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…
On Sunday, 14 May 2023, Mgr Oscar NGOY, CSSp. Bishop of the Diocese of Kongolo, celebrated in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Mary, the Solemn Mass of the opening of the diocesan investigation on the Cause for the beatification or declaration of martyrdom of the servants of God Jean Marie Godefroid, priest and…
Saturday 29 April, 2023 was indeed an eventful day in Bagamoyo, Tanzania mainly because of the Silver Jubilee celebration of the existence of Marian Girls School built on the location of the former Marian freedom village and few meters from the Stella Maris Hotel, the venue of the two recent General Chapters (Bagamoyo I in…
This year, towards the end of March 2023, the Superior General had applied for a papal audience to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the fusion of our Congregation in 1848 and on 3rd May we were delighted to receive the news that it would take place on Monday, 8th May at 11.00 in the Consistory…