Nel contesto della crisi odierna nella Chiesa di abusi sui minori e la perdita di credibilità delle autorità ecclesiastiche e le critiche della risposta del’gli ordini religiosi, è opportuno che come salesiani guardiamo ancora una volta la qualità delle nostre relazioni educative.
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Michael Rua (1837-1910) was a pupil, then the lifetime collaborator and finally, the first successor of St. John Bosco as Rector Major of the Salesian Society (1888-1910). During his Rectorate the Salesians grew from 1030 members in 64 houses to 4420 confreres scattered across the globe. Don Rua’s letters to England offer the reader a glimpse of the character of their writer and of the pastoral care he took of a small group of relatively insignificant Salesians in what was very often the inhospitable atmosphere of the British empire at the height of its power.
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Nel periodo che precedette la prima guerra mondiale l’Europa fu attraversata da una grande ondata di liberalismo pedagogico. Essa fu ispirata dai progressi della psicologia che stavano dimostrando tutta la dannosità dei principi educativi fino ad allora seguiti e rivendicando un maggiore rispetto per la personalità dell’educando.
What strategies are to be adopted to make religious communities arise from the trough of aging and the scarcity of vocations? G. ARBUCKLE in the volume entitled ‘Out of chaos’ invites superiors to ‘refound individuals’ on the basis of pointers from anthropology, management techniques and the concept of Old Testament prophecy (while merely skimming over the New Testament and the history of religious life). From this latter source on the other hand R. HOSTIE, in a volume entitled ‘Life and death of religious orders’, shows that their survival derives from their renewal. In other words, Arbuckle focuses on the pastoral needs of the present day and leaves aside fidelity to the original charism of Institutes. On the other hand Hostie studies precisely this fidelity and sees in it the only possibility of survival. The thesis of the A. regarding ‘the foundation and development of the salesian congregation in England’ (of which a concise account is given) demonstrates the solid and consistent nature of the general approach of Hostie, which is lacking in Arbuckle.
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