“I would like to begin this week sharing with you a statement I issued earlier today on the situation of the immigrants and refugees who unexpectedly arrived on Martha’s Vineyard”: Immigration policies and practices stand as an abiding moral, legal and political challenge to our Commonwealth and our country....

The Xaverian Missionaries USA celebrate 75 years of presence in the United States. Celebrations were held at Our Lady of Fatima Shrine in Holliston, Massachusetts where the first founding of our presence took place. On September 8, 1946, Cardinal Cushing of the Archdiocese of Boston blessed our first established...

Stanislas Fritz PrasetyoXaverian Philosophy Community, Jakarta Stanislas, a Xaverian seminary student in Indonesia shares with us the work of interreligious dialogue that our students are involved with. Indonesia has the largest number of Muslims in the world and our relationships with them are crucial in Indonesia, and elsewhere. The...

Ten years ago in 2012, a white nationalist entered a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin – and opened fire. Seven beloved community members were killed. It was the deadliest massacre of Sikhs on U.S. soil ever. Too many Americans don’t remember Oak Creek. But we do. We...

Maggie Silvestri, our new social media volunteer, shares the changes in her life that altered dramatically her faith and her sense of hope. Faith and religion have always been unknown and confusing concepts for me. I was never sure what my faith was, or what I believed in. A...

We are pleased to welcome Maggie Silvestri, who lives close to Fatima Shrine in Massachusetts, as our new social media volunteer. In her religious and spiritual search, she comes to us full of energy and enthusiasm to assist us in our social media engagement through Instagram, Facebook, blog writing,...

On this 75th anniversary of the presence of the Xaverian Missionaries in the United States, it is fitting to focus our attention on the newest message of Pope Francis for a church seeking to be a missionary in every sense of the word in a 21st-century world filled with...

Our hearts break for the families whose loved ones were ruthlessly murdered on May 14, 2022, by a proponent of white supremacy. We pray for the victims: Roberta A. Drury, Margus D. Morrison, Andre Macneil, Aaron Salter, Geraldine Talley, Celestine Chaney, Heyward Patterson, Katherine Massey, Pearl Young, and Ruth...

Dorothy C. Buck’s interest in the three Abrahamic traditions, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism has led her to publish many articles and books on Interfaith topics and to establish networks of prayer groups, such as the modern revival of the Badaliya, a Christian Muslim prayer movement. Along with chapters in two...

By Fr. Alessio Crippa who is a Xaverian Missionary from Italy, working in Thailand since October 2015. After 4 years in Khlong Toey, Bangkok, he moved in Umphang (Tak) in January 2020. The wounded by historical divisions find it difficult to accept our invitation to forgiveness and reconciliation… but...