From: diary of a country lawyer
The dress will not make the Monaco, and even the priest, but certainly it is essential to qualify.
one look to tie Don Verzè or Don Sciortino, to understand that their obsessions have nothing to do with Catholic thought. It is now a general rule, men should also bear witness to Christ acting within outward, precluded from doing so at the same time they stop wearing the Roman collar. To understand this, it is not even necessary to cite cases so extreme and extravagant. Since the priests have abandoned the cassock, a look at the quality of their clothing is enough to sense the level of their thinking, even before the open mouth.
For example, the one who celebrated the Mass I attended last Sunday in a resort, wearing vestments too short. Under the hem of embroidered shirts, the horrible sprouting plastic sandals worn with socks. Miserably collapsed on top of both, also could see the bottom of a pair of gray pants too long. If it had not been decorated for saying Mass, he would have realized that this man was a priest only because of the sadness that emanated from those combinations so sloppy and incorrect.
In fact, after reading the Gospel, the celebrant began preaching without ever going beyond the limited expectations that emanate from his clothing. Chanted the words one by one, with a resigned tone of voice and monotone that sounded completely unnatural, as if he was using on purpose to show off humility. By the way, stop in the middle of a sentence, as if trying - unsuccessfully - to create a sense of anticipation in the audience. Although it does not read, his monotonous chant was so precise and that was the suspicion that the sermon had learned by heart.
feeling, I am reminded of a colleague who always told me not to pay the priests, not for what they were saying, but for the way they speak. He wondered if by chance - after the Council - in modern workshops were organized special courses to teach future pastors, instead of Latin, as expressed in such artifact.
At one point, without changing tone of voice, the celebrant came in the midst of his speech. The Gospel that he had recited just before the banquet at which he spoke to invite the poor, the lame and the blind. Thus, engaging in the reading, no longer young priest first started taking it with the French government (without ever naming him) to have ordered the expulsion of Roma irregular, and then went on to harshly criticize the Italian government for the issue of temporary school.
He also developed a truly original thesis, namely that the educational crisis of our young people in schools due to the fact that there would be enough teachers, and the blame is the government that refused to hire them. This to be honest I have not heard, and I have reported below, because at that point I had already risen so blatant, and I had already passed the entrance to the church, and then returned only after the prayer of the faithful. A way as any other, sadly proven too many times to make it clear that I had come to receive the Eucharist, not to hear a speech.
crouched by the door, strangely enough, there was a gypsy insisting alms to everyone who came to hear mass. I do not believe that, consistent with its views on the Sarkozy government, our celebrant - in addition to guarantee her a place to beg - he had regularly housed in the rectory along with children and relatives. But you have to understand: in fact, in the parables of the Gospel who offers banquet is always a king or a wealthy landowner, an image of the heavenly Father. Certainly not a normal padre di famiglia numerosa, una delle poche oggi rimaste, che deve ogni giorno farsi i suoi conti in tasca, per essere sicuro di poter sfamare quelli della sua casa. Insomma, voglio dire, anche i preti comizianti che vogliono prendere alla lettera le parabole devono pur sempre confrontarsi con le esigenze pratiche dell’economia domestica.
Ma a parte questo, l’inatteso comizietto mi ha lasciato addosso un inusuale senso di tristezza, che è durato ancora per qualche ora dopo la Messa. I sandali di plastica avevano fatto la loro parte, d’accordo, ma c’era qualcosa di più. Quel prete, in fondo, non aveva fatto altro che riprendere una vecchia solfa pauperista che, per fortuna, nelle parrocchie italiane sta diventando more and more feeble. On the pulpits of churches are starting to become prevalent that the priests were formed after the post-conciliar Burriana. Therefore, we must recognize that the majority of pastors today limits his forays into politics Sunday to so-called non-negotiable values. Defense of life, family, freedom of education.
E 'right, because these are the real emergency of our time. But sadness salt the same, to see how Catholic thought, which also could benefit from the inheritance of true giants of political thought, today in Italy - and more - is unable to go further.
seems that, compared to the major economic issues, social, political and more closely, particularly Italian Catholics and the clergy no longer have anything to say, and when the IEC attempts to deepen the technical aspects of the issues that affect them, the desire to send them all to work in the vineyard of the Lord's arms is even more devoted to the commentators.
The Church's social doctrine can still benefit of insights of great depth, rooted in the inheritance of scholastic philosophy: the ideal of the person, the concept of common good, the criterion of subsidiarity. But when it gets to the heart of political discourse, Catholics for over two centuries can not translate their enormous inheritance in a very original project. Must always go to borrow the ideas of others, or simply counter them.
The old Christian Democratic Party has lived for decades in the compromise with the Marxists, and therefore - despite the efforts of the PDL in order to present himself as a true European People's Party - in the Italian Catholic liberalism is still a relatively unknown subject.
not only for them to tell the truth, because liberal thought has never really rooted in our political culture. We have always prevailed more or less extreme ideals of solidarity. The Catholics then, not without some reason - having the matrix of our anti-clerical and Masonic revival - have always saw the incarnation of the liberal idea worst selfishness gospel.
Here, unlike in the Anglo-Saxon world, the great Catholic commentators of modernity as Tocqueville and Lord Acton have never done school.
All right, we must add that, in recent times, the statement of the League and the People of Freedom is returning justice to the creativity of Catholic authors, such as Rosmini, Gioberti and Cattaneo, who had been left on the margins of our first Masonic Renaissance, and then Gramscian hegemony and the advent of the "democratic Catholicism."
But it is still things that we can only repeat in the meetings of studies, certainly not the values \u200b\u200bthat have won people's hearts. Today, the thought "theocons" - the United States has a mass following and enjoys the almost exclusively Catholic thinkers - from us has not taken root. A political project like that of David Cameron on the "big society", even today, in Italy it would be difficult just to think about. Imagine, then, that it would be possible to involve ordinary citizens.
There is the presence of Catholics in political and social liberation to be close to Communion, which is closer to this model, and the results it gets are far from negligible. The impression, however, is that it is still in motion side, which respond only to themselves, and do not involve the whole body of Catholics in society.
The great mass of the faithful who attend Sunday services are still imprisoned by the discourses of the priests pauperistic badly dressed, or the sermons a bit 'whips and overindulgent the majority of parish priests. Hardly the interpreters of thought of the Italian bishops, which are also divided on the fundamental political choices, they can go beyond the requirements - however urgent priority - the so-called non-negotiable values.
on social and political Catholics still go to the trailer of a solidaristic now exhausted, and re-propose the old patterns. Yet, almost twenty years after disappearance of the Christian Democrat model, perhaps the time would be ripe to start the drive to find something more concrete, it can become a great project for Italy.
the laity must move first, of course, but must also move the hierarchy. Until the banks of the good press, the door of the parishes will continue to dominate certain magazines obsessed with Berlusconi, which also cares very little for the faithful, it is impossible to talk back to the original and authentic participation of Catholics in national political life.
Moreover, if the most vital movements Catholics, who are committed not only as volunteers but also in the business world and labor, will continue to be so self-referential, the situation will not change.
Episcopate must overcome its divisions and knows how to marry an original political project. A key idea for the Italian company that does not put more - as happened in the fifty-Democrat - as a continuous pursuit of secular ideologies of modernity, and even the best.
And then, it is urgent that the hierarchy ecclesastica learn to deal with the media with the authority and uniqueness that today require any political leader: useless argue that politics and its language are not included duties of the Church, because è comunque intollerabile il modo fazioso e superficiale con cui oggi il mondo della comunicazione stravolge sistematicamente le prese di posizione del Papa e dei Vescovi sui temi politici e sociali. Così come lo è la disinvoltura con cui esso attribuisce al mondo cattolico, se non addirittura alla Santa Sede, le esternazioni più o meno allucinate dei soliti due o tre porporati in cerca di pubblicità, per non parlare di quelle dei già citati pretazzi in giacca e cravatta.
I presupposti culturali e filosofici per un simile progetto non mancherebbero di certo. Basterebbe solo ritrovare unità, superare i vecchi schemi e ritornare alle fonti della dottrina sociale cattolica. Quel che non ha voluto fare la DC, e quello che (anche per colpa di quest'ultima) non è ancora riuscito a fare Berlusconi, e cioè radicare nel tessuto sociale del Paese quel partito liberale di massa che l'Italia non aveva mai avuto, potrebbero ancora farlo i Vescovi.
Se solo sapessero guardare oltre, e magari, tanto per cominciare, ci liberassero dai preti con i sandali di plastica.
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