Lessons Learned from Sts. Frances Cabrini and Giovanni Scalabrini
Two saints who walked with migrants at the beginning of the last century can teach us today how we can accompany today's new migrants on their journey to a new life. Both St. Frances Xavier Cabrini and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini have been called the Mother or Father of migrants -- St. Cabrini when she was canonized and St. Scalabrini when he...
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In St. Scalabrini’s Footsteps
The Catholic New York office at the New York Catholic Center is a short walk from the Center for Migration Studies of New York on East 60th Street near the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. I have not made the short trip, but I hope that may soon change after my conversation last week with Don Kerwin, the center’s executive director. Our talk came on the...
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Pope to canonize founder of Scalabrinians, Salesian pharmacist
While their life journeys and the stages of their sainthood causes diverged, two men born in Italy are set to be canonized together Oct. 9: Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and Blessed Artemide Zatti. Scalabrini founded the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, commonly known as the Scalabrinian Fathers, and the Missionary Sisters of St. Charle...
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Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, bishop of Italian migrants to America, will be a saint
Scalabrini was the guardian angel of the many Italians who emigrated to the United States in the 19th century in search of fortune and founded a congregation, with male and female branches, that has been welcoming and supporting migrants ever since. Pope Francis I approved the favorable votes of the ordinary session of the fathers cardinals and bis...
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