The decision taken by the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg had been widely expected and, in some respects, waiting. In these institutions is substantially catalyze all the worst that secularism has a connotation objectively anti-Catholic and is intended to eliminate, even with violence, the Christian presence in society and even the symbols of this presence.
Others have already identified, especially the Italian Episcopal Conference, the cultural narrowness of this decision, myopia, said the Holy See, but I think it's fair to say that this is a desire to subvert the Christian presence, conducted with a ferocity matched only by the apparent objectivity or neutrality of the institutions of law. But it is also right - as did our old, and we have often forgotten this lesson - that we wonder if we as Christian people, and even I would say as ecclesiasticità, we have some responsibility for this situation. It's always just read in depth if somehow we risked being conniving.
The story of Strasbourg in its brutality is also a consequence of too irenicism through the Catholic world for decades, so the main concern is not our identity, but the dialogue at any cost, get along well with the more distant locations . This respect for diversity of cultural and religious positions, supported the idea of \u200b\u200ba substantial equivalence between the various positions and religions, Catholicism is losing its absolute specificity. Irenicism, an openness, a desire for dialogue at any cost that pays off in the only way in which the secular power always pays these broken attitudes of compromise: with contempt and violence.
is necessary to renew the awareness of its identity, its specificity as a human and Christian event to any other position, and tools to live the dialogue with all other positions, not on the basis of a demobilization of their own identity but as the ultimate expression , critical intensa della nostra identità.
Alla fine risulterà forse una prova significativa, una prova che può formare, una prova attraverso la quale - come spesso ci viene ricordato dalla tradizione dei grandi Padri della Chiesa -, Dio continua ad educare il suo popolo. Ma occorre che il giudizio sia chiaro e non ci si fermi a reazioni emotive ma si legga in profondità il compito che abbiamo davanti: recuperare la nostra identità ecclesiale e impegnarci nella testimonianza di fronte al mondo.
L’avvenimento ha colpito profondamente il Vescovo e la Chiesa di San Marino-Montefeltro; il giorno 12 novembre p.v. alle 18,30, nel Santuario del Crocifisso di Talamello, il Vescovo guiderà una Liturgia di riparazione nei confronti di quello that, objectively, is a gesture of rejection of the Crucified. Meanwhile, in the various parishes throughout the diocese, parish priests were invited to prepare for this moment through appropriate channels.
Pennabilli, November 4, 2009
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Bishop Luigi Negri of San Marino-Montefeltro
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