On March 30, 2015, the Xaverian Missionaries throughout the world, along with many lay people who collaborate with us globally, will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of St. Guido Conforti, founder of the Xaverian Missionaries in 1895. His legacy lives on today in the the desire of the Church to reach beyond the borders…
Recently Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace spoke to the Irish Bishops at the Trocaire 2015 Lenten Lecture. The Irish Bishops had just issued their “The Cry of the Earth” and the Irish development agency, Trocaire (Mercy in Irish), has been resolute in their Drop in the Ocean…
“Dear friends, Lent is not only a time for personal conversion. It’s not about becoming ‘better’, but it’s about overcoming the ‘noonday devil’ that wants to keep us from believing and living in the certainty that we are one Church, one human family and one Body of Christ with many members, all of whom…