Forget the Vatican … Italy may be the real political headache for the Pope
Polls show a commanding advantage for the center-right coalition led by the Fratelli d’Italia party under Giorgia Meloni.
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by bcadmin | Aug 27, 2022 | Italian politics, lead, Matteo Salvini, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis | 0 |
Polls show a commanding advantage for the center-right coalition led by the Fratelli d’Italia party under Giorgia Meloni.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 31, 2022 | Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Immigration, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, News, Pope Francis, Racism | 0 |
This weekend during all Masses in the Archdiocese of Fermo in central Italy, a moment of silence will be observed in place of the usual homily to honor a Nigerian immigrant beaten to death in broad daylight.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2022 | Canada, Clerical Abuse, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, News, News Analysis, Opus Dei, papal apology, Pope John Paul II | 0 |
The capacity to apologize is almost a defining feature of the modern papacy. In the old days, being pope meant never having to say you were sorry – popes never admitted error, and they certainly never acknowledged fault.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2021 | Catholic, Church in Europe, Cross, Crux in Hungary and Slovakia, Donald Trump, lead, Matteo Salvini, News, Pope Francis, Slovakia, Viktor Orbán | 0 |
Pope Francis on Tuesday said that the cross is not a flag to be waved nor a political symbol..
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 12, 2021 | Amoris Laetitia, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, cardinals dubia, Dialogue, Hungary, lead, Matteo Salvini, Migrants, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, St. John Paul II, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
The Vatican is, and likely always will be, much better at dialogue ad extra than ad intra.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Italian politics, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, Medjugorje, News, News Analysis, Our Lady of Fatima, Populism, rosary, Traditionalists, Virgin Mary | 0 |
Over the centuries, no figure in Catholic life has inspired a more motley galaxy of populists, insurrectionists, anti-establishment firebrands and cultural warriors than the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 19, 2021 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Donald Trump, Giuseppe Conte, Italian politics, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, News, News Analysis, President-elect Joseph Biden | 0 |
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte faces a crucial no-confidence vote in the senate today, and the Vatican will be watching with interest.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 12, 2020 | Cei, Church in Europe, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, migrants and refugees, News, Proactiva Open Arms | 0 |
Former Italian deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, a populist and known opponent of Pope Francis and the Italian bishops on the issue of immigration, is on trial for kidnapping related to his refusal to allow migrants to disembark a rescue ship in 2019.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2020 | Italy, lead, Lega Nord, Masonry, Matteo Salvini, Midnight Mass, News, News Analysis | 0 |
Over the course of twenty-plus years of visiting and living here, I’m often amused by the foibles and idiosyncrasies of Italian life that reflect its utterly unique cultural matrix.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 15, 2020 | Catholic-Muslim relations, Church in Europe, Document on Human Fraternity, Islamic extremists, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, Migrants, Milan, News, News Analysis, Silvia Romano, United Arab Emirates | 0 |
ROME – Yesterday was a special day of universal prayer for healing from the coronavirus proposed by the “Higher Committee for Human Fraternity,” a body formed in the wake of Pope Francis’s 2019 trip to the United Arab Emirates, and the “Document on Human Fraternity” he signed there along with
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 11, 2020 | Cei, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Italy, lead, Lega Nord, Mass, Matteo Salvini, News, News Analysis, quarantine | 0 |
However silly or politically opportunistic, one reason populist politicians get traction when they raise the question of restarting normal Church life is because they seem to be the only ones talking about it.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2020 | Canon Law, Church in Europe, COVID-19, Easter, Holy Week, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, News | 0 |
With Easter just days away, debate continues to swirl about how accessible churches and pastors should be on the holiest day on the Christian calendar – and, for that matter, whether Easter ought to be celebrated next Sunday at all.
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