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- AVSI (Association
of Volunteers for International Service) is a not-for-profit,
non-governmental organization engaged in international projects
of aid to development. It is present in Africa, Latin America,
the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Among the links provided
are: AVSI press (update and archive of the periodical Buonenotizie),
the Christmas Tents, long-distance adoptions, and others active
in the field of solidarity (UN, UNICEF, the weekly Vita).
- Augustinus is
the website devoted to the life, writings, sainthood, thought, and modernity
of St Augustine. Created for Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana and Città Nuova
Editrice, it enables the visitor to consult the Opera Omnia, also with the
aid of a search engine.
- Associazione
Fraternità: established in 1984, it obtained
legal recognition from the Region of Lombardy in 1985. It
operates in the field of social work and assistance, and
in particular the assistance, education, and training of
families, with special attention to children in the formative
years. President of the association is Fr Mauro Inzoli.
- Associazione
Giovanni Testori
- Banco
Alimentare is a not-for-profit organization specializing
in the collection and free distribution of food. Every year
it helps thousands of needy people and facilitates the stock
reduction
of companies with excess supplies. The site contains a map
of the Food Bank locations throughout Italy; articles, annual
reports,
the newsletter “PocheParole”, and the results of the
annual National Collections. Among useful links are: Non Profit
On Line: Italian, European, and international institutions (from
the site of the President of Italy to the municipal administrations,
from consumers’ associations to the European Parliament,
from UNESCO to FAO), information about civilian service, Spesa
Click (online supermarket shopping), and Agus (the first digital
television in Italy).
- Centro Culturale di Milano Founded
in 1981, the cMc received on December 7, 2000, the Ambrogino d’Oro,
an award given by the City of Milan, for its twenty years of activity. It
has
organized events and meetings with the participation of writers, artists,
politicians, and Nobel Prize winners from Italy and abroad. The site contains
an archive,
press file, and an up-to-date program of upcoming events.
- Compagnia delle Opere In
the light of the social doctrine of the Church, the Cdo promotes and protects
the social presence and work of persons and enterprises. Among the main links
included in the site are: Eurosportello (European projects and rules and regulations,
Co.Export), CdO non profit (solidarity centers, Euresis, Club Santa Chiara),
Cdo previdenza, Cdo salute, le Fiere (Artigianato in Fiera, Salone dei sapori),
the weekly magazine Tempi, and the monthly Corriere delle Opere. Numerous services
are offered online: press coverage, all the member firms of CdO, documents,
and conventions.
- Cilla
Association
The Cilla Association was formed as an attempt to respond
with solidarity to those who live the problem of their own
illness or that of a family member in solitude, far away from
home. Over
time a vast network of solidarity has developed in Italy and
abroad, which takes concrete form in the establishment of “hospitality
centers” in hospital centers and of “Hospitality
Houses,” where human companionship is offered through
help in facing the most elementary daily needs.
- Diesse (Scholastic
teaching and innovation. Center for training and updating). Scholastic teaching
and innovation. Center for training and updating. Established in 1987 as an
association of teachers, it has a dual aim: shared responsibility for education
and profesional growth. The site contains many useful links for those who work
in the school sphere.
- Ediciones
Encuentro is a Spanish publishing house. Its ample
catalogue covers art, literature, history, theology, philosophy,
economics,
and politics. Among the authoritative authors are Ratzinger,
Giussani, Andrés-Gallego, Moa, Brown.
- Elsinor is
the result of a merger between Fontana Teatro of Milan, Teatro
dell’Arca of Forlì, and Cantiere Florida of Florence.
While remaining faithful to the social-cultural environment
of their origins, the three groups are united by the same approach
to the artistic, formative, and educative aspect of the theater.
- Edizioni
Cantagalli has operated since 1925 in the sphere of
Catholic publishing, disseminating the thought of the saints
and the Fathers
of the Church in the series “I Classici Cristiani” [The
Christian Classics], directed by Franco Cardini, which contains
more than 300 titles. Currently in a phase of renewal and expansion,
the publishing house has created two new series: “Cristianesimo
e Cultura” [Christianity and Culture] and “Matrimonio,
Famiglia e Pastorale” [Marriage, Family, and Pastoral Work].
Since 2001, Cantagalli is the publisher of Nuntium, the cultural
magazine of the Pontificia Università Lateranense.
- Fondazione
San Giuseppe Moscati: founded in 1989, this not-for-profit
organization located at 27, Via Orti in Milan manages a modern
rest home for up to 69 elderly people, whether self-sufficient
or in need of assistance. It includes a specialized outpatients
clinic equipped with the most modern diagnostic equipment.
- Giovanni Testori Association
Since 1998, the Testori Association has promoted the knowledge
and study of the work of Giovanni Testori (1923-1993), a Catholic
writer who opposed the general trend. The constantly updated
site contains many thematic sections with unpublished material
(texts, photos, audio and video), workshops for teachers, the
titles of dissertations, and news of initiatives connected
with Testori.
- ITACAlibri is
a firm for the production and distribution of cultural instruments:
books, compact discs, cassettes, videos, and magazines. The
site has an online catalogue (including books translated into
various
languages) and orders can be placed online, in some cases with
special offers. A link is devoted to six Italian magazines “for
the changing school world”: Documenta, il Quadrangolo,
Emmaciquadro, Zetesis, Iniziare, and Lineatempo.
- L’Istituto Sacro
Cuore is a foundation for the training and education of young people.
It covers kindergarten, elementary, and middle school and artistic, classical,
and scientific high school. ISC aims at educating youth to a knowledge of reality
in its manifold aspects, starting from the fundamental premise that reality
has a meaning. Among the numerous services offered are: meal service, swimming
lessons, music education, tutoring, language courses, and athletic programs.
- Meeting
di Rimini (official site). From 1980 with an average participationof 600,000 people,
the
Meeting
in Rimini is the most heavily attended summer festival of encounters,
culture, politics, music, and shows in the world. A search engine
makes it easy to find information about the events, exhibitions,
shows, and testimony of important historical figures (among them
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Ionesco, Lech Walesa, Giovanni Testori)
who have taken part.
- Medicina
e persona is a free association of health workers (physicians,
nurses, technicians, and administrative personnel) set up to
defend professionality in health, understood as a personal, free
and responsible answer to the needs of the person who is ill.
Among the links are: the aims of the association, how to join,
documents archive, and archive and program of events.
- The
Pharmaceuticals Bank is a not-for-profit organization
founded in December 2000 to supply over-the-counter medicines free of charge
to hundreds
of associations assisting thousands of poor people. Every year on the second
Saturday of February, a collection of medicines is held in pharmacies, under
the initiative entitled “Give a medicine to those who need it.”
- Pathways of film
This not-for-profit cultural association was created by a group of film enthusiasts,
both amateur and professional: teachers, film journalists, organizers of
film forums, and movie theater managers (Cinema Palestrina in Milan). The
site offers reviews of coming films, useful information for organizing film
forums, and suggestions and ideas for thematic films.
- Priestly Fraternity
of St. Charles Borromeo
- Rodaviva
Musical editions and recordings. Besides its catalogue
of recordings of sacred and early music, pop, folk, and children’s
songs, the site offers study tools such as scores, texts, and
educational materials. A calendar of concerts and a bulletin
board for announcements of interest to music lovers are also
present.
- Russia cristiana aims
at spreading knowledge of the riches of the spiritual, cultural, and liturgical
tradition of Russian Orthodoxy, fostering ecumenical dialogue, and contributing
to the Christian mission in Russia. The site contains links to the magazine
La Nuova Europa and “La Casa di Matriona” publishing house, valuable
bibliographical information, addresses of specialized libraries, information
on the iconographic school, Byzantine liturgy, and organized trips to Russia.
- Sindacato
delle Famiglie founded in Milan in 1982, it has spread
throughout all of Italy, with more than 50,000 families enrolled.
It is part of the Forum delle Associazioni Familiari [Forum of
Family Associations] established in Rome by the CEI (Italian
Episcopal Conference).
- St. Joseph, St.
Rita Hospitality House The House welcomes children, adolescents, and
mothers and children who live in troubled personal and family situations at
high risk for social and psychological deviation. The workshops that support
the House produce and sell gift objects, icons, and pottery.
- Students
Space
A virtual meeting place, a site for expressing judgments, for
Italian students and others who live the Christian experience
at school and are interested in the concerns of the world of
the young. The site proposes testimonies from the world of school,
judgments on current events, cultural insights, reviews of films,
musical comments, significant community moments. In addition,
there is a forum for looking more deeply at various themes treated
in the sections of the site.
- Teatro
degli Incamminati: the Company, founded in Milan in
1983 by a group of theater people, including Emanuele Banterle,
with
Giovanni Testori as president, offers a repertory ranging from
the “Classics” to “Experimental theater and young
artists” (Filarmonica Clown and Teatro dell’Artificio),
to new drama (Franco Branciaroli).
- Universitas-University is
a free association whose purpose is to furnish support to teachers
and researchers all over the world who wish to compare notes
about the nature and methods of their work and, more generally,
about the conception of the university. The association, through
a network of international relationships, promotes initiatives,
exchange of experience, and standing forums on the topics of
research and teaching in the university, also with the aim of
indicating methods for work and action.
- Universitas was
born out of the desire to find an answer to a question: since
the university is the place where man’s reason is given
value, how can a professor communicate the rationality of what
he knows? This desire and the need to express it publicly gave
rise to the work of a group of university professors, who together
with some doctoral candidates formed an association recognized
by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior in January 1998. today
Universitas is present and active in the most important universities
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Aid to the Church in Need
For over 50 years, the Work of Pontifical Right “Aid to the
Church in Need” founded by Fr Werenfried van Straaten in 1947,
has been collecting funds in 16 countries to distribute all over
the world through 6000 projects in over 130 countries, in support
of the Church where it is persecuted, oppressed or poor, and in defense
of the rights of the person to profess his own religion by teaching
and by practice, in worship and observance of rites.
- List
of the Catholic sites in Italy
The most complete and up-to-date list of Catholic sites in Italy.
Among the numerous services are: links to institutional sites, list
of Marian sanctuaries and places of worship and Christian art, list
of Italian parishes, link to sites devoted to the saints, music,
Catholic culture.
- Vatican Home Page the
official website of the Holy See. Richly documented, it allows the visitor
to follow the Holy Father’s travels and pronouncements in real time. Online
consultation is available of the Holy Scriptures in Latin, the Catechism, the
Documents of the Second Vatican Council, and the Encyclicals (from Leo XIII
to John Paul II), with the possibility of a search by key-words. Among the
news services are: the daily and weekly edition of L’Osservatore Romano,
Radio Vaticana [Vatican Radio], and the Centro Televisivo Vaticano [Vatican
Television Center], which includes a video archive. Also included are: the
Vatican Museums (information, exhibitions, and restoration projects), liturgical
celebrations, and extensive information, images, and documents concerning the
Great Jubilee, including the official magazine Tertium Millennium and Il Giornale
del Pellegrino [The Pilgrim’s Journal].
- Chiesa Cattolica
Italiana contains extensive information about the universal Church,
the Italian Episcopal Conference, dioceses, religious orders, lay aggregations,
media (news agencies SIR and MISNA; daily newspapers Avvenire, Eco di Bergamo,
and L’Osservatore Romano; diocesan weeklies; periodicals, including Famiglia
Cristiana, Jesus, Il Giornalino, Il Messaggero di Sant’Antonio; radio
and TV, including Sat 2000 and Radio Maria), Jubilee itineraries, sanctuaries
throughout the world, and religious culture (universities, libraries, and artistic
monuments such as abbeys and monasteries). Among the services offered are:
the CEI Italian version of the Bible online, Valutazione Film [Film Evaluation],
drawing on the rich archive of Datafilm, under the charge of the Commissione
Nazionale Valutazione Film of the CEI [National Film Evaluation Committee of
the Italian Episcopal Conference].
- FIDES The
Fides International Agency was created more than 70 years ago
by the Pontifical Work for the Propagation of the Faith to make
known, through the press, the missions and newly established
Churches and to foster missionary cooperation. The publications
are in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, and
Arabic.
- Caritas
Italiana is the pastoral organism set up by the Italian
Episcopal Conference to promote, also in collaboration with
other agencies, the witness of charity of the Italian ecclesial
community, with particular attention to the outcasts and
needy, and with a prevalently pedagogical function.
- GRIS (Gruppo
di ricerca e informazione sulle Sette) is a not-for-profit religious
and cultural association engaged in research, study, and dissemination
of information on religious sects and non-Catholic groups.
- Pellegrinaggio
Macerata - Loreto, begun in 1978 at the initiative
of adherents to Communion and Liberation as a gesture of
thanksgiving to Our Lady at the end of the school year, over
the years it has involved other groups and individuals in
the Church to the point of attracting more than 35,000 participants
in the most recent pilgrimage.
- Christus
Rex is a rich and constantly updated window onto events,
the Catholic Church, the Holy Land, culture, art, museums, and
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