The deadly embrace between the government and the Vatican singular coincidence, that the "solution" to the circumstances of Eluana, 80 th anniversary of the Lateran Pacts Concordat with attached between the Italian State and the Catholic Church, represented by the Vatican. As the February 11, 1929, Cardinal Gasparri (!) And the "knight" (!) Benito Mussolini signed those agreements, there was talk of "end of the Roman question," pax religious alliance between throne and altar, or even between Caesar and Christ. AND, of course, despite the hard times that followed still (Especially the bitter crisis between fascism and the Catholic Action in 1931), there is no doubt that the Church was a powerful support to the Mussolini regime, although they are not missed courageous priests - some of whom also lost their lives - who tried to animate an underground resistance. Moreover it would be wrong as well as ungenerous to speak of "church" in the block, not being a monolith, but a diverse world including the Pope and his inner circle that holds the reins of command, the Vatican with its structures - financial , political, journalistic, editorial ... -, the local situation, to varying degrees, and the widespread, though less and less convinced "People of God" means "faithful." Faithful who, recent polls say, for what they are worth, are increasingly detached from guidance given by the Holy See and its emanations in various bishoprics, reaching to the parish priests who are to provide, with the Sunday homilies, sermons, who vainly tried to bring fold the lost sheep. The loss, increasing over the years, is becoming a general rush, before the chilling inhumanity of Pope Ratzinger, a figure that, if I were a Catholic, I would look with deep concern that is causing damage to his and mine (if ... I'm Catholic) Church.
Eluana's case, with its sad and inevitable lethal conclusion (never forgive the pope and his minions, lay people and clergy of forced me to rejoice in the death of a person. Or rather, nothing that it remained in the semblance of life) and its coincidence with the ' anniversary of Patti concordatory place us under the eyes, in the passage of history from tragedy to farce, which even today, as under the regime of "leader", we are faced with an agreement between the political and religious power. An understanding that if the short term can bring mutual benefit to both parties, the medium and long term, will ultimately undermine both. Yes. Willing to take an optimistic note today. I have met many believers, I talk with many Observant Catholics, and have not found one that shared the icy words and unable to understand the pain, but also anti-scientific words, gerarachie of papal and church in general. I have not found one that I said, spreading his arms, that the pope was wrong, and that the various company Bagnasco and singer, were showing a terrible lack of understanding and an even more tremendous will, in its ferocity, to persevere in ' Error, the inhumanity in an obscene litany of life which in reality was nothing - nothing is, all issues which, while different from the case of Eluana - have to do with genetics, human biology, its potential and their right to manage their body, and also choose to put an end to their suffering. All indications from the Holy See in these "sensitive issues" (an expression also ridicolissima) were all one after the other, monstrous enemy of science, of the enemy health, enemy of their freedom, enemies of their independence and the ability to review and decision. The pope and his followers, from the Vatican to the Archbishop's headquarters (the majority), now pushed, most often followed, word for word, from the working class government, and in large part, by a majority of the political class, are really the party of the Incarnate death, darkness, ignorance, and perhaps what is even worse, the party of cruelty. But the agreement
government policy / Catholic Church goes further. And the lively Berlusconi, who repeats every other day and one well their praise, and often alluding mainly to the (viagresca) virile power, ready to resort to medical science in the hope of staying alive and healthy for the next five or six decades, leaning to the columns of St. Peter's hoping that they are the strongest of the wrath of a mob that sooner or later, as he took the coins on his godfather Craxi, will awaken from hibernation, and the flood. There are no columns, there are altars, there are sacred images that may serve, when the crowd goes wild. It is not surprising if the arrogance of the politician, who must still defend itself from prison, despite having numerous requirements, pending charges that only a providential law has for now put aside, there really so much to marvel at foolishness shown by the Church of Rome. Where is the clarity of the great personalities of the Catholic charity? Where you are stuck designs to meet, over the fences of exclusionary faiths, with other religions and especially with the vast world of modernity, which is predominantly secular? And where on the other hand, the laity are autoseppelliti / liberals, the secular / socialist, lay / (post) communists in this Country? - This is a question many of us who have long faced, and that, indeed, is one of the strands of MicroMega. And the recent case of replacing Ignazio Marino - a Catholic and a serious scientist, even with political skills - to lead the PD group in the Senate Health Commission is a sign of weakness all'oltranzismo clerical can not worry about that.
Still, some signs of remorse seems to appear, is revealing also some concern within the armies of the Pope is also a former newspaper and ex-liberal-secular as the "Corriere della Sera expresses some alarm, even if a person dangerously approaching to popery in the last years, as Ernesto Galli della Loggia, expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the vision and choices of senior echelons of the Vatican and papal. They go to fight, complaining Galli, dialogue and lay / Catholics is over. Or threat of failure. Well, if Catholics want to become panzer attack against the progress of modern culture, Humanism by Lorenzo Valla to the positive science of Charles Darwin, to the absurd (and inhuman) battles against the progress of research on adult stem cells , know that they will be defeated. And they will defeat their Church. And the respect that the institution must, even for many of its activists who strive always for good causes, and substitute for the work of public institutions that play Catholic structures (think of the policies for the reception of migrants, implemented, for example, an institution worthy like Caritas), than that, alas, it will be all inglorosiamente, lost. But, personally, I only hope that a rebellion within the moral debts to the people of God, which makes them feel to his "pastors" who are they to be wrong. Starting precisely from a Roman pontiff - the German shepherd, of the unforgettable cover of the "Manifesto" at the time of the election of Ratzinger to the throne of Peter - that the claims, declared and repeatedly reaffirmed "infallibility" is much farther than the Earth is from the moon. Unless, of wearing the clothes of the lay-hard secularist, rather extremist secularism, I hope, however, quite the opposite: that, quite simply, this pope-king empires long, and that you place his loyalists in each center of spiritual power of the Holy Roman Church. It will be the best way to undermine and bring it to disaster.
Angelo d'Orsi
