Part I: The Catholic Bleed & Community Outside the Church
We will be running a blog series on the departure of our young people from the Church and how we need to understand this as well draw lesson on how we innovate the ways we share Christ with our young people. We encourage you to accompany us in this dialogue...
The Road Not Taken
Fr. Tony Lalli, SX/Monday of the 28th Week The American Poet, Robert Frost, has long been a favorite of mine. In his well-known poem, “The Road Not Taken”, he beautifully reminds us of the necessity to make choices in life: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I /I...
21st Anniversary of the Murders of Three Missionaries
On Saturday, October 1, 2016 we went on Pilgrimage to Buyengero Burundi where our confreres, Fr. Ottorino Maule SX and Fr. Aldo Marchiol SX, were killed on September 30, 1995. It has been 21 years since their martyrdom along with Katina Gubert, a volunteer lay woman from Italy. As...
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...
Growing in Compassion
By Fr. Carl Chudy, SX Recently I was asked to react to the talk of Sr. Donna Markham, OP on religious life and the commitment to compassion at the national assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men in Columbus, Ohio. Sr. Donna is currently head of Catholic...
It’s Not About You; it’s About Me
by Fr. Tony Lalli, SX Matthew 20: 20-28 I went to the doctor’s this past Monday. While waiting, I had a chance encounter with another patient there, a woman undergoing chemotherapy. I had said Mass that morning in honor of St. James the Apostle. The gospel reading for...
It's Not About You; it's About Me
by Fr. Tony Lalli, SX Matthew 20: 20-28 I went to the doctor’s this past Monday. While waiting, I had a chance encounter with another patient there, a woman undergoing chemotherapy. I had said Mass that morning in honor of St. James the Apostle. The gospel reading for...
Murders in Burundi: Missionary order reckons with Killing of Three Sisters
by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy The Global Sisters Report, a project of the National Catholic Reporter recently published this investigative report on the murders of our Sisters Olga Raschietti, Lucia Pulici, and Bernedetta Boggian in Burundi, Africa, September 2014. Related – Three lives for Africa: Srs. Olga Raschietti, Lucia Pulici and...
Christians and Muslims Celebrating Baptism
Fr. Louis Birabaluge, SX On the day of the feast of Pentecost (May 15th), the Lord added (Ac 2: 47) ten new members to our Christian community in the parish of Mongo Bendugu , Our lady Queen of the Apostles (Diocese of Makeni/Sierra Leone). An event which was meant...
Healing a Divided World: Dialogue Moved by Mercy
The latest atrocity in Orlando is a stark reminder we have yet to find a way to get a grip on our divided nation across a number of fault lines that are both religious and cultural. We struggle to find a way to act together, not only to mitigate...