Major crises, along with disorientation and pain, also bring us a different and better perspective that allows us to see reality more clearly.
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Economics and Charisms/1 - Today marks the start of a new series on the economic-theological dimensions of religious communities, particularly monastic ones. A journey to discover the value of money...
Editorial - From Leo XIV, an encyclical born of hope. In the “praise of limits,” an invitation to cherish their magnificence
by Luigino Bruni
published in Avvenire on May 26, 2026
Magnifica...
An essay on 17th-century nuns reignites the debate on how the present interprets the spirituality of the past, navigating sarcasm, memory, and the risk of anachronism
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The United Arab Emirates is considering a gradual withdrawal from OPEC to free itself from production quotas and strengthen its strategic autonomy vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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A new Middle Ages is approaching, one in which the aristocracy will consist of sterile individuals who will greatly complicate the lives of those who wish to live as citizens committed to...
Editorial - From the Bible to the Church Fathers, ancient texts are being taken out of context to attack the current teaching of the Church: an interpretation that ignores the evolution of doctrine...
The reflections of the French Dominican Louis-Joseph Lebret, an expert at the Council and an authority on the Global South, marked a turning point regarding the economy, the common good, and...
Thanks to the many women who, every day, keep communities, families, and businesses going, simply by knowing how to “hold on” when everything around them is shaking and falling apart.
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Editorial - Even though he may not have been a disciple of Jesus, he put into practice the most important instrument of the Christian faith: his feet.
by Luigino Bruni
published in Avvenire on...
Anima economica/10 - How Catholic Social Teaching Takes Shape and the Renewed Vision of Solidarity Toward All Humanity
by Luigino Bruni
published in Avvenire on March 15, 2026
There are moments...
Economic Soul/9 - Since Vatican II, a social and economic philosophy that sees inequality as a problem to be eliminated and not a fact of nature
by Luigino Bruni
published in Avvenire on...
Religion, including Christianity, is an authentic experience of human flourishing and liberation if it does not become the monopolist of life, if it leaves room for other dimensions of...
Economic Soul/8 - From the moral ruins of war comes an irreversible turning point: Catholicism reinterprets the past and opens up a dialogue with modernity
by Luigino Bruni
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Uncertain times - How necessary is it today to develop a new spiritual grammar, in dialogue with modernity, without fear?
by Luigino Bruni
published in Città Nuova on May 15, 2025 - From the...
Economic Soul/7 - During the twenty years of Fascism, economists converged on the model espoused by Fascism: a deceptive but convincing temptation
by Luigino Bruni
published in Avvenire on...
Economic Soul/6 - Catholicism's complex relationship with modernity in the development of the Church's social doctrine
by Luigino Bruni
published in Avvenire on February 15, 2026
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The doctrine that looked to the Middle Ages generated works and subsidiarity
A gift is something given freely, it is a relational good, that is, an act that is not owed, where the main good is not the object given but the relationship between the giver and the receiver.
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Economic Soul/4 - The project to create a credible Christian alternative to socialism and liberalism within its own time and absorbing its tensions
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- The (difficult) Catholic third way between capitalism and socialism
- Economics and Italian Catholicism, a century and a half of “new things”
- From Christmas trees to global pollution
- The worm of capitalism
- Freedom in the gratuitousness of those three wise men who came from the East
- The duty to immerse ourselves in our time
- What history tells us about Jesus' childhood
- Mendicant friars, the first teachers of economics
- This Christmas between absence and new longing
- Where have all the young people gone?
- Black Friday: idols and guilt in the shopping cart
- The competence of the poor
- The blessing gaze
- Not just Eros: love is responsible freedom
- The passions and the interests
- Young people, paradise for the elderly
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