Is the holy grail in Florence? This is what Padre Pio believed

The Grail is the legendary cup with which Jesus celebrated the Last Supper and in which was collected, by José de Arimathea, the blood that flowed from his side pierced by the spear of the Roman centurion Longinos during the crucifixion. There is much speculation about where the cup would be kept. It has been … Read more

Holy Week Masses 2023: schedules and where you can watch the celebrations live

With the end of the month of March and the arrival of April, Holy Week finds its place and acquires the unique role it finds every year. The masses acquire a special role, due to the religious component they have, and there are many parishioners who attend this celebration with their relatives. This week, therefore, … Read more

The evolution of Joseph Ratzinger: from Vatican II to the Holy Office, dragged down by pessimism

Joseph Ratzinger He was born in 1927 in the Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn, the son of a rural policeman who moved numerous times during the first 10 years of the life of the until now Pope. He was a deeply believing Catholic and hostile to National Socialism: “He saw with incorruptible clarity that … Read more

Logbook. Goodbye to Ratzinger, when soft power also shoots the Holy Spirit

Benedict XVI, Pope Ratzinger Pope Ratzinger’s resignation is linked to a singular coincidence for me: for a strange coincidence on the morning of 11 January 2013 in which he resigned I was called to commemorate the day of remembrance in the Tuscan regional council, an honorable task but a somewhat ritualistic (and I don’t like … Read more

Iconoclast: sacristans, saints (and holy pictures) by Martinello – Lo Spazio Bianco

Who is an iconoclast? The dictionary reads: “Destroyer of sacred images” and, figuratively, “unscrupulous and irreverent critic of principles and beliefs traditionally accepted as indisputable”. With Iconoclasthis latest comic published by Star Comics with the label Astra, Paul Martinello declines both concepts: physically starts from the first and psychologically enters the second in a book … Read more

In a musical “Eucharistic Manger” of prayer, songs and adoration on the feast of the Holy Family

The church of Santa Catalina in Valencia will hold a Christmas carol concert this Friday, December 30, at 8:00 p.m., after the celebration of mass at the Sagrada Familia festival. For this occasion, a group of Catholic singers will unite “towards Bethlehem” and “with their compositions, music and voices, they will help us to continue … Read more

Marseilles. Lecture by Manoël Penicaud: ‘Pilgrimages and shared holy places in the Mediterranean’

Terminal zero of the road to Santiago de Compostela, located on the forecourt of the Accoules church in Marseille (Photo BV) Manoël Pénicaud endeavored to present the frequentation of holy places as well as the practice of pilgrimages on all the cardinal points of the Mediterranean. What emerges is a complex and abundant contemporary reality, … Read more

Building a future based on cooperation: a meeting on the topic at the Italian Embassy to the Holy See

Discuss what are the concrete and viable ways to restore space for dialogue, then ask yourself how to build a new and more just system of international relations. Times are complex, the threat is serious, the effort must be, to use the words of Robert Schuman, “creative”. Within these objectives, the meeting “Europe and war: … Read more

On the use of the words “holy war” and “satanism” in the war in Ukraine

“Holy war”: here is a notion that we often hear lately in the Russian political space to justify Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. Regularly added are the terms of “satanicism” and D’“Antichrist”. Not all Russian social and political actors have the same representations of it, and these vary according to the audiences they address. But the … Read more