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Gerardo Ferrara

Licenciado en Ciencias Políticas (especialización historia, política y lenguas de Oriente Próximo) es investigador en la Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz, donde trabaja también en el departamento de promoción internacional.

Escritor de novelas y de artículos sobre historia del cristianismo, del islam, del judaísmo y de política internacional y conferenciante, colaboró con medios como la RAI, BBC, COPE, Televisión nacional de Perú y otros.

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Articles by Gerardo Ferrara

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Santa María la Mayor: A Home for Everyone

Santa María la Mayor is the oldest Marian church in the West. A celebration is held on August 5 to commemorate its founding.

Gerardo Ferrara

5 Aug 2026

Saydnaya and Maaloula: Where the Language of Jesus Is Still Spoken

Two iconic sites of Eastern Christianity, Saydnaya and Maaloula, still preserve millennia-old traditions, including a variant of Aramaic, the language associated with Jesus.

Gerardo Ferrara

12 Jul 2026

Madeleine Delbrêl. God Is Not Dead!

Madeleine Delbrêl was not a nun, a founder, or a theologian, but a laywoman, artist, and activist immersed in difficult realities, who found her mission (and God) on the street—literally.

Gerardo Ferrara

4 Jul 2026

Dorothy Day: God's Anarchist

From militant socialist and anarchist to a reference point for American social Catholicism, Dorothy Day embodied an uncomfortable and radical faith that united contemplation, commitment to the poor and resistance to the dominant culture.

Gerardo Ferrara

14 Jun 2026

The Pantheon: a temple for all

The Pantheon: four functions, four eras, four value systems that have coexisted over the centuries in harmony under a dome open to the sky.

Gerardo Ferrara

24 May 2026

Istanbul: the ancient Constantinople

Istanbul is a city of two continents, of different names and peoples, with millions of stories that overflow its streets.

Gerardo Ferrara

18 May 2026

Meteora: the monasteries suspended between heaven and earth

In 1988, UNESCO inscribed the monasteries of Meteora on the World Heritage List. The official motivation speaks of an “extraordinary harmony between the human work and the natural landscape”. Indeed, here one really feels in harmony with everything: the tenacity of the human being, his faith and obstinacy to build where it would not be possible.

Gerardo Ferrara

3 May 2026

Human Rights: Christian Roots and Contemporary Challenge

All fundamentalism - whether religious or ideological - is incompatible with the effective recognition of the dignity and rights of the person, because it arises from a refusal to face the complexity of reality and generates exclusion.

Gerardo Ferrara

17 Apr 2026

Athos, the republic of prayer

Karl Rahner's words come to mind: "The Christian of the third millennium will either be a mystic or he will not be. And Athos, with its monastic republic, is a pearl of mysticism and peace in an increasingly troubled world.

Gerardo Ferrara

1 Apr 2026

The Basilica of San Clemente: a historical and archaeological «lasagna».

I will not talk about lasagna, but about a church that is, in itself, a real “lasagna” of history. The Basilica of San Clemente, The Colosseum, a few steps from the Colosseum, superimposes almost two thousand years of Rome under the same floor.

Gerardo Ferrara

7 Mar 2026