Alleanza Cattolica

Alleanza Cattolica (in English Catholic Alliance) is an Italian Catholic association. Among its members are Massimo Introvigne, president of CESNUR.

An article in magazine Charlie Hebdo argued that Alleanza Cattolica is "the Italian subsidiary" of Brazilian group Tradition, Family and Property.[1]

The aims of the associatione are to study and spread the social doctrine of the Catholic Church.

It was founded and informally constituited by Giovanni Cantoni and Agostino Sanfratello in 1960.

Agostino Sanfratello from Piacenza; Marco Tangheroni from Pisa and Franco Martelli from Milan in January 1971 were the first to request referendum against the divorce law in the Court of Cassation [[[2]]]

In the unit of Pisa, dedicated to Saint Henry the Emperor, the pharmacologist Giulio Soldani, the historian Marco Tangheroni, the psychiatrist Mario Di Fiorino and the brothers Attilio and Renato Tamburrini took part to the activities of Alleanza Cattolica [3] ISBN 9788899661502 (2019)]]

The relationship of Catholic Alliance with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was very strong. Agostino Sanfratello, who had been one of the founders of Catholic Alliance and the brother of the other founder, don Pietro Cantoni, became seminarians of Ecône, in the seminary founded by Archbishop Lefebvre.

On June 6, 1977 many members of Catholic Alliance, baron Roberto de Mattei, the pharmacologist Giulio Soldani , Massimo Introvigne, Mario Di Fiorino and the brothers Attilio and Renato Tamburrini. participated in Rome in the conference on the Second Vatican Council of the archbishop monsignor Marcel Lefebvre at the invitation of Princess Elvina Pallavicini

Don Pietro was ordained in December 1978 while Sanfratello left the seminary. In 1981 the relationship between the Fraternity of Saint Pius X and the Italian association was broken: a group of young Italian seminarians left the seminary of Ecône, later incardinated in the Diocese of Apuania by Bishop Aldo Forzoni.[4]


References
  1. Renaud Marhic and Xavier Pasquini, Charlie Hebdo, n. 233, 4 December 1996. archived
  2. Oscar Sanguinetti and Pierluigi Zoccatelli "Costruiremo ancora cattedrali. Per una storia delle origini di Alleanza Cattolica". D'Ettoris Editori, 2022
  3. [[Di Fiorino Mario “The Italian experiment, fruit of ideological passion” La Vela (Viareggio)
  4. Roberto de Mattei : “Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta.”.Lindau, 2019


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