{"id":14024,"date":"2025-06-14T09:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14024"},"modified":"2025-06-14T09:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T15:10:37","slug":"communitas-populi-romani-a-new-roman-pagan-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14024","title":{"rendered":"Communitas Populi Romani, a New Roman Pagan Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Luca Fizzarotti, center, pours water on hands during a ritual with the Communitas Populi Romani, Feb. 10, 2024, near the Forum in Rome. (RNS photo\/Claire Giangrav\u00e8)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Religious News Service notices Communitas Populi Romani, a Pagan group organized in 2013.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the beginning, the group focused on reenactments and history, but it slowly shifted toward becoming an officially recognized religious group. There are 20 or so members, said Donatella Ertola, who joined the group in 2015 and now organizes meetings three or four times a month in the places that are closest to the original temples spread across Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all believe in the gods, we make rituals at home, we have devotion temples at home, we have our priests and officiants,\u201d she told RNS, adding that this is a \u201cniche community that has been growing recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But I had to laugh at this: \u201cWhen I met her, she said, \u2018I am pagan and vegan,\u2019 and I thought \u2018Great! I am celiac!\u2019\u201d said Pieri, who works as a sound technician.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because what is the real religion of today? Diet. And however your therapist describes you in categories of the DSM-5,<\/a> or its Italian equivalent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still I like that they are trying to reactivate old sacred places while simultaneously not feeling the need to dress up like the ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luca Fizzarotti, center, pours water on hands during a ritual with the Communitas Populi Romani, Feb. 10, 2024, near the Forum in Rome. (RNS photo\/Claire Giangrav\u00e8) Religious News Service notices Communitas Populi Romani, a Pagan group organized in 2013. 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