The Catholic Church observes ‘World Mission Day’ on Sunday, 19 October. There is added significance this year because it is the Jubilee Year, and the focus is on becoming ‘pilgrims of hope’.
In the current scenario of division and discord both in the church and in the world, the story of St Ignatius of Antioch, whose feast day we celebrate on October 17, comes as a breath of fresh air.
Sixty-three years ago, on October 11, 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the historic Second Vatican Council, fully convinced that it was time to “throw open the windows of the Church and let the fresh air of the Spirit blow through.”
On September 18, a new biography of Pope Leo was released, based on a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen.
‘Satyagraha’ was a movement to make people realise that all humans have dignity and are created equal in the image and likeness of God! Our responsibility is to help build bridges and not walls!
Fr Cyril Desbruslais SJ is no more! He was called to his eternal reward last night (September 8, 2025) in Pune. He was 84 years old and sixty years as a Jesuit.
For more than 45 years before that she reached out and ministered to the poorest of the poor, the dying destitute, the abandoned, the orphaned, the sick, - in fact all those who were excluded and lived on the peripheries of a heartless society.