Dolindo Ruotolo

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Dolindo Ruotolo (6 October 1882, Naples, Italy–19 November 1970, Naples, Italy) was an Italian Catholic priest. His beatification process was opened and he is thus titled a Servant of God. Ruotolo has been recognized as an advocate of spiritual practice called the "spirituality of surrender". Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner, has cited Ruotolo's personal devotion as an inspiration. He 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 ("A very grave danger for the Church and for souls. The critical-scientific system in the study and interpretation of Sacred Scripture, its disastrous deviations and aberrations"), for which he was censured by the Pontifical Biblical Commission. 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". Ruotolo authored a ten-thousand page Bible commentary, La Sacra Scrittura, which on 20 November 1940 was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books. While it is historically accurate that Don Dolindo Ruotolo's 33-volume biblical commentary La Sacra Scrittura was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books on November 20, 1940, this action must be understood within its proper historical and theological context. The subsequent rehabilitation of both...