cattolicuzzi Ormai ho iniziato a chiamarli cattolicuzzi, e continuerò così. Mi riferisco a un nutrito numero di figli di Santa Romana Chiesa impegnati a tempo pieno nella politica, nel giornalismo e in attività sociali e culturali. It is easily recognizable characters, since, in general, only write for Catholic publications, organize only Catholic initiatives and often only involved in these, and not always take the visible signs of Catholicism in the activity of their respective parties and associations . It really makes me want you to repeat them the immortal advice of St. Josemaria Escriva: "lorsignori could make us the courtesy of being a little 'less Catholic'?
Unfortunately, after the end of the CEI presidency of Cardinal Ruini, the impression is that cattolicuzzi have now taken off, and that will be difficult to retrieve them, preventing their progressive drift.
Finally, these friends of ours have occurred in the forces - and disgusted with the dainty little finger raised - after the revelations about the so-called
"If Ruby" . The outrage came cattolicuzzo even undermine the participation of Prime Minister
last National Conference on the Family in Milan. Despite the fact that in the Cav. was not even a guest, but the landlord.
In my opinion - let us now - the premier
did not present themselves very well, just as Pope Benedict XVI at the time was right to not go on a visit to Sapienza University of Rome, after the disputes. In both cases, I thought the case to give any satisfaction to our friends cattolicuzzi pagan counterparts, we could precisely define "laicuzzi", which we wallow in certain situations.
But other than that, you can accept the idea that the role of Catholics in politics is also and above all to raise the finger, to demand from other moral consistency and integrity of life? It is already easy to see that certain claims are advancing much more to Berlusconi that all other politicians, and this should be immediately evident to anyone Bazzichi the world of media
with minimal knowledge of the facts and intellectual honesty. While the very fact that they seem not to notice, denotes that the cattolicuzzi are, at best, with very little antibody compared to media propaganda. The newspaper
Avvenire, the official voice of the Italian bishops, is always distinguished by the sobriety with which it selects and presents the news. A fortiori, therefore, one should expect from it the best balance in judging the conduct of private
premier . Possible, then, that even excellent journalists in these texts do not evaluate these cases ever get the chance to sit in silence, bearing in mind that any sigh that appears on their pages, it can be interpreted antiberlusconiano, it is immediately revived and amplified
other media to become a kind of running from a typhoon to hit the Vatican on Palazzo Grazioli? Or do they know, and do it on purpose?
The mechanism is tested to operate too much in the opposite direction, as evidenced by the fact that criticism all'anticlericalismo Gianfranco Fini, also appeared on Future
were revived only by the press center. It is also true that the ethical implications of
"case Montecarlo" were essentially ignored by
Future as well as from the rest of the world cattolicuzzo.
So, a fortiori, it would be pertinent to note greater care, as well as impartiality in judging the behavior of politicians, if you do not want to go for sectarian although it had?
But the point is not so much. The real problem is that the Catholic world has no convenience nell'ostinarsi do not own the lesson of Benedetto Croce, according to which morality, for a politician, is not in his private habits, but in being able to achieve this it promises.
persist in requiring politicians also the personal integrity and simplicity of life, however, first effects of unbearable hypocrisy, double standards and easy manipulation. But above all, leads the participation of Catholics in Public Life end in the most trite - and irrelevant - moralism. A little 'as it is in Anglo-Saxon countries, where religious sentiment is of significant importance in determining the choices of voters, but the public role of organized religious communities, as such, tends to be practically zero.
In Italy, by contrast, would be needed now more than ever that the Catholic Church also participated as an active political life, and find himself in this sense, cohesion and unity of perspectives.
The Christian Democratic Party is guilty of enormous historical responsibility, but it has outdone itself in having prevented that Italy came out from the list of Western democracies. Now, if it were to go down the
Berlusconi's leadership in the long run the risk may be more or less the same. Not because it can be said a Communist dictatorship, but because the perspective is that of a return of the worst political practices of the First Republic, with the aggravating circumstance of institutional chaos.
So, it would be wrong to assume that the Catholic Church is again, as he did in 1946, the responsibility of guiding the people of Catholics, by a single policy and strategy defined.
writer has always had a mistrust of the laity who engage in public life only after permission of the parish priest or bishop. Political freedom, from which follows a natural diversity of orientations and choices of belonging, is a fundamental value for the faithful laity. But the moment is that they can not afford to abandon them to themselves.
Meanwhile, Catholic lay people although they can not always expect to be backed by the Church hierarchy, they have the right not to be confused by this. And above all, have the right not to feel increasingly isolated, if not contradicted and discouraged when they try to enforce Catholic values \u200b\u200bin public life.
the very least, if you really want to be tied to a setting a bit 'moralistic of the relationship between Catholics and politics, it would be an urgent need to help the faithful not to be duped dai
media , come invece sembra accadere per tanti cattolicuzzi in buona fede. La coscienza dei fedeli va rispettata, ma anche orientata.
Ora, è comprensibile che il sentimento dei cattolici meno smaliziati rimanga scandalizzato, di fronte allo stile di vita libertino del
premier . Quindi, è comprensibile che certi politici abbiano sentito il bisogno di farsene interpreti. Ma appunto, se si vuole che i cattolici rientrino nel gioco della politica come un soggetto autorevole, intanto bisognerebbe aiutare il popolo di Dio a orientarsi e a porsi certe domande. Tanto per cominciare, si potrebbe insegnare loro a chiedersi – faccio solo un esempio astratto – se sia più grave per un politico darsi a private partying with young women, or refuse, for reasons of form and power, to sign a decree that would have prevented the killing of a disabled person.
So, if you really wish to delve into the morality of political opinion, you just can not escape certain distinctions, since otherwise it is all too easy to expose themselves to criticism of being exploited, inconsistent, uncertain, and therefore ultimately irrelevant . The cattolicuzzi in good faith (which are not all but many do), it seems certain refinements of the political debate does not even come to suspect. Then, a fortiori, it would be to the shepherds guide the action. There has always said that the consciences of the faithful should be oriented? Well, why should not this apply to politics, putting aside the morality and indignation easy to turn the rake?
Unfortunately, it seems that after the disappearance of Cardinal Ruini, the part of bishops there is even a certain pleasure in wanting to avoid entering an active actor in the national political game. Certainly the episcopate suffers its own divisions and his disorientation. And in this context, it is not easy to interpret this decision to take over by the CEI to the Holy See issues concerning the relationship to Italian politics, which marked the beginning of the respective mandates of the cardinal Bertone and Bagnasco. If it was
a strategic choice to avoid breaking up and drifting to the left of certain sectors of our bishop, then the intent was more than understandable. But this way of abandoning himself to the people of God in Italy, and let the media
prevail in politics and the uncertain direction of cattolicuzzi and moralistic, and those who manipulate them in the easy game, can lead to an outcome only : the progressive political irrelevance of the Catholic Church in our country.
This is very frustrating for those who would like to continue to engage in public life in keeping with the great political tradition of Catholicism (and not moralism penny, let alone with the old practice Democrat). Among other things, it would be interesting to know what it really means when Cardinal Bagnasco, as is the case for some time, keeps saying that Catholics must get back to engage in politics.
Once again, the stakes are much higher than it may seem. I do not think in the long run the disappearance of the political presence of Catholics as such, in Italy, would be a good deal for anyone. Not only because of the ethical dimension of public life, but also for the existence of acceptable conditions of political freedom for all.