Antonio Spadaro
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| Born |
July 6, 1966 Messina, Sicily, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education |
University of Messina Pontifical Gregorian University |
| Occupation | Official of the Holy See and Vatican City State |
| Organization | Society of Jesus |
| Title | Editor of La Civiltà Cattolica |
| Term | 1 October 2011 — present |
| Predecessor | Gianpaolo Salvini |
| Successor | incumbent |
Antonio Spadaro (born 6 July 1966) is an Italian Jesuit priest, journalist and writer. He has been the editor in chief of the Jesuit-affiliated journal La Civiltà Cattolica since 2011. He is also a consultor to both the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Secretariat for Communications (previously known as the Pontifical Council for Social Communications). He is described as being very close to Pope Francis, who is also a Jesuit.
Spadaro was born in Messina, Sicily on 6 July 1966. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Messina in 1988, Spadaro joined the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. He taught in Rome for two years from 1991 to 1993. On 21 December 1996, he was raised to the priesthood and on 24 May 2007 he made the solemn vows to the Society of Jesus. He obtained a license in Fundamental Theology, a degree in Social Communications, a PhD in Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome. He completed his education in the United States, in the Jesuit province of Chicago, from 2002 to 2003.
In 1994 he started writing for the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica and since 1998 he became a member of the editorial board. He deals mainly with literature theory and literary criticism, especially related to contemporary Italian authors (including Cesare Pavese, Alda Merini, Giorgio Bassani, Mario Luzi, Pier Vittorio Tondelli) and American writers (from classics such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Flannery O'Connor and Jack London to contemporaries like Jack Kerouac, Raymond Carver). Among the subjects he deals with are music (Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Nick Cave), contemporary art (Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat), new communication technologies and their impact on lifestyle and thinking (especially on , Second Life, digital reading, various social media networks, Hacker philosophy and Cybertheology).
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