The historic agreement between China and the Vatican has been greeted with joy by the Chinese Catholics, by the clandestine Bishops, and by the missionaries who really know the situation. Let us listen to what they have to say.
Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Church. We exploit this occasion to publish a reflection by philosopher Feyerabend, whose quotation meant the censorship of Benedict XVI by some professors of the Sapienza University in 2008. Paul Feyerabend was professor at the main European universities as well as at the California University. His approach, as can be deduced, is absolutely secular.
Jesus was a Jew and had no intention of founding a new religion. This is a false argument. He introduced hiself as fulfilment of Jewish law and Torah.
The Viganò case and Ouellet. The former nuncio’s charges against Pope Francis have been defined as “false” and “blasphemous” by an ex close collaborator of Benedict XVI and by a pupil of John Paul II, Card. Marc Ouellet. His’ are well-documented replies, unlike the accusations by Viganò, after days of study in the Vatican’s archives.
Card. Caffarra, the dubia, and Pope Francis. One year after the death of the Archbishop of Bologna, many are remembering him. Amongst them, there are also the critics of the Pope, who exalted Card. Caffarra after the perplexities manifested about Amoris Laetitia. But three years before he passed on, Father Carlo gave a teaching on which many avoided reflecting
“Gay discrimination leads to suicide”. The psychiatrist Vittorio Lingiardi says it is but, in according with a recent study, the causes of homosexual suicide arise from problems between homosexual couples.
Believers scientists. The example of Nobel prize in Physics, William D. Phillips. He denied a conflict between science and religion, teaching that evolution does not contradict the Bible. He talks about that Universe so ordered that it is impossibile that it came out from nothing.
The report of Grandy jury of Pennsylvania about sexual abuse in USA Catholic Church. Two details are not mentioned by media: abuse date from twenty years ago and there aren’t in recent years. It is not paedophilia but pederasty.
The review of “Luther’s Jews” by Thomas Kaufmann. The father of Reformation wasn’t always anti-semitic, it showed up initially tolerant of the Jews. transformed to hate subsequentl, exacerbated by the daughter’s dead.
The religious conversion of Aldo Brandirali, former marxist after meeting with father Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation. Brandirali was among of leader of Italian 1968 revolution, founder of Servire il popolo [Serving the people] and the Maoist Union of Italian Communists.
