Last year's Vatican Christmas Tree was a 28-metre-high white spruce. Credit: AP The mayor of a northern Italian municipality has defended his decision to have a 29-metre high fir tree cut down and ...
The beloved 100ft conifer is growing on the hillside near the city of Trento in the north of Trentino-South Tyrol - Alamy An Italian mountain town is trying to stop their favourite tree being cut ...
Critics say the tradition of gifting a tree to the Vatican’s Christmas display is a ‘useless sacrifice’ and is against the pontiff’s morals An Italian mountain town is trying to stop their ...
There is a widespread misunderstanding that spiritual study and practice are ‘mystic’ and ‘other-worldly’ and necessary only at the end of life. But the purpose of spirituality is to ...