Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Gabriele Caccia as the new Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. Archbishop Caccia, 68, has served as Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN since 2019, and succeeds Cardinal Christophe Pierre, 80, who has held the post since 2016.
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here in the latest issue of "Chicago Studies" the text of my 2024 Paluch Lecture at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary: "A Crisis in the Meaning of Catholic Tradition. The Fundamentalist Temptation of Canceling the Past"
one more week (deadline March 13) to submit a paper proposal for one of the Global Catholicism panels organised by Bryan Froehle and myself for the 2026 annual conference of the European Academy of Religion in Rome
"Greater North America", Trump America's Lebensraum
(questa qui sotto e' una citazione dalla conferenza stampa del Ministro della Guerra, Hegseth, ieri)
dicebamus
che vergogna
the Catholic editor of the magazine First Things
this war is Game of Theocracies (three of them)
il senatore democratico della Pennsylvania (che quando lo si sente parlare e’ evidente che ha delle grosse difficoltà cognitive di base)
the fetishisation in America today of war, combat, troops, and ultimately death. The Church should say something on this. It is a Bonhoeffer moment not less than it is for the immigration issue.
Trump, Vance, Hegseth and others in this administration are those that come from a certain type of entertainment culture. Politics has become divorced from culture - books and the arts and even journalism: first politics allied itself with entertainment television, then expanded to social media.
at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum
One of the consequences of this war is that some people around the world will truly believe that the Jesus Christ of ALL Christians is the one of Trump, Hegseth, Vance, Mike Johnson, and the circus of preachers around the White House.
la posizione del Vaticano sulla guerra in Iran e nella regione non sta raggiungendo il mondo perchè non raggiunge i media non cattolici, neanche in America al tempo del papa 'born in the USA'.
Per esempio, sul NYT l'ultimo articolo che riporta notizie di papa Leone XIV è del 25 febbraio.
The situation is so tragically serious that today the Vatican Secretary of State invokes Immanuel Kant (for a long time viewed as a direct threat to Catholic doctrine) in this interview: “A violation of right in one part of the world is felt in all parts.” www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
la posizione del Vaticano sulla guerra in Iran e nella regione non sta raggiungendo il mondo perchè non raggiunge i media non cattolici, neanche in America al tempo del papa 'born in the USA'.
Per esempio, sul NYT l'ultimo articolo che riporta notizie di papa Leone XIV è del 25 febbraio.
the situation in Iran and the Middle East is such that the question of the long-term interreligious relations in the region AND globally (esp. Jews, Muslims, and Christians) has been completely relegated to the background.
Trump wants to punish Spain. One American who will keep his relationship with Spain is the pope - papal trip to Spain coming soon
AI is now in the war room. The Pentagon is using advanced tools — blurring the line between human control and machine decision-making. So who’s really making the call? Peter Devlin takes a look
Macron show of force made me think about one of the candidates of the 2025 conclave, cardinal of Marseille - we might have gad a French pope.
It would be interesting to make a list of cardinals from nuclear-weapon countries and of cardinals from countries neighboring with nuclear-weapon countries
tomorrow at Marist University in Poughkeepsie, New York
una delle differenze tra gli USA e l'Iran oggi è che per certi versi l'Iran è più secolarizzato dell'America
maybe there’s also a Savonarola barbecue
a match made in heaven for gelateria Catholicism (Austin, Texas airport)
come diceva quello, “smell of victory” ?
Circa l'Iran: anche chi comanda nell'America di oggi ha in mente una teocrazia, a suo modo.
Quello di Hegseth e Vance e Trump è un universalismo ateo rispetto ai dogmi di fede che dice di proclamare.
Povero Tocqueville.
c'e' un evidente nichilismo e ateismo istituzionale nella teologia e fede politica praticata e predicata da Vance
today in Austin, Texas
my account has been restored
my X/Twitter account has been hacked and I am locked out. If you see strange stuff posted there, it’s not me. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
