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1894–1980 Italy
Igino Giordani (Hyginus Giordani; 24 September 1894 – 18 April 1980) was an Italian politician, writer and journalist, born at Tivoli. He was also a significant figure in the Focolare Movement.
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This too is not a limitation, it is a defence of freedom itself.
Freedom of thought, like any activity of the mind, is valid if it respects the freedom of thought of others: it must therefore not offend the thoughts of others.
The world produces evil: and the greatest evil is the social wickedness that fills the streets with wretched people without bread and without a roof over their heads.
In serving one's neighbour, the soul is immersed, as if immersed in the love of God: in the sea, one is afraid. (p. 99)
He sought God on those stony mule tracks, which skirted and ended in fords: he had now shown that he could only belong to Him: he could only be a John of God (p. 49)
In the encyclical Quanta cura, Pius IX organically addresses all the main errors of his time, which, from rationalism to liberalism, undermined Christian doctrine and corrupted customs, causing upheaval in consciences and communities.
[Freedom of thought] It is the freedom to think what one wants and to express everything one thinks, within the limits of truth and morality: without these, it could become an insult, slander, or perversion.
Without the resistance of the Papacy and its recovery, perhaps what happened to the ancient world under the onslaught of barbarism would have happened to modern Europe – and still could happen. (p. XXVIII)
Charity is like a fire that feeds itself by spreading [...]. (p. 134)
History is a teacher who has no pupils; [...]. (p. VI)
Because he was hungry for holiness – because he was holy – his modest faults as a soldier loomed in his conscience like crimes; and this happens to saints. (p. 50)
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