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The terminus dell'insignifanza policy - Francesco Butini

"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

18th Invitation Wording

WHERE 'OUR ROOSEVELT? - Publio Fiori

E 'urgent a "new deal" for Italy based on constitutional values \u200b\u200bof political Catholicism.

rid the bankers responsible for the crisis.

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continues in the political scene replicas of a representation made only of personal clashes, power struggles, breakdown of parties and coalitions to individual interests and group. Characterized by the absolute absence of proposals, projects and information on possible solutions to the serious issues at stake. And, especially without the knowledge of the real reasons that underlie the crisis.

We heard on TV so-called leaders of the majority and the opposition: none, I say no one has talked seriously of the real problems and socio-economic situation, and only propaganda, promises, ideological prejudice and even a word on the necessary choices and the major risks facing the future of Europe, the euro and Italy. Not a word about those members of the banking and financial system that are the real culprits for having privileged than speculative investments in favor of the real economy.

The ECB (European Central Bank) and the Fed (Federal Reserve) will continue to issue money to save banks and swept away from the madness of financial derivatives, diverting money intended for productive credit to financial speculation.

There is a strong push from the world of finance to "convince" the ECB to achieve a cash offer of 2,000 billion euro and European governments to cut public spending and that the "state Social.

It 's the path for inflation (in the amount of cash in circulation), deflation (the fall in incomes and consumption), the contraction in public and private investment, the recession, the economy in finance and real triumph of financial speculation with "toxic assets" (derived) continue undeterred in their destructive march.

But by the parties and, more generally, the policy proposals do not come, and what is worse, even the uncomfortable truth that should guide our public and private behavior.

The first truth, for example, is that banks, saved with public money (ie the public) of their choices speculative continue to operate against the public without having been brought against them a necessary "financial cleansing".

The second truth is that the debt of some European countries was held by other European countries in early 2010 of 236 billion dollars for Greece, 867 billion to Ireland, 286 for Portugal, 1100 for Spain and 1,400 in Italy. Because German banks, French and English are the most exposed having acquired most of these debts, a possible devaluation of its bonds would lead to an "effect contagion "in the European banking system (see the note by A. Spannaus 22.12.2010).

None (or majority or opposition) talk about this risk: they keep saying, albeit with different nuances, that the system has held up and that we will soon be out of the crisis. But it is false. Italy, as a small example, for 2011 licenses will expire in about 350 billion euro. What will happen if the increase in interest rates should continue? It is sufficient quell'1% recorded in December to a charge of the state budget and the budget deficit to about 3.5 billion (see the notes of M. Lettieri and P. Raimondi).

Another truth is that the Federal Reserve announced that the U.S. Congress by mid-2008 have been used about 15 trillion dollars in bailouts of banks, financial and investment funds.

Then there is the risk of "financial bubble" from Brazil due to an excess of "consumer credit" that could involve a bank or more European banks (see also note A. Spannaus).

Nobody tells us what the Government has in mind to bring our public debt within the limits imposed by EU, keeping in mind that the public debt of the EU has surpassed the 9000 billion euro.

Because one of two things: either we continue to provide liquidity and to expend public funds to rescue banks and financial institutions forcing states to squeeze government spending, the standard of living and social status, or change radically subjecting banks that caused this crisis to an "administration", reviving the real economy with a policy of large investments in infrastructure, research and innovation.

basically it is only to apply our Constitution where you, Art. 43, "reserve or transfer, by means of expropriation, the State, public bodies or community workers and members of businesses that relate to essential public services ...."

The "credit function" is certainly an "essential public service", so when those responsible for this task should not be doing your duty duty "commissioner" to give citizens the opportunity to take advantage of that function. It 'possible that the policy will continue with this "sale" of popular sovereignty?

Already I seem to hear the protests: "But how, a liberal state that nationalizes the credit ..." I reply with two points. First of all, when under the guise of liberalism creates inequality on fundamental rights, economic and social crisis, rising unemployment, poverty and marginalization are in the presence of a "false" formal liberalism that the word "freedom" hides a project that want to hit the dignity of the person in favor of a financial oligarchy.

Secondly, I understand how it can be called "liberal" with a state funding money from citizens, political parties, newspapers and banks rather than families, unemployed youth and casual workers, public services and social investment. We must urgently decide whether to side with sound economic or financial powers.

course, to go down this road it takes awareness of reality, freedom of conscience, a heritage of values \u200b\u200band courage of strong choices. And in what Catholics must make their voices heard because those values \u200b\u200blike equality, freedom, defense of human dignity and the family to protection of labor, youth, old age, health, environment, salary pension and savings are written into our Constitution and, before that, in the tradition of political Catholicism.

It takes a bold political initiative based on a clear vision on key anthropological and natural rights to a different "lifestyle" and a "new development model." But to do that we want leaderships that, based on a shared ethics, on a recognized moral values \u200b\u200band inspired programs, are credible alternative options to launch consistent with the principles of reference.

Something to remember the courageous decisions of the President U.S. Roosevelt in 1933.

But where is "our" Roosevelt?