By the Bull Illius qui pro gregis, which is our Magna Carta, the Supreme Pontiff Gregory XIV erected our Congregation into a religious Order, outlined its fundamental laws, and enriched its privileges. In this Bull Gregory XIV stated that the

The journey of the relic of the heart of St. Camillus continues: on the occasion of the feast day of Our Lady of Health, on 18-21 September it visited St. Mary’s Parish in Trivio, Velletri. Velletri was one of the

Camillus was operating in the second half of the sixteenth century, an age of the great reforms of the cultural movement of humanism and the Renaissance which brought about a notable advance in the scientific, artistic and historical fields, as

With great joy we share in the satisfaction of Fr. Bernard Kinvi, a Camillian religious of the Vice-Province of Benin-Togo, who has been awarded a prestigious prize by Human Rights Watch for protecting and providing care to Muslims within the framework of

18 September 2014 Dear Confreres, Health and Peace! All of us are eagerly following the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus that is affecting mostly Liberia and Sierra Leone. According to the WHO (as of September 12) the Ebola virus

Download here the Newsletter in PDF September 2014 ‘I believe only in stories whose witnesses are ready to have their throats cut’ (Pascal, Thoughts n. 397) Truth, Credibility, Witness   In recent days Africa has burst into the news and

On Sunday 14 September, the feast day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a solemn concelebration was held in the cathedral presided over by Bishop Msgr. Giovanni Giudici for the closing of the celebrations in Pavia of the fourth

The Third International Day for the Victims of Disasters 13 October 2014 FOR COMMUNITIES STRUCK BY DISASTERS DISCOVERING THE GIFT OF, AND THE CAPACITY FOR, RESILIENCE We are in the third year of the proposal that the Camillian Task Force

On Sunday 7 September, at the Basilica of the Most Holy Mary of Capodimonte (Naples), our religious brother Alfredo Tortorella of the Province of Sicily and Naples was ordained a priest. The following are his words which he spoke at

After touching and moving many men and women in various countries of the world, in small and large urban centres connected with the presence and the service to the sick of the Camillians, on Saturday 6 September the heart of

‘Taken by the Spirit’ (Acts 20:7-38)            I will end with two narrations of ‘farewell’. We can thus see this last reflection as a sort of ‘viaticum’. A further reserve of ‘food’ for our pathway. The Christians of Troas are

‘A question of beauty’ (Acts 4:32-35) The immediate context of the Biblical text which is the subject of our reflection is the thanksgiving prayer of the Christian community after the freeing of Peter and John (Acts 4:23-31) which ends with