Mario Palmaro, RIP

The noted Italian Catholic writer Mario Palmaro died Sunday after suffering a long illness. He was 45 years old. He had become familiar to followers of the Traditional Catholicism throughout the world for his courageous and principled analyses of the current critical situation of the Catholic Church as it has developed since the abdication of Benedict XVI.

A full obituary with discussion of his works can be found HERE at the “Eponymous Flower.”

Mario Palmaro was just one of the many apologists for the Traditional Church in Italy today. Aside from the great exception of Romano Amerio, the intellectual leadership of Traditionalism previously had resided in France, later joined by Germany. Palmaro, along with his longtime colleague Alessandro Gnocchi, Roberto de Mattei, and many others have made Italy the new heartland of Catholic Traditionalism.