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This Economy Kills
When Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic letter The Joy of the Gospel that the economy of the West is one that "kills," he was immediately labeled by some as a Marxist. Criticisms came fast and furious, not only from financial columnists and conservative cable personalities, but also from some Catholic commentators, especially in the United States. In This Economy Kills, two of the most respected journalists covering the Vatican today explore the Pope's teaching and witness on the topic; the ways it relates to other topics like war, the environment, and family life; its connections to the teaching of his predecessors; and the criticism it has generated, especially from the direction of the United States. This fascinating book includes the full text of an extended interview the authors conducted with Francis on the topic of capitalism and social justice, appearing here in English for the first time. This Economy Kills is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Pope Francis's convictions about the world we live in and the way he believes Christians are called to shape it.
La Chiesa che non tace
Oggi Domenico Mogavero è il vescovo che dalla Sicilia solleva un grido di protesta contro l'intollerabile situazione dei migranti, abbandonati sulle coste italiane in condizioni di tragica miseria. Ma questa è soltanto l'ultima delle sue battaglie. Da sempre infatti, fin dagli inizi del suo magistero, monsignor Mogavero si batte per i diritti degli ultimi, contro gli errori del Vaticano e la moralità di chi ci governa. Dall'impegno al fianco del cardinale Ruini alla presidenza del consiglio della Cei per gli affari giuridici, dall'attività presso il tribunale ecclesiastico alla nomina di vescovo della diocesi di Mazara del Vallo - territorio di frontiera alle porte dell'Islam -, qualunque fosse il ruolo ricoperto, monsignor Mogavero si è sempre rivolto al cuore delle persone, alla sua parte più combattiva e assetata di giustizia. Commentatore autorevole dei più scottanti temi d'attualità, dai rapporti tra Berlusconi e Gheddafi all'affare Boffo alle rivolte del Maghreb, le sue parole si stagliano sopra il coro degli epigoni, per dare voce a una Chiesa diversa, la Chiesa che non tace.
Ratzinger
Il “giallo” della rinuncia di Joseph Ratzinger al Soglio di Pietro si comprende solo addentrandosi nel mistero “Joseph Ratzinger”. Un pontificato inedito il suo, da raccontare riannodando pensiero e azione di un gigante della teologia divenuto Papa. Un uomo dalla fede granitica che ha spogliato il papato di ogni mondanità rendendolo servizio alla Verità a ogni costo. Il vaticanista di lungo corso Giacomo Galeazzi, autore di bestseller internazionali sul Vaticano e gli ultimi tre papi, analizza, anche grazie a preziose testimonianze, l’originalità del percorso, dell’«umile operaio nella vigna del Signore» tra accademia, Concilio e Chiesa tedesca fino alla clamorosa abdicazion...
Wojtyla segreto
Guardiamo ai fatti. Questo libro, scritto dal vaticanista de La Stampa Giacomo Galeazzi e dal giornalista d'inchiesta Ferruccio Pinotti, ricostruisce la storia di Karol Wojtyla e si propone come un appello documentato contro la beatificazione. A uso di credenti e non credenti. Proviamo a mettere da parte i miracoli, veri o presunti. Proviamo a non guardare solo allo straordinario carisma di trascinatore di folle che ha lasciato tutti profondamente ammirati. Gli anni di Cracovia, i primi sponsor politici all'interno della Chiesa, le amicizie scomode (il vescovo americano Marcinkus, il vescovo cecoslovacco Hnilica - entrato anche nella vicenda della morte del banchiere dell'Ambrosiano Roberto ...
A Pope Francis Lexicon
A collection of more than 50 essays by an impressive set of insightful contributors from around the globe, each writing on a specific word that has become important in the ministry of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis and the Parish
Pope Francis and the Parish begins by reviewing the influences that shaped Jorge Bergoglio’s ecclesial vision that were later implemented in The Joy of the Gospel. Based on the experience of a cathedral parish in Rochester, New York, it details the enfolding of missionary discipleship in the parish as it transitions from blue-collar bastion to a home of stark poverty, of new peripheries with dramatic new needs, including a burgeoning refugee population. Reference is made to the “Field Hospital” motif, The Joy of the Gospel’s “Four Essential Principles,” “The Three Step Program,” and Pope Francis’s guidelines for parish leadership. The work concludes with Pope Francis’s call to hope and the transformation of the parish into a “People with a Spirited Impulse.”
A Pope for All Seasons
A Pope for All Seasons: Testimonies Inspired by Saint John Paul II contains reminiscences by people who admired this saintly man as student, actor, professor, mentor, author, priest, pope, political leader, uncle, and friend. Among the nearly 50 men and women who share their intimate thoughts on the Polish pontiff are internationally recognized figures such as: Maestro Placido Domingo His Holiness the Dalai Lama Michael Reagan Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller Newt Gingrich George Weigel Edwin Meese III Peter Robinson Msgr. Slawomir Oder Ryszard Legutko Each contributor offers insights into the pontificate, life, teachings, thoughts, and lessons of one of the most visible persons in recent history. This book was designed to help present and future generations build on the legacy of Saint John Paul II. It encourages us to study his life and activities on multiple levels-philosophy, literature, theatre, theology, politics, diplomacy, and more-so that he might inspire and guide our actions in the world.
Papal Teaching in the Age of Infallibility, 1870 to the Present
Kevin Keating examines the major writings of the Roman Pontiffs from Pius IX in the last half of the nineteenth century to the most recent writings of Francis. He explores the shift in papal focus from internal church matters and attacks on modern thought to concern for matters affecting all of humanity—not just spiritually, but socially, politically, and economically as well. Looming over all of these teachings is the specter of the doctrine of infallibility. First defined in 1870 to cover only papal infallibility, it would be expanded in the 1960s to include the exercise of infallibility by the worldwide college of bishops. Keating discusses the most significant themes dealt with by popes during this period—the Bible, religious freedom, church-state relations, social doctrine, human sexuality, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue. He describes how papal teaching has changed, developed, and even been contradicted by later popes, although they have failed to expressly acknowledge departures from prior teaching. He details how the doctrine of infallibility, far from serving to bolster the credibility of papal teaching, often has served to undermine it.
One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments
Why has communism’s humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin’s coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider how communist experiments over many different times and regions attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and culture. Although each communist project was adapted to the situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its manifestations. This book is also concerned with the future. As the world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest lessons from their analyses of communism’s past to help better resist totalitarian projects in the future.
Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice
Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluenceexamines how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice, through oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals. This book applies critical communication methods and perspectives to interrogate the pressing yet mind-boggling dilemma currently faced in environmental studies and policy: that clean water, the very stuff of life, which flows freely from the tap in affluent areas, is also denied to huge populations, materially and fluidly exemplifying the currents of justice, liberty, and equity. Contributors highlight discourse and water justice movements in nonofficial spheres from activists, artists, and the grassroots. In extending the technical, economic, moral, and political conversations on water justice, this collection applies special focus on the novel rhetorical concepts and responses not necessarily unique to but especially enacted in water justice situations. Scholars of rhetoric, sociology, activism, communication, and environmental studies will find this book particularly useful.
