After years of planning for the new Spiritan Formation Residence in Manila, workers began the preparation for the demolition of the old small wooden structure in order to begin the construction of the new formation house!! Whew, it’s been a long time coming!!
Holy Ghost Catholic Church in New Orleans, LA celebrated its one hundredth anniversary as a place of Catholic worship on October 17-18, 2015 with a weekend of parish festivities. Now part of St. Katharine Drexel Parish, Holy Ghost Church was founded by the Spiritans in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans in 1915 with the financial assistance of St. Katharine Drexel and some African-American Catholics.
Father Donald S. Nesti, C.S.Sp. will be honored by the Anti-Defamation League of Houston with the Julie and Ben Rogers Ecumenism Award on November 11, 2015.
No form of extra-liturgical devotion to Mary is more widely practiced among the faithful or found by them to be more satisfyingly complete than the Rosary, which has come to be regarded as the very badge of Catholic piety.
The Spiritan community in Haiti dedicated the new primary school building at St. Martial College in Port-au-Prince on October 11, 2015. The historic Spiritan school was destroyed in the January 12, 2010 earthquake in which more than 250,000 people died in Haiti and millions were left homeless.
Rich Gosser, Lay Spiritan, joined JPIC coordinators from five other US religious congregations at the end of October to participate in a “Poverty and Care of Creation” immersion trip to Central Appalachia.