www.radiovaticana.org  “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you” (Acts 1:8). We have seen this promise fulfilled! On the day of Pentecost, as we heard in the first reading, the Risen Lord, seated at the right hand of the Father, sent the Spirit upon the disciples gathered in the Upper Room. In the power of that Spirit, Peter and the Apostles went forth to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth. In every age, and in every language, the Church throughout the world continues to proclaim the marvels of God and to call all nations and peoples to faith, hope and new life in Christ.

( OR ) July 07th 2008 - A.      PARDILLA,“The women religious yesterday, today and tomorrow” (“Le religiose ieri, oggi e domani”, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2008, pp. 436).

           This book of the claretian priest A. Pardilla is rather a sociological radiogram of forty years (1965-2005) of religious life in Institutes of women. Such an image has been developed by means of an accurate analysis of the number of the members of individual religious Institutes of pontifical right. Pope Benedict XVI has affirmed that religious life is in need of “an authentic revival”: “With regard to the Orders and Congregations with a long tradition in the Church, we must note (…) that in the last decades almost all of them  – male as well as female –  have been through a difficult crisis”. The results of this investigation help us to understand the concrete and realistic sense of the words of the Pope.

( OR ) July 07th 2008 -  A. PARDILLA,“The men religious yesterday, today and tomorrow”
( “I religiosi ieri, oggi e domani”, Ed. Rogate, Roma 2007, pp. 387).