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Leprosy - that dreadful word
causing terror in the heart
bad enough to live with rotting flesh
but even worse to be among the living dead

Fr. Chris Saenz is a native of Bellevue, Nebraska, and belongs to the Missionary Society of St.

Columban Fr. Frank Hoare shared this page from his missionary diary:

April 16, 1992

I have many aspirations in life. Some of them I have already achieved. I am happy every time I achieve a goal.

Who is she? We asked our grandmother pointing to my mother. “My sister. You are the teacher.” My grandmother mumbled and whispered in her already weak voice.

This spring a pair of great horned owls took over a large nest in a tree not too far from the Narragansett Bay shoreline.  As one would expect before too long little…

Milly Hampson is eleven years old. She lives with her parents Darren and Beatriz in a tower block of flats overlooking the River Mersey in a rather unfashionable part of…

For more than a year I spent most of my time visiting the elderly. I would say that meeting the different types of elderly is interesting and enjoyable, but needs a lot of…

When was the last time I said "I love you" to my dad? Have I thanked him lately? How long has it been since I prayed for him?

The summer mission appeals starts in June and finish by the end of August.

St. Anthony is a favorite saint of South Indian Catholics. Today I celebrated his feast with the mainly Indo-Fijian congregation at Raviravi, a rural settlement on Fiji’s…

Rosi, in the photograph, was a six-year old child detained in the police detention cell of Police Station B on Magsaysay Drive in Olongapo City, the Philippines, some…