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Pope Francis in search of the old men of the Curia. But how should they look like?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 4 agosto 2013 · 3 Comments · In Vatican

Pope Francis closed his trip to Brazil for World Youth Day with an hour and 20 minutes of press conference of open question and answers. Pope Francis spoke about several topics, from the possible presence of a gay lobby within the Vatican ranks to the communion for divorced and remarried people. Among all [...]

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The common good is the center of Holy See’s international agenda – chronicles from the Studium Aquinatis, part I

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 6 agosto 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Holy See

The Holy See’s International agenda? The common good. Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States of the Vatican Secretariat of State, explained it in an insightful lecture on «The Social Doctrine of the Church in International Relations» to the young students of the Studium Aquinatis-Workshop on the Social Doctrine of the Church  [...]

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Arms Trade Treaty negotiations failed. And the integral disarmament seems to be so far away

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 30 luglio 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Holy See

«The governments’ efforts will be judged by how many lives the treaty helps to save.» Christian leaders representing some of the world’s two billion Christians have issued a joint appeal to the 194 governments that negotiated the first global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). But this appeal remained unlistened. Having started on 2 July, [...]

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The Pope weathers the storm. Chronicles from the Vatileaks plot

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 4 giugno 2012 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

To do away with Vatileaks polemics and rumors, Benedict XVI decided to make a personal public statement. At the end of the General Audience of Wednesday, May 30th, he read a brief and significant declaration about the Vatileaks scandal. «The events – the Pope said - which have occurred during these [...]

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Will the prayer save the spirit of Assisi?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 10 ottobre 2011 · Leave a Comment · In church

What is the difference a day can make? Right after September, 11 this single question – issued for the first times during the Seventies in a song by Esther Phillips – had been made hundreds, thousands and millions of times. Was what happened in New York in September, 11 really able to change [...]

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