Faith · Madrid · Monarchies · Society
Leo XIV has flown into Madrid at the start of a six-day visit to Spain, to be held under the motto "raise your gaze". The country is passing through difficult times, especially as regards the unity of its people: society is quite literally split over migration, abortion
Archaeology · Faith · Observations · Society · Ethnography
In Lima, ahead of the presidential run-off, shamans gathered on Herradura beach and blessed portraits of both candidates, Fujimori and López Aliaga. The rite is repeated there every year and before every vote, and it is no exotica staged for the amusement of tourists but a living example of
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The American bishops proclaimed her patroness of the country in May 1846, eight years before the Vatican made the Immaculate Conception a dogma. The Immaculate Conception is one of the most widely reproduced images in Western art: a maiden in white and blue, a crescent moon beneath her feet, twelve
Faith · People · Pop Culture · Rome
Robert Prevost, while still a cardinal, admitted that he considered himself "quite the amateur" on the court, and regretted that after many years of mission in Peru he had hardly any opportunity to practise. Having moved to Rome, he took up the racket again and, according to the
Archive · Faith · New York · People · Humour
John Paul II really was a sportsman, and a keen one, but he did not play baseball, and that is not him in the photo. The picture is genuine, but it shows Gene Greytak, an American estate agent who made his name on his resemblance to the pontiff and worked
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The heads of the largest churches are bound together by snow. John Paul II skied all his life: first in Poland, in the Tatras, and then, having become pope, he slipped away in secret more than a hundred times to the Italian mountains, to Gran Sasso and Adamello, and gave
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris
According to tradition, the noble and learned Catherine sought a bridegroom who would surpass her in wealth, wisdom and beauty. A hermit monk told her that he knew just such a young man: Jesus. After she received baptism, Catherine was granted a vision of the Virgin with the Child. Christ
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Well, that's a turn-up! Candace Owens in the studio of "Parsuna" with Vladimir Legoyda. The mission "from Twitter to the Paterikon" has officially begun. Congratulations to the team, and to Vladimir Romanovich personally! We await the broadcast, we are preparing our dogmatic remarks,
Faith · Observations · Mores · Society
It is curious that the Oklahoma City Thunder, for their part, have been holding a public prayer of invocation before every home game, ahead of the anthem, for 20 years now. One is struck, on the one hand, by how actively the Christian denominations are involved in public life in
Faith · Society · People
30 May marks the 595th anniversary of the execution of Joan of Arc in the Old Market Square in Rouen. Today the day is observed in France as a national holiday, and in the Catholic Church as the Memorial of Saint Joan of Arc. Formally, she was charged with heresy,
Faith · Books · Observations · Science
IMLI RAN has published a two-volume study, "F.M. Dostoevsky's Novel Crime and Punishment: The Current State of Scholarship", edited by T.A. Kasatkina. It is the fourth book in the "current state of scholarship" project on Dostoevsky: before it came The Idiot
Faith · Art · Heritage
The Veiled Christ, 1753. In Italian the sculpture is known as “Cristo velato” The sculpture was to have been carved by Antonio Corradini, but after his death, when only a terracotta sketch remained, it was decided that the project would be completed by Giuseppe Sanmartino, who was 33 years old