Monthly Archives: September 2018
Vietnam. Mission and religious life at the centre of Card Braz de Aviz’s visit
Praying with Kerala: Rediscovering Our Humanity In The Periphery
“We are afflicted in every way possible, but we are not crushed; full of doubts, we never despair; we are persecuted, but never abandoned; we are struck down, but never destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4, 8-9)
We read of natural disasters and man-made tragedies almost everyday. Continue reading
Walking Together On The Way, With God, For Others - VPI 2018/19
On the Caelian Hill, in 595, Pope Gregory sent Augustine to evangelize the Anglo-Saxonpeople. In597, Augustine became the first Archbishop of Canterbury. In October 2016, Pope Francis and the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby sent nineteen teams of Catholic and Anglican Bishops from various parts Continue reading
Catholic Theological Union at Chicago. In Our Own Words Workshop
Alumnae Susan Francois, CSJP, MA ’15, Sarah Kohles, OSF, MA ’15 and Christa Parra, IBVM, MDIV ’16 are active in creating space for the voices of young women religious through their participation and leadership in Giving Voice, a peer led organization that creates spaces for younger Catholic women religious to give voice to their hopes, dreams, and challenges. Continue reading
Salesian Sisters. Solidarity and support for Pope Francis
Mother Yvonne Reungoat, Superior General of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, sent a letter to Pope Francis to show support and solidarity, especially in this moment of difficulty and tribulation, and transform them into prayer and penance, as the Holy Father himself asked the People of God. Continue reading
Full interview with Fr Hans Zollner: Confronting the reality of abuse

Father Hans Zollner SJ, President of the Centre for Child Protection at the Gregorian University in Rome and a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, is the Vatican’s foremost expert on safeguarding minors. In Australia last week, he spoke to Catholic Weekly journalist, Catherine Sheehan, Continue reading
Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to participants at the Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum Symposium
Dear Father Abbot Primate, Sister Judith Ann and Benedictine nuns and sisters,
Welcome to Rome! I thank Father Primate for his words of introduction: I have told him that his Italian has improved! Your Symposium is a good occasion for Benedictine nuns and sisters from all over the world Continue reading
St John of the Cross World Congress: “The Dark Night”
CITeS-University of Mysticism, will host for the second consecutive year a congress concerning St John of the Cross. On this occasion, The Dark Night of St John of the Cross will be the focus of the Congress, which will be celebrated from the 3rd to the 9th of September, 2018. Registrations to be present, Continue reading
To the whole society and companions in mission
Dear Friends, Pope Francis has addressed to the entire People of God, in whose mission we are collaborators, an invitation to share the suffering of many minors and vulnerable persons who are victims of sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons, Continue reading
Indiction of the Vocation Year 2019
To the Superiors of the Circumscriptions and to all the members of the Pauline Family
Subject: «Rekindle the gift of God». Indiction of the Vocation Year of the FP
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
on the anniversary of the birth of the Pauline Family and in the climate of the upcoming Synod on “Young people, faith and vocational discernment”, Continue reading








