Category: Youth & Societies

Research Group – Families, societies, globalization

The social teaching of Catholic Church has given a large place to the family since the 19th century. This interest has not been denied in recent years. However, the evolution of the contemporary world has upset the family structure, its representations, the places granted to it according to different societies and their cultures. Today, the…
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Speech by Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti – Milan, 2017

“It is absolutely dramatic that, in the contemporary world, young people represent the category of the population most affected by inequalities“. It is in these terms that Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), opened the International Conference of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), which took place from 16 to…
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Integral Campus Project

In resonance with the Synod of 2018, IFCU wishes to dig in the tradition of integral education of Catholic universities to explore four of its aspects which are strategic for rectors, yet little studied within the Federation: Campuses and real/virtual classrooms as places of knowledge and autonomy; The most ambitious practices considering integral education among…
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