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Vatican finances, choosing the international option

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 9 giugno 2014 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

The members of the board of the Financial Information Authority (AIF), the Vatican’s financial watchdog, hailed all from Italy. Taking a decision which shows his wish to give the Holy See an international profile, Pope Francis replaced them all with international experts held in high regard. Among them, there is just one Italian, [...]

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Blessed are the peacemakers. May they be prophets of a new social evangelization

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 17 dicembre 2012 · 2 Comments · In Holy See

The food crisis, «which is more grave than the financial crisis». The promotion of human life, because «those who insufficiently value human life perhaps do not realize that in this way they are proposing the pursuit of a false peace». And then, the affirmation of social rights, beginning with the right to work; [...]

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The Social Doctrine of the Church, the path to peace – Chronicles from the Studium Aquinatis, part II

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 13 agosto 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Holy See

The Social Doctrine must be read and lived every day. Its key points come directly from the Gospel – the first and only source of inspiration of the Social Doctrine – and from there get to the key-words: person, subsidiarity, justice and peace, integral human development. These are the key words of the [...]

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Benedict XVI’s quiet revolution, last act: Caritas Internationalis

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 7 maggio 2012 · 1 Comment · In Benedict XVI

In 2008, Benedict XVI spoke to participants in the Study Congress organized by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the Code of Canon Law. In that occasion, he quoted Antonio Rosmini: «The human person is the essence of law». And he said: «The ius ecclesiae is [...]

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Step-by-step disarmament. The effort of the Holy See

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 26 marzo 2012 · 1 Comment · In Holy See

Within a political climate become red-hot because of next presidential elections on July, the 1st, Benedict XVI met the Mexican president Felipe Calderon. Then – on the initiative of the President Calderon himself – the Pope also met eight family members of the victim of the drug-trafficking. On that occasion, the Pope [...]

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Babylon. Behind the quiet revolution of Benedict XVI, guerrilla. From inside and outside the Church

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 13 febbraio 2012 · 1 Comment · In Holy See

«The important thing is that the message, the response of Fatima, in substance is not directed to particular devotions, but precisely to the fundamental response, that is, to ongoing conversion, penance, prayer, and the three theological virtues: faith, hope and charity. […] As for the new things which we can find in this message [...]

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A rabbi talks with the Pope. To save the world from religious indifference

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 12 dicembre 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Benedict XVI

«We are witnessing a growing indifference to religion in society, which considers the issue of truth as something of an obstacle in its decision-making, and instead gives priority to utilitarian considerations. Religion is one of these foundations for a successful social life». These words Pope Benedict XVI said in Germany, after the meeting [...]

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Credo. Toward the Year of Faith. From Paul VI to Benedict XVI

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 5 dicembre 2011 · 3 Comments · In Benedict XVI

«Religious communities as well as parish communities, and all ecclesial bodies old and new, are to find a way, during this Year, to make a public profession of the Credo» Benedict XVI wrote these words in the apostolic letter Porta Fidei for the indiction of the year of Faith.

Will there be a

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The bonfire of vanities. A curial story.

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 14 novembre 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Holy See

The last document released by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace was delivered to the participants to G20. Some of the proposal contained in the document were also part of the agenda of the summit. For example the tax on financial transactions, called a “Tobin tax” after the name of its [...]

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The fall of the false gods. International finance between Christ and Confucius

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 8 agosto 2011 · Leave a Comment · In international affairs

We are now living the fall of the false Gods. Benedict XVI delivered an important meditation at the beginning of the October Synod of Bishops for the Middle East. The meditation addressed the “false divinities” that govern modern times. «Let us remember all the great powers of the history of today. Let us [...]

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