Dottrina sociale della Chiesa
Even our Observatory wishes to express some evaluations after the swearing-in of the new President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, which took place on January 20th. We…
Dear Friends and Benefactors, the Holy Christmas of Our Lord is now upon us and the Observatory will stop too for a few days of rest and celebration. The wish…
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Rev. 2:11). This passage from Scripture is frequently quoted to justify a so-called “synodal…
In the month of October, for sixteen years now, the Cardinal Van Thuân Observatory has published its 16 th Report on the Social Doctrine of the Church in the world…
Every time we hear about monetary sovereignty we risk immediately falling back on the term “sovereignty”. We are reminded of the “sovereign-king”, who mints coins with his own image. In…
On Friday 11 October, at 9.00 pm, the National School of Social Doctrine of the Church will begin, which the Nuova Bussola Quotidiana (The Daily Compass) and the Cardinal Van…
Speaking about interreligious dialogue with the youth in Singapore, Pope Francis puts all religions on an equal footing. But, it is the denial of Christ’s claim to be ‘the way,…
Twenty years ago, The New Atlantis published a remarkable essay by Yuval Levin titled, “Imagining the Future.” (The essay was subsequently lengthened and published as a book.) It’s one of…
As European society was grappling with the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of socialist ideology in the late 1800s, Pope Leo XIII issued an encyclical that expressed…
For the first time, a ship financed by the Italian Episcopal Conference’s Migrantes Foundation is taking part in rescue operations for illegal migrants in the Mediterranean; and with the ‘blessing’…