Wholeness (part one)
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 26, 2025
Over the course of many years, I have met many people who have encountered the theology put forward by Matthew Fox. Often, he was the
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Nothing can Prevent a Woman from Loving
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 22, 2025
While Mechtild of Magdeburg might well have influenced Dante concerning the imaginary shape of Purgatory (see DM Nov. 21), another woman is remembered as the
Living in Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 21, 2025
Yesterday in my DM, I did not intend in the least to trivialize mental pain, or to suggest that it can simply be cured through
November: Sadness and Its Remedies
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 20, 2025
As the month of November rolls on, some of us living in the Northern hemisphere experience mental suffering more than usual. Contemporary medicine has coined
The Sacred Heart
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 14, 2025
The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is something that one is inclined to toss into the sentimental garbage bin, until one finds its
Culling Flowers on a Bright Pathway?
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 13, 2025
Dante’s scholars agree that the character of Matelda represents the “prelapsarian” human being, that is, the person not weighed down by original sin. In yesterday’s
Lady Love and Her Queen
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 12, 2025
Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297) is yet another beguine who lived in the 13th century, like Hadewijch and Marguerite Porete (see DMs Nov. 6 and 7).
Hadewijch and Love
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 7, 2025
Like Marguerite Porete (see yesterday’s DM), Hadewijch of Brabant was a beguine, a learned woman, and wrote in the language of the people — in
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
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
