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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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Georges Lemaître, the priest who proposed the Big Bang theory

On International Mathematics Day, this article remembers Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest, mathematician and physicist who developed the Big Bang Theory.

Paloma López Campos

14 Mar 2024

– Supernatural Kulturkampf ("cultural battle") of Prussia against Catholicism

Prussia, whose identity was linked to Protestantism, always perceived Catholicism as a threat to national cohesion. However, the cultural battle strengthened the solidarity between the hierarchy and the laity of the Church, as well as the bond with the Pope.

José M. García Pelegrín

12 Mar 2024

Catherine Mary Drexel, Apostle of the American Indians

On October 1, 2000, St. John Paul II canonized Katharine Mary Drexel (Katharine Drexel), an American nun who dedicated her life to the Native American apostolate.

Paloma López Campos

3 Mar 2024

The "sacramental house", a Central European Eucharistic specialty

In Romanesque, but especially Gothic and Renaissance churches, especially in Germany, the Blessed Sacrament was reserved in richly ornamented tower-like architectural elements, attached to walls or free-standing.

José M. García Pelegrín

2 Mar 2024

"Holiness, your influence is great - what are you doing against injustice?"

This is one of the questions, among more than a hundred, that the homeless and homeless poor from all over the world have asked the Pope, and which have been collected with the answers of the Holy Father, in an interview book by Fundación Lázaro, presented at the Francisco de Vitoria University and published by Voz de Papel. Francis' words are a challenge to everyone.

Francisco Otamendi

28 Feb 2024

The Passion of Christtwenty years later: film or miracle?

Twenty years ago, in the midst of an arduous controversy, it arrived in theaters all over the world. The Passion of Christco-written and directed by Mel Gibson, and starring Jim Caviezel. To this day, this unique film continues to arouse both admiration and rejection. This article summarizes the history of its eventful production and offers some keys to understand a success that goes beyond any human expectation. The two decades that have passed allow us to revisit it again, with the serenity and evidence that the passage of time imprints.

Alejandro Pardo

25 Feb 2024

Hagia Sophia of Constantinople, between East and West

At the end of February 532, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian ordered the construction of the Basilica of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which was the great church of the Eastern Roman Empire until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Loreto Rios

23 Feb 2024

The Eucharist, eternal source of poetic inspiration

The cult of the Eucharist has been reflected throughout the centuries in numerous literary and poetic works. Moreover, some cultural references, such as Chesterton or J. R. R. R. Tolkien, have been characterized by a great Eucharistic devotion.

María Caballero

17 Feb 2024

"The Chosen," the fourth season of a hit series.

The fourth season of "The Chosen" is coming. Throughout the month of February, the new episodes of this series that shows the life of Jesus and his first disciples will be released.

Paloma López Campos

14 Feb 2024

The "beautiful faithful" or how to transmit the attractiveness of faith today in a faithful and creative manner

Communication professor Alberto Gil shares in a 160-page book his vast experience in rhetoric, offering it to the service of faith communication.

José M. García Pelegrín

13 Feb 2024

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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¿Cuál es el pensamiento político de san Agustín?

Santiago Leyra Curiá

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

Francisco Otamendi