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Massimo Faggioli is an Italian academic, Church historian, professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University, columnist for… more

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there is no atheism like the crisis of faith of America in itself
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250 years after the Revolution, the American project remains unfinished and troubled, but “a project worth pursuing,” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic’s new issue.
The American Experiment
At 250, the Revolution’s goals remain noble and indispensable.
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250 years after the Revolution, the American project remains unfinished and troubled, but “a project worth pursuing,” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic’s new issue.
The American Experiment
At 250, the Revolution’s goals remain noble and indispensable.
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my latest in “Commonweal”
Today, in the transition from Francis to Leo XIV, we are transitioning from a basically inclusive “civil religion” of twentieth-century America to a political-religious messianism embodied by Donald Trump.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/charlie-kirk...
Transatlantic Trumpism
European history shows how political messianism can destroy the souls of churches. Could that happen in the United States?
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by Massimo Faggioli

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un altro esempio di Cardinal Parolin versione 2.0 in quanto ha detto oggi su Roccella e Auschwitz

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😂 ... finalmente il vero "Weltgeist zu Pferde" ...
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il dipinto del Papa che valica le Alpi su un cavallo bianco come Napoleone: il sogno proibito di tutti gli ultramontanisti
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interesting points by Douthat on pope Leo's "Dilexi Te". Interesting also that my fellow Catholic Ross in this article never mentions immigration and migrants (which could be a response to his focus on demographics)
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Opinion | The Pope Needs to Be More Specific
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seguono anche altre firme
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chiusa del discorso di Leone XIV al Quirinale oggi. Citazione dalla famosa omelia di Joseph Ratzinger del 18 aprile 2005
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dal Presidente Mattarella, sulla questione internazionale toni nettamente diversi da quelli che abbiamo visto ieri in Israele e in Egitto
www.vaticannews.va/it/papa/news...
Mattarella: giustizia e dialogo, antidoti alla guerra - Vatican News
Lo sguardo sull’attualità internazionale, il solido legame tra la Santa Sede e l’Italia, la necessità di riscoprire i valori che hanno fondato ...
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che stile
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authentic tradition as an offer than one cannot refuse (from Harold Bloom, "The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry", 1973)
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oggi in scena, trionfale, il messianismo politico-religioso di Trump, non solo sul piano interno ma anche internazionale
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I wonder if and when someone like a Karl Barth for our time will emerge in the church in the USA, to confront the believer and the church with a message they resist hearing. To be clear, I do not think it's something the pope from the Vatican can do.
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thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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come ho detto altrove (in questo libro), quella americana è una crisi religiosa e teologica non meno che politica e costituzionale
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RIP Diane Keaton
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Is this predatory billionaire, #PeterThiel, who co-opts & bastardized the language/ myth of Christian scripture to deploy it for his satisfying avarice, further entrenching autocracy, & savaging the earth & it’s resources, telling us HE is the #Antichrist ?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
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Trinity College Dublin cafeteria (the one near the business school)
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Vorkonziliar…

Heute vor 70 Jahren wurde der Tübinger Theologe Peter Hünermann in Rom zum Priester geweiht. Er leistete viel, wie es hier heißt, „theologische Denkarbeit im Dienst der Reform des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils“. Ein wunderbarer Mensch.
Peter Hünermann feiert Weihejubiläum
Der emeritierte Tübinger Theologieprofessor wurde am 10. Oktober vor 70 Jahren in Rom zum Priester geweiht.
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Very promising Wikipedia overview I must say.
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The social teaching of the Catholic Church is the largest - or the last global organization - left to speak about the poor, and in this way, about their dignity, hope, liberation and aspirations.
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Ross’s thoughtful interviews and discussions consistently cover an impressive range all the way from indulging the domination fantasies of theocrats to desperately pursuing quack Lyme disease cures.
INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
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the most interesting part of "Dilexit te" published by Pope Leo XIV today - for me, as a message to the debate on the role of Vatican II in the church today
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Catholic integralist thinking is a good example of why I get cranky sometimes and think only theologians should “do” theology, and maybe not jurists and vice presidents. It’s a real discipline and not simply a series of facts.

Then I try to talk myself off the ledge and do my best to be helpful.
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El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown. "The pope needs to talk to Trump.”
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigration
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El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown
The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from immigrant families "terrorized" by fear that they and the...
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TOMORROW: Join us as we host Matthew Sitman and Tara Isabella Burton in dialogue at the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary!

RSVP here:
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