«Thoughts about death»
A "secret" Giovanni Battista Montini before God and himself
The director
In canonizing a holy person, the Church lights up in its firmament some main roads, paths guaranteed for a degree in sanctity.
Giovanni Battista Montini, canonized last October 14, despite having led a singular Christian existence, at the top of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, the Church proposes him as a possible master of imitation, not so much for his extraordinary teaching, but for the fruitfulness of the fruits ripened in his life as a human creature, lived consistently on the page of the evangelical beatitudes.
Don Zeno, revolutionary of God and advocate of the poor
Pope Francis honors a craftsman of the art of loving
by Mario Sgarbossa
There is a "city" in the heart of the Tuscan Maremma where many children have found a mother and many brothers, with whom they can share an ideal of life that to many had seemed like an unachievable dream, but which has come true. And Pope Francis gave testimony to this by visiting this "city" where the only law are the two commandments of love: loving God and others. All this was possible thanks to the stubbornness of a man, Don Zeno, who always believed in that dream of love, from the day of his first mass, January 6, 1931, when he stunned the friends invited to his party to end the day in the company of an eighteen year old, just released from prison.
Sadness and regret, but desire for a new presence
The Ticino people have lost a voice
Who knows what Monsignor Aurelio Bacciarini will think from Heaven, who sees his "Giornale del Popolo", still today the only Catholic newspaper in the whole of Switzerland, cease publication. And Giuseppe Lepori, Aurelio Gabelli and Alfredo Leber, the young people in their early twenties to whom the Bishop had entrusted the beginnings of the newspaper on 21 December 1926, will also share his regret. Especially Leber, who directed it for fifty years, modernizing its printing machinery and bringing it closer to the reality of the people by opening regional offices.