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Showing posts with label Blasts from the past. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blasts from the past. Show all posts

Peronism in the Church: "To the friend, everything. To the enemy, not even justice!" (Video)

In 2014, we said the following on the Francis Pontificate:

The current situation of ecclesiastical politics might perhaps be better understood by those who have a grasp of three important concepts in Hispanic (Spanish and Spanish-American) political tradition: Caudillismo, an ancient and powerful political concept, system, and idea that is deeply ingrained in the Hispanic mind and experience, regardless of the theoretical political system in place; Caciquismo, a very peculiar and mostly Latin American version of Caudillismo; and the Argentine hazy political sub-concept of Caudillismo and Caciquismo known as Peronismo, which transformed the highly successful Argentine Republic of the early 20th century into what it is today.

This week, we were sent a link to a video of Argentine tyrant Juan Domingo Perón in an interview conducted in July 1973, 46 years ago. This is what Perón says in the video:

Blasts from the Past: Madrid, 1954

Just years before it all went tumbling down: whatever happened to these two young men?...

Madrid, 1954: Two seminarians near the Gran Vía on a cool day,
in front of the movie theater of the Plaza del Callao

[Tip: Le FC]

Blast from the past: A Faithful Europe


Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (kneeling next to a Schott Meßbuch) attends Holy Mass in his local parish church (St. Mariä Heimsuchung - Visitation of the Virgin), in Rhöndorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the morning of the 1953 German federal elections (Sunday, Sep. 6, 1953).

[Image source: pius.info]

The way things were

From the wonderful Polish blog Cæremoniale Romanum (in our sidebar), a detailed list of links to videos filmed by Italian State film production company Istituto Luce (currently part of the Cinecittà Luce S.p.A. public corporation) on various ecclesial occasions, from 1928 to 1964:


1928

A Roma domenica delle Palme in piazza San Pietro (Palm Sunday, St. Peter's square)
- Processione del Corpus Domini a Roma (Corpus Christi, Rome)

1929

- A Roma il Papa beatifica Don Bosco (Beatification of the Ven. John Bosco)

1930


1932

- La domenica delle Palme in piazza S. Pietro  (Palm Sunday, St. Peter's square)

1933


1934

- S. S. Pio XI benedice la folla adunata in Piazza San Pietro in occasione delle canonizzazione di Don Bosco [1] (Pius XI blesses the crowds gathered for the canonization of Bl. John Bosco - 1)
- S. S. Pio XI benedice la folla adunata in Piazza San Pietro in occasione delle canonizzazione di Don Bosco [2]  (Pius XI blesses the crowds gathered for the canonization of Bl. John Bosco - 2)

1935


1938

- Urbi et orbi in occasione della Pasqua (Urbi et Orbi - Easter)

1942

- La Benedizione del Sommo Pontefice a Rome e al mondo in occasione della Festa dell'Immacolata (Blessing of the Supreme Pontiff on the Feast of the Immaculate)

1947

- Cronache vaticane - canonizzazione di Nicolò de Flue (Canonization of Bl. Nicholas of Flüe)

1949

- Numero unico dedicato all'apertura dell'Anno Santo (Special video for the jubilee)

1950

- Beatificazione di Domenico Savio (Beatification of Ven. Dominic Savio)
- Cerimonia di canonizzazione di Maria Goretti (Canonization of Bl. Maria Goretti)
- Proclamazione del Dogma dell'Assunzione (Proclamation of the Dogma of the Assumption) 

1951

- Pio X nella gloria dei beati (Beatification of Ven. Pius X)

1953

- Benedizione pasquale di Pio XII (Easter blessing)
- Il Concistoro (Consistory)

1954

- La Pasqua romana (Roman Easter)
- Pio X alle glorie dell'Altare (Canonization of Bl. Pius X)

1956

- Il solenne pontificale (Solemn Pontifical)

1958


1960

- Benedizione natalizia del papa (Christmas blessing)
- La cerimonia di consacrazione di 8 nuovi vescovi a Roma (8 new bishops consecrated in Rome)

1961

- Il pontefice prega (The Pontiff prays)
- Italia - Il genetliaco di Giovanni XXIII (John XXIII turns 80)

1962

- Benedizione urbe et orbi per la Pasqua (Easter Urbi et Orbi)
- Festa del Corpus Domini in San Pietro (Corpus Christi at St. Peter's)
- Solenne rito a san Pietro (Solemnity at St. Peter's)

1963

- La cerimonia di incoronazione di Paolo VI (Coronation of Paul VI)

1964


Reminders from the past: are Mormons Christian?

CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH

on the validity of baptism conferred by
«The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints»,
called «Mormons» 
Question: Wheter the baptism conferred by the community «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints», called «Mormons» in the vernacular, is valid.

Response: Negative.

The Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, approved the present Response, decided in the Sessione Ordinaria of this Congregation, and ordered it published.

From the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 5 June 2001.
+ Joseph Cardinal RATZINGER
Prefect
+ Tarcisio BERTONE, S.D.B.
Archbishop emeritus of Vercelli
Secretary
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The Church recognizes that in many ways she is linked with those who, being baptized, are honored with the name of Christian, though they do not profess the faith in its entirety or do not preserve unity of communion with the successor of Peter.