Alberto Carosa

Latest by Alberto Carosa in Chronicles

• News

  April 2015

  Remember the Nazarenes: An Interview With Bishop Warduni

  According to the latest available figures, no fewer than two million Iraqis, many of them Christians, have been chased out of their homes by the militiamen of the Islamic State, and now their tragic plight may fall into oblivion amid the indifference of international public opinion, especially in the West.

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• Interview

  February 2013

  Euro Irreversible?

  The international media have for some time depicted Finland as the black sheep of the European Union because of her reluctance to pay for other member countries’ debt and thus help to save the eurozone from its present crisis.

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• News

  September 2012

  Rediscovering the Verbum Domini: An Interview With Steve Green

  A unique exhibition was held from March 1 to April 15 in the Vatican’s Braccio di Carlo Magno (Charlemagne wing) next to St. Peter’s Basilica. Entitled Verbum Domini, it was dedicated to telling the story of the Bible amid a mounting wave of anti-Christian secularization.

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• News

  March 2011

  Interview With The Archbishop of Kirkuk

  In his Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini, on “The Word of God in the Life and the Mission of the Church,” Pope Benedict XVI challenged Islamic countries to offer the same religious freedom that Muslims usually enjoy in predominantly Christian countries.

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• News

  September 2009

  Berlusconi’s Will To Fight

  Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has come under ferocious attack for his alleged relationships with several women, including a teenage girl. These stories are surfacing exactly when one aspect of his policy—the fight against illegal immigration, which was part of the government program endorsed by the majority of voters in the last general election—is starting to gain ground.

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• Vital Signs

  February 2008

  Enemies of the Motu Proprio

  In a private conversation before the release of the motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum,” a leading personality of U.K. Catholicism predicted that the reinstatement of the Traditional Latin Mass would grant again such an abundant flow of graces that it would even effect the restoration of society on sound Christian principles.

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• News

  September 2007

  Italy’s Push for Euthanasia: An End to “Pointless Suffering”

  Thanks, in part, to the presence of the Roman Catholic Church, Italy has remained one of the least secularized countries in the European Union.

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• News

  March 2007

  The U.N. Reform on Human Rights

  Mr. Jan Eliasson, former Swedish minister of foreign affairs, is a good representative of the tradition of chivalry that Saint Bridget attributed to the Swedish people in the 14th century. From 1994 to 2000, Eliasson served as Sweden’s secretary for foreign affairs, a key position in formulating and implementing foreign policy.

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• News

  January 2007

  WMD Negotiations Must Be Based on Truth

  If you thought that the end of the Cold War meant the end of the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (WMDs), well, actually, it’s not that easy.

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• View

  December 2006

  Holding a New Line

  At the time of his election to the papacy, many thought that Pope Benedict XVI’s approach toward Islam would be, by and large, no different from that of his predecessor, the late John Paul II.

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• Correspondence

  January 2006

  The Fruits of Tolerance

  The terrorist bombings on July 7, 2005, in London were widely described as proof that the British multicultural model is flawed; few, however, noted that this crisis has an illustrious precedent, the assassination of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands.

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• Correspondence

  March 2005

  From Mercy Killing to Euthanasia

  In late 2000, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize euthanasia. Under the law, passed by the lower house of the Dutch Parliament 104-40, a child as young as 12 can request to be put to death, provided he has at least one parent’s consent.

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• Correspondence

  October 2004

  10,300 Nights in the Gulag

  The memory of the victims of communism has been honored with various initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic. To that end, a spate of symposia and panel discussions were held in November and December 2003 in Italy, mostly in Rome and Milan.

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• View

  September 2004

  The Untold Story Behind The Passion of the Christ

  What could a world-famous multibillionaire Hollywood star like Mel Gibson have in common with an unknown, cash-strapped, freelance journalist based in Rome? Virtually nothing, it would seem.

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• Correspondence

  July 2004

  “Peaceful” Immigrants

  The Catholic Church as a whole does not support illegal immigration, at least in principle. However, an increasing number of clergy and prelates, especially in Italy, do grant de facto support to illegal immigration.

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• Correspondence

  April 2004

  The Swedes Say “No” to the Euro: The Revolt of Moderates

  Following the Danish rejection of the euro in September 2000 and the Irish rejection of Nice in June 2001, the Swedes have rejected the euro by an overwhelming majority, despite the “yes” side having outspent the opposition by more than five to one.

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• Correspondence

  June 2003

  The Heart of the Life Debate

  The present rift between the United States and Europe on the war in Iraq has overshadowed widening divergences in other realms.

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• Correspondence

  January 2003

  The Prosciutto War

  The mid-December 2001 E.U. summit in Laeken, Belgium, will probably be remembered most for its “prosciutto war,” which began when Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to approve the new food agency to be located in Helsinki, Finland, since he was convinced that the Italian city of Parma was best suited to house the E.U. office.

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• Correspondence

  October 2002

  Tax Breaks for Terror?

  On June 23, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported that Italian police had smashed a Milan-based Islamic terrorist cell that was planning an attack on the Basilica of San Petronio.

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• Vital Signs

  September 2002

  Italy’s Child-Abuse Lobby

  Don Fortunato di Noto is a well-known Italian Catholic priest who has served as a leader in the fight against pedophilia for years, so much so that even Newsweek has acknowledged his work in a lengthy article.

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