the curia informs

COPAL
LATIN AMERICA
THE SUPERIOR GENERAL AND GENERAL
CURIA MEET WITH CLAP AND COPAL
The Superior General and General Curia met at
the St. Gabriel Passionist Community of Cajicá,
Colombia with CLAP (Latin America's Passionist
Family), May 14 - 20, 2007and COPAL (Latin
America's Passionist Superiors) May 21 - 25, 2007.
The CLAP Coordinating Team of President, Sr.
Lourdes Margarita Mesa (México) and Vice-president:
Anna Culliton (Chile) addressed the following
issues: the financing of the organization and its
meetings; the participation of the laity by zone; and
study of the present structure of the organization.
The next CLAP Assembly will take place in
May, 2010. The specific objectives of this Assembly
NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCES
will be: 1) Sharing experiences about the areas of
justice, peace and the integrity of creation from the
biblical-charismatic perspective and keeping in
mind the conclusions of the 5th CELAM meeting;
2) the Passionist laity; 3) Women in Passionist life
and spirituality.
The COPAL meeting had Restructuring as the
topic of its meeting. It’s mission statement summarizes
this objective:
“We the Passionists of COPAL, inspired by the
Memoria Passionis, commit ourselves to prioritizing
our common projects toward the areas of formation,
justice and peace and the integrity of creation;
the option for the young and Passionist laity
in order to animate the process of Restructuring.”
The new president of COPAL as well as the
Regional Coordinator for Restructuring in Latin
America is Fr. Norberto Donizetti (CALV) and his
substitute is Fr. Miguel González (FID).
ASSEMBLY OF THE SANG - EXAL VICARIATE (BOLIVIA)
The Assembly of the SANG-EXAL Vicariate of Bolivia took place during 23-27 April 2007 at La Paz
with 15 religious participating. Fr. José María Hernando, CP, Regional Vicar, presided.
The Assembly studied the document entitled “Areas of Priority” of the 45th General Chapter.
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