of Christ already present in our non-Christian brothers and...
African Traditional Beliefs & Christian Faith
Sharing Christ across cultural and national boundaries, as missionaries do, impels us to engage with the traditional religiosity of those to whom we are sent. Out of great respect for a faith already present, we seek to find the signs of Christ already present in our non-Christian brothers and...
Connecting with Our Muslim Neighbors During Ramadan
Fr. Carl Chudy, SX On the evening of June 15, 2018, Ramadan has come to a completion for this year, the feast of Eid al-Fitr. As part of our new Mulitifaith Collaborative in the metrowest area of Massachusetts, we organized an iftar celebration, bring Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Daoists, and...
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...