Remember my friend Angelo Bertani that in the '80s, among other things, there were those who "dressed in a sailor, who the evening went to Via Veneto, and who read The Italian Church and put the country .
says that taking a cue from the beginning of paragraph 6 of the last lecture of the Cardinal Bagnasco, verbatim, reads: "In a document of our Bishops published thirty years ago and had a great reception in his time (The Church Italian and prospects of the country, 1981), it was said incisively: Consumerism has sapped all ".
And he does mention that the quote from that document has ruffled a lot of antennas (ohibò!).
I remember on my part and that publication took her "considerable enthusiasm" , says Bagnasco. But I also remember how little he had resonance in our ecclesial communities, to the detriment of what the bishops themselves wished to in paragraph 38: "These considerations and these guidelines (...) will stimulate reflection responsible for parishes, vicariates, dioceses, including the local associations and movements ". But not even all!
and subsequent years will be even worse. I always use the words
dell'Acate Bertani: "are mentioned in a number of perfectly how, in the 90s, the document circulated in semi-clandestine form in some specific sectors of the People of God as he had become impossible not to see him say in a speech quoted the head of the Italian bishops, but even buy a copy in bookstores Catholic. How those who had the original in the house with a thousand precautions lend to people who asked for photocopies, on how you read and to discuss in some interminable meetings after dinner, with the competence and the subdued tone of real commentators Carbonari ".
Because the document was the strange fate? Disappeared from circulation because it is ... and not talk about it more? Yet it was a small sample of just 28 short pages, and without notes.
Some answers I mix for the head. One is of a church and it's all Italian, the other is political and concerns that our local and international, then there is also a cultural character that has to do with the ... Pamela, Bobby, JR, Bim Bum Bam Drive.
I'll be back to talk about it in the next post if I feel like.
Meanwhile remember that the contents of that document were "vivid" , to quote Bagnasco, that is clear, obvious, effective and, therefore, uncomfortable, especially for power, for all the powers (in fact, those mentioned and other yet).
I remember them a few.
→ "With the 'last' and the marginalized, we can all recall a different kind of life. Demolish, first, the idols that we made: money, power, energy consumption, waste, tendency to live beyond our means. Then rediscover the values \u200b\u200bof the common good, tolerance, solidarity, social justice, co-responsibility. Renewed confidence in the plan with the future on the line of peaceful co-existence of an internal and open cooperation in Europe and worldwide. And we will have the strength to face the sacrifices necessary, with a new zest for life. " (No. 6)
→ "The priority commitments are those that concern the people are still without essentials: health, home, work, family wage, access to culture, participation "(No. 4).
→ "The country will not grow, if not together" (No. 8).
→ The press, radio, television, theater, cinema risk degenerating into "tools of manipulation, of instability and conflict, lack of communication, even contempt for the popular reality, as in the case of the spread of pornography and challenge intolerance and violence "(n. 8).
→ "The primacy of man at work, the primacy of labor over capital and means of production, the primacy of the universal destination of goods on private property "(n. 27).
→ "Not on a misleading and unfair to accept the arms race to lay the foundations of international cooperation, but the right of all men and all peoples, particularly those who are slaves to hunger, disease, exploitation and fear, to exist, to decide to work and live with us "(n. 11).
→ How the Church "is not close ranks to face the world" (n. 16)
→ "First and foremost is to ensure the presence of a new Church. And that presence has an unmistakable style Gospel: that Christ, the Church is in the world, is for the world but not of the world. Hence the purification of our behaviors, returned to freedom from claims or worldly compromise, to witness the Gospel in its purity and integrity. "(No. 17) →
" There is first of all to ensure presence. Absenteeism, the refuge in the private, non-white delegation is lawful to anyone, but Christians are sins of omission "(n. 33).
→ "We know that not necessarily the one faith, Christians must derive the same programs and operate the same policy choices: their presence in the institutions could legitimately speak in plural forms. "
→ The laity are defined as "active and responsible subject of a story to do in light of the Gospel, recognized and supported to develop, with the proper autonomy, their human and Christian resources to serve the country" (No. 23) .
seems to me that there was enough to decide the premature disappearance of the document in the wonderful 80 years of 'Milano to drink' and in the early '90s, long before then crackling standardization, centralization of decision-making desperate attempts to save the impossible, the power to the power, to initiate a new economic creed and new worlds of television that depicted by attractive colors. And ... of Catholics progressively silenced and profoundly ill-prepared to understand what was happening and unable, therefore, to interpret and govern the new.
However, a copy of the document I have and I keep jealously. If anyone is interested is made available live via email. Stefano Gentili
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