A team of Pauline collaborators headed by Sr. Isabel Centenaro participated in the 13th Pan-American Book Fair recently held in Belem, Brazil. The Fair had a record turn-out this year: a total of about 505,000 people between exhibitors and visitors. To celebrate this event, the Brazilian government gave all the country’s teachers a “book bonus”… Read more »
Eighty-four-year-old Bishop Emeritus Paolo Jeong Ui-Chae, a highly-respected scholar in the Catholic Church of Korea, received the 19th Korean Catholic Communications Award for his masterful translation of the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas into Korean. He began translating the 40-volume work in the early 1980’s and the first 14 volumes have already been printed… Read more »
Doctor Zilda Arns, foundress and coordinator of the Brazilian humanitarian service known as Catholic Pastoral Care for Poor Children, was killed in the violent earthquake that struck the capital of Haiti and its environs this past Tuesday. She had arrived in Haiti a week earlier to participate in a series of meetings on the subject… Read more »
At the end of 2009, the FSPs of Macau organized a get-together with their collaborators and friends to thank the Lord with them for all the apostolic activities they were able to carry out together over the past year. After a Eucharistic Celebration in both Chinese and English, the sisters presented a brief power point… Read more »
Today there was another attack against a Christian building in Malaysia: the temple of Sidang Injil Borneo, located in the central state of Negri Sembilan. Yesterday, four other places of worship or religious institutions were targeted by Muslim fundamentalists. Since 8 January, nine Christian buildings in all have been fire-bombed. The chain of violence was triggered… Read more »
In the last few months, our FSP missionaries in Russia have been meeting young Russian Catholics through their participation in the monthly youth gatherings organized by Archbishop Paolo Pezzi of Moscow. The encounters have not only given our sisters several opportunities to speak about the Pauline mission to young people but also resulted in an invitation… Read more »
To celebrate the Year for Priests, Pauline Editions of the Ivory Coast has published the book ?Eloigne-toi du rivage? (?Leave the Shore Behind?) by Fr. Paulin Degni Kongo, a Patrology professor at the Catholic University of West Africa. The book is a collection of the author?s reflection on the gift of the priestly life, on… Read more »
The FSPs of Uruguay, who participated in Montevideo’s 31st International Book Fair held from 9-14 October, took advantage of the occasion to present their “Bioethics” trilogy (Fundamental of Bioethics, Bioethics and the Beginning of Life, and Bioethics and the End of Life) by Fr. Omar França Tarrago. After recalling his mother, who as a true teacher… Read more »
