Saldana said her own religious community has helped her to maintain a more grounded and human-focused perspective while she has studied at Harvard. "I'm involved with the Boston chapter of a group called the Community of St. Egidio, which was founded in the late '60s in Rome by a group of Catholics"
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11705783 [
link to wikileaks.org] 8/30/2011
[The
Community of] Sant'Egidio, on the other hand, is said to be sympathetic to the former mayor of Rome and current leader of the Italian left, Walter Veltroni
[
link to ncronline.org] 6/1/2012
Nuzzi's book [
His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI] also includes an encrypted 2011 cable from the papal embassy in Washington back to the Secretariat of State, relaying a request from Cardinal Francis George of Chicago that the
Community of Sant'Egidio, a Rome-based movement active on peace and justice issues, be asked to withdraw an award it planned to bestow on Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois for suppressing the death penalty.
According to the cable, George objected to Quinn's positions on abortion and gay marriage, including policies about serving same-sex couples, which effectively put Catholic adoption agencies in Illinois out of business.
The cable was signed by Monsignor Jean-Francois Lantheaume, the embassy's charge d'affairs. The full text is:
From: Washington
To: Decryption Off., Decr. N. 300
Date of encryption: 03/11/2011
Date of decryption: 03/11/11
His Eminence Cardinal George, Francis, Archbishop of Chicago, has informed this pontifical embassy that the Community of Sant'Egidio has plans to present an award to the Governor of Illinois, Mr. Quinn, for suppressing the death penalty in that state. Attested that Mr. Quinn is of the Catholic faith, the bishops and Cardinal George retain that this recognition is inopportune for the following reasons:
•He promoted the law on homosexual marriage;
•He is in favor of abortion;
•He withdrew from the Catholic church the right to contract with federal agencies for the adoption of minors.
Cardinal George courteously requests an intervention with the authorities of the Community of Sant'Egidio so that the decision will be reconsidered. On the part of this embassy, a nulla osta [no objection] to what is proposed by His Eminence the Archbishop of Chicago. Lantheaume, charge d'affaires.
Video:
Members of Syrian opposition gather in Rome to ask for a political solutionPublished on Jul 31, 2012 by romereports [
link to www.romereports.com] 7/31/2012
They all signed and then read a resolution, during their visit to the
Saint Egidio Community, where they all call for a political solution.
Video:
Syrian opposition gathered in Sant'Egidio appeal for political solution Published on Jul 27, 2012 by santegidio
