The long presence The Society reached Kenya through Uganda, moving eastward in the early years of the last century into the western highlands and around what is now the diocese of Kakamega. It has been there ever since. The work was never the kind that draws attention: small schools where there had been none, simple […]
The first hours Morning prayer comes before anything is asked of him, and then Mass, often in a small chapel beside the house, sometimes with a handful of people and sometimes with a church already full. This is the still part of the day. After it, the demands start to arrive, and they rarely stop […]
Why the Society came The Society’s Latin American mission was not an old colonial inheritance but a deliberate, modern choice, made in answer to a Pope’s appeal. The Church across the region was vast and under-served, and the need was for priests willing to live among the poor of the cities and the countryside rather […]
What is happening, and why The crisis has its roots a long way back, in the way the country was divided in the colonial era into a French-speaking majority and an English-speaking minority in the North-West and South-West. For decades the Anglophone regions felt their language, their courts and their schools pushed to the margins […]
One Church, one body It is easy to think of the missions as someone else’s concern, a good cause far away that has little to do with life in a British parish. The Church does not see it that way, and never has. When a mother in northern Cameroon cannot get her child to a […]
