As Italy votes, Pope channels the Stones: Getting what you need, not what you want
There’s one topic on which right now, Pope Francis and his populist foes may be each other’s best friends: Russia.
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by bcadmin | Sep 25, 2022 | Europe, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Populism, Putin, Russia, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
There’s one topic on which right now, Pope Francis and his populist foes may be each other’s best friends: Russia.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 4, 2021 | Cyprus, democracy, Europe, Greece, lead, Migration, Nationalism, News, Politics, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus, Populism | 0 |
Referring to modern Europe and the broader global landscape, Francis said that across the board “we are witnessing a retreat from democracy” due to both a lack of participation from citizens, and a growing lack of trust in institutions.
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 | Apr 18, 2021 | Alitalia, COVID restrictions, COVID-19 pandemic, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Populism, Workers' rights, World Meeting of Popular Movements | 0 |
When workers take to the streets to protest government measures that leave them unable to do their jobs, and thus impoverished and alone, under ordinary circumstances one would expect Pope Francis to be the cheerleader-in-chief.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 10, 2021 | Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Caritas Internationalis, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, News, Populism, Trócaire, Vatican | 0 |
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, head of the Vatican’s evangelization congregation, has expressed concern over the “hijacking” of religion by populist leaders who sow division and exploit the anger of those who feel excluded.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 8, 2020 | 2020 election, Fratelli Tutti, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Populism, President Ronald Reagan, St. John Paul II, Vice President Joe Biden | 0 |
Not only is Biden poised to become just the second Roman Catholic President of the United States, assuming his razor-thin victory survives the inevitable legal challenges, but he’s this pope’s kind of Catholic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2020 | 2020, Abortion, Abu Dhabi Document, Breathing Fire, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christian Humanism, Columns, culture of walls, Death penalty, Fratelli Tutti, G.K. Chesterton, Grand Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, Jesus Christ, Nationalism, News, Pope Francis, pope's new encyclical, Populism, Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World, St. John Paul II, The Catholic Thing, Thomas More College, Violence | 0 |
Robert Royal grades the pope’s new encyclical, which is crowded with mountains of repetition, conceptual vagueness, and utopian aspirations.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 4, 2020 | aggression, Assisi, Fratelli Tutti, lead, National Socialism, neoliberalism, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XI, Populism, Quadragesimo anno | 0 |
Parallels between Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, and Pop Pius XI’s warnings in the 1930s about a looming global conflagration are striking indeed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | alt-right, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Italy, News, Populism, Roberto de Mattei, Vatican | 0 |
European and American nationalists attending a conference Tuesday in Rome cheered Brexit, warned of left-wing “totalitarianism” and waxed nostalgic about St. John Paul II’s papacy and the “glorious revolution” that brought down communism.
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