
When Nature Responds to Our Questions
CultureFrom a Nobel Laureate stirred by the exhibitions to mathematicians passionate about the “force of evidence,” here are the scientists who participated in the Meeting.
From a Nobel Laureate stirred by the exhibitions to mathematicians passionate about the “force of evidence,” here are the scientists who participated in the Meeting.
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., one of America’s powerful, at the Meeting, taking time to enjoy everything, from the myriad acquaintances to the final adventure of Neapolitan dining.
As students, teachers, and parents all plunge into the education system, ready to return wearily to the old routine. But is there a chance that educating and being educated will become an adventure that makes it worth getting up happily in the morning?
A Catholic convert, the University of Pennsylvania theologian demonstrates the novelty of Fr. Giussani’s ideas for the American mindset and Protestant culture.
The Risk of Education was presented in London, with the interventions of the mathematician and physicist Peter Hodgson, the Anglican theologian John Milbank, and Fr. Carrón.
An edition of Fr. Giussani’s book in Arabic is presented at the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina, with its architecture evoking the rising sun, an initiative no one could have foreseen, fostered by Wael Farouq.
It’s been weeks since the sordid events at Virginia Tech filled newspapers and television screens. Though the media’s reporting of the particulars has waned, our hearts’ demand for meaning has not.
A Latin and Greek teacher at the Berchet High School in Milan, Elisabetta Cassani speaks of obedience at school: “If there’s no goal, if you’re not trying to get anywhere, obedience has no meaning”
One of the most open and acute minds in British philosophy was a guest of the Cultural Center in Milan this past February 27th. From the Anglican world, an example of the broadening of reason, in harmony with the Pope’s invitation.
What does it mean to be father today? More than merely a role to fill, fatherhood is about source and generating. The following contributions document the centrality and meaning of fatherhood from ancient to modern times.
The presentation of "The Religious Sense" by Fr. Giussani, in the new Egyptian edition edited by Wael Farouq, included a speech by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, newly appointed Secretary of the Holy See for Relations with States.
In his time Franz Joseph Haydn was labeled Papa Haydn for his paternal care and acknowledgment of other composers of his time. Here we examine his generosity as a peer and his influence as a musician.
The Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Roman Curia, offering them his Christmas greetings. Clementine Hall, Friday, December 22, 2006.
The new Metropolitan Archbishop of Moscow recounts the network of circumstances that brought him to the heart of Russia. In his episcopal motto, “Passion for the glory of Christ,” is the meaning of witness to the Russian people.
The Canadian writer and painter, Michael D. O’Brien speaks to Traces of his relationship with beauty, of his wonder before the Mystery of reality, of freedom, of being both sons and beggars, and of love as knowledge.
One of the most open and acute minds in British philosophy was a guest of the Cultural Center in Milan this past February 27th. From the Anglican world, an example of the broadening of reason, in harmony with the Pope’s invitation.
During six months of Wednesday Audience catecheses dedicated to the Apostles, Pope Benedict XVI has shown how the personal adventure of each of the Twelve endures through history as a model for every believer.
For the first time in Italy, a state school was named in honor of Fr. Giussani, “an extraordinary protagonist of the civil and religious life of our times”