Maurizio Chiodi

Maurizio Chiodi (born July 19, 1955 in Torre Annunziata ) is an Italian Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

After classical studies in the Bergamos seminary (1969–1974), Chiodi was a student of the Pontificio Seminario Romano (1974–1980) and the Pontificio Seminario Lombardo (1980–1981) in Rome. He studied philosophy and Roman Catholic theology at the Pontifical Lateran University and the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1980 he was ordained a priest. In 1981 he obtained his licentiate at the Pontifical Academy Alfonsiana, where he received his doctorate in 1987 with a thesis on Paul Ricœur under Prof. Giancarlo Vendrame. Since 1986 he has been professor of moral theology at the Istituto superiore di scienze religious (Higher Institute for Religious Studies) in Bergamo, of which he was director from 1994 to 2002. Since 1989 he has been teaching moral theology at the Theological School of the Episcopal Seminary in Bergamo. He was also the diocesan advisor to the Associazione medici cattolici italiani (Association of Catholic Doctors in Italy) in Bergamo from 1984 to 2007. He was also a member of many ethics committees: the United Hospitals of Bergamo (2004-2010), the Istituto Medea della Nostra Famiglia in Bosisio Parini (Prov. Como) (2004-2010), the Scientific Institute San Raffaele in Milan (2008-2015 ). Since September 2012 he has been a member of the Bioethical Board of Poliambulanza in Brescia. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Moral Theology at the Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Settentrionale (Theological Faculty of Northern Italy) in Milan, where he has been Associate Professor since 2008 and Full Professor since 2014. Since 2019, Chiodi has been teaching moral theology at the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Studies in Rome, which is part of the Pontifical Lateran University. Since 1988 he has worked with the voluntary center of the Sofferenza (of suffering) in Bergamo, where he was first deputy assistant and then diocesan assistant from 2003 to 2012. From 2008 to 2016 he was spiritual advisor to the association “La Pietra Scartata” (“The rejected stone”) of the Diocese of Milan and director of the magazine “lemà sabactani?” Of the association “Friends of Children” (Ai.Bi.). He is a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Teologia". He has been a full member of the Pontifical Academy for Life since 2017.

Positions

During his research and academic activities, he deepened mainly theoretical questions of general and specific moral theology: examination of the philosophy of Ricoeur and his theological hermeneutics, method of theological fundamental morality, conscience and law in their mutual reference, prudence (phrónēsis, prudentia), the judgment, the anthropological sense of being born, dying and suffering. In this context, and with reference to the eighth chapter of the post-synodal letter Amoris laetitia , Chiodi teaches that there are circumstances under which remarried divorced people can be admitted to the sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist [Note: Coscienza e discernimento. Testo e contesto del capitolo VIII di Amoris laetitia, San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo (MI), 2018, 121ss]. In this theoretical framework he has also expressed the opinion that there are circumstances under which the use of artificial contraceptives is morally a "possible good". [1] In an interview with the Italian newspaper Avvenire in July 2019, Chiodi also stated that homosexual acts in the context of a "stable relationship" can be morally good under certain conditions, but not without the need for the virtue of " Chastity ”. In addition, he proposed considerations that clearly oppose heterologous artificial reproduction

Web links

• biographical information on zam.it (Italian)
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• CatholicWorldReport. Interview with Maurizio Chiodi, January 9, 2018
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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Il teologo Maurizio Chiodi: “Omosessuali. Una pastorale oltre la retorica delle aperture ” ( Italian ) gionata.org. July 28, 2019. Accessed January 30, 2020.
2. ↑ L'eterologa come espressione sintomatica di un disagio antropologico. Per una riflessione teologica, in “Anthropologica. Annuario di studi filosofici 2016 », Cose o persone? Sull'esser figli al tempo dell'eterologa (a cura di L. Grion), Meudon - Centro Studi Maritain, Portogruaro (VE) 2016, 177–187.