Scouting still embodies the Church – Protestant Perspectives

Despite its independence and the youth of its leaders, the scout movement is intimately linked to the history and spirituality of the Protestant Churches. Its particular pedagogy has enabled young people who have barely been trained for more than a hundred years to accompany children and adolescents towards their future adult life, by anchoring themselves … Read more

Delpini after the jokes about Pope Francis: “Criticized for my irony, they want a boring Church”

from Giampiero Rossi The archbishop of Milan returns to the curtain in the Como Cathedral and denounces the language of “lamentation”. Then an appeal to politics: “From the next government I expect farsightedness, pride, resistance and kindness” The future as a frightening “accumulation of threats”. Language weighed down by “lamentation”, while irony seems almost “forbidden”. … Read more

“Elsewhere”: the exhibition in the church of Santa Maria dell’Angelo opens on 9 September at 6.30 pm

Investigate elsewhere to investigate yourself. The journey, the pilgrimage and the dream are the tools of man in the search for a spirituality that takes him to places he does not know. This is the message of the exhibition Elsewhere, wayfarers, pilgrims, dreamers, set up in the church of Santa Maria dell’Angelo in Faenza, by … Read more

The Argentine Church presented the synthesis of the first synodal stage

The document summarizes the work of the first stage of the synodal process dedicated to listening “where all the Churches of the country became sounding boards to hear the cries and dreams of the people.” vaticannews The Episcopal Conference of Argentina released the synthesis of what was worked on in the first stage of the … Read more

Rodrigo Guerra, on the attacks on the Church in Nicaragua: “Sandinismo fell into the manipulation of religious sensibility”

On August 19, the Daniel Ortega regime in Nicaragua illegally detained the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, and a group of priests and laity who were with him. The Academy of Catholic Leaders issued a manifesto –supported by more than 1,000 personalities from Latin America and Spain– in which they asked the Nicaraguan government to … Read more

Twin rituals in Benin: “We are not against the Catholic Church”, Synamitrab

The National Syndicate of Traditional Doctors and Intellectuals of Benin (Synamitrab) reacted to the standoff between Abbot Justin Boccovo and the Fâ priest David Koffi Aza on the twins ceremony. In a statement published this Thursday, August 11, 2022, the union invited the various actors to do things within the standards for peace. Synamitrab is … Read more

An oasis of peace in a corner of unspoiled nature, here is the church of San Lorenzo in the heart of the Sila

The charm of Calabria is often enclosed in some corners of the territory that smell of mystery. Places that seem to come out of fantastic tales or the paintings of the most famous painters. The imagination in our region more often than not it turns into a reality that leaves you breathless. An uncontaminated beauty … Read more

Palermo, the church of San Domenico with Falcone’s tomb is closed for works

«But what holidays. The church is closed for maintenance and extraordinary cleaning and we had also made it known in advance ». He silenced the false rumors that have been circulating for a few days, Father Sergio Catalano, rector of the church of San Domenico in Palermo. A sign has been posted on the main … Read more

Daniel Ortega continues his crusade against the Catholic Church and arrests a third priest

Oscar Danilo Benavidez Tinoco, pastor of the Holy Spirit Church, located in the municipality of Mulukukú, belonging to the Diocese of Siuna, became the third priest detained by the Daniel Ortega regime on Sunday. “We inform all our faithful Catholics that on the afternoon of today, Sunday, August 14, the priest Óscar Benavides, parish priest … Read more

Life story The dairy farmer who seeks to decontract the church and shows the activity of the field

(Clarín Rural) Father Julio César Ramos tells his story linked to spirituality, education and the countryside, and reviews the day to day at the La Trinidad Agrotechnical School, in Ferré, in the north of Buenos Aires “Young people are the future” has been said and is always said. But the truth is that young people … Read more