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The Vatican newspaper has published Bishop Francesco Savino’s preface to Via Crucis di un ragazzo gay [Via Crucis of a Gay Boy], a new book by Luigi Testa, an Italian law professor.
Appointed a bishop in 2015, Bishop Savino has been the vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference since 2022. Father Sergio Massironi, an official of the Dicastery for the Promoting Integral Human Development, contributed an afterword to the book.
In conjunction with Bishop Savino’s preface—which focused more on the prelate’s own reflections than on the book’s content—the Vatican newspaper’s website published a photograph of two shirtless men alongside another man in a T-shirt who is carrying a cross. A fuller version of the photograph was published in the print edition (p. 6).
“The synodal reflection on the family, crowned by the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia of Pope Francis, pushed the Church to emerge more courageously from itself and its own customs, to embrace reality: the flesh and blood of lives called to the joy of love,” said Bishop Savino. “It is one of the most embodied joys of existence and everyone has their own wonderful and tormented path with which to expose themselves to the intimacy of other lives.”
“We have a profoundly evolving understanding of sexuality, much richer, freer and more open than was given in traditional societies,” Bishop Savino continued. “Often as an ecclesial community we run the risk of fearing rather than welcoming whatever good can emerge from the relationships between people with their own and other people’s corporeality.”
“This book leads us to taste the faith of those whom the Church has often dismissed as public sinners, denied sacraments, ministries and above all voice, name, visibility,” the prelate added. “In how many pronouncements, in how many communities, in how many homes have we made the children loved by God feel wrong [sbagliati]?”
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Appointed a bishop in 2015, Bishop Savino has been the vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference since 2022. Father Sergio Massironi, an official of the Dicastery for the Promoting Integral Human Development, contributed an afterword to the book.
In conjunction with Bishop Savino’s preface—which focused more on the prelate’s own reflections than on the book’s content—the Vatican newspaper’s website published a photograph of two shirtless men alongside another man in a T-shirt who is carrying a cross. A fuller version of the photograph was published in the print edition (p. 6).
“The synodal reflection on the family, crowned by the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia of Pope Francis, pushed the Church to emerge more courageously from itself and its own customs, to embrace reality: the flesh and blood of lives called to the joy of love,” said Bishop Savino. “It is one of the most embodied joys of existence and everyone has their own wonderful and tormented path with which to expose themselves to the intimacy of other lives.”
“We have a profoundly evolving understanding of sexuality, much richer, freer and more open than was given in traditional societies,” Bishop Savino continued. “Often as an ecclesial community we run the risk of fearing rather than welcoming whatever good can emerge from the relationships between people with their own and other people’s corporeality.”
“This book leads us to taste the faith of those whom the Church has often dismissed as public sinners, denied sacraments, ministries and above all voice, name, visibility,” the prelate added. “In how many pronouncements, in how many communities, in how many homes have we made the children loved by God feel wrong [sbagliati]?”
Continued below.
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