Danka Jaceckowa, from Bratislava

Interview

“Hostia sanctae castitatis”: a sacrifice of holy chastity. These words were written in the parish register of Vysoka nad Uhom, Slovakia, by the local priest, after the violent death of young Anna Kolesarova, killed by a drunken Soviet soldier during the Second World War for defending her chastity from a ferocious attempt of sexual violence. […]

Testimonianze/3

Se si pensa al Senegal si è portati a parlare solo di emigrazione, mentre molto meno ci si interessa al fatto che in un territorio dove risiedono oltre 16 milioni di persone (con un tasso di crescita di circa 500mila abitanti ogni anno), convivano pacificamente musulmani, che rappresentano circa il 95% della popolazione, e cristiani […]

Bergoglio in the Baltic Nations/3

Estonia will be the last destination of Pope Francis’ visit to the Baltic States. The Country numbers 5.5 thousand Catholics on a population of 1.3 million, with a dozen parishes nationwide, a few chapels, only a priest of Estonian origins, now over 90 years old. The remaining priests came from abroad. Marge-Marie Paas, in charge […]

Eucharistic Congress

It took one hundred ten years for the Catholics of England and Wales to take the Blessed Sacrament in procession during a Eucharist Congress. In 1908 the government of liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith cancelled it for fear of disorders, after extremist Protestant groups denounced it as a violation of anti-Catholic legislation. King Edward VII […]

Testimonianze/2

Le armonie della musica senegalese dello “Mbalax”, sdoganato nel panorama musicale mondiale con la canzone “7 Seconds” realizzata da Youssou N’Dour e Neneh Cherry, sembra quasi quel ritmo tribale che trasformava i battiti di un tamburo in un messaggio di richiamo per le tribù lontane. Un grido attraverso le percussioni sul “sabar” che è arrivato […]

Verso il Sinodo

Come per le altre regioni d’Italia, anche i giovani di Abruzzo e Molise hanno pronti zaino e tutto l’occorrente per imboccare il cammino di “Per mille strade” che li accompagnerà 11 e 12 agosto 2018 a Roma ad incontrare Papa Francesco. Un territorio abbastanza vasto e variegato che rende difficile dare dei numeri precisi dei […]

Celebrations

The rocks of Belogradcik, that form a magnificent monument shaped by nature, are the background of the stage where Verdi’s Requiem is being performed. We’re in the north-west region of Bulgaria, an area that media reports often describe as the “poorest region in the EU.” But these lands have seen the birth of contemporary Catholicism […]

Stories

Once a pandillero, i.e. affiliate of a crime ring, now a Minister of God, an ex-convict turned priest. It’s the peculiar story of thirty-five year-old Gabirel Everardo Zul Mejía from Mexico. On Friday evening he will be ordained by his archbishop, Mons. Rogelio Cabrera López, in Monterrey. He asked that this solemn occasion be lived out […]

Anniversary

“In love there is infinitely more than love. We would say that in human love there is divine love. And that is why the link between love and fecundity is deep, hidden and substantial. All authentic love between a man and a woman, when it is not egoistic love, tends toward creation of another being, […]

Pilgrimage

They spent four days together on the shores of Lake Baikal, surrounded by a luxuriant landscape. They gathered in prayer, they engaged in dialogue, they celebrated their faith, their retraced the memories of their burdensome past, together with four bishops who acted as their guides, and 17 priests and nuns from various congregations. The Eighth […]