THE FIRST COVID-19 lockdowns in Italy began around February 21, 2020, covering some municipalities in Lombardy and one in the Province of Padua. Two weeks later, after a significant rise in the number of cases and deaths from the pandemic, the quarantine measures were expanded to the entire country, affecting the health, the mood, the needs, the work… and the faith of about 60 million people...

THE COMMON perception in our society is that about 40 to 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce...

MANY years ago, when I was still living with my parents and studying Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Padua...

I HAVE just returned from London where I managed to harvest a number of interviews for this magazine’s God & I column. London is one of my favorite cities, and every time I go there I always manage to see something new. This time I discovered ‘The Houses That Never Were’...

I MUST confess that I have always loved spy films and novels. I’m a great fan of James Bond films, and Tom Clancy is one of my favorite authors...

IN 1181, at a time when the Church was going through one of its most difficult periods in its history, a sun was born: St Francis of Assisi. He was a sun of such strength that in only a few years he had gathered around himself an army of young men ready to give their own lives in the service of God and neighbor: the Friars Minor...