After the coronavirus: the road of true freedom Notes +Giampaolo Crepaldi Uproot statism and streamline bureaucracy, promote subsidiarity, free schools, fiscal freedom and the freedom to be born once conceived, national loan, combat the new humanism of the supra-national globalism that conducted an experiment of limited freedom and political authoritarianism during COVID-19: the future awaiting us will have to […]
Statements by S. E. Mons. Giampaolo Crepaldi
Coronavirus, today and tomorrow. Reflections on an emergency other than health care alone.
Dear Director, I would like to thank you very much for having posted on the Observatory website the homily I gave at the Mass celebrated for the III Sunday of Lent in the Cathedral of San Giusto, and also the prayer to Our Lady of Health at the diocesan sanctuary of St. Mary Major. In that homily I referred to […]
Statement of Most Rev. Giampaolo Crepaldi following the death of Noa Pothoven
The tragic conclusion of the earthly life of Noa Pothoven, a young Dutch girl, is the undoubtable sign of the no-holds-barred advance of the culture of death in our societies, a culture expanding on the basis of the dogma of psychological self-determination which is the absolute doctrinal principle of the new religion of despair. Society and the state induce persons […]
Interview with Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi on Migrations.
On Monday 14 January, the Italian daily newspaper, ‘La Verità’, published an article by Lorenzo Bertocchi on the X Report on the Social Doctrine of the Church by the Observatory Cardinal Van Thuân, entitled “Islam, a political issue’. In that article, this journalist also referred to previous Reports, and the one on Migration in particular. Presented below is the full […]
Political Islam and the new Task of the Social Doctrine of the Church
Presentation of the X Report on the Social Doctrine of the Church in the world Cantagalli, Siena 2018 The core themes of our Observatory’s three latest annual Reports are closely connected to one another in their respective analyses of social and political issues so evidently linked together in today’s world. The VIII Report (2016) was dedicated to the phenomena […]
Islam: a political issue. Interview with Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi on the X Report on the Social Doctrine of the Church
resh off the Cantagalli presses is the tenth Report on the Social Doctrine of the Church in the World of the Observatory Cardinal Van Thuân. This year, as its title indicates, the Report is dedicated to a burning topic, “Islam, a political issue”. We posed a few questions to the President of the Observatory and Bishop of Trieste, Most Rev. […]
The defense of human life. 51st Conference on International Issues
I plan to devote my presentation to reflection on the core nature of the theme of the defense of human life from conception to its natural end for the Social Doctrine of the Church, and also for the Catholic religion to continue having a public role, as it must necessarily have[1]. I consider it important to situate reflection on the […]
PRESENTATION. EUROPE, WHERE DEMOCRACY KNOWS NOT HOW TO MASTER ITSELF
Now approaching its first decade, this year’s Report of our Observatory is devoted to Europe. It may seem surprising to see a Report dedicated to all five continents focusing its attention on only one of them. This sort of misgiving was naturally present in the minds of the Report’s editors from the very outset, especially in light of the fact […]
Doing comes after being. Without formation, catholics scatter.
Most Rev. Mons. Giampaolo Crepaldi Speech in Milan — Teatro don Guanella 3 February 2018 I am pleased to be here with you on this special day. I’d even go so far as to say this very special day, with this opportunity I have to meet many of the persons taking part in the activities of the Academies of […]
Is the expropriation of children underway? Article by Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi published in the November issue of “Il Timone”
To whom do children belong? Children belong to no one because they are of God. Once upon a time the idea that a child was a gift was deeply rooted in the hearts and minds of people at large, and not just mothers. A gift of God that it is necessary to educate so this gift may return to Him. […]
The Chinese Model: The capital-socialism of social control. The 13th Report of the Van Thuân Observatory is now available