You want to build a continent of independent Christianity, and in some cases against
We anticipate that large parts of the report Archbishop president of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, held in the afternoon of Oct. 28 in Rome's St. Pius X Hall of the path of conciliation, as part of the meeting "a Christian Europe?" organized dall'Elea to which involved the president of the Foundation Italianieuropei, Massimo D'Alema.
Rino Fisichella
is important to remember that there are principles which form the basis of every civilization that condition and determine the development, survival or destruction. Three in particular are commonly accepted: the culture, religion and law. It is to be recognized in every society and culture in the aspects that the specificity in comparison with other, this part of the language, traditions, art and its various manifestations and everything is doing and thinking and personal social. Religion, for its part, brings the answer to the fundamental human way of life. In humans, there is something that transcends it, an "infinite" he himself experienced in all atto della sua esistenza personale e che non può reprimere. Infine, c'è la legge; quell'insieme cioè di disposizioni che regolano la vita sociale e consentono di identificarsi in un sistema di pensiero e di comportamenti che si fa garante della giustizia, del bene e del male. Proprio questo ultimo principio provoca a comprendere quanto fondamentale sia la relazione tra i tre elementi descritti perché non avvenga che uno contraddica l'altro creando di fatto un cortocircuito tale da mettere in crisi un sistema di vita e di pensiero.
Ciò che si sta verificando in Europa, purtroppo, mi sembra essere proprio questo cortocircuito che impedisce una circolarità comunicativa tra i tre principi descritti, con la conseguente condizione of permanent crisis in which we are engaged. What strikes one is obviously a highly paradoxical situation. At a time when Europe lived on shared values, had a strong identity that made it easily recognizable despite the territorial boundaries. In recent years, however, are killed while the boundaries that were supposed to create a unity, that which can be observed is the proliferation of differences, the rise of extremism and fragmentation dominates to such an extent as to erode any possible unity.
One has the impression that everything in this unification process is already fixed and determined by an elite of people, without direct involvement of citizens who are the first attori. Aver voluto escludere le radici cristiane non è stata una bella premessa ma l'oblio delle tradizioni in cui i popoli si riconoscono può diventare una colpa perché parte dal presupposto che il nuovo da costruire si deve imporre con una rottura con il passato.
Non si può pretendere di suscitare un senso di appartenenza a una nuova realtà come l'Europa distruggendo l'identità che i popoli si sono costruiti nel corso di secoli. Pensare che una moneta unica possa dare identità o che lo scambio di studenti con il progetto Erasmus crei il senso di appartenenza è superficiale. Questi sono strumenti, validi e utili, ma devono essere fondati, accompagnati e sostenuti da un progetto culturale rispettoso delle differenze e in able to make a new synthesis for the original, otherwise everything becomes uniform language, art, architecture, literature, politics, economics.
In this way the city is tired, she closes in on itself and lose enthusiasm. If this is happening, I fear also depends on whether you want to build an independent Europe by Christianity and, in some cases, even against. Yet, Christianity is a requirement for coherent understanding of Europe. Religions for Europe can not all be equal. We are not in a dark night where everything is colorless. The primacy of reason, conquered over the centuries, can not flatten out right now with an egalitarianism by quicksand che impedisce di dare voce alla forza critica. Questa è chiamata a discernere tra le religioni e a scegliere di riconoscere le proprie origini e l'apporto ricevuto.
Insomma, abbiamo il compito di produrre pensiero che sia capace di gettare le fondamenta per un'epoca che darà cultura alle future generazioni permettendo loro di vivere nella genuina libertà perché proiettati verso la verità. È questo pensiero che manca e sinceramente non lo vedo ancora all'orizzonte.
Come ricordava di recente Benedetto XVI, "il mondo soffre per la mancanza di pensiero". Il dramma, probabilmente, sta tutto qui. Se manca la forza del pensiero non si può pretendere alcuna progettualità e tutto diventa monotono fino a giungere asphyxiation. Who is responsible for planning, especially for a new anthropology capable of projecting a new model of society? Certainly not to a single group.
This is the moment of all forces to make synthesis of the heritage of the past to interpret it in light of the achievements that characterize our time to pass it on to generations who come after us. The short circuit occurred because the three components of civilization have embarked on a lonely road and in many ways, because they played only in defense or attack, without realizing that no one can live without the contribution of others.
We must not, therefore, repeat the mistake of the past in designing il nuovo che prepariamo come una rottura con il passato. Non è così che la storia progredisce. Non è emarginando né esorcizzando il cristianesimo che si potrà avere una società migliore. Non potrà avvenire. Una lettura come questa non solo è miope, ma è sbagliata nelle sue stesse premesse. Non ci sarà una formazione di identità matura né per i singoli né per i popoli se si prescinde dal cristianesimo. Certo, la nostra storia è costellata di luci e ombre, ma il messaggio che portiamo è di genuina liberazione per l'uomo e di coerente progresso per i popoli. Il fondamento di un corretto rapporto tra la ragione e la fede lo si deve al nostro pensiero che non ha mai voluto umiliare la ragione, ma ne ha fatta una indispensable traveling companion. It is difficult in a phenomenology of world religions see an equally balanced relationship between the two components as in Christianity.
For our tradition fides quaerens intellectum is provided in order to reach every man and woman in the world in that fundamental equality which is given precisely by rationality, whose contents are accepted by faith but also with its process purification.
is from this positive relationship with the reason that you avoid conflicts and excludes all forms of fundamentalism, the expression of a fragment of truth made absolute without considering the contribution of the other. For us it is not. The truth we think is given by way of revelation, but has entered history through the incarnation of the Son of God and this inevitably makes it subject to the progress and behavior until the end of time. Moreover, it is the conception of the salvific value of truth that allowed Christians to make it universal conquest and not a price to the market. Likewise, the concept of forgiveness as an expression of love that can go beyond the offense, is what has shaped generations of people and allowed us to verify a deeper brotherhood and solidarity.
The concept of marriage that Christianity has brought as unique relationship in mutual love has been able to guarantee against the arbitrary justice that humiliated the helpless woman, and the strength of the interpersonal relationship as the glue of society. And the search for the common good, respect for the dignity of every person, it derives from the concept of the person which Christianity has produced as his contribution to the heritage of humanity from the fourth century?
Respect for life, especially against the innocent, weak and helpless is a further sign of the presence of Christianity in the social fabric that has allowed us to achieve extraordinary insights into the assistance that remain unchanged as milestones for the company .
not move forward no birthright on a number of achievements that have been accomplished over the centuries and which mark the history of these twenty centuries, we do not wish, however, that others are coming impossessino even to deny our originality and our contribution. If we remember these facts and many others may lengthen the list, only to insist that Christianity is not a hindrance to the progress of society, but his status as a genuine development. How should this happen we are reminded once again the originality of our own faith. Secularism, we are all jealous, is nothing but the application of the Lord's words: "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's" (Matthew, 22, 21). Secularism, as more and more often in recent years is given by check, not exclusion of Christianity, but listen to what it can offer as its distinctive contribution. Accept or decline it will be a choice that the legislature should weigh carefully, not to a possible handful of votes at the end of term, but for the good governance of public affairs for the global and cultural education of generations to come. A law creating a culture of follow-up. Just this should be considered in this historical moment in which we can already see the consequences created by certain laws. The company has improved? Young people have found greater commitment and responsibility in society? The work has become una forma di realizzazione? La famiglia si è rafforzata nell'impianto sociale? La scuola è palestra di vita? L'ammalato è una persona da rispettare e non un peso per il bilancio? La vita nel suo insieme è rispettata? Questi interrogativi non sono retorici, dare risposta è obbligatorio.
