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“Buildings of Worship as Cultural Heritage in Italy – New Scenarios for the Management and Reuse of Catholic Churches Between Canon Law and State Law” By Davide Dimodugno

Oct 10, 2023Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsCatholicism, Christianity, Dimodugno, Davide, October 2023, Philosophy

Buildings of Worship as Cultural Heritage in Italy – New Scenarios for the Management and Reuse of Catholic Churches Between Canon Law and State LawDavide Dimodugno Excerpted and translated from Gli edifici di culto come beni culturali in Italia. Nuovi scenari per la gestione e il riuso delle chiese cattoliche tra diritto canonico e diritto statale…

“Three Contemporary Catholic Approaches to Democracy” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Sep 19, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesCatholicism, Cavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, Constitutional Law, Politics, September 2023

Image: Church Altar Pews (Pixabay) This article is part of our “Reassessing Democracy: Contemporary Perspectives” series. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. T here is no single Catholic political philosophy. Some intellectuals, like twentieth-century philosopher Heinrich Rommen, have even suggested that “Catholic political philosophy” is a contradiction in terms, given the…

“The Trial of Saint Francis of Assisi” by Ricardo Evandro Santos Martins

Jul 7, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysCatholicism, Christianity, Criminal Law, History, July 2023, Santos Martins, Ricardo Evandro

St Francis of Assisi by Philip Fruytiers. From the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. (PD-US). It is possible to investigate Saint Francis of Assisi’s life (1181-1226) from many different and relevant angles. His biography and the accounts of the way he lived are permeated with remarkable singularities and events: his horizontalized view of non-human…

“Ten Years of Pope Francis and the Transatlantic Catholic Gap” by Massimo Faggioli

Apr 6, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysApril 2023, Catholicism, Christianity, Massimo, Faggioli, Philosophy

Via Vyacheslav Argenberg on Flickr The tenth anniversary of a papal election is an important milestone. This is especially so in the case of Pope Francis, who was elected on March 13, 2013 in extraordinary circumstances after the resignation of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who had been in office for less than eight years. Of…

“Did Pope Alexander VI Authorize England’s Colonization of North America?” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Mar 21, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesCatholicism, Cavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, History, March 2023, Property Law

Archbishop Adrian Tync. Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0 This article is part of our “200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Law, Religion, and Native American Lands” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Shortly before Thanksgiving 2016, Episcopalian priest John Floberg held up a copy of Pope Alexander VI’s 1493 papal bull Inter…

“Faculty Unions in Catholic Educational Institutions: A Disconnect between Church Teachings and Practice” by Charles J. Russo

Feb 6, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysCatholicism, Christianity, Education, February 2023, Russo, Charles J.

Approaching Vatican City, Rome by Fenous (CC BY-SA 4.0). Speaking in the Vatican to a gathering of the Italian General Confederation of Labor on December 19, 2022, Pope Francis eloquently proclaimed “there are no free workers without unions.” Francis affirmed the long-standing labor teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, which began in 1891 with Pope…

“How Is Eastern Christianity Affecting Pope Francis’s Priorities?” by Matthew Cavedon

Jan 26, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysCatholicism, Cavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, January 2023, Philosophy

Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral by Arjen Bax (CC BY-SA 2.0). Introduction: Easter with the Easterns? The Christmas season hadn’t even begun when Pope Francis announced a potential change to future Easters: if Eastern Christians unite around a single date for celebrating the holiday, he said, Catholics will adjust their calendars accordingly. This might be mistaken…

“Biden and Francis, or to Caesar What is Caesar’s” by Rafael Domingo

Nov 17, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysCatholicism, Christianity, Domingo, Rafael, November 2021, Politics

Pope Francis and President Joe Biden at the Vatican, October 29, 2021. Wikimedia (PD-US). The meeting between President Joe Biden and Pope Francis at the Vatican has left us with memorable photographs and an important moment in history. What remains with me most vividly is the fact of the meeting itself, stripped of ceremony and…

“Reflections on Fratelli tutti: Something Old, Something New, Much Ado about Not too Much” by Charles J. Russo

Nov 25, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesCatholicism, Christianity, November 2020, Politics, Russo, Charles J.

Photo from Unsplash This article is part of our “Fratelli Tutti: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Call for Fraternity in Law and Religion” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On October 3, 2020, Pope Francis took the unusual step of traveling to the birthplace, home, and tomb of his…

“Universalist Response to Particularistic Regression: Political Philosophy behind the Pope Francis Encyclical Fratelli tutti” by Mikhail Minakov

Nov 17, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesCatholicism, Christianity, Minakov, Mikhail, November 2020, Politics

Photo by Catherine Dionne from Unsplash This article is part of our “Fratelli Tutti: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Call for Fraternity in Law and Religion” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The modern history of humanity is driven by several contradictions, one of them being the conflict between…