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Proceeding of the Causa super virtutibus of Father André Prévot, scj
On Thursday, 24 March 2022, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints held the session of the 2nd Peculiar Congress of Theological Consultors concerning the Causa super virtutibus ac fama sanctitatis of Father André Léon Prévot (1840-1913).
A Chapter full of tensions
"We survived this chapter only by the grace of God and because the Church had need of the charism of Fr. Leo John Dehon. And if an SCJ could survive this event, he could survive anything."
Provincial Assembly in DRC: The new administration presents its programmatic letter
After the Provincial Assembly which dealt with the programmatic letter of the new administration, Father Floribert Bulu, Provincial Secretary, looks back on the moments of this great provincial meeting.
Mediation: the old logic of power
The Vatican again expressed its openness to mediation with a prior agreement on a cease-fire, but there was no response from Russia. The Apostolic Nuncio in Kiev, the Lithuanian Visvaldas Kulbokas, said: "To negotiate, it is necessary to get out of the political-military scheme that leads nowhere; it would be easier if the Catholic and Orthodox Churches joined their efforts for this mediation".
When Dehon was also a refugee …
There are over 80 million refugees in the world today. The war in Ukraine shows how this drama grows exponentially. Father Dehon also lived through the tragedy of the war and being a refugee, not without psychological consequences.
Ukraine: Fr. Andrzej Oleinik and Siergiej Babic recount their wartime mission.
Fr. Andrzej Oleinik is a young Moldavian Dehonian priest and Siergiej Babic is a Ukrainian medical student interested in Dehonian religious life. They shared first of all their joy for the opportunity to speak with the Congregation "because we are a family".
