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Pontifical Mission Societies

At a leper colony in the Kon Tum area in Vietnam, Pontifical Missions Society USA President Msgr. Roger Landry celebrated Mass, brought Communion to people, and distributed food and sandals. (The Pontifical Mission Societies/Margaret Murray)

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U.S. priest brings Mass, food, sandals to Vietnam leper colony

Kate Quiñones|Apr 11, 2025|2 Min Read

Father Roger Landry, National Eucharistic Pilgrimage chaplain, pauses to offer a blessing with the monstrance as pilgrims on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage's Seton Route arrive for Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City May 26, 2024. The Pontifical Mission Societies USA announced Sept. 5, 2024, that Father Landry has been named its new national director, effective in January. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

New head of US papal missions wants to 'bring God to the ends of the earth' through the Eucharist

Gina Christian|Sep 5, 2024|4 Min Read

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Catholic charities sending millions in aid to an ailing Syria and Turkey after deadly earthquake

Paulina Guzik|Feb 15, 2023|6 Min Read

Msgr. Kieran E. Harrington of the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., is pictured speaking from the ambo of St. Josephs Co-Cathedral in Brooklyn April 26, 2020. It was announced April 14, 2021, that Msgr. Harrington had been named as the new national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, succeeding Oblate Father Andrew Small. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Brooklyn priest named national director of Pontifical Mission Societies

Carol Zimmermann|Apr 15, 2021|5 Min Read

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Pope Francis says missions should facilitate encounter with Christ, not complicate it

Hannah Brockhaus|May 21, 2020|4 Min Read

Dr. Tom Catena, a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, examines a patient during rounds at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Pope Francis established an emergency fund to help communities in the Catholic Church's mission territories affected by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

Pope establishes coronavirus emergency fund for mission territories

Junno Arocho Esteves|Apr 6, 2020|2 Min Read

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