(ANS – Turin) – ‘Here we make holiness consist in being very cheerful’, said St Dominic Savio, one of the first fruits of holiness that blossomed from Don Bosco: a dictate that the Salesian Family  made its own and manifested clearly in the climate of serene and joyful conviviality with which it gathered in the Mother House of Valdocco on the afternoon of Wednesday September … Continue reading The Salesian Family in the ‘Circle of Saints’

(ANS – Rome) – Luis Badilla recalls the Salesian Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, a monumental figure in Latin American history and in particular in Chile. The cardinal, who died in April 1999 at the age of 92, is still very much loved and remembered not only in Chile, but in the memory of many Catholics and non-Catholics. It is impossible, as the director of the … Continue reading Fifty Years Ago, on September 11, 1973: Salesian Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez and the Agony of Chile