|
|
Article: Rome dogma as route to touch people's lives. (Father Maurice Restivo)
- Article from:
- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- April 30, 1993
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
ROME -- Maurice Restivo is in Rome completing a doctorate in dogma at the Gregorian, but his heart is in Cali, Colombia. The young Basilian priest cannot shake Cali loose.
"One day, I went to visit an old woman who lived right by the open sewer where it pours into the river," he said recently. "She lived in a hut, 1 meter 30 wide, maybe 2 meters long, bamboo with can wrappers closing out the light, but not much. I could read the prayer book with the light coming in through the cracks.
"Two rooms with beds, no water of course. She said to me, |God is good, bless me my God. God loves the poor.' I came away from there saying, my God, how can she be in a ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: A taste of Italy, family style: Restivo clan is having ...
Newsday (Melville, NY);
January 29, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... Byline: Keiko Morris Jan. 29--Louis Restivo first tossed around the idea with his ... wasn't doing anything," said Louis Restivo, who once ran his family's large baking ... to do something together?'" Vincent Restivo, Louis' brother and a retired doctor ...
|
|