Biography

Dario Edoardo Viganò was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the 27th June 1962. Following on from studies in philosophy and theology at the University of Milan, on the 13th June, 1987 Viganò was ordained a Roman Catholic priest by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, archbishop of the diocese of Milan. During his doctoral studies in the history of cinema (published in 1997 by Castoro) and afterwards, Viganò worked at the 'Ufficio per le Comunicazioni Sociali della diocesi ambrosiana' ('Office for Social Communications of the Ambrosian Diocese') involved primarily with the cinema and cinema halls within the community. In 1998, however, Viganò transferred to the Italian Episcopal Conference.

Academic Career

In the second half of the 1990s Viganò taught 'Ethics and the Deontology of the Media' at a specialist school of the  Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. In 1998 he began teaching 'Semiology of Cinema and Audio-visual Technology' in Rome and 'Semiotics and Business Communications' at the faculty of Communication Studies at LUMSA University.
From 2000 onwards he began teaching at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome where he was made professor of 'Communication Theory' and dean of the 'Redemptor hominis' Institute. He is also Director of the 'Centro Interdisciplinare Lateranense'.
Since 2005 he has also been lecturer in 'Semiology of Cinema and Audiovisual Technology', 'Audio-visual languages and market' and 'Cinema Theory and Techniques' at the faculty of Political Science and Communication Studies at the Libera Università LUISS Guido Carli in Rome where he has also been made a member of the directing committee for the research unit 'Centre for Media and Communication Studies' (CMCS) "Massimo Baldini" directed by Michele Sorice and dedicated to the memory of Massimo Baldini (2008).
Member of the "Pontifical Theological Academy"

Professional and Institutional Responsibilities in the World of Cinema and Audio-Visual Technology

In 2004 Dario Edoardo Viganò was requested to assume the role of President of the 'Ente dello Spettacolo' (EdS) a cinema organization which was founded in 1946 and which, in 2006, was to become the 'Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo' (FEdS). He is, furthermore, editor-in-chief of the prestigious cinema journal 'Rivista del Cinematografo', the longest running Italian cinema journal, founded in Milan in 1928 and edited by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo.
In the same period, he was nominated a member of the Subcommittee for the recognition of Cultural Interests, specializing in feature films for the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, General Administrative Office for Cinema.  In 2008 he was also asked to participate in the Administrative Council of the 'Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia' with portfolios in the National Film Archives and in publishing.
Remaining in the field of cinema and cinema studies, at the beginning of the 21st century Viganò was nominated President of the Italian national commission for film evaluation - 'Commissione Nazionale Valutazione Film' (CNVF) a sector of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI).  For the previous ten years Viganò has been, moreover, a research assistant for the cinema division of the Office for Social Communication of the CEI, directed by Mons.  Domenico Pompili.
Viganò is also the scientific director, together with Francesco Casetti (Università Cattolica di Milano), of a high level course in e-learning for the promotion of communication and culture 'ANICEC' which was established in 2000 by the Inter-disciplinary Centre of the Lateran Pontifical University, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and by the Communication and Culture Foundation of the CEI.

Activities as President of the 'Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo'

Since his nomination, in 2004, as President of the 'Ente dello Spettacolo' and editor-in-chief of 'Rivista del Cinematografo', Dario E.Viganò immediately began expanding the structure and various activities of the organization. He has initiated several important research projects, publications and training programmes within the cinema sector.

The new "Rivista del Cinematografo"
As editor-in-chief of the Italian cinema journal 'Rivista del Cinematografo' (RdC), Viganò has done a great deal to improve the editorial structure of the journal, also offering important collaborations with journalists, professionals and Italian academics who operate in the cinema sector.  In 2008, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the 'Rivista del Cinematografo' (1928-2008), Viganò promoted an effective 'restyling' operation for the monthly following a detailed study of graphic design and accurate market research.

Internet portal cinematografo.it
As an academic and researcher in communication theory, Viganò immediately understood the value and potential of the new digital technology connected to the cinema. As a consequence, he set up the website 'www.cinematografo.it', which has since come to be seen as an essential reference point for all Italian cinema professionals, researchers and film lovers along with similar organizations such as 'MyMovies', 'Movieplayer', 'Trovacinema', '35mm', 'Cinemaitaliano.info' and 'Cineblog'. Such success led, in 2009, to the restyling of the official website which again made use of technical studies and market research.
The site now offers numerous sections including 'Cinemedia', 'Film reviews', 'Trailers', 'Films on TV', 'Photo Galleries' and, furthermore, 'Film in Città' - a service of daily film schedules for cinemas in all of Italy.  The contents of the site 'www.cinematografo.it' also provide information for the major Italian national cinema web portals including 'Yahoo', 'Libero' and 'Virgilio' as well as internet sites such as 'Il sole 24 ore', 'Coming Soon', 'MTV' and numerous others.
A further, important service which Viganò provided on the www.cinematografo.it website is a daily press release of articles from FEdS.  The press release service of FEdS publishes articles from all of the Italian daily newspapers, cinema journals or academic publications which concern the cinema online every morning. These include film criticism, news, interviews, economics and legal articles, news on cinema festivals, digital cinema and other audiovisual technologies (television, series, video games).  All articles can be freely consulted and downloaded following registration on the site.

"Cine Data Base" - the databank of world cinema.
One of the greatest attractions of the site 'www.cinematografo.it' is the film databank 'Cine Data Base', which, thanks to Viganò, has become the most detailed and visited cinema archive in all of Europe with more than two million viewings per month, receiving almost 50% of all visits to the site.  'Cine Data Base' (originally titled 'Banca Dati del Cinema Mondiale') was founded in 1934 by the six-monthly publications of the 'Segnalazioni cinematografiche', in which, also today, all films distributed in Italian cinemas are catalogued.   Since 1987 this service has been available online and also, resulting from an analysis of the history of cinema, includes the films of all other nations, with particular attention being paid to international film makers and artists (directors, actors, costume designers, camera specialists etc.) of major importance. The origins of the site 'www.cinematografo.it' in the mid 1990s and the successive expansion of the internet have certainly rendered 'Cine Data Base' one of the richest databanks of international cinema in Europe and one of the most visited sites in the world, with film summaries for both new and old films plus continuously updated biographies.  The editorial office of the 'Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo' is in continuous search for information from specialist publications or other sources: daily newspapers, magazines, the internet, press releases, retrospective studies and cinema festivals (in particular in Berlin, the Alba Film Festival, Cannes, the Venice Film Festival, the Rome Film Festival, Torino Film Fest, Locarno, etc.). At the beginning of 2010, 'Cine Data Base' contained: over 52,000 film summaries from 1895 (the year which is conventionally taken to mark the origin of cinema), including artistic casts and technical crews, appropriately detailed film plots, film reviews taken from the most authoritative daily papers and specialist journals; and 290,000 individual names of directors, actors, technicians etc.  The site also contains up to 20,000 individual biographies which have been appropriately edited; over 10,000 film posters and numerous film trailers.

'Tertio Millennio' Film Festival.
The 'Tertio Millennio Film Fest' is organized by the 'Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo' and presided over by Viganò in collaboration with the Cultural Project of the Italian Episcopal Conference under the high patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, the Pontifical Council for Social Communication and the Pontifical Council for Culture. The idea behind the film festival, inaugurated by Pope John Paul II in 1997, was to propose a means of reflecting on both questions of the Spirit and the confrontation with the Other.  Since he began leading the organization of the 'Tertio Millennio Film Fest', Viganò has attempted to give greater weight to the activities of the scholarly convention which has always been carried out during the Festival and involves important film directors and  emerging, young artists (Alexandr Sokurov, Marco Bellocchio, Carlo Verdone, Guido Chiesa, Mimmo Calopresti, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Francesco Patierno, Daniele Vicari, Sergio Basso etc.), as well as leading academics from both Italian and foreign universities (Università Sapienza of Rome, Università Cattolica of Milan, Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, Università di Torino, Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Università di Roma Tre, Università IUAV of Venice, Università di Milano Bicocca, Université Paris X, Yale University, University of Buenos Aires, University of London). 
The work of the convention is collected together in  articles which are published by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo in the series "Frames".

Study Centre and Research Activities
Academic research in the fields of cinema and audiovisual technology together with professional experience in the cinema industry have led Viganò to establish the important project of an annual report on the cinema industry and market in Italy.  This was originally produced in 2009 by the 'Centro Studi' (Study Centre) of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, in collaboration with the cinema organization 'Cinecittà Luce' and the support of the Cinema sector of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. The first annual report titled "2008 Report. The cinema industry and market in Italy", was published by Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, Roma 2009.  Viganò was later to add to this annual report the website 'www.cineconomy.com', again managed by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and which involves a close, daily monitoring of aspects of the cinema which specifically refer to economic, production and legal aspects of the industry and market in Italy and abroad.

Publishing
In his time as president of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, Viganò has re-launched the publishing activity of the organization, in particular with the establishment of two periodicals dedicated to cinema and audiovisual entertainment, titled 'Frames' and 'Le Torri'.  In 'Frames' can be found both studies of a specifically scientific nature written by established academics and new researchers working in the major Italian universities. These include popular works, such as dictionaries, film criticism, journalism and works by specialists in the sector.  'Le Torri', on the other hand, includes monograph studies of the great film makers of history.  Each monograph traces the artistic and intellectual career of film directors and examines their artistic contributions through the analysis of individual films, therein isolating the director's most characteristic compositional, expressive, and technical-formal styles.

Educational Projects
Through the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo (FEdS), Viganò has promoted a series of important formative conventions and projects in cinema.  The most notable of these is the 'Stage di Critica Cinematografica' ('Internship in Film Criticism') which is organized in Rome by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, together with the noted French cinema journal 'Cahiers du Cinéma' and the French Academy in Rome at Palazzo Farnese, the site of the French Embassy.  The fifth version of the internship, in 2010, was marked by a change in location, when it was transferred from Rome to Turin thanks to Viganò's work with the 'Film Commission Torino-Piemonte' and the Italian National Museum of Cinema, both of which are partners in the initiative. 
Among the other educational project initiatives requested by Viganò there is the international cinema convention held every two years and involving the participation of numerous, prestigious universities.  In 2007 Viganò organized, along with the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and the 'Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia' in Rome, an important conference on Neo-realism: 'Neorealismo e presente dell'immagine. Il reale come progetto del film' ('Neo-realism and the presentation of the image. Reality as a film project'), (23rd to 24th October, 2007), which involved the participation of Francesco Casetti (Università Cattolica di Milano), Giovanni Chiaramonte (Università IULM of Milan), Giorgio De Vincenti (Università Roma Tre), Daniele Dottorini, Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica di Milano), Uta Felten (University of Leipzig), David Forgacs (University of London), Bruno Fornara (film critic), Carmelo Marabello (Università di Messina), Pietro Montani (Università Sapienza di Roma), Emiliano Morreale (Università di Teramo), Peppino Ortoleva (Università di Torino), Veronica Pravadelli (Università di Roma Tre), Laurence Schifano (University of Paris X), Noa Steimatsky (Yale University), Luca Venzi (Università di Cassino).  The articles of the convention were collected in a single volume published and edited by Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo: L. Venzi (ed.), 'Incontro al neorealismo. Luoghi e visioni di un cinema pensato al presente', Edizioni FEdS, Roma 2008. 
In 2009, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of French New Wave cinema, Viganò organized a conference at the site of the French Embassy in Rome, inviting together both Italian and foreign cinema specialists and academics for the convention '50 fois Nouvelle Vague' (17th - 18th February 2009). The unifying concept behind the convention was to re-interpret and re-analyze one of the foundational moments in modern cinema and, more generally, to reconsider, through the New Wave movement, the concept of cinema, its historical development and its evolution.   This international convention of leading academics was dedicated to the belle epoque of French cinema by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and involved the participation of Alain Bergala (Université Paris III), Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica di Milano), Eugenio Renzi (Cahiers du cinéma) and Roberto De Gaetano (Università della Calabria), Antonio Costa (Università IUAV of Venice), Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues (Université Lille III), Emmanuel Burdeau (Cahiers du cinéma), Jean-Louis Leutrat (Université Paris III), Giorgio De Vincenti (Università Roma Tre), Luca Venzi (Università di Siena).

Published Works and Research Activities

Dario E.Viganò is the author of numerous studies and essays dedicated to the world of communication in general, the cinema and audiovisual entertainment.  He has paid particular attention to the analysis of the relationship between the media and the Catholic faith, the cinema and the Church.

Books

• Cari Maestri. Da Susanne Bier a Gianni Amelio i registi si interrogano sull'importanza dell'educazione, Cittadella Editrice.
• Chiesa e pubblicità. Storia e analisi degli spot dell'8x1000, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), 2011.
• Il prete di celluloide. Nove sguardi d’autore, Cittadella Editrice, Assisi 2010.
• La musa impara a digitare. Uomo, media e società, Lateran University Press, Roma 2009.
• La Chiesa nel tempo dei media, Edizioni OCD, Roma 2008.
• L’adesso del domani. Raffigurazioni della speranza nel cinema moderno e contemporaneo, Effatà Editrice, Cantalupa (TO) 2007 (con G. Scarafile).
• Gesù e la macchina da presa. Dizionario ragionato del cinema cristologico, Lateran University Press, Roma 2005.
• I sentieri della comunicazione: storia e teorie, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ) 2003.
• Cinema e Chiesa. I documenti del Magistero, Effatà Editrice, Cantalupa (TO) 2002.
• Essere. Parola. Immagine. Percorsi del cinema biblico, Effatà Editrice, Torino 2000 (con D. Iannotta).
• La settima stanza. Un film di Márta Mészáros, Centro Ambrosiano, Milano 1997 (con C. Bettinelli).
• I mondi della comunicazione, Centro Ambrosiano, Milano 1997 (con M. L. Bionda, A. Bourlot).
• I figli e la televisione, In dialogo, Milano 1996 (con M. L. Bionda, G. Michelone).
• I preti del cinema. Tra vocazione e provocazione, Istituto di Propaganda Libraria, Milano 1995 (con E. Alberione).
• Cinema, cinema, cinema. Dalle origini ai nostri giorni, Edizioni Paoline, Milano 1995 (con G. Michelone).
• La televisione in famiglia. Trasmissioni a confronto, Edizioni Paoline, Milano 1995 (con G. Michelone).
• Il teleforum. Domande e risposte sul piccolo schermo, Edizioni Paoline, Milano 1994 (con G. Michelone).

Curatele

• Hollywood sul Tevere. Anatomia di un fenomeno, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Electa, Milano 2010 (con S. Della Casa).
• Dizionario della comunicazione, Carocci, Roma 2009.
• Omelia: prassi stanca o feconda opportunità?, Lateran University Press, Roma 2007.
• Attraverso lo schermo. Cinema e cultura cattolica in Italia, 3 Voll., Ente dello Spettacolo, Roma 2006 (con R. Eugeni)
• Pio XII e il cinema, Ente dello Spettacolo, Roma 2005.
• Sala della comunità e progetto culturale, Effatà Editrice, Cantalupa (TO) 2005.
• La camera oscura. Il cinema tra memoria e immaginario, Vol. 2, Effatà Editrice, Cantalupa (TO) 2003.
• La camera oscura. Il cinema tra memoria e immaginario, Vol. 1, Effatà Editrice, Cantalupa (TO) 2002.
• Il cinema delle parabole, Vol. 2, Effatà Editrice, Cantalupa (TO) 2000.
• Il cinema delle parabole, Vol. 1, Effatà Editrice, Cantalupa (TO) 1999.
• Attualità cinematografiche 1997, Centro Ambrosiano, Milano 1997 (con E. Alberione).
• Attualità cinematografiche 1996, Centro Ambrosiano, Milano 1996 (con E. Alberione).
• Cinema e Chiesa. Una storia che continua. Atti del convegno, Centro Ambrosiano, Milano 1995.
• Attualità cinematografiche 1996, Centro Ambrosiano, Milano 1995 (con E. Alberione).
• Cinema e Chiesa. Una storia che dura da cento anni, Centro Ambrosiano, Milano 1994.

Essays and Articles

2011

• A publicidade social. Reflexões sócio-semióticas, em «ALCEU. Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Política», v. 11, n. 22, Jan./Jun. 2011, pp. 26-42.
• Profeti, sacerdoti e re: attualità e riformulazione dei "tria munera", in F. Scalia S.J. (a cura di), Apta mihi. Ricordo del ministero parrocchiale di mons. Vito Pernicone, Euno Edizioni, Leonforte (EN) 2011, pp. 77-84.
• Il cinema: ricezione, riflessione, rifiuto, in AA.VV., Cristiani d'Italia. Chiese, società, stato, 1861-2011, Vol 3., by A. Melloni, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, Roma 2011, pp. 1389-1409.
• Preti ed educazione: per uno sguardo istruito nei sentieri dei cambiamenti epocali, by M. Cardinali, Pastori dinanzi all'emergenza educativa. Per la formazione dei formatori, Lateran University Press, Vatican City 2011, pp. 131-145.
• Le forme della devozione: tiara, kippah e altri cappelli liturgici, by E. Fulco, Il cinema con il cappello. Borsalino e altre storie;, Corraini Editore, Mantova 2011, pp. 107-109.
• Un film che sgomita. "Io sono con te", in «Segno», n. 4/5, April-May 2011, p. 54.

2010

• L'immagine di Gesù nella storia del cinema. Tra provocazioni e prospettive analitiche, in «Arte e Fede. Informazioni U.C.A.I. Quadrimestrale di Arte e Cultura», n. 38-39, May-December 2010, pp. 42-46.
• Sguardi sulla morte. La riflessione ricoeuriana di "Vivo fino alla morte" e le visioni del cinema sulla soglia del mistero, in D. Iannotta (a cura di), Sentieri di immaginazione. Paul Ricoeur e la vita fino alla morte, Edizioni Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, Roma 2010, pp. 187-204.
• Cinema cristologico e riscritture audiovisive. Il problema delle traduzioni intersemiotiche, in "Il Regno" , n. 18, 2010, pp. 611-614
• Parola di Dio e ri-figurazioni audiovisive, C. Pastore (a cura di), Viva ed efficace è la parola di Dio. Linee per l'animazione biblica della pastorale, Edizioni Elledici, Leumann (TO) 2010, pp. 157-168
• Cinema cristologico e riscritture audiovisive. Il problema delle traduzioni intersemiotiche, in S. Isetta (a cura di), Il volto e gli sguardi. Bibbia letteratura cinema, Edizioni EDB, Bologna 2010, pp. 21-31
• I preti al cinema. I sacerdoti e l’immaginario cinematografico, in Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, I preti al cinema. I sacerdoti e l’immaginario cinematografico. Priests in Cinema. Priests and the Cinematic Image, Edizioni Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, Roma 2010, pp. 6-19.
• Pio XII, i media e la comunicazione, in P. Chenaux (a cura di), L’eredità del Magistero di Pio XII, Lateran University Press, Roma 2010, pp. 141-182.
• Il tuo volto, Signore, io cerco (Sal. 26), in Il tuo volto, Signore, io cerco (Sal. 26)), in S. Aloisio, N. Pacini, T. Sillo (a cura di), Ecce Homo. L’immagine di Gesù nella storia del cinema, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino 2010, pp. 14-18.
• I preti di celluloide: fotogrammi di vita…vera in «Culture e fede», Vol. XVIII 2010, 2, Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura, Città del Vaticano, pp. 136–141.

2009

• Note per un’etica del cinema, in «Nuova civiltà delle macchine», 2009/3, XXVII pp. 129-142.
• Salvezza nel Cinema: Dinamica e storie, in «Servizio della Parola», numero speciale Settembre 2009, n. 410, pp. 59-75.
• San Paolo, Apostolo e grande comunicatore, modello del nostro evangelizzarein «Bonus Miles Christi», Anno LV, 2009, pp. 86-91.
• Sull’etica dello spettacolo. Quando il cinema racconta la scelta della morte, in Etica della comunicazione fra due continenti, Teoria, XXIX/2009/1 (Terza serie IV/1), Edizioni ETS, pp. 151-161.

2008

• Sobre la ética del espectáculo. Cuando el cine relata la elección de la muerte, in A. Fabris, M. Ure (a cargo de), Ética de la comunicactión entre dos continentes Editorial de la Universitad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2008, pp. 167-177.
• La kenosi e l'immaginario corporeo nel cinemain F. Taccone (a cura di), Stima di sé e kenosi, Edizione OCD, Roma, 2008, pp. 181-191.
• Eucarestia da celebrare: l’omeliain R. Nardin, G Tangorra (a cura di), Sacramentum Caritas. Studi e commenti sull'Esortazione Apostolica postsinodale di Benedetto XVI, Lateran University Press, Roma 2008, pp. 391-402.
• La comunicazione del Sovvenire e l'immagine della Chiesa, in Servizio promozione sostegno economico alla Chiesa Cattolica della CEI, Verso i vent'anni del documento Sovvenire alle necessità della Chiesa, Atti del Convegno 31 gennaio - 1 febbraio 2008, Roma, 2008, pp. 61-84.

2007

• Gli anni verdi, gli anni ribelli, l’evoluzione dei giovani dalla beat generation alla bit generation, in «Nuntium», 33, 2007/3, pp. 31-37.
• Roberto Benigni as Director: Toward an Analysis of Values, in P. Malone (ed.) Through a Catholic Lens: Religious Perspectives of 19 Film Directors from Around the World, Rowan & Littlefield, 2007, pp. 203-209.

2006

• Estroversione dello sguardo, declinazione della speranza, in G. Giorgio (a cura di), La speranza: una sfida al presente Istituto teologico abruzzese molisano, SIGRAF, Pescara, 2006, pp. 19-24.
• Comunicare il Giubileo, ripensare i media, in G. Mazza (a cura di), Karol Wojtyla, un pontefice in diretta. Sfida e incanto nel rapporto tra Giovanni Paolo II e la tv, Rai Eri (Zone 3), Roma 2006, pp. 221-226.

2005

• La morte in Bresson, in C. Tagliabue, F. Vergerio (a cura di), La fatal quiete. La rappresentazione della morte nel cinema, Centro Studi Cinematografici – Lindau, Torino 2006, pp. 53-61.
• Il ministero episcopale nel contesto della contemporaneità alla luce dell’esortazione postsinodale (PGr 66-72), in A. Montan (a cura di), Vescovi. Servitori del Vangelo per la speranza del mondo, Lateran University Press, Roma 2005, pp. 447-465.
• Il post-umano nel cinema, in I. Sanna (a cura di), La sfida del post-umano. Verso nuovi modelli di esistenza?, Edizioni Studium, Roma 2005, pp. 245-254.

2004

• Una devotio postmoderna? The Passion di Mel Gibson, in «La Rivista del clero italiano», LXXXV, aprile 2004, pp. 310-316.
• Il magistero della Chiesa e la settima arte (PGr 66-72), 23, 2004/2, pp. 47-54.

2003

• I mezzi della comunicazione sociale a servizio di un’autentica pace alla luce della “Pacem in terris”, in «Lateranum», LXIX, 3, 2003, pp. 621-632.

2002

• Il cinema: (dal)la differenza in F. Linguiti (a cura di) L’identità fluttuante. Cinema/Televisione: audiovisione e forme della differenza, Effatà Editrice, Cantalupa (TO) 2002, pp. 97-106.

2001

• La comunicazione tra ricognizione teorica prospettive teologiche, in «Lateranum», 2001.

Onorificenze

Nominated "Correspondent" of the Pontifical Theological Academy in 2011.
'Chaplain to His Holiness' (10th July 2004).
'Commendatore dell'Ordine Equestre del Santo Sepolcro di Gerusalemme' (12th December 2009)

Prison Pastoral Care and the educational project in the Brazilian 'favelas' of Salvador de Bahia

In the early 1990s Dario Edoardo Viganò met sister Adele Pezone, an Italian missionary who, since the 1980s, had lived in Brazil. Sister Adele involved Viganò in a project of prison pastoral care in the 'favelas' of Mate Escura, in Salvador de Bahia.  As such was founded the commitment to assist Brazilian convicts in Bahia and, above all, a project to assist the children of such convicts who sister Adele maintained in a care home next to the prison.  There are around 40 children (ranging from 4 months to 15 years old) who live with her and another 60 children who sister Adele manages in a small nursery school in the 'favelas' of Mate Escura.  Together with a group of colleagues, Viganò and sister Adele created the onlus association "La prima pietra" (cf. www.laprimapietra.org), with the intention of collecting funds for the sustenance of such children throughout their development and in their studies, thereby affording such children an education until adulthood and the hope of a brighter future.  Since the 1990s, furthermore, Viganò has been personally involved in accompanying groups of colleagues, students or even interested acquaintances to act as volunteers for a week at the care home of sister Adele or in a pastoral context at the prison of Bahia.

External Links

» Official personal website

» Pontifical Lateran University

» Centre for Media and Communication Studies "Massimo Baldini", LUISS Guido Carli

» Rivista del cinematografo - cinematografo.it

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