It happened. Brazil, a state that declares itself secular, has been drawn into an international imbroglio of a religious nature that could cost its sovereignty over the Amazon. The threat is not coming from the military powers of Russia or China, but from the institutional strength of a state with a meager .44 km² of
In the previous article we showed how the Church knew how to adapt to the cultures of the peoples she successively evangelized while preserving and improving everything they had of good, beautiful and true, and eliminating everything that was bad, ugly and wrong so as to make flourish a culture at the same time authentically
The Indigenist movement raised its head on the Fifth Centennial of the discovery of America in 1992, by manifesting an outright rejection of the civilizing and evangelizing work carried out on in the New World. Orphaned by Marxist communism, the Left instigated this movement by reinventing class struggle, including the clash of indigenous peoples with
People concerned with the threat of radical environmentalism would be mistaken to assume that the Catholic Church’s upcoming Amazon Synod of Bishops, to be held in Rome in October 2019, is an internal affair dealing with pastoral matters. On the contrary, it will be a laboratory of ecological activism that promises, in the Vatican’s own
Kiwxí is the title of a movie[1] issued by the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network to pay homage to Brother Vicente Cañas S.J, a Spanish missionary murdered in 1987 for his intervention in territorial disputes between Indians and newly arrived landowners in the northwest of the state of Mato Grosso in what was then a real Brazilian
The King Is Dead: Long Live the King! Was 1991 the year communism died, or did it just undergo a metamorphosis? In one way or another, this problem dominated public discussion at that time. It went through academic and political environments, the media, social gatherings and salons, and even sacristies. Curiously enough, in addition to
Since 1965, the Institute of the Consolata for Foreign Missions, originally from Turin and present in 28 countries, has had a mission among the Yanomamis in Brazil. The mission is currently led by the Italian priest Fr. Corrado Dalmolego, assisted by three women religious of the Institute’s female branch. Fr. Corrado Dalmolego In a recent
This nonsense, one of many environmental myths, is often repeated, like a mantra. Yet, some time ago, even the unsuspected Brazilian magazine Super Interessante[1]published this revealing comment: ‘Lung of the world.’ What do you think when you hear hearing this expression? It can only be that the Amazon is the world’s largest producer of oxygen,
Three recent events in three different countries illustrate just how far the fortunes of climate change politics have fallen. The first event was the death of George H. W. Bush, forty-first president of the United States. His passing on November 30 at the age of 94 occasioned an outpouring of sympathy from across the world.
The greenhouse effect phenomenon, as described in meteorology books, is not only questionable, but also defies the laws of thermodynamics. This phenomenon is not described in physics books. The classic version compares it to that which occurs in greenhouses, where solar radiation passes through the glass panels and warms the ground and the air inside.