This past month the Synod of Bishops concluded with their focus on the Word of God and how we as a Church share this Word in relevant ways. In the final address of the Holy Father, he summarized things in this way: The voice of the Word is revelation,...

One of the challenges of mission ad gentes is proding and encouraging Catholics to reach beyond the walls of their parishes and to connect in meaningful ways with those who do not believe as we do. The challenge of the American Catholic parish to connect with Islam is enormously...

The Xaverian Missionaries are far from the blood soaked fields of Mindanao where Muslim separatists having been fighting the government of the Philippines for more than 30 years for a muslim nation within the Philippines. The presentation by 101 East of Aljazeera shows the real cost of war. If...

There have been violent communal attacks by “fundamentalist Hindus” against Christians in Orissa, India. At least 100 have been killed since last week. Some 10,000 Christians are in shelter camps set up by the government and just as many are taking refuge in forests to escape the violence of Hindu...

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Mission and vocation awareness and action is best expressed and experienced through the ordinary things, cultural icons and national issues that affect the thinking and acting of Americans everyday, especially when they are part of its anxiety. Immigration is a political issue which is even more fundamentally is a...

I shared with the Council my concerns about limiting discernment about restructuring merely to diminishing personnel and closing houses. These realities are true, but we also need to look at issues bigger than the Xaverian Missionaries, that is, the state of mission ad gentes, ad extra that comes from...

What is a Xaverian blog you say? A blog is a way to share, dialogue, disagree, learn, teach, pray, preach, or whatever we need to say to each other, and in whatever way we need to talk to each about the very things that bring us together, all about...