{{Short description|Italian cardinal (1936–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Renato Corti | honorific-suffix = | title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]]<br>[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara|Bishop emeritus of Novara]] | image = Renato Corti.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Corti in 2009 | church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = Novara | see = Novara | appointed = 19 December 1990 | term_start = 3 March 1991 | term_end = 24 November 2011 | quashed = | predecessor = Aldo Del Monte | successor = Franco Giulio Brambilla | opposed = | other_post = Cardinal Priest of [[San Giovanni a Porta Latina]] (2016–2020) <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 28 July 1959 | ordained_by = [[Pope Paul VI|Giovanni Battista Montini]] | consecration = 6 June 1981 | consecrated_by = [[Carlo Maria Martini]] | cardinal = 19 November 2016 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Francis]] | rank = [[Cardinal priest]] <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|03|01|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Galbiate]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2020|05|12|1936|03|01}} | death_place = [[Rho, Lombardy|Rho]], [[Italy]] | buried = <!-- or | tomb = --> | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = [[Italian people|Italian]] | religion = [[Roman Catholicism]] | residence = | parents = | spouse = <!-- or | partner = --> | children = | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan|Auxiliary Bishop of Milan]] (1981–1990)|Titular Bishop of Zallata (1981–1990)}} | education = | alma_mater = | motto = {{lang|la|Cor ad cor loquitur}}<br>('Heart speaks to heart') | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt = }} {{Ordination | ordained deacon by = | date of diaconal ordination = | place of diaconal ordination = | ordained priest by = | date of priestly ordination = 28 June 1959 | place of priestly ordination = | consecrated by = [[Carlo Maria Martini]] | co-consecrators = {{ubl|[[Libero Tresoldi]]|[[Bernardo Citterio]]}} | date of consecration = 6 June 1981 | elevated by = [[Pope Francis]] | date of elevation = 19 November 2016 | bishop 1 = [[Germano Zaccheo]] | consecration date 1 = 16 September 1995 }} {{Infobox cardinal styles | dipstyle = [[His Eminence]] | offstyle = Your Eminence | relstyle = Cardinal | deathstyle = | image = Coat of arms of Renato Corti.svg | image_size = 200px }} '''Renato Corti''' (1 March 1936 – 12 May 2020) was an Italian [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] and [[prelate]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. He was Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara|Novara]] from 1990 to 2011. [[Pope Francis]] raised Corti to the rank of cardinal on 19 November 2016.
==Early years== Renato Corti was born in [[Galbiate]] in the [[province of Lecco]], part of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan|Archdiocese of Milan]] on 1 March 1936. He studied at the seminary in Milan and was ordained on 28 July 1959 by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini (later [[Pope Paul VI]]).<ref name="Crux">{{cite web|title=Italian Cardinal Corti, popular spiritual guide, dies at 84|url=https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2020/05/italian-cardinal-corti-popular-spiritual-guide-dies-at-84/|website=Crux|date=12 May 2020 |access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref> His assignments included serving as parochial vicar of the Oratory of [[Caronno Pertusella]] from 1959 to 1967, spiritual director at the College of [[Gorla Minore]] from 1967 to 1969, and spiritual director of the archdiocesan seminary of [[Saronno]] from 1969 to 1977. He then became rector for theology at the seminary of Saronno. He became vicar general of the Milan Archdiocese in November 1980.<ref name="Crux"></ref>
==Episcopacy== Pope John Paul II named him auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Milan on 30 April 1981 and titular bishop of [[Mauretania#Episcopal sees|Zallata]]. He received episcopal ordination on 6 June 1981 from Archbishop [[Carlo Maria Martini]], with Bishops [[Libero Tresoldi]] and [[Bernardo Citterio]] as co-consecrators. The same pope named him Bishop of Novara on 19 December 1990 to succeed [[Aldo Del Monte]], and he was installed on 3 March 1991.<ref name="Crux"></ref>
In November 2007, four months after [[Pope Benedict XVI]] issued new rules about the use of the 1962 [[Roman Missal]] (see ''[[Summorum Pontificum]]''), three priests in the Novara diocese refused to celebrate Sunday Mass unless allowed to celebrate the [[Tridentine Mass]] exclusively. Corti suspended them.<ref>{{cite news|last=Owen|first=Richard|title=First parish to offer Mass in the Tridentine rite opens in Rome|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4098089.ece|access-date=21 December 2010|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=9 June 2008}}{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Italian bishop suspends priests for insisting on Latin Mass|url=http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=54959|publisher=CatholicCulture|access-date=21 December 2010|date=26 November 2007}}</ref>
While Bishop of Novara, he served terms as vice president of the [[Italian Bishops Conference]] (2000 to 2005)<ref>{{cite web|title=Cardinals created by Francis|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/cardFR1-3.htm#5076|website=GCatholic.org|date=13 May 2020|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref> and vice president of the Regional Bishops Conference of Piedmont. He also held assignments in the [[Roman Curia]] as a member of the [[Congregation for the Oriental Churches]] and the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]].<ref name="Avvenire">{{cite web|title=E' morto il cardinale Renato Corti, vescovo emerito di Novara|date=12 May 2020 |url=https://www.avvenire.it/chiesa/pagine/morto-il-cardinale-renato-corti|publisher=Avvenire|language=it|access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref>
Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation as bishop of Novara on 24 November 2011.<ref>{{cite press release|publisher=Holy See Press Office|access-date=12 May 2020|date=24 November 2011|url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2011/11/24/0701/01687.html|title=Rinunce e Nomine, 24.11.2011|language=it}}</ref> In retirement, he continued to lead spiritual exercises for both religious and lay groups. He lived at [[Rho, Lombardy|Rho]], near the college of the [[Ambrosians#Oblates of St. Ambrose and of St. Charles|Oblates of St. Ambrose and St. Charles]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Diventa cardinale l'ex vescovo di Novara Renato Corti|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2016/10/09/edizioni/verbania/diventa-cardinale-lex-vescovo-di-novara-renato-corti-cdjLpBdUEDP8csQcNJPHkJ/pagina.html|access-date=18 November 2016|work=La Stampa|date=10 October 2016|language=it}}</ref>
Corti was known for his work as a spiritual director. Pope John Paul II asked him to lead his [[Lenten]] retreat in 2005, and at the invitation of Pope Francis, he wrote the meditations used at the [[Stations of the Cross]] at Rome's [[Colosseum]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last=Glatz|first=Carol|title=Way of Cross takes Jesus' point of view to help others carry crosses|url=http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/way-of-cross-takes-jesus-point-of-view-to-help-others-carry-crosses.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119064945/http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/way-of-cross-takes-jesus-point-of-view-to-help-others-carry-crosses.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 November 2016|access-date=18 November 2016|agency=Catholic News Service|date=20 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/2015/documents/ns_lit_doc_20150403_via-crucis-meditazioni_en.html|date=3 April 2015|title=Way of the Cross Led by His Holiness Pope Francis|website=vatican.va|publisher=Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff|access-date=18 November 2016}}</ref>
Pope Francis raised Corti to the rank of cardinal at a consistory held on 19 November 2016. He was given the rank of Cardinal-Priest and assigned the titular church of [[San Giovanni a Porta Latina]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Il vescovo di Novara Renato Corti è diventato cardinale|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2016/11/19/edizioni/verbania/cronaca/il-vescovo-renato-corti-stato-creato-cardinale-xRrCRiRVbCtJDmTn6rsJaO/pagina.html|access-date=19 November 2016|language=it|work=La Stampa|date=19 November 2016}}</ref>
==Death== Corti died in [[Rho, Lombardy|Rho]] at the age of 84 on 12 May 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=Addio al cardinale Renato Corti|date=12 May 2020|access-date=12 May 2020|publisher=Chiesa di Milano|url=https://www.chiesadimilano.it/news/chiesa-diocesi/addio-al-cardinale-renato-corti-319676.html|language=it}}</ref>
==Works== * {{Cite book|last=Platovnjak|first=Ivan|title=La direzione spirituale oggi: lo sviluppo della sua dottrina dal Vaticano II a Vita consecrata, 1962-1996|date=2001|publisher=Pontificia università gregoriana|isbn=88-7652-889-X|location=Roma|oclc=47677772}} * ''Il miracolo sarebbe la santità. Meditazioni sul ministero sacerdotale'' (1999) {{ISBN|978-8838428289}} * {{Cite book|last=Corti|first=Renato|title=Un giovane diventa cristiano: l'esperienza di sant'Agostino: lettera pastorale per l'anno 2003-2004|date=2003|publisher=Paoline|isbn=88-315-2536-0|location=Milano|oclc=955560310}} * {{Cite book|last=Corti|first=Renato|title=La chiesa a servizio della nuova ed eterna alleanza : esercizi spirituali in Vaticano, 2005|date=2005|publisher=Libreria editrice vaticana|isbn=88-209-7700-1|location=Città del Vaticano|oclc=60529003}} * {{Cite book|last=Bianchi|first=Enzo|title=La parrocchia|date=2004|publisher=Edizioni Qiqajon-Monastero di Bose|others=Corti, Renato|isbn=88-8227-168-4|location=Magnano|oclc=971264023}} * {{Cite book|last=Corti|first=Renato|title=Rivestitevi di Cristo: la sorgente e l'alimento della maturità cristiana: lettera pastorale per l'anno 2007-2008|date=2007|publisher=Paoline|isbn=978-88-315-3360-7|location=Milano|oclc=956001359}} * {{Cite book|last=Corti|first=Renato|title=Fate quello che egli vi dirà: vivere da cristiani nel mondo: lettera pastorale per l'anno 2008-2009|date=2008|publisher=Paoline|isbn=978-88-315-3537-3|location=Milano|oclc=955176246}}
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* {{cite web|url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_corti_r.html|title=Corti Card. Renato|publisher=[[Holy See Press Office]]|url-status=live|archive-date=4 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904070542/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_corti_r.html|access-date=24 October 2017}} * {{cite news|url=http://m.famigliacristiana.it/articolo/renato-corti-pastore-appassionato-consolatore-degli-afflitti.htm|title=Renato Corti, Il Pastore Appassionato Diventa Cardinale|first=Chiara|last=Pelizzoni|date=12 October 2016|language=it|access-date=24 October 2017}}
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