Don Giuseppe Groppo ha spiegato, sulla base di informazioni tuttora sconosciute o non riunite, come l’episcopato cattolico reagisce oggi di fronte alle aspirazioni giovanili.
Edna Regina Rodrigues de Carvalho,Tiago Marcon – Evangelização jovem através das novas mídias
A Comunidade Canção Nova nasce na década de 70, a partir da exortação apostólica Evangelii Nuntiandi, apresentada naquela época pelo Bispo da Diocese, que impressionado com o conteúdo do documento, apontou ao fundador Mons. Jonas Abib, o paragrafo 44, enfasando a necessidade de colocálo em prática, pois “os batizados não são evangelizados”. Motivação é aquela de levar o jovem a fazer uma experiência pessoal e profunda com a pessoa de Jesus Cristo, e a partir disso levar a proposta revolucionária do Evangelho, uma proposta de uma vida nova, transmitindo os princípios, os valores cristãos, bem como o aprofundamento formativo, na dimensão humana, doutrinal, carismática e espiritual. Continue reading “Edna Regina Rodrigues de Carvalho,Tiago Marcon – Evangelização jovem através das novas mídias”
Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s political and religious concerns during the liberal revolution
Fr. Arthur Lenti, in a second article, invites us to enter the political and ecclesiastical world of Don Bosco through his letters never published before in English. The letters add insight to the always intriguing question of Don Bosco’s involvement in the naming of bishops.
Charles N. Bransom – Sons of Don Bosco, successors of the apostles, salesian bishops
Charles N. Bransom, Jr. has graciously offered his study of Salesian Bishops for our publication. This study of 196 Salesian bishops stands as a historical record of Salesian presence in the hierarchical Church.
Josephine Giorgi – St. Luigi Versiglia and Bishop Walsh of Maryknoll
A different type of writing comes to us from Josephine Giorgi, the second cousin of St. Luigi Versiglia. Josephine lives in Springfield, Massachusetts. The excerpt from a biography of Bishop James Walsh of Maryknoll by Raymond Kerri son exemplifies the apostolic spirit of the two Salesian martyrs along with Bishop Walsh’s deep esteem for them.
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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 Italian government during the tense years of Italian unification. Of special importance was the appointment of bishops. After offering background on the historical events leading to the estrangement between the Church and state in Italy, the author goes to the sources in an effort to answer the question why someone so politically unimportant as Don Bosco, should become involved in a capacity of “negotiator.”
Giovanni Bosco – Interventions to solve the matter of Bishops’ ‘Temporalities’ (1872-1874)
The Law of Guarantees on 13 May 1871 and decrees applying to this required that for newly appointed bishops to enter into possession – the so-called temporalities – they had to present the Minister with the original decree of appointment and formally ask for the exequatur to be granted. This act, in the Holy See’s judgement, implied recognising the Kingdom of Italy which came into being in 1861, and included part of the Papal States ‘illegally’ taken from the Pontiff.
Giovanni Bosco – Indicators to the Holy see for the choice of new bishops for vacant sees (1867-1877)
One of the most difficult conflicts to resolve in relationships between the Holy
See and the new Kingdom of Italy was that of the dozens of Episcopal sees left vacant
for political reasons. Both parties were aware of the seriousness of the situation, but
attempts to exit from the situation were shipwrecked by the persistent serious friction
brought about by proclaiming a Kingdom which comprised territories taken from
the Papal States (1861). Only in 1865-1867 did a process of détente coming
into place, where, having overcome mutual resistance, the Holy See succeeded in
appointing many bishops with the agreement of authorities of the Kingdom.
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 another figure similarly involved in a painful controversy with the Archbishop of Turin, namely Sr. Marie-Louise-Angelique Clarac, foundress of the Sisters of Charity of St. Mary, also known as the Sisters of Charity of Good Counsel.
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 been, to put a facile contemporary label on it, a typical confrontation between institution and charism.
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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 made his way, educated his children, and contributed his many talents to the great melting pot, not only in New York City, but in the whole of the United States.
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