Taranto – While international political leaders speak with ever greater ease about the possibility of a world conflict and humanity’s expectations for the future are seriously endangered, local politics talks about a moral question which seems to have many protagonists, interpreters and extras.
Fewer and fewer people are going to vote and young people often appear fearful of the future and unaccustomed to great ideals, dreams and values.
Ours is a humanity in evident crisis, where the very lives of people seem to count for very little and where the community culture, often enunciated, does not find correspondence in real choices. On the one hand, the representatives of the right are the bearers of a culture of sovereignism and nationalism (and war is the clear consequence), on the other, those of the left continue to claim individual rights which do not always go hand in hand with the need to live with others and therefore build community-
As Christians engaged in Politics we wish to try to reflect on whether the culture of Peace, the Centrality of the Person, Respect for Diversity and the need to build community scenarios still represent achievable Values in Politics or are they exclusively pre-political Values valid for the lives of individuals and not for those of the States, local communities, the World. For this reason we have organized the meeting entitled: “ARE CHRISTIANS STILL SERVED IN POLITICS” for THURSDAY 18 APRIL at 5.30 pm in the SALA REMAIN of the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
There will be Monsignor SAVINO (vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference), Graziano DEL RIO (former Minister of the Republic), Ernesto PREZIOSI (national president of Argomenti 2000), Paolo CIANI (national secretary of Demos). Luigi GIORGI (Don Sturzo centre) and Patrizia GIUNTI (president of the LA PIRA FOUNDATION) will talk about two models to inspire them: GIORGIO LA PIRA and GIUSEPPE DOSSETTI.
GIANNI LIVIANO will introduce the meeting.
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