Post Tagged 'italy'

September 26, 2024

Creativity and the Entrepreneurial Promise of Italy

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. Continue Reading...

May 18, 2020

For St. John Paul II’s 100th birthday, Italy gets gift of religious freedom

Today, May 18, is a very good day, indeed. It is a heroic day for the Italian Catholic Church on the 100th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s birth. There could not be a better birthday gift from a saint who, fluent in 13 languages, was a veritable Paraclete-on-earth. Continue Reading...

April 06, 2020

‘They want to punish the Church’: Italian priest fined for procession to fight coronavirus

The following translation is an exclusive interview that appeared in the weekend edition of the northern Italian daily La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, which has fiercely defended Italy’s religious freedom throughout the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading...

March 20, 2020

€153M in coronavirus philanthropy helps plug Italy’s drained public coffers

Clearly, we are facing a disheartening situation here in Italy, where I study at one of Rome’s pontifical universities. It seems that every day brings more bad news, more regulations, and more uncertainty. Continue Reading...

August 23, 2019

Italy’s usual political turmoil

I appeared on EWTN News Nightly yesterday to talk about the collapse of the Italian government. Such turmoil is nothing new in Italy. Discontent with the political class is the main reason there was a populist coalition government in the first place. Continue Reading...

August 19, 2019

Will the Vatican’s economics drive Matteo Salvini to victory?

Italy’s coalition government seems ready to break apart, with Matteo Salvini of the League (who is seen as the country’s real leader) calling for new elections to force the Five Star Movement out of his alliance and Five Star trying to form a new coalition with the Democratic Party in order to oust Salvini. Continue Reading...

December 13, 2016

Basta! Explaining why Italy stood united against constitutional reform

Just as Acton concluded its ‘Reclaiming the West: Freedom and Responsibility‘conference series in London on Dec. 1, Italy was getting ready to decide its own fate among troubled Western democracies. On Dec. Continue Reading...

November 10, 2016

An Italian view of America’s election results: Berlusconi reincarnate, financial penance

Yesterday, Hillary’s concession and Donald’s victory speeches would be made only one mile apart at the Midtown Hilton at the Javits Center in New York City. As the night wore on, the Clinton party quickly soured in the ballroom while the Trump camp began uncorking the bubbly. Continue Reading...

August 17, 2015

More on Romania and Human Trafficking

PowerBlog readers will have noticed a strong, and from my point of view justified, negative reaction here to Elise Hilton’s Aug. 11 post titled, “The Lost Girls of Romania: A Nation of Sex Trafficking.” Continue Reading...

July 15, 2015

Radio Free Acton: John Horvat on Order; Samuel Gregg on Chaos

In this edition of Radio Free Acton, we speak with John Horvat, author of Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society, about what’s gone wrong with our economy and culture and how to fix it. Continue Reading...

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