Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Worsen the health of Don Gallo - The Press

21/05/2013


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Don Andrea Gallo

Don Andrea Gallo

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genova Into “I dream of a church does not separate from the others, that is not always ready to condemn, but to be supportive companion” On the Way “. These are the last words of Don Andrea Gallo, posted on Twitter yesterday, a few hours before his health conditions aggravate, as warned, again through a social network (Facebook, this time) volunteers of his community of St. Benedict to port in the late morning they wrote: “Don Gallo is sick: is monitored hour by hour, through medical care at home in her community. The priest always at the side of the weak, the marginalized and the least in need of tranquility “formalizing the word of mouth that was now circulating for Genoa.

Into Two weeks after discharge from the Galliera, after a brief hospital stay, therefore, the “priest from the sidewalk” is fighting yet another tough battle . Born July 18, 1928, in Genoa by Maria Tomasina Oliveri, of Campo Ligure (who died in 1999, aged 94) and Bernardo Gallo, the Piedmont Canavesano, railroad, now in the Ligurian hinterland to build the railway, Don Gallo is known for being, as always, the priest of the past: “But never a” priest against “has always loved to repeat, preferring for himself the definition of Fabrizio De Andrè, namely” in the obstinate and contrary. “

Into “With my archbishops, and I’ve had five, there were never real contrasts but only differences of opinion.” Even with the first, Giuseppe Siri that as well, in 1970, lifted him from the post of assistant pastor at the Carmine in order to transfer to San Benedetto al Porto for his homilies judged “too bright” on the eve of the referendum on divorce because thanks to this new found the land on which to build his community, born in June 1975 but became official in 1983 and then to celebrate the next thirty years.

Into A Community for Don Gallo, a Salesian missionary in Brazil and then once they leave the congregation of Don Bosco in the diocese of Genoa, has always been the home of the marginalized, were toxic, ex-prisoners, the mentally ill, alcoholics, prostitutes, trans, single mothers, immigrants and aliens, or even just people who are alone, looking for a word of comfort.

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