by: Ellen Baverman and Lindsay Braud This article first appeared in Comboni Missions Magazine Fall 2019. In the winter of 1939, Comboni Missionary Father (later Bishop) Edward Mason arrived at the port of New York. He came to the United States to establish the North...
Thursday, August 1, 2019 The young Comboni Missionaries Stefano Trevisan, 35, and Emmanuel Kasika, 30, were ordained to the diaconate by the imposition of hands and the consecratory prayer of Auxiliary Bishop Lucio Lemmo of Naples, in the parish of St. Cajetan of...
“Our Future Hope” New Hostel for Malawian Girls As seen in Comboni Missions Summer 2019, page 17 By: Lindsay Braud Near a Comboni Mission in Lunzu, Malawi, there is a nursing school. Every day, Father Jean-Marie Munketalingi, mccj, would watch as students made their...
by: Kathleen M. Carroll The members of the Monroe Ladies’ Auxiliary still gather to support the Comboni Missionaries— decades after the seminary closed. Barb Heising was just helping out a cousin. “She had been helping out with the booklet for the [Comboni] festival....
Fr. Joseph Bragotti, mccj One September I traveled to Denver to spend ten days with a group of priests, religious, and laypeople with whom I share a common life experience. We were all missionaries who served abroad and then “returned home.” Well, you may say, what’s...
Sister Rita recently ordered 12 computers for her students at St. Francis de Sales technical school in Kpalime, Togo. When they arrived, only one computer worked. For a school with 100 students, one working computer will not suffice. When Marty Klenke of St. Susanna...
Pope Francis endeavored to make great gestures at the peace meeting for South Sudan in the Vatican. But the two counterparts Salva Kiir and Riek Machar have little control of the struggles in the country, knows Comboni missionary Gregor Schmidt. Question: Fr. Schmidt,...
In 2011, South Sudan seceded from Sudan following a landmark referendum on self-determination. Yet fewer than three years after the historic vote for independence, the world’s newest country descended into a civil war that, since December 2013, has brought killing and...
“We are tired,” “This is too much,” “I am angry”: These were some of the comments sisters in Uganda made, after study and reflection on how the social teachings of the Catholic Church parallel to social issues affecting Uganda. The...
Mothers are special, there’s no doubt about it. Mothers come in all varieties – our Blessed Mother, sisters, aunts, friends – and every one of them is a blessing. That’s why this Mother’s Day we asked our missionaries to share memories of...
