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Will Pope Francis’ Church be able to go Beyond the Secular Agenda?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 29 giugno 2015 · 3 Comments · In Vatican

To encounter the secular world or to shape a new civilization? Pope Francis’ Church is divided between these two poles. Despite the Pope’s continual appeals in favor of desecularization, of going against the grain and of fighting ideological colonization (especially in terms of the family,) his notion of ‘going to the peripheries’ has [...]

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Pope Francis: the world behind ‘Laudato Si’

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 22 giugno 2015 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

The encyclical “Laudato Si” not only reveals Pope Francis’ thought concerning the social teaching of the Church and good ecological practices. The genesis of its drafting also reveals the world around Pope Francis. True, the Pope makes his decisions himself. But is is also true that there is a world around him, [...]

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Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Ecology: What to Expect and What Not

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 15 giugno 2015 · 4 Comments · In Vatican

What if Pope Francis’ encyclical on ecology is in reality a text with a broader message, and ecology is just a papal pretext to ask the world’s rulers for further mutual collaboration and a greater commitment to peace, and to ask people of good will to adopt a more sober lifestyle? A few days [...]

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To Go Where God Is Needed: Pope Francis’ Criterion for European Trips

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 8 giugno 2015 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

There must be a hidden criterion by which Pope Francis chooses the countries to which he travels. As far as the Old Europe is concerned, after the trip to Sarajevo the criterion seems clear: going where God is needed and where the thirst for God has created what he calls – when speaking about [...]

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Pope Francis, Between the Shadow Synod and a New Direction

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 1 giugno 2015 · 3 Comments · In Vatican

The past week began with a sort of “shadow synod,” that is a gathering of members from the Swiss, French and Germany Bishops’ Conferences dedicated to the issues to be discussed at the coming Synod of Bishops. Media representatives admitted to take part in the event were very few, and those few were [...]

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