RELIGION

Catechesis of the General Audience of S.S. Francisco

In the catechesis of the General Audience on 23 September, held in the courtyard of San Dámaso in the Vatican, Pope Francis referred to the issue of how are we going to get out of this crisis? In an earlier catechesis he referred to solidarity as an important element in addressing this moment of difficulty. Today he said: “there is no true solidarity without social participation, without the contribution of the intermediate bodies: of families, of associations, of cooperatives, of small businesses, of expressions of civil society.”

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CULTURE

Film and children

The complicated and troubling movie and childhood duet deals with HBO’s new documentary film “The Kids of Hollywood.” It is not the first time that the presence of children in cinema has been the subject of other materials, but now we are offered an audiovisual well focused on the event. From how the casting process in Hollywood works for infants to the impact of being bewitched, to the letter, by the siren chants of America’s film industries.

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SOCIETY

Tactics and strategy

This could be the story of any mother, professional or not, committed to the mission of cultivating authentic values in her children to nurture and at the same time offer to the society where they live. Today, when technology absorbs many of our children, it would be healthy not to compete with this reality. It is about using it in our favor, as a tool for formation, which, of course, presupposes a change of paradigam in thought, attitude and action.

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RELIGION

Allocution, Sunday, September 20, 2020

In this Sunday’s radio allocution, September 20, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, invited the faithful to present to God what was received from Him and promise to develop him and make him grow to put him at the service of all selflessly. He recalled that next Thursday, September 24, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Mercy, who intercedes before God for the redemption of captives.

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CULTURE

“Inheritance” to embrace the world

The story of Denys San Jorge was complicated one day by waking up with the news that as a result of a reckless social attitude, the Covid-19 put its terroir in check and quarantine. If St. George was moved earlier, to the point of dedicating his homage to cities of the middle world, he was now twice moved, for the disease had been planted clearly among the people who, throughout a lifetime, shared with him a common space of deprivation and hope. He didn’t wait too long for the artist. Bauta would also have his name “written” with washers, tweezers and keys.

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CULTURE

Thanks for the warm-up!

Producer and director Ian Bonhate and screenwriter Peter Ettedgui do very well. After their excellent “McQueen” (2018), a biographical documentary about famed and influential big-screen idol Steve McQueen, they both rejoin and surprise with “Rising Phoenix. History of Paralympic Games”, material that already integrates the catalog of the impetuous Netflix.

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Why is it that we’re still in pandemic?

Returning to the subject of Covid–19 and its presence in Cuba might seem recurrent and tedious, but the matter has no end. Everyone approaches it according to their own visions and interests. In a concrete way the reality is only one, SARS-CoV-2 continues among Cubans as the first day. The food situation and the supply of household support supplies is critical, circumstances force them out in order to meet basic needs.

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CULTURE

Laúd in the soul of a virtuous

Erdwin Vichot does not support half inks. It’s facing the storms. For him, perfection in executing his instrument is a task he cultivates with patience, respect and goldsmith virtuosity, whether when faced with a performance in a library, a church or an art gallery, which when commanded by the baton of the teacher Leo Brouwer in a concert of high harmonic complexity. Under these principles lives this virtuous, man of Christian faith, who on more than one occasion has referred me to various musical allusions within the Bible concerning the laus and other instruments of familiar closeness to it.

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RELIGION

Alocución de S.E.R. Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana

“To correct the brother who has made a mistake, Jesus suggests a pedagogy of recovery,” said Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of the #Habana in this Sunday’s #13deSeptiembre. On this teaching he highlighted his obvious purpose of “always saving”. According to the Gospel, the warning should not be made by exposing sin before all. “It’s about going to the brother discreetly, not to judge him, but to help him realize what he’s done.”

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