Antonino Diana

Antonino Diana was a moral theologian, born of a noble family at Palermo, Sicily, in 1586; died at Rome, 20 July, 1663. A famous casuist, he was a consultor of the Holy Office of the Kingdom of Sicily and an examiner of bishops under Urban VIII, Innocent X and Alexander VII.

Harshly attacked in Blaise Pascal's Provincial Letters, notably for his famous legitimation of duels, Diana himself claimed that as a rule his solutions followed the milder opinion. On the frontspiece of his Resolutiones Morales round a figure of the Cross runs the legend Non ferro sed ligno. According to St. Alphonsus and the common opinion of modern theologians, Diana went too far in the direction of laxity.

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia article

References

• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

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