Vatican City. The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr. Gustavo Manuel Larrazábal, C.M.F., Rector of the Shrine of...
Cardinals and Bishops
65 Years of Offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Rome, Italy. José Cardinal Saraiva Martins, CMF, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and...
Gold Medal for Civic Merit for Pere Casaldaliga for Fighting for the Indigenous Peoples and “Becoming one of them”
Barcelona, Spain. The late Claretian Bishop, Msgr. Pere Casaldàliga, CMF, received on January 27, 2022, a posthumous...
Claretians at the Synod of Bishops
Rome. With a solemn eucharistic celebration on Sunday, October 7 in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated...
Paul VI Foundation Awards Gold Medal to Bishop Fernando Sebastián, CMF
Madrid, Spain. Coinciding with the plenary assembly of the Spanish Bishop’s Conference, one of the institutions most...
Biography of a Claretian Bishop on T.V.
Lubbock, Texas (USA). “The boy who would become the second Bishop of Lubbock spent his earliest years in Celaya, a...
New prefect of the Congregation for Religious (CIVCSVA)
Vatican City. On January 4, 2011 the appointment, by the Holy Father, of Archbishop Joao Braz de Aviz as new Prefect...
Gabriel Mejía, CMF, “Archbishop Romero Prize- 2008”
Austria. The Catholic Men of Austria Foundation (KMB), with their centre in Salzburg, has granted to Fr. Gabriel...
Claretian Bishop in the Synod for Africa: Bishop Mendes dos
Roma. Chosen by the Episcopal Conference of Angola, São Tomé-Príncipe, Mons. Manuel António Mendes dos Santos, CMF,...
Claretian Bishop, Juan José Pineda, mediator in the Honduras
Honduras. (From Ecclesia Digital). The Claretian Bishop Mons. Juan José Pineda met last night together with Zelaya in...
Seventy Years of Service in Puerto Plata
Dominican Repubic. With a Eucharistic celebration presided over by Mons. Rubén González, cmf, Bishop of Caguas,...
Encounter of Bishops and Voluntary Missionaries
Sudan. Juba, Sudan. Frs. Rosendo Urrabazo and Joseph Calistus attended an encounter (April 29-30) between Bishops of...
Cardinal Saraiva takes possession of his Cardinal Title
Italy. With a solemn celebration, at 18:30h of April 19, Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, CMF, has taken possession of...
Mons. Javier Travieso, CMF, consecrated Bishop
Perú. On March 25, 2009, at 10 o’clock in the morning, the celebration of the Episcopal consecration of Mons. José...
Fr. Javier Travieso Martin, New Claretian Bishop
Rome. Today, January 7, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Fr. José Javier Travieso Martín Auxiliary Bishop of the...
Casaldàliga: Were I to be born again, I would be Claretian
Spain. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Bishop Emeritus of Sao Félix do Araguaia (Brazil), Pedro Casaldàliga,...