Massimo Faggioli

The first printed copies of my book on Pope Leo XIV arrived at Liturgical Press today.

the pastoral letter of the Nordic Bishops’ Conference (bishops of Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway) on migration (published this week) coramfratribus.com/life-illumin...

per il "Giornale di Brescia", il mio articolo sulla comparata di una dozzina di vescovi alla Casa Bianca: cosa dice sui rapporti tra amministrazione Trump ed episcopato USA, oggi meno disposto a farsi usare. Ci hanno messo solo dieci anni www.giornaledibrescia.it/opinioni/don...

peggio me sento

The C6 #mosaics of S. Vitale in #Ravenna are often read as a transition from classical to #Christian visual language, but they are also highly polemical. The lunette’s Old Testament scenes operate as assertions of theological orthodoxy for #MosaicMonday. #AncientBluesky 🏺🧵

"With rising populisms exploiting cultural identity to propagate ethnonationalist narratives, the relationship between anti-authoritarian liberalism and religion requires rethinking." @massimofaggioli.bsky.social on Havel, Trump, and the Church: www.commonwealmagazine.org/havel-trump-...

Mosaic Icon up to the Hagia Sophia Entrance https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaic-icon-up-to-the-hagia-sophia-entrance-1000

"Nove Dita" potrebbe essere il nome di un movimento internazionale di opposizione al regime neoliberista globale (mi dice un amico)

"Feu d'artifice conciliaire" La FSSPX sur le voyage du pape en France 🎆 (Source: fsspx.news/fr/news/l-es... "Les difficultés doctrinales (...) ont éclaté à Metz comme dans un feu d’artifice conciliaire : la fausse fraternité humaine, le dialogue interreligieux et la laïcité des États (...).")

AI solves hard problems, like Navier-Stokes and, uh, what do I like about my children?

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Lula, il dito di Dio

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

‘Emma Cline’s novel hums with luxury: the private plane, the voguish hotels and restaurants, the limousine. And yet those pristine spaces end up merging seamlessly with the institutional nihility of the euthanasia clinic.’ Ange Mlinko reads 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The former president, typically circumspect when criticizing Trump, gave an unusually sharp rebuke at an Ohio rally on.wsj.com/4igcDUC

The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean.

Bishop John Dolan of Phoenix is one of the best Bishop John Dolan: What it means to be human in the age of AI www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

Melania santa subito!

Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S

thanks Fr. David Theroux for this www.smcvt.edu/about-smc/ne...

ho scritto questo fondazionefeltrinelli.it/pubblico/tru...

l'ha presa bene

ci sono i vescovi chierichetti di Putin e poi ci sono quelli che potremmo chiamare "oval office bishops".

Apple TV is home to “Severance” and “Ted Lasso.” But our critic thinks this underrated program is the streaming site’s best offering by a mile. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

"As Christian nationalist leaders attack the sentiment of empathy, a disturbing 'empathy gap' has opened, separating Republicans and white evangelicals from most other Americans," says @robertpjones.bsky.social, examining new AVS findings. Read more:

interessante documento pubblicato oggi dal Dicastero vaticano per la dottrina della fede. Mi pare che non trattato o considerato adeguatamente o per nulla il ruolo della teologia nelle università per la trasmissione della fede. Forse hanno ragione loro a considerarla una battaglia persa

una lettura cristologica del personaggio di River Cartwright (per chi segue la serie "Slow Horses" e specialmente la serie 6)

Opinion: After leaks about the AHA’s lobbying strategy, its leaders asked council members to sign a confidentiality certificate then hired a corporate law firm to investigate who shared internal material. https://chroni.cl/4z2RK6N

The AI bubble is shaping up to be a hybrid of the dot com bubble and the housing bubble / financial crisis.

thank you for this

questa è una epoca di nuove idolatrie e molte di quelle vetrine spaccate a Milano Parigi e altrove sono i templi di quegli idoli. La questione è come chi li ha compiuti concepisce e interpreta quegli atti: per distruggere gli idoli, o per appropriarsene, o tutti e due.

per gli americani e per gli europei volge al termine il sogno che esista un luogo in cui rifugiarsi dall'altra parte dell'Atlantico. Per gli altri, il sogno resiste ancora (ma le destinazioni sono meno attraenti e molto meno ospitali di una volta)

"The pope’s physical well-being is by definition a matter of public interest, especially at historical turning points like the present one." Read more in "The Fragility of the Pope" by @massimofaggioli.bsky.social.

grande infornata di nomine alla Commissione Teologica Internazionale

"Oui bonjour, c'est par rapport au poste, vous avez mon CV, et comme j'ai pas reçu de nouvelles, je voulais vous signaler, au cas où vous l'auriez pas vu que mon numéro est juste en haut à droite du CV, et qu'il y a aussi mon adresse mail. Cdt, Luis"

l'angolo del buonumore

JFK's speech on the Catholic question (to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on September 12, 1960) during his presidential campaign is one of the favorite classes I teach

è importante sentire e vedere il papa dal Vaticano che, specialmente in tempi di guerra, "is holding a space" come nessun altro. All'Angelus di oggi, poi, parlando dell'importanza di dare a Cesare quello che è di Cesare, e a Dio quello che è di Dio.

Maria of the Mongols https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/maria-of-the-mongols-1320

A Paris, place de la République, les premières images des dégâts après le 17 octobre

from the latest book by Terry Eagleton, just published