Half of Italian believers practice a do-it-yourself religion

When the Hierarchy is not there… Here are the “radiant fruits” from the “primavera” conciliate (n.d.r.)

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Millions of people build their own spiritual path detached from organized faiths and traditional structures. Christians remain in the majority, but only the 18,5% he goes to mass on Sunday. For others it is an ethnic-cultural identity
Of Andrea Tornielli
The large bronze statue of Christ with his arms wide open welcomes pilgrims. The structure is that of a monastery, with the cloister and several chapels, structures for the reception of pilgrims in addition to the main temple where up to a thousand people can find space. We are at the gates of Leini, in the Turin hinterland. The copper dome that dominates the large single-nave temple is not the setting for masses celebrated by Catholic priests, but rather at the "darshan" the liturgies led by "swami" Roberto Casarin or his "ramia", men and women priests of the Universal Soul movement.
Syncretism and godfathers
A brand new Christian religion that combines the Bible and faith in Jesus and Mary with that of reincarnation in new human lives, belief that the fon- employer Casarin has matured over time by detaching himself from the Catholicism into which he was born and had been baptized. In Italy new cults are multiplying. But to be preponderant, according to Cesnur estimates it is rather a type of "do it yourself" religiosity characterized by personal spiritual paths outside of organized religions: a phenomenon that affects approximately the 50% of the population. Here at Anima Universale many of the "monks" dress in colors similar to those of the classic clergyman – gray and blue – and given the abundance of statues of the Madonna the first impression is of having entered a welcoming Catholic convent of very recent construction. Swami Roberto, thirty years ago indicated by the magazines as a "new Padre Pio" for the mystical gifts that people recognized in him, he was excommunicated together with his monks in 2010 by the then archbishop (conciliate, n.d.r.) of Turin Severino Poletto after Anima Universale had already taken a different path for some time, moving away from the Catholic religion.
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"Soros papers": like the Open Society Foundation controls a third of the European parliament

Of Francesco Galofaro
"Soros papers": like the Open Society Foundation controls a third of the European parliament
Source: The Antidiplomat
With this article Marx XXI is about to publish a series of in-depth studies on Soros Papers. These are confidential documents of the Open Society Foundation which is headed by the controversial naturalized American financier George Soros, published by the site DC Leaks. Our investigation starts from the European Parliament and the way in which the Foundation carries out lobbying activities on a third of the deputies elected in 2014. In the next issues we will deal more specifically with the electoral campaign of 2014 and how the Foundation attempted to influence her. In the end, we will delve deeper into the aims of the Open Society Foundation, to ask us whether his way of proceeding does not constitute a threat to democracy.
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DC Leaks is a site known for leaking, in the past, the emails of the participants in the democratic congress of 2016 [1], rivelando come il gruppo dirigente avesse sabotato la campagna elettorale di Bernie Sanders. In August of 2016 DC Leaks published 2600 files relating to the foundation's activities and strategies Open Society. According to accusations from US security agencies, The Russian group would be hiding behind the page Fancy Bear, specialized in cyber espionage. How the documents were obtained is uncertain. By Laura Silber's admission, spokesperson of the foundation, the data comes from one intranetused by members of the board of directors, by the foundation's staff and partners [2], which suggests a deep throat (whistleblower) internal to the organization, moved by ideal motivations, or to the technique of spear phishing, with ad personam emails that exploit data on the recipient in order to convince him to collaborate. Read More

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Antifa harasses candace owens at breakfast: ‘Stop White Supremacy!’

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Candace Owens shared video on Monday depicting leftists screaming at her and Charlie Kirk in Philadelphia, PA, describing the events via Twitter.
In two videos, assorted leftists can be heard shouting “f*** white privilege,” “stop white supremacy,” “cops and Klan, hand-in-hand,” and “1, 2, 3, f*** the bourgeoisie” while banging on drums, blowing whistles, and using bullhorns.
One leftist is seen pouring what appears to be a drink on Kirk. Another agitator said to Kirk. “You’re a fascist piece of s***. F*** you. F*** America.”

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Nigerian beheads little girl, Merkel cracks down on bloggers who break the news

Germany: Nigerian migrant beheads one-year-old girl. Merkel cracks down on bloggers who break the news.

Germany: Nigerian migrant beheads one-year-old girl. Merkel cracks down on bloggers who break the news.

(The Oligarchy, to save multiculturalism they impose censorship, the repression of freedom, and the persecution of those who inform) Germany: Nigerian migrant beheads little girl 1 year and then kills the girl's mother . Merkel gags media Angela Merkel's pro-migrant government has banned German media from reporting a barbaric crime involving a Muslim migrant...
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Identities die between racism and anti-racism

Of Alessandro Soldà Cristofari
Identities die between racism and anti-racism
Source: over the line
Let's start with a news story: an American girl publishes some photos on her social profile in which she is wearing a beautiful evening dress at a party (whose dress code requires a certain elegance).
However, alongside the compliments, some more comments appear under the photographs critics, let's just say she is insulted: his fault is that of wearing a traditional Chinese dress, symbol of female emancipation, without knowing the meaning, disrespecting the entire Chinese people.
And so we don't miss anything, she is also accused of cultural appropriation and to bend a symbolic dress to the pure hedonism symbol of American capitalist and consumerist society. In the end, despite the cowardly and senseless attack, those photos remain on his profile: because she likes that dress, and it certainly won't be that gratuitous malice on social media that will force her to change her mind.
Faced with this story, one remains perplexed; on his part there was no obvious or at least voluntary lack of respect towards China, living in a society where the consumption it is the prevailing culture to the detriment of the previous traditional and historical heritage - which is that of individuals and their respective peoples -, and it is therefore normal not to be aware that certain accessories and objects refer to an event or story of fundamental and historical importance for a nation, as is the case with the girl's dress. Read More

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The structural crisis of the media system

Of Gennaro Scala
The structural crisis of the media system
Source: The Antidiplomat
E’ There is a radical crisis in the Western media system underway, within an overall transformation of the political system of a global and epochal nature(1). The center of propagation of the earthquake is in the USA, but it also has its resonance in Italy, which could become an important laboratory at European level, in which new structures could be tested to cope with the ongoing upheaval. The earthquake, at the moment, It has the appearance of a bradyseism, with constant instability made up of daily controversies that go beyond the lines, but it could erupt into more dramatic movements. The transformation of social geography is already underway, What remains to be seen are the solutions implemented to deal with them. The crisis could result in a new system in which formal democratic guarantees could disappear, which could be the easy "solution" to the crisis of the "left", now more and more often mentioned (one example among many: Jason Brennan's book, “against democracy” which had a preface by Sabino Cassese, In the 2013 one of the PD candidates for the presidency of the Republic), or in a new system that instead exploits the potential of new means for a restructuring of democracy aimed at a different mass involvement, indispensable in the management of complex companies like ours.
The main factors of crisis in the media system, seen within the overall crisis of the political system are, first of all, the end of the “era of globalization”, actually a fairly short and transitory period, ended with Russia's return to the field, and with the definitive affirmation of China as a global power. The failure of globalization requires a radical rethinking of political strategies and the ideologies associated with them. The so-called “globalization” was that short period, if commensurate with historical times, in which the USA, at the head of the “Western countries”, when the USSR was already showing an irreversible crisis, they thought they could become the only world power. Context in which a globalist ideology was formed and became dominant based on political correctness, which we start symbolically with the "Live aid" of 1985 in which the Western world proclaimed through its "stars": “We are the world”. Read More

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Who from Rai hurts, of Rai perishes

Of Marcello Veneziani
Who from Rai hurts, of Rai perishes
Source: Marcello Veneziani
I don't know how the drama about the president of Rai will end, if Foa will remain at the helm anyway, perhaps as a senior advisor as happened in 2004 to Berlusconi's Alberoni or if Giampaolo Rossi takes over from him, competent in RAI and new media, in discontinuity with the previous Rai domination and in harmony with Foa's ideas. Maybe we'll figure it out today. But on a political level one thing can already be said: the final veto on a signature of Il Giornale as president of Rai is the worst conclusion of Berlusconi's parable. End up in resentment, burning Foa, align with the PD and the scattered left, separate from the League and the Brothers of Italy, only show the ability to cause failure, it is a miserable epilogue for Berlusconi. That decline that has been going on for years now, has reached a point of no return and breaking of B. with his people and his allies.
Nobody expected Forza Italia to align itself with the yellow-green government. That's right, and even useful, that Forza Italia maintains a critical line towards the economic choices of the Grillini, Di Maio's reforms, amateurism and underlying punitive pauperism, the grillosinistri type Fico or the half socks in power, genus Raggi. That opposition line responds to the nature of his voters, to the mandate received and to its economic and political line.
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Because the death penalty is Christian

BECAUSE THE DEATH PENALTY IS CHRISTIAN

WHY’ THE DEATH PENALTY E’ CHRISTIAN

“But look, is there anyone who still believes that "this" (neo)Church has a modicum of authority left!”. This is what I said to myself when I received angry and saddened letters, and friends have sent me critical articles on Bergoglio's last act: the correction of the Catechism on the death penalty. For two thousand years the Church, his saints and doctors (therefore infallible) they have …
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