from Ventimiglia, Michele Luppi

Reportage

Every Friday morning, the parking area opposite the church of St. Anthony of Gianchette, a few blocks away from the seafront and from the centre of Ventimiglia, is filled with cars bearing French licence-plates. They belong to the inhabitants of Menton and of other towns on the French Riviera who cross the border to do […]

Bozzolo and Barbiana

Bozzolo and Barbiana, Don Primo Mazzolari and Don Lorenzo Milani. Two realities at the margins of the centres of power and prestige, two marginalized voices – owing to their vocation to live the Gospel embodied in history. For the two Italian priests this meant giving back the word to the poor, engaging in dialogue with […]

Caught between terrorism and Brexit

“London is a city that has grown used to confronting terrorism along with the panic it spreads since the attacks perpetrated by IRA, the paramilitary organization of Northern Ireland that fought for a united Ireland. I am convinced that the city will overcome the crises of the past months, blemished by a series of terror […]

Message for the world day of the poor

Pope Francis’ establishment of a special World Day of the Poor ought to be seen in the light of the general project of his pontificate condensed in the exhortation Evangelii gaudium. In fact its content can be encapsulated in three points: First of all, the option for the poor, which must be understood as “a special […]

Religious freedom

The law is equal for all, but in Sofia it is interpreted differently. It is the case of specific Church property that the Financial Department of the City Council has unexpectedly decided to consider “simple dwellings.” The case dates back to 2014, when a tax investigation was carried out on the Catholic Exarchate of Sofia, […]

Reflection

For a long time my generation experienced the Corpus Domini procession, with the monstrance and the holy canopy solemnly passed through the town streets, as the most significant symbolical image representing a specific presence of the Church in society. Now that, conversely, there are many who intend to impose State secularism, to the extent of […]

Vocational discernment

The General Secretariat of the Synod has announced the opening of a website in preparation for the XV Ordinary General Assembly on the theme of “Youth, faith, and vocational discernment”, which will be held in the month of October 2018. The website will be available from today at: youth.synod2018.va. We have asked Card. Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary […]

Events and spirituality

The “Long night of the Churches” is an international event that draws inspiration from a proposal advanced in the framework of ecumenical dialogue across a number of European Countries, whose major events will take palce this evening, Friday June 9, with the adhesion of Austria, Estonia, Czech Republic and Slovakia. But the project, that was […]

Climate change and politics

Last week President Donald Trump announced that the United States would pull out of the Paris Climate Agreements, negotiated by 195 Countries in 2015 to reduce global warming. Three experts from Stanford University in California, members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or with environmental and International Law competences, shared their reading of the […]

June 4 1943

Next June 26 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Don Lorenzo Milani. For the occasion Pope Francis will go on pilgrimage on his tomb, in Barbiana, on Tuesday June 20, celebrating the recurrence a few days in advance. However, another date, in this month that ushers in the summer, is especially consecrated to […]