The MerAteneo cycle is back for the 10th year

“MerAteneo” is back, the series of cultural conferences, from February to May, which will touch on various themes: from Alessando Manzoni, to Russia up to military strategies in the Middle Ages. The meetings will be held on Friday afternoon in the auditorium of the municipality of Merate and registration will be required. MERATENEO, A UNIQUE … Read more

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings living a human experience”. This sentence by Teilhard de Chardin (priest and scientist) introduces the gospel of today, in which John the Baptist indicates Jesus, a man of the Spirit who immerses (baptizes) in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the very … Read more

In Rome, the institutional power pays homage to the blessed judge Livatino

In Rome, the institutional power pays homage to the blessed judge Livatino. That’s right. This was announced today on the front page of “L’Osservatore Romano” which talks about the white shirt worn by the Canicattinese judge Rosario Livatino when on 21 September 1990 he was killed by the mafia along the road between Canicattì and … Read more

Last homily of card. Pelt. Jesus remains the way, the truth and the life

We believers know well the blessings we have received in Jesus Christ, we know that “The people who lived in darkness saw a great light and that for those who lived in regions of shadow of death, a light has arisen” Isaiah 9.1. We know Jesus’ call, through the Baptist, to conversion: “Repent because the … Read more

Italy – Salesian Family Spirituality Days continue in Valdocco

(ANS – Turin) – In the Turin-Valdocco setting, the Salesian Family Spirituality Days continue at full speed. Yesterday evening, after the moment of discussion and debate with the speakers of the round table, the second day came to an end with the “Goodnight” and with a moment of prayer and song to Mother Mazzarello, performed … Read more

Religious tourism, art and rural tourism, Bishop Busca: “Coming together to optimize opportunities”

QUISTELLO – Path of faith, inner journey, response to man’s nomadic nature. The journey, understood as a pilgrimage between faith, art and food and wine is the theme chosen by Coldiretti Quistellorepresented by the president Roberto Siliprandi and by Mauro Piva, to celebrate the feast of Sant’Antonio Abate, protector of animals … Read more

Ideas. True nonviolence is an expert in truth and freedom

Truth is not a matter of knowledge alone, certainly not of a knowledge understood in a very limited way as an adequacy between intellect and thing. Truth is experimental, but not in the sense of the need to pursue it through an experiment, which produces what it intends to prove through a limitation of technically … Read more

«Overcoming the gap between the technical and the human by cultivating the spirituality of care»

The Conference promoted by the Milanese Section of Italian Catholic Doctors was held at the Ambrosianeum Foundation. The session was opened by the Archbishop’s Lectio Magistralis by Annamaria BRACCINI How to combine technique and technology, increasingly pervasive in medicine, with the human aspect of care? What training is needed, in ever-changing scenarios, for today’s doctors? … Read more

The homily of Sant’Ilario by Don Michele Guerra (by Andrea Marsiletti)

After the unmissable jokes in dialect that should express “the authenticity of parmesan”, the tender children’s choir, the parade along the corridor of the Regio of the nomenclature of the city, the self-referential rhetoric felt and resented to the point of exhaustion, the celebration of Sant’Ilario enters its climax: the mayor of Parma takes the … Read more

Mammuccini of FederBio: «There is no food sovereignty without agroecology»

Here is the complete text of the speech by Maria Grazia Mammuccini, president of FederBio, in the published section in the January issue of Terra Nuova magazine . «The concept of food sovereignty, as conceived by the peasant movements that coined it, was born about thirty years ago in opposition to a globalized agri-food model, … Read more