ROME, Italy - Bishop Gilles Côté, SMM of Daru-Kiunga diocese in Papua New Guinea, recently attended the Anglophone Conference for the Safeguarding of Children. The conference hosted by the Australian Catholic Bishops...

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I am at the end of twenty days spent in the general curia. Soon I will return...

ROME - On 6th December 2017, as Father Luizinho celebrates his 32th anniversary of priesthood, we were honoured by the visit of Monseigneur Dieudonné Madrapile, Bishop of Isangi (DRC). He came to Rome for the...

ROME - On Sunday, November 5, 2017, the Filipino community that regularly comes to pray at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the garden of the Generalate, organized a fraternal reception in honor of the new Superior...

ROME - The Montfort Missionaries is blessed to have some lay people working quietly to keep some projects of the congregation going smoothly. Denise Delvaux, a Belgian volunteer, and a now retired library employee of...

ROME - November 2, 2017 - day of prayer for the Faithful Departed - Father Francesco Ferrari, Superior of the General House, invited Father General, Father Luizinho, and the members of the community for a pilgrimage to...

ROME, Italy - On 1 November 2017, three important events were celebrated at the General House. At the start of this month the community rejoiced for being complete for the first time since the nomination of the new general...

ROME, Italy - On 1 November 2017, feast of All Saints, the SMM Generalate Community celebrated the Mass at the grotto. It was attended by a good number of Filipinos coming from the neighborhood and from other...

ROME, Italy - Since October Francesco Ferrari has been the superior of the General House, succeeding Father Pierre Bonhommeau. Born in 1970, Francesco entered the Apostolic School at Redona and was ordained a...

ROME, Italy - The Month of the Holy Rosary was celebrated at the Montfort Missionaries Generalate Grotto by the daily praying of the holy rosary. Every night, at 8:30pm, for the whole month of October, the people, mostly...

On 12 October 2017, Father Luiz Augusto Stefani, Superior General, after having consulted his Council and Father Mario Belotti, Provincial Superior of Italy, named Father Francesco Ferrari as Superior of the community at the General House in Rome. He was born on 5 October 1970, made his first religious profession on 2 October 1994 and was ordained priest on 24 April 1999.

On 6 October 2017, Father Luiz Augusto Stefani, Superior General, with the consent of his Council, designated Father Wismick Jean Charles as Vicar General of the Missionaries of the Company of Mary (Montfortians). He was born on 29 November 1963, made his first religious profession on 8 September 1990 and was ordained priest on 15 January 1995.

We met Bishop Gilles Côté, during his recent visit to Rome and we asked him a few questions. Bishop Gilles is from the Province of Canada and has been a missionary in PNG for over 40 years.
What brought you to Rome this time of the year?
I came to Rome to attend the Anglophone Conference for the Safeguarding of Children. We were 114 participants from 14 countries...

ROME - In December 2016 the project concerning the archives of the General Administration has started. Noortje Lambrichts, an archivist of KADOC, the Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society of KU Leuven (http://kadoc.kuleuven.be/english), has been assigned to the project, which is centered around two main parts...

ROME, Italy - The confreres of the Italian Province of the Company of Mary, gathered for the provincial chapter at the Curia Generalizia on January 3 to 7, 2017, and have elected Rev. Fr. Mario Belotti as their new Provincial superior on Friday, January 6, 2017, the feast day of the Epiphany of the Lord. Fr. Mario Belotti was born on January 26, 1948 at Grumello del Monte, Bergamo, Italy. He made his first vows on...