Pope at Mass in Trieste: Embracing the ‘Scandal’ of Faith
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Pope at Mass in Trieste: Embracing the ‘Scandal’ of Faith. This concept, he explained, involves a faith that deeply engages with human history, becoming a source of hope and a catalyst for positive change in the world.
Limiting consumption, not people
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All too often, the few rich and fortunate inhabitants of this unjust world demand – and even order and impose – that the many ‘cursed of the earth’ diminish in number, so that they themselves are not forced to change their all-devouring lifestyles.
Recognising the hidden witnesses
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Every Christian can be a guide in life and a teacher of faith, through informal teaching, daily encounters and chats, the concreteness of life, and the beauty and hardships of human experience. Such an ‘ancient ministry’ has been formally acknowledged.
Accomplice or transformer
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Only a direct exposure of the Church to the peripheries of the world, paired with a critical reflection, can change her perspective on the world and trigger a new imagination of the future of humanity.
No place in man’s reserve
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Injustice happens when a man speaks of women’s empowerment. Even worst a case, when a priest writes about women’s role in the Church. It is high time we listened to them.
Bioregional incarnation
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The world is increasingly hostage to a deep and broad ecological crisis. Stalking us for centuries, it is now upon us in the interlocking catastrophes of climate destruction, habitat degradation, species extinction, and resource exhaustion.
The greatest challenge
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After criticising what is inhumane, violent, degrading and exclusionary in today’s closed world, obscured by dark clouds, in Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis proposes possible paths that can lead us to fraternity and social friendship, thus fulfilling God’s dream for the world.
Revolutionary hope
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In his encyclical Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis presents a devastating challenge to our ecological, political, economic and social life. Above all, he offers the proclamation of an ineradicable, joyful truth, […]
Mission?
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What is it? Is it going to all peoples to bring them into a set of beliefs and lifestyles, or to build specific relationships with everybody and everything? If we […]
Daring
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Let us get out to the edges of normality and dare the dizziness of novelty. Then, and only then, wings will grow on our back. By Stefano Giudici, Mccj Is […]