We are a country under protection?
dress right behind Porta Pia, just steps away from this and when, nearly every day, you walk past, looked up at the plaque engraved above the names of the fallen Italian Army died to liberate Rome from the temporal power of the Pope King, ideally to pay tribute to their memory and make them thanks for letting me be born in a free state, secular and sovereign and not subject instead of the Pope
But maybe I exaggerated optimistically with adjectives.
Free? Secular? Sovereign? The
is indeed our country?
On paper, yes certainly think so and its citizens, but to provide more attention and even so, it seems clear that the three adjectives I used prove sadly disproportionate false, inadequate, false and misleading.
Unfortunately I fear that even one of these can properly be applied to our country and our state, as well as its architects would have liked, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour, and on different fronts and different ideologies, devoted their lives to pursue this common objective.
I purposely left out the fourth character, Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of Italy, who felt so "the first king of Italy" to want to continue to be called Vittorio Emanuele II.
"Free Church in a Free State" was the motto of continuous Cavour His beliefs, his main idea.
of this idea, unfortunately, only the first part is fully realized, while the second has never done, except for a brief period, too short for you to consolidate, happy time interrupted by the unfortunate and the Lateran Concordat 1929.
Since then, the Italian state has ceased to be totally free, but it has become a state "under protection", under the protection of the Church, of course, that using fireworks now evident, devious and hours underground, eats heavily in our internal affairs.
He always did, indeed, but today, in the presence of an inept political class and unable to defend their prerogatives and freedom, it becomes even more openly and contemptuously, set himself the role of impartial judge, a spiritual guide, and as such is also a moral and, with a leap of logic that is not new, it also becomes material.
is nothing new. Just think about this for the "investiture controversy" of medieval memory and that he saw the Pope and the Emperor against each other with guns.
times have passed, but have not changed, if the Cardinal Bagnasco, president of the CEI, the Italian Bishops Conference, is allowed to enter a straight leg, at home, expressing, not required, his "authoritative opinion" on personal affairs of our country that concern him at all as a cardinal, who if he speaks from his institutional role, and so it seems, is expressed as a member of a foreign state.
" worrying clouds are gathering again in our country and cause moral distress and dismay in the face of adverse events morally unacceptable and dangerous especially for young people, but also serious concerns for conduct contrary to the public for decorum and lifestyles compatible with moderation and fairness, flaunted by members of the institutions and politics.
Whoever agrees to assume political office should be aware of the measure and sobriety, discipline and honor that it brings, as well as remember our Constitution in Article 54. "
I put the word our out because maybe Cardinal Bagnasco, in a fit of enthusiasm, has forgotten that the Constitution is ours, for us Italians and her, a member of a foreign state.
However, I wonder why we Italians have to continue to suffer, so quietly, so humble, so prone unwanted influence unsolicited, unwelcome, not competent, and representatives of a Church, which is a religion, that self-appointed spiritual authority, and then also individual moral claims and outright autoerige to referee and judge of our personal lives, more or less questionable.
But I did not hear the voice of any political protest, I did not hear the voice of any politician to ask: "How dare you?"
Not being a political and personal interests and then failing to defend or preserve, I do.
"How dare you?"
PS On the subject of immoral behavior, perhaps the Church would do well to remain silent and right these days in the odor of pedophilia scandal because of skeletons in their closets has many, and well hidden.
Domenico Mazzullo