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Vienna’s Silent Transformation: Nearly 50% of students in schools are already Muslim. Only 17% are Catholic - ZENIT - English

Vienna’s Silent Transformation: Nearly 50% of students in schools are already Muslim. Only 17% are Catholic - ZENIT - English : Perhaps no recent controversy symbolizes Vienna’s cultural unease more clearly than the city government’s decision earlier this year not to erect a statue honoring Polish King John III Sobieski. Sobieski led the Christian coalition that defeated Ottoman forces outside Vienna on September 12, 1683, in one of the decisive battles of European history
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This is what the religious landscape will look like in 2075: the Muslim population is growing, while Catholics remain the largest Christian group - ZENIT - English

This is what the religious landscape will look like in 2075: the Muslim population is growing, while Catholics remain the largest Christian group - ZENIT - English : Christianity Remains the World’s Largest Faith, but Islam’s Rapid Growth Is Redrawing the Religious Map
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WritingsOfGirolamoSavonarola-

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Savonarola remains an enigma

  Savonarola remains an enigma, as controversial in our day as he was in his own. He was born in Ferrara in 1452, the grandson of a learned physician who helped him on his way to acquiring a master of arts degree at the University of Ferrara. At the age of twenty-three, however, he rejected the secular world to become a Dominican friar in the Observant monastery in Bologna, where St. Dominic himself had died and was buried. It was there that he acquired the deep learning reflected in his later sermons, as we can now see from the “Borromeo notebook,”... https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1npnwt
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Savonarola and Florence in the Renaissance

  Savonarola and Florence in the Renaissance https://youtu.be/YiCoMLjQ0bo?si=QUfTW56VO0atM-XA
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20. Girolamo Savonarola, firebrand of Florence

  20. Girolamo Savonarola, firebrand of Florence https://youtu.be/i9R5pb1hu58?si=QGnOTfoGzlIivhwf
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Pope Leo: The death penalty is inadmissible

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  Pope Leo: The death penalty is inadmissible https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54864 Apr 24th, 2026 Screenshot Source:  Vatican Media/USCCB Pope Leo XIV has offered his support for those advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States and around the world and insisted on the importance of safeguarding human dignity. The Church affirms "that the dignity of the person is not lost even after very serious crimes are committed," Pope Leo XIV said in a video message released today, to those gathered at DePaul University in the United States marking the 15th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in the State of Illinois. Pope Leo said he was joining those present in celebrating this landmark decision made in 2011 and offered his "support to those who advocate for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States of America and around the world." "I pray that your efforts will lead to a greater acknowledgement of the dignit...
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