Over the past years, I have been enriched by living and working in Houses of Formation that are international in nature and also in parishes of our Order as well. In fact, just recently at the lunch table, I overheard some of our young brothers alluding to some of their [...]
“Effective resource management is fundamental to any organization’s self-sustainability. The major reason for focussing on the effective management of resources is be- cause in this present world, there is a large decline in the number and size of foreign aid from foreign donors and missions. Therefore, managing the existing resources [...]
On October 10, 2021, Pope Francis formally opened an extraordinary two-year global consultation process leading to the 2023 Synod on Synodality. His Holiness explicitly expressed that “we, as one People of God must journey together, in order to experience a Church that receives and lives this gift of unity and [...]
After forty long days of fasting, prayer and works of Charity, we joyfully proclaim Easter. Our encounter with the risen Christ. This is the center of our charism as Clerics Regular Minor. I encourage our religious family to celebrate the Paschal Triduum and Easter in a solemn, but joyful manner. [...]
On February 16, 2022, the Dieta General Fathers had a break during their meeting to attend the Wednesday General Audience of Pope Francis at the Aula Paulo VI, Vatican City. It was a big gathering of people with the Vicar of Christ, whose fraternal zeal and joyful spirit give so [...]
Narrated in Two Publications by Fr. Laurianus, CRM The current issue of human trafficking is a prominent theme in political debates. It is a thorny issue that triggers a lot of write-ups and discussions despite the numerous efforts to eradicate it across the globe. Nevertheless, the more efforts are combined [...]
The idea of building a "Way of San Francesco Caracciolo", in view of the many other routes such as the very famous one of Santiago de Compostela, of San Francesco d'Assisi, of Celestino V, etc., as annual pilgrimage started in 2008 between Villa Santa Maria and Agnone. The historical reference [...]
By 1950 the two World Wars were over. At the Paris Peace Conference (February 10, 1947), Italy and a number of other Nations had signed a treaty of cessation of all hostilities. A desire for peace and reconciliation was pervasive throughout Europe and indeed in the world. The Church also [...]
After two weeks of presentations, discussions, proposals, deliberations and fraternal love and encouragement, the General Dieta ends with a Mass at the Church of Sant’Angelo in Pischeria where the General Curia is located and newly decreed. Fr. Ted Kalaw, CRM, superior General of the CRM (Padri Caracciolini, Adorno Fathers) reflects [...]
Saturday 19th of February marks the 38th anniversary of the opening of the Adorno Fathers missions in the African land. It was on that day in the year 1984 that Cardinal Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy handing the Bible and the Crucifix to Father Tommaso Barbona, CRM and Father Paolo Di Nardo, [...]