Centonove
Weekly of Politics, Culture, Economy
N. 11/05/2010 Page 42 of 40
Pastoral border wanted
Francesco Palazzo
that the Catholic church in Sicily anathematizing mafia, is certainly a good thing. The bishops have made in the autumn session of the Conference of Bishops of Sicily, which ended Oct. 27. The question mark is whether they can finally make some progress than that which remains only one, dated, however, beg the question. To put it whole, said today that the Mafia is contrary to the gospel is like pushing an open door. Indeed, a front door. And not much and not only for us but for the bishops themselves. From the site http://www.chiesedisicilia.org/ in the section devoted to the CESI, in fact, the bishops' conference in Sicily, we trace an important document, signed by all the bishops of Sicily, and turned to lay priests, deacons and religious, dated Easter 1994. The title is " New Evangelization and Pastoral - Pastoral Guidelines for the churches of Sicily." It is very interesting sixteen pages, containing a part titled "Mafia mentality and mafia behavior. " Well, in that document, the Mafia is "reiterated the complaint, sometimes expressed as to its absolute incompatibility with the Gospel." The same words that we hear today. Instead, he says more. "The Mafia member, without the possibility of an exception to the kingdom of sin, and makes many of its staff workers of evil." More clearly than that you can not. We had a few months before the killing of Pino Puglisi and almost a year after the cry of John Paul II in Agrigento. The knife is still stuck in depth, exposing the instrumentality of the devotion of certain subjects, stressing that any request or seek mediation through environments Mafia is part of the collusion in this case. Against everything the church in 1994, opposes the power of the gospel that is yes "addressed to persuasion, promotion, and to convert people, but at the same time uncompromising in discounts or naive not to authorize transactions that concerns them badly, anyone to commit or profit from it. " Here again, words gravestones. The section ends with a reference to Pino Puglisi and the need for a pastoral frontier. But, here's the thing, there never was. After sixteen years later we hear the same reprimand against the mafia, the same warning to the Mafia not to use sacred symbols, the same appeal not only to fight the army of ours, but also the culture of cronyism and mafiogena. So, want to be objective, we must say that the stance of the bishops' conference in Sicily today is not news, even though he won the first pages. The cardinal Paul Romeo has announced that several initiatives are in the pipeline that should move in the groove of the messages left to combat organized crime in the land of Sicily from the last two popes. We will see what will flow. Is it possible that, since 1994, if not before, has not put anything in the yard of which today we can do a budget? The argument, as is evident to all, is not strictly pertinent clericale o confessionale. Se davvero la chiesa cattolica scegliesse di scendere in campo contro Cosa nostra, andando oltre le dichiarazioni d'intenti, darebbe un contributo notevolissimo e, forse, decisivo. Proprio per questo non si può sempre ripetere, senza mai passare alle azioni conseguenti, il monito antievangelico contro i mafiosi e farlo passare continuamente come una novità. Cosa che è avvenuta tante volte. Basta ripercorrere lo spazio temporale che va dalla storica omelia del 1982 di Pappalardo, su Sagunto/Palermo espugnata, alla pronuncia dei vescovi di questi giorni. Sulle parole, dunque, ci siamo. Bisogna, una volta per tutte, cominciare ad andare oltre. Restiamo, pertanto, in attesa di queste annunciate iniziative concrete. Sperando not to meet again in a few years, to suffer the stigma next, more bombastic, aversion to gangs. If you really want that holy bibles and are seen as adversaries by the devotees who are part of what our army, the most Catholic leaders who eats copiously from that source, by the people of the villages believer that still subject to individual mobsters and roofing materials ideological, you have to browse the first chapter, and then others followed, a book which, until now, we can not only share the title and introduction.
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