‘Where there are Religious there is Joy’. Reflections on Consecrated Life Taken from Witnesses 5/2015 Men in their conduct look for a reason to be happy. For men and women religious the reason for their happiness should be their faithfulness

The question was asked by Sr Fulvia Sieni, an Augustinian sister from the convent of the ‘Santi Quattro Coronati’ [Four Crowned Saints]: “Monastic life is a delicate balance between hiddenness and visibility, seclusion and involvement in diocesan life, prayerful silence

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO CONSECRATED MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DIOCESE OF ROME Saturday, 16 May 2015 The question was asked by Sr Fulvia Sieni, an Augustinian sister from the convent of the ‘Santi Quattro Coronati’ [Four

Three months after a devastating earthquake in Nepal (25 April 2015) centred in Ghorka district that caused the death of 8,884 peoples, completely destroyed 598,400 houses and other 283,600 partially damaged, and 1 million in need of immediate food assistance

It is difficult to define old age: it is a very complex phenomenon in whose ‘construction’ biological, genetic, physical, psychological and pathological elements are at work, as well as cultural, social and environmental ones. And then it is a very

  I would like to share what exactly is on my heart at this moment, in the belief that what is most personal often speaks to a wider audience. For days now two apparently separate reflections have been dominating my

Taken from the book by M.Pavanello and V. Braga, Le quaglie e il pane del cielo (link cose nuove). Amongst the various forces working in Kenya it seems to us important to point to the presence of the Camillian fathers.

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE GENERAL CHAPTER OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR Tuesday, 26 May 2015 In these days of reflection and prayer, you have allowed yourselves to be guided especially by two essential

If the leading figures of the gospel had had a kind of incorporated distance recorder, I think that the title for the most tireless walker – leaving Jesus to one side – would have gone to that young girl of

On the cover a part of the painting ‘The Plague of 1630 in Bologna’ by an anonymous Bolognese painter (first part of the seventeenth century). 12 August 1864: the creation of the International Convention of the Red Cross of which

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE ECUMENICAL COLLOQUIUM OF MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS HELD BY THE CONGREGATION FOR INSTITUTES OF CONSECRATED LIFE AND SOCIETIES OF APOSTOLIC LIFE Saturday, 24 January 2015 The will to reestablish the

Yesterday, 6 August 2015, Fr. Natale visited the generalate house of the Camillians and during a pleasant conversation he told us about the current situation in Makeni. We would like to remind you that Fr. Paganelli welcomed and supported the