On Monday, 24th February 2025, the Generalate community received a visit from El Hadji Thierno Amadou Bâ (in the picture: front, in blue), the Khalif General of Bambilor and representative of the religious families of Senegal. Accompanying him were four distinguished individuals who had been residing at the Generalate since 21st February, upon the request…
As part of her mission to advance Bagamoyo II:88, the General Council’s formation commission organized, and held a seminar on key elements of Spiritan spirituality for Anglophone Novice Masters and other Directors of Formation within UCAWA. The seminar was held from the 1st to the 31st of October, 2024 in the 2nd cycle formation community…
On 4th April, our Confreres in Haiti informed us about the situation at Port-au-Prince, the Capital of Haiti, which was getting out of control and more specifically about the attack by armed bandits breaking into the Petit Séminaire Collège Saint Martial (Spiritan Newsflash No. 66). The latest gang attacks and massacre took place in the…
The neighbourhood of Palmarola, on the far western outskirts of Rome, watched with pleasant surprise as a caravan of cars passed by – everyone later learned – to take Pope Francis to a condominium garage located not far from the back of the building where the parish church is located. This event, as unexpected as…
The Generalate community has held, for some years now, a garden party in the grounds of the house for friends and members of other congregations; in the past, around the time of Pentecost and in recent years on Pentecost Sunday. This Pentecost Sunday, we started with a celebration of the Eucharist, held in the beautiful…
Eighteen Spiritan Bishops of various dioceses across the globe convened at the Generalate from 14th to 16th May 2024, responding to an invitation from the Superior General, Fr. Alain Mayama. We have already hosted a number of spiritan and non-spiritan bishops who came to the Generalate either before, during, or a fter their Ad Limina…
Dear confreres and friends, the situation in Port-au-Prince is getting out of control and we are more than ever the victims. Monday, 1st April 2024, at 5 p.m. local time, armed bandits broke into the Petit Séminaire Collège Saint Martial by climbing over a poorly protected wall in a back street. After neutralising the two…
The Meeting of Spiritan Provincial Superiors of the Union of European Circumscriptions (UCE) was held from Monday 22 to Friday 26 January 2024 at the Luther King Centre in Manchester, England. Among the participants were Fr. Marc Botzung (General Assistant in Rome and UCE Correspondent to the General Council), Fr. Innocent Izunwanne (Superior of Germany),…
18 new Spiritan superiors met with the General Council from 18 September through 29 September. The last such two Meetings were held in March 2020 and September 2022 the former having concluded just two days before the official announcement of the COVID-19 outbreak and the lockdown. The new superiors were from many different provinces and…
Tony Neves. All the roads of young Catholics have come to Portugal. The World Youth Days bring together more than a million young people, many of whom have travelled thousands of kilometres to get here. You can see the dark circles under their eyes from the tiredness and sleep they have accumulated. We hear voices…