Articles by Webmáster

RELIGION

Father Reuben Darius thanks God for his priesthood

1 August, 2020 Webmáster 0
In the parish of San Juan Bosco, in the habanera slum of La Viper, Father Rubén Darío Cotes, SDB, celebrated his Silver Weddings in an emotional Thanksgiving Mass that had as its culmination the unexpected messages sent by Cardinal Juan García, Archbishop of Havana, Father Francisco Batista, superior for the Salesian Inspectorate of Las Antilles and close relatives of the beloved Dominican priest, who missionary in Cuba 🇨🇺 for some years.

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CULTURE

Threatening and compassionate

30 July, 2020 Webmáster 0
Danny Trejo, a figure in the seventh art, without hesitation, is also a leading advisor to overcoming drug addiction and a par excellence activist. Cinema, yes, makes people better. But it is not often that within their inner veils, full of banalities and miseries, many manage to get out angry, projecting modest and prestos, against wind and tide, to improve the human condition.

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NEWS

Covid Year Notes (1)

29 July, 2020 Webmáster 0
The magazine Palabra Nueva wanted to share the expressions of a group of diverse voices to offer to its readers as a sample of the personal and collective experiences that have been lived in this peculiar and amazing leap year, this twenty-twenty become quarent. Under the title “Notes of the Year of the Covid”, the new series opens up space for chronicle, interview, poetry… in short, to genders where the saying of women, men, young people, children and the elderly will rest. An entrepreneur, a plastic artist, a housewife, a mother, a son… He will also say a bishop and an evangelist. An emigration, a doctor… Everyone will tell how their days have elapsed, how they have faced the challenges, and what reading they make of what happened. Angel Alonso Blanco, Cuban visual artist, art critic and editor, is the first to communicate his experience.

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CULTURE

Master Walfredo Piñera

24 July, 2020 Webmáster 0
If there was consensus among the heterogeneous group of filmmakers that made up the International Catholic Film Office (OCIC, now part of Signis) in the mid-1990s, it was to call Walfredo Piñera a teacher. He came from walking long and tortuous paths, always loyal to his compass: he had long been the dean of film criticism in Cuba, with unalterable Christian faith. Be this text, a well-deserved tribute to him and his work, ninety years after his birth.

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CULTURE

We don’t repeat missions

23 July, 2020 Webmáster 0
The film The Old Guard (2020) seems, in its early days, a policeman and suddenly reveals itself as what it really is: a superhero adventure. Although sailing off its territory, director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, Behind the Lights…), comes out of this start which, it seems, will have continuity. With the screenplay by Greg Rucka, the film is based on the comic of the same name, whose authors are Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernández. Among others, it stars Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Marwan Kenzari.

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RELIGION

Auxiliary Bishops of Havana (v part)

22 July, 2020 Webmáster 0
The series on the auxiliary bishops of Havana brings us closer today to Msgr. Salvador Riverón Cortina. According to the author, his appointment, on 24 April 1999 by Pope John Paul II, was the best choice and help that Archbishop Jaime Ortega needed for those moments of pastoral overflow.

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