Giuseppe Casale

Giuseppe Casale (28 September 1923 – 18 May 2023) was an Italian historian and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Quotes about Casale I did not agree with all his positions, but this only made our conversations more lively and memorable. We spent long hours of the evening and night during my visits to Foggia, where I would normally stay in the Archbishop’s apartment, discussing politics, religion, and pretty much everything, with Casale’s sister periodically and silently appearing to offer an incredible variety of local cookies and beverages. Later, Luigi Berzano became also part of these lengthy domestic conversations....It was precisely because of his natural empathy with all sort of [unreasonably] discriminated minorities that Casale also understood the injustices vested on new religious movements. He was critical both of the secular anti-cult movement and of some excesses of Catholic counter-cultists. He remained, however, firstly a Roman Catholic bishop, something members of new religious movements captivated by his natural sympathy and Southern Italian humor, and hoping for more support, sometimes risked to forget. Massimo Introvigne, "Remembering Archbishop Giuseppe Casale (1923–2023), CESNUR’s First President", Bitter Winter (July 19, 2023) External links Category:Historians from Italy Category:1923 births Category:2023 deaths Category:Roman Catholic archbishops Category:Catholics from Italy Category:Researchers of new religious movements and cults