Eighty-two-year-old Fr. Juan Carlos Scannone, Argentina’s most prominent living theologian, is to start writing for Italian Jesuit periodical Civiltà Cattolica
The eighty-two-year-old Jesuit priest and professor, Fr. Juan Carlos Scannone, who has taught at a number of universities including the Pontifical Gregorian University and is considered to be Argentina’s top living theologian, returns to Rome. Here he will be writing for Italian Jesuit periodical Civiltà Cattolica and lecture in a number of European countries, the publication’s editor-in-chief, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, told Vatican Insider.
Scannone taught Jorge Mario Bergoglio Greek and literature when he entered the Jesuit novitiate. A student of Karl Rahner, he represents “Theology of the People”, an Argentinean school of thought linked to Liberation Theology. “I expressed my support for him in an article published in 1982,” Scannone said.
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