Activities

Some Friendly Reflections for the Clarification of a Debate

Translator’s Note: This article was written for the Italian magazine Lepanto, and published
in its October 2007 issue.  For purposes of documentation the passages quoted from
Antonio Socci’s book in the original Italian are transcribed in the endnotes.

(by Antonio A. Borelli) The Italian journalist and writer Antonio Socci sustains in his book the thesis that there…»

Anti-Christian Persecutions: The Blood of Martyrs

“The Wanderer” – May 6, 2010 By Roberto de Mattei
The first few months of 2010 alone have added ever more and new pieces to the dramatic jigsaw of anti- Christian persecutions around the world.
In Iraq those Christians who are still in the country ( more than 500.000 have already been forced to abandon it )…»

DECKER: Cold Turkey for Europe

Reviewed by Brett M. Decker
“So how does it feel to see your culture taken away from you?” That’s what a friend in Paris emailed to me after Rima Fakih won the Miss USA Pageant last week. It was a loaded question. Supposedly, I should have felt the sting of an Arab-American Shi’ite being crowned because…»

The focal point of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI’s “Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland”

(Article published on “Il Foglio” – March 30, 2010, by Roberto de Mattei) The focal point of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI’s “Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland”, dated 19 March 2010, is above all to be uncovered in its calling for an authentic renewal and reformation of the spirit of the Church…»

Caritas in Veritate: a comment

(by Roberto de Mattei) In order to fully comprehend the meaning of Pope Benedict XVI’s Encyclical Caritas in Veritate, one must read it within the framework of a debate which has been ongoing in Catholic Church for over a Century.
The issue was first raised towards the middle of the Nineteenth Century with the so –…»