About Lavigerie’s grandmother

ROSE AGNÈS FOURTICOT (1779-1847) Rose Agnès, Cardinal Lavigerie’s grandmother, was born in Pau on January 21, 1779, in her parents’ home on “rue Nationale” (today rue de maréchal Joffre). She […]

Dialogue as a new way of being church

“Indeed, the whole history of man’s salvation is one long, varied dialogue, which marvelously begins with God and which He prolongs with men in so many different ways” (ES 70). Since Vatican II the Church has taken a new attitude, indeed a new approach, towards other churches, other religions, including a new approach to cultures, which are viewed in a positive way. 

26th December in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to the Office of the Propagation of the Faith (December 1884)
Our missions in Kabylia and in the Sahara are constantly developing, as you will see in this report which I have the honour to send you. Previous reports made you aware of the progress of these missions and their way of operating. Today I shall tell you only of what has been achieved during this current year in our mission stations of Kabylia and the Sahara.

Missionaries of Africa
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