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Francis J. Moloney Salesians beyond 2000 In the article, Fr. Frank looks at the images of God and Community and poses questions that young pe... 1980 - 1999
Francis Desramaut Contemporary spirituality of the salesian family A noted Salesian scholar and author, Fr. Desramaut has recently undertaken a work of major proportio... 1950 - 1998
Arthur Lenti Don Bosco's beatification and canonization This article is written by our own Arthur J. Lenti, of the Institute of Salesian Spirituality in Ber... 1890 - 1953
Rik Biesmans Aesthetics in Don Bosco's educational system The word "Aesthetics" sounds somewhat abstract in English, but it represents a theme that has been e... 1876 - 1884
Arthur Lenti Politics of the "Our Father" and the holy father: Don Bosco's mediation in Church-State affairs Fr. Arthur J. Lenti tells the story of Don Bosco' s efforts to mediate between the Holy See and the ... 1858 - 1878
Mary Greenan Towards intimacy: beyond power games and control needs Sr. Mary Greenan, FMA presents the theme of collaboration in a commentary on the recent letter of Fr... 1906 - 1998
Nancy J. Bowden Unwrapping the gifts: Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal and the salesian vision of women This article furthers the theme of collaboration between women and men, showing this as central to S... 1700
Christopher Ford Quality, culture and charism In the article Fr. Christopher Ford investigates the theme of "culture of education" in Catholic sch... 1971 - 1994
Arthur Lenti Community and mission. Spiritual insights and salesian religious life in Don Bosco's Constitutions The present article is not concerned with the new constitutions. No comparative study will be attemp... 1858 - 1879
Joseph Boenzi Chastity in the salesian constitutions In a letter dated May 24, 1966, Fr. Luigi Ricceri (1901-1989), then Rector Major of the Salesian Soc... 1966 - 1984
Mary Greenan Our sacred story: a changing story or a story of change? The call today then is to honor our story. It is a precious story. It is a unique story. It is sacre... 1950 - 1980
Juan Edmundo Vecchi Centennial celebration of the salesian presence in the United States of America. Homily in San Francisco, February 2, 1997 For the beginning of our centennial celebration we are gathered together here as a family in the pla... 1997
Luc Van Looy Bringing Don Bosco into the mainstream. Lecture in San Francisco, February 24, 1997 Congratulations on your hundred years of faithful work with and for Don Bosco, with and for young pe... 1997
Arthur Lenti The founding and early expansion of the salesian work in the San Francisco area from Archival Documents, Part II As in the earlier article, so also in the present one, besides transcribing and translating pertinen... 1897 - 1910
Paul Wynants Writing the history of a religious teaching institute: guidelines for research, sources and methods (19th and 20th Centuries) In the framework of such a short introduction, I would like to recall some basic principles, obvious... 1800 - 1995
Arthur Lenti Saint with a human face: Don Bosco in Father Giulio Barberis original chronicle The Central Salesian Archive contains numerous eyewitness reports of Don Bosco's words and deeds, pa... 1847 - 1927
John Rasor Early salesian regulations: formation in the Preventive System The first part of this study, however, will examine that other body of Salesian particular law, the ... 1850 - 1972
Paul Formosa Historical sketch of the oratory of Don Bosco in Malta In this article, I will attempt to trace how Don Bosco's original experience was translated in such ... 1861 - 1970
Edna Mary Mac Donald Towards a Theology of the body: an analysis of the letters of Maria Dominica Mazzarello Firstly, I will state my position regarding a feminist Christian spirituality in relation to embodim... 1800 - 1880
Arthur Lenti Key-concepts, concerns and fears of a Founder-Don Bosco in his declining years Part II In an article which appeared in an earlier issue of this Journal, I described some of Don Bosco's co... 1875 - 1888
Joseph Boenzi St. Francis de Sales, bibliography of publications in English Over the last number of years "Salesian Spirituality," first articulated by Francis de Sales and Jan... 1700 - 1995
Philip J. Pascucci Out of our past an american venture into seminary training That is part of the well known talk which Don Bosco gave to his boys when they were forced to move f... 1903 - 1992
Arthur Lenti The founding and early expansion of the salesian work in the San Francisco area from Archival Documents Recently the Central Salesian Archives released the files of the Rua rectorate on some 1,750 microfi... 1895 - 1897
Michael Ribotta The "Big Rat" and the "Mad Priest of Turin"- Don Bosco's relationship with Prime Minister Rattazzi Perhaps of all the leading political personages of the Italian Risorgimento with whom Don Bosco enjo... 1850 - 1873
Stephen Whelan The Catholic Readings: writing for the masses The Letture Cattoliche or the Catholic Readings was St. John Bosco's imaginative brainchild in his e... 1853 - 1888
Eunan McDonnell Salesian imaging of God's love without equal Francis de Sales' use of imagery is an acknowledgment that reason alone is insufficient to plumb the... 1700
Anthony Bailey Salesians and the Internet As early as 1989 Pope John Paul II alerted the Church to the pastoral possibilities that technology ... 1989 - 1996
John Rasor The concept of Secularity in salesian documents This article examines the theological meaning of the term "secularity" in Salesian official document... 1876 - 1994
Arthur Lenti Don Bosco's love affair with "poor and abandoned" young people and the beginnings of the oratory The present study aims, not at any new interpretation, but simply at describing some aspects of the ... 1840 - 1862
Michael Ribotta Tough love is not the answer- Don Bosco's views on punishment In our essay we shall examine the meaning and application of "punishment" and "discipline" as found ... 1843 - 1883
Arthur Lenti Key-concepts, concerns and fears of a founder- Don Bosco in his declining years My article on Don Bosco's last years, which saw the light of day in this Journal, was based on chron... 1875 - 1888
Michael Ribotta "School days ... golden rule days" ... John Bosco's public school years The road traveled by John Bosco, as child and teenager, in his quest for an education, proved to be ... 1822 - 1835
Joseph Boenzi Reflections on virtue. St. John Bosco's heroic faith reported by eyewitnesses in his beatification process This study does not go into the long process that led to Don Bosco's beatification, which took place... 1890 - 1929
Michael Ribotta Discovering America: Father Raphael Pipemi and the first salesian missionaries in North America A young Italian immigrant, Angelo Petazzi, watched anxiously as the English steamship, the Werra, ap... 1892 - 1927
Arthur Lenti The Bosco-Gastaldi conflict (1872-82), Part II Thus the approval of the Salesian Constitutions in April 1874 was followed by a second and more bitt... 1872 - 1882
Mary Treacy Mother Marie-Louise-Angelique Clarac and Don Bosco - an idea matures In the first part of his study on the "Bosco-Gastaldi conflict", Arthur Lenti drew attention to anot... 1817 - 1887
Michael Ribotta The Roman Letter of 1884 and its aftermath In retrospect, one can appreciate why Don Bosco had become so distraught by the message that was pla... 1884 - 1927
Arthur Lenti Don Bosco's last years, his last illness and saintly death from eyewitness accounts The present essay has a rather modest aim. Steering clear of the complexities of a biographical reco... 1884 - 1888
Joseph Boenzi Paolo Albera's visits during Don Bosco's last illness But if Marseilles was so close, why did "Paolino" Albera not come to Turin during those final days o... 1852 - 1892
Arthur Lenti Don Bosco's Missionary Dreams (Part II) In Part One of the present installment (Part Four overall), we shall discuss the last two dreams in ... 1885 - 1886
Michael Ribotta Training boys to earn a living: the beginnings of vocational education at the oratory Don Bosco's biographer, Father John Baptist Lemoyne, notes that most of the boys who attended Don Bo... 1844 - 1862
Michael Ribotta, Natale Cerrato EXPO' 84 and Don Bosco's peerless-to- paper-to-print presentation Turin's EXPO '84 was to become the bittersweet culmination of Don Bosco's remarkable and varied care... 1860 - 1884
Arthur Lenti The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-82), Part I The conflict between Archbishop Lawrence Gastaldi and Don Bosco may at first sight appear to have be... 1872 - 1882
Michael Mendl A man for his times: Father Peter Ricaldone as Rector Major (1932-1951), Part I Peter Ricaldone was a major superior of the Salesian Society for forty years, half of them as rector... 1870 - 1932
Michael Ribotta Don Bosco's history of Italy: a morality play or an exercise in history? "If Don Bosco during his student years had one special preference, it was for reading history," note... 1845 - 1859
Philip J. Pascucci Once upon a time in old New York During the years following the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the Italian immigrant mad... 1842 - 1954
Peter Rinaldi Blessed Philip Rinaldi as I knew him Father Philip Rinaldi was my granduncle on myfather's side. For us youngsters he was the tall, smili... 1856 - 1931
Arthur Lenti The Convitto Ecclesiastico - "Where one learnt to be a priest" Don Bosco then goes on to describe the nature and purpose of the Convitto. It was a kind of ' finish... 1814 - 1882
Michael Ribotta Hero or villain: Don Bosco as seen in the press of his time One spring day in 1860 Don Bosco was startled by a newsvendor's cry. "Read all about it! Don Bosco i... 1848 - 1888
Jack Ayers The "Salesianity" that wins all hearts The reader may be surprised to learn that at the first canonical assembly of Salesians, Don Bosco wa... 1835 - 1877




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