austraLasia #1266
New Salesian Cooperator draft Regulations
ROME: 29th September 2005 -- It is an accident of history, and because of a foolish pledge made in a moment of weakness to a member of the Cooperators' World Council, that there is now an English translation of the draft Regulations for the ASC.
Quite a number of readers of austraLasia are either ASC memebrs, or SDB or FMA Delegates of local or provincial groups, and they may well have been despairing of being able to contribute to the vigorous debate raging over what is a complete overhaul of the earlier Regulations. Despair no longer! If it needed to be done for one, then the upside is that hundreds of others can benefit.
Worth stressing that this is a working translation and while it has been made readable, and has tried to avoid some of the easy traps that 'working translations' can fall into, it is not an official translation, just as the draft Italian text is not yet an official text. There will be errors, some of them pertaining to the original and some of them introduced by the translator! But if you needed an English text then today you are light years ahead of where you were yesterday!
Happy reading. And, oh, where do you get hold of the text? You can downlaod it (it's not a huge file) from www.bosconet.aust.com/cooperators.htm If that causes any problems, just go to Bosconet homepage, click on Salesian Family and follow further directions to Salesian Cooperators. You will find the file at the third dot point in blue on that page.
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New Salesian Cooperator draft Regulations
ROME: 29th September 2005 -- It is an accident of history, and because of a foolish pledge made in a moment of weakness to a member of the Cooperators' World Council, that there is now an English translation of the draft Regulations for the ASC.
Quite a number of readers of austraLasia are either ASC memebrs, or SDB or FMA Delegates of local or provincial groups, and they may well have been despairing of being able to contribute to the vigorous debate raging over what is a complete overhaul of the earlier Regulations. Despair no longer! If it needed to be done for one, then the upside is that hundreds of others can benefit.
Worth stressing that this is a working translation and while it has been made readable, and has tried to avoid some of the easy traps that 'working translations' can fall into, it is not an official translation, just as the draft Italian text is not yet an official text. There will be errors, some of them pertaining to the original and some of them introduced by the translator! But if you needed an English text then today you are light years ahead of where you were yesterday!
Happy reading. And, oh, where do you get hold of the text? You can downlaod it (it's not a huge file) from www.bosconet.aust.com/cooperators.htm If that causes any problems, just go to Bosconet homepage, click on Salesian Family and follow further directions to Salesian Cooperators. You will find the file at the third dot point in blue on that page.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For RSS feeds, subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/rssala.xml If you subscribe, email this information and your name will come off the regular email list. RSS eliminates problems such as multiple mailings, viruses, email bloat. Think about it!
