Physicist Paolo di Lazzaro, research manager of the Aeneas of Frascati and Vice Director of the International Centre of Sindonology, expressed the same criticisms during an episode of La vita in diretta last 17th of July, albeit in the very limited time to reply that was conceded to him.
Some talk about the forced evangelisation of the Americas. We read about “colonialism”, “Christian conquests”, and “imposition of Christianity”. What is true about that?
The conversion of Muslims. In Iran the path of the ex terrorist of ISIS, the jihadist group. But many are the stories of conversions from Islam, and many have to do with dreams.
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.
