April 4, 2025 in Rome presentation of the book "Via Crucis of a gay boy" by Luigi Testa with Mons. Francesco Savino

In Rome on Friday 4 April, at 7.30 pm in the San Giuseppe parish, via Nomentana (a few steps from Porta Pia) presentation of the book "Via crucis of a gay boy"With the author Luigi Testa

One year after the release of the volume, it will be Mons. Francesco Savino, bishop of Cassano allajonio and vice president of the CEI, to present him to the public of the city of Rome.

Isabella Bruckner, professor at the Pontifical University Sant'Anselmo and author of the preface to the German edition, will speak to him.

The author will also be present, and to moderate the meeting there will be Don Sergio Massironi, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, author of the afterword to the book and director of the series "Theology from the suburbs" of Castelvecchi Editore, in which the text of the Via Crucis is published.

As Cardinal Radcliffe points out in the preface to the English edition of the book, "in his Via Crucis, Luigi's gift is to open us all to the deepest tenderness for the Lord, whom he wishes to embrace, kiss and caress". And Lent, which we are experiencing, is appropriate for this opening.

Mons. Francesco Savino, in his preface to the book, expresses himself with evangelical clarity and courage: "Many efforts have been made, even in the theological sphere, to outline a phenomenology of human love, but so far more worried about justifying the doctrine and traditional practices than to listen to the experiences of those who live" the possible love "(A. Fumagalli, the possible love, Cittadella, 2020). The number of people who abandoned the Church is incalculable because from his teaching they have warned more judged than inspired, more condemned than accompanied ».

The book "Via Crucis of a gay boy" by Luigi Testa has already been translated into German, English and Dutch, and is part of the series "Theology from the suburbs" of Castelvecchi Editore.

Luigi Testa writes in some national newspapers. "Via crucis of a gay boy"(Castelvecchi, 2024) is his first spiritual book, his other reflections are also published onGionata.org.