Journalist Tag

URUGUAY, Alexandra Kempff / Maria Fischer • Jorge “Toto” Da Silveira, a well-known journalist from Uruguay, died Tuesday, July 4, in Montevideo at the age of 79. We found an interview conducted by Nicolás Lauber in Diario El País, Uruguay, in September 2022, and republished on July 4, 2023, in Diario de Carmelo, a town about 75 km north of Colonia del Sacramento. In this interview, Da Silveira talks about his attachment to the Schoenstatt Shrine of Nueva Helvecia, the first Daughter Shrine. -Jorge “Toto” Da Silveira, a well-known journalistRead More
Radio LT 6 Goya
ARGENTINA, Inés Petiti • On January 31st, a Holy Mass was celebrated for the 69th anniversary of the FM radio station of Goya, the beloved L.T.6, where the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign has its space every Sunday from 12:30 to 13:30. — As every January 31st, the great radio family of LT6 AM 1200, celebrated the Mass in thanksgiving for the anniversary of the radio, founded 69 years ago. The Eucharistic celebration was presided by the presbyter Boris Javier Escobar Sejas, Redemptorist missionary, and was attended by the municipal mayor MarianoRead More
CHILE, Fr. Carlos Cox • Mother Teresa of Kolkata’s second visit to Chile took place between 12 and 15 September 1982 and I was asked to drive her to a youth meeting.  At the time, I was a young priest and was working as the under-secretary of Misión Joven [Youth Mission] for the Archdiocese of Santiago.  During the trip in my Volkswagen, I became witness to a story that reflects the Mother Teresa’s humanizing gaze. As I arrived to fetch her from the Sister’s House in the area near theRead More
LANDS OF AMERICA/ALETEIA.org. I met up with Buenos Aires’ Archbishop, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, in Fall 2005 in Rome. When I phoned to ask him for an interview, he responded with affability, but also firmly, “I would prefer to avoid an interview, although we also can meet to talk.”Read More