Leon Bertoletti Quotes

Leon Bertoletti is an Italian journalist and author.

✵ 1971

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Famous Leon Bertoletti Quotes

“I call it "cut and paste journalism." It's very convenient, very easy, very useful. And very dishonest.”

Leon Bertoletti

Cut and Paste Journalism http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2006/01/cut-and-paste-journalism.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 16/01/2006

“Suffering from an evident complex of moral inferiority, a lot of journalists are interested in teaching the Pope how to do the Pope. Suffering from an evident complex of moral superiority, a lot of priests are interested in teaching journalists how to do journalism. But the worst of all are the journalist-priests.”

Leon Bertoletti

Complexes http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2009/03/complexes.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/03/2009

“The United Nations General Assembly: The greatest show on Earth, starring Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Muammar Gaddafi.”

Leon Bertoletti

UN Circus http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2009/09/un-circus.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 24/09/2009

“Theology is just like sex, the art of penetrating the mystery.”

Leon Bertoletti

Arts http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2007/06/arts.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 15/6/2007

“The Anglican Church seems the Wonder Emporium of Mr Magorium.”

Leon Bertoletti

Anglicanism http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2008/06/anglicanism.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 24/06/2008

“I prefer news without interviews to interviews without news.”

Leon Bertoletti

Useless Interviews http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2007/11/useless-interviews.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/11/2007

“Believe it or not, after the Second Vatican Council anticlericalism is a Catholic virtue. In elaborating a theology of laity, as many call it, and speaking of a hierarchy of service rather than of domination in the Church, Vatican II implicitly endorsed opposition to clericalism, which is a policy of maintaining or increasing the power of a religious hierarchy. Clearly, this sort of anticlericalism has nothing to do with the other anticlericalism.”

Leon Bertoletti

The A-Word http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2008/10/a-word.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/10/2008

“Speaking frankly, I find it difficult to accept lessons on press freedom from The Times, a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch.”

Leon Bertoletti

Freedom and the Press http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2009/10/freedom-and-press.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 3/10/2009

“Pope Benedict XVI is working softly, slowly, often silently, unobtrusively, behind the scenes, mostly unseen. But he is working hard. I like the great job of reconciliation that he is doing inside the Roman Catholic Church: reconciliation between traditionalists and liberals, conservative and reform-oriented faithful, liturgical Latinists and Mass polyglots, old-time lovers and progressives, high-flying souls and pedestrian believers, thinkers and doers--Christians and Catholics. It is a hidden work of diplomacy, interactions, influences, concessions, agreements, acknowledgments. A "hard job" well done until now.”

Leon Bertoletti

Christians and Catholics http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2008/10/christians-and-catholics.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 9/10/2008