A new volume in the Opera Omnia series has been released, a project on which the Daughters of St. Paul of the International Secretariat for Spirituality worked with great zest. The volume is a collection of the sermons of Blessed James Alberione during the year 1956, a time in which the Congregation was acquiring its… Read more »
Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, With the rite of being marked by ashes, we begin our itinerary of conversion, which introduces us into the paschal dynamic of dying so as to live by means of a progressive stripping of self, which is the path to fullness. This “holy journey” is marked by the… Read more »
The Bishops of Africa and Europe will hold their Second Symposium from 13-17 February 2012, in Rome, Italy, on the theme: Evangelization Today: communion and pastoral collaboration between Africa and Europe. The human person and God: the Church’s mission to proclaim God’s presence and love. The Symposium, which was organized by the Symposium of Episcopal… Read more »
At the recent International Book Fair held in Taiwan, an international jury made up of highly-qualified members from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and France, awarded the FSP publication Healing the Eight Stages of Life first prize for best book cover and graphics. 455 books were in the running for the prize and this was the… Read more »
The organizing committee for World Youth Day 2013 (to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) has presented the event’s official logo. Depicted in green, blue and yellow–the colors of the Brazilian flag–the logo is in the shape of heart that encloses a silhouette of the statue of Christ the Redeemer that stands on Sugarloaf… Read more »
Toward Healing and Renewal: this was the theme of the International Symposium Against Child Abuse held by the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy from 6-9 February 2012. The purpose of the Symposium was to help Episcopal and Religious Conferences draw up guidelines to protect children from sexual abuse by priests. The meeting fostered an exchange… Read more »
We join the whole Pauline Family and the Apostoline Sisters in particolar in thanking God for the birth of the latter’s new General Government: Superior General: Sr. Marina Beretti. General Councilors: Sr. Antonietta Leoni, Sr. Marialuisa Peviani, Sr. Tosca Ferrante, Sr. Paola Toninato.
More than 200 bishops of West Africa met from 23-29 January at Yamoussoukro, the political capital of the Ivory Coast, for a plenary assembly to set up a regional Episcopal Conference made up of all the Episcopal Conferences present in the 16 English, French and Portuguese-speaking countries of West Africa. The theme of the meeting… Read more »
The official website for the Beatification and Canonization of Giuseppe Toniolo is now online. The site sketches out various facets of this protagonist of the Catholic movement that inspired the thought of Fr. Alberione. “What Toniolo said about the duty of being apostles today and of using the means exploited by the opposition made sense… Read more »
