Spirituality and Community Life

The cities of Sabadell and Barcelona recognize the social commitment of Pedro Casaldáliga, CMF

Catalonia, Spain. Pere Casaldàliga, CMF received, posthumously, the Medal of the City of Sabadell to the citizen merit, last March 23. A recognition that comes a few months after his death in Brazil, where he was bishop of São Félix do Araguaia. The Major Superior of...

Maximino Cerezo Barredo, CMF: “My painting is not a neutral message. It cries out to be liberation”

Salamanca, Spain. Villaviciosa with its most important years of childhood, Gijón and the discovery of his Claretian vocation in his passage through the Colegio Corazón de María de Gijón, the Complutense University of Madrid in the Faculty of Fine Arts. The Philippines...

José Cristo Rey García Paredes, Consultor of CIVCSVA

Madrid, Spain. A letter from the Secretariat of State communicated a few days ago to Fr. José Cristo Rey García Paredes, a Claretian of the Province of Santiago, that Pope Francis continues to count on him as official consultor of the Congregation for Institutes of...

THE CLARETIANUM MOSAIC IN THE GENERAL CURIA

Rome, Italy. In 1959 the International Claretian College (Claretianum) in Rome was inaugurated. A little later Cardinal Larraona consecrated the altar of the new chapel. In the presbytery, the great mosaic of the Heart of Mary at Pentecost stood proudly. A beautiful...