Mauro Leonardi


Mauro Leonardi is an Italian priest, writer and commentator.

Biography

He was ordained a priest by John Paul II in 1988 and lived in Rome. Since 2015 he lives in the suburban district of the Italian capital, where he does his pastoral work. He's the chaplain of a high school and collaborates with his ministry in a parish in the same neighborhood.
His first novel is Quare, a science fiction novel. In 2003 he released Half an hour of prayer. In 2011 comes to light Like Jesus, which gives its name to his blog. In 2012 he released his second novel, Abelis. The Lord of Dreams is his last essay. From 6 December 2013 to 11 November 2016 he publishes on the web on his blog, a collection of 152 poems, entitled The diary of Paci. The most famous poem is "Love is not enough to love", erroneously attributed to Frida Kahlo..
In 2020 he wrote an essay entitled "Le religioni spiegate ai giovani. Convivenza e dialogo nella diversità" for Diarkos.

Activity

His blog Come Gesù is online since 2011. He writes regularly in some Spanish and Italian newspapers as an Agi, the Italian edition of Metro International and in the daily newspaper of the Episcopal Conference of Italy. He writes columns on several family weeklies. He also intervened during some television broadcasts of entertainment and current debate.

Disputes

He has been the subject of numerous controversies by some Catholics in different parts of the world who say that Leonardi wants to change the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the issue of homosexuality: on the contrary he says that, following the teachings of Pope Francis, simply look respectfully at this reality. He has been the object of attacks by some Catholics for interviewing Vladimir Luxuria who, on that occasion, recounted his conversion to Catholicism.

Works