I have been in Sierra Leone for some weeks now, in the diocese of Makeni (Sierra Leone), having been entrusted with pastoral care by the Apostolic Administrator Fr. Natalio Paganelli, a Severian religious from Bergamo. My presence belongs to a

When the aeroplane began to taxi on the runway deep in the night in Bangkok before lifting off from the ground and beginning the flight that was going to take me back to Rome, I was gripped by a feeling

‘Servo et sudito fidelissimo’ A letter, when you put it in an envelope, changes completely. It is no longer mine but becomes yours. What I wanted to say has disappeared. Only what you understand remains’ CATHLEEN SCHINE. An e-mail of

On the cover: ‘Peru National Award – Milko Torres Ramirez’ Taken from: M. Bizzotto, I valori e il cuore dell’uomo. Un incursione nella vita quotidiana (‘The Values and the Heart of Man. An Incursion into Daily Life’),  Ed. Camilliani.it, 2014,

Interview with Virginia Coda Nunziante, the spokesperson for the March for Life, an event now at its fifth edition and which will take place again in Rome on 10 May 2015. ‘Life is a gift’, ‘children are a gift’, Pope

Taken from Beata Giuseppina Vannini. L’amore dà la vita by Gianfranco Grieco (Edizioni Messagero Padua) The mother called to her all her spiritual daughters. She spoke to them one by one, addressing to them affectionate words, and at the end

In consecrated life there is being reserved for God, for His glory, delegated to the salvation of humanity, placed to one side for His Kingdom, which means more than a simple separation and means, rather: MEMBERSHIP as regards one’s identity,

L’Osservatore Romano 12 February 2015 A relationship of care cannot be reduced to a simple interaction between a healthy person and a sick person, between a technician who knows and a patient who is in need of help: it is

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Good morning, Today’s Gospel (cf. Mk 1:29-39) presents us Jesus who, after having preached in the Synagogue on the Sabbath, heals many sick people. Preaching and healing: this was Jesus’ principle activity in his public ministry.

Fr. Antony KUNNEL MI I visited Manou village not far from Makeni with the staff of Loretto Clinic. Here face to face met with a seen, I wont soon forget. People were sad and fear stricken as they witnessed the

Fr. Leocir Pessini, superior general celebrates the World Day of the Sick at St. Mary’s Hospital in Lotung with a Eucharist presided by Fr. Giuseppe Didone, delegate superior of Taiwan. Handicap men and women and children coming from the Camillian

Article written by Fr. Luciano Sandrin published in the review ‘Settimana’, published by Dehoniane (Bo) February 2015 In his Message for the twenty-third World Day of the Sick Pope Francis addresses those who bear the burden of illness and the