Livio Melina (born August 18, 1952 in Adria, Italy) is a priest of the Catholic Church and an Italian theologian.
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Livio Melina (born August 18, 1952 in Adria, Italy) is a priest of the Catholic Church and an Italian theologian.
Livio Melina was born in Adria in 1952. Since high school, he has been a member of the ecclesial Communion and Liberation movement and was one of its initiators in Veneto. [1]
Melina completed a degree in philosophy at the University of Padua in 1975, and then entered the seminary of the diocese of Adria. He was ordained a priest on June 21, 1980.
In 1982 he obtained a Licentiate in Moral Theology (STL) from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and in October 1985 a Doctorate in Theology (STD) from the Pontifical Lateran University with the dissertation Ratio practica, scientia moralis e prudentia. Linee di riflessione sul Commento di San Tommaso all'Etica Nicomachea written under the direction of Professor Carlo Caffarra.
From October 1984 to October 1991 he worked as an assistant of studies at the Doctrinal Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under the direction of then Card. Joseph Ratzinger. [2]
In 1991 he became a tenured professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. In 1997 he started The International Research Group on Moral Theology (Area Internazionale di Ricerca in Teologia Morale) and has been directing it since then. In 2002 he became Vice President of the Central Session of the Institute. In 2006 Benedict XVI nominated Melina as President of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, where he was also a tenured Professor of moral theology, and in 2010 renewed the nomination, a position he held until 2016.
Melina was a Visiting Professor in Washington DC (United States of America) and Melbourne (Australia). [2] He has given lectures and conferences in France, Spain, Great Britain, Switzerland, India, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
Since 2007 he has been an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. He was Scientific Director of the review Anthropotes, a member of the consultant committee of the international review Communio, and cooperates with other international reviews such as The Thomist, La scuola cattolica, Medicina e morale, La società, Il nuovo aeropago, Logos. He is also a corresponding member of the Académie d'Education et d'Etudes Sociales in Paris.
Melina, who received the honorary title of Monsignor from John Paul II, is considered, in Catholic circles, to be one of the greatest exponents of moral theology and bioethics. [2]
On August 17, 2016, it was announced that Pope Francis had appointed Mgr Pierangelo Sequeri to replace Mgr Melina as President of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. [3]
Following the replacement of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute with the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, by decree of the motu proprio Summa Familia Curae of September 8, 2017, [4] the previously-existing Chair of Moral Theology was abolished and Mgr Melina, together with another previously-tenured professor, lost his position. [5]
In addition to numerous articles, he has written, co-authored, and edited numerous books, including:
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