The newspapers and TV newscasts today gave a clear representation, I would say plastic, the paradoxical situation in which the relationship between church and state in our country. I choose the three things that best sum up the situation: the Pope's address at La Sapienza, the statements Ruini sull'Angelus next Sunday and the statements of Mrs. Mastella.
Benedict XVI's speech is, as usual, extraordinarily lucid and very useful to understand what animates the Catholic Church today (visible from at least fifteen years, ever since he came to life and has spread what he called the CEI " Project cultural, "a new Catholic presence in modern society). The calmness of the arguments, but also the look of long perspective that characterizes this pontificate are the main features of a speech that although criticism is not the return of the Holy Inquisition, but ... ..
He could have said something different? Of course not, because contrary to what you think of a better band Italic superficialoni the Church today is not the same as a hundred or two hundred years ago. But since you have to go to the substance of things, beyond the smoke of controversy, we can not say that the Pope's speech did not represent (again, could not be otherwise) any attack secularism or democracy.
against the substance of the facts was unfurled before our eyes a true festival of hypocrisy, on one side with a bunch of idiots (the definition is Cacciari, and this time I agree with) those who are not protesting because against the words of the Pope, but because they have asked for the complaint. On the other directed, masterfully conducted by the Catholic hierarchy, the controversy is that the coupe du Theatre to give up being here and what is below. Mind you, I instead of Benedict XVI, Cardinal Bertone say ... sorry, I have decided the same thing, that I would not have exposed the Papacy, not so much aggression, regarding the possibility of a clear dispute of his thought in a public venue such as the University in the City as "Papal" in the world. He reiterated, this is, to stop a campaign of cultural influence on modern scientific thought and that this papacy has opened in grand style. But you can not deny that the choice of leaving home, the Pope took the extraordinary effect of passing the same as the "victim". We had read articles and phrases literally raving about the alleged censorship Catholic thought in our country will suffer when the reality is completely different (data center listening radical son them 'a certificate). The lie more evident in the pieces we read of the Vatican reported that a unanimous interpretation of the Vatican's choice: the hierarchy would have chosen in this way because the Italian institutional leaders have been slow to take a stand for the Pope's Sapienza. What chutzpah to ar filter this subject: our politicians have made the competition to see who declared for the first and most vehement in its solidarity with the Vatican, both right and left, starting with the President of the Republic.
The litmus test that behind the Vatican's choice there is a watchful eye on the size of the Catholic presence in our country that have little pastoral, is contained in the words of Ruini that calls Catholics to the streets Sunday. Mind you, today, the agency stated that it is not a political call, but only to a rally of solidarity (... and his nose gets longer. ...) But regardless of whether it seems to me at least an exaggeration to show solidarity with those who seem always what he wants in the Italian media (wonderful cartoon on Altan Republic ... ...) this is misuse, parademocratico of social and political mobilization of the church of "his troops." We have had a shining example for the referendum on the law of assisted reproduction, with the campaign for abstention, as well as the latest campaign of "moratorium on abortion" I do not know if define more hypocritical and irresponsible.
Certainly this was not the objective that the "bunch of idiots" set himself, but the reality is different, and under the eyes of all: a great opportunity for the Catholic hierarchy to "prove" the minority, the ' exclusion, and to build more strength in those who work for a more binding force of Catholic values \u200b\u200bin our country.
Finally we found yet another unseemly uproar Italian politicians on this subject: the best he has given Mrs. Mastella said that she and her husband (and their party) are being investigated because "Catholics" (sic " ) and that the only thing I really want to do despite being under house arrest is to be in place Sunday Angelus (double sic). I can not but admire the extraordinary consistency of Mastella that (as always, at this juncture) are transparent in their size blatantly instrumental in improperly wield the weapon of faith.
The Catholic Church has now demonstrated an intelligent use, sometimes even aggressive, more unscrupulous of communication strategies to impose their own agenda of priorities in public discourse. A modern church, which only understands the mechanisms of our society and use them in unconventional way: it may be my professional bias to give so much importance to the communicative aspects of coexistence in our society, but I would like someone to explain to me whether it is feasible to disregard those aspects and do not ask, we are the first, if the ends justify the means. E 'preach Christ sufficient to justify the lies?
Enzo Cucco
January 17, 2008
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