Church and State: separation or harmony of roles and responsibilities?
by Roberto de Mattei (“The Wanderer” – December 10, 2009) In recent times both in Europe and in the United States, animated and sometimes bitter discussions have been taking place regarding relations...
View ArticleMarch for Life: always more “NO” to abortion
Yet another large crowd gathered this past January 22nd in Washington in order to remember the 37th anniversary Roe v. Wade. In fact, every year since 1974, groups of young people assemble along...
View ArticleCaritas 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...
View ArticleThe focal point of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI’s “Pastoral Letter to...
(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...
View ArticleDECKER: 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...
View ArticleAnti-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...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleDébat sur le Concile Vatican II
Vient de paraître en Italie, il y a quelques jours : le dernier ouvrage du Professeur Roberto de Mattei, Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta (Le Concile Vatican II, une histoire jamais...
View ArticleDebate on the Second Vatican Council
The new book by Prof. Roberto de Mattei, entitled Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta (The Second Vatican Council: a story which has never been told.)Vatican Council II. The story which was...
View ArticleThe looting of Italy
(By Alessandra Nucci) How would you feel if you were to help debtors out, to the tune of billions of euros, then were to find yourself painted in the media as being a recipient of bailouts? This is...
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Thoughts on the Resignation of Benedict XVI
On February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Holy Father Benedict XVI announced to the Consistory of Cardinals and to the whole world his decision to resign from the papacy. The announcement...
View ArticleThe crisis of faith: action is needed
(Roberto de Mattei) The director of an Italian daily newspaper “Il Foglio”, Giuliano Ferrara, is certainly right to denounce the strategy of calumny carried out through the mass media in recent days...
View ArticleThe Holy Spirit and the next Conclave
(Roberto de Mattei) The eyes of the whole world, and not just of Catholics, are currently turned towards St Peter’s to find out who will be the new Vicar of Christ. This time, the sense of expectancy...
View ArticleFrancis I on the throne of Peter
(Roberto de Mattei) The Church has a new Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first non-European Pope, the first Latin American Pope, the first Pope called Francis. The mass media are trying to guess what...
View ArticleZero tolerance against pedophilia. Also against sodomy?
(By Roberto de Mattei) Last April 5th the press reported the news that Pope Francis had reaffirmed Benedict XVI’s stance of zero tolerance against pedophilia. The subject was brought up by the Pontiff...
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Homosexuality – can a Catholic recognise “the rights of gay couples”?
A dangerous belief is gaining ground, even among Catholics, that a juridical recognition of homosexual cohabitation is the only way to avoid “gay marriage”. “No to gay marriage, yes to the rights of...
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The Law on Homophobia: a threat to freedom of speech
(By Roberto de Mattei Translation via Rorate’s Italian contributor Francesca Romana) In the countries where “pseudo homosexual marriage” has been enforced, it was generally preceded by two laws which...
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The “Causa” Franciscans of the Immaculate
(by Roberto de Mattei on Corrispondenza romana) The “case” of the Franciscans of the Immaculata is a very serious episode, which is intended to have an effect in the Church that is maybe not...
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Lex dubia non obligat
(by Roberto de Mattei) The “case” of the Franciscans of the Immaculate re-proposes a question of canonical order, both moral and spiritual, which often surfaced and at times “exploded” in the...
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Franciscans of the Immaculate as Lorenzo Ricci’s Jesuits: “let them be as...
(by Roberto de Mattei) “Sint ut sunt aut non sint” (let them be as they are, or not at all) is a sentence that according to some historians was pronounced by the General of the Jesuits, Lorenzo Ricci,...
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