Matthew Santucci is public relations manager with Istituto Acton in Rome. A native of Connecticut, Matthew has a B.A. from Fordham University and an M.A. in international relations from Luiss Guido Carli in Rome.
Posts by Matthew Santucci
December 04, 2024
“For them, I am a troublemaker. It is hard for them not to clamp down on me and silence me.” On August 10, 2020, Jimmy Lai, entrepreneur and media mogul, was arrested in the wake of the crackdown on the pro-democracy protests that engulfed Hong Kong.
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October 29, 2024
In early October, I sat down with Chou-seng Tou, former ambassador of Taiwan (the Republic of China) to the Holy See (2004–8), at his residence in Taipei. Ambassador Tou has had a long and distinguished diplomatic career.
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September 26, 2024
Any country not continually innovating, striving to create better material and civil conditions for the next generation, runs the risk of becoming economically impotent, politically irrelevant, and culturally ossified. This was the main issue discussed at this year’s Communion and Liberation meeting in Rimini, Italy.
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July 26, 2024
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump during a political rally held in Pennsylvania on July 13, which left one dead and several wounded—including the former president—was a grotesque assault on American democracy.
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