This year too, the Daughters of St. Paul of Bucharest traveled to Cacica, Romania’s most important Marian shrine, located in the diocese of Iasi in the northern part of the country, to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Catholics from many parishes in the diocese and also from other dioceses gather… Read more »
Communication has the power to build bridges, to enable encounter and inclusion, and thus to enrich society. How beautiful it is when people select their words and actions with care, in the effort to avoid misunderstandings, to heal wounded memories and to build peace and harmony. Pope Francis
Motivated by the theme of the Pauline Family’s Vocation Year: “Fan into a flame the gift of God that is in you” (2 Tm. 1:6), several members of the Pauline Family in Brazil organized a Vocation Week in Arcoverde in the State of Pernambuco. Our missionaries were offered hospitality in San Gerardo Maiella Parish, where… Read more »
Usually, we think of the media–above all the digital and social media–from the perspective of a weakening of bonds. As André Caron and Letizia Caronia pointed out a few years ago in a good book: if two people go out to dinner and each one has their own cell phone, then in fact it is… Read more »
The Daughters of St. Paul of Antananarive joined forces with the NGO Madagasikara Namako in holding a Book Fair for Children to celebrate the success of Boky Namako editions, a series of stories for children from all parts of the country. Professionals from the publishing world participated in the Fair, including our Md Paoly book…
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The first African American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993), Toni Morrison was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest civil recognition in the USA) by President Barack Obama in 2012. Her books expose the banality and clichés about race and racism, powerfully illustrating that we no longer understand the true… Read more »
With great joy we want to share the news that Sr. Gervis Monteiro da Silva, FSP, will be participating in the Synod for the Pan-Amazon region, to be held at the Vatican from 6-27 October 2019. The theme of the Special Assembly is: “Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology.” Why… Read more »
The first Catholic online radio station in Bangladesh, Radio Jyoti, is celebrating its third anniversary. The radio’s broadcasting location is near Emmaus Catholic Church in Bogra, in the diocese of Rajshahi. The purpose of the online station is to proclaim the message of God and spread the teachings of Jesus Christ through its programs, which…
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Letizia – Maria Romana DE SIMONE
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The Church in France, in particular the diocese of Lyon, experienced the “hottest” period of the crisis that struck her due to the pedophilia scandals. The media–from the press to the Internet and cinema–brought to the fore both the guilty and their victims, accusations and defenses, courtroom trials and debates on the issue. As Catholics… Read more »
