With joy we praise the Lord for the gift of “new” Daughters of St. Paul in Korea, Pakistan, and Europe. We remember each of you in our prayers, confident that your consecration will render the Pauline vocation more lively and efficacious in the world.
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Continental Meeting for Redesining Our Presences in Europe-Canada/Quebec
Rome January 23, 2010 To our dearest Sisters, We have reached the conclusion of our Encounter. It was a journey through Europe that introduced us, through the eyes and words of each sister, to a precious piece of this old continent. It was a cultural and pastoral journey, rather than a tourist trip, one that led… Read more »
India A New Way of Living the Religious Life
As part of the process of redesigning our FSP presences throughout the world, our Indian Province has drawn up strategies to help its members get to know more about the different socio-political and religious situations in the country. This knowledge has helped our sisters begin to adopt a new mentality in carrying out the Pauline… Read more »
Brazil 13th Pan-American Book Fair
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 »
Korea Special Catholic Communications Award
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 »
Brazil Brazilian Foundress of Pastoral Care for Children Dies in Haitian Quake
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 »
Macau In the Spirit of Bethlehem
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 »
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Continental Meeting for Redesining Our Presences in Europe-Canada/Quebec
Rome, 18 January 2010 Dearest Sisters, We have reached the halfway point of our Continental Meeting, aimed at redesigning our presences in Europe and Canada/Quebec. Our activities are posted each day on our www.paoline.org website, but we would like to summarize those news flashes for you in this information bulletin and thus provide you… Read more »
Message of the General governments of the Pauline Family 2010
XXVIII Meeting of the General Governments of the Pauline FamilyAriccia, Italy 7-10 January 2010 Dear Sisters and Brothers, This year too we received the gift of being able to get together at Ariccia for the annual meeting of the General Governments of the Pauline Familyan appointment that prolonged in time the wealth of the Pauline Year… Read more »
Malaysia New Attacks Against Christian Churches
Bishops plead: ?Defuse integralism?
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 »