mercoledì 16 settembre ore 18 presentazione del libro di e con Mario Cardano e Nicola Pannofino edito da il Mulino, con Luigi Berzano, docente di Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi – Università di Torino, Stefania Palmisano, docente di Religioni nel mondo globalizzato – Università di Torino e Stefano Pitrelli, giornalista. Gli autori, attraverso lo studio di narrazioni online e interviste a ex membri, analizzano i processi di deconversione da quattro movimenti religiosi attivi in Italia, diversi per organizzazione e dottrine – Damanhur, Soka Gakkai, Testimoni di Geova e Scientology.
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Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican
By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report.
VATICAN CITY — On a sunny morning earlier this year, a camera crew entered a well-appointed apartment just outside the 9th-century gates of Vatican City. Pristinely dressed in the black robes and scarlet sash of the princes of the Roman Catholic Church, Wisconsin-born Cardinal Raymond Burke sat in his elaborately upholstered armchair and appeared to issue a warning to Pope Francis.
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A pope beloved by many secular intellectuals is also passionate about miracles and relics
By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report.
NAPLES, Italy — The faithful here are still talking about Pope Francis and the holy blood.
On an official trip to this ancient city in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, Pope Francis entered the local cathedral to pray to Januarius, the patron saint of Naples. Januarius’s 1,700-year-old dried blood is known to “spontaneously liquefy,” a phenomenon seen by true believers as a miraculous sign from above. Those gathered watched anxiously as Francis prayed before, then kissed, the ornate silver-and-glass reliquary containing the coagulated clot.
And lo and behold, the dark stain dissolved.