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Father Dan Callahan, SA, posed the questions during his homily: “When we watch television, what’s interesting? When we watch adventure movies, what’s interesting?”

Brother Jan Janoszka, SA, chose to live in an environment where Catholics were in the minority. Surrounded by different faith traditions in the suburbs of London, he was captivated by ecumenism and interfaith dialogue.

Father Dan Callahan, SA, posed the questions during his homily: “When we watch television, what’s interesting? When we watch adventure movies, what’s interesting?”

Father Dan Callahan, SA, posed the questions during his homily: “When we watch television, what’s interesting? When we watch adventure movies, what’s interesting?”

2023 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has arrived. With it, the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, and the Interchurch Center Committee on Ecumenical, Interfaith, and Community Concerns held the annual Ecumenical Service of the Word on Wednesday, January 18.

For the past 115 years, Christians have come together each January to observe and celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Father Jim Loughran, SA, remembers January of 1982, in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

The General Council has completed canonical visitations to our Friars in Massachusetts, Japan, Italy, and Peru. In Peru, this included the profession of vows of three novices, Br. Teodoro Zamora, NSA; Br. Yasser Zamora, NSA; and Br. Alexander Espinosa, NSA. The Council also discussed the applications of sixteen men for the residential postulancy. It is an exciting time of growth for the Friars!

There are many signs around us that Ecumenism in our day and age is flourishing. Reverend Dr. Thomas F. Best pointed to several of those signs on Thursday, December 15, during a presentation titled, “The Ecumenical Winter is Over.”