His cathedral is the street, his teachers prostitutes, bums, drug addicts, all those lost lives that are saved souls. Don Andrea Gallo has been a street priest for fifty years, founder of the “Comunità di San Benedetto al Porto di Genova”, which welcomes those in need and those who want to find a point from which to start a new life. With Così in terra, come in cielo Don Gallo tells his personal saga alongside the least fortunate, his disagreements with a Church that he loves and to which he feels he belongs, he dissects with irony and preparation his rebellious positions on issues such as the living will, immigration, the liberalization of drugs, abortion. He, an over-eighty year old who travels in an obstinate and contrary direction and who despite his many merits proudly remains a simple priest, recites the lay rosary of Fabrizio De André, collects the stories of slums and alleys that so closely resemble those of the Scriptures, seeks the historical effectiveness of the evangelical message and kneads hands and heart in the most painful realities, working tirelessly so that this earth becomes heaven. A “priest” priest, anarchist, controversial, much loved.
