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The vision about the family and the relations it relies on has recently experienced radical changes, some positive, others negative, the accent seeming to pass from the sense of the family destination to the evaluation of the personal relation of those who support or deny it. The destination or the goal of the family used to be lived in direct relation with its traditional image, great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, namely father and mother, children, grand-children and great-grandchildren. Yet, this image h...

Man has always had in front of him the problem of eternity and has noticed that the priority given to the matters related to the organization of the eartly life, without the perspective of living the spiritual dimension of life, leads to man's confinement into the social and political dimension of life. Constrained by the limits of his own life, man feels the need to look for the Truth, fact which proves that he is made up of body and soul, having not just bodily needs but also especially psychic (related to the s...

Democracy and the religious manifestations should not be opposite or divergent; on the contrary, they are complementary, if man's freedom is respected and correlated, however, to the perennial values of mankind and not to the various ways of falling from these values. Sociologists, philosophers, theologians (generically speaking), politologists and historians along with many other people with cultural and scientific concerns are looking for a new vision on the relation between democracy and religion, and on the ro...

Man is body and soul, and suffering can be lived as pain of the body or pain of the soul, related to a psychological or a spiritual state. God does not want man's suffering, yet it penetrated in man's life as a consequence of the ancestral sin and of the wrong use of freedom by our ancestors Adam and Eve. The Holy Fathers of the Church, having gone through suffering, teach that man should not be concerned mainly by the natural causes of suffering or the means to heal a disease, but should first of all try to analy...