Holy Cross Mission Center Blog
Spes Unica
Highlighting impactful stories and updates from our international missions.

Emergency Appeal: Bangladesh Devastated by Floods
Dear Friends: Flooding in Bangladesh in recent weeks has killed over 55 Bangladeshis and affected more than a million others, including three Holy...

Servants and Neighbors in Jinja, Uganda
Along with my site partners Anna, Justice, and Avery, I have been so grateful to have such a wonderful start to my time with the Holy Cross brothers...

Sifting Through History: Preparing for the Unknown
While sifting through official letters and various records concerning the formation of the Bengal Foreign Mission Society in the Province Archives...

First Impressions of Lake View Senior Secondary School
After two full days of plane flights followed by another day’s drive on bustling Ugandan roads, my arrival in Jinja was met with both relief and...

“Why not me too?” | An Interview with Rev. Jean-Vital Blaise, C.S.C.
The Holy Cross Mission Center was grateful to welcome Rev. Jean-Vital Blaise, C.S.C., to South Bend in July. A native of Haiti and a member of the...

Student Spotlight: An Interview with Caden Reader
The Holy Cross Mission Center is pleased to share this interview with Caden Reader (pictured left), a student at King's College in Wilkes-Barre,...

McCauley’s Leadership at the Second Vatican Council
"[W]hatever good is found to be sown in the hearts and minds of men, or in the rites and cultures peculiar to various peoples, not only is not lost,...

Lakeview School Kicks Off New Session With Faculty Housing and Holy Cross Week
On February 17, 2023, Rev. Oswald Nkyanungi, C.S.C., the parish priest of Bugembe Parish, Uganda, blessed the newly built Br. John Flood C.S.C....

100 Years of the Holy Cross Mission Center
In 1923, the Holy Cross Mission Center (HCMC) was incorporated as the Holy Cross Foreign Mission Society in Washington, D.C., under the leadership...

Project Offers Hope to Orphaned Girls in Bangladesh
The St. Marianne Cope Young Women’s Education Project provides education for orphaned girls in Bangladesh who have grown up and completed...

District of Chile-Peru Celebrates Diaconate Ordination
On Saturday, October 29, Gabriel Adrián Fuentes Velasco, C.S.C., was Ordained to the Diaconate by the Most Rev. Carlos Godoy Labraña,...

World Mission Sunday
Join the Congregation of Holy Cross, U.S. Province of Priests and Brothers,in celebrating the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin...