Vittorio Messori, Catholic writer and journalist, has died
Vittorio Messori, Catholic writer and journalist, died tonight. He was 84 years old. He produced a vast number of books on Jesus, Mary and faith in general.
He was considered one of the most important Catholic intellectuals and also collaborated for several newspapers, always on faith-related topics.
Vittorio Messori died at his home in Desenzano del Garda. He was the author of bestsellers on faith that sold millions of copies and were translated into many languages. Just yesterday evening, after Pope Leo's Via Crucis at the Colosseum, an old special on Jesus, hosted by Giovanni Minoli, was aired on RAI with a young Messori proposing his theses.
"Emiliano from Sassuolo, he was born into an anti-clerical family that had been displaced in the Brescia area and then moved to Turin in the immediate post-war period," recalls the editorial director of the Vatican media Andrea Tornielli. He had graduated in Political Science.
It was only in 1964 that he found his faith through reading the Gospels. He then enrolled at the Institute of Christology of Pro Civitate Christiana in Assisi, where he spent a year studying. After returning to Turin, he began working at the Società Editrice Internazionale and collaborated with various newspapers and magazines. In 1970, he joined Stampa Sera and then became editor of the Tuttolibri insert of La Stampa.
