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On February 23, 2020, Leonardo Fernández Otaño, a young Cuban Catholic, was leaving for Spain for a period of two months and a fortnight. He never imagined that his stay in that land would last until a date that does not yet peek and continues to await a long journey that will return him to his island, “fragile, decadent and thirsty for a prosperous future that is increasingly distant to him.” […]

Interview with Shirley Núñez Guilleuma, national coordinator of Caritas’ largest program: that of the elderly. The text leads us to meditate on human issues as important as family and society; her day-to-day life as a Christian dedicated to her faith, to her complex work as a professional and to the family made up of her husband, three children and a little granddy; on what basis his family has been founded, what has been the dynamics they have been building, how values training and the education of children has worked, what has been the relationship between Christian family and society… […]

The text shows the work done in Cuba by the Slave Adoratric Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament and Charity, which seeks to approach women affected by various forms of slavery, especially prostitution. With great international experience, the sisters of this religious institute welcome young people exposed to this reality and, from various actions of accompaniment and formation, help them to remake their lives, to see themselves differently, to discover their own potentials and develop them to change their lives, in short, to grow and liberate themselves. […]

A female religious community is committed to the care of life and promotes in the diocese of Camaguey the Esperanza Project, an interesting initiative that accompanies pregnant women not to opt for abortion. Her message emphasizes the gift of motherhood. […]

Issues that could be taken into account in the task of achieving a society of greater solidity in respect for difference… […]

Reflection on the role of women in today’s Cuban Catholic Church. The text addresses their presence and generous service as catechists, missionaries, animators of the liturgy and communities, visitors of the sick, volunteers of Caritas or prison pastoral care, extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist, communicators, teachers in the centers of formation of the Church, as caregivers of the elderly and sick in asylums… finally, her active participation in the various pastoral cares developed by the Church in Cuba. […]

In a letter addressed to Edith Stein, Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz (1891-1942), St Carmelite barefoot, co-host of Europe, together with St Catherine of Siena and St Brigid of Sweden, a tribute is paid to this woman and others who, like her, demonstrated with her life the intellectual capacities of women in a society where they were underestimated for their feminine status. […]

Pope Francis presided on Wednesday 1st. January 2020, in the Basilica of St. Peter of the Vatican, the Mass of the Solemnity of St Mary The Mother of God, on the eighth of Christmas when the Church celebrated World Day of Peace, which this year was developed under the theme “Peace as a path of hope: dialogue, reconciliation and ecological conversion”. […]

The text sets out, from Christian revelation and doctrine, the foundation on which understanding of the theme of women is based, what Sacred Scripture and the Tradition of the Church tells us with its Magisterium on the dignity of women and on what it is based for greater and better dignification. It also addresses the enormous relevance of the female presence in the Church’s evangelizing work. […]

Sister Antonia Valverde Fernández (Hna. Toñi), advisor of Missions and Children and Missionary Adolescence in the Archdiocese, recognizes that “Announcing Christ is the reason for missionaries in Havana”. […]