Featured Stories | September 27, 2010
On September 22, members of the Priests of the Sacred Heart celebrated the Feast of Blessed Juan Maria de la Cruz, who was beautified on March 11, 2001. At Sacred Heart School of Theology, the September 22 all-school Mass was dedicated to the memory of Blessed Juan. The following is the homily that Fr. Jim […]
Featured Stories | September 24, 2010
South Africa Hosts Seminar on Christian Spirituality Fr. Peter Surdel, SCJ, provincial superior of the South African Province, shared news about the first of what is hoped to be a continuing series of seminars on Christian Spirituality. “The idea for the seminar arose from the fact that the dioceses of Aliwal and De Aar are far […]
Featured Stories | September 16, 2010
Later this month we will introduce you to the members of the Dehon Formation Community in Chicago. The community is made up of SCJ students and candidates doing their undergraduate and theological studies in preparation for future ministry. Just as our students in the United States return to school for the fall semester, their counterparts […]
Featured Stories | September 03, 2010
Among the texts that Catholic high school students in Canada will be putting in their book bags this fall is one edited by Fr. John van den Hengel, SCJ. Before being elected to the General Council in Rome in 2009, Fr. John was professor emeritus at St. Paul University in Ottawa and had worked for […]
Featured Stories | September 01, 2010
Br. Duane Lemke, SCJ, director of the formation program in Chicago, had been tossing around the idea of doing a blog for some time. Inspired by an aunt, he sat down this summer and centered on a theme: music. “One of my earliest memories is of a journal my aunt (and godmother) kept of song […]
Featured Stories | August 23, 2010
Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wis., is seeing its largest group of incoming seminarians in 20 years. Forty new seminarians have been admitted to the school, approaching the all-time record of 42 new students set in 1990. The average over the last 10 years has been 21 fall entrants. As the seminary […]
Featured Stories | August 23, 2010
A first-time visitor to St. Teresa Mission in the Diocese of Aliwal North, South Africa, notices many things. First, there are the children. Young children and teenagers; laughing, playing games and practicing music for an upcoming Mass. There are ladies in purple, representing the St. Ann Society. Other women pour out from the kitchen, hands […]
Featured Stories | August 15, 2010
During a tri-lingual liturgy of English, Vietnamese and Spanish, Luis Fernando Orozco Cardona and Joseph Pham Vu professed their first vows with the Priests of the Sacred Heart on August 15th at Sacred Heart Monastery/School of Theology. They are the newest members of the U.S. Province. “Professing vows with the SCJs is important to me […]
Featured Stories | August 06, 2010
As noted in an earlier posting today, the Congolese novitiate was attacked on August 3. Fr. Osnildo Klann, SCJ, novice master, recently wrote with details of the attack. Below is a rough translation of the Italian: We finished the evening prayer. It was August 3, 2010. When we left the chapel three well-armed bandits forced […]
Featured Stories | August 06, 2010
Thirty well-armed bandits attacked the SCJs’ Congolese novitiate on August 3. The novitiate is in Kiragho, about 10 miles from Butembo (North Kivu). They came at about 9:00 p.m. and asked the guard if there were soldiers. He told them no. Soon after, the bandits surrounded the novitiate and began to terrorize both the novices […]