Correspondence to Dr Alberto Costa; [email protected] Umberto Veronesi passed away on 8 November, after an entire life dedicated to the fight against cancer, to surgery, to advocacy and to research. He died in peace, fading away with his unique and unforgettable smile, at home in Milan, the city where he was born almost 91 years ago. His death marks the end of an era. Umberto was the first t...

Catholic social teaching, whether promulgated by Ambrose of Milan in the fourth century or Benedict XVI in the twenty-first, has always been contextual. The themes emphasized, although consistent in their fundamental doctrinal commitments, have shifted depending on the problems Christians faced. Papal encyclicals written after the fall of the Soviet Union, for example, moved away from an even-h...