Giuseppe Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto (journalist)

Giuseppe Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto (born March 19, 1885 in Padua , † November 11, 1967 in Vatican City ) was an Italian journalist and from 1920 to 1960 director and editor-in-chief of the Osservatore Romano , the daily newspaper of the Vatican.

Life

Giuseppe Dalla Torre came from a noble family originally from Treviso who lived in Rome. The family members had the name suffix Conti di Sanguinetto after the families Lion, Compostella, Medin Di Lastua had died out. From 1905 they added the addition Del Tempio , which was confirmed by a court judgment in Padua (February and November 1962) in favor of Giuseppe (1885-1967) and his son Paolo.

Giuseppe Dalla Torre was the son of Paolo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto and Elisabetta nee. Soranzo. Giuseppe Dalla Torre was married to Maria Hedwig Lochenies de Fontenois (1880-1960), who was born in Kaiserslautern. From the marriage came Paolo Dalla Torre , later Director General of the Vatican Museums, and daughter Teresa De Besi.

In 1903 he made his first journalistic experience as a correspondent for the Catholic Unità Cattolica , a Catholic-inspired daily newspaper under the direction of Giuseppe Sacchetti. He also worked for the Catholic newspaper "Il Berico" in Vicenza. Through the mediation of Luigi Pellizzo , the bishop of Padua, Dalla Torre was also active in various Catholic organizations in Padua, such as the Circolo S. Antonio di Padova and the Catholic youth association Federazione cattolica giovanile , whose president was elected in 1905.

In 1909 he completed his law studies at the University of Padua with a dissertation on air rights. Shortly afterwards he founded the daily newspaper «La Libertà» with the bishop's secretary Restituto Cecconelli and took over the management. In 1911 he became president of the diocesan manual for Catholic Action in Padua. From 1910 to 1912 he was also Padua City Councilor for Charity and Art.

Pope Pius X appointed him president of the Unione popolare , the largest organization of the Catholic laity, in 1912 after the dissolution of the Opera dei congressi e dei comitati cattolici in 1904. He was involved in the Unione popolare and called for the direct involvement of Catholics in civil society, in schools and in the world of work. In 1915 he was appointed President of the Executive Committee of Catholic Action, an overarching body established by Pope Benedict XV. was set up to coordinate the activities of the various Catholic organizations. After the end of the war, he reformed Catholic Action.

Dalla Torre also volunteered, if only briefly, in the First World War. He was assigned to the high command as an artillery officer. After a few months, he had to be released from service for health reasons.

In 1918 Pope Benedict XV. appointed him Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vatican's daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano . The Pope increased the publisher's capital, had a printing press purchased that would allow the newspaper to become more autonomous, and in 1920 installed Giuseppe Dalla Torre as editor-in-chief and successor to Giuseppe Angelini as general manager. In 1931 he was able - Giuseppe Dalla Torre was considered the enemy of the fascists - to evade arrest by Italian fascists ; he and his family lived in Vatican City for security reasons and were citizens of the Vatican.

From 1934 to 1960 he was President of the Union internationale de la Presse catholique . After the Second World War he was appointed a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . From 1950 to 1954 he was President of the Circolo romano , a newly established center to conduct Catholic-inspired cultural initiatives and meetings on an international level.

Until 1960, Dalla Torre had the office with confidence of the four Popes Benedict XV., Pius XI. , Pius XII. and John XXIII. held and handed over to his successor, Raimondo Manzini in 1960 . Cardinal Secretary of State Domenico Tardini honored him with the title “Emeritus Director”; Pope John XXIII awarded him the Order of Pius (Knight of the Great Cross (Gran Croce)).

Web links

• Literature by and about Giuseppe Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Giuseppe Graf dalla Torre in the Munzinger archive , accessed on April 29, 2020 ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto on iagiforum.info , accessed on April 29, 2020 (Italian)
2. ↑ Sovereign Military Order of Malta on heirsofeurope , accessed on April 29, 2020 (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Francesco Malgeri: "Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Giuseppe" , Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 32 (1986), accessed on April 29, 2020 (Italian)

predecessor	Office	successor
Giuseppe Angelini	General director of the Osservatore Romano 1920–1960	Raimondo Manzini