“The Church against: from sexuality to euthanasia, all the nos to modern Europe”. This is the title of the book in which the two authors, Sergio Romano and Bede Romano, analyze the relationships throughout history between the highest Christian religious institution and the various European states, retracing their fundamental stages and identifying the current topics of friction and the vicissitudes of both those countries in which the Church, going beyond, overflows, and those in which firmly secular governments manage to place solid and impassable barriers.
According to the work of the Corriere della Sera and Panorama columnist and the Brussels correspondent of Sole 24 Ore, there have been two great revolutions in recent decades: that of sexual mores and that of biology or bioethics. The first called into question the relationship between the sexes, the structure of the family and its very existence. The second has offered human society new ways to procreate, be born and die. Just as European states try to adapt their legislation to these radical changes, the Catholic Church is also directly involved in these juridical and scientific battles because she sees them as a threat to her function and her mission. Marriage between homosexuals, the crisis of priestly celibacy, contraception, abortion, assisted procreation, cloning, organ transplants and the living will call into question its moral teaching, its traditions and its function as " notary» in the fundamental stages of life. It is therefore not surprising that in these new challenges of modernity, which risk reducing her authority and her role, the Church presents herself as a braking and opposition force which all States, albeit to varying degrees, must and must keep I count.
Sergio Romano (Vicenza, 1929) after having been NATO ambassador and, from September 1985 to March 1989, ambassador in Moscow, he resigned. As a historian he has mainly dealt with Italian and French history between the 2007th and 2009th centuries. He has taught in Florence, Sassari, Berkeley, Harvard, Pavia and, for a few years, at the Bocconi University in Milan. He is a columnist for Corriere della Sera and Panorama. Among his latest books published by Longanesi: Con gli occhi dell'Islam (2011), Storia di Francia, dalla Comune a Sarkozy (2011), L'Italia disunita (XNUMX, with Marc Lazar and Michele Canonica) and I false protocols ( XNUMX).
Beda Romano (Rome, 1967) he is the correspondent of the Sole-24 Ore from Brussels, after having been for a long time from Germany. He studied international law and political science in Milan, Chicago and Paris and has written for numerous European and American newspapers, including Le Point and USA Today. For Longanesi he is the author of "Germany, this unknown" (2006) and "Misto Europa" (2008). In 2009 he published a long conversation with Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa on the financial crisis and its political and economic consequences, "La veduta corta", published by il Mulino. Since 2007 he has been managing a blog whose address is http://bedaromano.blog.ilsole24ore.com.
