Camillo Ruini

thumb|Camillo Ruini (2006) Camillo Ruini (19 February 1931 – 16 June 2026) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Reggio Emilia and as the president of the Episcopal Conference of Italy. Quotes In the Eucharist Jesus Christ nourishes us with his Body and his Blood, allowing us to share in the eternal fullness of divine life, allowing us to sit at table with Him at the Supper for which we rejoice for ever with the knowledge and love of God, communion of life with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, with the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the Saints, and with all those whom we have loved on this earth and whom Jesus saved with his Cross Papal Envoy Cardinal Ruini, opens 24th National Eucharistic Congress: “the Eucharist is the heart of the Church, nourishment for every individual member” (23 May 2005) Fides News Agency It's true that we mustn't and don't want to be closed to new contributions, but they have to be contributions that enrich our society, not impoverish it. Interview with Angelo Bagnasco (2007) I have always been a believer and a practising Catholic. When I was finishing secondary school, my spiritual director asked me very delicately if I had ever considered becoming a priest. I liked the idea and said yes almost instinctively. Devoting myself to God seemed like something exciting. [...] My father and mother were strongly opposed. My sister Donata, then a twelve-year-old girl, was in favour, however, and she supported me, including financially, throughout her life. From an interview by Aldo Cazzullo, Ruini: «Mi sono innamorato tre volte ma grazie a Dio ho resistito. Ratzinger sbagliò a lasciare, Bergoglio ignorò la tradizione», Corriere della Sera, 19 February 2026. (About the Iraq War) It is highly desirable that it can succeed and find adequate support, including from the Italian side, with consistent choices of closeness and assistance to that people, the work recently undertaken by United Nations Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. From an interview by Sandro Magister, Diavolo edonista, L'espresso, 12-19 December 2002 I deal with content and not [political] sides. If we burden the individual choices of political dialectics with an ethical value, then the political struggle itself ends up worsening, becoming contempt, hatred towards people. The privatization of ethics is unsustainable. The new evangelization instead descends on ground already nourished by Christianity, in which the great Christian heritage is threatened and opposed but persists. We are and must be combative, but always in serene and calm ways, as the Pope actually does. Freedom is not living at the mercy of instinct. Reality has a "logos", a profound rationality of its own, unlike what Hume and many after him have said, according to which reality is so random and senseless that no ethical imperative can be derived from it. Without a realist ethics, based on the being of the person, man is truly in danger. Inaugural address by the Cardinal President, in Camillo Ruini, Prolusione del Cardinale presidente, Consiglio permanente della Cei, 18-22 novembre 2002 The media today, in a certain sense, make culture simply by being there. The daily commitment to evangelization and to a culture and a practice of life that have in the Lord Jesus Christ their decisive point of reference therefore also constitutes the fundamental contribution that we can make, as believers, to a civilization that can once again develop in a truly humanistic way. There is a clear similarity between the question of man and the question of God: both have a global character, they fully question our entire life, our intelligence and our freedom. External links Category:1931 births Category:2026 deaths Category:Catholics from Italy Category:Roman Catholic bishops Category:Cardinals Category:People from Emilia-Romagna