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,

The extraordinary Provincial Chapter of the Spanish Province of the Camillians was celebrated on 27 February to 1 March 2017. Its theme was ‘Embracing the Present with Joy and the Future with Hope’. The chairman of the Chapter was Br.

St. Camillus Provincial Chapter was held at St. Camillus Provincialate, Bengaluru from 18th to 21st February 2017. The theme of the Chapter was “Evaluating the past, Reflection on our present and Strengthening our future”. There were Fifteen religious who participated

The decision about when to begin palliative care is not an easy one. Various interconnected factors are at work in this process. They are emotional, cultural and scientific factors that have different impacts on the various actors that are involved