Giuseppe Alberigo

Giuseppe Alberigo (Cuasso al Monte, 21 January 1926 – Bologna, 15 June 2007) was an Italian Catholic historian and editor of a history of the Second Vatican Council that focuses on alleged discontinuities and departures from previous Church teaching.

Giuseppe Alberigo received a graduate degree in law, studying under the German historian Hubert Jedin, under Delio Cantimori in Florence.

[1] Alberigo's most important work was the direction of the editorial initiative Storia del Concilio Vaticano II,[2] but its progressive character did not have unanimous acceptance among Catholics, with critical reviews appearing in L'Osservatore Romano.

The work of Giuseppe Alberigo and the "School of Bologna" is criticized because it supports the hermeneutics of discontinuity, an interpretation of the Second Vatican Council which considers it a crucial event that marks a turning point in the history of the Catholic Church.

[3] Following the presentation of the bill on the "[[:it:Diritti e doveri delle persone stabilmente conviventi |Rights and duties of people living together]]" (DiCo) presented by the ministers Rosy Bindi and Barbara Pollastrini and the criticisms coming from the ecclesiastical hierarchy, on 13 February 2007 Alberigo promoted a public appeal in which he invited the Episcopal Conference of Italy to not intervene in a proposal for an official vote among Italian Catholic politicians.