This year marks the centenary of the birth of Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich. She is considered to be one of the most influential spiritual figures of the twentieth century. The Movement has moved beyond its origins in the Roman Continue reading →

He founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France. He was killed during evening prayers in Taizé on August 16, 2005.  It was to young people that Brother Roger devoted his life, and in whom he Continue reading →

In spite of ill health and weakness Edel Quinn spent many years of her life working strenuously to help spread the Faith in Africa. She has been described as “one of the greatest Irish missionaries in the history of the Continue reading →

“To live in a hut in Egypt to share the life of the poorest: to eat what they eat and to live like them in a makeshift hut; in a nutshell, I shared their experience of radical poverty.”

Madeleine Cinquin, Continue reading →

An Italian lawyer and social activist, she volunteered to the service of the poor and sick for 33 years in Africa. Her life ended by the bullet of an unknown assassin.  She, who was known as Mother Teresa of Continue reading →