Category: Advancing the Kingdom

Under the guidance of Bishop Joseph Galante, the Diocese of Camden is infusing new vitality into its 118 parishes. (more…)

Anyone who believes that technology used properly is a gift Providence provides to aid in the advance of the Kingdom will be wondrously impressed by what the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur is doing in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of…

“Hear, Oh Israel” (Dt. 6:4) The oldest and perhaps most effective way of spreading the good news is through the spoken word. Indeed, the concept of ‘Word’ has profound connotations in Christian theology. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Zambia certainly understand this. (more…)

Haiti, so much on our minds today because of its calamitous earthquake, is where the idea was formed. It was while visiting there in 1928 that Dr. Paluel Flagg, an anesthesiologist from St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, was so moved by the plight of…

Readers will know that members of most religious orders typically take the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Some of these religious communities embrace additional vows, i.e. for the Trappists that of silence, for the Jesuits that of loyalty to the Pope. For the…

Two millennia ago, Mary and Joseph advanced the Kingdom as they made their arduous journey to Bethlehem in response to an imperial edict mandating a census. There, in that tiny hamlet, finding no available accommodations, they were obliged to seek shelter in a makeshift stable…