De Katholieke Kerk heeft een probleem met vrouwen, want zij lijdt onder ‘klerikalisme en machismo’. Dat zegt het Vaticaan. Vrouwen doen daardoor minder dan ze zouden mogen. En die al bestaande mogelijkheden moeten in de toekomst worden uitgebreid. www.nd.nl/geloof/katho...
+ + + Pope Leo XIV reacts on the many innocent victims of the bombardments in the Middle East.
Cardinal Dominique Mathieu (Tehran) evacuated from Iran and has arrived in Rome. Read: substack.com/@hendromunst...
Wat de oorlogsdoelen precies zijn, is nog steeds niet helder. Wat wél duidelijk is: voor de VS en Israël is het brengen van democratie hoogstens een bijzaak.
39% of U.S. adults say homosexuality is morally wrong – far more than take that position in Germany or Sweden (5% each) but far fewer than in Indonesia (93%) or Nigeria (96%).
Say homosexuality is morally wrong
Nigeria 96%
Indonesia 93%
Turkey 80%
India 59%
S Korea 56%
Israel 47%
US 39%
Mexico 24%
UK 16%
Canada 15%
France 12%
Sweden 5%
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/
Im deutschen Katholizismus neigt man gern zur Selbstüberschätzung. ;-) Zumehr weil Leo XIV kein/kaum Deutsch liest. Ich würde eher an den Einfluss von Kard. José Tolentino de Mendonça denken (siehe meinen Beitrag auf Substack). Er ist der große Etty-Spezialist im Vatikan und steht Leo XIV nahe.
Pope Leo XIV cited the Dutch Jewish mystic Etty Hillesum before the Angelus. He was not the first pope to quote her diary—nor is he the only Catholic Church leader to have been inspired by her.
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Veel Iraniërs vierden feest toen de bommen op Teheran vielen. Hoewel schrijver Kader Abdolah het Iraanse regime haat, voelt hij zich door de aanval juist bedrogen. ‘De ayatollahs zullen de regio meesleuren in hun val.’
Binnen Iran is een andere stroming van de islam dominant dan in de meeste andere islamitische landen. Dit verschil wordt vaak aangehaald om spanningen in het Midden-Oosten te duiden.
Cupich: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game -it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.” www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store….”
Dominique de Villepin : «Cette guerre est un piège pour les démocraties : elle prétend se faire au nom de la démocratie, mais se mène en vérité au service des empires» ➡️ bit.ly/4rMIDTW
Follow the world 🌍 news from an European 🇪🇺 perspective: here is absolutely excellent reporting in English by France24, RFI and AFP : @en.france24.com @en.rfi.fr @en.afp.com
Avec la poursuite de la guerre au #MoyenOrient, le régime iranien va-t-il tomber, ou réussira-t-il à se maintenir au pouvoir ?
"Cela va être également en grande partie une décision américaine", juge Karim Émile Bitar, professeur à Sciences Po
Is he in the files? What dirt do they have on him? He has to go
Pope Leo XIV: “War is never holy!”
Polish PM Donald Tusk said Russia is the real winner of the Middle East war, as oil prices rise and Washington considers lifting sanctions on Russian oil. #Russia
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
Nearly everyone in Indonesia (99%), as well as the vast majority of people in Kenya (94%), India (85%) and South Africa (80%), say it’s necessary to believe in God to be moral. By contrast, in about a dozen countries, two-thirds of adults or more say it’s not necessary to believe in God to be moral. This includes the United States (68%), Poland (80%), Spain (84%) and Sweden (89%). In some countries – including the U.S. – declining shares of people say it’s necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values, according to the survey.
Say you can be moral & have good values without belief in God
Australia 89%
France 83%
US 68%
Japan 62%
Israel 53%
Brazil 26%
India 13%
Indonesia 1%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/05/in-the-us-and-other-countries-fewer-people-now-say-its-necessary-to-believe-in-god-to-be-moral/
After several incidents in 2023 and 2025, threshold barriers have been installed to make access to the altar in St. Peter’s Basilica more difficult for confused individuals or protesters. substack.com/@hendromunst...
"We are freeing Iran from religious fanatics".
A prayer for Trump in the White House.
"Met de blik gericht op Iran, laat Israël de Palestijnen in Gaza verhongeren door grensovergangen te sluiten en zo de aanvoer van voedselhulp te blokkeren.
"Niemand in Gaza is de smaak van honger vergeten. En ze zijn nog steeds niet hersteld van de hongersnood." "
Exclusive: US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation reut.rs/40b19JN
If this is true, that the Iranian vessel was returning from an international exercise with other countries INCLUDING the United States - and was thus unarmed - & that the US did not make efforts to rescue the crew, that makes Hegseth the "Secretary of War Crimes"
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Can someone explain this? This is from the new document of the International Theological Commission (163). I will soon write about the problematic use of Mariology by the ITC on my Substack, but this phrase is very surprising. Is Mary bigender and does she identify as “they”?
Een Vaticaanse theologencommissie waarschuwt voor de inzet van wetenschap en techniek om te proberen de mens eeuwig leven te schenken. Ook bekritiseert zij pogingen om mens en machine met elkaar te vermengen. Mensen willen zo proberen ‘als God te zijn’. www.nd.nl/lees/1308426
Graph showing per day the total amount of public debt outstanding in the USA in billions of dollars, plus dividers for the era's per president. It starts at 4175 and is now at 38850. Only the first period saw a relative slow growth from 4200 to 5700, under Clinton. Datasource: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
USA: Total outstanding public debt in billion $.
Titelseite der taz vom 05.03.2026 mit einem Foto des spanischen MP Sanchez. Überschrift: "Spanien hat Mut, wir haben Merz"
So ist das. Auf den Punkt gebracht.
