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

Mercy towards the Sick: the Hermeneutic Criterion of Historical Research? *** Our history is the history of our soul; and the history of the human soul is the history of the world. Benedetto Croce, La storia come pensiero e come

ATLANTE STORICO DELLA CARITÀ The author of this book is the Spanish priest and historian Juan Maria Laboa and this work, which is splendid as regards its iconographic apparatus as well, provides the reader with an opportunity to ask himself

From the Postulation we have taken the blessing of the Blessed Pope Paul VI for the eightieth birthday of the Servant of God Maria Aristea Bernacchia Ceccarelli                          

During my years working for the historical archives of the Camillians I have often asked myself this question – to whom should we attribute the idea of an international organisation for wounded soldiers which then led on to the creation

After a rapid presentation of needs (see the articles on the site of 30/31 October), four priorities were identified.  ****** First priority : to supply a laboratory able to carry out screening for cases of Ebola with qualified staff and

Apart from the deaths that have taken place throughout Sierra Leone, all the schools at all levels in the five districts have been closed for an unspecified time. In these areas, the school programmes are broadcast by radio and are

Fr. Aris Miranda, the General Consultor for Ministry and the central coordinator of the Camillian Task Force (CTF), has just come back from Makeni in Sierra Leone where he had a series of meetings with exponents of the local ecclesial,

Download here the Newsletter in PDF October 2014 A CHURCH AND A CONSECRATED LIFE that ‘GO OUTWARDS’ The needs of man and the logic of the Gospel ask from us the service of PROPHECY, of VIGILANCE and of MEDIATION  

On the cover: the Blessed Paul VI together with, on his left, the Superior General Fr. Carlo Mansfeld, and other Camillian religious On 1 July 1964, on the occasion of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of