Last August 28, the world was shocked of the news about the 71 refugees including four children found dead in the back of an abandoned freezer truck in Austria. On September 2, the picture of a 3-year-old Aylan al-Kurdi, drowned

CONGREGATION FOR INSTITUTES OF CONSECRATED LIFE AND SOCIETIES OF APOSTOLIC LIF Press Release Vatican City, September 16, 2015 «Be strong, be faithful, wake up the world!» With these words Mgr José Rodríguez Carballo, OFM, Archbishop Secretary of CICLSAL, opened the

In occasione dell’Incontro mondiale per giovani consacrati e consacrate, che si terrà a Roma dal 15 al 19 settembre 2015, abbiamo deciso di intervistare alcuni religiosi camilliani ospiti alla Casa Generalizia di Roma. Ecco la testimonianza di p. Daniel Silvia

It was a ‘simple and joyous’ priest who went to the home of his family during the holidays that made him fall in love with Franciscan life. But the example to follow came from his grandfather Pepe, whose name he

‘Where there are Religious there is Joy’. Reflections on Consecrated Life Taken from Witnesses 5/2015 Men in their conduct look for a reason to be happy. For men and women religious the reason for their happiness should be their faithfulness

The question was asked by Sr Fulvia Sieni, an Augustinian sister from the convent of the ‘Santi Quattro Coronati’ [Four Crowned Saints]: “Monastic life is a delicate balance between hiddenness and visibility, seclusion and involvement in diocesan life, prayerful silence

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE GENERAL CHAPTER OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR Tuesday, 26 May 2015 In these days of reflection and prayer, you have allowed yourselves to be guided especially by two essential

Is, therefore, the Lord at the origin of every vocation? Is this his first move? Is it he who took in his hands the threads of our lives and led us through the mysterious pathways of a call, whose necessary

Saturday, 16 May 2015 The question was asked by Fr Gaetano Greco of the Tertiary Capuchins  of Our Lady of  Sorrows, chaplain of the ‘Casal del Marmo’ juvenile detention centre: “Consecrated life is a gift of God to the Church,

Saturday, 16 May 2015 The question was asked by Iwona Langa, a woman consecrated to the ‘Ordo virginum’ [Order of Virgins], from the Ain Karim family home: “Marriage and Christian virginity are two ways of fulfilling the vocation of love.

Looking forward to the feast day of St. Camillus (14 July), Fr. Leocir Pessini, the Superior General of the Order of Camillians, has addressed a pastoral letter to all the members of the Institute, and in particular to our elderly

In response to a request made by a Camillian ‘brother’ in order to prepare for a conference on the identity of a religious ‘brother’, our archives produced for us a valuable text which was written thirty-six years ago but which