
Of your charity, please offer prayers for the Eternal rest of the soul of Archbishop François Bacqué, Apostolic Nuncio and friend of the Institute, who died suddenly in Rome on 9 November 2023. Born in Bordeaux on 2 September 1936, he was ordained a priest on the 1st October 1966. In 1988, Pope …

Of your charity, please add to your prayers the Eternal rest of the soul of Count Wolfgang Waldstein, Governor-General of the Society of the Sacred Heart (secular branch of the Institute), called to God at about noon, 17 October 2023, at the age of 95.

The General Chapter was held at the beginning of September. An important week in the life of the life of the Institute. The commencement – The Veni Creator Renewal of commitment to the Institute taken by the Canons The Masses Mass with Monsignor Wach, the Prior General on the feast of the beheading …

With due credit to the seminarians of Gricigliano who took these beautiful photographs, we are pleased to present a chronicle of the 2023 Ordinations in Florence. Presentation of the Cassock and Incardinations Minor Orders conferred by His Lordship Bishop Madega, Bishop of Mouila in Gabon Major Orders conferred by His Grace Archbishop Cordileone, …

Florence, 5th July 2023 This morning, in the presence of His Eminence, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, His Grace, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone conferred Holy Orders upon 5 subdeacons and 6 deacons at the Church of Santi Michele e Gaetano. On Monday, a group of seminarians at …

Priests of the GB Province gathered at Lanherne in Cornwall last week. Shown here on a visit to the beautiful estate at Lanhydrock. From left to right: Canon Weaver (New Brighton), Canon Poucin de Wouilt (New Brighton), Canon Tanner (Plymouth), Canon Cristofoli (Vice Provincial, Preston), Canon Smith (Lanherne, Plymouth), Canon Wiener (Shrewsbury), Canon …