Naples, Italy - September 2017 - On September 5, the "Mediterranean" community of the City of Naples was inaugurated. Headquartered in the Salesian House "Don Bosco" of Naples, it houses unaccompanied minors. Among those attending the inauguration was Fr Angelo Santorsola, Salesian Provincial of Southern Italy, interviewed by ANS on the theme of the Salesian Mission among immigrants in the South Italy Province.
(ANS - Rome) - A documentary on the life of St John Bosco aired on the Rai Storia channel in August. Produced with material from Teche Rai (Radiotelevisione Italiana), it was based on biographical notes suggested by guests Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Marco Pizzo and Domenico Agasso.
(ANS - Rome) – As of September 1, the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) has renewed itself and started its activities with a new Office for Communications and Development, an office that now incorporates the services previously offered by the Press Office and the Office for Development and Public Relations. Mr. Massimo Ilardo was appointed the Director of the new Communications and Development Office.
Naples, Italy - September 2017 - On 2 September, during the annual Youth Ministry Conference of the Salesian Province of Southern Italy (IME), there was a change of Provincials from Fr Pasquale Cristiani to Fr Angelo Santorsola, nominated during the General Council's general plenary winter session by the Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, with the consent of his Council. The new Provincial took office during the Eucharistic Celebration, presided by Fr Stefano Martoglio, Councilor for the Mediterranean Region, where Fr Angelo Santorsola professed his oath and officially assumed office as Provincial. The following day, the new Provincial addressed Salesians and laity in a first speech wherein he presented several guidelines for the six-year term, introduced the new Council and the new Delegate for Youth Ministry, Fr Domenico Madonna.
Messina, Italy - August 2017 - From August 12 to 22, Salesians of the Italian Provinces soon to celebrate their perpetual profession embarked on a pilgrimage that took them on the footsteps of Pino Puglisi, the Blessed Martyr, and Nino Baglieri, Servant of God, and at the Shrine of Our Lady of Tears in Syracuse. They then were led through spiritual exercises their Novitiate Masters.
Milan, Italy - August 2017 - On August 28, the formal passage between Fr Claudio Cacioli and Fr Giuliano Giacomazzi as Provincial of Lombardy-Emilia (ILE) Province took place. The Salesians gathered in the provincial office in the morning in a spiritual retreat with the Councilor for the Mediterranean Region, Fr. Stefano Martoglio, who presided over the Holy Mass in which Fr. Giacomazzi professed his oath and officially assumed his post. In the afternoon the new Provincial addressed the Salesians in his first speech with guidelines for his six-year term. Also presented, the new Delegate for Youth Ministry, Fr Paolo Caiani, already in charge of Missionary Animation.
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INTERVIEWS
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Chile – Former Salesian student in the fight against Alzheimer's disease(ANS - Santiago) - Dr Nibaldo Inestrosa, graduate of the Salesian Institute in Valdivia and national prize of Natural Sciences winner, is a pioneer and expert in the study of Alzheimer's disease in the country. In this interview, he offers an insight into the current challenges, but not before reflecting on his formative experience at the Salesian Institute in Valdivia and how this influenced his interest in biology and science.
EDITORIAL
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RMG – Don Bosco: “The Fascinating Saint”(ANS - Rome) - Don Bosco is perhaps the most amazing and fascinating saint, history has ever produced. The humble work which he began for the welfare of his poor and abandoned boys in Italy has produced astonishing results, and today there are nearly 14000 Salesians working in 138 countries, and there are more than 200,000 members belonging to the 32 groups of the worldwide Salesian Family sharing the charism of Don Bosco and reaching out to the needy young people.
EVENTS
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Italy – On-Line Course on Integral Ecology 2025: An Initiative of the Alliance for the Care of Our Common Home (Pontifical Universities & Atheneums of Rome)(ANS – Rome) – 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical letter on the Care for Our Common Home, in which he invited all people of good to “a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet” (Laudato Si’, 14). However, as Pope Francis recognizes in Laudate Deum, the apostolic exhortation published on 4th October 2023, “our responses have not been adequate” and “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.” (Laudate Deum, 2).
SPECIAL REPORTS
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RMG - St. Francis de Sales Communicator: All for Love(ANS – Rome) - The figure of St. Francis de Sales, chosen by Don Bosco as an example of a communicator, teaches that communication is a matter of the heart. In his expression, "Everything in the Church is love: everything lives in love, for love, and of love," we understand his revolution in the way of communicating, and how communication becomes fruitful when it allows communion and the exchange of one's experiences in a path of accompaniment and collaboration in God's project.
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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WHAT A GIFT TIME IS!THE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR OF THE RECTOR MAJOR,
Fr Stefano Martoglio, SDBThe beginning of the new year is illuminated in our liturgy by the ancient formula with which the Israelite priests blessed the people: "May the Lord bless you, and keep you. May the Lord show His face to you, and have mercy on you. May the Lord turn His countenance to you, and give you peace."