Angelo Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice.

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Angelo Cardinal Scola (born November 7, 1941) is the Patriarch of Venice and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, with the titular church of the Twelve Apostles. Image File history File links Mitrescola. ... Image File history File links Mitrescola. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (550x741, 86 KB) Description: Vestments of a cardinal: red cassock, rochet trimmed with lace, red chimere, apostolical cross. ... A style of office, or honorific, is a form of address which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a title or post, or to the political office itself. ... November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Among the Patriarchates in the West, the Pope, as Bishop of Rome is the only truly independent Patriarch. ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals during a consistory. ... Catholic Church redirects here. ...

Scola is a noted academic, the author of numerous theological and pedagogical works on topics such as bio-medical ethics, theological anthropology, human sexuality and marriage and the family, which have been translated into several different languages. In addition, he is the author of more than 120 articles published in scholarly journals of philosophy and theology. He inaugurated the Studium Generale Marcianum, an academic institute, and the journal Oasis, published in Italian, English and Arabic as an outreach to Christians in the Muslim world.

In his pastoral capacity as bishop Scola has paid particular attention to the issues of education, youth, clergy formation, renewal of parish life, pastoral care of workers, culture and the family.

Scola's episcopal motto is Sufficit gratia tua ("Your grace is sufficient", 2 Cor 12:9).

Biography

Scola was born in Malgrate, Italy to Carlo Scola, a truck driver, and Regina Colombo. He was the younger of two sons; Pietro, his elder brother, died in 1983. He attended high school at the Manzoni lyceum in Lecco, Italy, where he participated in the youth movement Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth). Country Italy Region Lombardy Province Province of Lecco (LC) Mayor Elevation 231 m Area 2. ... Lecco is an Italian city set in Lombardy 50 kilometres north of Milan; it borders a branch of the Lake of Como (named Lake of Lecco) on the west and the Lombard Alps on the east. ...

He studied philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan from 1964 to 1967, obtaining his doctorate with a dissertation on Christian philosophy. During this time served as Vice-President and thereafter President of the Milanese diocesan chapter of FUCI (Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana, the university student wing of Catholic Action. Philosopher in Meditation (detail), by Rembrandt. ... The Sacro Cuore Catholic University of Milan (Italian: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) is a university located in Milan, Italy. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán) is the main city of northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy, being often mistaken with the capital of the country. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

Following study at the Saronno and Venegono seminaries in Milan, Scola was ordained to the priesthood on July 18, 1970 in Teramo, Italy, by Abele Conigli, bishop of Teramo-Atri and Giovanni Cardinal Colombo, archbishop of Milan. He subsequently attained a second doctorate in Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He wrote his dissertation on St. Thomas Aquinas. An active collaborator in the Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation) movement from the early 1970s until he became a bishop, Scola collaborated in the founding of the journal Communio with Henri de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar (and conducted book-length interviews with them both). A priesthood is a body of priests, shamans, or oracles who are thought to have special religious authority or function. ... July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Giovanni Cardinal Colombo was Archbishop of Milan and a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. ... Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason) means reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and God. ... Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - March 7, 1274) was a Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, who gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the primary philosophical approach of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Communion and Liberation, or CL, is a lay ecclesial movement within the Catholic Church. ... Communion and Liberation, or CL, is a lay ecclesial movement within the Catholic Church. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ... The theological journal Communio was founded in 1972 by Joseph Ratzinger (later elected Pope Benedict XVI), Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac and others. ... Henri de Lubac (February 20, 1896-September 4, 1991), a French Jesuit, can be considered to be one of the most influential theologians of post-modern time. ... Hans Urs von Balthasar (August 12, 1905 - June 26, 1988) was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian. ...

After periods of study in Munich and Paris and time spent in pastoral work Scola returned to Fribourg to work as research assistant to the chair of political philosophy at Friburg from 1979 and thereafter Assistant Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology, a position he held until 1982 when he was appointed Professor of Theological Anthropology at the Pontificial John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family in Rome and Professor of Contemporary Christology at the Pontifical Lateran University. From 1986 to 1991 Scola served the Roman Curia as consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. At the various institutes where he taught he promoted the establishment of bursaries to enable foreign students, particularly those from poorer countries, to study in Italy. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Roman Curia - usually (though inaccurately) called the Vatican - is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See, coordinating and providing the necessary organisation for the correct functioning of the Roman Catholic Church and the achievement of its goals. ... The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) (Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei) is the oldest of the nine congregations of the Roman Curia. ...

Episcopacy

He was named bishop of Grosseto, Italy in 1991 by Pope John Paul II and consecrated by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin the same year. As bishop of Grosseto he promoted a renewal of catechesis in the diocese. Among Scola's chief pastoral concerns in Grosseto were the education of children and youths, vocations and clergy formation (he re-opened the diocesan seminary), new approaches to parish life, the pastoral care of labourers (particularly during the difficult period of the dismantling of mines in Grosseto), culture and the family, and the opening of a diocesan mission in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. During this period he wrote and published a book aimed at young people on the subject of the educative mission of the Church. A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ... Grosseto is a town and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Grosseto province. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef Wojtyła [1] (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005) reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from... His Eminence Bernardin Cardinal Gantin (born May 8, 1922 in Toffo, Benin) is the highest-ranking black African in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, though three early Popes came from the Mediterranean shores of the African landmass. ...

He subsequently resigned as bishop of Grosseto to serve as rector of the Lateran Pontifical University in Rome and President of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family in Rome, with a term spent as visiting professor at the counterpart Institute in Washington, D.C., during which time he wrote a monograph on the theology of von Balthasar. From 1995 until the death of John Paul II in 2005 he was a member of the Congregation for the Clergy. He also served as member of the Episcopal Commission for Catholic Education of the Italian Bishops' Conference and, from 1996, as president of the Committee for Institutes of Religious Studies which addresses questions of the theological formation of the laity in Italy. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) coordinates: 41°54′N 12°29′E Time Zone: UTC+1 Administration Subdivisions 19 municipi Province Rome Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni ( The Union ) Characteristics Area 1,285 km² Population 2,547,677 (2005 estimate) Density 1983... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... The Congregation for the Clergy (Congregatio pro Clericis) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsibile for overseeing matters regarding priests and deacons, and overseeing the religious education of all Roman Catholics. ...

From 1996 to 2001 Scola was a member of the Pontifical Council for Health Workers and wrote several texts on issues around health care. In 1996 he was named a consultant to the Pontifical Institute of the Family.

He was appointed Patriarch of Venice on January 5, 2002, elected President of the Bishops’ Conference of the Triveneta region on April 9, 2002 and created Cardinal on October 21, 2003. After the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, Scola was considered to be among the papabili in the 2005 papal conclave. Srđa Trifković supported him vigourously in Chronicles because he saw him as the only man who might reverse what paleoconservatives see as a the decay of European culture. It is quite probable that Scola's relative youth told against his chances after such a long papacy: the conclave elected Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI. Among the Patriarchates in the West, the Pope, as Bishop of Rome is the only truly independent Patriarch. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Papabile (plural: Papabili) is an unofficial Italian term first coined by Vaticanologists and now used internationally in many languages to describe cardinals of whom it is thought likely or possible that they will be elected pope. ... The Papal conclave of 2005 began on April 18, 2005 and ended the next day after four ballots. ... Ph. ... Chronicles is a US monthly magazine published by the paleoconservative Rockford Institute. ... Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: , born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany) is the 265th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, and Sovereign of Vatican City State. ...

Works

Books by Scola translated into English

• Hans Urs Von Balthasar: A Theological Style Eerdmans Publishing Company (September 1, 1995) ISBN 0-8028-0894-8
• The Nuptial Mystery Eerdmans Publishing Company (February 15, 2005) ISBN 0-8028-2831-0

Online texts

• Which Foundation?
• The Nuptial Mystery: A Perspective for Systematic Theology? (PDF file)
• Christian Experience and Theology
• Satanic Rites in the Church's Judgement

External links

• "Scholarly Venice cardinal intent on raising church's profile", Catholic News Service, April 1, 2005.