To give more thrust and attention to World Communications Day, the FSPs and SSPs of Italy organize an annual Communications Week and Festival. The 12th edition of this event will be held in the diocese of Cesena-Sarsina this year. Taking as a point of departure the title of the Pope’s Message for WCD 2017: “Fear… Read more »
Upon his arrival at the airport near Fatima, Pope Francis immediately descended into the crowd that had gathered to meet him, shaking hands with everyone around him. Three children in the front row held copies of the book Querido Papa Francisco (published by the FSPs of Portugal last year), which they asked him to autograph…. Read more »
On 4 May, the FSP International Multimedia Center, Rome, hosted a meeting to present a recent publication: Benedict XVI: the Faith and Prophetic Spirit of History’s First Pope Emeritus by Giovan Battista Brunori (a Vatican reporter for Italy’s TV news channel, Tg2). Bishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the… Read more »
The FSP Communications and Culture Prize 2017 was awarded to Italian actor and cinematographer Beppe Fiorello at the conclusion of the celebrations marking this annual Pauline event, which is promoted and organized by the FSP Association for Communications and Culture and the Social Communications Office of the Vicariate of Rome, under the patronage of the… Read more »
The FSPs and SSPs of the Congo recently held a joint initiative entitled Book and Bible Festival (FELIBI), centered on the theme, To Read Is To Grow. Present in the country for over 60 years, the two Institutes of the Pauline Family feel very responsible for their mission to educate the local population and contribute… Read more »
The 9th General Chapter of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master has elected Sr. M. Micaela Monetti as Superior General of the Institute for the 2017-2023 sessenium. Sr. Micaela was born in Turin, Italy on 15 August 1955. She entered the Congregation of the Pious Disciples in Rome on 10 February 1975 and made… Read more »
The FSP Book Center of Lecce will be holding a small picture contest on the theme of hope–the same theme of the upcoming Social Communcations Week organized by the FSPs and SSPs of Italy. The title of the contest is Scatta, tagga e vinci (Click, Tag and Win). Participation in the contest is open to… Read more »
The FSPs recently inaugurated their newly-renovated book center in São Salvador, capital of the State of Bahia, where the Congregation has been present for 63 years. “Everything is the work of God and we say a big thanks to him!” they write. This was the sentiment that marked the event, celebrated by our sisters with… Read more »
The 9th General Chapter of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master is currently underway at the Congregation’s Bethany House, Rome. Participating in the event are 53 sisters from the 43 nations in which the Institute is present. A good number of these are younger sisters from many different cultures, and over half the delegates… Read more »
Our sisters in Malawi began the Pauline apostolate in this country by opening a small book center in an unused freight container. Today, thanks to the help of many collaborators, the small seed they planted has been transformed into an FSP Book Center (formerly the Old Montfort Bookshop), located in the heart of Lilongwe. This… Read more »
