{"id":45559,"date":"2026-04-14T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/nieuws\/the-heroic-life-of-papal-biographer-vittorio-messori\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:28:00","slug":"the-heroic-life-of-papal-biographer-vittorio-messori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/en\/nieuws\/the-heroic-life-of-papal-biographer-vittorio-messori\/","title":{"rendered":"The heroic life of papal biographer Vittorio Messori"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spanish-language editor of the Italian writer and apologist Vittorio Messori, who passed away this past Good Friday<\/a>, revealed the keys to the Italian writer\u02bcs literary success and the secret behind a heroic life lived out of love for the Church.<\/p>\n

The relationship between editor \u00c1lex del Rosal and Messori, one of the most successful Catholic writers of the last half-century, began in 1993, when the publishing house Planeta embraced del Rosal\u02bcs idea to launch \u201cPlaneta Testimonio.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea was to collect Catholic books that offered \u201cengaging themes and authors that would consistently appeal to everyone from the student to the shopkeeper to the taxi driver,\u201d del Rosal said in an interview with ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News.<\/p>\n

With this goal in mind, del Rosal contacted Messori and proposed compiling his articles from the \u201cVivaio\u201d column in the newspaper Avvenire into a book. In that column, Messori often defended the Catholic Church. The result was the bestseller \u201cBlack Legends of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other titles followed, and in 1984, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was still prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Messori conducted a lengthy and candid interview with the future Pope Benedict XVI. Published in 1985 as \u201cThe Ratzinger Report,\u201d the book became an international bestseller. The two men remained friends over the years.<\/p>\n

Messori achieved another historic milestone in 1994 with \u201cCrossing the Threshold of Hope,\u201d a book-length interview with St. John Paul II. He was the only journalist ever commissioned to prepare questions for such a project with the pontiff. John Paul II personally wrote detailed written responses to Messori\u2019s questions, and the resulting volume became one of the most successful papal bestsellers in history.<\/p>\n

Del Rosal, who described Messori as \u201cextraordinary and deeply human,\u201d\u00a0 maintained a friendship with the Italian writer that spanned more than three decades and lasted till his death on April 3. <\/p>\n

The Spanish editor shared in an interview with ACI Prensa some key insights into Messori\u02bcs work and life.<\/p>\n

The secret behind his heroic life<\/h2>\n

Beyond Messori\u02bcs public image as a friend of popes and a world-renowned author, del Rosal revealed a little-known aspect of the writer\u02bcs life that, in many ways, defined him even more profoundly as a son of the Church. \u201cIt was the great cross that Vittorio bore in profound silence,\u201d the editor remarked.<\/p>\n

While he was still an agnostic, Messori entered into a canonical marriage with a young woman. Shortly thereafter, they separated, and he initiated the process to have the marriage declared null \u2014 a process that lasted two decades.<\/p>\n

In that time, the writer met the woman who would remain his wife until his death: Rosanna Brichetti. The two met within the circles of Pro Civitate Christiana, a group founded in Assisi in 1939 by Father Giovanni Rossi, characterized by a great openness toward the secular world. <\/p>\n

Messori disclosed his canonical situation to Brichetti with complete candor. “For 20 years,” del Rosal said, “he lived with Rosanna in chastity \u2014 together, like brother and sister \u2014 in a truly heroic manner, precisely because he was so serious about living out his faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

The annulment process lasted from 1975 to 1995. The first ruling, which affirmed the validity of the marriage, came in Turin; the second, in Milan. It was only after his appeal to Rome that he finally received the response he had been hoping for from the Church: His first marriage was declared null.<\/p>\n

During one of his visits to Messori, del Rosal discussed this matter with the writer: \u201cHe would say to me with great pain: \u2018I am convinced. First, my conscience tells me that that first marriage is null and void. Second, I am almost certain that my success has slowed down this proceeding and made things more difficult for me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThirdly \u2014 I, who am friends with Cardinal Ratzinger, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who oversees these matters, and with the pope [St. John Paul II], who is ultimately the one who can also make the decision \u2014 nevertheless, I do not wish to use my friendship for a matter of this nature,\u201d the editor recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cVittorio\u2019s greatest attribute is not his literary success, nor his apologetic work, nor even how formidable he was in his defense of the Church; rather, it is the immense heroism he displayed in loving the Church despite \u2014 one might say \u2014 having been mistreated,\u201d del Rosal said.<\/p>\n

\u2018A writer\u2019s master is his readers\u2019<\/h2>\n

Messori was one of the most successful Catholic authors in recent decades, selling “somewhere between 30 and 40 million copies of his various works worldwide,\u201d del Rosal noted.<\/p>\n

Part of this success was based on a maxim he upheld not merely in theory, but through great personal effort: \u201cHe was the writer who most earnestly lived out his own words: \u2018A writer\u2019s master is his readers. Therefore, one must always answer them,\u2019\u201d del Rosal recalled.<\/p>\n

With the help of his wife, Rosanna, Messori replied to every one of the more than 100 letters that arrived in his mailbox each week, until the use of email became widespread.<\/p>\n

Speak to the seeker, not the convinced<\/h2>\n

Another of Messori\u2019s strengths was that he addressed himself \u201cnot to the convinced Catholic, but to the seeker, to the one asking questions, even if they were at the opposite ends of ideological or doctrinal positions.\u201d Messori himself was raised in a communist and deeply anticlerical family. It is not without reason that his mother, upon learning of his conversion, \u201cwanted to send him to a psychiatrist,\u201d the editor added.<\/p>\n

This approach was evident in the publication of his first book, \u201cHypothesis About Jesus<\/a>,” for which he asked prominent Italian Communist Party member Lucio Lombardo Radice, an agnostic, to write the prologue.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t write or speak for a closed circle within the Catholic Church; rather, he sought to address every type of audience,\u201d del Rosal emphasized.<\/p>\n

Every morning in the small Italian town on the shores of Lake Garda, Desenzano del Garda, Messori\u02bcs work routine involved visiting what he called the \u201ccenter of the town\u2019s opinion,\u201c a bar where \u201dthe television was on and people chatted about this and that. While having breakfast and reading the newspaper, he would listen to the people\u2019s conversations. This gave him a great deal of inspiration for taking the pulse of public opinion,\u201d del Rosal said.<\/p>\n

The balance between reason and the Holy Spirit<\/h2>\n

Messori\u2019s manner of expression \u201cmaintained a balance between the two lungs of the Church: the Spirit and reason,\u201d according to the editor.<\/p>\n

Messori really disliked \u201cthe terminology of the Vaticanologist\u201d and rejected that label, despite having interviewed two pontiffs. To him, the Vaticanologist \u201cis incapable of moving beyond merely gazing at the exterior of the vessel containing the deposit of faith\u201d and concerns himself solely \u201cwith superficial or flashy matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe always approached apologetics from the standpoint of reasoned faith, not morality. He argued that when morality is proclaimed without first having presented the faith, the result is not acceptance, but rejection,\u201d del Rosal explained.<\/p>\n

This story was first published <\/a>by ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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