World Catholicism Week 2012, “Real Presences: Eucharist, Society, and Global Catholicism,” is a celebration of the globally interdependent dimensions of the Catholic experience of faith at DePaul, in Chicago, across the Americas, and around the world. The weeklong event is open to all DePaul faculty, staff, and students, as...

The Xaverian Missionaries have traditionally carried on the Novena of Grace to St. Francis Xavier, a prayer that has began in the mid 17th century. Join us and many throughout the world that rely on the intercession of St. Francis Xavier in our dream of God to change the...

Dear friends, Fr. Germano We have been showered with many blessings here at Chuknagar in southern Bangladesh. In September 2011, after a course of six years of working with Bengalis wishing to become Christian, 70 catechumens received baptism at the end of October in 2011. We inaugurated the formation...

Filipino Contemporary Art by Fr. Eugene Pulcini, SXRector of the Theology Program of the Philippines Our Founder was a man who lived by Faith. Should one ignore the guiding role his faith – expressed in short sentences – played in understanding and dealing with the vicissitudes of his life,...

Xaverian Mission Newsletter February 2012...

Sr. Margaret Aringo Benedict XVI recalled the fact that the Feast of the Presentation on February 2 commemorates the visit by Mary and Joseph to the Temple to present their firstborn to the Lord, in accordance with Mosaic law. There they met Simeon and the Prophet Anna who, the...

Fr. Lovat in center with people from his parish The Xaverian Missionaries have been working in Cameroon, Africa since 1982. Fr. Italo Lovat, one of our missionaries who used to work in the United States, has been in Cameroon for many years. In Bamenda, where he works, they are...

You may have heard of the plight of many Christians in northern Nigeria, Africa who have been persecuted by an Islamic extremist group called Boko Haram. Better known by its Hausa name Boko Haram, is a Salafist jihadist terrorist organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria, in the areas predominated...

National Migration Week will be observed in dioceses around the country January 8-14. This year’s theme, “Welcoming Christ in the Migrant,” and the artistic renderings in the week’s materials depict the disciples welcoming a stranger on the road to Emmaus. “Just as on the road to Emmaus, Christ’s disciples...

Annual Clergy Dinner 2011, Wayne, NJ, a set on Flickr. In thanksgiving for the canonization of our founder, St. Guido Conforti, we joined together with Bishops Serratelli, Rodimer and local priests we collaborate with....