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Jesus, Our Contemporary
This is the title of the international event that will be held in Rome in the upcoming days. Conceived by Cardinal Ruini in accord with the "supreme priority" assigned by Benedict XVI to his own pontificate
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No Glorious Sunset for Cardinal Bertone
The leak of letters of accusation. The failed San Raffaele maneuver. The secretary of state is increasingly alone, in a curia he does not govern and with a pope he does not help
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Vatican Diary / For Venice the pope did it all himself
The new patriarch has been personally chosen by Benedict XVI. He comes from Genoa, and is a disciple of Cardinal Siri. He is a committed Ratzingerian, in both theology and liturgy
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Vatican Diary / Viganò, the untouchable
The current nuncio to Washington cannot stand having been driven out of Rome. And he is reacting against his archenemy, Cardinal Bertone. He has many supporters in the curia. And the pope is getting caught in the fray
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Brazil. The Pentecost of Father Marcelo
The face of Catholicism is changing in the most populous country of Latin America. The Charismatics are flourishing by the millions. And they have a star in a priest who fills stadiums by preaching the love of God
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Vatican Diary / The Neocatechumenals get their diploma. But not the one they were expecting
The Holy See has approved the rites that mark the stages of their catechism. But the particularities with which they celebrate their Masses still remain under observation. Some of them are permitted. Others not
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Benedict XVI, the Reformer
It is "reform," he says, that is the key to interpreting Vatican Council II and the evolution of the magisterium, "in the continuity of the subject Church." This is what Lefebvre and the traditionalists have never wanted to accept. Gilles Routhier reconstructs the past and present of the controversy
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"Placet" or "Non placet"? The wager of Carmen and Kiko
The founders of the Neocatechumenal Way aim to obtain definitive Vatican approval for their "convivial" way of celebrating the Mass. The document is ready. But it could be modified or blocked in extremis. The verdict on January 20
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Vatican Diary / Too many Italian and curia cardinals? John XXIII made even more
And the pope who made the fewest was Pius XII. The statistics on the cardinals created by the last six pontiffs rescale the criticisms of Benedict XVI, rekindled by the announcement of the next consistory. For Africa as well, no about-face
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Diplomatic and Combative. The Two Faces of Church Geopolitics
In the address to ambassadors at the start of the year, Benedict XVI has remained silent about China. But the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions is shouting at the top of its lungs. And it has named as "man of the year" two bishops made to disappear in the prisons, out of hatred for the faith
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Music New and Old, from the Jungles of Paraguay
The best of Baroque Europe wedded to the folk traditions of the Guaranì of South America. A masterpiece of "inculturation" of the Gospel, conceived by the Jesuits of the seventeenth century and presented again today by local musicians. A lesson for the Churches of old Europe
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Christmas in Jail, on Mount Athos
Under arrest in Greece, the abbot of the most important monastery of the holy mountain. The patriarch of Moscow calls for his release. The patriarch of Constantinople is silent. The rivalry between the two rekindled by the voyage in Russia of a relic of the Virgin Mary
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Vatican Diary / Sant'Egidio in supervised freedom
The secretariat of state authorizes "La Civiltà Cattolica" to publish a glowing article on the Community. But with numerous excisions of the original text, on points of disagreement. Here they are one by one. As for the founder, Riccardi...
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Vatican Diary / Sant'Egidio in supervised freedom
The secretariat of state authorizes "La Civiltà Cattolica" to publish a glowing article on the Community. But with numerous excisions of the original text, on points of disagreement. Here they are one by one. As for the founder, Riccardi...
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Vatican Diary / Sant'Egidio in supervised freedom
The secretariat of state authorizes "La Civiltà Cattolica" to publish a glowing article on the Community. But with numerous excisions of the original text, on points of disagreement. Here they are one by one. As for the founder, Riccardi...
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Vatican Diary / Sant'Egidio in supervised freedom
The secretariat of state authorizes "La Civiltà Cattolica" to publish a glowing article on the Community. But with numerous excisions of the original text, on points of disagreement. Here they are one by one. As for the founder, Riccardi...
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Vatican Diary / Sant'Egidio in supervised freedom
The secretariat of state authorizes "La Civiltà Cattolica" to publish a glowing article on the Community. But with numerous excisions of the original text, on points of disagreement. Here they are one by one. As for the founder, Riccardi...
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Vatican Diary / The next cardinals, name by name
The consistory is scheduled for February 19. With seven new cardinals in the curia. And then in Berlin, Toronto, Utrecht, Hong Kong, Prague, New York, Lebanon, India... In a successive conclave, the electors appointed by Benedict XVI will be in the majority
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"God has appeared. As a child"
"God became poor. His Son was born in the poverty of the stable. In the child born in the stable at Bethlehem, we can as it were touch and caress God." The pope's homily for Christmas Eve
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Ecumene in Music. Bach the Lutheran on the Bishops' TV
Between Christmas and New Year's, TV 2000 will air all of the Cantatas composed by Bach for the Masses of the Christmas season. With the theologian and musicologist PierAngelo Sequeri revealing their true essence. A lesson for the Catholic liturgies as well
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