(LifeSiteNews) — LifeSiteNews fans who attend this year’s Rome Life Forum will have the opportunity to meet Bishop Marian Eleganti, OSB, in person.
Bishop Eleganti, 70, who served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Chur, Switzerland, from 2010 until 2021, is one of the most anticipated speakers at this December’s event in the Eternal City.
The bishop was the Abbot of St. Otmarsberg Abbey in his native town of Uznach, about 56 miles south of Zürich, from 1999 to 2009. Today he is much in demand as a writer and speaker. LifeSiteNews readers will be familiar with his many spirited and learned articles defending the Catholic faith from post-conciliar innovations, most recently “synodality” and the spread of LGBT ideology within the Catholic Church. Unafraid of the critique of brother bishops in the German-speaking world, Bishop Eleganti recently joined Bishops Strickland and Schneider in public penance in reparation for the sacrilegious LGBT pilgrimage to St. Peter’s Basilica.
In an interview with LifeSiteNews at this month’s Catholic Identity Conference, the Swiss bishop spoke candidly and with authority about the controversy.
“Reparation is important. God is justice and truth; He is not only mercy. [God doesn’t] take this wound and say, ‘Forget it, everything is alright,’” explained Bishop Eleganti. “[Abomination] needs an equilibrium because behind everything is God’s truth and His justice, so it needs reparation.”
Attendees at the Rome Life Forum can expect such plain-speaking from the bishop in person this December. Other speakers will include clerical sexual abuse survivors’ advocate Rachel Mastrogiacomo; the founder of LifeRunners, Dr. Patrick Castle; traditional Catholic priest Father David Nix; and LifeSiteNews’ own Editor-in-Chief John Henry Westen alongside new Chief Operations Officer Paul Smeaton.
It is certain to be a wonderful Advent event for warriors for faith, family, freedom, and the right to life, hosted in the four-star A. Roma Lifestyle Hotel, steps from the beautiful park of the historic Villa Doria Pamphili. For more information, please see the Rome Life Forum 2025 website.
