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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Easter Sunday 2018, Homily of Fr. Carl Chudy Throughout these days of Holy Week we have accompanied Jesus, his disciples, and the crowds  from Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem, to the arduous and painful walk up the Via Dolorosa. We all converged at the top of the hill of Golgotha....

Easter Sunday 2018, Homily of Fr. Carl Chudy Throughout these days of Holy Week we have accompanied Jesus, his disciples, and the crowds  from Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem, to the arduous and painful walk up the Via Dolorosa. We all converged at the top of the hill of Golgotha....

Many of our users will be familiar with the traditional Catholic devotion known as the Stations of the Cross, a series of meditations on scenes from the Passion of Jesus, from his sentencing at the hands of Pilate to the laying of his body in the tomb. There are...