La Civiltà Cattolica
Cover of the issue of 5 August 2006. | |
| Director | Antonio Spadaro SJ |
|---|---|
| Categories | national press |
| Frequency | Twice a month |
| Circulation | 15,000 |
| Publisher | Society of Jesus |
| Founder | Carlo Maria Curci |
| First issue | 6 April 1850 |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Rome |
| Language | Italian |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0009-8167 |
La Civiltà Cattolica (Italian for Catholic Civilization) is a periodical published by the Jesuits in Rome, Italy. It has been published continuously since 1850 and is among the oldest of Catholic Italian periodicals. All of the journal's articles are the collective responsibility of the entire "college" of the magazine's writers even if published under a single author's name. It is the only one to be directly revised by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See and to receive its approval before being published.
The periodical is headquartered since 1951 in the Villa Malta (Pincian Hill) situated in Via F. Crispi, Rome.
In more recent times the magazine has advocated reaching out to children, teens, and young people who use and interact with social media (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, etc., on devices such as the iPod and iPad) to an intense degree, and find ways to foster their faith life through interior meditation, including, among other exercises, the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the Jesuits' founder.