Mission Sunday Supplement LOUISIANA “Our mission as Dominican women is to study, share, proclaim and witness to the liberating Word of God in order that right relationships be restored between God, People and the Earth where these are broken due to lack of knowledge and distortion of the truth” We presently serve in Ireland, South…
Mission Sunday Supplement We are the Irish Capuchin Franciscan Friars and mission is in our very DNA. Today we have Irish friars ministering in Zambia, South Africa, New Zealand, South Korea and California. We follow the rule and life laid down by St Francis of Assisi – to live and embody the Gospel message of…
Mission Sunday Supplement The Society of African Missions (SMA) is an international organisation with over seven hundred and sixty members, three hundred and twenty seminarians and has a presence in sixteen African countries. While the African membership of the SMA is increasing, in Europe and Ireland it is declining. Nevertheless, there are still Irish SMA…
Mission Sunday Supplement As a growing world church, we share responsibility for all those who so urgently need our help. We must not forget the needs of those whose stories do not reach our televisions or newspapers. For many people in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the church is the first place they turn to…
The Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations told a committee of the world body that “civilian populations continue to be victims of widespread and systematic attacks”. Where there is “credible evidence” of such attacks, “there must be accountability,” he said. “Crimes against humanity are among the most serious crimes under international law and their…
by Cindy Wooden The Second Vatican Council was the universal Catholic Church’s response to God’s love and to Jesus’ command to feed his sheep, Pope Francis said, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the council’s opening. The council reminded the Church of what is “essential,” the Pope said: “a Church madly in love with its Lord…
Noelle Fitzpatrick Mission Sunday Supplement ‘You Shall Be My Witnesses’ Today, the 10th October is the feast of St Daniel Comboni, an Italian missionary and one of the first to come to Sudan. He was the only surviving child of a family of 8. He endured the judgement of many for leaving his aging parents…
A New York judge opened the door to legal recognition of multi-partner relationships while ruling in a housing court case. In a ruling on a dispute over a rent-stabilised apartment, Judge Karen May Bacdayan of the Civil Court of the City of New York opined that the legal protection of same-sex relationships shouldn’t be limited…
Paul Francis Spencer C.P. Mission Sunday Supplement At the heart of the mission of the Passionists is the conviction that the Passion of Christ is, in the words of our founder St Paul of the Cross, “the greatest and most overwhelming work of God’s love.” Passionist Missionaries from Ireland have worked in many countries, including…
Catholic bishops in the southern Indian state of Kerala expressed shock over the human sacrifice of two women as part of a ritual to gain wealth and prosperity. Fr Jacob G. Palakkappilly, spokesman for the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council, said the incident, which came to light October 11, has shaken the collective consciousness of Indian…