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Roberto de Mattei
Roberto de Mattei (born 21 February 1948) is an Italian traditionalist Catholic historian and author. He studies the history of religious and political ideas in European history between the 16th and 20th centuries. He is known for opposing evolution, relativism, and the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council.
De Mattei was born in Rome, Italy. He was[when?] a student and assistant to the philosopher of politics Augusto Del Noce and to the historian Armando Saitta at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome. Among other academic positions, de Mattei was[when?] Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cassino.
From February 2002 to May 2006, de Mattei was Adviser for International Affairs to the Italian Government. He has cooperated[how?] with the Pontifical Council for Historical Sciences and been awarded[when?] the Order of Knighthood of St. Gregory the Great.[citation needed]
Between 2003 and 2011 de Mattei was vice-president of the National Research Council of Italy. In that role, he was highly criticized for his scientific ideas, in particular for having organized and funded a meeting supporting antievolutionism. This led part[who?] of the Italian scientific community to request his resignation. Further controversies were caused when de Mattei said that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan was a divine punishment and that the "contagion of homosexuality" had caused the fall of the Roman Empire.
De Mattei is a member of the Board of Directors of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family,. He is editor-in-chief of the monthly review Radici Cristiane, and the weekly Corrispondenza Romana.
De Mattei has published a history of the Second Vatican Council (Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta, Lindau, Turin 2010, translated in English as The Second Vatican Council – An Unwritten Story with Michael M. Miller as editor). The book suggests an historical view on the event which is antithetical to that proposed by the School of Bologna.[citation needed] Reviewers[who?] have noted the book's "archival discoveries from the ultra-traditionalist Lefebvrians" and its new information concerning the role of the traditionalist Coetus Internationalis Patrum at the council. The book drew criticism from both Catholic conservative and progressives because of its questions about the nature of the intents of the Council's main theologians and Popes. Fr. Jared Wicks, S.J. and Massimo Faggioli, both progressives, described the book as "critically flawed" for its "denigration" of the council's presiding Popes, and of the Council members who followed their reform agenda, as endorsing a "conspiracy-driven Lefebvrian interpretation" and being "essentially useless" for developing an understanding of Vatican II. Conservative Catholic historian Archbishop Agostino Marchetto described the book as an "ideological and hyperbolical work", which represents the opposite side of the School of Bologna, paradoxically coming to the same conclusion, i.e. that Vatican II was a break in the Church tradition; Traditionalist Catholic sociologist of religion Massimo Introvigne denounced the book as "following a critical method which devalues the texts of the Conciliar documents".
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, de Mattei published a book entitled Le misteriose origini del Coronavirus (The mysterious origins of Coronavirus) published in 2021 with Edizioni Fiducia, which supported the lab leak theory. He also published On the Moral Liceity of the Vaccination, a book on the moral permissibility of vaccines.[citation needed]
De Mattei describes himself as "above all a disciple of Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira". De Mattei has been described by progressive theologian Massimo Faggioli as "a renowned apologist for ultra-traditional Catholicism".
Roberto de Mattei
Roberto de Mattei (born 21 February 1948) is an Italian traditionalist Catholic historian and author. He studies the history of religious and political ideas in European history between the 16th and 20th centuries. He is known for opposing evolution, relativism, and the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council.
De Mattei was born in Rome, Italy. He was[when?] a student and assistant to the philosopher of politics Augusto Del Noce and to the historian Armando Saitta at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome. Among other academic positions, de Mattei was[when?] Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cassino.
From February 2002 to May 2006, de Mattei was Adviser for International Affairs to the Italian Government. He has cooperated[how?] with the Pontifical Council for Historical Sciences and been awarded[when?] the Order of Knighthood of St. Gregory the Great.[citation needed]
Between 2003 and 2011 de Mattei was vice-president of the National Research Council of Italy. In that role, he was highly criticized for his scientific ideas, in particular for having organized and funded a meeting supporting antievolutionism. This led part[who?] of the Italian scientific community to request his resignation. Further controversies were caused when de Mattei said that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan was a divine punishment and that the "contagion of homosexuality" had caused the fall of the Roman Empire.
De Mattei is a member of the Board of Directors of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family,. He is editor-in-chief of the monthly review Radici Cristiane, and the weekly Corrispondenza Romana.
De Mattei has published a history of the Second Vatican Council (Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta, Lindau, Turin 2010, translated in English as The Second Vatican Council – An Unwritten Story with Michael M. Miller as editor). The book suggests an historical view on the event which is antithetical to that proposed by the School of Bologna.[citation needed] Reviewers[who?] have noted the book's "archival discoveries from the ultra-traditionalist Lefebvrians" and its new information concerning the role of the traditionalist Coetus Internationalis Patrum at the council. The book drew criticism from both Catholic conservative and progressives because of its questions about the nature of the intents of the Council's main theologians and Popes. Fr. Jared Wicks, S.J. and Massimo Faggioli, both progressives, described the book as "critically flawed" for its "denigration" of the council's presiding Popes, and of the Council members who followed their reform agenda, as endorsing a "conspiracy-driven Lefebvrian interpretation" and being "essentially useless" for developing an understanding of Vatican II. Conservative Catholic historian Archbishop Agostino Marchetto described the book as an "ideological and hyperbolical work", which represents the opposite side of the School of Bologna, paradoxically coming to the same conclusion, i.e. that Vatican II was a break in the Church tradition; Traditionalist Catholic sociologist of religion Massimo Introvigne denounced the book as "following a critical method which devalues the texts of the Conciliar documents".
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, de Mattei published a book entitled Le misteriose origini del Coronavirus (The mysterious origins of Coronavirus) published in 2021 with Edizioni Fiducia, which supported the lab leak theory. He also published On the Moral Liceity of the Vaccination, a book on the moral permissibility of vaccines.[citation needed]
De Mattei describes himself as "above all a disciple of Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira". De Mattei has been described by progressive theologian Massimo Faggioli as "a renowned apologist for ultra-traditional Catholicism".