Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I, attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. He had only one intervention, on episcopal collegiality, but he followed the proceedings with great attention and interest and shared the experience with the diocese through articles in the diocesan bulletin and letters sent to various groups. After […]
This article explores the formative influence of the Ignatian Principle and Foundation in the spiritual life of Mary Ward (1585–1645) and in the founding of her Institute and it evaluates its wider significance on contemporary spirituality. Drawing on primary sources and recent contributions, the study highlights how Mary Ward’s internalization of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises […]
This study examines the episcopate of Blessed Alexandru Rusu from the perspective of the Hungarian Greek Catholic communities, focusing on the ecclesiastical and identity transformations of the interwar period. Between 1930 and 1948, Bishop Rusu led the Eparchy of Maramureș in a political and social environment where the Romanian national ideal and state centralization posed […]
This article undertakes an extensive examination of the concept of transcendence within the philosophical framework of Arthur Schopenhauer. While Schopenhauer is renowned for his immanent metaphysics, which posits the world as the self-objectification of a blind, striving Will, this paper argues that his system contains a unique and profound form of “immanent transcendence”. The analysis […]
Is Jesus Christ God or not? This is the great dilemma that has kept many people’s minds and hearts burning in the centuries that followed the appearance of Arius’ teaching in the 4th century. This article aims to analyse some biblical texts that support and express in other terms the truth proclaimed by the Council […]
At a time when the Italian Church is suffering from a drastic decline in the number of priests, when for decades the pastoral care of parish Units has been tried, when pastoral conversion is necessary to develop existing ministries and create new ones so as to witness a concrete synodality and active co-responsibility, this study […]
The approach with which Marion approaches Thomas’s Aquinas theology at the beginning of his phenomenological journey bears the imprint of Heidegger’s critique of onto-theology, but also of his personal hostility to the conceptual idolatry and atheism manifested in Nietzsche’s philosophy. What Marion contrasts with the conceptual idol is the icon and iconic thought. If the […]
Can we axiomatically define that the Christian’s Sisyphean striving for reconciliation with the world is part of divine oikonomia, as the Fourth Gospel, that of St John, explicitly states? Or can we view the development of human history as a divine pedagogy of social cohesion, as some Pauline or Acts of Apostles readings might suggest? […]
During the communist regime, the Securitate services paid special attention to the clergy of the Diocese of Satu Mare. Labeled as “enemies of the regime” or “hostile vipers of the regime”, they were closely monitored in the files named “the Roman Catholic issue”, “tax evasion issue” or “the Hungarian national irredentist issue (Roman Catholic)”. This […]
This article deals with the problem of scandals in the Church; however, it does not treat about individual scandals in the Church, no matter how appalling they may be, but about the scandal of scandals: the Church herself is holy but also sinful at the same time. This is not a new topic in ecclesiology, […]