Dear Editor,
return from Social Week of Pistoia and Pisa, Novara delegation as we discussed about what we had lived together during the work. This resulted in some personal considerations that we send a week.
I want to emphasize a fact perhaps unobtrusive but telling of the climate that has breathed: the finding that the vast majority of speakers were academics and that they remember the days when those responsible, to an intervention of Don Oreste Benzi on the recovery of the "street girls", the manager on duty said that Don Benzi was not to intervene by asking a question, but take the side of the speakers.
This dichotomy between relations interesting, dense, high-level, sometimes perhaps too academic, it is felt even more when the end of each conference opened the debate with the delegates (an expression of social Catholicism rooted in the very life of the Italian people), the them with precise and specific interventions will focus on pressing issues concerning the real experiences of our communities and collected applause, sometimes even a little embarrassing for the same speakers.
Plotti Alexander, Bishop of Pisa, in the homily of the closing Mass celebrated in the magnificent cathedral, taking up the theme of citizenship, reminded everyone in a peremptory tone, as in the church there is and there must be citizenship for the "prophets of doom." The Italian Catholics asked to bend the injured in the history of all time, are therefore urged to be witnesses of hope.
Don Mario Bandera
Diocesan Missionary Centre and the Office of the pastoral work
*** Among the many cheers that normally mark the time of the conventions, which to some extent marks the moods and trends and perhaps even " the support "of the participants in the Social Week of Pistoia and Pisa, three were particularly impressed me by duration and intensity.
The first was triggered by the activation of an anonymous participant (can not remember the name!) that the stage has gently chided the organizers of the invasive and exclusive presence of university professors on the stage of the speakers against the unarmed absence of the poor, "and the poor, he wondered, that are the subject of the week and more than other users should be the common good, where are they? Why can not we find ways to give them the word? ".
The second round of applause went to Stefano Zamagni, Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. The rapporteur has involved me for the clarity, consistency and innovative ideas of a relationship, perhaps the most interesting of the Week. "The real poor are young. State and market alone not enough space should be given to social enterprises, social cooperation, while avoiding the danger of philanthropy and welfarism. Insecurity is the new name of poverty and insecurity, and therefore there can be no solidarity without an active presence and participation in productive paths. "
The issue at stake is called "anthropology" and its surroundings, but the vast majority of participants have thought at first to many young people of our community, not just the unemployed or underemployed, disaffected, but also the social and political life, unable to emerge is prevented to immerse themselves in "life that counts." One response, which has supported the applause to Professor Zamagni, was the proposal to "build a deliberative democracy as a positive response all'antipolitica. It should not be afraid of economic globalization, justified as a 'providential opportunity which allows you to make the distant future, "but on the contrary, it is important to build a democracy where the person is at the center but the report is the lifestyle.
The latest round of applause was given to that character, redundant and out of line that is always Don Oreste Benzi: engagingly clumsy in his hand, but very effective in terms of content, a bath of realism in the face of ever-present temptation getting lost in the clouds: "The first enemy of the common good we are." There are many innovations in the words of Don Oreste: prostitutes, toxic, orphans of all kinds, detention and re-offenders are "the court of miracles" of this disturbing priest who reminds us that the common good or even pass through these categories or is it just a matter of right. Going over to him the paths of evangelical poverty is an immersion, an opportunity to read the future of man in the eyes of God, then, Don Oreste, take this last round of applause of the heart!
Don Dino Campiotti
Director Caritas
*** You could say that these major conferences are a bit 'like Rai "more of everything ...." Even in Pistoia and Pisa, said he was a bit 'of everything. Touched, as almost always happens, the so-called values \u200b\u200b"not negotiable" such as life, family, person, freedom ...
They then highlighted other "nodes" of major companies, such as the right to housing, work. There were references to peace, disarmament, nonviolence. But the call to these values \u200b\u200bhave been made more from the participants, various representatives of the local working daily in the field.
He wrote the newspaper took place last October 20: "So can happen that a nicely directed "Tuscany" with irony and prophecy, giving the floor one after the other to Don Fabio Corazza of Pax Christi and Don Enrico Pirotta, chaplain .... " Don Fabio has invoked the importance of the rule, according to the Populorum Progressio, the value of gospel nonviolence and disarmament. "The Christian community - he said - should support the economies and policies of disarmament within their territories and to promote a spirituality that values \u200b\u200bthe choice of non-violent." Finally, issued an invitation because "our money has nothing to do with the armed banks." As if to say that these values \u200b\u200bshould be considered "not negotiable ".
Many other interventions have attracted the commitment and testimony credible and consistent on these issues. "A part of the church - said Don Fabio recalling Don Tonino Bello - not worried about signs of power but the power of signs." Sure, the road is still long, even in the church.
The novelty of the dialogue almost surprising or even frightening. Future, by a chronicle of the intervention of Pax Christi and the chaplain wrote, "without the rags fly", denoting a certain awe in front of a method of dialogue and confrontation, albeit from different positions, and is ex- fair, in any case essential for building peaceful relations and should be a common feature in the journey of all days of the Christian community.
Don Renato Sacco
diocesan Comm. Justice and Peace
*** "So it is not this a time of indifference, silence and even of detached neutrality or equidistance quiet ...." I think this quote of the card. CM Martin expresses very well my feelings on his return from Social Week.
was for me the first experience of participation in an important moment in the life of our church and I have participated with great enthusiasm because I believe it is imperative that you put at the center of the pastoral social issues.
Living daily contact with the problems of work and new forms of poverty and noting that affects many families in the absence of work, I appreciated the pope's words in greeting sent to all the participants, when back at the center of the social question problem of job insecurity and work as discriminatory in order to achieve true "common good".
is in my opinion the "good job" or work that puts man at the center, which restores their dignity, which enables you to build a life project in serious and lasting, that as Christians we have a duty to promote . For too long we put aside social issues relegated to the subject of conferences, but not we have never taken as true paradigm of our pastoral action.
It is time for concrete action, that is true to a commitment to denounce the insecurity, exploitation and promotion of the work on a human scale. I was disappointed that it was not in this conference, the reference to the many foreigners who are brothers in our area to find a job and are too often victims of exploitation. Many of them share the same faith with us and I believe that such appointments should also find citizenship. Even so, we can overcome the indifference, give hope to our church and our community together and build the common good.
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Elena Ugazio
ACLI President Novara
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was the first time participating in un'assise as large as the Social Weeks held in Pistoia and Pisa, my involvement is linked to the fact that for years took part in the work of the Regional Commission for the Integrity of Creation, where on several occasions were highlighted various problems relating to the environment of Piedmont.
In fact this aspect, in the broader context of the general theme related to the "common good", was recently treated. Of course, the problems with which we faced were enormous and 360 ° on the socio-economic problems of our country. It must be said, however, that during surgery has been remembered as the "common good" embodies the attention to an issue that is so characteristic as the one linked to the environment, to eliminate waste and waste that our consumer society continues to produce. The same thing can be said when speaking of the water, essential necessities of life. It must be a resource for everyone and not a privileged few. It was also pointed out that Italian public opinion there is little ethical sensitivity on this issue, even at the level of Christian conscience, so that when it causes damage to the environment, this is not perceived in its severity.
The issues that have occurred in the past century to Social Weeks have always touched on topics related to the path of Italian society, the theme of ecology, as a subject appeared only in recent years as an emergency that affects everyone, will certainly have a role forefront of future Social Weeks.
Claudia Sgarabottolo
Office pastoral work
Comm Reg Integrity of Creation
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