Yesterday, Father Enzo Mazzi, founder of the Isolotto community, died in Florence. Together with Father Marco Bisecglia (the primary promoter of Arcigay), they founded the movement of dissident Catholics against Vatican diktats on divorce, abortion, and civil rights.
Their idea was that of a popular church and even today you can read the shadow of that writing that Marco Bisceglia wrote on his church in Lavello: "the church belongs to the people".
Marco was suspended a divinis. Mazzi was threatened, but the suspension never came. Even for the Vatican, suspending a very popular priest is a problem. We remember Enzo Mazzi when he challenged Law 40 on assisted insemination, arguing that, after all, even Christ was born through artificial insemination. He was a great priest; honor to those who held their heads high.
Franco Grillini, honorary president of Arcigay