This June 5, 2020, the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding. On the same date, but from 1960, the day of Pentecost, the then Secretariat for the Promotion of Christian Unity was created by St. John XXIII with the “Motu proprio Superno dei Nutu”. […]
For Sister Nadieska Almeida, Daughter of Charity, this has been a time of deep encounter with herself and with God, in a different way. Communities that have older members have been one of their great concerns, for if there is one thing she has learned in her life as Daughter of Charity, it is respect for them. “Today it is our turn to step up and protect them as much as we can and with the resources we have.” […]
Iván Alejando Batista, designer of Palabra Nueva, offers details about the project “Film Posters in Covid’s Time”. The proposal, which can be seen on digital platforms, rescues the best of Cuban signage of all time to convey a message of public good and prevent the spread of the Covid-19. […]
Visual artist, curator, art critic and cultural promoter, Sandra Ceballos Obaya, believes it is healthy to take advantage of isolation to live together for a while in and learn to eliminate that pathological anxiety of interacting and competing with society. “When we learn this, he says, there will be a terrible obsession with fighting to be superior to the Other.” […]
Great friend of #Cuba, the hospitable priest Simon Azpiroz, expresses from Ecuador his concern about how the day after the global health emergency will be based. For this Spanish missionary, there will be many socio-economic and cultural challenges in the future #pospandemia. However, he confesses, “guidelines will have to be proposed to confront them and, as #Francisco says, a great citizen ‘movement’ will have to be fostered that breaks with ‘fixed or expired structures’ to rebuild society from ‘the necessary antibodies of justice, charity and solidarity’, in favour of ‘sustainable and integral development’ to protect humanity.” […]
Nel suo recente messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale delle Comunicazioni Sociali, il #Papa Francesco ha sottolineato che la storia di Cristo non è un’eredità del passato. Merita di essere detto, ma alla stessa altezza. Questo tempo di lontananza fisica ha dimostrato la necessità che il #Iglesia di comunicare. La missione è sempre la stessa, solo i supporti cambiano, si diversificano, si espandono. Questo è ciò che i giovani comunicatori ci invitano a fare: testimoniare da ogni esperienza alla Fede che ci sta uniendo, e che grazie a Dio ci permette di rimanere diversi. La fede che dignitosa e liberata. […]
For the Catholic intellectual, Ivette Fuentes de la Paz, these months of necessary estrangement have taught us to consider life from another perspective, to value situations in a different way, which is to revalue them and, above all, to see better the essential things and not the conjuncttures. These, he says, “make life live as a circumstance full of equally circumstantial bonds, and not as the best gift God has ever given us.” […]
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