Friday, February 4, 2022
In recent decades, a new culture has taken hold in the world. Thanks in part to globalisation and a certain cultural flattening to US trends, the use of language is changing everywhere. This metamorphosis reflects a – sometimes morbid – attention to gender balance, inclusive language, avoiding expressions that might be offensive to one or another minority.
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Fr. Giuseppe Caramazza: “Epoch-making Challenges”
Bro. Paolo Rizzetto: “Sharing joys and struggles with the people”
Friday, February 4, 2022
I was called to a missionary service as a Comboni Brother in South Sudan, working in health care promotion, first as a faculty member in a school for obstetricians and nurses and, for the past four years, I have been entrusted with the responsibility of being the acting medical director and administrator of Mary Immaculate Hospital, located in the Lakes Region, 70 km from the capital Rumbek.
Edvard Dantas Cardenal: A Universal Brother
Friday, February 4, 2022
“Thinking and engendering an open world” is the title of the third chapter of the encyclical Fratelli Tutti. One of the longest chapters and certainly a central chapter in the unfolding of the document. I have read and reread it several times and each time I have found food for thought. “No one can experience the true beauty of life without relating to others, without having real faces to love” (FT 87). I would like to pause and reflect on this sentence from the document.
Father Alex Zanotelli: “Francesco’s Dream”
Friday, January 28, 2022
Pope Francis analyses in the first chapter “War, terrorist attacks, racial or religious persecution, and many other affronts to human dignity.” (FT 25) He does not talk so much about the ecological crisis, a theme addressed in Laudato Si’. Instead, he places great emphasis on this world of ours that clams up. “We are more alone than ever in an increasingly massified world that promotes individual interests and weakens the communitarian dimension of life.
Fratelli tutti: Summary of Chapter 2
Friday, January 28, 2022
In the second chapter of Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis presents a theological reflection on the reality we are living, in the light of the Gospel. The parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37) offers us a key to understanding the reality of exclusion and indifference, inequality and violence and the through away culture that characterise our time.
Father Francesco Pierli: “Listening to the Cry of the Poor”
Friday, January 28, 2022
Jesus speaks of the one who fell into the hands of robbers, but this represents all the men and women, assaulted, outraged, abused, unemployed, exploited, who have fallen into the hands of robbers throughout the ages. That fellow also represents all the poverty of today. Just as the brigands represent the whole structure of personal and social sin in our time.