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Nine Hundred Years Since the First Lateran Council - What if a Pope From the 12th Century Were to Make a Speech Today?

It would not be surprising if the reader – precisely on account of being someone in the habit of reading – has already carried out the following mental exercise: imagining what the reactions of a certain personage from the past would be if he were to suddenly appear in our …
Ângelo Francisco Neto Martins - 28, February 2023

The Society of Jesus in Face of Persecutions - Resistance and Reaction!

A vessel facing a stormy sea, at risk of sinking at any moment and resisting the impact of the turbulent waves, can serve as an analogy to the career of some men and women who have marked the history of the Church and of nations by their heroic virtues. Such …
Sr. Luciana Niday - 28, February 2023

A Man Who Saved Christendom

The Island of Rhodes, 1523. Two gazes contemplate the same scene from contrary vantage points. One of them, full of hatred for the Cross of Christ, is on the beach, watching an enemy ship slowly navigating out to sea. The other, extremely idealistic, is in the stern of the ship, …
Gabriela Cristina Rodrigues - 28, February 2023

The “Glorioso” - The Story of a Ship that Made History

The sea… an open book in which so many great and small stories are written! Some totally submerged, abandoned to their fate in the obscure and rare beauty of deep seas. Who would not like to know them? Others, unscathed by the waves of time, seem to defy the centuries, …
Dcn. Francisco Javier de Oyarzábal Gutiérrez-Barquín, EP - 28, February 2023

The Brilliant Trajectory of an Historic Pope

An admirable theologian, a shrewd diplomat and a most influential ecclesiastic: these are some of the attributes of the one who has just departed this life, Pope Benedict XVI. Hardly anyone could more aptly fulfil all the requirements for the office of Supreme Pontiff in our times than Joseph Ratzinger; …
Miguel Ferrari - 31, January 2023

Upon the Rock That Is Peter

Technology has made astonishing progress in the field of armaments over the past decades. Innovations of this kind are frequently reported, even more so in the context of the threatening conflict in Ukraine. Nevertheless, a nation’s military power cannot be reduced to the mere production and stockpiling of weapons. In …
Javier Antonio Vásquez - 31, January 2023

The Exile of Avignon and the Great Western Schism - Holy Even in Exile, Immortal Despite Schism

It is said of Cardinal Ercole Consalvi that, in conversation with an opponent of the Catholic religion, he jokingly asked: “How do you think you can destroy the Church if not even we cardinals have managed to do it?…” Historical or not, these words contain a profound truth. Two thousand …
Marcus Shing Yum Yip - 31, January 2023

Letters From a Wise and Prudent Virgin

For some decades now the age-old habit of writing letters has been disappearing. Since ancient times, written on papyrus or parchment and even on clay or stone tablets, these means of communication have always reflected the customs, education and mentality of the peoples. The millennia-old stone stelae, tablets on which …
Angela Maria Tomé - 31, January 2023

It Can No Longer Be Hidden: He Is God!

If the poet Luis de Camões called the Portuguese overseas adventures “daring Christian feats,”1 what words would he use in his writings to refer to the holy exploits that marked the fourth century from end to end? Restricted to underground and clandestine worship in Rome, the persecuted Christians who lived …
Arthur Felipe Grando - 30, September 2020

A Simple but Expressive Gesture

Martyrdom of St. Nunilo - Monastery of San Salvador of Leyre (Spain) The moral value of a person lies above all in the attitude of restraining evil passions and ordering the affections of the soul in accord with God’s will. However, this disposition must also be reflected exteriorly: in conduct, …
Sr. Maria Gabriela Fiúza - 30, September 2020

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