Gianni Baget Bozzo

Gianni Baget Bozzo (8 March 1925 – 8 May 2009) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician.

Quotes

Andreotti did everything and the opposite of everything; Forlani did nothing and the opposite of nothing.

From an interview on 14 October 1981 with Roberto Gervaso, quoted by him in his Ve li racconto io (I'll tell you about them), Milan, Mondadori, 2006, p. 47. ISBN 88-04-54931-9.

at the Socialist Congress in Verona in 1980; quoted by Ida Dominijanni, Don Gianni', theology and political demon, Il manifesto, 9 May 2009.

[When asked if he had ever experienced homosexual feelings] Certainly. And more than once. I experience friendship in a very strong way, even in these terms. After all, I believe that homosexuality can be a Christian fact [...] The Church can admit that two people of the same sex exchange affection and use purely erotic terminology [...] Pope Paul VI in the document Persona humana defines homosexuality as a ‘disordered condition’, not a sinful one. What does ‘disordered condition’ mean? This needs to be discussed.

Quoted in Alessandro Trocino, “”Baget Bozzo: I have homosexual feelings“”, “'Corriere della Sera”', 10 June 2000, p. 4.

I have always noticed that the only figure defined as "unjust" in the Gospel is that of a judge: and it seemed to me an apt definition. Fascism was less hateful than this robed bureaucracy that used violence in the name of justice. In the history of Italy, if freedom had prevailed, as I now believe to be certain, the names of the magistrates of Milan, Antonio Di Pietro, Borrelli, Davigo, and Boccassini would have been forever signati nigro lapillo as figures to be remembered with horror, those of the unjust judge.

Quoted in Lorenzo Fuccaro, “”«Fascismo meno odioso della burocrazia togata» (‘Fascism less hateful than bureaucracy in robes’), Corriere della Sera, 25 January 2004, p. 3.

The Islamic God has nothing in common with man: he is a Presence without measure, blending personality and impersonality in himself. [...] For the Christian, it is clear here what the Trinity means to him, namely that God is a relationship between persons, that is, intrinsically human. [...] The Christian God is a person and can only be understood as a relationship between persons.

From L'uomo, l'angelo, il demone (Man, Angel, Demon), Rizzoli, 1989, pp. 148-149.

In the 20th century, Christian Democracy performed the function that the States of the Church had performed for fourteen hundred years

From “'Cattolici e democristiani”' (Catholics and Christian Democrats), Rizzoli, 1994, p. 7. and p. 27.

(About the cultural roots of Umberto Bossi) A little bit of right-wing Fascism, a little bit of Marxism in slang.

L'Avanti!”' of 19 January 1991, quoted by Marco Giusti, Bossoli - il blog della Lega, Theoria, 1993, Milan, ISBN 88-242-0338-3, p. 30.

On the front of anti-clericalism and aversion to the Church, we are witnessing a real drift, parallel to certain political battles. There is an anti-Christian tide rising in Europe, an anti-Catholic sentiment. It is difficult to predict exactly what will happen. Violence no longer affects only politics but also the symbolic part of society. Therefore, it also affects the Church. :*Quoted in Roberto Zuccolini, Baget Bozzo: è il segno dell' anticlericalismo dilagante (Baget Bozzo: it is a sign of rampant anticlericalism), Corriere della sera”', 30 April 2007, p. 3.

I don't like Costanzo. We argued in 1994 when he presented Berlusconi with an audience of hostile people. Vespa, on the other hand, created Porta a Porta, a masterpiece. He has been more useful than Costanzo. “'Porta a Porta”' is the most useful thing there is for the centre-right.

From an interview with Claudio Sabelli Fioretti, Sette, 11 March 2004; quoted in Marco Travaglio, Carta Canta – Vespa a Vespa, “'Repubblica.it”', 27 November 2007.

(About the possible successor to Silvio Berlusconi) The issue has not yet arisen, for the moment. However, the two most likely candidates are currently Gianfranco Fini and Giulio Tremonti. They are neck and neck. [...] I do not see any women as future leaders; no one in Forza Italia is ready, nor indeed in the entire centre-right.

The transformation of the electorate into a television audience has raised the quality of democracy and brought direct democracy closer to parliamentary democracy, thus bringing Western democracy closer to its model, Athenian democracy, the original form of direct democracy.

Between us and the left lies the blood of Craxi, which cries out for vengeance before God.

Quoted in Ferrara: Silvio, troppo anticomunismo (Ferrara: Silvio, too much anti-communism), “'Corriere della Sera”', 29 August 2000, p. 8.

Gianni Baget Bozzo, Mondadori, 2003

The West has lost its faith but not the wisdom and hope of faith [...], the Christian roots of the West appear precisely when they are no longer recognised.

Quoted in Don Ennio Innocenti, Don Gianni Baget Bozzo, l'Americano, “'Kelebekler”'.(p. 107)

The primacy of personal freedom – writes Don Gianni, referring to the social order – indicates the transcendence of the person over society... this idea is a Christian legacy: it is divine life communicated to the person by the Incarnate Word, Jesus Christ: every person has become an end in relation to society because of the primacy of Jesus Christ as a person who lives in other people. (p. 136)
Europe has received from the United States the imprint of Christianity in freedom. (p. 137)
The West, the concept born in the struggle against Nazism and Communism [...] is the secular and liberal version of Christianity, thanks above all to the United States [...] by opposing the United States at all levels, the Church is fighting against the Christianity of which the West is the fruit.

Quoted in Don Ennio Innocenti, Don Gianni Baget Bozzo, l'Americano, “'Kelebekler”'.(p. 144)

We are pleased to publish this article by Gianni Baget Bozzo, a member of the Christian Democracy party in the 1950s, now a priest and historian of the Catholic party.

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