Vittorio Messori

According to Sandro Magister, a Vaticanist, he is the "most translated Catholic writer in the world.

[citation needed] He was warned against priests by his mother, who often said that the Church was "only a pub.

"[citation needed] The schools he attended imparted an equally secular culture, and when he enrolled in the faculty of political science at Turin, all the teachers there taught "a radical, impenetrable agnosticism.

Even though I had never attended Church, even though I had never studied religion, I found that my perspective as a secularist and agnostic had become suddenly Christian.

[citation needed] They regarded his conversion as "a psychiatric crisis, a depression, a mistake," with the result that, as Messori says, "they abandoned me and finally disowned me.