Year: 2012
FSP Provincial Chapter Begins in Korea
The Daughters of St. Paul of Korea are celebrating their Provincial Chapter from 15-30 November. The event, which is being held in the city of Yeoju, focuses on the theme of our upcoming 10th General Chapter: “We believe and so we speak” (2 Co. 4:13). With bold and prophetic faith we offer everyone the charity… Read more »
International Congress at the Pontifical Gregorian University
Church, Mission and Theology 50 Years after Vatican Council II
The 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Missiology Faculty (1932-2012) coincides with the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican Council II. To celebrate these two significant events and also offer those interested a chance to reflect on the insistent pleas that emerged in the recent Synod on the New Evangelization,… Read more »
ITALY Pauline Multimedia Productions Receives Anassilaos Award
On 17 November 2012, the 24th Anassilaos Awards Ceremony was held in Reggio Calabria, in keeping with tradition. Every year the panel of judges, made up of distinguished representatives of the sciences and arts on both the Italian and European levels…
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Milan: Protagonist in Bookcity Celebration
From 16-18 November 2012, the capital city of Lombardy hosted a Bookcity celebration entitled Milan: City of Books and Reading. The program featured more than 350 events, including book presentations, the chance to meet and speak with authors, public reading sessions, exhibits, performances, dramatized readings, film clips and seminars in which many of the authors,… Read more »
URUGUAY International Book Fair
In October, Uruguay’s beautiful capital city, Montevideo, hosted an International Book Fair in which the FSPs participated. From their stand overflowing with Pauline editions…
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Bishops of North Africa Meet in Sicily
Call To Collaboration Regarding Immigrants and the New Evangelization
On 18 November 2012, the Bishops of the North African Episcopal Conference held their General Assembly for the first time in Sicily, Italy in response to the invitation of His Excellency Domenico Mogavero, Bishop of the Mazara del Vallo diocese. (Bishop Mogavero had already taken part in two preceding meetings of the Bishops of North… Read more »
BRAZIL Vatican Council II¿A New Pentecost
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican Council II, Pauline Multimedia of Brazil has produced a beautiful documentary that offers a historical-ecclesial and also forward-looking reading of this significant event…
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Pope Sets Up Pontifical Latin Academy
With the Motu Proprio Latina Lingua, Benedict XVI has set up a Pontifical Latin Academy, dependent on the Pontifical Council for Culture. The purpose of the new Academy will be to promote and make the most of the Latin language and culture, in particular in Catholic educational institutions since, as the Pope said, knowledge of… Read more »
ITALY Intelligent and Active Collaboration of the Laity in the FSP Book Centers of Europe
The FSP Book and Media Centers in Europe – which number about 20 in 10 countries – are a cultural and religious patrimony for the Daughters of St. Paul, who want to upgrade their quality and develop them always more so as to give new vigor, visibility…
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