"Catholics Italy, 150 years after "
Beppe Del Colle, a journalist for the Christian Family, recently wrote a book called" Christian by the power of silence. " About the Northern League and its positions in time of national unity, says: "Politicians [Catholics]? It 's a different matter, the usual: Catholic politicians of the right and left behave the same way, ie they share the positions taken by their government allies. This attitude helps to reinforce the general impression that does not count for almost nothing, neither right nor left ".
Yet many Catholic politicians speak, participate, offering, giving interviews in newspapers, appear on television: why all this talk would "silence"?
editorial published in Issue 4 / 2010 of the magazine of the Catholic University of Milan, Vita e Pensiero, entitled "Catholics and politics: where to start," asked if "we leave unanswered any longer the pressing invitation of Benedict XVI to the many places which produces contemporary politics see lean be significant and a new generation of Catholics involved in politics. " Pointing out that "in politics sloth, if not a cardinal sin of which you have full awareness, is an inclination very dangerous and harmful," acknowledges that "we are not at the terminus of the Italian Catholic political insignificance. We will approach, if we continue to consider current and vital controversies within a few decades ago. The Italian Catholicism is far less divided than anyone would like to configure it. "
As reported by the newspaper Corriere della Sera on November 28, 2010, the President of the Lombardy Region, Roberto Formigoni spoke at the conference "Christians in the PDL," organized by the Italian Network (founded by Formigoni with Mr Maurizio Lupi, Mario Mauro, also Catholic). "Today," said Formigoni, "the time has come for those who believe in human values \u200b\u200band subsidiarity, to hear the urgent need to get together. A common house is ideally already arrived from Europe: it is the People's Party. We want to launch today with Alfano and Lease the idea of \u200b\u200ba unitary perspective in Italy linked to the EPP. Please gather in cities all my friends and voters we must grow this strong political initiative capable of restoring hope. "
article published by Father Bartolomeo Sorge in Issue 12/2010 of the Jesuit journal Social Updates, entitled "The structural failure of Italian politics," the director emeritus of the magazine states that "the majority and opposition are crumbling at the same time and in a nearly symmetrical, with the release by the People of Freedom Freedom of movement and the Future of Gianfranco Fini, and the Democratic Alliance for the movement of Italy's Francesco Rutelli. After analyzing "some significant phenomena" in the course of fermentation in the country in search of new political (the new right of Fini, the so-called Third Pole, new forms of active citizenship on the territory), the father asks the question arises "And the Catholics?". "The end of DC," writes Sorge "and the resulting diaspora politics is not at all mean the end of the ideals and democratic values \u200b\u200bin which Catholics have believed and believe, for which they fought and are now called upon to fight. Our country, more than ever, need it. Catholics can not leave the political scene. "
In the open letter to the Secretary of the Democratic Party, writing in Corriere della Sera on 27 December 2010, some Members of the PD (the first signatories Catholics Arturo Parisi and Mario Barbi) recognize that "almost all the words that have accompanied past eighteen years, and guided our path have lost their common sense. Project Democracy housekeeper, major choice, alternative, bipolar, old olive, olive new, primary, democratic party, star party, and especially new party. "
Always with a letter to the Corriere della Sera on 28 December 2010, some parliamentarians and leaders of Freedom and the Future (the first signatory Antonio Buonfiglio Catholic) take to make it known as "Future and Freedom, in accordance with the two core activities, has the ambition to play in the modern Catholic values \u200b\u200bthat are so rife the our shared national identity ", anxious to see their political movement, already accused of" secularism ".
And speaking of "secularism" and "values \u200b\u200b[Catholics] do not negotiable," two days later, on December 30, 2010, UDC President Rocco Buttiglione gave an interview to the newspaper The Nation, and the relationship within the so-called Third Pole between UDC and the Future and Freedom states that "no one can think of using non-negotiable values \u200b\u200bas a tool to get us blown up. We do not want to be an ideological one, which has answers to all: we Fini common responses on 90% of subjects, starting from the strategy to overcome the crisis. Our understanding is based on that. " When asked if it is a burden to live with those who have opposing views on the fundamental values, the President replied that the UDC would be "happy to have a common position with Fini on these things, but if not, the indication is clear: "Patience."
In 2011 we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
In 1961, the Centenary of national unity was celebrated by a Catholic President of the Republic (John Gronkowski) and a President of the Catholic Council (Amintore Fanfani).
Italian Catholics do not feel just have nothing to reproach?
There is a failure of the Catholic presence in Italian politics. As if we did not rise to the occasion. And the fact that many other cultures and admissions policies reflect organized obvious limitations in the reading of the contemporary world and in the proposed government of it, certainly can not console. Or rather, doubles the responsibility of Catholics to the society and the State in which they live.
If it is true that, as is clear from this editorial of the prestigious Catholic University of Milan, continue to consider "current and lively" political disputes between the Catholics recent years, approaching the terminus of insignificance policy, then the tenacious pursuit of a cultural, educational, and political back and serious confrontation between the Catholics of the Italian diaspora of the few would be a novelty for the Italian political system.
This line should, therefore, focus in the coming months, the reflection and the activity of many friends worried about the fate of our country and the role played by Catholics in it.
Source: camaldoli.org
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