A full-time “saint” for the common good
Giorgio La Pira an imaginative "prophet" of contemporary history
by Angelo Forti
The "guarantee mark" for a sanctity to be honored is built with a meticulous path, similar to a musical score in which many notes chasing each other form a symphony. In this journey, Professor Giorgio La Pira has reached the stage of venerability. After the many "trials" at the diocesan level and then at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints many expert theologians, jurists, bishops and cardinals, Pope Francis signed the decree of venerability of Giorgio La Pira.
Another saint born into a family and raised in the suburbs
Sister Clelia Merloni will be proclaimed blessed on November 3rd
by Graziella Fons
Holiness is a flower that blooms inside a person, soars in the sky of his freedom and walks the paths of men sowing goodness. There is no saint equal to another, the seeds of the divine bear fruit where God has established, even if sometimes it is difficult to find the field where God has hidden his presence. Many saints have struggled to find the ground on which to build the edifice of their loving relationship with God.
A helmsman with his bow towards the world
The canonization of Paul VI
by Gabriele Cantaluppi
When he was appointed Patriarch in Venice, Cardinal Roncalli joked by saying: "now I would only have the papacy left, but the next pope will be the archbishop of Milan" and, on the eve of the conclave that would have elected him, "if Montini had been there, I wouldn't have had a single hesitation, my vote would have been for him." He will be the first in the list of cardinals he created on 15 December 1958. Among the hypotheses on the removal of Montini from the Vatican Curia by Pius XII, there is also that of having sent him to Milan, the largest and most prestigious diocese of the world, aware that that passage would have put him on the candlestick and would have prepared his pontificate.