1. John Joseph Navone was born in Seattle on 19 October 1930, the son of Giacomo "Jack" Navone and Juliet Micheli Navone.
23 Facts About John Navone
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At the time of his birth, his father was not yet a US citizen, so Navone has dual citizenship in the United States and Italy.
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John Navone has five siblings: Joseph, James, George, Helen, and Catherine.
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John Navone received his primary education at St Anne School.
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John Navone transferred to the Jesuit Seattle Preparatory School for his senior year, graduating from there in 1948.
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John Navone matriculated at Seattle University his freshman year before entering the Jesuit novitiate of St Francis Xavier at Sheridan, Oregon on 14 August 1949 and studied there for four years.
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John Navone received his master's degree in philosophy from Gonzaga in 1956.
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John Navone began teaching biblical theology at the Gregorian University in 1967, spending his career in that department.
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John Navone taught courses in theology of history, narrative theology, and the theology and spirituality of beauty.
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John Navone made significant and relatively early contributions to the discipline of narrative theology.
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John Navone entered the Society of Jesus in 1949 and was ordained in 1962.
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John Navone was in Rome for the final years of Vatican II and was acquainted with many of the participants, including the observers from the Church of England.
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John Navone was keynote speaker at the Anglican clergy conference at St George's House, Windsor Castle, England, Dec 4 to 8,1978.
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John Navone addressed the 50 Anglican priests daily on "Communicating Christ", a subject which is the title of his book published in 1976.
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Father John Navone developed a friendship with author Gore Vidal during his years in Rome.
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John Navone, who is an American, said the findings were meaningless without a clearer definition of religion, and he strongly contested the suggestion that Italian people were not spiritual.
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John Navone said some of the most "obnoxious" people he knew profess to be religious, and some of the most religious were those who did not pretend to have the answers.
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John Navone said many American who profess to be religious had a warped sense of religion.
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Shortly after the election of Cardinal Ratzinger to the Papacy, Barry James interviewed Father John Navone and submitted the article containing the following quotation to The Australian:.
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Reverend John Navone said the choice of the Pope's name taps deep into the roots of European culture and probably was intended to refer to Saint Benedict of Nursia, the 6th-century founder of the Benedictine Order, which preserved Christian civilization and writing through the Dark Ages.
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Reverend John Navone said the new pope, who has written a book about Europe, was determined to restore Christian doctrine in a continent where congregations are abandoning the church en masse, even if it means a smaller and purer church.
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Reverend John Navone said the conclave's decision was the most dramatic affirmation of the role of the German Church since the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Reverend John Navone said German thought brought a profound theological tradition to the Church, but that the pope "has probably the best sense of history and culture" of all the cardinals.