Palliative care, which can be applied in various contexts (hospitals or at home, or in clinics of various kinds), finds in the hospice the principle setting in which it is applied to the highest degree. A hospice, indeed, is a

Fr. Leocir Pessini, the Superior General, with the agreement of the members of the General Consulta, after consulting the religious of the Provinces and Vice-Provinces of the Order, on 10 April 2017, appointed, for the three-year period 2017-2020: Fr. AYITE

  70,000 people have been afflicted by the constant and devastating landslides provoked by the incessant rain that has been inundating Peru since January and is now beating down on Bolivia. Thousands of displaced persons, over 250 health-care centres destroyed,

By Father Antonio Marzani, MI, in ‘Come il Samaritano’ (‘Like the Samaritan’) Illness, disability, pain, suffering. These are not innocuous words. They provoke disquiet, vexation, fear, and anxiety. These are feelings that man tries to distance, to reject, because they

PHOTOGALLERY March 23, 2017 dawned with successful accomplishment of the first batch of Diploma in Pastoral Health Theology (DPHT) of Upasana Indian Institute of Pastoral Health Theology (UIIPHT), which began its existence with the launching and inauguration on 2nd June

fr. Luciano Sandrin When walking the streets of my town I come across young men who instead of the usual bags or providential umbrellas offer an extendable stick. Its technical name is ‘selfie stick’, a small stick on the top

For eleven years Fr. Arnaldo Pangrazzi has been going regularly to the Ukraine to hold courses in various cities of the country. The targets of these meetings are medical doctors, people taking the master’s degree in bioethics at the Catholic

This new volume (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2017) contains the thoughts that emerged during the course of the plenary assembly of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life that was held on 27-30 November 2014 and

Fifty years after the promulgation of the encyclical letter POPULORUM PROGRESSIO of Pope Paul VI (26 March 1967) This is the fiftieth anniversary of the great social encyclical of Paul VI, Populorum progressio (26 March 1967). The central axis of

By Fr. I. Radrizzani FATHER ALESSANDRO PEDRONI ‘How much I love our Order! I wish to see it propagated in all the regions of the world, in order to spread the treasures of its evangelical charity’. To Father Alessandro Pedroni

MESSAGE OF THE CAMILLIAN RELIGIOUS WHO TOOK PART IN THE TWENTY-THIRD PROVINCIAL CHAPTER Aci Sant’ Antonio 5-10 March 2017 To the much loved religious of the Province of Sicily and Naples, To the Camillian consecrated women with whom we work,