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Vatileaks outcomes. Understanding the latest appointments

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 19 novembre 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Vatican

What has resulted from Vatileaks? First of all, isolating the Pope from its collaborators.  Who, after the leaking of documents –even if inconsequential– will dare to write freely to the Pontiff? Secondly, Vatileaks gave rise to a climate of suspicion that is seemingly favoring the return of the Vatican Old Guard.  This [...]

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Does the Church lack prophetic vision?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 5 novembre 2012 · 1 Comment · In church

At the end of the synod for the new evangelization, Benedict XVI personally announced that soon seminaries will be under the administration of the Congregation for the Clergy.  Currently, seminaries are under the administration of the Congregation for Catholic Education.  Soon, a Papal motu proprio will explain the motives leading to this decision.  [...]

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The Gospel leads to adult Faith. A look on Benedict XVI’s Papacy

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 27 febbraio 2012 · 2 Comments · In Benedict XVI

To be adult faithful. Not to be slave of the dictatorship of the public opinion. In the midst of the utter chatters and the leaks, Benedict XVI meets the priests of the dioceses of Rome. He never talks about scandals, and it is obvious, since he gives a lectio divina, a “divine lesson”. [...]

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Babylon. Behind the quiet revolution of Benedict XVI, guerrilla. From inside and outside the Church

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 13 febbraio 2012 · 1 Comment · In Holy See

«The important thing is that the message, the response of Fatima, in substance is not directed to particular devotions, but precisely to the fundamental response, that is, to ongoing conversion, penance, prayer, and the three theological virtues: faith, hope and charity. […] As for the new things which we can find in this message [...]

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Credo. Toward the Year of Faith. From Paul VI to Benedict XVI

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 5 dicembre 2011 · 3 Comments · In Benedict XVI

«Religious communities as well as parish communities, and all ecclesial bodies old and new, are to find a way, during this Year, to make a public profession of the Credo» Benedict XVI wrote these words in the apostolic letter Porta Fidei for the indiction of the year of Faith.

Will there be a

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Will the prayer save the spirit of Assisi?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 10 ottobre 2011 · Leave a Comment · In church

What is the difference a day can make? Right after September, 11 this single question – issued for the first times during the Seventies in a song by Esther Phillips – had been made hundreds, thousands and millions of times. Was what happened in New York in September, 11 really able to change [...]

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Grey eminences. From the Blessed John Paul II to Benedict XVI

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 2 maggio 2011 · Leave a Comment · In church

«For all the shame we feel over our failings, we must not forget that today too there are radiant examples of faith, people who give hope to the world through their faith and love. When Pope John Paul II is beatified on 1 May, we shall think of him, with hearts full of thankfulness, [...]

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