New head of Pontifical Missions USA speaks of challenges, goals
September 24, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Father Roger Landry, the newly appointed director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA, reflects on the challenges facing missionary work, starting with the struggle against secularism, indifferentism, and a shortage of resources.
Father Landry—who will assume his new post in January, explains his excitement:
From the time I was a little boy, reading some of the lives of the great missionary martyrs, I always had a desire to spread the faith.The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Sep. 24, 2024 2:03 PM ET USA
Seems like a positive appointment. Fr. Landry served as "ecclesiastical assistant to Aid to the Church in Need USA". This should indicate a proper respect for Catholic missionary and charitable activities. Wouldn't it be amazing if solid Catholic priests, intent on evangelizing, were appointed to head the various Catholic charities that are sustained by government funding? If reformed into solidly Catholic institutions, independent of government oversight, these charities could become appealing.
