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KAIRÓS/NÓS TAMBÉM SOMOS IGREJA MANIFESTA SOLIDARIEDADE AO PE. TONY FLANNERY
Prezado Pe. Tony Flannery, Desde o Brasil, nós, membros de Kairós/Nós Também Somos Igreja, secção brasileira do Movimento Internacional Somos Igreja, por ocasião de nossa reunião semanal, realizada nesta manhã, tendo refletido sobre as recentes medidas restritivas tomadas contra o Sr. pela Congregação para a Defesa da Fé do Vaticano, desrespeitando seu direito de...
Enhancement of inter-religious dialogue. Practice of integrative and inclusive spirituality, without ideological, doctrinal or institutional frontiers.
By Rolando Lazarte In the document which the Group Kairos-Nós Também Somos Igreja presented to the IMWAC (International Movement We are Church) international Meeting, held in Lisbon in October 2012, we can read as one of the Brazilian Group’s proposals to the other participants of that meeting: “Enhancing inter-religious dialogue and the practice of...
POSITIVE VALUATION OF THE AFFECTION, THE SEXUALITY AND THE PLEASURE
By Rolando Lazarte Should almost nothing else to be said about this, so obvious it is: the human being needs to develop himself/herself in harmony with these three fundamental values. But since there are institutions abomining the pleasure, and conceiving the human being just as a sinful, they abomine the sex, and render the...
IGREJA EM CRISE: entre o novo que irrompe e o velho que agoniza…
O texto é oferecido aqui nos seguintes idiomas, a continuação do texto em Português: Inglês, Espanhol, Francês e Italiano. Segmentos que compõem o complexo espectro de nossas sociedades em profunda crise, as igrejas cristãs – dentre elas, a Igreja Católica Romana – também refletem, ainda que de modo diverso, dimensões significativas desse mesmo quadro...
In Defense of the Life of Friar Gilvander Moreira
The Brazilian Movement for Human Rights, Minas Gerais chapter, and the Institute for Human Rights – DH, MIDHIA – Communication and Human Rights by this notification repudiate the constant killing threats and intimidations suffered by Friar Gilvander Luis Moreira, a defender of human rights. The struggles undertaken and the pro human rights banners unfurled...
THE ANTISOCIAL CHURCH, by John Mackrell
For the individual to live as if there were no society indicates poor mental health. For the institutional Church disregard for civil society is a proud way of life. Those concerned to right injustice are sadly resigned to the muteness of the institutional Church. Why does our hierarchy, unlike Rowan Williams the Archbishop of...
“The Pope is provoking disobedience,” by Hans Küng
General discontent and frustration over the delay of inner-church reforms dominated both the alternative and the official Katholikentag (bi-annual Catholic Congress) at Mannheim. In sharp contrast, Pope Benedict XVI is obviously pre-paring for the definite reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the tradi-tionalist Society of St Pius X and its bishops and priests. This...
Apoiamos a Vigília Silenciosa, em Dublin! – We support Silent Vigil, in Dublin!
Dear brothers and sisters of IMWAC – Ireland, In a few hours, you will be gathered outsides of papal Nuncio´s home, in Dublin, for a silent Vigil in solidarity with five Irish theologians silenced by Vatican. Besides these Irish theologians, many others in Spain, in Austria, in Latin America and in other countries, also...
Solidariedade e resistência contra as punições do Vaticano
O Movimento Nós Somos Igreja-Brasil se solidariza com a Vigília de Dublin e com as religiosas punidas pelo Vaticano nos Estados Unidos We are facing successive challenges. Even during these last months, they have been so many! Though our limitations, we must face them together. We (IMAWC Brazil Group) support different intitiatives which have...
The death of Zé Cláudio and Maria
By VICE.COM staff at CNN.com Editor’s note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step...








