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Articles by Ines Angeli Murzaku

About Ines Angeli Murzaku
Ines Angeli Murzaku (http://academic.shu.edu/orientalia/) is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, Director of Catholic Studies Program and the Founding Chair of the Department of Catholic Studies at Seton Hall University. She earned a doctorate of research from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome part of the Pontifical Gregorian University Consortium and has held visiting positions at the Universities of Bologna and Calabria in Italy and University of Münster in Germany. She is a regular commentator to media outlets on religious matters. She has worked for or collaborated with the Associated Press, CNN, Catholic World Report, National Catholic Register, Voice of America, Relevant Radio, The Catholic Thing, Crux, The Record, The Stream, Vatican Radio (Vatican City), and EWTN (Rome). Dr. Murzaku is currently writing a book on St. Mother Teresa entitled Mother Teresa: The Saint of the Peripheries who Became Catholicism’s Center Piece to be published by Paulist Press in 2020.
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The Dispatch

Bianchi and the lost identity of the community of Bose

February 19, 2022 Ines Angeli Murzaku 6

What has happened to the community of Bose since April of last year? As of January 30, 2022, after the general council, the monastic community of Bose has elected a new prior, Sabino Chialà, who […]

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First things first: Pope Francis’ overlooked pro-birth and pro-life message

May 24, 2021 Ines Angeli Murzaku 10

On May 14, 2021, Pope Francis delivered a notable opening speech to the Forum of Family Associations. The Forum was founded in 1993 as an umbrella organization embracing 500 associations, which Pope Francis calls a […]

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Troubles at Bose highlight need for authentic ecumenism, monasticism

April 28, 2021 Ines Angeli Murzaku 9

On February, 18, 2021, the following statement was posted on the Monastery of Bose page: “With deep bitterness the community of Bose took note that Br. Enzo did not go to Cellole within the time indicated by the Pontifical Delegate’s Decree of January 4th.” This is the most recent act of disobedience on the […]

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McCarrick’s modus operandi: deceit, division, diversion, and discouragement

November 21, 2020 Ines Angeli Murzaku 6

How did Theodore McCarrick make it to the helm, becoming a leading bishop and a prince of the Church? His journey and thirst for positions, power, and ambition is quite remarkable: from his 1977 appointment […]

Books

Atheist, racist, bigot, sexist: The truth about the demonic Karl Marx

September 1, 2020 Ines Angeli Murzaku 45

In 1999, Harvard University Press published The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, revealing a “tragedy of planetary dimensions.” It documented the untold atrocities of communism and all the people whose lives and livelihood […]

The Dispatch

The “Mosquing” of Hagia Sophia: What is at stake?

July 15, 2020 Ines Angeli Murzaku 6

“Give way, I say, renowned Roman Capitol, give way!” So wrote Paul the Silentiary (d. 575-580 A.D.), a Greek poet and palace official in Constantinople, known for his short poems, eighty of which have survived […]

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The masked but unconquered smile

May 20, 2020 Ines Angeli Murzaku 3

I put on a nicely hand-made face mask and my sunglasses, and before rushing into the garage I did quick check in the mirror. It had been a long time since I had been driving, […]

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Pope Francis, the coronavirus, and a famous 200-year-old Italian novel

March 18, 2020 Ines Angeli Murzaku 6

With Italy on lockdown in efforts to slow the spread of the deadly, novel coronavirus, Alessandro Manzoni’s historical novel I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), which is a favorite of Pope Francis’, comes to mind. “In […]

Essay

Cura corporis and cura animae: The Church and the Coronavirus Crisis

March 8, 2020 Ines Angeli Murzaku 11

I was supposed to be in Italy with a group of twenty-plus students this spring break. It has been a tradition for almost two decades now: to spend spring break exploring some of the most […]

Features

Why this pro-life Democrat walked away from his party

February 11, 2020 Ines Angeli Murzaku 11

The 2020 presidential election is still months away, and issues new and old have come to the fore in the national political scene. Abortion, of course, continues to be one of the most discussed of […]

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