The Interview with Domenico Vito With your lecture, our free Advanced Green Training course Social Impact Manager got underway, entering into the heart of the Introduction to Sustainable Development module. What are your impressions at the end of this first lesson of the course? The program is an excellent initiative. I saw a class that […]
“Destination Calabria” with Green SIM
The interview with Mariangela Preta Director, you were given the task of inaugurating this third edition of the Green Social Impact Manager Advanced Training Course. This was not a random choice; we felt that meeting with a figure of your caliber was the best way to welcome our students to Calabria. What are your impressions […]
Francesco Augurusa, his son Leone, and the parchment for the Holy Father
“May the economy be a space for fraternity and the common good” On Sunday, March 8, the Holy Father visited the Parish of Santa Maria della Presentazione on Via di Torrevecchia, in the western outskirts of Rome, marking the Pontiff’s fourth visit to the parishes of his diocese during Lent. Located between the Bastogi district […]
The Italy of invisible poverty
20% of the population at risk On Thursday, February 5, at the Chiostro di San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome, the volume by Alleanza contro la povertà (Alliance Against Poverty) was presented, titled: ‘L’Italia delle povertà: dinamiche sociali, risposte pubbliche e racconto dei media’ (The Italy of Poverty: social dynamics, public responses, and media narrative). […]
Investigating Creation to Find the Creator: My Thanks to Zichichi, Man of Science and of God
From that book I read as a boy to my vision as an entrepreneur: the memory of how Zichichi taught me to see a Design where others see only chance. Today, February 9, 2026, science loses a giant, but we believers lose a courageous witness. The news of Antonino Zichichi’s passing immediately took me back […]
Interview with Professor Simone Baldetti (Part II)
The social reuse of decommissioned ecclesiastical heritage This September, the results of a research project, as well as a doctoral thesis, by Professor Simone Baldetti, a jurist of Intercultural Law at the University of Pisa, were published in the academic journal “Ordines”. The research, co-funded by the university and the Augurusa Foundation, focused on the […]
Interview with Professor Simone Baldetti (Part I)
The social reuse of decommissioned ecclesiastical heritage This September, the results of the research and doctoral thesis of Professor Simone Baldetti, a jurist of Intercultural Law at the University of Pisa, were published in the academic journal “Ordines“. The research, co-funded by the university and the Augurusa Foundation, focused on the analysis of possible legal […]
New Year’s Message from Father Anthony Pizzo
We begin this 2026 with a profound reflection coming directly from Chicago. We are pleased to share the words of our spiritual guide, Father Anthony Pizzo, O.S.A., Provincial Prior of the Augustinians of the Midwest. In a world that moves fast, Father Tony invites us to pause at the “crossroads” of time. Drawing on the […]
The 59th World Day of Peace
Antonio Emanuele’s dream and Pope Leo XIV’s vision for an unarmed and disarming peace. At the beginning of the calendar that measures and describes the journey of human life through time, may peace, with its just and beneficial balance, dominate the course of history to come. Pope Paul VI With these words, in 1968, Pope […]
Spirituality at the service of others
The meeting with Father Pizzo, the Foundation’s new guide When, during one of our very first meetings, we asked Father Anthony Pizzo—recently appointed as our spiritual guide ad quinquennium—to tell us about his path of discernment, he replied that it did not come directly from above, but passed through the people he met along the […]










