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Bruce Duncan March 10, 2010

Few women have played such an important recent role in the Catholic Church as Rosemary Goldie, who died on 27 February at the age of 94, after some years' retirement in the Little Sisters of the Poor at Randwick in Sydney.

From the early 1950s Goldie worked in the Vatican as secretary to Vittorino Veronese (later director general of UNESCO) in the Permanent Committee for International Congresses of Catholic Action (COPECIAL), which was encouraging the development of Catholic Action in various parts of the world.

She saw her work as helping to clarify the new roles for lay activity in the Church and in wider spheres, roles that were strongly endorsed by the Second Vatican Council.

She continued to develop the new direction, not just in her organisational role, but through her extensive range of personal contacts as well as her writings, including in European Catholic journals. She also lectured at the Pontifical Lateran University in later years.

Petite, open and honest in her views, Goldie was nevertheless very professional and conscientious in her work. She was also a gifted linguist, and understood well the theological debates of the time.

VISITA A LOS HERMANOS  HAITIANOS

   “Porque Dios no hizo la muerte, y no le gusta que
se pierdan los vivos. El creo todas las cosas para
que existan; las especies que aparecen en la
naturaleza son medicinales, y no traen veneno ni
muerte. La tierra no esta sometida a la muerte,
pues el orden de la Justicia va mas allá de la
muerte.”

                                                                                                         Sb. 1, 13-15

Queridos Hermanos:

El domingo 31 de enero, una delegación de la comunidad del Movimiento de Profesionales Catolicos (MPC-MIIC) en Republica Dominicana, nos acercamos a nuestros hermanos haitianos, residentes en Ouanaminthe, para ver y compartir de carca su vivencia, después de la catástrofe que afecto principalmente, a Puerto Principe, lugar donde residían los hijos e hijas de nuestros hermanos, haciendo sus estudios universitarios y pre-universitarios, llegar hasta allí ha sido una experiencia dura, pero a la vez de gran satisfacción por sentirnos en comunión con nuestros amigos-hermanos, que ahora viven momentos muy difíciles.