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Migration is a traumatic event that people pursue to improve their living conditions. Such a traumatic event shakes people's existential balance, and they may alter or even lose interest in their present and future and enduringly remain mentally absorbed in the past. The exploitation of migrant women during the health crisis did not stop, it simply changed form: abuse both indoors and online is a new form of sexual exploitation. In such a setting an evident need may emerge to put in place intervention strategies that are primarily concerned with facilitating resilient processes that take into account three dimensions of the person: the cognitive and meta-cognitive dimension; the motivational and cognitive dimension; the relational and affective dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Physical and emotional closeness is a basic need for human beings from birth, and in all aspects it is one of the primary factors that favor development. From a socio-ecological and psychological point of view, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly changed minors’ lives, drastically reducing opportunities for integrally living their social and relational dimensions. This essay analyses these changes, bringing to light the effects of this denied closeness on children’s and adolescents’ mental well-being. It also attempts to provide a reading of the contemporary social and cultural setting in relation to the desire for and fear of human touch. Finally, it outlines a few possible trajectories for accompanying the youngest towards a gradual rediscovery of closeness and the enormous developmental value it carries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last two years, the Covid- 19 pandemic has exposed the precariousness of the human condition and has laid bare our constitutive vulnerability: death has been made known to us in all its tragic dimensions, and solitude and isolation have made our everyday lives, touched as they are by the health crisis, even more problematic. Beginning from these considerations, this article attempts to offer a few reflections that, keeping in mind the original interconnection between all human beings, sustain paths of resilience and bring about a new ethical sensitivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The personal and social shock provoked by the spread of Covid-19 has forced believers and non-believers to come to grips with several images of God that are incompatible with the Gospel and yet deeply rooted in the individual and collective unconscious. After briefly defining what “image of God” means, this study focuses on two distorted images of God that emerged with particular force during the pandemic: God the “magician” and God the “judge.” Beginning from several words and actions of the Holy Father, it offers useful points for spiritually and pastorally accompanying individual believers and Christian communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a critical analysis of the 15-Minute City concept, developed through a comparative analysis of three case studies: the ville du quart d’heure in Paris, the Superilla plan in Barcelona and the Piazze Aperte programme in Milan. This comparative analysis is addressed through the lens of the theoretical and design paradigm of civic design/capital web and aims to highlight the limits and potential of these models and inform future research directions to pursue the eco-social transition of urban systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Starting from the interpretations of the philosophy of history that have sought a paradigmatic place, capable of representing a nodal point, an umbilical cord between cultures and civilizations, like a reality characterized by crossings and plurality, this article discusses the possibility to build in the contemporary world, characterized by crossings and migrations, a physical and existential, metaphysical and pedagogical perimeter in which to realize the hospitality understood in the manner of Derrida: a destabilizing category that deconstructs the relationship with an atavistic exclusionary nomos.

In light of the current «emergency» that has become a hermeneutic key of the social, we observe how the reality of «proximity-distance» of human, social and institutional relations is conditioned and encouraged by this socio-health-economic emergency. We try to host this complexity in a biblical-theological approach in order to choose an ethical-pedagogical path as a process that consciously assumes the existing fragmentation and brings forth the most effective resources. The moral and civic commitment that can involve humanity is to connect «proximity and distance» through a global educational service, inspired by the Global Compact on Education, launched and encouraged by Pope Francis and implemented mainly in the reality of the family, the first and indispensable educator, for which the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia has already offered some significant traces of it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present contribution focuses on the theme of a theology of dialogue starting from Pope Francis' Encyclical letter All Brothers. The figure of the Good Samaritan constitutes the basis both of the quoted document, concerning the value of universal brotherhood, and of a theology of dialogue, in which the idea of evangelical proximity is essential. In this perspective, the meaning of some fundamental categories for theological discourse is deepened here, especially synodality and the importance, in the horizon of the Gospel, of a renewal of society, politics and the economy so that every human being becomes an artisan of peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the reform of the marriage nullity process introduced by pope Francis in the form of m.p. Mitis iudex Dominus Iesus and the subsequent divulgation of the apostolic exhortation on love of the family Amoris Laetitia, the whole Church has been invited to a fascinating journey of conversion of the juridical pastoral structures, proximity and proclamation of the Gospel. The aspect of proximity is fundamental to the interesting novelty of the reform by pope Francis, delineated in articles 1-5 of the Procedural Rules of the MIDI and in some numbers of AL, that concerns the pastoral or prejudicial investigation that operates within the unitary diocesan pastoral care of marriage, as a specialized service for the benefit of salus animarum and serving as a bridge between the pastoral care of accompanying difficult situations and the work of the tribunals. The article focuses attention on the importance of this investigation and of its juridical and pastoral repercussions in combining justice, mercy, law and pastoral care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hurt mankind and the desire for redemption. This input begins with a statement from the Misericordiae vultus: «Mercy: It is the way that unites God and man, because it opens our hearts to the hope of being loved forever, despite the limit of our sin» (MV 2). The disoriented and fragile humanity of our time is asking for a new sensitivity and a new attention. In this age of deep feelings of gloom and the lost of meaning and reasons for living, it is necessary to revive and reawaken in the heart of men the desire for the Absolute who can fill and give meaning to life. The rediscovery of that ideal model of fraternity, of which strength is in finding the beauty of caring for each other and of keeping others in heart, is the anthropological and at the same time the gospel way for its progress. The witness of one's dedication towards others can be contagious to the point of building a fraternity of love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]