Director of Human Life International’s Rome office since July 2015, following in the footsteps of HLI’s former director, Monsignor Barreiro. A diocesan priest and professor in Rome, Italy, he was ordained a priest in 2009. He also teaches at both the Angelicum and the Rome program of Catholic University of America. He says that the root of fatherhood is the desire to transmit what’s been given to you. That’s life. And if you don’t want to transmit that Life, obviously you will have a contraceptive mentality. Born in France, Father Francesco Giordano’s mother is French, his father Italian and American. He lived in South Africa next, where he first learned English, then grew up largely in the United States, spending eighteen years there before moving back to Rome in September, 2005. After receiving an MA from the University of Chicago, Father Giordano went to Rome and met Msgr. Barreiro, went to his masses, liked his homilies. “Many times, I had dinner with him Sunday evenings. That’s how I learned about Human Life International. Used HLI’s bioethics library. Back in 2006. I was later offered the HLI position at Rome’s pro-life march in 2015.” He had just completed his doctorate in systematic theology from Santa Croce University in Rome.

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