February 20, 2013
(Romereports.com) The archbishop of Milan, Angelo Scola, was born 71 years ago in
Malgrate, in northern Italy. He is the smallest of two brothers, his
father was a trucker and his mother, a housewife. He met Benedict XVI
more than 40 years ago. Between 1986 and 1991, Scola was an adviser on
the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, led by Joseph Ratzinger.
They share a passion for theology. Cardinal Angelo Scola was the
editor of Communio, a theological magazine founded by Ratzinger and
other theologians in 1972.
Cardinal Scola has also been a member
of Communion and Liberation. He admitted that the group's founder helped
him rediscover Jesus during his teenage years.
CARD. ANGELO SCOLA
Archbishop of Milan (Italy)
“Between
14 and 18 the greatest influence I had as a high school student was as
the son of a convinced socialist worker. So then I began to
progressively move away from a Christian commitment to a more
sociopolitical, oriented more towards the Communist Party. So by meeting
Father Luigi Giussani, he made me rediscover the beauty of Christ's
teachings.”
His life thereafter revolved around his studies
and his investigative work. He served as a professor at Fribourg in
Switzerland, and the rector for Rome's Lateran University. He also uses
Twitter actively, where he commonly cites phrases from sources different
as the Gospel of St. Luke or poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
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