Bioethics

Palliative Care

Palliative Care and Religion

Human Dignity

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Family and Amoris Laetitia

The meaning of Life

The Gospel of Life

DIFFERENT FROM BEFORE by Valentina Calzavara Daniele Ferrazza

Introduction by Dacia Maraini

Conversations on Covid and beyond with Paolo Cognetti, Silvio Garattini, Marco Bentivogli, Pippo Baudo, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Sara Simeoni, Silvia Costa, Alessandra Graziottin, Roberto Ferrucci. Helvetia Publishing House

In this book, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has made the following remarks about Covid-19 and its consequences worldwide.

This is the opportune time to bring death back to the horizon of human existence: the question of death has in fact been buried, not erased. For those who do not believe this is an opportunity not to deny that mortal horizon. For those who believe this is an opportunity to listen to the voice coming from above. It is a chance to awaken our conscience numb by a self-centered, narcissistic well-being. We are all hearing that ancient warning louder: you are not immortal! 

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Introduction Pandemic and Brotherhood  - by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia

“We must be aware that we cannot simply try to do better what we have already been doing.  We need a paradigm shift, a new model of development.  Even now we need to reflect on understanding the present and foreseeing the future.  For a fuller introduction, I recommend the document “Pandemic and Universal Brotherhood,” presented to Pope Francis on March 30, 2020, which the Pontifical Academy for Life developed as its contribution to reflections on the pandemic which are being carried out in the world of scientific and humanistic research.

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