People - 30 Dicembre 2020 The Catholic Joe Biden and the Power of His Example for the Human Community In his first speech as President-elect, Joe Biden greeted his victory with sobriety and a spirit of unity, with the same dignity with which in forty years of political life he has accepted his defeats, without becoming embittered. Listening to him, I’m persuaded that he represents a great opportunity for America and the world. He […]
New York - 7 Dicembre 2018 ‘Built with Faith’ Chronicles the Inerasable Presence of Italian Americans in the City Sciorra is trained as an anthropologist, and his approach demonstrates this. He believes in the necessity of experience and interaction with the “subjects” of his interest – the necessity of ethnography, participant observation, strategies that have very rarely been used in the field of Catholic art
Arts - 20 Maggio 2018 Heavenly Bodies at the Met: Desecration, Provocation, or Nostalgia? Upon seeing the “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition, I could not help but recall my little cousin’s astonishment during a Corpus Christi procession. Inaugurated at a $33,000-a-plate gala that made headlines around the world, the exhibition boasts some artifacts on loan from the Sistine Chapel’s sacristy.
Arts - 20 Maggio 2017 Saving San Filippino in Tuscany San Filippino Chapel in the medieval hill town of Castiglion Fiorentino has been abandoned for decades, to the point that most local residents no longer remember or even notice it. Tennessee resident Rita Morgan Richardson and her husband Tim discovered the hidden jewel and are working with Italian Americans in the U.S. and citizens of the town to save it.
Onu - 25 Giugno 2015 Religion Is Back. In his New Book Manlio Graziano Discusses the Reinforced Relationship between Faith, Politics, and Wars At the United Nations Headquarters, Professor Manlio Graziano, columnist for La VOCE, discusses his book Holy War and Holy Alliance: Religions & International Disorder in the Global 21st Century. Since the mid 1970 religion has once again become a major political actor in countries all around the world. Yet, religious conflicts are rarely caused by just religion itself.