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Putin: “Christianity is the root of Russian identity”
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Too bad that it is Orthodoxy or the schismatic and heretical Orthodox Church. However, the political meaning of the statement is important because Putin links the root of Russian identity to Christianity. They did it in Italy too…obviously not with the councilors…(n.d.r.)
Reporting of G.B.
The president of Russia indicates "Christianization" as the country's identity matrix, of its strength and its historical protagonism. Criticism and alarm from circles that in the past enthusiastically supported the "cultural battles" to reaffirm the roots of the West
Of Gianni Valente per The Press
Last Sunday, in the churches of Russia, of Ukraine and other countries once included in the Russian Empire, many Christians celebrated the feast for 1130 years since the baptism of Prince Vladimir the Great in the waters of the Dnieper River, also renewing their baptismal promises. Russian President Vladimir Putin also took advantage of the anniversary of that historic event - celebrated as the beginning of the conversion to Christianity of the Eastern Slavs - to forcefully repeat that l he "Christianization" of the Grand Prince of ancient Kievan Rus' and his subjects also represents the founding act of "Russian statehood", and the perennial root that nourishes the identity of the Russian people and its historical mission in the world.
Putin – who of the ancient monarch baptized in Kherson in 988 also bears the name - reaffirmed the connection in his visceral opinion between Christianity and Russian identity while speaking at the ceremony held on Sunday in Moscow, in the presence of Patriarch Kirill, at the monument dedicated to Prince Vladimir. The presidential speech, calibrated in every word, he proposed "Christianization" at the highest levels as Russia's identity matrix, of its strength and its historical protagonism. Read More

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Catholicism

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who promises salvation to anyone who becomes "his"
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Image results for The Virgin of CarmelOf Cristina Siccardi

Il 16 July a very important Marian feast occurs in the Tradition of the Church: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, one of the oldest and most loved devotions in Christianity, linked to the history and spiritual values ​​of the Order of Friars of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Carmelites). The liturgical feast was established to commemorate the apparition of 16 July 1251 a san Simone Stock, at the time prior general of the Carmelite order, during which Our Lady gave him a scapular (from Latin scapula, shoulder) in fabric, revealing to him notable privileges connected to his cult.
In the First Book of Kings of the Old Testament it is said that the prophet Elijah, who gathered a community of men right on Mount Carmel (in Aramaic «garden»), he worked in defense of the purity of faith in God, winning a challenge against the priests of the god Baal. Who, afterwards, Christian monastic communities were established. The Crusaders, in the 11th century, they found some religious people in this place, probably of Maronite rite, who called themselves heirs of the disciples of the prophet Elijah and followed the rule of Saint Basil. In the 1154 the French nobleman Bertoldo retreated to the mountain around this time, arrived in Palestine with his cousin Aimerio from Limoges, patriarch of Antioch, and it was decided to reunite the hermits for cenobitic life. The religious built a small church in the middle of their cells, dedicating it to the Virgin and took the name of Brothers of Santa Maria del Monte Carmelo. Carmel acquired, in this way, its two characterizing elements: the reference to Elijah and the link to the Holy Mary. Read More

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Catholicism | Non-fiction

Il Signore ha detto che vomiterà i "tiepidi", i.e. the medians…
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Image results for ladies will vomit the lukewarmReporting of Gianni Toffali
THE OPINION

They all declined, at the same time they became useless: there is no one who does good, it is not until one. You see, Deus, you will lead them into the pit of destruction(Sal 52, 4; 54, 24).

«They have all gone astray, together they became useless: there is no one who does good, there isn't even one. Ma you, oh God, you will end them in an abyss of ruin". Whoever deviates from the right path of Catholic doctrine and practice not only makes himself useless and foolish, but he also runs the risk of falling into Hell with all those who follow him. But how is it possible that a large part of the Catholic hierarchy has failed in its task and is miserably adrift? There has to be an explanation. A purely chronological fact indicates that the current leaders of the Church were formed - coincidentally - after the Second Vatican Council. In a synthetic way, it can be said that in the last half century a theological education has been imposed, a liturgical form and pastoral practice that have assumed and incorporated contradiction, subjectivism and relativism, deforming the minds of the clerics and making them accustomed to them. Read More

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