La Scuola Cattolica
A journal of religious sciences, published under the care of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of the Milanese Seminary in Venegono Inferiore (Varese), founded in Milan in 1873 by a group of Lombard priests who had been students at the Pontifical Roman faculties (F. Sala, G. Zocchi, D. Albertario, A. Agliardi), with BALLERINI, PAOLO (v.), who had founded and directed from 1841 to 1856 *L’Amico cattolico*, whose legacy the *Scuola Cattolica* was to inherit.
The first director was Monsignor L. M. Parrocchi, then bishop of Pavia; he was succeeded in 1877 by L. Nicola, in 1888 by C. Brera, in 1902 (when the *Scuola Cattolica* became the official organ of the Theological Faculty) by P. Calchi Novati and D. Minoretti, in 1906 by G. Nogara (a period of brilliance and opposition), in 1912 by C. Pellegrini, in 1915 by G. Tredici, in 1922 by A. Bernareggi, in 1931 (in Venegono) by C. Figini, and in 1948 by G. B. Guzzetti. Until 1880, the *Scuola Cattolica* had a predominantly apologetic character, defending the First Vatican Council, with the programmatic motto: *«Col papa sopra tutto ad ogni costo»*, and a fixed political column by D. Albertario, later continued until 1890 by D. Panizzi. From 1891 to 1901, the *Scuola Cattolica* bore the subtitle *Scienza italiana*, having merged with this periodical, directed by G. Cornoldi S.J., formerly the "organ of the Accademia filosofico-medica di S. Tommaso," and also included articles on natural sciences (by P. Maffi and C. Gaffuri) and sociology (by G. Toniolo, F. Meda, A. Mauri, etc.). In 1902, upon passing to the Theological Faculty, it dropped the subtitle and assumed the character of a high-level dissemination of religious sciences, with a predominance of theological and philosophical content.