ROME – Explains that “today, there is a need for a more Europe”, speaks of Italy as “first in line” but “too alone” in dealing with the drama of the migrants, focuses on the crisis of work, the discomfort of flexibility and the risk that young people depart from our Country: “We are strongly concerned that the heritage of the capacity and ingenuity of our people is forced to emigrate”. The prolusion by cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, to the permanent Council of the Cei, as usual, revolves around the themes of greatest interest. Including the story of the (pseudo) satire French Amatrice: “How can we not rebel in front of the lack of sensitivity and respect expressed by the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo the victims of the earthquake?”, the thunder of the president of the Cei. “We – in the name of our people – we ask: is this the society we want, where we think we feel good, together, in solidarity, at home? This is what we mean by freedom? Thus there is nothing of so deep and sacred – even humanly speaking – that should not be mocked by a few "enlightened"? The collective consciousness is called upon to respond clearly, high and indignant”.
Referendum
The cardinal, among other things, she also mentions the referendum, without getting carried away, but with an indication of the principle clear: “The Country is expected to be an important event, the Referendum on the Constitution. As always, when citizens are called to express themselves by exercising their sovereignty, and we invite you to inform yourself, in order to have clear all of the elements of judgment about the game and its lasting consequences”.
Europe
But it is the Old Continent at the centre of reflection of Bagnasco. “More than a lot of poor desperate people who knock at the doors of the continent, Europe should not fear the change of way of thinking that we want to impose from the outside. The Pope has often warned by the “colonization” in the act, which he calls “the single thought”: it wants to force you to think in the same way, with the same criteria of judgement over good and evil”. Is this is a theme dear to the president of bishops: “to Campaign in an obsessive way certain styles of life, to inculcate the principle of pleasure at any cost, to exalt the “goddess of fortune” and the game instead of the taste of duty, of work, of honesty; to insinuate the annoyance of the ties, if these don’t satisfy, dreaming of a perennial youth, to push us to search for evasions continue from real life, not to sustain fidelity to the commitments of the couple, family, work… all this connotes a mutation of cultural alienates the person from itself and from reality, flattens on everything all at once, imprisons her in an exaggerated individualism, propagated as freedom”. After the “brexit” the English, however, “seems to begin to see some early glimmer of consciousness of what should be the foundation of the european house for culture, which has built, Europe, in its variety”, he adds. “Over the centuries, in spite of conflicts and wars, a common feeling affirmed, inspired history, and civilization”. So Bagnasco concludes: “The will to homologate the visions profound in the life and behavior is not the way respectful of a European Union that is harmonious and supportive, but rather an arrogant re-founding continental nations badly affected, where christianity is considered “divisive,” why don’t she sings in the chorus preset. Marginalize from the public sphere, christianity is not intelligent; it is not to understand that the company can have of the good.”
work
Passing to the Italian situation, the analysis of the president of the Cei is dry: “our parishes are witnesses of as the poor people continue to shall trouble you to keep yourself and your family. We increase the distance between the rich and the poor; the same middle class is increasingly sucked in by the scarcity of primary goods, the work, the house, the food, the chance of cure. With hope, we hear the reassuring declarations, and the measures in the study or in the act; but the people can not wait, because the concrete life runs every day, tearing apart the flesh and the spirit. Confidence in the future decreases, the adults who have lost their jobs are miserable, or desperate, many young people – who often show genius and surprising capabilities – are rassegnando and cling to parents or grandparents, unable to have a life of their own”. Not missing a beat in sweeping on flexibility: “No one can have illusions about the state of discomfort or despair, is linked to unemployment or the uncertainty: the theory of flexibility – which can have its reasons – casts the person in a climate that is fluid and unreliable. We ask those who theorize are not the first to be well assured on the floor of their work and, perhaps, of his own heritage?”.
Terrorism
with regard To the terrorist attacks, the pro-life movement draws the line of Francis: “These abominations are masquerading in a cloak of religious in order to credit a “war of religion”, but – as the Holy Father reminds us – we must not fall into this trap that aims to unleash a global conflict. Terrorism serves not only the fanaticism of groups, but also of the social, and, above all, of spiritual emptiness and cultural heritage of not a few young people in the west that, paradoxically, they often seek a reason to live in a perverse reason to die. As always, the arms dealers, oil or power, speculate in the darkness of the business and locations of gold.”
Burkini
Among the ethical issues, the cardinal focuses on the euthanasia of a child in Belgium: “All of this happens without departing from the basic principle, the inviolability of human life always and anyway: if it falls this principle the individual will pass from the subject to observe the object to have. Who decides the border line between the legitimate and what is not in matters which are essentially ethical, that is, precede each state? The State should be amoral?”. And also talks about the “burkini” which had attempted to prohibit on the beaches of france: “In line with a policy that already the second Vatican Council had made clear in terms of principle, the Board of the French State that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights stressed that the limitations “of the manifestation of religious beliefs, including the choice of clothes, are only permissible in very limited circumstances, such as security, order, and public health or morals’”.
September 26, 2016 (change from 26 September 2016 | 18:10)
© REPRODUCTION RESERVED
No comments:
Post a Comment