Marguerite and Love
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 6, 2025
The majority of the witches’ trials and executions happened in the early modern era, with the Malleus Maleficarum — the main textbook on how to
Archives
Witchcraft
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 5, 2025
In response to the latest report on the Palestinian occupied territories by special UN envoy Francesca Albanese, the Israeli ambassador to the UN accused her
All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween)
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 31, 2025
We who live in the Northern Hemisphere have begun to experience the shortening days and lengthening nights. Tonight is marked traditionally by the feast of
The Remnant
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 30, 2025
Daniel, who is a member of the community of readers of these DMs, yesterday offered a threefold answer to my question about the legitimation of
On Cruelty
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 29, 2025
I don’t think it would be too far from the truth when I say that many of the readers of these DMs are worried about
Educating under the Shadow of Neo-Fascism (part two)
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 25, 2025
For the past two weeks, after forty years, I have returned to high school in Italy, this time as a teacher. My first impression is
Educating under the Shadow of Neo-Fascism (part one)
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 24, 2025
Years ago, I translated into Italian one of the lesser-known — but no less important — books penned by Matthew Fox. Its original title is
Shamanism and the Goddess
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 22, 2025
Continuing on the theme of how social religious history affects us personally, I am observing that the further back our memory tries to go, the
The Oxford Martyrs
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 18, 2025
The Oxford Martyrs — whose feast-day was celebrated yesterday in worldwide Anglicanism — were three men who held ecclesiastical rank and power in England under
Teresa the Great
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 16, 2025
Yesterday, October 15, was the feast day of Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). This most famous and revered Spanish saint — proclaimed “doctor of the Church”
