Carnival – anarchy, parody and resurrection
By RICARDO EVANDRO S. MARTINS: In Brazilian Carnival, the true parody is the reality that is being parodied.
03/03/2025
By RICARDO EVANDRO S. MARTINS: In Brazilian Carnival, the true parody is the reality that is being parodied.
By EVALDO LUIS PAULY: Paulo Freire's methodology is a good hermeneutic for the popular reading of the Bible, allowing a transformative cultural interpretation of the Bible and faith
By LEONARDO BOFF: Under the word “Kindness” lies what is most refined and noble in human beings, the kindness that is so absent and yet so necessary in the bad times we live in.
By SAMUEL KILSZTAJN: In the West, philosophy courses are usually restricted to the study of Western philosophy. In China, on the other hand, the study of philosophy encompasses Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, as well as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
By LEONARDO BOFF: It is still possible to avoid a planetary tragedy by giving importance to values such as care, love, solidarity, compassion, creation and spirituality to guarantee the sustainability of the Common Home
By JOSÉ MICAELSON LACERDA MORAIS: Author's introduction to the recently published book
By MARIANN EDGAR BUDDE: Sermon by the bishop who attended Donald Trump's inauguration
By LEONARDO BOFF: The question is not: what future does Christianity or our civilization have, but what future does the living Earth have?
By FREI BETTO: Only a cultural, ideological offensive will be able to disseminate among the Brazilian population a new progressive consensus like the one that elected Dilma Rousseff twice and Lula three times.
By LEONARDO BOFF: Desire is not just any impulse. It is an inner fire that energizes and mobilizes all psychic life.
By LEONARDO BOFF: The meaning of life in time is to live, simply to live, even in the most humble condition. Living is a kind of celebration of existing and of having escaped from nothingness.
By WALNICE NOGUEIRA GALVÃO: And all this time people were asking themselves: “What about the Marseillaise? What about the Marseillaise?” As expected, it was enthusiastically played and sung in the outer atrium of the church, closing the festivities.
By LEONARDO BOFF: May they be present in our minds this Christmas, those in the Gaza Strip, hungry and thirsty, not knowing how to hide from the bombs that destroy everything.
By LEONARDO BOFF: Visible life, as we know it, is at risk of disappearing, similar to the great decimations of the past
By LEONARDO BOFF: We capture the emergence of the spiritual world, of the so-called natural spirituality, and we verify its pressing relevance in the face of the many crises that plague all of humanity.
By JOHN MARCOS DUARTE: Commentary on André Castro's recently released book
By EUGENIO BUCCI: When it speaks the language of radio, TV or the Internet, a mystical group converts itself to the cheap cosmogony of radio, television and the Internet.
By FAUSTINO TEIXEIRA: In Gutiérrez's view, there is no way to understand theology other than as a critical reflection, whose first moment is not theoretical, but testimonial
By LEONARDO BOFF: No society, anthropologists and sociologists assure us, lives without having a utopia, that is, a strong idea, an inspiring dream that gives meaning to people's lives, to society and to history.
By ANDRÉ CASTRO: Caetano seems to see that there is something deeper in the evangelical religious experience than the image of being “bridled” by domineering and malicious pastors
By RICARDO EVANDRO S. MARTINS: In Brazilian Carnival, the true parody is the reality that is being parodied.
By EVALDO LUIS PAULY: Paulo Freire's methodology is a good hermeneutic for the popular reading of the Bible, allowing a transformative cultural interpretation of the Bible and faith
By LEONARDO BOFF: Under the word “Kindness” lies what is most refined and noble in human beings, the kindness that is so absent and yet so necessary in the bad times we live in.
By SAMUEL KILSZTAJN: In the West, philosophy courses are usually restricted to the study of Western philosophy. In China, on the other hand, the study of philosophy encompasses Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, as well as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
By LEONARDO BOFF: It is still possible to avoid a planetary tragedy by giving importance to values such as care, love, solidarity, compassion, creation and spirituality to guarantee the sustainability of the Common Home
By JOSÉ MICAELSON LACERDA MORAIS: Author's introduction to the recently published book
By MARIANN EDGAR BUDDE: Sermon by the bishop who attended Donald Trump's inauguration
By LEONARDO BOFF: The question is not: what future does Christianity or our civilization have, but what future does the living Earth have?
By FREI BETTO: Only a cultural, ideological offensive will be able to disseminate among the Brazilian population a new progressive consensus like the one that elected Dilma Rousseff twice and Lula three times.
By LEONARDO BOFF: Desire is not just any impulse. It is an inner fire that energizes and mobilizes all psychic life.
By LEONARDO BOFF: The meaning of life in time is to live, simply to live, even in the most humble condition. Living is a kind of celebration of existing and of having escaped from nothingness.
By WALNICE NOGUEIRA GALVÃO: And all this time people were asking themselves: “What about the Marseillaise? What about the Marseillaise?” As expected, it was enthusiastically played and sung in the outer atrium of the church, closing the festivities.
By LEONARDO BOFF: May they be present in our minds this Christmas, those in the Gaza Strip, hungry and thirsty, not knowing how to hide from the bombs that destroy everything.
By LEONARDO BOFF: Visible life, as we know it, is at risk of disappearing, similar to the great decimations of the past
By LEONARDO BOFF: We capture the emergence of the spiritual world, of the so-called natural spirituality, and we verify its pressing relevance in the face of the many crises that plague all of humanity.
By JOHN MARCOS DUARTE: Commentary on André Castro's recently released book
By EUGENIO BUCCI: When it speaks the language of radio, TV or the Internet, a mystical group converts itself to the cheap cosmogony of radio, television and the Internet.
By FAUSTINO TEIXEIRA: In Gutiérrez's view, there is no way to understand theology other than as a critical reflection, whose first moment is not theoretical, but testimonial
By LEONARDO BOFF: No society, anthropologists and sociologists assure us, lives without having a utopia, that is, a strong idea, an inspiring dream that gives meaning to people's lives, to society and to history.
By ANDRÉ CASTRO: Caetano seems to see that there is something deeper in the evangelical religious experience than the image of being “bridled” by domineering and malicious pastors