The mission of the Catholic Church from the United States has suffered a certain crisis of meaning for many years now. The former Pontiff, John Paul II, wrote the last major encyclical on mission, Redeeming Mission, partly in answer to false assertions that perhaps this mission is not as...

Hema Konsotia is a member of India’s lower-caste Dalit community, known by some as the “untouchables.” She is also a college graduate and union activist who works with Dalits, teaching skills and urging political involvement.In this Worldfocus program, I am reminded of the Vatican’s message to the Hindu world for the...

I recently received an email from a friend of mine in the Philippines, Sr. Maria Delores. These sisters run a wonderful center and home for blind children in Quezon City. I had the privilege to be with them many times during my own work in the Philippines. Her letter...

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Mobil phones, everyone owns one, indispensable in our modern lives. But what almost no one knows: in each one of these devices is blood. Because these small marvels of technology do not work without a metal named Coltan. The main source of this material lies in the Democratic Republic...

Xaverian postulant Renato Yapaulo, Fr. Carl Chudy, Fr. Victor Mosele, and a friend in the picture, along with Xaverian students Francois Noah and Tyler Hagan gathered with almost 5000 Catholic college students to share the global mission of the Church and to promote missionary vocations. Founded in 1998 by...

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The wave of assassinations that claimed thousands of victims currently in eastern DR Congo spares nobody. All segments of the population are affected in dramatic ways. A recent case, the subject of this dispatch, is what happened in the Archdiocese of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

With the Christmas holidays quickly approaching, preparation is richly different in many cultures all over the world. In the Philippines, where the Xaverian Missionaries have worked since 1989, the octave of Christmas is called Simbang Gabi in Tagalog. “Simbang Gabi” a Filipino Christmas tradition, is a series of nine...

The patron saint of the Xaverian Missionaries is indeed St. Francis Xavier. Our Founder, Blessed Guido Conforti, said of him: “With a tenacious will and great energy, which earn the admiration of anyone who considers them for a moment, they worked to form Jesus Christ in themselves like a...