Fired by an ardent desire to help our young women live the Pauline vocation to the full, 32 Daughters of St. Paul from 19 countries gathered in Rome in a spirit of joyful internationality to participate in an International Seminar for pre-postulant, postulant and novice mistresses. The Seminar, which is being held in response to… Read more »
More than seven thousand publishers participated in 62nd Frankfurt Book Fair, held from 6-10 October. This year, Argentina was the Fair?s ?guest of honor.? Abundant space was given to digital publishing, especially e-book support structures such as e-readers and other devices?a new and very interesting aspect of the publishing world. FSPs from all over the… Read more »
Taipei, 5 October 2010 To All the Members of the Congregation Dearest Sisters, Yesterday we concluded our meeting with the sisters of Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong and Vietnam. The purpose of the encounter was to launch our new East Asia Delegation, which will consist of these communities. The decision to unite these four realities, which… Read more »
The town council of Grezzana (Verona), Italy has awarded Sr. Maria Rosa Ballini, fsp, its ?Citizen of the Year Award? for 2010 in honor of her outreach to the needy in developing countries.We are sure that from heaven Sr. Maria Rosa is very appreciative of this posthumous recognition bestowed on her by her hometown. To… Read more »
1-4 October 2010. At the end of September, the FSPs from Hong Kong, Macau and traveled to Taipei to participate with the members of our Taiwan Delegation in a meeting to launch the Congregation’s new East Asia Delegation. The 36 sisters (including one postulant and one aspirant) who will form the new Delegation speak 9… Read more »
This theme, according to a Vatican communiqué, focuses on the human person who is at the heart of all communication processes. Even in an age that is largely dominated, and at times conditioned, by the new technologies, the value of personal witness remains essential. To approach the truth and to take on the task of… Read more »
On 19 September 2010, the little town of Santa Restituta (part of the municipality of Avigliano Umbro, Terni), held a ceremony dedicating one of its public squares to Sr. Maria Vincenti, FSP. Better known to the Daughters of St. Paul as “Maestra Vincenti,” this big-hearted and broad-minded Pauline, a gifted writer and artist who was… Read more »
With the enthusiasm and future-oriented gaze characteristic of the African continent with its many young people, the Daughters of St. Paul who live and work in this part of the world recently completed an important apostolic project: a DVD on Bakhita, an African slave from South Sudan whose extremely painful life experiences led her to… Read more »
After the World Congress on Catholic Television held in Madrid in 2006 and the one on the Radio held in Vatican City in 2008, the Pontifical Council for Social Communications announced that it will be holding a third Congress-this one on the Catholic Press-once again in Vatican City from 4-7 October 2010. The Congress will… Read more »
The state of Osorio (Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil recently held its 14th International Meeting on Education, in which more than 1200 teachers participated. The purpose of the en-counter, which centered on the theme, The Educator: To Be and To Belong, was to help teachers improve the quality of their service in the region?s schools. The… Read more »
