Publications

Entitled "The Responsibility of Practical Theology in Black Africa", the work of more than 500 pages by His Excellency Monsignor Fulgence Muteba is a bridge between doctrine and pastoral work. It was presented by three professors, namely Julien Kilanga (former rector of the University of Lubumbashi), Léonard Santedi (rector of the Catholic University of Congo) and François Yumba (Academic Secretary of the UCC).

Denis Kialuta Longana, born in Kinshasa, is a priest of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa and a professor with a doctorate in philosophy. He exercises his priestly ministry in Walloon Brabant and teaches at the National Pedagogical University of Kinshasa. He is very interested in the problem of the meaning of life and questions related to both.

This encyclical of Pope Francis published this Thursday, October 24, 2024, contains five parts in 220 paragraphs. It has arrived as a sort of enthronement of the Heart of Jesus in the realities already addressed in his 2015 encyclical Laudato si (on the safeguarding of the common home) and Fratelli Tutti of 2020 (on fraternity and social friendship). In Dilexit nos, everything is centered on the loving relationship of man and his God in loving one another to better protect the common home by the grace of the Heart of Christ.

Ultimately, for its author, "Ultima verba or involuntary apophthegms" pulls us between emphasis and gloss. In other words, he asks himself the question: "Should we speak of life with an inappropriate and abusive declamatory style? Or should we explain it even if it is sometimes sibylline?

After the release of his book online at CoolLibri last September, Jean-Marie KONDE MUANDA, the author of Les étincelles au quotidien, gave a preview presentation of his work to a group of notables from Bangui this Friday, November 29, 2024. The objective of this presentation was to sell this opus to support a few students living with disabilities for their schooling and a few street children for vocational training.

The new publication on Liturgical Dance and its Theological Status in the Roman Rite, is the result of the thesis of Father Ghislain Zoautekonbgo of Central African nationality, ordained priest in September 2010 on behalf of the Archdiocese of Bangui. Since 2024, he has been a doctor of liturgy. His thesis deals with liturgical anthropology, on "the problematic of the existence of liturgical dance, an updated path, reconsidered towards the understanding of the theological status of dance in the Roman Rite.

This book published in L'Harmattan is a manual of ongoing formation on the liturgy for all the faithful. In his own words the author declares: Despite the vitality of our churches, the author aspires to a deep evangelization. Indeed, the call to synodality of the whole Church reveals cracks in the life of Christ's faithful, in particular their participation in the Holy Mysteries without knowing for some the true meaning. To deepen the faith of the faithful and their maturity in the understanding of the rites, their ongoing formation is essential.