Father Bartolomeo Sorge died

Published on: 02/11/2020 10:52 AM

Rome, November 2. (Adnkronos) – Father Bartolomeo Sorge has died. You learn from Jesuit sources. Father Sorge died in Milan, he was 91 years old. Former Jesuit director of La Civiltà Cattolica, theologian and political scientist, great connoisseur of the social doctrine of the Church, Father Sorge also remembers his commitment against the mafia.

Father Sorge has never failed, even in recent times, to make his contribution also on social media by taking the field against Salvini’s security decrees: “They are drenched in racism, they must be repealed,” he said. The Jesuit also intervened when Cardinal Ruini said that a dialogue with Salvini was necessary: ​​”Ruini is wrong to bless Matteo Salvini. The Vatican did the same with the Duce.”

Sorge spared no criticism even of Matteo Renzi when he carried out the split founding ‘Italia viva’: “Renzi, like Berlusconi and Salvini – he told us – has the syndrome of the savior of the fatherland.” In his latest book he revealed that he had aware that John Paul I wanted to send him patriarch to Venice in his place, which had become vacant after his election to the pontificate. “Providentially, Cardinal Antonio Poma, president of the CEI, opposed and won. For two reasons. The first was that, after Enrico Berlinguer’s letter to Bishop Luigi Bettazzi, he had hoped that Catholics would not be afraid to confront him culturally. The second, that since the final report I gave at the Italian Church conference on “Evangelization and human promotion “(1976), foreseeing the end of the DC, I worked hard to find a new form of political presence of Catholics in Italy, different from the Christian Democratic Party. So I lost the gondola … ”, he said.

Father Sorge in his long life, he himself told L’Espresso in 2019, had three dreams: “to become a holy Jesuit priest; to commit myself with all my strength to the construction of the city of man; to build the Church with faith and love”. of the Council, renewed, free of power, poor, in dialogue with the world. The first dream, alas, is still such, but I trust that the Lord will fulfill it. I saw the second dream come true progressively throughout my life. life, especially in the 80s, when I found myself fighting the mafia that in Sicily aimed at the heart of the state. The eleven years that I lived in Palermo I spent almost all of them under armed guard. Agostino Catalano, one of my “angels”, jumped into the air with Paolo Borsellino. Unfortunately I couldn’t be close to him and his family, because he was in Latin America. I’ve been pursuing my third dream for 50 years, half in La Civiltà Cattolica, together with three great potatoes ”.