From the opening address by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco "In Italy you breathe ..." a clear moral distress. "
why "you need to stop - all - time, clarity and calm expeditiously, and in the appropriate fora, giving heed the voice of the country who asks to be accompanied with vision and effectiveness of venturing, starting from the front of the ethics of life, the family, solidarity and labor. " This, in short, the "inner portrait" of our country, drawn by the card. Angelo Bagnasco, president of the CEI, in the inaugural opening of the Permanent Council, which opened today in Ancona.
The cardinal said he hoped that exceeds our country, quickly and permanently, the convulsive phase in which mixed in an increasingly threatening the weakness of ethics policy and institutional fibrillation, for which the powers will not only look with suspicion but they tend traps in a logic of conflict which has lasted for too many years. " In particular, he stressed, "are increasing reports that conduct contrary to public decency and perform passages - real or imagined - of styles that are incompatible with the sobriety and propriety, while someone asks what is due to the large amount of investigative tools. " In this way, "is the overall balance that is affected in a gradual manner, as well as the overall image of the country."
The life of a democracy - in fact, the cardinal warned - rests on the ability of each of self-limited, ie to keep wisely within the limits of its prerogatives insurmountable. " "Anyone agrees to assume political office should be aware of the measure and sobriety, discipline and honor that it brings , as well as our Constitution reminds ...".
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