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Holy See promotes a reform of the United Nations. And invites Ban Ki Moon to discuss about it in Rome

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 12 marzo 2012 · 3 Comments · In Holy See

Next year, an important anniversary will be celebrated in the Vatican: it will be the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the encyclical Pacem in terris, by John XXIII. And the Vatican decided to celebrate the anniversary his way: inviting the General Secretary of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon in Rome, [...]

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European Roots and Economic Crisis. A lesson from Aquino

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 5 marzo 2012 · Leave a Comment · In international affairs

Half of 90s, dinner. The leaders of the most important Central Banks of Europe sit at the same table. They are just talking about the euro to come. «My fellow citizens thinks that euro is Paradise. But euro is not Paradise… Euro will be… »  «Hold, Hans… It will be a Purgatory». The [...]

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Consistory. New cardinals’ profile show the Papal project for the Church.

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 9 gennaio 2012 · 3 Comments · In international affairs

The 6th of January, Benedict XVI announced a consistory – to be held in February, 18th – during the one he will create 22 new cardinals. Four of these new cardinals will not take part to the next conclave, since they are already 80. And good part of the new cardinals got [...]

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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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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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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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Italy, is a modern Kulturkampf taking place?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 18 luglio 2011 · 20 Comments · In Italian Church

«Catholics are not even allowed to think». This thought does not come from the corridors of the Vatican Secretariat of State. There is a whole world made up of Catholics that are not – and that do not intend to be – part of the Vatican Hierarchy. This world is inspired by Christian values [...]

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From Finland with love. Is Catholic thought going to be a minority to protect?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 4 luglio 2011 · Leave a Comment · In international affairs

«Kyllä kansa tietää», «Yes the people know». This sentence has marked the history of Finnish politics. His author, Veikko Vennamo, was a talented orator. He shocked the Finnish political establishment by founding a populist party at the end of Sixties. It was called “Landsbygdspartiet” (the Party of the Countries) and it gained the [...]

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Christianity, is there a future after secularization?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 20 giugno 2011 · 1 Comment · In church

The new evangelization is the theme of this year’s meeting of the “Ratzinger Schulerkreis,” a group of the Pope’s former students.

The Ratzinger-Schülerkreis, that is the ‘Ratzinger Students’ Circle’, brings together once a year the old theology professor, now pope Benedict XVI, and his former students to discuss a new topic every year.

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