Actuality | events

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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Culture | Non-fiction

Guareschi, del '68 se ne fece un baffo
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Of Marcello Veneziani

Like today (yesterday for those reading, n.d.r.), fifty years ago, in the fateful '68, he went to the other world Giovannino Guareschi. He left the small world that few had described, to reach the big world, the one where that Lord lived who in his House gave advice to one of his fiery dependents on earth, Don Camillo. At least that's what Guareschi says.

He left early, Giovannino, a 60 years, after a troubled life, between concentration camp, prison under fascism and anti-fascism, plus a host of books translated all over the world, of very popular films that represented that fabulous post-war Italy, and adventures in the press, like his impertinent Candide who played a decisive role in the defeat of the social-communist popular front in the 1948 elections.
Giovannino died on 22 July '68 but he had time to write his last Don Camillo dedicated to today's young people. The book was released posthumously and marked the striking contrast between the old communist Peppone (that the anti-communist Guareschi had made sympathetic with his irrepressible humanity), the tough Don Camillo and a young, beardless protester, who was traveling on a motorbike with studded and fringed bags and a black jacket with a skull and the words "Veleno". Which becomes the boy's nickname for Guareschi and also the metaphor of the protest. "The Chinese" also arrive in the town of Brescello and upset the ideological geometries of the Italian-Stalinist Peppone and also displace the religious ones of the parish priest. Guareschi links the protest to the advent of the consumer societyi. For him the antagonism between the two phenomena is only occasional, related, not substantial. Consumerism devours the small ancient world and the old faiths, but he catches Peppone who leaves his bike and rides in a red spider. Consumerism is the habitat of 1968. Read More

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