Visit To Moscow Not Yet Possible
One of the top officials in Vatican, Cardinal Walter Kasper, said in a press conference that a pope's visit to Moscow is not yet possible, in spite of the good relations between the Orthodox Church and the Roman-Catholic Church. Against this visit there are a number of reason, some of them dating back to the time of John Paul II, who also wanted to make a pilgrimage to Russia (...)

Sundance Festival And Its Idea
This year's Sundance Film Festival proposed a great idea: a day of fasting and prayer aimed to help the poor of the world. It will be held on Ash Wednesday (February 21st) and it is supported by a number of actors and film personalities, it is a gesture to bring to the public eye one of the social issues of our times: famine and the fight against it (...)

Cultural Debate
Involving great personalities like Timothy Garton Ash and Pascal Bruckner, there is an ongoing debate over a racist and multicultural issue. The aim is to speak about the liberty of expressing one's culture, without being named "racist". This ends up with a new category, "racism of the anti-racists". Read here more (...)

The "Ratzinger Code"
Using the same publishing agency as Dan Brown to promote his future book "Jesus of Nazareth", Pope Benedict XVI hopes to have the same success as Dan Brown had. After criticizing the "Da Vinci Code" and calling it "a sack of lies", Vatican hopes to promote its ideas using the same recipe to reach for the same public (...)

A Common View Towards Homosexuality
Later this month, the Synod of lay people, clerics and bishops of the Church of England will be asked to take into consideration a text that recognizes both sides in the current debate related to
homosexuality. The homosexual issue had a great role in the development of positions inside the Anglican Church and almost had as a result a split inside it (...)

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