LA SCUOLA CATTOLICA. — Journal of religious sciences, published under the auspices of the Pontifical theological faculty of the Milanese Seminary at Venegono Inferiore (Varese), founded in Milan in 1873 by a group of Lombard priests who had already been students of the Roman Pontifical faculties (F. Sala, G. Zocchi, D. Albertario, A. Agliardi), with the support of Msgr. BALLERINI, PAOLO (v.) who had founded and directed from 1841 to 1856 l'Amico cattolico, whose legacy S. C. was to take up.
Its first director was the then bishop of Pavia, Msgr. L. M. Parrocchi; he was succeeded by: in 1877 L. Nicola, in 1888 C. Brera, in 1902 (when S. C. became the organ of the theological Faculty) P. Calchi Novati and D. Minoretti, in 1906 G. Nogata (a period of splendor and opposition), in 1912 C. Pellegrini, in 1915 G. Tredici, in 1922 A. Bernareggi, in 1931 (at Venegono) C. Figini, and in 1948 G. B. Guzzetti. Until 1880 S. C. had a predominantly apologetic character, defending the First Vatican Council, with the programmatic motto: «With the pope above all, at any cost», and with a regular political section written by D. Albertario, subsequently continued until 1890 by D. Panizzi. From 1891 to 1901 S. C. bore as its subtitle e Scienza italiana, having merged with this periodical, directed by G. Cornoldi S. J., formerly «the organ of the Philosophical-Medical Academy of St. Thomas», and it also published articles on the natural sciences (by P. Maffi and C. Gaffuri) and sociology (by G. Toniolo, F. Meda, A. Mauri, etc.). Upon passing to the theological Faculty in 1902, it dropped the subtitle and assumed the character of a high-level popularization of the religious sciences, with emphasis on theological and philosophical subjects.