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More on the Heat & Pope Benedict

Michael Sean Winters — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:10:00 GMT

The Church must reclaim that God himself came down from Heaven, was born of a virgin, walked upon the Earth, died, and rose from the dead and avoid any temptation to reduce its mission to that of an ethical authority. No one has been more clear in opposing this reduction than Pope Benedict.

(Pubblicato il 12/03/2010)

Read: THE MURPHY REPORT/ The Sorrows of the Irish Church
Read: POPE/ The Method of Benedict XVI

CHILE / Desolation and Chaos in the Cities

La Redazione — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:45:00 GMT

Recently, a wave of earthquakes hit a series of countries. The Haiti tragedy was particularly hard, but the subsequent earthquake in Chile was even stronger, joined with a tsunami. We publish a report by Daniel Silva, an eyewitness of the tragedy, from the days immediately after the earthquake in Chile.

(Pubblicato il 10/03/2010)

Read: HAITI/ Do not turn off the lights
Read: DIARY HAITI / 6. Fiammetta: a new life feeds hope and challenges the death and rubble
Read: HAITI/ An Incomprehensible Tragedy?

HARVARD/ A Difficult Encounter Between Faith and Reason

Lorenzo Albacete — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT

The proposal to include a course called Reason and Faith in the core curriculum-reform started a battle between supporters and opponents. The latter consider rational inquiry the only reasonable path to truth, but the claims of faith to be a path to knowledge are quite reasonable as well.

(Pubblicato il 10/03/2010)

Read: Faith is Good for Science
Read: SCIENCE AND ETHICS/ From Pearl Harbour to Copenhagen
Read: COLLEGE/ My Alma Mater tops the $50K mark

SOCIAL MEDIA / Backstage Pushed Forward

La Redazione — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:50:00 GMT

By creating settings which seem to be a private place among friends, the social media encourage backstage behavior – then put it on the frontstage. This way they cut back on the places where we can relax in semi-privacy, and they give us an everpresent audience.

(Pubblicato il 08/03/2010)

Read: INTERNET/ Blog Death and the Expectation of Free Services
Read: GOOGLE/ Susan Pointer: Knowledge is in the Google DNA
Read: FACEBOOK / The enemy of young people is loneliness, not technology
Read: US/ The “Twitter revolution”

DIARY HAITI / 6. Fiammetta: a new life feeds hope and challenges the death and rubble

La Redazione — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:30:00 GMT

The more recent catastrophe in Chile risks to put the Haiti earthquake in the background. We are receiving news from the field on the Chile situation which we will publish as soon as possible. In the meantime, here is a report from Fiammetta Cappellini, AVSI Haiti, sent a month after the earthquake.

(Pubblicato il 05/03/2010)

Read: DIARY HAITI / 5. Fiammetta: When the earthquake and a blue tent make us all more human
Read: DIARY HAITI / 4. Fiammetta: Miracle, Jean Philippe unearths three boxes of books and school begins again
Read: DIARY HAITI / 3. Fiammetta: Guarding the rubble to show we are still there
Read: DIARY HAITI / 2. Fiammetta: so life begins again, thanks to the children
Read: DIARY HAITI / Fiammetta: we get no peace from the aftershocks, but a blue tent already seems to be a new home ...