Memento mori--remember death--this is how the medieval monks exhort us. Our life, given in birth and taken by death, is radically marked by finitude, which can be a source of great fear and anguish. Our finitude, however, does not in itself need to be something negative. It confronts us with the question of our life's meaning and spurs us on to treasure our days. Our contingency, as evidenced in our birth and death, reminds us that we have not made ourselves and that there is nothing neces...

How does biotechnology touch on human destiny? What are its promises and challenges? In search for a response, the present volume turns to the thought of Hans Jonas, one of the pioneers and founding fathers of bioethics. The continued relevance of his ideas is exemplified by the way Jurgen Habermas applies them to the current debate. The chief promise of biotechnology is to increase our freedom by overcoming the limits of the human condition. The main risk of biotechnology, as both Jonas a...

Kardinal Kasper hat international Aufsehen erregt, als er im Februar 2014 in seiner Rede vor dem Konsistorium in Rom vorschlug, die wiederverheirateten Geschiedenen nach einer Bußzeit zur Kommunion zuzulassen. Die beiden Autoren analysieren Kardinal Kaspers Vorschlag und begründen, in welchen Punkten seine Argumente einer Überprüfung nicht standhalten. Noch mehr aber geht es darum, einen positiven Beitrag zu leisten und eine alternative Weise aufzuzeigen, wie man einen von Barmherzigkeit g...

Partendo dalle mature indagini sull’empatia (magistrale quella di Edith Stein) l’autore accompagna il lettore alla pratica del relazionarsi con l’altro, in particolare con il malato terminale e i suoi familiari. Quando la comprensione empatica dell’altro è “totale” e investe anche il mondo dei suoi valori e delle sue attese, arriva al cuore e salva entrambi. La vita si cura con la vita. Qui si coglie il senso e il fondamento della medicina integrale. Un appello alla verità di sé, del moren...

Foreword by Cardinal George Pell.Walter Cardinal Kasper created an international media stir when he proposed allowing divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive the sacraments after a penitential period. But is this something the Church can even authorize?As the Church enters into the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on Marriage and the Family, this book takes up the Kasper Proposal and sorts the helpful from the problematic. Never separating pastora...

Rivista ufficiale del Pontificio Istituto Teologico Giovanni Paolo II per le Scienze del Matrimonio e della Famiglia.In questo numero:In memoriam – Francesco D’AgostinoNota editorialeSaggi- P.D. Guenzi, Lo stile cristiano del discernimento e le sue pratiche / The Christian style of discernment and its practices- L. Pedroli, Il discernimento come stile del discepolo e della comunità di Gesù. Un’analisi teologico-biblica / Discernment as a style of ...

L'Exhortation Amoris laetitia a donné lieu à diversesinterprétations. Approfondir ses affirmations théologiques demandera du tempset de la patience. Ce qui ne peut toutefois pas attendre - parce que personnene peut s'abstenir d'agir -, ce sont les questions pratiques qu'elle a soulevées :celles des pasteurs qui écoutent les confessions ; celles des évêques quiindiquent des lignes d'action pastorale à leurs prêtres ; celles desfamilles actives dans la pastorale familiale......