Dolindo Ruotolo

Servant of God

Dolindo Ruotolo
Born(1882-10-06)6 October 1882
Naples, Italy
Died19 November 1970(1970-11-19) (aged 88)
Naples, Italy

Dolindo Ruotolo (6 October 1882, Naples, Italy–19 November 1970, Naples, Italy) was an Italian Catholic priest.[1] He is a candidate for beatification and the Catholic Church has granted him the title "Servant of God".[2]

Ruotolo has been recognized as an advocate of spiritual practice called the "spirituality of surrender".[2] Polish Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner, has cited Ruotolo's personal devotion as an inspiration.[3]

Padre Pio said Don Dolindo was a “saint”, that “the whole of Paradise” was in his soul, and once said to a group of Pilgrims from Naples, “Why do you come here, you have Don Dolindo in Naples?, Go to him. He is a saint.”[citation needed] Dolindo called himself “Mary’s little old man.” He lived in such great poverty that his own family turned away from him. He opened his arms without fear to embrace contagious sick people, caressing and kissing them. He offered himself as a victim soul for mankind, and was afflicted with many sufferings, including complete paralysis for the last ten years of his life.

In 1941, Ruotolo, writing under the pseudonym of "Dain Cohenel", distributed to the Italian Catholic bishops a pamphlet attacking Catholic biblical scholarship, Un gravissimo pericolo per la Chiesa e per le anime. II sistema critico-scientifico nello studio e nell'interpretazione della Sacra Scrittura, le sue deviazioni funeste e le sue aberrazioni, for which he was censured by the Pontifical Biblical Commission.[4][5][6] He accused historical-critical methods of being the product of an "accursed spirit of pride, presumption, and superficiality, disguised under minute investigations and hypocritical literal exactness".[7] Ruotolo authored a ten-thousand page Bible commentary, La Sacra Scrittura, which on 20 November 1940 was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books.[8]

Ruotolo had the gift of prophecy, writing to Bishop Hnilica in 1965 that “a new John will rise out of Poland with heroic steps to break the chains beyond the boundaries imposed by the communist tyranny.” This prophecy was said to have been realized in Pope John Paul II.

  1. ^ "XIN MẸ SOI SÁNG CHO MỌI NGƯỜI SỐNG THEO ÁNH SÁNG PHÚC ÂM!". vi.radiovaticana.va (in Vietnamese). 12 June 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b Mady, Ellen (28 October 2017). "Jesus said there is no better novena than this one, and it has only 11 words". Aleteia. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  3. ^ Guzik, Paulina (28 May 2018). "New cardinal says he'll wear the red hat for the poor". Crux. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  4. ^ Stanley, David Michael (1959). "The Conception of Our Gospels as Salvation-History". Theological Studies. 20 (4): 561–589. doi:10.1177/004056395902000402. ISSN 0040-5639. S2CID 157064950.
  5. ^ Stock, Klemens. "I cento anni della Pontificia Commissione Biblica - Pontificia Commissione Biblica". www.vatican.va (in Italian). Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  6. ^ Burini, Marco (18 January 2010). "Pio XII Papa progressista". Il Foglio (in Italian). Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  7. ^ Cohenel, Dain (1941). Un gravissimo pericolo. p. 40. Quoted in Robert D. Miller (27 October 2016). Many Roads Lead Eastward: Overtures to Catholic Biblical Theology. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4982-8471-4.
  8. ^ Robert D. Miller (27 October 2016). Many Roads Lead Eastward: Overtures to Catholic Biblical Theology. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4982-8471-4.