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born 1943 Italy

Sandro Magister (1943) is an Italian journalist and essayist, specialized in religious views, in particular on the Catholic Church and the Vatican.

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Wojtyla stands out as a leading figure in the Church's new phase of openness towards the East, moving beyond the purely diplomatic sphere.

His sweet life Padre Pio began by flying to heaven [...], because he was never blessed on earth.

Padre Pio never theorised anything. The epochal disputes of the conciliar Church did not even touch him.

Padre Pio always lived between heaven and earth. Literally.

(About Padre Pio) His profile of holiness is everything except what one usually imagines: blue, haloed, joyful. Quite the opposite.

The real problem is that the price to pay for saving these lives is the tragic one of suppressing others. The utilitarian principle that one can do evil to achieve good is being replaced by the Western and Christian maxim that it is not permissible to do evil, even to achieve a greater good. Whereas in the past the traditional “signs” of death were used to ascertain that a living person was not considered dead, today the new Harvard criterion treats the living as corpses in order to be able to transplant them.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sandro Magister (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.