The Missionaries of Jesus congregation is on a fast on September 26 for their patron, who is now in police custody in a sexual abuse case. The congregation is in “deep sorrow and anguish” that “our innocent father Bishop Franco Mulakkal had to face arrest and jail for a crime he has not committed,” says a September 25 press note from its superiors. Seeking forgiveness from their patron and the world for his “crucifixion,” Sister Regina, the mother general of the Jalandhar-based diocesan congregation, and her councillors said the entire congregation would fast for the reparation of the “stain of sin” in making the prelate suffer unjustly.
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,”
