The opening to religious freedom was not part of the initial program of reforms. The events after the Chernobyl disaster forced the secretary-president to change his attitude, added to the harmony that he established with John Paul II. But the Russians reproach him for the end of the USSR as a renunciation of his role … Read more
Amedeo Lomonaco, my article on VaticanNews –Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the college of cardinals, celebrated the funeral of the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, who died last August 8 at the age of 98 at the altar of the chair in St. Peter’s. At the end, as usual, … Read more
A long procession formed by the knights and ladies of the Order of Malta, by the picket of the Military Corps of the Italian Association and by the volunteers of the Italian Relief Corps, accompanied from the Church of Santa Maria in Aventino, in the complex of the Villa Magistrale, to the ‘adjacent to the … Read more