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bravo, brava Church. With the base in revolt against the indecency of the ever new prime minister, is too important to do business with him right now, since the sessuomane is in a state of weakness that require support, in return for which they must make many small sweeteners. Unmarried couples, homosexuals, abortion, living wills, adoption by single persons, fresh money to private schools ... all hypocritical in the cauldron, and the Church goes to cash dividends, turning a blind eye on the scandals of Berlusconi, and the horrible consequences of its policy on the country. In the middle, as usual, there we are, that counts for nothing. The polls are bad, we think the church to straighten out everything.
Pope thunders against abortion but is silent on the ruins of Italy by Benedict XVI
no consideration on the events of B, but a cardinal admits: "Silvio Berlusconi embarrasses us." Also tight-lipped on the situation Libya
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The silence of the Pope before the ruins of Italy. It is one thing that makes an impression. Why does the Vatican know. What is happening in Italy with his prime minister is not comparable to any Western democratic country. And no nation would be accepted.
days ago I crossed the walls of the Vatican and have been to find a cardinal. There was talk of the upcoming beatification of John Paul II and the situation of the Church. Then, by itself, the eminence boarded the Italian situation. "With this history of women - he says - Berlusconi has exceeded all limits." Pause. "It puts us in a quandary because we can not approve." Cardinal develops his thinking. "Beyond the numbers real or supposed to give donations to these women, in a time of crisis like the present it would take more sober, more honesty."
has done well, the President of the CEI Angelo Bagnasco, the cardinal continues to demand more decency. "Another - the eminence followed - would leave his seat to a different political, perhaps to be better defended. Not him. " A sigh: "There is no alternative. All ministers are dependent on him. Ah the DC! If one did not work, there was always another one ready ... Fanfani, Moro, Rumor, Colombo. " The Cardinal looks before him and concludes: "The situation is difficult. Fini is over. The symbol has the future, but it does not. I wonder if it succeeds at a Third Pole? ".
is not the only one. In the Pope's many mini-states include the severity of the crisis, Italian, screwed in a massacre of every rule in order to defend the indefensible.
Catholics seek leave to intervene. I am also aware that the intolerance of the CEI Berlusconi to every rule of balance of power and control of legality is systematic and relentless. Cardinal Bagnasco said he was "appalled" publicly for "conduct contrary to the public decorum" that you are seeing.
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on this threshold, the Church is responding. Benedict XVI spoke on general ethical issues: abortion, stem cells, the end of life, unmarried couples, funding for Catholic schools. But it does not address the crucial step of this country, whose history in the Church as a people is deeply involved. Recently the Pope spoke to condemn abortion and warn that therapeutic abortion is a "serious injury" to the moral conscience. The doctors, he added, must defend the woman from the 'deception' of abortion presented as a solution to family difficulties, economic, health. But the disease
Italy Benedict XVI is silent. Clerical support the more angry (mainly secular) that "those who protest against the Pope's intervention on ethical issues, are now demanding that intervenes against Berlusconi." Positions typically emerge in the letter of the readers of Future. It 'a false claim. In a democratic state (the recalled French President Giscard to Pope John Paul II) is that Parliament legislates. Free Members Catholics, the Catholic mass media, Catholic associations to make their own battles. It's not up to the Church leaders to organize a referendum or parliamentary move.
But here we are in the presence of one of the many political battles. Bankruptcy Berlusconi - a zero in the revival industrial development in the financial protection of families, in contrast to unemployment and precariousness, in the fight against corruption, where foreign policy is considered "comedy" - are the Italian political and social forces to have to be measured. Without a little help.
But a broader question, a crucial issue is before the eyes of all. To save himself Berlusconi is ready to undermine the constitutional system, disrupting the process, sanction information, attack the Consulta, insulting the work of Parliament. Everything to brutally assert his claim to immunity. And immunity "personal" Bossi is now talk with the usual brisk manner.
Wojtyla e l’Unità d’Italia. Questo passaggio storico interpella anche la Chiesa. Venti anni fa, con l’esplodere del secessionismo leghista e i rischi di disgregazione dell’Italia, il Vaticano si trovò dinanzi ad un nodo storico di eguale rilevanza. Papa Wojtyla, sensibile come polacco al ruolo della nazione, intervenne incisivamente. Agì perché il cattolicesimo si schierasse per l’unità del Paese (e ne sono un riflesso le iniziative del cardinale Bagnasco e il preannunciato messaggio di Benedetto XVI per i 150 anni dell’Unità), lanciò la Preghiera per l’Italia, indirizzò l’Osservatore Romano su una linea rigorosa. Il giurista Carlo Cardia ricorda in una recente pubblicazione come in 1996, during the so-called "Parliament Po", the Observer listed the moves one by one disintegrating Lega: the call for tax resistance and civil disobedience, the paramilitary, the creation of a "government" secessionist. Until the conclusion of the Pope's paper: "We are well beyond the provocations. It is no longer the issue of the North or South ... Here there is now a matter of Italy. "
is this realization that is not seen in politics today - speaking up - the Ratzinger pontificate than the Italian one another. Of course if Benedict XVI looks only Tg1, if it relies solely to review printing of the Secretary of State (which in February of 2010 censured the controversy against the alleged instigators of Felt Vatican document on the false Boffo), if it continues not to receive people from different backgrounds unlike Wojtyla, who had guests for breakfast and lunch, is unlikely to feel the vibrant pulse of events, looking only to Italy through the lens of its officers and employees of the relationships that come on the table. It should be the Secretary of State to assist him. But from time emerges in political strategy of the Holy See is a lack of systematic way. Especially in the international arena.
precise intervention of the Pope or important documents such as the Synod on the Middle East alternates in phases in which the Papacy is absent or marginal on the international scene.
is happening so in recent weeks with the riots in the bloody conflict in the Maghreb and Libya (though the Observer amply documents the events). The Pope, as leader of one of the three great monotheistic religions, have much to say about a bank with which the comparison is inevitable, while the Arabs are looking for a new statehood. Instead, his voice can be heard. And if there is a vision, not transmitted.
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