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

Reporting of M.T.
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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