On 18 March, during the Religious Education Congress, Film Showcase held in Los Angeles, California, Sr. Rose Pacatte, fsp, received the Magis Award for 2011 in acknowledgement of her significant contributions to the world of the cinema and that of religious formation. The word “magis,” which means “the more,” is a Jesuit term intended as… Read more »
News about the Pauline life
India First Religious Professions
On 12 March 2011, in the FSP community of Mumbai, India, three young women-Bishoyee Anyana, Kanta Shashi Kujur, and Dharmanayagam Shyni D.-made their first religious professions as Daughters of St. Paul in a beautiful and moving Liturgical Celebration. The day before, the young women, dressed like Indian brides, received the religious habit. FSP Superior General… Read more »
Japan Fear and Solidarity in Sendai
A number of different masculine and feminine religious congregations and institutes carry out activities in the diocese of Sendai, the epicenter of the earthquake/tsunami that struck the coast of northeastern Japan a few days ago, devastating a large segment of that region. The Daughters of St. Paul have 13 communities and 140 sisters in the… Read more »
Kenya The Roman Missal for Africa
The Episcopal Conferences of Africa have entrusted the publishing of the Roman Missal for Africa to our Paulines Publications in Nairobi, Kenya. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, together with ICEL (the organism that supervises the English translation of the Liturgy), have granted us this authorization thanks to the valuable… Read more »
Italy Award for Anselm Grün’s Book “Survive by Working”
The latest book of Fr. Anselm Grün, a Benedictine monk from the Munsterschwarzach Monastery in Baveria, Germany, has been awarded first prize for non-fiction in the International competition “St. Benedict, Patron of Europe and of Cassino.” Published by the Daughters of St. Paul, “Sopravvivere lavorando” (“Survive by Working”) focuses on the theme of work today… Read more »
Taiwan The Bible for Children in Chinese
The Daughters of St. Paul of Taiwan have published the first Chinese version of the Bible for Children accompanied by a CD. Many Catholic schools on the island have adopted this text. For those who live in a non-Christian context like Taiwan, where the Church does not have many instruments of evangelization at her disposal,… Read more »
Italy Synod 2012 on the New Evangelization
On Friday, 4 March, in the John Paul II Hall of the Vatican Press Office, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, presented the “Lineamenta” for the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, to be held in Vatican City from 7-28 October 2012. The theme of the Synod is:… Read more »
Brazil Rooting the Bible in the Heart of Macapa
At a recent meeting on the theme of biblical formation attended by about 800 pastoral workers, the diocese of Macapa (capital of the state of Amapa), Brazil launched a plan of pas-toral action aimed at encouraging the faithful to read the Bible and form Bible study groups in their parishes. “Bible circles” first emerged in… Read more »
Portugal Biblical Week in Madeira
With joy and enthusiasm the Daughters of St. Paul of Funchal, Madeira recently held a biblical Week in Arco da Calheta parish. The week was a time of intense spiritual animation, during which the parishioners had the chance to read, meditate on, pray and savor the Word of God. Community sharing of the Word has… Read more »
Italy If not now, when?
More than 230 demonstrations throughout Italy and hundreds more around the world were scheduled to support the cause, “If not now, when?”-an initiative in favor of the dignity of woman. Addressing one such crowd in a packed town square in Turin, Sr. Eugenia Bonetti, a Comboni missionary who worked in Africa for 24 years and… Read more »