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From Mexico to the Vatican: The Catholic shrines that draw millions of people each year

From Mexico to Jerusalem, Catholic shrines and churches are scattered throughout the world, welcoming millions of visitors each year.

Paloma López Campos

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Cardinal Tolentino praises friendship in the face of ambiguous use of "love"

The Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, noted the "inflation of the word love" in today's society, to the detriment of friendship, which is "an inexhaustible path of humanization and hope," on the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas at the San Damaso Ecclesiastical University.

Francisco Otamendi

7 Feb 2025

The theological error of the Spanish Inquisition

As Mercedes Temboury Redondo argues, the theological error of the Inquisition consisted in trying to force the conversion of the defendant through a legal process.

José Carlos Martín de la Hoz

5 Feb 2025

In search of the theological foundation of sacred and liturgical music

The approach to music must be theological and liturgical. If this perspective had been adopted from the beginning, many historical problems could have been avoided, and the spiritual fruits in the world would have been greater.

Ramón Saiz-Pardo Hurtado

4 Feb 2025

Jesus of Nazareth and history

With the Enlightenment and secularization, many things that were taken for granted have been questioned, to the point of denying the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth, as well as his divine identity.

Gerardo Ferrara

1 Feb 2025

A Mass for Hard Times: Haydn's Nelson Mass

Listening to music composed for the ordinary of the Mass by a great composer is always an experience that nourishes faith and aesthetic enjoyment. If the composer is also a sincere Catholic, and the music is extraordinarily appropriate to a particular spiritual and historical situation, listening to the Mass becomes an interesting spiritual and human experience. A good example of this is the "Nelson Mass" by Franz Joseph Haydn.

Antonio de la Torre

30 Jan 2025

Eschatological awareness and signs of the times

Are we already living in an eschatological stage of the history of salvation, with foreshadowings of the parousia? Enrique Cases reflects on this in his latest book 'The Eternal Gospel'.

Francisco Otamendi

28 Jan 2025

An excellent spiritual biography of Tolkien

In addition to the good pace that characterizes this spiritual biography of Tolkien, the deeply instructive approach it presents stands out.

Carmelo Guillén

23 Jan 2025

Mosaic on earth: ethnicity and culture in Libya

In Libya, especially among Arabs, tribalism is still widespread, and tribes, especially the larger ones, play a key role in the management of local politics and society.

Gerardo Ferrara

15 Jan 2025

Catholic Scientists: Gregorio Marañón, physician, historian and politician

On January 15, 1960, Gregorio Marañón, Spanish physician, historian, politician, writer and thinker of the generation of 1914, died. This series of short biographies of Catholic scientists is published thanks to the collaboration of the Society of Catholic Scientists of Spain.

Marcelo Galarza y Vicentini

15 Jan 2025

Simone Weil, poet before philosopher

Qualified as the greatest thinker of love and misfortune of the twentieth century, Simone Weil is widely recognized for her essayistic work, but not for her genuinely literary writings, of which an unfinished play and a collection of poems that reaffirm her constant search for truth have been made known.

Carmelo Guillén

13 Jan 2025

Pope's Travels

The day I was a Swiss Guard

Papua New Guinea, second stop on Pope Francis' trip

“You don’t need to be rich or powerful, just have love,” says the Pope in Mongolia

Pope Francis in Marseille, plurality as a resource

Hungary: Pope Francis' next destination

Poverty, tensions and women: challenges ahead of the Pope's visit to Africa

The Catholic Church in Congo and South Sudan

The Pope travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. “Mbote François”, Okay, now, welcome!

Pope Francis and initiatives for dialogue with Islam

Interreligious and ecumenical dialogue, a weapon to defuse any conflict

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Omnes Editorial Staff

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Santiago Leyra Curiá

Miracles of the Virgin Mary and nature: 'the sun danced', snowfalls, flowers…

Francisco Otamendi