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by bcadmin | May 31, 2021 | Church History, cooking, Genoa, Italy, lead, Naples, News, News Analysis, pasta alla genovese, Swiss Guards | 0 |
I’ve said before that a compelling history of the Catholic Church could be written in the form of an Italian cookbook, and on this holiday Monday I’ll prove the point through a dish chosen essentially at random.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, Mafia, Naples, News | 0 |
Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples ordered the removal from a church of two religious paintings that were donated by a mafia boss who led one of the prominent clans in the Camorra crime syndicate.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2021 | Art, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, Naples, News | 0 |
Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century “Salvator Mundi” painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic without the priests even realizing it was gone.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 13, 2020 | Christmas, COVID-19 coronavirus, Italy, lead, Naples, nativity set, News, News Analysis, St. Francis of Assisi | 0 |
If the Vatican isn’t actually where the action is in terms of the presepe, maybe we shouldn’t make such a fuss over whatever it chooses to put up every year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2020 | Archdiocese of Milan, Canon Law, Church in Europe, courts, garbage, Italy, lead, mountains, Naples, News, Shrines | 0 |
Part of the charm of living in Italy is the way Catholicism is so utterly woven into the fabric of life here.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 5, 2020 | Amoris Laetitia, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, cemetery, cinema, Divorce, Italy, lead, Naples, News, News Analysis, Totò | 0 |
A pop star kept at arm’s length by the Church during life now is spending eternity in the Church’s embrace, accompanied by an image in his honored blessed by the Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 12, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Delaware, Diocese of Wilmington, Italy, Naples, News | 0 |
So many people are keeping a close watch on the impact of coronavirus in Italy and elsewhere, but few are paying closer attention than Father Stanislao Esposito. The pastor of St. John the Baptist-Holy Angels Parish in Newark, Delaware, was born in Naples and his mother, Teresa, 83, two sisters and a brother are among family members who currently live in his native country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 21, 2020 | Associated Press, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, faith and sports, Italy, Naples, News, second, Soccer, sports | 0 |
The way the local Catholic church is intertwined with Napoli only heightens the feeling that following the team is a religion.
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