The chapters brought together in this volume build on the idea that in the 1970s-1980s the global language of human rights contributed to stimulating ideas of reform in the communist world. The protagonists were Mikhail Gorbachev and the Italian communists. The experience of the PCI was in many ways a peculiar case, but one that was linked to underground ideas of cultural change even in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's ascent signalled a fundamental shift, as he rejected the approach of reducing human rights to an ideological battleground and instead made it the centrepiece of a universalist relaunch. By exploring the encounter between reform communists and human rights, the authors reconstruct the metamorphosis and the end of communism within the context of the wider transformations taking place in European political cultures at the end of the Cold War.
Il presente volumetto ha uno scopo informativo (livello storico) e formativo (educazione alla fede). Al suo interno vengono presentati: "L'origine e l'evoluzione del Sant'Uffizio; Le riforme del primo Novecento; La Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede; Il Dicastero secondo la costituzione apostolica Pastor bonus". Al suo interno sono contenute informazioni sulla struttura e l'organizzazione sia della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede (personale, uffici, procedure, esame delle dottrine, normative) sia degli organismi ad essa collegati "la Pontificia Commissione Biblica, la Commissione Teologica Internazionale e la Pontificia Commissione Ecclesia Dei". In Appendice è presente la documentazione inerente alla Serie dei Cardinali Segretari (1602-1966) e Prefetti (dal 1966), la Lettera apostolica sotto forma di motuproprio Itegrae servandae e la Costituzione apostolica Pastor bonus (articoli 48-55). La Prefazione del volume è a cura del cardinale Prefetto Gerhard Müller.
The collection of studies contained in this volume was born out of the widely shared awareness that having an abortion leaves remnants of a profound suffering, and which in not a few cases leads to real psychological damage. the problem of post-abortion trauma today is of both a scientific and human relevance and we can no longer ignore it on account of the enormous spread of abortion in many countries of the world.
We see that in the current state of things, the debate regarding the existence and characteristics of post-abortion trauma often appears to be conditioned by an ethical approach present in various cultures, an approach that can vary between considering abortion to be essentially a means of birth control (by now the most common) and condemning it as a severely grave violation of the sacredness of unborn human life. in many of the studies conducted up until our current day – the collection, analysis and interpretation of data – the results are strongly influenced by the position assumed prior to any undertaken research. According to some individuals, easy access to abortion is a kind of modern success and otherwise abortion is seen above all as the deprivation of the future life of a being not yet born. In the latter case it is easier to recognize, in addition to the harm done to the baby, the damage inflicted upon the woman which continues to unfold after the fact.
The Mediterranean, both sea and a a theatre, has served throughout history as a fundamental crossroads for the political-religious dynamics and international tensions that characterize the various worlds, east and west, south and north, that meet in this basin. Starting from these premises, the present work examines within a chronological span that goes from the conclusion of the Second World War to the end of Pius XII's pontificate - the contribution offered by the Holy See and by Catholics from different national contexts in deciphering the role of the Mediterranean Sea within the wider global context. As such, constitutes a a reflection on this geographical space with its peculiar cultural, economic, political, and religious realities by highlighting the role played by the Mediterranean in the elaboration of visions and projects of civilization.
This work is the fruit of a wider research programme called Occidentes - Horizons and projects of civilization in the Church of Pius XII. It brings together the work of seven historians from different European Universities.