Catholic Global Mission Resource for Youth

Summer Breezes

In October of 2011, on World Mission Sunday, our founder, Blessed Guido Conforti will be made a new missionary saint for the church. Why is that a big deal? Conforti's canonization is new evidence in the life of this great bishop for everyone about how important the global outreach of the church is, sharing the compassion of Christ across faith and culture boundaries. We hope the following stories inspire you to see yourself as a global Catholic!

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Summer Blessings!

Father Carl Chudy, SX

Winner of the Cardinal Bernardine New Leadership Award

Janine Carreiro talks to Msgr. Brennan of Telecare TV about why her Catholic faith inspires her work with Brockton Interfaith Community, a group funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Janine won the Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award in 2010 for her inspiring work, which was instrumental in winning $4 billion to help troubled homeowners so that least 3000 families in MA to be able to keep their homes. Watch the video here. And learn more about making a difference here.

African Homecoming

Fr. Patrick Santaniez, SX the first Filipino to be ordained a Xaverian Missionary priest returned to Sierra Leone, Africa recently where he celebrated his first mass with the people there.

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Joven, a Xaverian student from the Philippines (in the first row) begins a two experience in Sierra Leone as he prepares for priesthood.

Father Mark Marangone, SX reflects on his ministry in Colombia

Father Mark

It was indeed an "interesting challenge" for me. I had to learn how to be a pastor of a Christian community, trying to encourage each member of the parish to take on responsibilities towards the parish so that it might become a "family" to everyone, going beyond borders. We have encouraged missionary and vocation activities with the hope that some young person would respond to the invitation of Christ to follow him in consecrated missionary life. Something has moved in this direction, even though only God knows the final results. It is the Lord who "calls to work in his vineyard." Read more...

Catholic Relief Service Helping Somalis

refugee in kenya

Working with church partners through the region's bishop, CRS has been able to get some aid into the stricken areas of Somalia. For families unable to access aid in Somalia, survival means walking across a harsh desert to camps like the one in Dadaab, in a region of Kenya that is also suffering under drought conditions.

Learn more...

Out of World Youth Day

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Anuncio is an association of young people who believe that "God is Love" and want to tell it to the world. The association began taking shape in 2008 when Raphael Cornu-Th�nard, a French layman who had been involved in various youth ministry projects in France. Cornu-Th�nard and some of his friends in youth ministry decided to organize a youth festival that would serve as a tool for evangelization. The goal was simple: talk to an as many people as possible about God's love for them. Find out more...

Fasting for Ramadan bonds Catholic, Muslim friends

Catholic Ramadan August this year marks the Muslim month of fasting, Ramadan. Read about a young Catholic's experience in fasting last year here.

...Jordan was fasting for Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, during which Muslims abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset.

But Jordan isn't Muslim; she's Catholic. She chose to fast with her Muslim friend, Dahlia Bazzaz. This monthlong sacrifice wasn't just a heavy mental and physical challenge -- it was also a time in which Jordan's global perspective expanded....