Benedict XVI: eight funadmental years for the SDC
The 19th of April marked the 24th anniversary of Benedict XVI’s election to the See of Peter. His was indeed a most bountiful and rich pontificate, also for the Social…
It’s time to reconsider what the Magisterium has taught about globalization
It is now very probable that if one day a future pope, whoever he is, wants to write a new social encyclical, he will need to reconsider various aspects of…
Church Observer Warns: Don’t Flatten the Faith to Fit In at the UN. Interview to Stefano Fontana
The Holy See’s ever-closer collaboration with the United Nations and its affiliated organizations is causing it to adopt the “logic of the world,” a development that threatens to secularize the…
Abu Dhabi, one year later: The ambiguity about religions remains
One year ago, on February 4, 2019, the now famous so-called “Abu Dhabi Declaration on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” was signed. The document bears the signatures…
The presence of Personalism in the social Doctrine of the Church
Introduction to the proceedings of the IV Montefiascone Conference The Montefiascone Conferences are dedicated to delving into the relationship between the metaphysical realism of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Social…
Assisted suicide: freedom of choice?
Published below are the considerations of Dr. Stefano Martinolli, a surgeon, a bio-ethicist, and one of our Observatory’s collaborators. We would recall that regarding the legal aspects of the Constitutional…
The Italian Constitutional Court bolsters the right to die and the obligation to kill
The Court had promised this a year ago (ruling n°207/2018), and has kept its promise. According to the Court, in the absence of a change (requested)in the legislation in force,…
Freedom of religion: A secularized vision of religion in the CTI’s document
The Internaational Theological Commission recently issued a document entitled La libertà religiosa per il bene di tutti. Approccio teologico alle sfide contemporanee (ndt: Freedom of Religion for the good of…
The passage from the theology of What to the theology of How: the fate awaiting the common good
A conference was held on 9 May 2019 at Udine in the Main Hall of Palazzo Belgrado for the presentation of the book: “Le chiavi della questione sociale. Bene comune…
The absence of God in the public sphere Benedict XVI’s Essay: an important clarification on the role of the Social Doctrine of the Church
This ‘essay’ written by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI offering a series of ‘notes’ on “the Church and the scandal of sexual abuse” provides substantial food for thought regarding the Social…