Lo storico Andrea Riccardi interpreta un evento del passato come illuminante della vicenda attuale del cattolicesimo. Pubblichiamo ampi stralci dell’intervento che Andrea Riccardi pronuncerà oggi al convegno internazionale “San Paolo fuori le Mura – Incendio e ricostruzione” che si svolge presso la stessa basilica a Roma. La Chiesa cattolica viveva la sfida di ricostruire della […]
These weeks marked by the coronavirus are an extraordinary experience for our generation. Will we learn something for tomorrow? There is a risk of continuing as before. In doing so, our societies will face serious dangers, because they have proved to be fragile in many ways, without foresight, based on the priority of economic interest. We […]
The Sant’Egidio Community is a “public association of the faithful” that has three principal aims: prayer, the poor and peace. It was first founded in Rome and has since spread to 72 different countries around the world. The Community was born immediately after the Second Vatican Council in 1968. It was the initiative of an […]
Steve Bannon may be on the way to getting his electoral Dream Team in Italy, a coalition of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the anti-immigrant League. That is no cause for celebration among Catholic Church leaders, who are somberly facing up to the fact that the faithful have helped elect a governing coalition united […]
Andrea Riccardi is Professor of Contemporary History at La Terza University in Rome. n expert in contemporary humanistic thought, his is an authoritative voice in the international scene. A number of universities have granted him honorary degrees in recognition of his historical and cultural merits. Andrea Riccardi is also known internationally for having founded, in 1968, the Community of Sant’Egidio. In addition to its social commitment and its many development projects in the southern hemisphere, Sant’Egido is known for its commitment to favouring peace and dialogue. On 18th November 2004, he was given the International Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among Peoples. On 21st May 2009, he was awarded the Charlemagne Prize. On 16th November 2011 he joined the Government of Premier Mario Monti as Minister (without portfolio) for International Cooperation and Integration Policies.
