ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS AT THE MEETING FOR EXECUTIVES OF THE MAIN COMPANIES IN THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS SECTORS, AND OTHER ENERGY RELATED BUSINESSES Clementine Hall Saturday, 9 June 2018 View the Document
Address of his Holiness to the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMCS). 28 May 2018
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE WORLD FEDERATION OF CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS (FIAMC) Hall of Popes Monday, 28 May 2018 View te document
Address of his Holiness to the General Assembly of the Italian Bishops Conference CEI. 21 May 2018
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE ITALIAN BISHOPS CONFERENCE Synod Hall Monday, 21 May 2018 View the document
Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference: “Two Lives, One Love”
Please see below key points from the submission of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference to the Citizens’ Assembly on the topic of the Eighth Amendment. The full text, which follows in English, Irish and Polish, was submitted to the Citizens’ Assembly on 9 December 2016 and was also made available in parishes: The Constitution celebrates the equality of the mother and the […]
The difference between dignity and liberty. A book by Giovanni Turco straddling philosophy and rights.
According to classical and Christian philosophy, and particularly so in the mainstream of Aristotle and Thomas, liberty does not belong to the essence of man. In other words, man is not man insofar as free, even if each man is free. Liberty is a property that derives from essence, and in particular from the specific difference of rationality. Man is […]
Message of Pope Francis for the 52nd World Day of Social Communications – Sunday May 13
Please see below the full text of Pope Francis’ 2018 message which was published on 24 January, the feast day of Saint Francis de Sales (1567 – 1622), bishop of Geneva and founder of the Visitation Sisters. Saint Francis de Sales is the patron saint of writers, editors and journalists. Message of Pope Francis for the 52nd World Day […]
Mons. Crepaldi: “Without reference to the Creator, the natural order weakens and gradually fades from sight”
Presentation of the book by J. Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Freedom itself has to be set free Rome 11 May 2018 Freedom itself has to be set free. Faith and politics in the third millennium (Cantagalli, Siena 2018), the new book by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, was presented in Rome on Friday 11 May, beginning at 6:00 PM, in the Sala Zuccari […]
Humanae vitae, political aspects of the encyclical on conjugal love. Lecture by Stefano Fontana
Humanae vitae, political aspects of the encyclical on conjugal love Lecture by Stefano Fontana at the Faculty of Theology of Sardegna 20 April 2018 Read the full text here Stefano Fontana delivered a lecture on “Humanae vitae, political aspects of the encyclical on conjugal love” at the Faculty of Theology of Sardegna in Cagliari on Friday, 20 April […]
What future for Europe? Christian roots and radical relativism, the Union’s peoples and policies
Scienza & Vita, Firenze, 26 March 2018 The XI Report of the Observatory Cardinal Van Thuân Our Report on Europe[1] voices a rather severe judgment regarding the process of unification and the current approach adopted by the European Union, and this unto the point of considering it a failure with respect to some of its features, as the title […]
What future for Europe? Christian roots and radical relativism, the Union’s peoples and policies
Scienza & Vita, Firenze, 26 March 2018 The XI Report of the Observatory Cardinal Van Thuân Our Report on Europe[1] voices a rather severe judgment regarding the process of unification and the current approach adopted by the European Union, and this unto the point of considering it a failure with respect to some of its features, as the title […]
The European Union: an institutional structure/system that insists on ignoring the history of the western world. The IX Report on the Social Doctrine of the Church in the World has been published.