In this wide-ranging conversation with the Italian journalist Luigi Geninazzi, Cardinal Angelo Scola discusses both the salient moments of his own life and the path and situation of the Church and society in Europe over the last half-century. The Cardinal recounts his life, speaking of the extraordinary gift of particular friendships he has had, starting with Luigi Giussani, founder of the ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation (CL), and moving on to discuss Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri De Lubac, and Joseph Ratzinger. A figure who bridges the past three pontificates, Scola discusses his relationships with St. John Paul II, by whom he was nominated a bishop at the relatively young age of forty nine; Benedict XVI, with whom he has had an intense intellectual friendship for decades; and Pope Francis, of whom he speaks with affection and hope. At the center of this rich fresco of anecdotes and reflections stands a crucial question: what is the true path of the Church today? Between those who reduce Christianity to a mere civil religion and those who propose a purist return to the Gospel, the cardinal indicates a "third way" by betting on the freedom of the human person to recognize the supreme value of Christ. This is at the same time a bet on the active commitment of believers to contribute, starting from faith, to the birth of a new Europe, inevitably more diverse but no loss of its identity.

This book is a personal account of the author's journey to profitable sports betting. It illustrates what it takes to become successful and lays bare the reasons why only a minority of sports betters are equipped to consistently beat the odds. The reader is led to a specific interpretation of what freedom through sports betting implies.

This book argues that governments have a duty of care to protect their own democratic processes from subtle degradations and that independence from the gambling industries needs to be proactively built into public sector structures and processes.

"Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859"--Cover.

Welcome to the Higher Stakes, the course to help you find freedom from gambling and betting of all kinds. The purpose of this course is to help you to be entirely free from gambling and betting, and to find the true joy and delight that comes from turning to Jesus Christ. This course will teach you the truths, and help you apply them, which will inevitably free you from the powerful grip of gambling. The course is not designed as a "professional, therapeutic session" but rather was written by those who were, themselves, captive to gambling and who are now free indeed. You will read powerfully impacting and practical lessons, as well as gripping testimonies of the ruin and destruction of gambling and then full restoration in Jesus Christ. There are higher stakes to consider than those used in gambling and betting. If you struggle with gambling and betting, either online or in casinos, this study manual, complete with study questions, can be used of God to set you free.

Gambling is a significant global industry, which is worth around 0.6% of world trade, that is, around US$ 384 billion; and gambling on the outcome of sports events is a very popular pastime for millions of people around the world, who combine a bet with watching and enjoying their favourite sports. But, like any other human activity, sports betting is open to corruption and improper influence from unscrupulous sports persons, bookmakers and others. Sports betting in the last ten years or so has developed and changed quite fundamentally with the advent of modern technology – not least the omnipresence of the Internet and the rise of on-line sports betting. This book covers the law and policy on sports betting in more than forty countries around the world whose economic and social development, history and culture are quite different. Several chapters deal with the United States of America. This book also includes a review of sports betting under European Union (EU) Law. The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under the editorship of Dr. Robert Siekmann, Dr. Janwillem Soek and Marco van der Harst LL.M.