the inaugural card. Angelo Bagnasco, president of the CEI, at the 62nd General Assembly of the Italian bishops, which opened on 8 November in Assisi.
Published on Italian Catholic Action (http://www2.azionecattolica.it)
"Politics should be of interest to Catholics, and must get into their mindset to think of the attitude questions politiche senza spaventarsi dei problemi seri che oggi, non troppo diversamente da ieri, sono sul tappeto”. È uno dei passi salienti della prolusione del card. Angelo Bagnasco, presidente della Cei, alla 62ª assemblea generale dei vescovi italiani, che si è aperta l’8 novembre ad Assisi. Il cardinale esorta i cattolici ad adottare in politica “un giudizio morale che non sia esclusivamente declamatorio, ma punti ai processi interni delle varie articolazioni e responsabilità sociali e istituzionali”. “Famiglie in difficoltà, adulti che sono estromessi dal sistema, giovani in cerca di occupazione stabile anche in vista di formare una propria famiglia”: queste, per il card. Bagnasco, le “situazioni that continue to be felt, "in times of crisis. Hence the request that "the reform agenda are to be instructed in useful ways," to ensure "greater stability for the entire country." Regarding the "political stage", the president of the CEI speaks of "the fall of quality, which is weighed objectively, without discount and without manipulation, if you really have to care about the fate of the country, and not just those of their part ".
Too Late to float. "If people lose confidence in politicians, inevitably withdraws into itself," the admonition of the card. Bagnasco, who recommended a policy "Necessary tension between personal ideals, values, objective and real life, and they are profoundly intertwined." For the president of the CEI, "is no longer time to float", because the risk is that the country is divided not so much for this or that party initiative, the trend for deep passing through Italy and that, once part of Europe, they could leave behind the other party. That would be fatal for Italy, just when it wants to remember - 150 years after his unit - the goals and benefits of a mature national consciousness. " The President of the CEI and then asks the "examination of conscience" and proposes to "convene at the same table the government, political parties, trade unions and social partners, respecting each his own role but leaving aside what divides, prepare an emergency-level employment."
Without an inferiority complex. "To expect that Catholics circumscribe their support in the context of charity always important - reiterated the President of the CEI - means end in a utilitarian view, even when not authoritarian. Catholics can not surrender to aphasia, ideological or tactical deliveries if they did betray Jesus but also the specific expectations of each participatory democracy. " "We move without an inferiority complex, "the exhortation of the card. Bagnasco, "We are, and how interested in the life of society, it involves us in it with reasonable style, but determined not to have the instinct to the masters nor the logic of mere opposition." Hence the invitation to respond to the "conformity": "If believers only know the words in the world, and do not have the occurrence of different words and coherent, will be approved or believed that the dominant culture, and will ultimately be culturally irrelevant, "said the president of the CEI, that called for saving" the autonomy of the believer's consciousness to the pressures Advertising, for the short-sighted reasoning, the indifference to the enticements. " Christian "uncomfortable"? Sometimes maybe yes, but "not to pose or injury suffered by the humble, quiet consistency."
values \u200b\u200bare not negotiable. As for the style to be adopted in dealing with politics, the president of the CEI has said that experienced with "happy outcome" in the recent Social Week of Reggio Calabria. Another sign of the "increasingly aware" of the "lived" the political dimension of our churches, schools of socio-politics of the past 20 years, whose experience is necessary "in the near future" question to assess how "to foster spiritual growth and cultural demand for those who want to serve in the form of politics, and so prepare young people to exercise the leadership that can hardly be improvised." The indispensable reference for anyone who wants to spend ourselves into politics as a Catholic, he reaffirmed the card. Bagnasco, are those "non-negotiable values" mentioned by the Pope and that "belong to the DNA of human nature:" Without a real respect for these values \u200b\u200bthat make up the first life ethics is illusory to think of a social ethic. " The non-negotiable values \u200b\u200bare, moreover, "the bond which may from time to time to give expression to political unity of Catholics, wherever they are confined by their political option. "
education and new media. The last part of the lecture is devoted to the theme of the pastoral guidelines of the IEC for this decade. In Italy, for the Cardinal, we're not there yet "to defeat a real education," but the record indicates to us "disturbing episodes that give the perception of how deep the abyss in which the human soul can fall." A significant number of married couples and families - a sign of a connective tissue that holds society "- show that" it is not impossible the enterprise, but education is also a matter of "environment" and "realism" Christians must engage in "imperious skepticism these days falsely cheerful and carefree". Finally, the president of the CEI is "necessary for deeper reflection and honest" about the "mechanisms" of the "frontier miraculous" new media, where the "race to the audience did reach levels of exasperation brutal", with young people to hours before the Internet "and adults who" leave drug information from morbid. "
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