Foi na Cartuxa de Évora, não na de Parma ou na Grande Cartuxa alpina, que o renascimento espiritual tomou a forma de pétreo e sublime Renascimento material, à maneira de Filippo Terzi.

A vergonha dos desditosos números e o  fatídico retorno do manipulador-mor.

"Durante a entrevista, o ex-primeiro-ministro comparou dois períodos: o primeiro entre 2008 e 2010 (onde a dívida cresceu 20 pontos percentuais) e um segundo, entre 2010 e 2012, em que o endividamento público cresceu 30 pontos percentuais).

Os números estão certos, mas há um facto que Sócrates não sublinhou: em 2011, o PS foi governo até ao final de Maio. Ou seja, no segundo período (entre 2010 e 2012) a dívida ainda era gerida pelo Governo Sócrates."

"Nesses seis anos, a dívida em percentagem do PIB subiu de 61,7% (final de 2005) para 108,1% do PIB (final de 2011). Hoje está pior: no final de Fevereiro, Portugal ultrapassou pela primeira vez os 200 mil milhões em dívida (e esta já representa 122,4% do PIB). Nas contas do Governo Passos pesam sobretudo os 63,9 mil milhões de euros emprestados pela troika no âmbito do programa de assistência financeira. "

http://www.dinheirovivo.pt/Economia/Artigo/CIECO128212.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t1EAZ7GXUI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/politica/detalhe/factos_e_numeros_ditos_por_socrates_sao_verdadeiros_ou_falsos.html

Catolicismo galático e universal

"The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding a conference on astrobiology, the study of life beyond Earth, with scientists and religious leaders gathering in Rome this week.

For centuries, theologians have argued over what the existence of life elsewhere in the universe would mean for the Church: at least since Giordano Bruno, an Italian monk, was put to death by the Inquisition in 1600 for claiming that other worlds exist.

Among other things, extremely alien-looking aliens would be hard to fit with the idea that God “made man in his own image”.

Furthermore, Jesus Christ’s role as saviour would be confused: would other worlds have their own, tentacled Christ-figures, or would Earth’s Christ be universal?However, just as the Church eventually made accommodations after Copernicus and Galileo showed that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, and when it belatedly accepted the truth of Darwin's theory of evolution, Catholic leaders say that alien life can be aligned with the Bible’s teachings.

Father Jose Funes, a Jesuit astronomer at the Vatican Observatory and one of the organisers of the conference, said: "As a multiplicity of creatures exists on Earth, so there could be other beings, also intelligent, created by God.

"This does not conflict with our faith, because we cannot put limits on the creative freedom of God."

Not everyone agrees. Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist and author of The Goldilocks Enigma, told The Washington Post that the threat to Christianity is "being downplayed" by Church leaders. He said: "I think the discovery of a second genesis would be of enormous spiritual significance.

"The real threat would come from the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence, because if there are beings elsewhere in the universe, then Christians, they're in this horrible bind.

"They believe that God became incarnate in the form of Jesus Christ in order to save humankind, not dolphins or chimpanzees or little green men on other planets."

The Academy conference will include presentations from scientists – by no means all of them Christians – on the discovery of planets outside our solar system, the geological record of early life on Earth, how life might have started on Earth, and whether “alien” life of a different biochemistry to our own might exist here without our knowing, among many other things."

Daily Telegraph 

A Boa Igreja

"Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said while the Church had been hostile to Darwin's theory in the past, the idea of evolution could be traced to St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas.

Father Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, Professor of Theology at the Pontifical Santa Croce University in Rome, added that 4th century theologian St Augustine had "never heard the term evolution, but knew that big fish eat smaller fish" and forms of life had been transformed "slowly over time". Aquinas made similar observations in the Middle Ages.

Ahead of a papal-backed conference next month marking the 150th anniversary of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the Vatican is also set to play down the idea of Intelligent Design, which argues a "higher power" must be responsible for the complexities of life.

The conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University will discuss Intelligent Design to an extent, but only as a "cultural phenomenon" rather than a scientific or theological issue.

Monsignor Ravasi said Darwin's theories had never been formally condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, pointing to comments more than 50 years ago, when Pope Pius XII described evolution as a valid scientific approach to the development of humans.

Marc Leclerc, who teaches natural philosophy at the Gregorian University, said the "time has come for a rigorous and objective valuation" of Darwin by the Church as the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth approaches.

Professor Leclerc argues that too many of Darwin's opponents, primarily Creationists, mistakenly claim his theories are "totally incompatible with a religious vision of reality".

Earlier this week, prominent scientists and leading religious figures wrote to The Daily Telegraph to call for an end to the fighting over Darwin's legacy.

They argued that militant atheists are turning people away from evolution by using it to attack religion while they also urge believers in creationism to acknowledge the overwhelming body of evidence that now exists to support Darwin's theory.

The Church of England is seeking to bring Darwin back into the fold with a page on its website paying tribute to his "forgotten" work in his local parish, showing science and religion need not be at odds."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/4588289/The-Vatican-claims-Darwins-theory-of-evolution-is-compatible-with-Christianity.html

A superna ironia teológica de Francisco, Bispo de Roma.

"A divisa do papa, "Miserando atque eligendo" (olhou-o com misericórdia e escolheu-o), é extraída de uma homilia de São Beda Venerável, que comentava o episódio bíblico da vocação de São Mateus."

"Jesus viu um homem chamado Mateus, sentado no posto de cobrança, e disse-lhe: Segue-Me. Viu-o não tanto com os olhos do corpo, como com o seu olhar interior, cheio de misericórdia. Jesus viu um publicano (cobrador de impostos) e compadeceu-Se dele; escolheu o e disse-lhe: Segue-Me, isto é, imita-Me. Disse para O seguir não tanto com os seus passos como no modo de viver. Porque, quem diz que permanece em Cristo, deve também proceder como Ele procedeu."

S. Beda Venerável (séc. XIII)

http://www.snpcultura.org/brasao_papa_francisco_simbolos_significados.html