by CM Communications | Oct 6, 2019 | News
The Prophetic Witness of Indigenous Pople In a somewhat polarized American church, the mere mention of the upcoming Synod of Bishops focused on the Amazon region brings forth strong reactions pro and con. The Oct. 6-27 special assembly on the Pan-Amazonian region that...
by CM Communications | Oct 5, 2019 | News
Five bishops from China visited Belgium from July 16 to 19. They are leaders of the Chinese Catholic Church. They came at the invitation of Cardinal Jozef De Kesel (Malines Diocese) for four days of meetings and included a pastoral visit to the Church in Belgium. The...
by CM Communications | Oct 4, 2019 | News
Historic course promises to boost the Church’s resources and raise the level of intellectual debate A school of philosophy and theology co-managed by the Congregation of the Mission (CM) and the Order of Carmelites (OCarm) in Indonesia’s East Java province has...
by Communication Cont | Oct 1, 2019 | International Missions, News
Pope Francis has requested that the whole Church celebrate an Extraordinary Missionary Month. We know that the month of October is dedicated to the missions. This year, however, the Pope wants to give a special focus in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of...
by Communication Cont | Sep 30, 2019 | News
This word is derived from the Latin mortificare … a word formed from mors or mortis meaning death and the suffix ficar from the Latin fiacre, the root facere which means to do or to make. For Vincentian de Paul mortification is one of the essential characteristics of...
by CM Communications | Sep 26, 2019 | News, Spirituality
Introduction Mortification is a virtue that is a bit ‘out of fashion’ today. It disturbs. It is hard to talk about it for risk of going against the grain. It is neither understood nor accepted, because it seems to go against the fulfillment of the person, as well as...
