Alessandro Maggiolini

Bishop Alessandro Maggiolini

Episcopal coat of arms

Alessandro Maggiolini (born July 15, 1931 in Bareggio , Province of Milan , Italy , † November 11, 2008 in Como ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Como .

Life

Alessandro Maggiolini was ordained priest on June 26, 1955 in Milan by Giovanni Battista Montini , who later became Pope Paul VI. He was professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan , later Episcopal Vicar for the university. He was a close confidante of Giovanni Cardinal Colombo .

On April 7, 1983, he was appointed Bishop of the Carpi diocese in Carpi near Modena by Pope John Paul II . The episcopal ordination received his Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio on May 29 of the same year in the cathedral of Carpi ; Co-consecrators were Artemio Prati , Bishop of Carpi, and Gilberto Baroni , Bishop of Guastalla.

In 1989 John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Como . He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Catechism of the Catholic Church .

Benedict XVI accepted his age-related resignation . on December 2, 2006. Maggiolini died of complications from cancer.

Act

Alessandro Maggiolini was seen as a contentious bishop who also publicly expressed his opinion against Rome.

He was a staunch opponent of the commercialization of the figure of Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo . "Jesus Christ drove the traders out of the temple, but I must now say that they have returned," he said in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica .

Although he thought a dialogue between the organizers of the World Gay Pride and the Catholic Church was not possible, he called for calm for the international gay parade to be held in Rome in the Holy Year 2000.

Regarding the construction of Islamic mosques in Italy, he told the Milan daily Corriere della Sera on January 12, 2007: “Catholics here must have a hard head and a soft heart; instead they often have a heart of stone and a head like chewing gum ”.

Maggiolini was a well-known theologian. He published several books and numerous publications, especially in the last years of his life.

Fonts

• Meglio il martirio: Il Vangelo e ancora uno scandalo? , Leonardo 1995, ISBN 88-04-40235-0
• Preghiere Della Gente: Devozioni Popolari , Mondadori 1998, ISBN 88-04-45377-X
• Per confessarsi , Shalom 1999, ISBN 88-8404-095-7
• Via crucis , Shalom 1999, ISBN 88-86616-34-1
• Il Papa chiede perdono , Piemme 2000, ISBN 88-384-4859-0
• Perche La Chiesa Chiede Perdono , Piemme 2000, ISBN 88-384-4469-2
• La Santa Paura: L'arte Di Morire , Mondadori 2000, ISBN 88-04-48263-X
• Il prete. La vita al servizio della comunità di Dio , Piemme 2000, ISBN 88-384-4821-3
• L'unità del presbiterio. Una spiritualità di comunione per il clero , Città Nuova 2001, ISBN 88-311-4239-9
• Fine della nostra cristianità , Piemme 2001, ISBN 88-384-6906-7
• Declino e speranza del cattolicesimo , Mondadori 2003, ISBN 88-04-51168-0
• Ma il figlio dell'uomo, quando verrà, troverà la fede sulla terra? , Bompiani 2004, ISBN 88-452-3329-4
• Mi pento con tutto il cuore. La confessione , Mondadori 2004, ISBN 88-04-52659-9
• Incontro con Gesù. Guida per adolescenti nel cammino di fede , Mimep-Docete 2005, ISBN 88-8424-088-3
• La pace della preghiera , Shalom 2006, ISBN 88-8404-150-3
• Fogli sparsi d'augurio. La sorpresa dell'ovvio , SugarCo 2007, ISBN 88-7198-535-4
• Il cammino educativo. Un percorso di introduzione alla realtà , Ares 2008, ISBN 88-8155-424-0
• Più nulla da difendere , San Paolo Edizioni 2008, ISBN 88-215-6212-3
• Maturazione della fede e della vita , Cantagalli 2008, ISBN 88-8272-401-8

Web links

• Entry on Alessandro Maggiolini on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved April 11, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maggiolini, il crociato della fede .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Quotidiano, November 12, 2008  
2. ↑ Jessie Grimond: Million to see canonization of Padre Pio, the miracle monk who makes fortunes , The Independent . June 16, 2002, p. 17. Retrieved November 12, 2008. 
3. ↑ Homosexual parade: Bishop urges calmness . ( Memento from February 21, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Saarland University; accessed on February 15, 2015.
4. ^ "Famiglia cristiana", monsignori e mosque: Maggiolini in trincea , Corriere della Sera, August 24, 2008

predecessor	Office	successor
Teresio Ferraroni	Bishop of Como 1989-2006	Diego Coletti
Artemio Prati	Bishop of Carpi 1983–1989	Bassano Staffieri