After his traumatic experience in the communist compulsory military service (narrated later on in The Gordian Knot), Bădiliță followed for two years the courses of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest, having as mentors personalities such as Cornel Mihai Ionescu [ro], Florea Fugaru, Ioan Pânzaru [ro], and Pan M. Vizirescu, the last survivor of the Gândirea magazine.

He taught ancient Greek language and literature at West University of Timișoara, before he settled in France in 1995, together with his wife, Smaranda Bădiliță, a specialist in Philon of Alexandria.

The jury included Monique Alexandre, Jean-Noël Guinot, Jean-Claude Fredouille, Enrico Norelli [fr], and Olivier Munnich.

In 2001, he started to collaborate with New Europe College in Bucharest, by organizing an international conferences on John Cassian and another on the fathers of the church in the 20th century.

He actively participated in the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 and the organization of Golaniad protests at University Square, Bucharest (1990).