Download here the Newsletter in PDF November 2014 The Family in Joy and in Pain The Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family came to a close a few days ago. The echo of this event is still rather strong,

Camillians, too, are Joyful about their Vocation and Look for New Signs for their Consecrated Lives   Meeting of 29 November 2014 Generalate House of the Camillians, Rome On the day when the whole of the Church is preparing to

The inauguration of the academic year of the Camillianum (the International Institute for the Theology of Pastoral Care in Health) took place on Wednesday 19 November 2014 in Rome Fr. Leocir Pessini, the Superior General of the Order of the

Dearest Religious Brothers and Sisters and members of the Lay Camillian Family, Almost 15,000 people infected and over 5,000 dead: these are the figures that narrate only partially the tragedy that is severely affecting Sierra Leone, Liberia and to a

By Fr. Alfredo M. Tortorella   On 16 November the celebrations in honour of Our Lady of Health came to an end at the Camillian ‘Most Holy Mary of Pity’ Hospital in Casoria (Naples) as well, after five days of

The Person with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Animating Hope In the year 2014, as well, the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (for Health Pastoral Care) is organising an inter-national conference (the twenty-ninth) and this will be held on Thursday, Friday

                    For those who want to continue their reflections on the subject, we offer a text by Fr. Mario Vanti on the veneration of Our Lady of Health in the Church

(A brief summary of the address given by the Blessed Paul VI when he was Archbishop of Milan on 16 November 1955 at the St. Camillus Sanctuary of Milan on the occasion of the feast day of Our Lady of

‘Salvific Pain’ and the Health-giving Presence of Mary in the Thought and Life of John Paul II We may enter the feast day of Our Lady of Health, which is held especially dear by our Camillian tradition, with a discourse

The Borromaic Reform had just begun, which sought to outline the idea kind of bishop that the Church needed to meet the Protestant Reformation in an exhaustive way, when in Rome on 15 September 1582 the Congregation of the Camillians

HOLY SPIRIT HOSPITAL. MAKENI. BOMBALI. NORTHERN PROVINCE. SIERRA LEONE 5/11/2014 Hi, I can’t believe I am into my second week already, on one hand, and on the other – I feel as if I have been here much longer, and

On Sunday afternoon, 9 November 2014, the crowded hall of the Centro Astalli of the Jesuits welcomed the perturbing testimony of Grégoire Ahongbonon, a ‘small and modest repairer of wheels’, as he defines himself, the great founder of the Saint