Sergio Zavoli, with his death, leaves an enormous legacy of journalistic competence and human discretion. In his life, he had the opportunity to know and hang out with Don Luigi Di Liegro. As Zavoli recalls in a 2002 article for the monthly magazine Jesus, “I had him among my dear and precious people: to consult, among other things, for my journalistic activity. At the time when I directed Gr1, and then as president of Rai, he was often close to me with generous sensitivity”.
In the article, the journalist resumes his interview with Don Luigi, dating back to 1993, which he defines as "a sort of cry that shakes our consciences. His life itself was ending with the century – writes Zavoli of Di Liegro – He had made it one, determined to brandish the signs that our time, amid great and even atrocious controversies, entrusted to determined men of good will to defend it."
Zavoli quotes a passage from the interview, highlighting the "prophetic words" of Don Luigi, which defined our society and the contradictions of the civil fabric, as "A gargantuan banquet during which the guests devoured everything possible, without paying attention to who would come next".
It is worth rereading that interview today, “because it testifies to his spiritual and human, ethical and civil wealth, but also – states the journalist – for its prophetic power”.
Read the article by Sergio Zavoli with the interview with Don Luigi Di Liegro.
