To open the Lenten season, which this year coincided with Valentine’s Day, the Daughters of St. Paul of Johannesburg organized a meeting entitled: Lent Begins on Valentine’s Day: A Call to Radical Love in Troubling Situations of Hate. The encounter was guided by Nontando Hedebe, a South African theologian, who with great skill presented Lent… Read more »
The Society of St. Paul held its Interchapter Meeting from 15-25 February 2018 in Aparecida, Brazil. Participating in the event were Superior General Fr. Valdir José de Castro, the other members of the General Government, and the superiors of 18 SSP circumscriptions or (in certain cases) their representatives. Placed under the special protection of Our… Read more »
In addition to launching a study and analysis of religious freedom around the world, the new Observatory will monitor the conditions of religious minorities across the globe to strengthen their protection and will also formulate proposals for awareness-raising activities. Salvatore Martinez, president of the Vatican Foundation “International Family Center of Nazareth,” has been appointed head… Read more »
On 6 February, a group of young men and women religious from various Congregations in the Diocese of Prague held their third meeting in a series aimed at acquainting people in their age bracket about the religious life. The theme of this encounter was We Are Courageous (?) while the themes of the previous two… Read more »
The Grammar of Lent Son Starting with Life… The word son makes us think of relationships. We are always the children of someone. We are never completely detached from the world. To be a son or daughter is a vocation: we are always called to share our life with someone else. We are sons… Read more »
The Paoline Multimedia International Book Center, Rome, is continuing its program of Biblical Formation Encounters, which emphasize the centrality of the Word of God, so as to make it better known and loved. In fact, among the cultural activities organized by the book center (conferences, the presentation of significant books, meetings with authors), a primary… Read more »
Fifty years at the service of peace, the poor, the sick, and also interreligious dialogue: these are the guiding lights of the St. Egidio Community, founded in Rome in 1968 by Andrea Riccardi. The Community, which today numbers thousands of adherents throughout the world, has carried out many important and successful initiatives, such as the… Read more »
The Grammar of Lent Possibilities Starting with Life… The word possibility rouses both hopes and fears in us. If something is possible, it means that the situation facing us has not reached a definitive conclusion. But it is also true that if something is possible, then we must make the commitment to concretizing those… Read more »
Starting on Sunday, 18 February 2018, the Rosary guided by Pope Francis will be aired by Vatican Radio daily at 8:00 p.m. local time. The radio is a place of meeting, comparison of ideas and prayer: this conviction is the driving force behind the Vatican’s Radio apostolate, which has programmed a series of initiatives for… Read more »
On 29 January 2018, the Daughters of St. Paul of the Boston community celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving for the 25th anniversary of Radio Paulinas. Sr. Maria Ruth Reyes currently produces three Spanish radio programs weekly which are aired by over one hundred radio stations in seventeen countries. In recognition and in gratitude for this… Read more »
