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The Boy Scouts of Bloomfield Avenue
It’s the dog days of summer 1959. A rebellious teenager living in Newark, New Jersey, is convinced that the only way out of his impoverished neighborhood is to enlist in the ranks of the local Bloomfield Avenue mobsters and take up a life of crime. His father has a different agenda. He himself a downtrodden racketeer he wants to turn his troubled life around and the life and future of his young son. Suddenly, on the eve of the boy’s sixteenth birthday, both find themselves way over their heads in trouble and slipping into the dangerous clutches of a powerful mob boss who rules his domain with an iron fist from the confines of his Bloomfield Avenue Social Club. As danger threatens, both father and son realize that there is only one way out. A series of life-changing events unfold, and in a hurried effort to keep him out of harm’s way, the boy is sent away. He is forced to leave his family, his beloved Bloomfield Avenue, and the arms of his young girlfriend. He leaves as a boy but vows to return one day as a man.
Only the Gospel is Revolutionary
From the beginning of Pope Francis’s pontificate, Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga has been at the center of the Holy Father’s efforts to reform the Roman Curia and the church. This is clear in his role as moderator of the council of nine cardinals from around the world entrusted with the task of advising Francis on matters relating to church governance and Vatican reform. In Only the Gospel Is Revolutionary, Cardinal Maradiaga provides a unique, insider view of the pope’s efforts, which has generated high hopes from Catholic leadership around the world, as well as opposition from within the Vatican itself. The book is also a very personal tale of the author’s great friendship wi...
St. Louis's The Hill
The Hill was named for its proximity to the highest point in St. Louis. Italians, mainly from Northern Italy, immigrated to the area starting in the late 1800s; however, by 1910, Sicilians were also immigrating to the Hill. Agencies in Italy were employed by mining companies and other industries to help Italian citizens gather all the required documentation for immigration. Italians came to the Hill because of its proximity to the factory and the mines and because it was a district that allowed them to purchase land and build a home. The Parish of St. Ambrose was founded 1903. After the original church was destroyed by fire, the new church was completed in 1926. The Hill has been home to some of St. Louis's nationally known residents, including baseball heroes Joe Garagiola and Lawrence "Yogi" Berra.
The Italian Reformers and the Zurich Church, c.1540-1620
Recently scholars have become increasingly aware of Zurich's role as an intellectual and cultural centre of the European Reformation. This study focuses on a little-known aspect of the Zurich church's international activity: its relationship with Italian-speaking evangelicals during the period 1540-1620. The work assesses the importance of Zwinglian influences within the early Italian evangelical movement and Zurich's contribution to the spread of the Reformation in Italian-speaking territories such as Locarno and southern Graubünden. It shows how, following the establishment of the Roman Inquisition in July 1542, senior Zurich churchmen emerged as important points of contact for Italian re...
Dante e i poeti dell’antichità classica
Ho già pubblicato due libri su Dante: “Il pensiero politico di Dante”, pubblicato dalla casa editrice Aletti, e “I fondamenti storici e filosofici del pensiero politico di Dante”, pubblicato dalla Albatros. Ho presentato questi libri in sedi prestigiose, come “Circolo degli Artisti Casa di Dante” a Firenze, e “l’Accademia Belli” di Roma, e non nego di aver avuto molte difficoltà nel far accogliere la mia interpretazione del pensiero di Dante: il mio è un Dante molto diverso dall’arcigno professore, un po’ reazionario e molto “medioevale”, che viene presentato dalla cultura ufficiale italiana. Il mio Dante è un uomo d’azione, fin da giovane attivamente impegnat...
