Alberto Carosa

Latest by Alberto Carosa in Chronicles

• Correspondence

  March 2002

  Italian Artworks Targeted by Muslims

  When the Taliban in Afghanistan were busy destroying ancient gigantic stone statues of Buddha, some commentators asked: What’s next? Now, a fundamentalist Muslim group known as Unione dei Musulmani d’Italia has demanded that a priceless 15th-century fresco, which they call “obscene and blasphemous,” be removed from San Petronio, the 14th-century cathedral in Bologna.

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• Correspondence

  October 2001

  American Handgunners Seek Vatican Recognition

  From time to time, the Catholic Church has to address the thorny problems caused by those liberal faithful who challenge her principles and tenets.

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• Vital Signs

  August 2001

  Invasion of the Organ Snatchers

  The heated discussion of human cloning and related genetic issues is overshadowing another, equally crucial, debate, on organ donation and transplantation.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  June 2001

  Rejecting E.U. Membership

  E.U. Membership was rejected by 77 percent of the Swiss on March 4. Inevitably, parallels are being drawn with what happened in Denmark last September, when the Danes rejected further E.U. integration by saying "no" to the euro.

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• Correspondence

  May 2001

  Raining on the E.U. Parade

  The Danish vote against the euro last fall was a serious setback for the plans of Brussels eurocrats. The Danish "no" reveals the growing rift between the eurofanaticism of the globalist establishment and the reality of public opinion.

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• Reactionary Radicals

  December 2000

  A Politically Incorrect Beatification

  Few people have been so hated that their enemies have disrupted their funeral processions in an attempt to throw their coffins into a river, but that is precisely what happened to Pope Pius IX on the night of July 12, 1881.

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• Correspondence

  November 2000

  Al Gore and the Feces-Eater

  Vice President Al Gore did not bother to answer the letter in which a dozen or so prominent Italian pro-family leaders, intellectuals, and politicians called for him to withdraw his endorsement of the recent World Gay Pride parade in Rome.

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• Vital Signs

  October 2000

  The Italian Counterrevolutions of 1799

  Who says that conservative historians have to be old, hoary-headed men unable to produce anything innovative?

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• Correspondence

  August 2000

  Gay Pride Week in the Eternal City

  The European Union has reiterated its appeal to all member states to press ahead with the legalization of homosexual unions, but resistance to the homosexual agenda is growing—especially in Italy.

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• Correspondence

  March 2000

  The European Kerensky?

  The Prodi victory was one of the perverse effects of an awkward electoral system which appears to have been conceived to make winners losers, and losers winners.

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• Vital Signs

  October 1999

  The New European Parliament: An Interview With Bill Cash, MP

  "You are walking on water now, but you will drown in Europe." So said British Member of Parliament and Euroskeptic leader Bill Cash to the newly installed Prime Minister Tony Blair during a parliamentary debate in May 1997.

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