Radio 24: Faggioli, Freccero, Pigliautile and Pregliasco are guests on *Amici e nemici*
Domestic politics and the Church amid schisms and excommunications, the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, and the state of Italian television in the episode on Saturday 4 July
On Saturday 4 July, from 8.30 am to 10 am, Amici e nemici returns to Radio 24, with Marianna Aprile and Daniele Bellasio.
The guests on this episode will be (in alphabetical order): Massimo Faggioli (theologian and church historian, lecturer at Villanova University in Philadelphia); Carlo Freccero (author and television executive, university lecturer, former director of Rai2); Valentina Pigliautile (journalist for the daily newspaper Il Messaggero, winner of the 2026 Biagio Agnes Under-30 Award), Lorenzo Pregliasco (among other things, founder and editor-in-chief of Youtrend).
During the programme, there will also be an audio contribution from the writer and semiotician Stefano Bartezzaghi on the resurgence of the term ‘establishment’ in domestic political debate.
Immediately following the opening editorials, from 8.45, Aprile and Bellasio will discuss with Massimo Faggioli the future of the Catholic Church in the wake of this week’s Lefebvrian schism and the relationship between religion and politics in Donald Trump’s United States, which is set to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
From around 9.05, it’ll be time for YouTRE, the ‘no-numbers’ polls in three minutes – through which, every week, thanks to our collaboration with YouTrend, we explain the impact of the latest political events on the electorate. In this episode, the poll will be presented by Lorenzo Pregliasco.
