A Murder That Reveals More Than It Explains The assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025 shocked the United States not only because a young political activist was killed during a public speech but also because of the moral confusion that followed. Almost immediately, the event split public opinion into...
PREFACE I am writing these notes in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 presidential elections which saw the surprising net victory of the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in an attempt to answer a question addressed to me by one of my old-time friends living in Italy, “What is happening...
Abstract In June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the 1973 landmark decision of Roe v. Wade which had legalized abortion in the United States. Since Roe there have been more than 63 million legal abortions...
This book is a well-documented review of some of the major ills that affect American society today, and gives suggestions for remedies taking inspiration from Catholic social teaching. In particular, it makes use of some contrasting concepts often expressed by Pope Francis during his pontificate such as, “throwaway culture” versus...
Introduction The recent events which have occurred in the US during the year 2020 have shown the faults in public institutions in coping with an unprecedented crisis, mainly caused by the spread of the coronavirus and the riots following the killing of a black man, George Floyd, by the police....
Charles Chaput Strangers in a strange land Henry Holt Co, New York, NY, 2017 This book is a critical description of contemporary America. More precisely it focuses on the changes which have occurred in America in recent decades especially as regards socio-cultural, moral and Christian-Catholic life. As the title suggests,...
There has been a lot of controversy since the US President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often abbreviated to “ACA” and most commonly known by its adopted nickname of “Obamacare”, on March 23, 2010. However, the uproar surrounding it reached an unforeseeable peak in the last three...
Premessa Quando si parla di Welfare americano ad un pubblico italiano e europeo in genere, è necessario fare delle precisazioni di ordine semantico al fine di evitare equivoci, fraintendimenti e generalizzazioni superficiali. Esistono sostanzialmente due interpretazioni del termine Welfare, una propria dell’uso comune che si fa del termine secondo la...
Premessa Questo breve saggio è rivolto ad un pubblico attento e sensibile alle difficoltà sociali che hanno colpito tante famiglie ed intere nazioni a seguito del diffondersi e prolungarsi dell’attuale crisi economica – per certi versi senza precedenti – ma che non si trovano a proprio agio nella lettura dei...
Introduzione Da qualche tempo la casa automobilistica Fiat è diventata oggetto di un’attenzione straordinaria da parte degli organi di informazione e dell’opinione pubblica nazionale e, in buona misura, anche internazionale. Nell’anno in corso è stato piuttosto raro che sia passata una settimana senza che stampa e mass media sia siano...
