Fr. Joseph Van Leeuwen, C.P. was born in rural Kansas in 1936 and was ordained a Passionist priest in 1964. Long associated with our Passionist parish ministries, in 1991 he offered to be one of the Passionists on a 6-month visa in the recently formed Passionist Mission in southern India. … more
In the villages in which the Passionists serve, the church is truly the center of village life. Every Mass is filled to overflowing with adults and children.… more
