A crucial assessment of the situation in Gaza from Ely Karmon, an Israeli intelligence expert, to the main Catholic daily in Italy, Avvenire. Karmon is also a member of the Israeli non-partisan group, the Coalition for Regional Security. The problems today are rooted in the choices made in 2009. To achieve real peace, these issues […]
The upcoming papal document will tackle the most sensitive issue right now — immigration; but it will take a different approach from the one adopted by some global governments. To sign his first document, he wore the mozzetta, a tradition that had not been observed since the time of Paul VI. A few hours later, […]
On Thursday, 9 October, Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural document will be presented at the Vatican: an apostolic exhortation on love for the poor entitled Dilexit te, on which his predecessor, Pope Francis, had already begun work. The new pontificate officially opens with a commitment to social justice and to contributing in shaping a higher, more […]
The history of Jesus is also that of walking a very fine line—a radical critique of the Roman imperial order (intertwining religious and political power) without aiming to topple or replace the Empire. Jesus contrasts the deification of the emperor with the presence of God in a marginal Jewish “prophet’s” everyday life. The two can […]
