The Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Lent In Focus

Reason For Hope

Venerable Pauline Jaricot

Christmas in Alaska

I Am a Missionary

World Mission Sunday

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

World Mission Rosary

Summer in Alaska

Read Mission Magazine

Youth In Mission

The Vatican

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops

International Fides Service (Mission News)

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Declared "Venerable"

On June 28, the Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI has approved the heroic virtues of U.S. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen clearing the way for the advancement of his sainthood cause. Father Andrew Small, OMI, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies noted, “As head of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith from 1950 to 1966, the Venerable Fulton Sheen was heroic in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ far and wide – from Peoria to Pretoria; New York to New Delhi. He teaches us still that the Church is missionary by her very nature.”

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World Mission Rosary

In February of 1951, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith from 1950 to 1966), in a radio address (The Catholic Hour), inaugurated a World Mission Rosary. "We must pray, and not for ourselves, but for the world. To this end, I have designed the World Mission Rosary." Praying this Rosary, Archbishop Sheen said, would "aid the Holy Father and his Society for the Propagation of the Faith by supplying him with practical support, as well as prayers, for the poor mission territories of the world."

#PopeMoving

Our Holy Father has indicated that he wants us to celebrate his inauguration as Pope by performing acts of charity for the poor and those in need. As a concrete act of solidarity, we invite you to see the world as the Pope does – through the eyes of those struggling to make ends meet on a daily basis.

Modeling the Pope’s love for the "least among us" and moving forward on our call to love neighbor, we seek your support. Each donation will be converted into funds to support transportation costs for poor and low-income communities in the United States and around the world. Those costs will include bus passes, train tickets, bicycles or a gallon of gas for those in need of a little help to "keep moving."

Each dollar donated will be used by the Pontifical Mission Societies or Catholic Relief Services to help someone get where they need to be – for work, a job interview, a medical appointment, a ride to school.

Give the gift that keeps your faith journey on track – and your neighbor’s life moving in the right direction.

The Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Welcome

Founded by the Venerable Pauline Jaricot, the Society for the Propagation of the Faith seeks prayer and sacrifice for the world’s Missions, now some 1,150 dioceses in Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands and remote regions of Latin America. Help is offered for pastoral and evangelizing programs, for catechists and catechetical work, to build churches and chapels, for the work of Religious communities in health care and education, and for communication and transportation needs.

The very first collection of the Propagation of the Faith in 1822 supported the vast diocese of Louisiana, which then extended from the Florida Keys to Canada, as well as the missions of Kentucky and China.

Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Awards

Entries to the 2013 Edward T. O’Meara Awards for excellence in reporting on the worldwide mission of the Church are now being accepted at the national office. Categories for the 2013 competition (for material published in 2012) are:

Diocesan/Archdiocesan Newspaper

Visits to the Missions (trips to the Missions by diocesan newspaper staff and/or personnel)
Interviews with missionaries (in-person interviews with missionaries visiting the U.S.;
telephone interviews)
News events from the Missions — local angle AND “mission animation” efforts
Mission series (two or more articles about a specific mission country or
aspect of missionary work or life)

Original promotion of World Mission Sunday 2012

Please submit with (Arch)Diocesan Newspaper; award presented to newspaper editor & diocesan director

Propagation of the Faith (arch)diocesan director

Single article (can be one article from a regular column or another single article; PLEASE submit ONLY ONE column by a single author)

Catholic magazines

Single article with worldwide missionary theme

Please submit entries, by April 5, 2013, to:

2013 Archbishop O’Meara Awards

c/o The Society for the Propagation of the Faith

70 West 36th Street, 8th Floor

New York, New York 10018

PLEASE ATTACH appropriate form to each of the five entries (five copies of each entry is required) and specify the category for judging. (Download entry forms below, go to the Propagation of the Faith home page at www.onefamilyinmission.org, or call 212.563.8700.) Judging, by a panel of professional journalists, will take place in early spring; awards are presented during the Catholic Media Convention, in June 2013, in Denver, Colorado. Additional details on those awards will be released in late spring.