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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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Trinità dei Monti, the beautiful unknown of Rome

In Rome there is a church of incalculable artistic value known as "Trinità dei Monti". Some of its characteristics are explained in this article, in order to encourage everyone to visit it.

Stefano Grossi Gondi

20 Feb 2023

February movie suggestions: The Durrelrells and Avatar

We recommend new releases, classics, or content that you have not yet seen in theaters or on your favorite platforms.

Patricio Sánchez-Jáuregui

19 Feb 2023

The Armenians. A genocide of more than a century

The Armenian genocide and the Jewish holocaust are related, to the extent that the former set the models that Hitler used for the extermination of the Jewish people.

Gerardo Ferrara

17 Feb 2023

Galileo: a convinced Christian

Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, engineer, mathematician and physicist, closely related to the scientific revolution, he was also a convinced Christian. And no, he was not killed by the Inquisition.

María José Hernández Tun

15 Feb 2023

Saint Valentine is today in... Ireland?

The feast of St. Valentine is celebrated both within the Church (locally) and in popular culture. His legend as an intercessor for favors in love makes him one of the best known saints. Temples in many countries claim to have his relics, however, it is difficult to know for sure. In a church in Dublin they claim to have the blood and some bones of the saint.

Paloma López Campos

14 Feb 2023

How the Vatican's economic organizations are organized following Praedicate Evangelium

The economic sector is one of the areas whose reform has been especially profound with Predicate Evangelium. With the new Apostolic Constitution, the number of economic agencies of the Holy See has risen to six. And all of them, with the exception of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), are newly created.

Pilar Solá Granell

8 Feb 2023

Holly Ordway. Not God's type

Conversion paths are always unique. Professor Ordway describes her journey to faith as an engaging fencing match in which academic reason finally surrenders to the loving Cross of Jesus and the motherly arms of Mary.

María Rosa Espot y Jaime Nubiola

7 Feb 2023

Vives, Moro and Catalina of Aragón

The prestige of Vives made Erasmus introduce the Spaniard to Thomas More. An episode that would link the figure of Vives to the vicissitudes of the chancellor of England and Catherine of Aragon.

Santiago Leyra Curiá

5 Feb 2023

Omnes Forum: "Interreligious dialogue, a path to fraternity".

"Interreligious dialogue, a path of fraternity". is the theme of the Omnes Forum that will take place on Thursday, February 16, 2023, on the occasion of the International Day of Human Fraternity. It is organized jointly by Omnes and the Episcopal Subcommission for Interconfessional Relations and Interreligious Dialogue of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. It will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the aula magna of the postgraduate campus of the University of Navarra in Madrid.

Maria José Atienza

4 Feb 2023

"Beauty," an essay by Roger Scruton.

Many artists have become disoriented and relativize the value of beauty in art. In fact, many have opted to replace beauty with a bad joke.

Juan Ignacio Izquierdo Hübner

3 Feb 2023

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

Trinità dei Monti, the beautiful unknown of Rome

February movie suggestions: The Durrelrells and Avatar