Jesuit Father Praveen Martis has been appointed the first vice chan-cellor of the newly created St. Aloy-sius Deemed University in Mangalu-ru. This was announced on March 19 by Jesuit Karnataka provincial Father Dionysius Vaz, the university chancellor, in the southwestern India city. Fr. Martis is a former principal of St. Aloysius College (Autono-mous).

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,”


