Almanac/Directory
Sometimes, the best way to get to the heart of the story about the Congregation of Holy Cross—that is, the story of its people, its history, its mission, and the Lord whom it serves—is to start with the data that can be found at the surface.
International Facts
You can find out about our order as an international entity with its headquarters close to the center of the Catholic Church in Rome.
Provinces, Vicariates, and Districts
Our international order is organized into provinces, vicariates, and districts, which contain the instruments of our key apostolates—teaching, work in parish, and evangelization and service through missionary work in many parts of the world.
Schools
You can find our schools here, from major universities such as the University of Notre Dame in the United States to numerous colleges and high schools found on five continents. We are called to be “educators in the faith” and to educate the mind, but not at the expense of the heart.
Parishes
You can find our parishes here. These reflect our Congregation’s call to be part of families and communities on the spiritual plane. The parish family is generally a center of religious education and spiritual formation among both adults and children, too.
Missions
Our original apostolic zeal to go forth and make the Lord known, loved, and served is well embodied in our missions in numerous countries.
Social Ministries
Our mission as men who bring hope and as bearers of the Cross that saves through self-giving love places us in the middle of many ministries, sometimes to marginalized segments of the population and sometimes to whole cultures that have trapped themselves in places of ignorance and indifference.
Heroes & Stories
Among these organizations and programs, one finds the heartbeat of compassion and trust in Divine Providence. Some of our members have lived their religious life with such trust and compassion that the Church is considering their canonization. That heartbeat is also experienced one-on-one, in current situations where those whose role is “minister” find themselves the recipients of God’s grace bestowed upon them by Christ in the poor and humble.
