Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

The Vatican trial, now ending, is a remembrance of things we thought were past…

In the galaxy of Italian Catholicism, Alberto Melloni and Sandro Magister may not quite be matter and anti-matter, but they’re definitely not on the same planet. Melloni is a progressive historian and essayist, an exponent of the “Bologna School” and its liberal reading of Vatican II, while Magister, an influential journalist, is a voice for the church’s conservative and traditional wing. When Melloni and Magister agree on something, therefore, you can be reasonably sure it’s beyond politics…