Pope Benedict XVI visits the Jewish synagogue, despite boycott threats

It is the second time in history that a pope visits a Jewish congregation. Benedict XVI on Sunday made it to attend a synagogue in Rome.

The Pope's visit seeks to cement the sometimes fragmented relations between Catholicism and Judaism .

But the visit comes amidst the controversial decision of Benedict XVI to sanctify his predecessor in time of war, Pope Pius XII .

Pope Pius XII did not name, but said the Vatican helped many Jews in a manner called "hidden and discreet." Benedict said that Catholics had acted with courage. ... Read more

Virgen de Guadalupe

Mexico City, Mexico - Being Mexican is being Guadalupe. A phrase often heard in Mexico , and that shows the cultural impact it has on the country's devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

It is a cult that goes beyond the religious sphere. According to experts, the veneration of the image, which according to tradition appeared 478 years ago, is part of the identity of Mexicans. For example, more than one million men and women are called Guadalupe, according to the Federal Register of Electors.

In the streets of major cities there are hundreds of shrines constructed and controlled by the residents.

And the sanctuary where the original cloak with his image is one of the most visited in the world, receives throughout the year more than 18 million adherents, according to the Mexican Bishops Conference . Read more ...

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Manuel Carreira - priest, theologian and astrophysicist

Bachelor of Philosophy ( University of Comillas ) and Theology ( Loyola University of Chicago ), Master in Physics ( John Carroll University in Cleveland ) and a PhD in this area ( Catholic University of Washington ) with a thesis on Cosmic Rays, led by Nobel Physics, Clyde Cowan , netruino discoverer of the priest Manuel Carreira was a professor and astrophysicist in aerospace technology development. Born in Valdomiño (A Coruña) in 1931, where his mother was intended as a teacher, and grew up in Vilalba . Installed in the U.S. until his retirement in 1957 he returned to Spain in 2007. Since then travels the country giving lectures like the one offered in the parish of La Soledad, to mark the 150th anniversary of 'The Origin of Species' by Darwin .

How do you adapt the position of the Church of Evolution?
The Church can not dictate how changes occur in life and biological evolution. It simply must defend the existence of a Creator for the universe possible. For the Church is beyond question the presence of a higher being who give the matter all the properties required for the development according to its laws, as said Thomas . Does not expose a dogma about the creation of beings and the stars. There is no problem with theology until it gets into how life appears, something that belongs to biology and that is proved by the discovery of various fossils. Read more ...

Nun beatified in Nazareth ...

Nazareth, Israel - A Palestinian nun who participated in the founding of a charitable group dedicated to educating Arab girls was beatified Sunday in an important step towards its designation as a saint of Catholicism.

Thousands of faithful gathered at the biblical town of Nazareth to attend the ceremony of beatification of Sister Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas, who helped found the congregation of the Most Holy Rosary Sisters of Jerusalem in the 1880s. ... Read more

The Greeks fear that the failure of Italy also can spread to other countries

The Greek bishops convened an emergency meeting to discuss a plan of action to appeal the decision of the court for fear that this case sets a precedent and finish also affects other countries, including Greece .

The ruling of the Strasbourg Court gave him reason to Soile Lautsi, a mother of Greek origin from a town near Venice who filed suit after the public school attended by their children refused to remove a crucifix from a classroom .

For the European Court, "the goal of public education is to foster critical thinking" and the state should not impose beliefs. Read more ...

Vatican to get married priests

In a statement, the headquarters of the Catholic Church reported that the new framework was created in response to "repeated and persistent" requests for Anglicans who wanted to become, as there are members of that church throughout the world who have expressed their dissatisfaction to allow ordering homosexuals and women.

One of the main points of discussion was the marriage of priests, banned in the Catholic Church and the Anglican admitted.

In this regard, the Vatican confirmed that it will consider the admission of married priests and Anglicisms "case by case." He said that will continue practicing celibacy among Catholic clergy. Read more ...

Sign on the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Medellin, Colombia - and it has not been so hegemonic discourse as a Catholic, that was mounted from the start on the bus (boat) of globalization and armies of missionaries translated the Bible to all that language could, achieving something like "The miracle of Pentecost" means Guntemberg. Sloterdijk , a philosopher of globalization, says that elite papal troops, as the Jesuits, "covered the globe with a network of devotion to the Pope with an Internet [...]: submission most devoted by the dispersed distances from the center. From there take the model of modern telecommunication companies that operate globally. "Catholicism apotheosis built his empire through the message. Read more ...