Pope Francis and the Idea of Progress

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A collection of 9 articles from the September 2020 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome.

Author: La Civiltà Cattolica

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ calls everyone to individual and social responsibilities for the world and other people, leading us to a deeper understanding of progress. Giandomenico Mucci, SJ discusses the passages from the encyclical that consider ‘indefinite progress’.

African lay people working in China have made an original contribution to the Catholicity of the local Church. The article African Influences on Chinese Catholicism examines how Chinese faithful and the local clergy perceive the presence of African Catholics and their response to African Catholics evangelical style of service.

Antonio Spadaro, SJ interprets the driving force and meaning of Pope Francis’ pontificate. The pope’s idea of reforming the Church corresponds to the Ignatian vision, creating the structural conditions for a real and open dialogue.

Should we recognize boundaries between the spiritual and the psychological, and on what basis should we do it? Dominique Salin, SJ answers the question in Spirituality and Psychology.

In 1950s Rome, the great 20th century educator Maria Montessori was seeking an effective way to initiate children into the experience of faith and prayer, it became known as Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. Giancarlo Pani SJ shares his insight of the development of this catechesis.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artwork brought people together in shared experiences across the globe and the aesthetic dimension in all their works was always intense. Andrea Dall’Asta, SJ discusses some of the works by Christo who was one of the most important exponents of Land Art.

Where’s the peace? Colombia without FARC-E evaluates the new period of violence in Colombia, analyzing the positive and negative aspects of implementing the agreement between the government and the guerrillas which was signed on November 24, 2016.

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