Author: Armando Capasso

Appointments

6 April 2019 in Trieste, human growth meeting for LGBT Christians

«What fools we are! How many rejected invitations, how many words left unsaid, how many glances not returned. Many times life passes us by and we don't even notice it" (The ignorant fairies) WHAT? This is a human growth meeting designed for LGBT people (but open to anyone who wants to participate). It will be an experiential day led by Ermanno Marogna,...

Appointments

November 2018 with La Voce della Ruah

Three new Ruah appointments for 2018-2019 After the Barcis 7 experience, the Ruah Project will continue for the 2018-2019 financial year to reflect and grow together on the theme of "missing words". The common thread will be the passage from the Gospel of Mark (Mk 7,31-35) in which Jesus unties the knot in the tongue of a deaf mute. We will make this journey together,...

Traces of reflection

The rejection of brotherly love creates "new crucifixes"

Press release from the “Camminiamo Insieme” group and the “Progetto Ruah” association of Trieste published in the newspaper “Il Piccolo di Trieste” on 6 July 2018 We have been witnessing in politics for some time an improper use of the religiosity of the Catholic tradition for purely electoral and in the Church to the spread of a feverish religious ideology full of enmities and clashes with other brothers, very distant...

The debate in the Churches

For you, rainbow families don't exist! So what?

Reflections by Armando from GabrielForum “Rainbow families do not exist.” (Lorenzo Fontana, Deputy of the Italian Republic, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies and Minister of the Family. 02/VI/2018) “Then today – it hurts to say it – we talk about "diversified" families: different types of family. Yes, it is true that the word "family" is an analogical word, because we are talking about the "family" of the stars,...

Stories of ordinary homophobia

Selim Bakev where are you? How to kill a gay Chechen

. Reflections by Yiannis John published on the Gay Culture Land blog (Great Britain) on 18 January 2018, free translation by Armando and Innocenzo Many of the stories I write are born from love, some are born from sadness and some are born from my curiosity. Today's story was born out of anger. “My son has been missing for about two months. Lean over...