Master Lock Instruction 647d

Introduction to Social Weeks Diocesan VII - 12/14/16 October 2009

Stefano Franzin

's been 55 years since the death of Alcide De Gasperi, for us a coherent and courageous witness of Christian politics, a commitment in writing in that location, social and cultural-oriented social teaching of the Church which was a vital contribution to the construction and consolidation of democratic institutions and the development of our country, Italy.

remember him believe that there is still a live link, that does not make us nostalgic celebration of the end of a season in which, again, there was a fruitful political and social Catholicism, is a thread that now seems very thin, almost dissolved, is undertaking Specifically, passionate, humble, responsible for man and for the community.

"The duty to strengthen the consciousness and behavior of free people, honest and informed democratic choices: we can do resonate in our minds the words of De Gasperi, capturing the vocation to which many have been called in the past and we think can be today. A call to the responsibility and the clear awareness that serve a population also means helping to overcome their egoistic tendencies and the unjust inequalities by giving precedence to the reasons of solidarity.

agenda of hope for the future, economy, politics, work and the presence of Christians, is a title challenge for a historic moment as challenging. The social week brings this heading because, by becoming part of the proposed national trend, we would like to reflect on what went wrong and does not work in key areas of our society, and confront what we can do to jump-start development, not only of 'economy, but the entire society. All this according to the method of "seeing judge to act" and shared priorities, as elements capable of making an agenda.

The work of preparing this Social Week was therefore difficult, not because of organizational reasons, but the complexity of the possible contents and for the moment we are experiencing. There are several issues of concern, both in reference to old problems often that the crisis has helped to unravel further, both with respect to the standstill on the institutions and politics, made more dramatic by a level of conflict that has lost Having regard to the reason and the size of the problems.

In this regard let me say, however, that if it is true that this moment of crisis we are experiencing is not simply economic, but of values, ethics, then we must equip ourselves for decisive change of course, must convert to a new way of interpreting areas of social action, institutional and economic. This new way for us based on the social teaching of the church, we accept a first restoring ethical and cultural shared as possible from which to draw new avenues of work.

The magisterium rejects same areas as areas in which social and political commitment of the laity. Here again we must not linger over whether or not the religious community, and thus its own church, can be expressed as a subject of social and political culture, we must ask ourselves now rather than lay people knowingly fail to take seriously the responsibility to pursue their vocation and social policy inspired by the Christian faith. This does not generally referring to Christian values, or interpretative statement privileged, but in exercising that vocation with the facts because "it is from this that we recognize."

On the other hand, even taking advantage of the stresses of our pastors and laity should fuel more in different forms and opportunities that Catholic social and political risks suffocating definitely caught between a misunderstood church interventionism and the pressures of ethical relativism trying in every way to drive out the private operation and the promotion of those Christian values \u200b\u200bwhich are fundamentally human.