The Interfaith Observer, one of the most important resources for interfaith dialogue today in the United States, recently featured a useful blog post from Vicki Garlock on interfaith opportunities for Christians at Advent. Although Advent is a special Christian period of expectation and hope, it is also a time...

Fr. Michael Davitti, SX “Nunc dimittis….” and “My soul glorifies the Lord…” Thanksgiving is possible only at the end: when the harvest has been gathered in and when life approaches its end. A glance at the life that has passed, the awareness that we were never alone, that our...

How the killing of three elderly nuns set the country’s leading human rights activist on a collision course with its most powerful general We share with you a recent investigative report on the background story referring to the murder of three Xaverian sisters in Burundi, Africa two years ago....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...