Caritas Ticino is a

non-profit organisation A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...

based in Ticino, Switzerland. It is one of the regional organisations of the national

Caritas Switzerland Caritas Switzerland (German: , French: , Italian: , Romansh language, Romansh: ) is a Swiss Catholic Church, Catholic not-for-profit organisation. Its mission is to prevent, combat and alleviate poverty. It is a member of both Caritas Europa and ...

History

The Latin word Caritas (or Charitas) defines culture in the Christian dimension of love of God and human beings, and has been adopted as the name of all the charitable organizations/social that have developed in the Western world. In Ticino, the Italian speaking part of

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

, in 1942 the Bishop Angelo Giuseppe Jelmini created a diocesan Caritas, Caritas Ticino, to address the social problems of the post war period and especially in relation to refugees from war. Over the decades the organization has followed the development of the welfare state are becoming partners of the Republic and

Canton of Ticino Ticino ( ), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eight districts and its capital city is Bellinzo ...

. In particular it developed a social service specialist advice on debt, an employment program for the reintegration of the unemployed into employment with a hundred seats in the recycling industry and agriculture and industry information with a television production that is unique for a charitable organization. The thought that drives social action organization refers to the

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of the church, and in particular the 2009 encyclical,

Caritas in Veritate Caritas may refer to: * The Latin term for charity Charity may refer to: Common meanings * Charitable organization or charity, a non-profit organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being of persons * Charity (practi ...

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, in addition to the lines left by the Bishop of Lugano, in

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugano The Diocese of Lugano (Latin: ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Switzerland covering the canton of Ticino. The diocese immediately subject to the Holy See. In 2004, there were 233,017 baptised perso ...

Eugenio Corecco Eugenio Corecco (3 October 1931 – 1 March 1995) was a Swiss bishop of the diocese of Lugano. He was a notable 20th-century canonist who wrote about the theology of canon law. Biography Son of Peter, born in Bodio and Margaret Beffa of Ai ...

in 1992.

Thought

"Whatever should be the nature of the industry and its interventions in the social field, Caritas is called, with ever greater urgency, to express in society two specific values of Christianity, whose social significance can not be measured purely rational. The first is the gratuity to the man in trouble, because it was free also the redemption offered to us by Christ. The second is to oversupply, excess is the love of Christ for us. The charity has so far as the needs of others, but the richness of God's love limiting it to look and evaluate it from man's need, because man is more than its needs".Eugenio Corecco in “Diocesi di Lugano e Carità: dalla storia uno sguardo al futuro” pag. 206

References

Sources

DIOCESI DI LUGANO E CARITÀ: DALLA STORIA UNO SGUARDO AL FUTURO
contributi per una storia dell'azione caritativa e assistenziale dei cattolici nel Canton Ticino; A. Abächerli, A. Gandolla, A. Gili, A. Lepori

E. Corecco, P. Donati, C. Marazzi, R. Respini, E. Bressan, G. Contri, J. Petrovic, M. A. Sergé, J.L. Trouillard, H. Bausch, M. Lepori Bonetti, R. Noris, G. Pasini

+ Mons. Eugenio Corecco

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20120705025938/http://www.osb.org/cist/charta.html Charta Caritatisbr>Ars Caritatis
{{Authority control Charities based in Switzerland Organizations established in 1942 1942 establishments in Switzerland