In Colombia, World Communications Day is being celebrated this year by means of a digital campaign that will begin on 26 May and last until August. Entitled “ I said yes ,” the 3-month project, which is based on the Pope’s Message for World Communications Day 2013, will give participants the chance to interact with one another through the social network system. The initiative is aimed in particular at young Catholics and their teachers and has enlisted the involvement of Catholic organizations such as the Social Communications Department of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference, the Pontifical Instit...
In the awareness that today we are all called to act with wisdom and commitment with regard to the progressive impoverishment and destruction of the environment, on 11 May the Daughters of St. Paul of Johannesburg held an encounter entitled, Creation: By Chance or By Need? Guest speaker Fr. Michael van Heerden, President of the Catholic University of Johannesburg, developed the subject by taking as his sta...
To celebrate the Year of Faith, the Daughters of St. Paul of Chile have inaugurated a new apostolic center in Talcahuano , situated on Conception Bay in the Biobio region. Located in a busy mall between two parishes and close to the region’s main school, the new Pauline Book Center hopes to be a locus for light, hope and evangelization. The people of the area are very grateful for this Pauline presence and say that the sisters were very courageous to open a center in a zone that is still suffering the effects of the powerful tsunami that struck Chile three years ago. But the FSPs continue to carry out their mission for a clear purpose: “so that the Word of the Lord might sprea...
4 May 2013 was an unforgettable day for the Daughters of St. Paul of our Congo-Ivory Coast Delegation. Fifty-five years after the opening of our book and media center in Kinshasa, the locale has now been completely renovated, along with the living quarters of the sisters, located upstairs. Apostolic Nuncio Adolfo Tito presided over the blessing ceremony, which was attended by many members of the Pauline Family, members of other religious Institutes, friends of the sisters and journalists. Also present for the occasion was the Congo’s Minister for Culture and the Arts, who was invited to cut the ribbon looped across the entrance to the book center.
On 27 April, our Barcelona Book Center held an encounter to launch a book just published by Pauline Editions, Spain: The Spirituality of the Psalms : You Surround Me with Songs of Freedom, by Fr. Justino Martinéz Perez , a Comboni Missionary. In spite of the fact that he was recently transferred to Brazil, Fr. Justino who had guided of the book center’s cultural meetings for a number of years, was able to take part in the book launch via Skype. This virtual intervention delighted the participants, who enthusiastically followed his presentation, which was enriched by input from other guest speakers physically present for the occasion. The Provinc...
In April, the FSPs of Chile, in collaboration with the local Conference of Religious Men and Women and the support of the National Council for the Prevention of Abuse and the Accompaniment of Its Victims, held a series of encounters on child abuse. The meetings, in which over 200 people participated, were guided by Fr. Hans Zollner, sj. Fr. Zollner, a psychologist and expert in this field, is the Vice-Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Some of the encounters were attended by Apostolic Nuncio Ivo Scapolo, by Bishop Rizardo Ezzati, who is the Archbishop of Santiago and the president of the Chilean Bishops’ Conference, by Manuel Casanueva, the Superintendent of Educati...
In the context of an initiative entitled, Read: Pavia 2013–a civic celebration characterized by meetings and numerous literary events held in the streets of the city–the FSPs of Pavia participated in a public reading of excerpts from Pope Francis’ newly-released book, published by Pauline Editions, Italy. The reading, which took place in Cathedral Square, was accompanied by brief reflections guided by several priests of the diocese. To make the event as interactive as possible, the excerpts selected for reading and commentary were chosen by the public, who sent in their suggestions by email prior to the event. That same afternoon, the children of the city were invite...
Each year, the FSPs of Kenya offer all the deacons of the Nairobi diocese a chance to get to know the Pauline mission better. As in the past, this year too their meeting with the future priests of the diocese was a favorable time for helping them experience in a more direct and personal way the yearning of Blessed James Alberione to “offer everyone the charity of the truth.” The service of the truth springs from the Word and Eucharist, and thus the encounter opened in the sisters’ chapel where, during a time of prayer, all the participants came to realize that “from here, I [the Lord] want to enlighten.” This enlightenment involves all the sectors of the Pauline apos...
