Eugenio Corecco
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Eugenio Corecco (3 October 1931 – 1 March 1995) was a Swiss
Biography
Son of Peter, born in Bodio and Margaret Beffa of Airolo, he was ordained priest on October 2, 1955, studied in Rome, at the Pontifical Gregorian University to Munich, where he received his PhD in canon law and Fribourg, where in 1969 was appointed professor of canon law.
In 1982, shortly before the publication of the new Code of Canon Law (CIC), exhibited his critical comments to
Active in the pastoral, from the years 1960-70 he worked in Switzerland for the spread of the ecclesial movement of
The April 29, 1992, he founded in
He died on March 1, 1995, as a result of a rare form cancer, and was buried in the crypt of Church of the Sacred Heart in Lugano.
Thought
About Charity
"Whatever should be the nature of the industry and its interventions in the social field,
About Canon law
"...all the laws of the Church and finally appear first of all as an expression of faith of the People of God, and not only of reason abstractly understood." (Eugenio Corecco, Pamplona 1976. In "Siate forti nella fede", AA.VV., p. 347ss.)
See also
Notes
- ^ "Eugenio Corecco". Diocesi di Lugano e carità: dalla storia uno sguardo al futuro. Caritas Ticino. 1993. p. 206.