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Vittorio Messori (born 1941) is an Italian journalist and writer. According to Sandro Magister, a Vaticanologist, Vaticanist, he is the "most translated Catholic Church, Catholic writer in the world."Sandro Magister
"From Rome to the World: The Global Offensive of the Catholic Media"
, 20 August 2004
Messori had a completely secular upbringing. He was warned against priests by his mother, who often said that the Church was "only a pub." The schools he attended imparted an equally secular culture, and when he enrolled in the faculty of political science at Turin, all the teachers there taught "a radical, impenetrable agnosticism." He was "happy" with this, and "was preparing for a career as an entirely secular intellectual."Catholic writer explains conversion, discusses new book
Catholic News Agency, 16 November 2009 In July and August 1964, however, he unexpectedly entered a new kind of dimension. In his own words, "the truth of the Gospel, that until then was unknown to me, became very clear and tangible. Even though I had never attended Church, even though I had never studied religion, I found that my perspective as a secularist and agnostic had become suddenly Christian. What's more, Catholic." Messori's teachers were "very surprised and disappointed" when he confessed that he had become a Catholic. They regarded his Religious conversion, conversion as "a psychiatric crisis, a depression, a mistake," with the result that, as Messori says, "they abandoned me and finally disowned me."
Home page of Vittorio Messori
– in Italian.
Vittorio Messori review
of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"
Interview with Messori about anti-catholic provocations
(pdf), in Il Giornale, 23 June 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Messori, Vittorio 1941 births Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Investigative journalists Italian newspaper editors Italian male journalists Italian Roman Catholics Living people Roman Catholic writers
"From Rome to the World: The Global Offensive of the Catholic Media"
, 20 August 2004
Life
Messori had a completely secular upbringing. He was warned against priests by his mother, who often said that the Church was "only a pub." The schools he attended imparted an equally secular culture, and when he enrolled in the faculty of political science at Turin, all the teachers there taught "a radical, impenetrable agnosticism." He was "happy" with this, and "was preparing for a career as an entirely secular intellectual."Catholic writer explains conversion, discusses new bookCatholic News Agency, 16 November 2009 In July and August 1964, however, he unexpectedly entered a new kind of dimension. In his own words, "the truth of the Gospel, that until then was unknown to me, became very clear and tangible. Even though I had never attended Church, even though I had never studied religion, I found that my perspective as a secularist and agnostic had become suddenly Christian. What's more, Catholic." Messori's teachers were "very surprised and disappointed" when he confessed that he had become a Catholic. They regarded his Religious conversion, conversion as "a psychiatric crisis, a depression, a mistake," with the result that, as Messori says, "they abandoned me and finally disowned me."
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Home page of Vittorio Messori
– in Italian.
Vittorio Messori review
of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"
Interview with Messori about anti-catholic provocations
(pdf), in Il Giornale, 23 June 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Messori, Vittorio 1941 births Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Investigative journalists Italian newspaper editors Italian male journalists Italian Roman Catholics Living people Roman Catholic writers