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Vatican Financial Transparency. The path to the milestone Moneyval report

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 23 luglio 2012 · 1 Comment · In Holy See

In order to understand the path the Holy See began and is staying on to achieve full -international financial transparency, one should look beyond the seven negative ratings (out of 16 core and key recommendations to combat money laundering) and beyond the 23 negative ratings on the general recommendations (out of 45, [...]

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Benedict XVI. Between Benedict, Bonaventure and Gregory.

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 14 maggio 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Benedict XVI

Quaerere Deum, search for God. This was the motivation that brought so many people to begin the era of monasticism in Europe. Benedict XVI outlined it in his speech to College de Bernardins in Paris. «Find the monk that lays inside you»: this is how – according to Giuseppe Della Torre, president [...]

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The Gospel leads to adult Faith. A look on Benedict XVI’s Papacy

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 27 febbraio 2012 · 2 Comments · In Benedict XVI

To be adult faithful. Not to be slave of the dictatorship of the public opinion. In the midst of the utter chatters and the leaks, Benedict XVI meets the priests of the dioceses of Rome. He never talks about scandals, and it is obvious, since he gives a lectio divina, a “divine lesson”. [...]

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World diplomacy. Benedict XVI’s effort

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 16 gennaio 2012 · Leave a Comment · In diplomacy

To get back to the solidity of International law, to abandon – or at least take it in less consideration – the fickleness of diplomacy. If there is a plan, this is the one of Benedict XVI. Since the beginning of his papacy, he gave his personal impact to the Vatican diplomacy. [...]

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From Norway with hate. Why was Breivik depicted as a Christian fundamentalist?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 1 agosto 2011 · 5 Comments · In Holy See

Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, went to an official visit to Norway to take «the solidarity of the Catholic Church and the solidarity of the Holy Father, in particular, to Norway at this tragic time, along with greetings for the great Feast of St Olaf, which was [...]

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Benedict XVI. The last of Benedictins, the first of Thomists

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 7 marzo 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Culture

Aquinas is the title of a book by John Finnis, one of the most prominent legal philosophers. It is – obviously – dedicated to Thomas Aquinas. And it – less obviously – indicates the Aquinas as one of the founder of the Modern Thought. This book let John Finnis win the Thomas Aquinas International [...]

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