CITTÀ DEL VATICANO - Sorpresa. Oscar Wilde, the great writer and poet 800, but also historical gay icon of European culture, make breakthrough in the Vatican. His maxims - provocative aphorisms like "I can resist everything except temptation", or "The only way to get rid of temptation is to surrender to it" - were used as models in a book written by a senior curia to give a jolt to lukewarm Christians and people of good will. A stated goal from the title, "Pro-vocations," and the subtitle, "Aphorisms for a non-conformist Christianity" (Editrice Rogate). The author is one of the closest collaborators of Pope Benedict XVI, Father Leonardo Sapienza Rogationist, assigned to the protocol the Prefecture of the Papal Household. The book contains a thousand phrases moral character divided into 443 sections selected in alphabetical order. Almost a mini vocabulary with the most important maxims Oscar Wilde, along with the thoughts of another author, less known but equally has an undoubted provocative, Nicolas Gomez Davila, Colombian Christian writer who died in 1994. Of the two, to surprise the most is certainly the presence of Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, October 16, 1854 and died in Paris 30 November 1900, just 46 years, who converted to Catholicism on his deathbed after a life excesses and provocations in Victorian England, but also dotted by great literary successes. Although
married with two children, Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor for a homosexual relationship with the young Lord Alfred Douglas. Aspects - the latter - not covered in the book, in which the author prefers to outline "the seemingly paradoxical force" of provocation of the father of "Portrait of Dorian Grey." Wisdom of the Father seeks to encourage the "revival" of certain Catholic circles, because - as stated in the preface quoting Kierkegaard - "Christianity was to be a radical cure, but instead it became one of those remedies that are used against the cold" . Hence the warning of his father Wisdom: "We have to be a thorn in the side" to move people's consciences and to tackle what is now is the number one enemy of religion: indifference. Male particularly feared by Benedict XVI. Thus the Holy See now seems to rehabilitate a figure uncomfortable as Wilde, writer, "an intelligence dazzling - writes Wisdom - author biting, sarcastic and provocative, and some lived perigliosamemte 'scandal, but he has left in its pages mottoes sharp."
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