Presentation. Europe, where Democracy knows not how to master itself
Now approaching its first decade, this year’s Report of our Observatory is devoted to Europe. It may seem surprising to see a Report dedicated to all five continents focusing its…
The European Union: an institutional structure/system that insists on ignoring the history of the western world
The IX Report on the Social Doctrine of the Church in the World has been published By now, people at large should have become aware of the artificial and spurious…
Is the expropriation of children underway?
Article by Archbishop Crepaldi published in November issue of “Il Timone” To whom do children belong? Children belong to no one because they are of God. Once upon a time…
The Lutheran Reformation: Gnosis against Logos
Speech delivered on 21 October in Salerno at the Conference on “2017, Four centennials: the challenge of history, the Eternal One’s response” I’ve been asking myself what may be the…
The danger of the new social pastoralism in the latest book of Archbishop Crepaldi
Often heard repeated by bishops are exhortations like these: needed is “a new class of Catholic politicians”, “a new season of political Catholicism”, “a new generation of Catholics engaged in…
Thus does the Social Doctrine of the Chuch change
A change is underway in the communication style of the Social Doctrine of the Church. A symptom of this can be seen in Pope Francis’ recent Message for the Day…
Charlie Gard was killed: the State decides about life and death, and the special tribunals of totalitarian regimes are back on the scene
Statement by the Observatory Card. Van Thuan on the Social Doctrine of the Church On 28 July 2017 the machinery ventilating Charlie Gard’s lungs was turned off and he died.…
Luther or the impossibility of the Social the Social Doctrine of the Church
Published for your reading is the editorial writen by Archbishop Giampaolo for issue 2 (2017) of the Bulletin of the Social Doctrine of the Church dedicated to “The Luteran Reformation…
The metaphysics of being and the Social Doctrine of the Church Montefiascone, 7 November 2016
It is a pleasure for me to open this Conference on “The Reasons of the Common Good” in the seminary of the Institute of the Incarnate Word here in Montefiascone.…