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27 June 2020

Frontier Lives

A frontier is a narrow strip of land between two states with an officially delimited crossing area intended for defense. However, during the course of history, and particularly American history, ‘frontier’ has come to indicate a sparsely colonized region situated where lands have yet to be ... PDF

30 May 2020

Emergencies and female leadership

Maternity causes a neuronal explosion and equips the brain with new abilities. It seems that mother nature prepares mothers biologically to respond to emergencies and protect life. For example, a mouse that has given birth is more capable of confronting danger, managing stress and finding the exit ... PDF

25 April 2020

THE CARE OF THE SOUL, AND THE PERSON

In September 2013, Pope Francis appealed to the Church to take charge of anyone who bore the marks of physical or psychological suffering, stating “I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, ... PDF

22 March 2020

The power of women in the Church

Words such as power, authority and authoritativeness are frequently used by women as they consider or discuss the social, administrative and political tasks they perform, or aspire to perform. That women should claim power, authority and authoritativeness on equal terms with men is a matter of ... PDF

22 January 2020

Consacrated Life resilience and prayer

In this issue on Consecrated Life we discuss the term burnout. This word, in its literal meaning, involves exhaustion, collapse, stress, wear, and is a syndrome that also affects nuns. In fact, the extent of this issue is so vast that the the International Union of [Female] Superiors General ... PDF

28 December 2019

Women and Francis

In this issue, women share what they think of Pope Francis in relation to the female question in the Church. The contributing essayists in this issue are: the Avvenire Vaticanist and columnist, Stefania Falasca; the theologians Serena Noceti, Marinella Perroni, Cristina Simonelli, Shahrzad Houshmand ... PDF

23 November 2019

A proposito di madri

The ancient philosophers urged people to act with temperance, understood as the mid-point between two excesses: intemperance on the one side and insensitivity on the other. The Delphic Oracle’s μηδέν άγαν (nothing to excess) and Horace’s principle of the aurea mediocritas (golden mean) ... PDF

26 October 2019

La virtù del resistere

28 September 2019

Simboli di fortezza

A woman wearing armour and a helmet who is keeping a lion at bay. The shield next to the sword. A tower on the rock which, indestructible, stands firm against strong gusts of wind. This complex of images calls to mind something that brings together women and men from any cultural or ethnic ... PDF

27 July 2019

Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi

Four female figures clad in purple are dancing beside the float of the universal Church drawn by the griffin which represents Christ. They are the four cardinal virtues who reappear in the earthly paradise long after Dante saw them shining like stars at the gate of hell. One of them, who has three ... PDF

Sister Shalini Mulackal during a demonstration (photo provided by her)

I take my students to the slum of the Untouchables

The poorest people in India, the women’s perspective, the openness to a theology that above all looks to those who are forgotten daily. The vocation ...

I lived with the Rom with a mule’s instinct.

Florentine by birth and Veronese by adoption, Cristina Simonelli began studying theology from within an experience of sharing: from 1976 to 2012 she ...