Calcutta province Salesian Father C. M. Paul, a regular ucanews.com reporter, is currently an “embedded” journalist with a group of 29 nuns from Asia, Europe and the Americas in Rome.

The sisters are “charging their batteries of body, mind and soul” on the trip known as The Project Mornese.

The Salesian sisters hold five programs of this kind each year for English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French speaking groups.

Since 1996, more than 200 sisters a year from around the world go through this innovative on-going formation program to absorb the charism of their founders Don Bosco and Maria Mazzarello and regale salesianita’ from its source.

The project has three phases and lasts one month.

”I know these are hard-working Salesian Sisters who come to Italy… I plan to blog on what they see, what they think about what they see, and how they feel their batteries are recharged – or not – and how eager they are to get back to the grind,” Father Paul says.

“The Sisters are a bit on their guard now but by and by, I will get around them.”

Newsgrab is his personal blog that includes selected secular and religious news of interest to Indian Catholics. There is understandably a bias for news pertaining to the Salesians of Don Bosco congregation that runs some of India’s best schools.

Father Paul was editor of the Kolkata-based Herald (1989-1991), the oldest Catholic weekly in India, established in 1839. He then became director of the Salesian News Agency (ANS) 1992-1995, and editor of Catechetics India published from Kolkata (1997-2006).

In Kolkata, he has always been connected with the media, nurturing many local journalists who are indebted to his encouragement and guidance for their success.

Father Paul is a former two-term executive board member of the Indian Catholic Press Association, and has also served two-terms as president of Signis-India, the national Catholic association for radio, television and cinema.

Holder of two Masters degrees in Mass Communication as well as Religious Education from Fordham University, New York, Father Paul has the distinction of being the first Catholic priest to be on the advisory panel of the Indian government’s Central Board of Film Certification. Father Paul is presently based in Rome where he is pursuing doctoral studies in Social Communications at the Salesian University.

Source: ucanews.com

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