AND DEAD ANTONIO LIVI TOGETHER WITH THE HOLY PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLIC FAITH AND REASON

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This morning died Antonio Livi, Roman priest and theologian of the last Roman Theological School. The Fathers de The Island of Patmos leave a comment in his memory to Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo.

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Author
The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

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Antonio Love, Academic of the Pontifical Lateran University

Rest in peace our brother Antonio Livi, Tuscan-born Prato, roman presbyter, philosopher and theologian, last great exponent of the Roman Theological School, He returned to the Father's House this morning.

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Our brother, 82 year old, He had long been ill with brain tumor. His death is not in any way ricollegabile the ongoing pandemic.

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One of the founders This magazine was born in October 2014, Antonio Livi was the author of the subtitle that accompanies The Island of Patmos: "The site of the last revelation". It was in fact this island in the Aegean that the Blessed Apostle, also known as the Eagle, wrote the Book of Revelation.

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Those who knew Antonio Livi thoroughly, He knows that the worst thing that you could do is the apology of Dear Extinct. Or when he had to tell me himself on one occasion with his typical Tuscan cynicism:

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"When a priest dies, you crying two days, pretending, obviously. Then, from the third day, we rejoice because he is out of the way ".

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Antonio Livi with the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI visited the Pontifical Lateran University

Needless to his resume academic, because once said Antonio Livi was the last member of the Roman Theological School, with what has been said.

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Amabile as a person and yet nature sometimes impossible. With him talk meant the end fight. So much so that when I said: "When you have finished arguing with everyone, then you begin to fight with yourself ". And when once, in complaints tone told me: «... sai, They say about me that I am touchy ". Replicandogli said in mocking way: "Do not tell me! Lies, horrible slander. You touchy so, so to speak ... ordinary? No, you are more touchy of a capuchin monkey!».

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He loved me and I to him, we loved each quarreling. Once there “we skinned” for the classic misunderstanding: I wrote that without historical support the dogma would remain unsubstantiated, It is the dogma also the result of a precise history, sometimes even of a specific policy that helps to understand how it has come to its solemn definition. He decided to figure whistles for flasks - because at that moment he needed psychophysical to quarrel with somebody - and gave me the historicist and the crypto-modernist. To which I took to tease his logic aletica, his forte; and this went on for weeks. Then the elderly Brunero Gherardini intervened and said to one and the other: “You look like two dogs biting the same bone!». This was Antonio Livi, why I say that today beatify him on the day of his death, He would be to bring him really insult.

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Antonio Love

The ever silent death comes, But, in his own way, sometimes he speaks: Antonio Livi died 2 April, on the same day he died on Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, under which collaborated in the drafting of the famous Encyclical Faith and Reason, It has brought into the heart throughout his life. We knew of his valuable contribution to the drafting of this Encyclical, but he did not say, and he's never boasted. So not only quarrelsome and touchy, but also humble and discreet servant of the Church and the papacy.

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At random we do not believe, indeed imagine who his soul was met. And maybe, John Paul II, accepting it with a smile typically sly its own and with the irony of his character, it may be that told him: «Antonio, Now you can finally relax, because you've finished arguing, after having experimented on your skin, in the course of your illness, Also the essence of another celebrated my Apostolic Letter: the saving Passion».

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And maybe, the pain he has suffered in recent years, He purified him as a new Baptism, opening the doors to the reward of eternal bliss.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

From the island of Patmos, 2 April 2020

in memory of Antonio Livi

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