Pasquale Borgomeo

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Pasquale Borgomeo SJ (born March 20, 1933 in Naples , † July 2, 2009 in Rome ) was an Italian Jesuit and journalist . He became known as the General Director and Artistic Director of Vatican Radio .

Life

Pasquale Borgomeo studied philosophy , literature and theology . He received his doctorate from the Paris Sorbonne with the literary work L'Eglise de ce temps dans la predication de St. Augustin . In 1970 he joined the editorial team at Vatican Radio. In 1983 he became program director; In 1985 he was appointed General Director and Artistic Director by Pope John Paul II . As part of his media activities, Borgomeo also represented the Vatican at the European Broadcasting Union . In 2005 he retired; he was succeeded by Federico Lombardi .

In 2005, Pasquale Borgomeo, then director, and Roberto Cardinal Tucci , then chairman of the supervisory board, were sentenced by the Italian Supreme Court to ten days' imprisonment for erecting transmitter masts with excessive electromagnetic radiation from the transmitters near Santa Maria di Galeria ; the sentence was suspended. In the second instance, however, they were acquitted in 2007 of the charge of excessive radiation exposure.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Long-standing Vatican Radio Director has died" ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), kipa, July 3, 2009
  2. ↑ “Vatican Radio has a new General Director” ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Netzeitung, November 8, 2005
  3. ^ "The joyful message of the refrigerator" ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 10, 2005
  4. ^ "Acquittal for Radio Vatican" , EMVU information page, accessed on July 3, 2009
  5. ↑ "Habakkuk and Electrosmog" , Spiegel, June 11, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Borgomeo, Pasquale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borgomeo, Pasquale SJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian religious and journalist, director of Vatican Radio
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2009
Place of death Rome