Italy. Abortion. Press Office Statement
During a nationally televised August 26th Italian roundtable discussion of upcoming general elections in that country, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, was asked whether in his view abortion would be ...
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Melilla: killed because of their hope
The war in Ukraine is senseless and terrible, that is a fact. But it is also a fact that it makes us insensitive to the other war that is being fought every day in the south of Europe, on the border with Africa. Sometimes it happens in the ...
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Abortion USA - Press Release June 24, 2022
Regarding the United States Supreme Court decision that modified the 1973 legal position Roe v. Wade on the issue of abortion, the Pontifical Academy for Life presents the following statement.
The Pontifical Academy for Life joins U.S. ...
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RenAIssance: Ethics in Technologies
Speech by Abp. Vincenzo Paglia - Institute of Bioethics - Argentine Catholic University - June 15, 2022
WHAT IS RENAISSANCE?
Thank you for this question, and cordial greetings to all those present and to those who, in various capacities, ...
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Notes on the Covid19 Emergency
It is time to look back on the hardest months of the pandemic to question what we have learned and to make a strong commitment to ensure that we do not put aside our reflection about health policies, life, the importance of vaccines, and ...
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Abp. PAGLIA: United against Inequalities
THE SPEECH AT THE TURIN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ECONOMICS - June 2, 2022
Paglia: “Cultural momentum is needed to heal the country's rifts”.
Inequality is not a new phenomenon. Already Voltaire wrote: “In our unhappy world it is impossible ...
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A Life Monument now in Rome
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has blessed a new sculpture entitled “Life Monument” on Sunday, May 29 in Rome. The bronze statue, by Canadian artist Timothy Paul Schmalz, depicts the Blessed ...
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We need a future of Peace, Not War
From "Il Riformista" - May 13, 2022 - p. 1,3
We need a vision for our future: the future of all of us and the planet. We are throwing away all the efforts undertaken after World War II. Now, after two generations of peace, we are ...
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Ideas are always stronger than bombs.
"We need to make room again for thoughts and visions: utopia is so powerful, precisely because it is frail and weak. I believe that ideas are stronger than bombs. We become strong thanks to the word.", so spoke Archbishop Vincenzo ...
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Easter Day: war does not save anything nor anyone.
It was three o'clock on an April afternoon two thousand years ago, when "darkness came over all the land", not only over Jerusalem. Jesus had died on the cross. Also in April 2022 darkness came over all the land, not only over ...
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