Pasquale Borgomeo

Pasquale Borgomeo SJ ( born March 20, 1933, Naples, † July 2, 2009 in Rome ) was an Italian Jesuit priest and journalist. He became known as a general manager and director of Vatican Radio.

Life

Pasquale Borgomeo studied philosophy, literature and theology. At the Sorbonne, he received his doctorate with the literary work L' Eglise de ce temps dans la predication de St. Augustin. In 1970 he became Head into the editor at Radio Vatican. In 1983 he was program director; In 1985 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the General Manager and Artistic Director. As part of its media activities Borgomeo also represented the Vatican at the European Broadcasting Union. In 2005 he went into retirement; his successor Federico Lombardi.

2005 was Pasquale Borgomeo, then director, and Roberto Cardinal Tucci, former chairman, was sentenced by the Supreme Court to Italian a ten-day sentence for the installation of transmission towers carrying high to electromagnetic radiation of the transmitting equipment at Santa Maria di Galeria; The sentence was suspended on probation. In the second instance, however, they were acquitted of charges of excessive radiation exposure in 2007.