The Society of Paul superior general Father Domenico Solliman has appointed Father Jose Pottayil as the director of the Madrid-based International Catholic Biblical So-ciety that was set up a hundred years ago by Venerable James Alberione, the congregation’s founder. Father Pottayil is the first Asian and Indian to head the society known as SOBICAIN (Società Biblica Cattolica Inter-nazionale). Father Pottayil, a member of the congregation’s India-Great Britain-Ireland province, has served as its general councilor, vicar general, India provincial, director of apostolate and animator of various communities and groups.

Consistory to reflect on Church’s mission to communicate God’s love
In a letter to the Cardinals ahead of a late-June Consistory, Pope Leo XIV calls for a deeper reflection on the themes of “Evangelii gaudium,”


