About this ebook series
A collection of 10 articles from the January 2021 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome.
2021 is a year of great expectations of big pharma and politicians delivering on speedy vaccination and promises of their efficacy. As well, politicians are also expected to lead us out of economic recession.
One of the first leaders to offer us a vision for a new economic future is Pope Francis. In The Economy of Francesco and Young People Gaël Giraud discusses the pope’s call to young economists to meet and reflect on how to create “an economy that gives life and does not kill, includes and does not exclude, humanizes and does not dehumanize, takes care of creation and does not plunder it.”
Cho Hyun-Chul’s Economics of Covid-19 explains how a move towards localized economies and a reasonable level of self-sufficiency is possible in light of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’
Juan Carlos Scannone and the Theology of the Peopleby Paul Gilbert offers an analysis of Scannone’s philosophy and theology and a definition of ‘the people’
And 55 years after Dignitatis Humanae Felix Körner writes about Religious Freedom: Facing New Challenges.
