Being Christians in the spirit of Nicaea
BY Roberto de Mattei
May of this year marked the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of the Church,…
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Message of Fatima
BY Roberto de Mattei
Eighty years ago, World War II ended. After the surrender of Nazi Germany on 8 May 1945, the United States…
READ MORESaint Joan of Arc, Islam and the Christian rebirth
BY Roberto de Mattei
On 1 June 2025, during the urban warfare that bloodied the French capital on the occasion of the Champions League…
READ MORELeo XIV: Marriage is not an ideal, but the canon of true love between man and woman
BY Roberto de Mattei
“Marriage is not an ideal, but the canon of true love between a man and a woman: a love that…
READ MORELeo XIV: Patriarch of the West?
BY Roberto de Mattei
Among the traditional titles with which the pope is honoured is that of “Patriarch of the West”, which dates back…
READ MORESaint Joseph and the Conclave of May 2025
BY Roberto de Mattei
In the third week after Easter, the Church’s liturgy reminds us of how the risen Jesus consolidates the nascent Church…
READ MOREThe death of Pope Francis (2013–2025): end of an era?
BY Roberto de Mattei
At 7:35 on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025, the soul of Jorge Mario separated from his mortal body to present…
READ MOREInternational crises: the Church is never neutral
BY Roberto de Mattei
The situation in the world today is so intricate as to require great tranquillity of spirit and clarity of mind…
READ MOREFrom Yalta to Moscow: 1945–2025
BY Roberto de Mattei
The spectre of the Yalta conference hovers over Europe while international observers consider the possibility of an end to the…
READ MOREMuslim Ramadan or Christian Lent?
BY Roberto de Mattei
In Corriere della Sera of 13 March 2025, we read a report from England by the journalist Luigi Ippolito, who…
READ MOREThe spirit of Lent in Jubilee years
BY Roberto de Mattei
Most people are unaware of or have forgotten what Lent is. Yet the Catechism of Pope Saint Pius X was…
READ MOREThe law of the stronger: God first!
BY Roberto de Mattei
While the 266th successor of Peter is fighting against death in a room of the Gemelli Hospital, two of the…
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