This is what Pope Francis wrote in his preface to Card. Angelo Scola’s book on aging – Nell’Attesa di un Nuovo Inizio (While Waiting for a New Beginning): “Yes, let us not be afraid of growing old;…

There are several things I learn from reading the statistics contained in Stato del Personale 2025 (see the paper edition updated on March 20th, 2025, on p. 91 and on); for instance: There are 646…

On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, was aired on ‘TV 2000 Diretta’, the programme presented by Gennaro Ferraro. The title of the episode was ‘Towards the Conclave’. Special guest was our confrere Fr. Pietr…

On Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, at 7.30 p.m., due to respiratory failure, our confrere Fr. Eulogio Cuéllar Muñoz passed away at Residencia Santa Teresa de Jornet of the Hermanitas de Los Ancianos Des…

This is how Card. Kevin Joseph Farrell, with deep sorrow, broke the news of the death of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis: “Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow I must announce the death o…

“...thank you above all for the dream of the ‘missionary choice’ of the Church listed in five fundamental options: the primacy of witness, the primacy of God and his Word, the primacy of evangelisati…

On Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025, Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco returned to Rome after a visit to the confreres in Colombia and the Xaverian community in the Diocese of Alto Solimões, Brazil.

Below, we share Fr. Alfiero Ceresoli’s interpretation of the letter which St Guido Maria Conforti sent to Bishop Luigi Calza on March 13th, 1927. This writing by the Founder reveals some of his human…

From March 27 to April 21, 2025, we had the pleasure of welcoming the MissioNet delegation (Fr. Pietro Rossini s.x. and Fr. Héctor Gabriel Arroyo Salcido s.x) to the community of Taipei, Taiwan, for…

During the Holy Week 2025, the members of the international community of Prenoviciate and Noviciate of Bujumbura, Burundi, composed a song and produced a video clip entitled: “Gloire à toi Seigneur”…

After a period of intense preparation, 438 catechumens received the sacraments of Christian initiation in the parish of St Guido Maria Conforti in Panzi, Bukavu, DRC. For the entire parish community…

It was Saturday, April 5, 2025. While we were getting ready for catechism (Easter is near, and we needed to put the finishing touches on the Easter Vigil baptisms), the alarm went off: the river was…

The Bishop of Vicenza, Giuliano Brugnotto, begins his Easter Greetings to the diocese by saying: “In sending my Easter Wishes, I would like to draw inspiration from an image. The image is that of the…

“Lord Jesus, you who witness the folly and cruelty of man, convert the hearts of all mankind and save the Holy Land and the whole world from the scourge of war. Amen” (Michel Sabbah) Today it is ver…

On May 20th, 2025, the Catholic Church and the Christian world will commemorate with gratitude and joy the opening of the Council of Nicaea in 325: “The Council of Nicaea is a milestone in the histor…

The Superior Delegate of the U.S. Circumscription informs that starting from May 1°, 2025, ALL communication (letters, magazines, packages, circulars, and anything else...) in the past addressed to t…

Nando reports on the training session held in Salerno: listening to a moving witness and the joy of life. Again in Salerno, Anna Paola illustrates her participation in the Iftar organised by the Musl…

Violence begets more violence, in an endless spiral that is scarring millions of lives in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After years of conflict, the occupation by the M23 rebels o…

Only today (April 22, 2025), we have learned of the death of Mr. Mario Zannoni, age 87, brother of our late Fr. Evardo Mariano Zannoni († Wayne, New Jersey, USA, 1988), which occurred on January 11…

“Today, the Church gleefully repeats the Easter greeting which first sounded on the Angel’s lips: Resurrexit! (He is risen!) – a magic word which epitomizes the greatest of epics. … We too, brothers…

With that their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. (Luke 24: 31) It is Easter day! We celebrate the core event of our faith: Jesus Christ is alive! With thi…

Various confreres of venerable and wise age have sent [email protected] questions such as: “Why do you use words that we do not understand?”; “What does ‘Think and Tank’ mean?’”  “I had t…

The ‘Fiction’, entitled ‘Feu’, meaning ‘Agent’ [ ‘fox’ ], is based on an event that happened historically in 1979 (the Marichjhapi massacre). A group of Hindus from Bangladesh return to India through…

The printed and digital version of Indirizzario 2022 (Address Book, August 2022) will soon be 3 year old. We are preparing the printed edition of Indirizzario 2025. Over the last three years or so…

“… This year we drew upon AMBEDKAR, a guru of the outcast (i.e., the Dalit, Das, Rishi, Horijon, Muci etc.), and himself a Dalit, who was an antagonist of Gandhi, but with whom he wrote the Indian Co…

“…to be with Jesus, take Him as the criterion of our thoughts, to live with Him. In the small lanes of Jerusalem, amidst a cheering crowd and another threatening one, there are those who see in Jesus…

The 89 catechumens that in 2025 (after a two-year long journey of formation) will receive the sacraments of Christian Initiation within the Ambrosian Church (Milan) are the face of a “Church of the p…

‘ ...we live in an almost landlocked province, where our movements are limited and our trade restricted, yet coveted for the simple reason that Heaven has given us a land where it flows with milk and…

On Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, at the Civil Hospital of Brescia, Mrs Piera Barbeno, aged 64, niece of our late confrere Fr. Battista Barbeno (+ 07.04.2012), passed away. The funeral liturgy will be ce…

A digital version of the new edition of “Directories and General Statutes. Directory of the General Chapter and Directory of Temporal Goods” (2024) has been uploaded to the website of the General Dir…

For the very first time, the General Direction and the Xaverians in the Philippines granted the “Benemeriti Awards” on April 5, 2025, to Ms. Sabrina Santos and Mrs. Aurea Patriarca at the Theology co…

For some time, our community has been dreaming and preparing a pilgrimage to mark the jubilee year. On Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, fourteen members of the Xaverian community in Vicenza travelled for t…

In St Bernard, Kinshasa, we are ending a sad week and beginning an uncertain future. On Monday night, our statue of the Virgin Mary at the grotto was stolen. Yesterday (Saturday, April 5th, 2025 – ed…

Today, the mission needs “artisans of hope and restorers of humanity.” This statement struck me, for humanity, il volto umano, is one of the five essential values (costanti) of the Xaverians… perhaps…

On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at 3:00 PM (Italian time), the Xaverian Family’s newly formed “Think Tank” team will host its inaugural live-streamed event: “What Kind of Church for What Kind of Missio…

From “Foreign Missions” to the mission ad gentes: is this a post-Council journey that still has to be defined and made together? “Foreign Missions” before the Council: preach-baptise to “save soul…

On the early afternoon of April 1st, 2025, a group of confreres from the Fourth Floor Community of the Mother House visited Marore, a suburb of Parma, and its ‘Comunità Betania’ (Bethany Community, a…

On Monday, April 7th, 2025, the Vatican newspaper ‘Osservatore Romano’ published an article signed by the young journalist Guglielmo Gallone (born in 1999) on the Shinmeizan Centre entitled ‘We, the…

“…I am sharing these thoughts with you while I am facing a period of trial, and I join with so many brothers and sisters who are sick: fragile, at this time, like me. Our bodies are weak but, even li…

On Monday, April 7th, 2025, Mrs Teresa Pobittro Mittro, 67-year-old mom of our confrere Fr. Tufan Mitra, passed away in Boira, Christian Para, Khulna, Bangladesh. The Requiem Mass and funerary rites…

In Bukavu, despite recurrent messages from the ‘new occupants’, the situation of insecurity deplored last month seems to have reached its peak. It is the population that is paying dearly for the abse…

After having returned (March 6th, 2025) from a visit paid to Burundi together with Fr Franciscus Xaverius Sudarmanto (March 10th-20th, 2025) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (March 21st-31st, 202…

The printed edition of Stato del Personale 2025 (Personnel Directory 2025) updated on March 20th, 2025, is out and will soon be mailed to the circumscriptions. On the website of the General Directio…

KANSAI AREA (Osaka-Takamatsu). On Thursday, March 20th, 2025, about 90 faithful from the Kishiwada and Wakayama areas gathered at the Regional House in Izumisano, Osaka, Japan. In attendance were 15…

On Wednesday, March 2nd, 2025, the city of Reggio Calabria (Southern Italy), paid homage to the Xaverian Fr. Aurelio Cannizzaro, a figurehead of the local community and founder of Parco della Mondial…

“Father, … I would like to inform you that, on behalf of the Manni family, I have sent to the Xaverian family a contribution for the publication of In Memoriam of Fr. Pier Giorgio Manni. Thank you ag…

“…I have been asked to comment the message for World Mission Day 2025. To tell the truth, for me it is not an easy thing to do because it is quite a while that I find it difficult even to read the ch…

From 27 to 29 March 2025, a number of international conferences were held at the Gregorian University in Rome to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Society of the Divine Word (S…

From 28 to 30 March 2025, we had a visit from Archbishop Anthony Felix Machado, Bishop Emeritus of Vasai (India), President of the Commission for Interreligious Dialogue of the Federation of Asian Bi…

The group in ANCONA bids Fr. Battista Maestrini s.x. farewell. After many years spent in the Marche Region, he is now moving to Parma. Then, Roberta Brasili writes about the prayer vigil for Congo th…