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By Enza Ferreri Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, television presenter and actress whose fame went beyond Italy, died on July 5 at the age of 78. She had success in several countries in Europe, including Spain, Germany, England, France, Holland, Belgium, Greece, and in Latin America. Carrà since 1970 has sold over 60 million copies […]
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December 25 Is Not a Conventional Date, but the Real Date for Christmas We often hear that the date of 25 December for the birth of Jesus is just a convention, as we don’t know the exact date, or is merely symbolic. This is not the case. Jesus was really born on December 25, as […]
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The 4th October is St Francis of Assisi Feast Day. St Francis hailed from the beautiful little town of Assisi, in Umbria, the region called “the green heart of Italy” for its abundant vegetation and its central position in the country. It is the only region of peninsular Italy which is landlocked. In Assisi and […]
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I tend to accept restrictions if they are justifiably motivated by serious health dangers. I must admit, though, that an episode raised my alarm about the motivations of our political leaders when in Lombardy, in Italy, police tried to interrupt a Mass which was attended by 15 people in a large church where they could […]
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There are constitutional rights that cannot be suspended, and freedom of worship is among them. The video has become viral. Mass was interrupted by police last Sunday in Soncino, a small town in the Cremona province of Lombardy, in Italy. A carabiniere went up to the altar to notify parish priest Don Lino Viola of […]
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Many Non-Catholics may not know that on 3 April 1969, under Pope Pio VI, a liturgical revolution occurred with the promulgation of a new form of Mass, known in Latin as Novus Ordo Missae (New Order of Mass), replacing the Vetus Ordo Missae, the Ancient Order. The latter was the Tridentine Mass (named after the […]
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We’ve previously posted about how Coronavirus Italy consecrates many of its cities to the Virgin Mary. And now, if Italians in Coronavirus times are not allowed to go to church to attend religious services because of the self-isolation lockdown imposed on them, the church is going to them. This is what the Parish of Santa […]
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By Enza Ferreri So, 2020 is a leap year, hence it has the extra day just elapsed, 29 February. The Catholic Church, which has a very long tradition of scientific and astronomical achievements, has created the calendar that mostly approaches perfection, and we owe this to faith. Maybe many people are not aware of […]
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The first thing to say is that, if you search Google for “Raffaello” (known as Raphael in English), the first results you get are about the Ferrero Raffaello chocolate confections, “spherical coconut–almond” Wikipedia specifies. This says a lot about what our society considers priorities (a hint: what makes money). Only if you search for “Raffaello […]
