Vittorio Messori is an Italian journalist and writer. He was born in 1941 in Sassoulo near Modena in Italy. He graduated on the recognized lycee of Azeglio in Turin. He became a doctor of political sciences by his thesis on the radicals in the 19th century.

At first, Messori was the editor and then the leader of the press office of a large publishing house. For long years, he was the cronist of Stampa Sera , then the editor of the journal La Stampa and the weekly Tuttolibri .

He is a profound explorer of the questions in Christianity and especially Catholicism. His very influential books were Jesus hypotheses (1977), Opus Dei (1996), The Ratzinger Report (1987). He also performed the first book-length interview with Pope John Paul II, published under the pope's authorship with the heading Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994)

External links

• Home page of Vittorio Messori - in Italian.
• Vittorio Messori review of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ".