One of my heroes growing up was Superman. I remember several times as a child using a bath towel as my Superman cape and climbing up on the flat-roof shed behind the house, taking a running leap …

Fr. Mark Miller, C.PP.S., invites us to take a closer look at racism and the Christian Nationalism movement.

Today we mark the feast day of St. Gaspar del Bufalo, who founded in the Missionaries of the Precious Blood in 1815 in Giano, a village in what is now Italy. 

As tensions spiral in the Middle East, we must be aware that this is only one area in which war and the threat of war are upending the international order.

The good news is that a grassroots Japanese group, Nihon Hidankyo, recognized for its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

The news has focused on record numbers of migrants crossing over into the United States from our southern border. Most of these migrants are entering the country legally by entering into the asylum system. The problem is that our immigration system is broken...

At the end of this month, yet another Halloween most likely will come and go — and still there will be no “Great Pumpkin” rising out of the pumpkin patch — although I intend to remain vigilant!  

Expansion of the Education Lab at Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation in Chicago allows us to better serve the needs of our communities. Read more from the latest issue of Missionary Pulse.

Companion Mark Giesige, the Missionaries’ mission coordinator, was presented with the Spirit of Sr. Dorothy Stang Award during a Mass on Sunday, Sept. 29, at Immaculate Conception Church in Celina, Ohio.

August 22, 1934 – September 28, 2024
Fr. William Hoyng, C.PP.S., 90, died at 11 p.m. on Saturday, September 28, 2024, in the infirmary of St. Charles Center, Carthagena, Ohio, where he made his home.

Br. Theophane Woodall, C.PP.S., 85, died at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 28, in the infirmary at St. Charles Center, Carthagena, Ohio, where he had lived and ministered for 55 years. He had been in failing health in recent years.

Brother Tom Bohman, C.PP.S., serves as director of religious education at St. James the Less parish in the Oakland Park neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. He says that approximately 95-97% of households fall beneath the poverty line in this mostly Hispanic community.   

In the mid-1990s, Jeff Berninger was looking for a way to make a difference for youth in the world, and Fr. Barry Fischer, C.PP.S., guided him to the mission in rural Guatemala, where Jeff volunteered to teach middle school. Jeff’s eyes were opened to the many barriers to education that his students faced, including systemic poverty and a high rate of adult illiteracy. Among the most glaring barriers was a lack of textbooks in classrooms.    

Missionaries of the Precious Blood contribute $164K to 37 organizations   

$84,000 awarded to further Catholic education 

Groups visiting Ohio's Sorrowful Mother Shrine.

Today we celebrate the founding of our religious Congregation, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, by St. Gaspar del Bufalo, in 1815, in a small town called Giano, in a country that was not yet but would become Italy.

The tragic ending of that parade was worldwide news. An argument broke out, and guns were fired. Twenty-two people were injured, and Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a mother of two and former parishioner at Sacred Heart Guadalupe parish, was killed.

In 1945, over 200,000 people, most of them civilians, died in Japan from the atomic bombs that we, the United States, dropped on the cities of Hiroshima on August 6 and on Nagasaki three days later. Millions others suffered life-long health consequences from radiation exposure, including vulnerabilities to many forms of cancer.