THE PAULINE MISSION
The Daughters of St. Paul dedicate their lives to the Gospel.
While it is important to provide material bread for all people and ensure that they are able to live in a dignified way, it is equally urgent to distribute the bread of the Gospel so as to respond to each person’s hunger for the Truth and for God.
Fr. Alberione invited the Daughters of St. Paul to center their mission on the Word of God, but he also said: “Don’t speak only about religion. Speak about everything in a Christian way.” And he told them to do this by taking advantage of all the technologies of communication, by blazing new trails for the Gospel, by striving to be present at the “crossroads” and “meeting places” of humanity so that always more people can get to know and welcome Jesus. The Daughters of St. Paul live for this mission, which they carry out through numerous activities.
 Diffusion Centers
The Daughters of St. Paul own and operate 224 Book & Media Centers on all the world’s continents. Forty-four other Pauline centers are run by the laity. In each one, people can find books, magazines, music, videos and CDs that can help satisfy their yearning to get to know and meet God. The Congregation also has 10 virtual Book & Media Centers on the Internet.
To broaden our distribution, we also have 32 agencies that disseminate our Pauline productions; we participate in national and international book fairs; we hold book and audiovisual displays in schools, parishes and in conjunction with various meetings and ecclesial/cultural events. With joy and apostolic passion, we hold Bible Weeks and Gospel Days, during which we carry out animation activities and distribute material to help people grow on the human and spiritual planes.
 Publishing Houses
Pauline Publishing involves many different instruments and languages. Our 29 publishing houses throughout the world promote the Faith both explicitly and implicitly, the latter through publications aimed at human promotion from a Christian perspective.
Up to now, priority has been given to book publishing but we also have departments that produce mini-media (greeting cards, postcards, posters), music (musicassettes and CDs) and Video-CD-Roms.
We publish several magazines: Familia Cristiana in Argentina and Familia Crista in Brazil (also available online: FCOnline).
The Daughters of St. Paul of Australia publish two online magazines: one on catechetics (Echoing the Word) and the other on spirituality (Terra Spiritus). For several years now, the FSPs of Brazil have been offering the public an online magazine on theology and culture entitled Ciberteologia (Cybertheology).
Other FSP publications:
Super + (a children’s magazine), Dialogo (religious education periodical) – Brazil
Yagobe Umul (Jacob’s Well) (periodical for biblical-spiritual formation) – Korea
Akebono (current events) – Japan
Via Verità Vita (bimonthly magazine on catechetics and pastoral work) and Catechisti parrocchiali (Parish Catechists) – Italy
 Radio and Television
In some countries, we produce radio and TV programs. The Daughters of St. Paul of Bogota, Colombia, recently banded together with six other religious Institutes to found the television channel Cristovision. The channel serves as an instrument of evangelization by offering the public worthwhile programs. In Argentina, our sisters manage the popular broadcasting station, Radio Anatuya.
Internet Web Sites
Visitors can get to know our mission better by visiting the Institute’s 38 web sites, which not only provide information on the Daughters of St. Paul but also investigate and use new forms of apostolate.
Typographies and Binderies
The Pauline charism has always placed great importance on the technical stage of the publishing apostolate, which extends and multiplies our message. Currently, we dedicate the major part of our publishing activities to the editorial and distribution stages, but in a few countries our sisters still own and operate typographies and binderies, which produce attractive publications.
Communications Centers (Formation to Communications or Communications Schools)
In all our circumscriptions, we carry out animation activities in the course of our apostolate and also for specific occasions to foster the formation of pastoral workers, communicators and all those to whom we direct our message.
So as to serve the Church and society, the Daughters of St. Paul have also set up a number of evangelization and media education centers:
- Serviço a Pastoral da Comunicaçao (SEPAC) – Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Centro de Comunicacion social Paulinas – Bogota, Colombia
- Paulines Institute of Communication in Asia – Pasay (Manila), Philippines
- Paulinas OTEC: Organismo Tecnico de Capacitacion – Santiago, Chile
- Pauline Center for Media Studies – Los Angeles (California), United States
- Media Spirituality Center – Seoul, Korea
- Centri di cultura e comunicazione – Italy
Biblical Animation Centers
Because the top priority of the Pauline apostolate is to promote and proclaim the Word of God, we publish many different editions of the Bible and Gospels, as well as multimedia aids for biblical formation.
For a number of years, two Pauline Biblical Centers have been organizing courses, meetings and study sessions:
- Serviço de Animaçao Biblica (SAB), Brazil
- Istituto biblico per corrispondenza “Ut Unum Sint” (Biblical Correspondence Course “Ut Unum Sint”), Korea. Ut Unum Sint can be found on the Pauline Internet web site www.pauline.or.kr under the heading UNIVERSITA’ BIBLICA VIRTUALE, which offers online lessons, meditations and the chance for students to contribute their ideas.
Pauline Presence in Ecclesial and Cultural Organizations
Ecclesial Organizations
We have begun to collaborate more and more with different ecclesial communications organisms on the diocesan, national and at times even international levels.
This collaboration takes places in various ways: through the full-time presence of a Daughter of St. Paul in different bishops’ commissions for communications; through the occasional presence of an FSP in these organisms (usually for specific events, for example: in preparing and holding meetings and congresses, or for World Communications Day).
We also collaborate on a fairly regular basis with Religious Conferences in the sphere of communications.
We frequently collaborate with the Church on the diocesan level in the spheres of radio/TV broadcasting, and for the editing, impagination and dissemination of weekly newspapers and bulletins. We also prepare programs to form pastoral workers, social communications workers, and all those to whom we direct our message.
Lay Organizations
The Pauline mission requires us to collaborate as much as possible with various organisms, cultural centers, publishing companies, and radio/TV broadcasting stations. We do this in different ways, according to each country’s needs, requests and possibilities.
We collaborate with various international communications organisms, with communications institutes, with various media associations, with community radio stations, with publishers and producers, with groups and schools, and now also with Internet providers.
 Queen of Apostles Hospital
Located at Albano Laziale (Rome), Italy, this is the only hospital run by the Daughters of St. Paul. Besides providing its patients with both general and specialized medical services, the hospital offers its patients and their families the human and Christian warmth that should characterize the care-giving ministry. Our Founder wanted our hospital to also be a place in which the patients offer their sufferings for all those who proclaim the Gospel.
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