Vita e Pensiero

This essay briefly retraces the history of the Knights of Columbus, one of the main lay Catholic associations which, based on the model of secular confraternities, was founded in the United States and spread out across that country. Starting from an analysis of the particular conditions of Catholics in America, this paper shows how the Order supported Catholic participation in social and economic life...

The author examines a series of documents written by the Agricultural Labourers’ Federation which was affiliated to CGIL, later CISL. In these documents, the agrarian and agricultural policies carried out by centrist and centre-left governments are critically analyzed...

Dopo aver tracciato un profilo introduttivo delle attività più significative svolte dalla Cariplo nei primi decenni del secondo dopoguerra, Vanessa Pollastro analizza l'attività di beneficenza della banca, la crescente importanza del settore cultura ed educazione, la creazione della Fondazione Opere Sociali Cariplo, il forte sostegno al settore agricolo, il supporto all’assistenza sanitaria e alla sua specializzazione, e il ridimensionamento dell’assistenza più tradizionale.

As mentioned by the author, the history of twentieth-century social welfare in Italy cannot be discussed without referring to such a leader in our country’s social policies as Lodovico Montini...