Joaquín Navarro-Valls
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Joaquín Navarro-Valls | |
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Born | |
Died | July 5, 2017 Rome, Italy | (aged 80)
Alma mater | Deutsche Schule University of Granada University of Barcelona University of Navarra |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, physician, academic |
Joaquín Navarro-Valls,
Background and education
Navarro-Valls studied at the Deutsche Schule in
In 1968, received a degree in
He was fluent in Spanish, English, French, German and Italian. Navarro-Valls died in Rome on July 5, 2017, at the age of 80.[1]
Professional career
Navarro-Valls was a foreign correspondent for both Nuestro Tiempo and the Spanish daily newspaper ABC. Esteemed by his colleagues, he was elected a member of the Board of Directors (1979) and later President of the Foreign Press Association, Italy (1983 and 1984).
From 1996 until 2001, he served as President of the Administration Board of the “Maruzza Lefebvre d’Ovidio” Foundation for terminally ill cancer patients.
Liaison of the Vatican
Navarro-Valls' work with the Holy See enabled him to be a member of the Holy See Delegation to international conferences of the United Nations in Cairo (1994), Copenhagen (1995), Beijing (1995), and Istanbul (1996). His continued work in medicine and journalism allowed him to participate in national and international conferences on psychiatry and/or communication as a guest speaker. From 1996 he was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Institutional Social Communications of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.[2]
Navarro-Valls was particularly important as a press liaison during the last few years of the reign of Pope John Paul II (reigned 1978–2005). This was especially true during the final six months of Pope John Paul's reign, during which time Navarro-Valls' expertise as a physician was important in communicating the pope's health to the press. He was apparently instrumental in bringing a high level of candor to the bulletins which daily informed the world concerning the aged pope's declining health. His own emotional closeness to the pope was apparent as the end drew near.
With the election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI — and with the new pope's approval — Navarro-Valls continued in his post for almost two years.
Navarro-Valls was a member of the Catholic prelature Opus Dei (The Work of God), dating back to 1970, when he lived in the central headquarters with St Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei.
As a
In 1988, he received the Ischia International Journalism Award. In 2007, he was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by the President of Poland.[4]
Published books
- La Manipulación publicitaria. Barcelona (1970)
- La familia y el mundo actual. Barcelona (1976)
- La familia y la educación. Caracas (1978)
- Fumata blanca. Ediciones Rialp, ISBN 84-321-1969-5
Memorable dates
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- 1936: Joaquín Navarro-Valls is born in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain on November 6. His father, Joaquín, is an accomplished attorney. His mother, Conchita Valls, dedicates herself to her five children.
- 1953: Having finished his classical studies at the "Deutsche Schule" in his hometown, he enters the faculty of medicine at Granada. Three years later, he goes to the University of Barcelona. The scientific journal "Actualidad Medica" publishes his first research work.
- 1958: He meets numerary.
- 1961: He receives a degree in medicine and specializes first in internal medicine and then in psychiatry. He fulfills his military service as a doctor in the Spanish Navy, and obtains a seminar scholarship from Harvard University.
- 1961–70: While exercising his profession of internal medicine and then psychiatry at the hospital, he receives two other degrees: in journalism in 1968, and in communication sciences in 1970. He publishes his first non-medical essay: "Manipulation in Advertising."
- 1970: He moves to Rome, where he continues his studies in psychiatry and lives beside Josemaría Escrivá until Escrivá's death in 1975. He publishes two essays on evolutionary psychology.
- 1977: He becomes a correspondent for the Madrid newspaper ABC, covering Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. He is frequently sent as a correspondent to Japan, the Philippines, and equatorial Africa.
- 1983: He is elected president of the Foreign Press Association in Italy, and reconfirmed the following year.
- 1984: Pope John Paul II calls him to reorganize and direct the Vatican press office, the first non cleric to be appointed ever as Director of the Vatican Press Office.
- 1994–96. He is a member of the Holy See delegation to the international conferences of the UN in Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, and Istanbul.
- 1996: He begins to teach as a visiting professor at the faculty of institutional communication at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
- 1997: He is sent as a speaker to the world congress of psychiatry in Madrid.
- 2005: Upon the death of Pope John Paul II, the new pope, Benedict XVI, reconfirms him as director of the press office. He recently received the latest of many honors: an honorary doctorate from the University of Valencia,Universities of Naples and Varese, Italy, and the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya all three of them in Sciences of Communications. Also in 2005 he received the Luka Brajnovic Award[5] from the University of NavarraSchool of Communications.
He then was awarded another two honorary doctorates in Humane Letters
- In the year 2004/05, Joaquín Navarro-Valls was awarded an honorary doctorate from CEU Cardinal Herrera University[6]
- 2006: He announces that he has asked Pope Benedict XVI to allow him to resign (June). His request is finally accepted on July 11, 2007.
- 2007: Appointed President of the Advisory Board of the Rome, Italy.
- 2009: Appointed President of the Rome, Italy
References
- ^ a b "È morto Navarro-Valls, il 'portavoce' di Giovanni Paolo II". Corriere della Sera. Corriere della Sera. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls - Official Web Site Archived 2005-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "The Holy See to the Rhythm of the Tango: The Pope's Spokesman in His Own Words" Archived 2005-07-23 at the Wayback Machine — interview with Joaquín Navarro-Valls by Stefania Rossini (from L'Espresso no. 27, July 8–14, 2005)
- ^ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 5 października 2006 r. o nadaniu orderów". Isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "Premio Luka Brajnovic. Facultad de Comunicación. Universidad de Navarra". Unav.edu. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
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External links
- Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls — official web site
- Interview on journalism and ethics