Leon Bertoletti

Leon Bertoletti (born 1971, Switzerland) is an Italian journalist and author.

Quotes

 * I call it "cut and paste journalism." It's very convenient, very easy, very useful. And very dishonest.
 * Cut and Paste Journalism, Hic Sunt Leones, 16/01/2006


 * Theology is just like sex, the art of penetrating the mystery.
 * Arts, Hic Sunt Leones, 15/6/2007


 * I prefer news without interviews to interviews without news.
 * Useless Interviews, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/11/2007


 * The Anglican Church seems the Wonder Emporium of Mr Magorium.
 * Anglicanism, Hic Sunt Leones, 24/06/2008


 * Pope Benedict XVI is working softly, slowly, often silently, unobtrusively, behind the scenes, mostly unseen. But he is working hard. I like the great job of reconciliation that he is doing inside the Roman Catholic Church: reconciliation between traditionalists and liberals, conservative and reform-oriented faithful, liturgical Latinists and Mass polyglots, old-time lovers and progressives, high-flying souls and pedestrian believers, thinkers and doers--Christians and Catholics. It is a hidden work of diplomacy, interactions, influences, concessions, agreements, acknowledgments. A "hard job" well done until now.
 * Christians and Catholics, Hic Sunt Leones, 9/10/2008


 * Believe it or not, after the Second Vatican Council anticlericalism is a Catholic virtue. In elaborating a theology of laity, as many call it, and speaking of a hierarchy of service rather than of domination in the Church, Vatican II implicitly endorsed opposition to clericalism, which is a policy of maintaining or increasing the power of a religious hierarchy. Clearly, this sort of anticlericalism has nothing to do with the other anticlericalism.
 * The A-Word, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/10/2008


 * Suffering from an evident complex of moral inferiority, a lot of journalists are interested in teaching the Pope how to do the Pope. Suffering from an evident complex of moral superiority, a lot of priests are interested in teaching journalists how to do journalism. But the worst of all are the journalist-priests.
 * Complexes, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/03/2009


 * The United Nations General Assembly: The greatest show on Earth, starring Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Muammar Gaddafi.
 * UN Circus, Hic Sunt Leones, 24/09/2009


 * Speaking frankly, I find it difficult to accept lessons on press freedom from The Times, a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch.
 * Freedom and the Press, Hic Sunt Leones, 3/10/2009