{"id":26656,"date":"2011-09-15T19:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/la-civilta-cattolica-has-new-l\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T23:48:35","slug":"la-civilta-cattolica-has-new-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/la-civilta-cattolica-has-new-l\/","title":{"rendered":"La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica has new leadership with Antonio Spadaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Antonio%20Spadaro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Antonio Spadaro.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/09\/Antonio Spadaro-thumb-300x152-10207.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laciviltacattolica.it\/it\/\">La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica<\/a><\/i>, THE prestigious journal of opinion in Italy, and perhaps in very many ecclesial circles, has new leadership in Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro.&nbsp;<i>La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica<\/i> has been at the service of the Church 162 years.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Father Antonio, 45, takes the helm from Father GianPaolo Salvini, 75, who&#8217;s been the head of&nbsp;<i>La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica<\/i>&nbsp;since 1985, an apostolate of the Italian Jesuits in Rome.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While not an official organ of communication of the Holy See,&nbsp;<i>La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica<\/i>&nbsp;is reviewed by a ranking &#8211;though competent&#8211; official of the Secretariat of State. It is said that the Papal Palace, that is, the Pope himself, reviewed the pre-publicaiton draft of the journal; Pope Paul VI changed the process.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/%C2%A0La%20Civilt%C3%A0%20Cattolica%20cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&nbsp;La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica cover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/09\/&nbsp;La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica cover-thumb-148x211-10209.jpg\" width=\"148\" height=\"211\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>The new director, Father Antonio, also the superior of the House of Writers (near to the Porta Pinciana) is trained in literary criticism and has been at the journal for a time since 1994. He&#8217;s from Messina and was ordained in 1996. All of his training was in Italy but he completed his Jesuit formation, tertianship, in Ohio. He earned a doctorate from the Gregorian University under the direction of the Australian Jesuit Gerald O&#8217;Collins. The new director has published some 15 books and he&#8217;s interested in the new social communications.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Don Antonio hosts two blogs: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antoniospadaro.net\">Antonio Spadaro<\/a>&#8221; and&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberteologia.it\/\">Cyberteologia<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He got a difficult road ahead of him: bringing&nbsp;<i>La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica<\/i>&nbsp;further into the new millennium with the use of English, social media and greater visibility. The voice of&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica<\/i> needs to be heard. A new broom sweeps clean.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May God grant Father Antonio many and rich blessings as he begins his new ministry.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica, THE prestigious journal of opinion in Italy, and perhaps in very many ecclesial circles, has new leadership in Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro.&nbsp;La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica has been at the service of the Church 162 years. Father Antonio, 45, takes the helm from Father GianPaolo Salvini, 75, who&#8217;s been the head of&nbsp;La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica&nbsp;since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/la-civilta-cattolica-has-new-l\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">La Civilt&agrave; Cattolica has new leadership with Antonio Spadaro<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2666,2600,1838,2537,1742,2777,2395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}