The Augustinians in the World Foundation believes that quality education is the driving force behind the transformation of society. That is why, in Kenya, the Order of Saint Augustine is building a model school that guarantees the education of the most disadvantaged children in Kisumu, Kenya. In the midst of an informal settlement—more commonly known in popular jargon as slums —this school rises within a context of extreme vulnerability. Maurizio Misitano and Simona Cipriani

Villanova University, sponsored by the Order of Saint Augustine in Pennsylvania, has created the Mother Cabrini Institute to promote education and research on migration, as well as public advocacy and service related to migrants and refugees. The institute was presented at the Vatican Film Library on September 30, with the screening of the film Cabrini and an event at the Patristic Augustinian Institute attended by Fr. Joseph Farrell, OSA Prior General. Cabrini is the title

On Friday, October 10, coinciding with the feast of Saint Thomas of Villanova, patron of studies in the Order of Saint Augustine, the Prior General of the OSA, Fr. Joseph Farrell, presided over the opening of the academic year at the Augustinian Theological Institute in Valladolid, where attendees heard an inaugural message from Pope Leo XIV. The day included several significant moments. In the morning, at 11:00 a.m., the Prior General met with the professed students of the V

At the Retreat House of the Schoenstatt Shrine in Cabo Rojo , Puerto Rico, the friars of the Vicariate of the Antilles gathered for our Sixth Ordinary Vicariate Chapter. We began arriving at the retreat house from the various communities of Puerto Rico on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 7, together with those coming from the Dominican Republic, who had traveled to Puerto Rico beforehand. Fr. Carlos José Sánchez, OSA, Provincial Counselor for Latin America and delegate of th

On the pilgrimage to Tor Vergata, Rome, to participate in World Youth Day 2025 with Pope Leo XIV, groups of young people from Chile, Argentina, Panama, Florida, and the New York neighborhood of Brooklyn stopped in Pavia to express their faith and friendship to Saint Augustine. In recent days, the Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro, where the remains of our beloved father rest, has been filled with youthful voices, songs in many languages, knowing smiles, and silences rich w

On the afternoon of September 18, the capitular brothers listened to the solemn reading of the Acts of the 188th Ordinary General Chapter of the Order of Saint Augustine. It was a Chapter filled with innovative thinking, changes agreed upon point by point in the instrumentum laboris, and long days of group work and plenary assemblies to support the Prior General and his newly elected Council in a strategic plan for the next six years. We spoke with some of our brothers from d

The Order of Saint Augustine, at the conclusion of its 188th Ordinary General Chapter, in fidelity to its charism and in communion with the universal Church, particularly encouraged by the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first of his sons to accede to the Petrine ministry, in the context of the hope of the Jubilee and in the memory of the Holy Father Pope Francis, wishes to declare its unwavering commitment to living fraternity, a gift of God and the fruit of authentic communio

On the afternoon of Friday, September 12, the presidents of three of the five federations of Augustinian contemplative nuns worldwide had the opportunity to share with the capitular friars a detailed account of the uniqueness of their charism and of “the treasure” of interiority—as Pope Leo XIV once described it—which they safeguard. It was the outgoing Prior General, Fr. Alejandro Moral, OSA , who offered an overview of the federations of Augustinian nuns within the Order ,