What's New

The SCJ parish of Christ the Redeemer in Houston, Texas has posted a website (Christ the Redeemer Catholic Community). It will be added to our links page. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome. The address is www.ctrcc.com.

Justice & Peace

The organization Beati i costruttori di pace (Blessed are the peace makers) issued a document "… ANCH'IO A BUKAVU" in which it states:

December 10, 2000 is the 52^nd anniversary of the United Nation's Universal Declaration on Human Rights and we call for international nonviolent action for peace in Africa at Bukavu in Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo....

In this week's Meet and SCJ we meet Paul Tiragalo Ntwe, a South African SCJ theology student who was born in Botswana.

What's Happening

Rome

Odilo Leviski (BM), Asten general secretary has prepared a somewhat humorous look at religious names chosen by (or for) scjs on the profession day (cf. SCJ Religious Names).

Milwaukee

Charles Brown (US) has recently published The Gospel and Ignatius of Antioch, as volume twelve in the Studies in Biblical Literature series put out by Peter Lang Publishing. For more information link to The Gospel and Ignatius of Antioch .

Currently he is assistant professor of scripture studies at Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, He has served as a missionary in the Congo and just returned from a teaching semester at Cedara where our South African scj students do their theological studies.

Dehon Photo of the Week

In this week's commentary on a photo from our Dehon collection Stefan Tertünte writes:

When Fr. Dehon dies on August 12, 1925 many people and institutions sent messages of condolences to the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (cf. the small book 'télégrammes & letters reçus à l'occasion de la maladie et de la mort du T. R. P. Dehon, Fondateur et premier Supérieur Général des Prêtres du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus de St Quentin', by Fr. Joseph Laurent Philippe).

Many newspapers (especially French, Italian, Belgian and Dutch) announce the Founders' death and often publish a short biography. Among these the article of George Goyau in 'La Libre Belgique' on November 9, 1925 deserves a special attention (cf. The death of Fr. Dehon - an article of George Goyau

Letters from the First Novices

In the ninth in our series from CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FIRST NOVICES BEFORE THE "CONSUMMATUM EST 1878-1883" by Egidio Driedonkx, we begin hear from Teodoro (Estanislao) Falleur who was professed on November 21, 1881. In his first letter he writes to his cousin Leo in Grammont:

Your heart has not fooled you causing you to fear that you would not see me in Grammont. But not only will I not be able to go to Grammont but neither to Effry during the vacation. Why? Because the Bishop of Soissons, who values education very much, has asked me to continue my theological study while at the same time serving as professor (in St. John's College)...