The president usually greets the Kennedy Center honorees at the White House before the official ceremony at the Kennedy Center. Speaking at the White House, Biden said Sunday’s events gave him an opportunity to build on the “We the People” themes of the week’s National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. and the State Dinner with French … Read more
What do the anticlerical screenwriter Pasolini and Pope Paul VI have in common? The same passion for Christ and the same revolt against the bourgeois mores of materialistic society. The publisher Michel Cool sees in them a common spiritual resistance to the chaos of the world. This year marks the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini … Read more
“Prophet” will be shown on November 15 and 17, and is an introduction to the man who led Poland through decades of communist rule and laid the foundation for John Paul II Speaking of the collapse of communism in the 1980s, historian Timothy Garton Ash noted that St. John Paul II, especially with his 1979 … Read more
Alain Cuny’s only feature film, a singular work adapted from the French writer’s famous fable, is coming out in theaters thirty years later. The Annunciation made to Mary is the story of a thwarted love in the 15th century. Violaine, betrothed to Jacques, puts her marriage in danger by kissing the leper Pierre out of … Read more
(Photo: Congregation Mission San Vincenzo de ‘Paoli) “On the occasion of World Mission Day 2022, I renew my resolve to send at least 1% of the members of the Congregation of the Mission each year to the ‘missions ad gentes’, about 30 confreres a year. This has been our desire for some time, this we … Read more
Before riding mechanics in Fast & Furious, Paul Walker lost face and the steering wheel in A trip to hella tense road-trip produced by JJ Abrams. Anyone who grew up in the 1990s couldn’t escape the phenomenon of neo-slashers, these post-modern horror films quoting Halloween, the night of the masks and others Friday 13 as … Read more
Lamezia Terme – The Parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Bella district of Lamezia Terme begins this new pastoral year under the sign of St. John Paul II, the Pope of the family. The parish community announces that “from Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 October some relics and … Read more
On a day like today, 20 years ago Pope Saint John Paul II published the apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, by which he incorporated five new mysteries, the luminous ones, to the traditional 15 meditated on in the Rosary. The luminous mysteries refer to the public life of Jesus and are: the Baptism of the … Read more
At a time when it is fashionable to mourn the very word religion, why praise it? Indeed, it takes a good dose of impertinence to praise religion as it has a bad reputation today. But I believe this untimely audacity necessary, because religion does indeed offer treasures of wisdom that open up the possibilities of … Read more
He had made the Greco-Roman world his playground and exploration, taking pleasure in making intelligible aspects of ancient societies hitherto unknown. Historian and honorary professor at the Collège de France, Paul Veyne died yesterday at the age of 92. Born in Aix-en-Provence, the young Paul was less fascinated by the treasures of light from the … Read more