JPIC Newsletter 8 – June 2019
Spiritan Forum on Interreligious Diologue Zanzibar, 3-9 December 2018
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Spiritan Education Forum – June 2019
Apprentis d’Auteuil in France and Abroad | From ignorance to awareness in fifty Years | Education and the Safeguarding of Minors in our Schools | Chaplain in Auteuil,…
International Meeting of Spiritan Formators
Final Message. The International Meeting of Spiritan Formators (IMSF) was held in Dakar from 25 June to 4 July 2019. It was organized by the…
Competition on Spiritan Mission Today
As part of the final phase of its Animation Plan, the general council asked the Center for Spiritan Studies, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh (CSS) to organize…
International Meeting of Spiritan Formators
Dakar welcomed with open arms and heart the Spiritan Formators coming from the four corners of the earth: 32 in all, accompanied by the Superior…
Bishops of Angola thank Spiritan Mission
At the end of the ad limina visit to the Vatican, the Bishops of Angola went to the Generalate of the Spiritan Missionaries in Rome…
European Congress of the Spiritan lay associates
Documentary by Fr. Jean-Yves Urfié on the European Congress of the Spiritan Lay Associates, in Portugal, last April.
The Spirit comes to help us in our weakness (Rm 8, 26)
Letter from the Superior General on the occasion of the Fest of Pentecost. “May the coming of the Spirit this Pentecost renew our hope, our…
Spiritan Education Forum – November 2018
Methodology of Informal Education | A Theology of the Sewers | Spiritan Mission in Uganda and Special Needs Education
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Clandestine medical abortions reportedly on the rise in the US
Washington D.C., Sep 21, 2019 / 04:01 pm (CNA).- While the number of in-clinic abortions in the United States is reportedly down, the sale of illicitly acquired abortion pills may be up, according to recent data from the pro-choice Guttmacher […]
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Theologian withdraws from German synodal path
Vatican City, Sep 21, 2019 / 03:08 pm (CNA).- A member of the International Theological Commission has announced that she is no longer available to participate in the “binding synodal path” undertaken by the bishops’ conference of […]
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Pope Francis: The Church is a home for the lost
Vatican City, Sep 21, 2019 / 10:59 am (CNA).- No one is lost to Jesus, neither should they be considered lost to the Church and her members, Pope Francis told Catholics in Albano Laziale Saturday. The pope reflected on the story of Zacchaeus the […]
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Algeria 1980 - Foundation of the community at Sidi-Bel-Abbès by Père Claude Brehm. The Spiritans serve the small Christian community as well as doing various other works: teaching, classes in Arabic and French, running a library, working in close collaboration with the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. | Algeria
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"All the seminarians will adore the Holy Spirit in a special way because they have been consecrated to Him. They will also have a de-votion to the Blessed Virgin, under whose protection they have been offered to the Holy Spirit. Their principal feasts will be those of Pen-tecost and the Immaculate Conception. On the first, they will ask the Holy Spirit for the fire of divine love and on the second, they will ask the Virgin for the gift of angelic purity- two virtues which must form the basis of all their piety" Poullart des Places: General and Special Rules for the Community of the Holy Spirit).