Andrea Riccardi

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Riccardi in Aachen, 2009

Andrea Riccardi (born January 16, 1950 in Rome ) is an Italian historian and founder of the Catholic community Sant'Egidio .

Riccardi has been a full professor for modern history, the history of Christianity and the history of religion at the state " University of Rome III " ( Università degli Studi Roma Tre ) in Rome (Faculty: Lettere e Filosofia ) since 1981 . In 2009 he was awarded the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen for his work against poverty and for peace.

Andrea Riccardi was from November 16, 2011 to April 28, 2013 in the government of the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti Minister (without portfolio) with a work assignment for "International Cooperation and Integration". On March 22, 2015, he was elected President of the Dante Alighieri Society .

Life

The son of a bank employee read Mao and Marx in his youth and came to the conclusion that belief and politics must be combined.

After completing a law degree, Riccardi specialized in contemporary and church history. He first taught at the University of Bari and later at the La Sapienza University in Rome. Riccardi examined the relationships between the different religious worlds and religious coexistence, especially in the Mediterranean region of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the relationships between Christianity, culture and modernity in the 20th century.

Sant'Egidio and peace work

Riccardi founded the community of Sant'Egidio in 1968 as a high school student. With some of his friends he gave free tutoring to children in the barracks suburbs of Rome. In the evenings they met for prayer, from 1974 in the church of Sant'Egidio (St. Egidius) in Trastevere. A basic Catholic community grew out of this and first established contacts with Roman Jews, Muslims and atheists, from which an international network emerged. Riccardi often acted as a secretive diplomat under John Paul II . In 1982 he tried to mediate in the Lebanese civil war and to invite the Druze leader Walid Jumblat to Rome. Although he was arrested by soldiers, he managed to ensure that the meeting in Rome actually took place and that the displaced Christians could return.

Andrea Riccardi was one of the four official mediators in the peace negotiations for Mozambique The negotiations took place on the initiative of the Community of Sant'Egidio in Rome from July 1990 and ended successfully with the signing of the peace treaty on October 4, 1992. He has been advocating for many years a dialogue and understanding between religions and cultures, especially within the framework of the international peace meetings (“world prayer meetings ”) of the major world religions following the historic meeting of Pope John Paul II in Assisi in 1986 .

Riccardi and his lay community are committed to social issues, peace, the abolition of the death penalty, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue . In 2008 he took part in the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God as one of 37 auditors (listeners) . In January 2011 he was received by Pope Benedict XVI. Appointed to the Pontifical Health Council.

honors and awards

In 2001 he received the Notre Dame Award for his peace work. He is a member of the honorary committee of the International Coordination for the Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010). Riccardi received an honorary doctorate (Humane Letters) from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) in 2004, an honorary doctorate from the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg in 2005 and from the Theological Faculty of the University of Freiburg i. Ue. awarded. In 2003 Riccardi was named one of the "Heroes 2003 - Fighting Hate" by Time Magazine . Riccardi was awarded the Charlemagne Prize for 2009 by the Charlemagne Prize Committee in December 2008 and was awarded on May 21st. In addition to the numerous merits, the board of directors for the Charlemagne Prize particularly praised the outstanding example of civil society's commitment to a humane and - within and outside its borders - solidarity Europe, for understanding between peoples, cultures and religions and for a more peaceful and just world. In April 2016 Riccardi was awarded the Humanism Prize of the German Association of Classical Philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. On May 24, 2019 he was honored with the honorary citizenship of the city of Assisi . In 2020 Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded him the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

criticism

The journalist Sandro Magister wrote in 2003, citing former members, that Riccardi was leading the Sant'Egidio community he had founded in an authoritarian manner: he determined who was to be called to the priesthood and issued “marriage permits” for group members. Matthias Drobinski wrote about such allegations in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “He could also be authoritarian, say critics, and knows very well how to exert influence without being in office. So what, counters Riccardi. If it only serves peace. "

Publications in German

  • Under the cross: spiritual reading of the four stories of passion . EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2002, ISBN 3-8306-7023-0
  • Salt of the Earth, Light of the World: Witness to Faith and Persecution of Christians in the 20th Century . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-451-27421-3
  • God is not afraid: the power of the gospel in a changing world . Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-429-02581-8
  • The Preventive Peace: Hopes and Thoughts in a Troubled World . Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-429-02701-2
  • The art of living together. Cultures and peoples in the globalized world . Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-429-02996-8
  • John Paul II. The biography . Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03412-2
  • Francis - Pope of Surprises. Crisis and Future of the Church . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-429-03670-6
  • The periphery. Place of crisis and new beginnings for the church . Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-429-04321-6
  • The longest winter. The forgotten history of the Jews in occupied Rome 1943/44. Theiss 2017, ISBN 978-3806236224 (published in Italian 2008)

Web links

Commons : Andrea Riccardi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the homepage of the Community of Sant'Egidio
  2. ↑ FAZ : "The man who doesn't fit into any scheme" (May 21, 2009)
  3. ↑ “The Catholic Andrea Riccardi becomes a minister in Italy. The Reconciler " ( Memento from November 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), domradio.de, November 16, 2011
  4. ↑ See archive link ( memento from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) and http://www.santegidio.org/pageID/3/langID/de/itemID/11476/Glckwnsche_an_Andrea_Riccardi_anlsslich_der_Wahl_zum_Prsidents_der_DanteAlighieriGesellschaft.html
  5. ^ A b c d Matthias Drobinski: Andrea Riccardi - History professor and Catholic peace activist. santegidio.org, September 10, 2011, accessed September 16, 2011 .
  6. ↑ General Peace Agreement for Mozambique (PDF; 691 kB), USIP Library, posted: March 26, 2002
  7. ↑ Cameron Hume. Ending Mozambique was. The Role of Mediation and Good Offices. United States Institute of Peace Press, 1994. ISBN 1-878379-38-0
  8. ^ Manfred Brocker, Mathias Hildebrandt. Peacebuilding Religions? Religion and the de-escalation of political conflicts VS Verlag, 2007. ISBN 3-531-15724-8
  9. ^ R. Scott Appleby. The Ambivalence of the Sacred. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. ISBN 0-8476-8555-1
  10. ↑ ZENIT.org: Synod of World Bishops on the Word of God - a preview ( Memento of May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), September 30, 2008
  11. ↑ Vatican: Nine Cardinals in the Council for New Evangelization. Storico.radiovaticana.org, January 5, 2011, accessed September 17, 2011 .
  12. ↑ University of Notre Dame News, Notre Dame IN (USA): Riccardi to receive ND Award in Hesburgh Center ceremony
  13. ↑ Georgetown University, Washington DC (USA), Office of Communications: Georgetown Honors Professor Andrea Riccardi ( Memento of September 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) , October 13, 2004
  14. ↑ Prof. Klaus Arntz : Laudation for Prof. Dr. Andrea Riccardi - Honorary doctorate on Friday, June 17, 2005 ( memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg, June 17, 2005
  15. ^ Dies Academicus 2011. In: University of Friborg. Retrieved November 16, 2011 .
  16. ↑ Jeff Israely, Think Locally And Grow Globally ( April 29, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive ) , Time Magazine, April 20, 2003
  17. ↑ Justification of the board of directors of the society for the award of the International Charlemagne Prize to Aachen to the historian and founder of the community of Sant'Egidio, Prof. Dr. Andrea Riccardi. Karlpreis.de, archived from the original on June 11, 2011 ; Retrieved September 17, 2011 .
  18. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ "Assisi gives Andrea Riccardi honorary citizenship. Power and incentive " , Domradio from May 24, 2019
  20. ^ Sandro Magister: Twenty-Five Years in the Community of Sant'Egidio: A Memoir , L'Espresso , May 15, 2003.
  21. ^ FAZ / Christiane Liermann: Review
personal data
SURNAME Riccardi, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theologian and founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome