Perdonanza 2022, the Pope, Claudio Baglioni, the parade, postcards from Piazza Duomo and Collemaggio. A memorable edition also thanks to those who told it. In the great organizational machine the work, behind the scenes, of the communication staff. When the Holy Door closes, the bubble returns to ‘home’, the extras undress and the boxes are … Read more
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
Pope francescoSt. Peter’s Square – Wednesday, 7 September 2022 [vedi vatican.va] Catechesis on Discernment: 2. An example: Ignatius of Loyola Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! We continue our reflection on discernment – in this time we will speak every Wednesday about spiritual discernment – and for this it can help us to refer to … Read more
Some of the artists that are part of this privileged group are: Andrea Bocelli, Denzel Washington, J Balvin, Eduardo Verástegui, Alexander Acha, Jessica Oyelowo, David Oyelowo, Edwina Findley, Jonathan Roumie, Patricia Heaton, Hayley Atwell, Darius Marder, Issac Chung, Pete Doctor, Pauletta Washington, Dan Lin, Marcus Mumford, Bull Nene, Alessia Cara, Julio Reyes Copello, Eva Cavalli, … Read more
It was inevitable that Pope Francis sooner or later would arrive at the reflection on a word so beautiful and so important in the spirituality of the Jesuits: “discernment”. In fact, last Wednesday he began a new cycle of catechesis centered precisely on the experience of “discernment”. “Discerning” or, as the dictionary explains, seeing clearly … Read more
“The sister mother earth who cries. At the mercy of our consumer excesses, it groans and begs us to stop our abuses and its destruction “ ROME – The day for the custody of creation is an initiative wanted by the Italian Episcopal Conference in harmony with the other European churches which consists of an … Read more
Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia in a photo Vatican News «The 21st century is considered by scholars to be the century of old age. Without making noise, but without stopping the elderly have increased in number: in only one hundred years (from 1900 to 2000) the inhabitants of Western countries – but it will soon be the … Read more
A center of spirituality must help to “walk in the footsteps of Jesus”, writes Pope Francis in a handwritten letterdated January 30, 2022, addressed to Inès Maria Ordoñez de Lanus, founder of the Santa María Spirituality Centerin Argentina. The founder requested a word from the pope for the 50th anniversary of the center which publishes … Read more
It really happened, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door. The only Pope for 728 years. The day began with a dense fog, so dense that the helicopter pilot, as explained the same Francishad to change the flight plan and, as soon as he saw a crack in the clouds, he put his wheels on the … Read more
Ventura, Depardieu, Villeret, his beginnings as a “one of the worst reporters in France”… We could listen for hours to the whirlwind of anecdotes, always tinged with humour, from the rich career of Francis Veber. The Tourbillon, itis also the name of his new play which he will present at the Théâtre de la Madeleine, … Read more