missionaries
Year-long catechetical mission in Alaska opens doors to evangelization
MARGARET BOYLAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Franciscan University students are familiar with spending a week over spring break in a place like Haiti or Arizona doing various mission work such as visiting the sick, bringing fresh water to those in poverty and teaching the faith. Very few ever consider a full-year mission trip, and even fewer think of […]
Gaming sister program evangelizes the East
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST “Gaming is like a gateway: a gateway east to west and west to east,” said Bobette Huzovic, co-director of the Language and Catechetical Institute (LCI). Franciscan University’s study abroad program is unique in many ways, especially in its community structure. The Kartause, home to the study abroad program, houses other […]
Arizona mission evangelizes by example and presence
FLANNERY MCGOVERN STAFF WRITER In hot and sunny Douglas, Arizona, the Loretto Catholic School is the destination of the Franciscan University’s Arizona mission team. Just like the other mission teams, the group, headed by Julie McConnell and Scott Reaume, will head down south over spring break. The team of 16 missionaries, including a chaplain and […]
Austria Adventures: On being a missionary
MICHELLE FORTUNATO AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT We have hit the halfway point of our semester in Gaming, and we have just arrived back from our 10-day break. I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Lourdes, France for mission with 12 other Franciscan students. Lourdes was beautiful and powerful, and I have no words. It’s something I […]