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...
The Vatican’s and China’s Evolving Relationship
Recently, Victor Getan, Senior International correspondent for the National Catholic Register, published an interesting article for the Council on Foreign Relations, called, The Pope and the Politbro: The Vatican’s Chinese Diplomacy. With the extraordinary importance of the changing climate in China for the Church, we offer a synopsis, citing...
The Vatican's and China's Evolving Relationship
Recently, Victor Getan, Senior International correspondent for the National Catholic Register, published an interesting article for the Council on Foreign Relations, called, The Pope and the Politbro: The Vatican’s Chinese Diplomacy. With the extraordinary importance of the changing climate in China for the Church, we offer a synopsis, citing...
50 Years of Missionary Priesthood
On Trinity Sunday, May 22, 2016, the Xaverian Missionaries, along with friends and family, gathered at Our Lady of Fatima Shrine in Holliston, Massachusetts, where we celebrated the enduring, generous priestly service of three of our men, Frs. Tony Lalli, Dominic Caldognetto, and Ivan Marchesin. They were ordained together in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Pentecost in a Time of Faith, Doubt, and Division
Fr. Carl Chudy, SX Twenty first Century Pentecost The core purpose of the Xaverian Missionaries is parceled out in a small slice of the larger evangelical commitment of the Church in something Vatican II called the “mission ad gentes.” This Latin term is a fancy way of saying that...