On Sunday, October 22, Br. Paul Bednarczyk, C.S.C., Superior General of the Congregation of Holy Cross, sent a communication to all the vowed religious of Holy Cross, calling on them to join in Pope Francis’s call to observe a day of prayer, fasting, and penance for world peace on Friday, October 27. “The violence, destruction, …
With much pomp, ceremony, song, and dance, the formal inauguration of the Congregation of Holy Cross’s Province of East Africa took place on January 8, 2023, in a packed Virika Cathedral in Fort Portal, Uganda, where four Holy Cross priests first arrived in 1956 to begin a new mission endeavor in East Africa. The establishment …
October 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of St. Brendan’s Parish in Kitete, Tanzania. The parish, which is located about two hours from the city of Arusha in the foothills that border Ngorogoro National Park, was originally founded by the Irish Pallottine missionaries in 1964. The Congregation of Holy Cross, through its District of East Africa …
The Congregation of Holy Cross, District of East Africa, annouced today that Br. Cleophas Kyomuhendo, C.S.C., has been selected as the next Headmaster of Holy Cross Lake View Senior Secondary School, Jinja, Uganda. The decision had been made in concert with the school’s Board of Directors. The assignment will officially take effect on July 1. …
