Vittorio Messori Libri

"Pensare la storia" (1992), "La sfida della fede" (1993), "Le cose della vita" (1995): sono i titoli dei tre volumi che hanno raccolto quanto Vittorio Messori pubblicò in "Vivaio". Questa rubrica, ospitata dal quotidiano Avvenire e divenuta presto popolare, ha destato entusiasmo tra i cattolici e indignazione in certo mondo sia laico che, talvolta, clericale. In effetti, Messori era "politicamente scorretto" riflettendo sulla realtà di ieri e di oggi alla ricerca della verità, al di là dei miti, e riproponendo una prospettiva cattolica fedele all'ortodossia. Una prospettiva distante da quella della cultura egemone, con le sue ipocrisie, manipolazioni, superficialità; ma lontana pure da quella di un cattolicesimo "modernista".

In 1888 Father Edgardo Mortara wrote his autobiography so that the world would understand he had not been kidnapped by the Vatican. So what had happened to him--to the baptized Jewish boy whose removal from his family by Pope Pius IX remains an international controversy to this day? Mortara's previously unpublished memoirs, accompanied with commentary by Italian journalist Vittorio Messoi, answer this question with an account that runs contrary to popular opinion. As an infant, Mortara was on the point of death and secretly baptized by a Catholic servant employed by his family. He recovered his health, and in the Papal State where his family lived, the law required that he, like other baptized children, receive a Christian education. After several failed attempts to persuade his parents to enroll him in a local Catholic school, in 1858 Pope Pius IX had the boy taken from his family in Bologna and sent to a Catholic boarding school in Rome. There the child grew in faith and eventually responded to the calling to become a Catholic priest. The Mortara case reverberated around the world. Journalists, politicians, and Jewish leaders tried to pressure the pope to reverse his decision. The pope's refusal to do so was used as one of the reasons to dissolve the Papal State in 1870. Here now for the first time in English is the actual true story in the words of Mortara himself.

Leonardo Mondadori (1946 - 2002) byl majitelem a prezidentem jednoho z největších vydavatelství na světě - Arnoldo Mondadori SpA. Italský podnikatel byl přesvědčeným agnostikem do chvíle, než zažil obrácení k víře, a stal se katolíkem. Kniha rozhovorů Leonarda Mondadoriho s Vittoriem Messorim (katolickým spisovatelem) chce tuto zkušenost zprostředkovat co nejvíce lidem. Obsahuje životopisné vzpomínky i doslovné úryvky z rozhovorů. Leonardo Mondadori se dále vyjadřuje k důležitým otázkám dneška, nevyhýbá se tématu svého bohatství či vážné nemoci, vyjadřuje se k palčivým církevním otázkám, odmítá mimomanželské i předmanželské vztahy, antikoncepci a potraty, obhajuje kněžský celibát a svátost smíření Rozhovory s úspěšným italským podnikatelem, který zažil obrácení k víře a stal se katolíkem. Kniha přináší nejen obsah, ale i atmosféru důvěrných hovorů

Jak se papež modlí? Pro koho a zač? Mohou se křesťané poučit v islámu a buddhismu? Na tyto a další otázky italského spisovatele a žurnalisty Vittoria Messoriho odpovídá Jan Pavel II. Nevyhýbá se ani velmi osobním tématům.

Vittorio Messori v rozhovore s Andreom Torniellim. Autor vo forme rozhovoru otvára svoj myšlienkový svet, ktorý vyše štyridsať rokov po obrátení napĺňa istota stretnutia s Bohom. Ono mu od základov zmenilo život – z agnostika, ktorý nepotreboval náboženstvo, sa stal obhajca Cirkvi, ktorý celý život hľadal dôkazy historickosti Ježiša; nie kvôli sebe, ale aby iným pomohol prísť k Bohu.