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Don Bosco character actor Ben Gazzara dies 81

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New York. US actor Ben Gazzara, 81, passed away this Friday in a New York hospital due to a pancreatic cancer. The media underlines his successful career with films like The Strange One (1957) and Anatomy of a Murder, a film that got seven Oscar nominations. He participated also in movies of director John Cassavetes like Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977.) Another noticeable role was Al Capone in a film of Steve Carver and Klein in The Spanish Prisoner (1977) by David Mamet. But for our Salesian world, Gazzara is especially important for his role as Don Bosco (1988) by a story of Ennio de Concini, under the direction of Leandro Castellani. It is considered one of the best movies about the holy educator of the young, while the actor had an extraordinary physical resemblance to Don Bosco. Ben Gazzara was born in New York in 1930 in a Catholic family of Italian origin.

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 February 2012 20:55 )

A Don Bosco doddle for Google

Albeiro Rodas Don Bosco - Formation

The Salesians of Latin America requested to Google a doddle of Don Bosco in the search engine during the celebrations of the Saint. The doddle would appear especially in the Latin American and Italian versions of Google this last 31st of January, thought it seems that the popular search engine did not accept the initiative. The request intended to promote in all the world the educative works of the apostle of the youth. The Salesian Missions and many other groups supported the proposal that would show for 24 hours inside the Google's logo the face of one of the most celebrated Catholic priest of the 19th century, which educative works in favor of the most disadvantage are present in 133 nations. The Salesian world is preparing to celebrate the 200 years of the birth of Don Bosco in 2015. The Saint of Turin, as he is also known due to the development of his works in that city, is also one of the most popular names on the Internet with thousands of websites and links pointing to the name of Don Bosco. Google, by sure, would not be the same without Don Bosco.

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 February 2012 20:59 )

Near-death experience of a teenager

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'There was this bright light above me,' Ben Breedlove

Kep City, Cambodia. This 21st globalized century brings many things online. A teenager of 18 died on Christmas eve in Austin, Texas. His name was Ben Breedlove. He did not write songs or appeared in any movie of Hollywood. He was just a good boy. Then he used to talk through Youtube probably in front to the computer of his bedroom, as many other teenagers are doing right now - we hope that more good young people would talk more good things on the Internet too. A week before he died of a cardiac arrest, he suffered hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), he produced his last Youtube that is now so popular as any Justin Bieber video - I mention Bieber because also he began his career on Yotube, by the way.

2012 Doomsday

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Dear young people, as many others dedicate themselves to make predictions about the Doomsday, I will do quite the opposite: I will predict that 2012 will not be the Doomsday and to warn you about Doomsday-afflictions.

It is well written on Matthew 24: 36-42: 'But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.' Matthew says also that we must be ready all the time, because you do not know on waht day your Lord will come. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Now well, if the Lord himself was so humble to say that nor even He knew it, how is possible that we let our minds to be confused by any sort of sects, false prophets and

Catholic schools must give testimony, says Fr. Tobin

Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:00 Albeiro Rodas Salesian Missions - Missioners

Rome. The educative mission of the Church must not be reduced to just give contents but testimony. The words of the Redentorist Secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, MR Joseph William Tobin in an interview to Spaniard Catholic newspaper La Razón after the closure of the 9th Congress of Catholic Schools. 'The Catholic school must be a community with different gifts, mutual respect and the will to communicate the Faith,'he says. It is possible by 'giving testimony to the new generations, to the youth in search, without making violence to the conscience,' concludes Fr. Tobin, who was born in Detroit, US, in 1952. 'A young man told me about a person who convinced him: 'He believes what he preaches.' It is the key of the new Evangelism,' he says.

Father Tobin said also that in 40 years more the religious life will continue their mission as voices in the middle of the dessert to remind the powerful about the poor. They will give testimony of fraternity to all races and cultures, said the Redentorist.

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