In these days was published document dedicated to the situation of the CEI the South, a text that has been raised by all the mass media. It 'a document that calls for hope, but it offers an analysis of the merciless situation, a strong complaint, about the evils that afflict the South
The "cancer" of the Mafia - the bishops write -, widespread forms of corruption and lawlessness , "evil mechanisms" or "simply unhealthy" in the administration of public affairs, the inadequacies "in the present ruling classes" paralyze development of the South as "the complex political and economic landscape nationally and internationally" it is turning "in a manifold votes for political and economic designs unrelated to its development. "
are common wear and tear, extortion, tax evasion, labor black. This reveals
- explains the CEI - "a lack of civic sense, undermining both the quality of life in society is that of political and institutional life, again causing a serious injury to the economic, social and cultural." The ruling classes are 'inadequate' ...
In view of the conference Friday afternoon to keep Caltagirone, please read over the document of the CEI, an article published by Joseph Savagnore, which will be the distinguished speaker at the conference and competent .
Because the issue is a study from South
GIUSEPPE Savagnone
The document of the CEI for a united country. Italian Church and the South has been read by many as a strong and clear stance against organized crime. In reality it is certainly that too, but at the same time much more. It is the courageous denunciation of the aggravation existed and, in some respects, a 'Southern question' that seemed long since removed from the agenda of public opinion and political and replaced, attention generally, by the massive of 'northern question'. It is the clear stand in front of the federalist forces linked to it. It is an acute analysis of the roots of delay in the South and its resources. This is the proposal of a strategy - first of all cultural and educational - through which resolutely take the path of redemption. Resume
order, briefly, these indications. The 'Southern question' is no longer spoken, but it has not been resolved, keep the bishops. Without "losing sight of what good has been done in recent years" (n. 13), we must recognize that the nodes of the underdevelopment of the South have not been allayed. Indeed, to the ancient ones have been added in recent years of new, even more disturbing. The document devotes particular attention to migration, which leads many young people to move south to the north or other countries. No longer, as in the past, poor laborers without any other equipment that their workforce, "Today's professionals are primarily medium-high to constitute the major category of new immigrants. This changes the characteristics of Southern society, depriving it of its most important resources and causing a general collapse of professionalism and competence "(n.10).
Faced with these phenomena, is that the whole country must feel involved . Not to download the southerners a responsibility that only they can cope, but to help in this effort, which affect the fate of our entire nation. "That's not to perpetuate an approach to welfare approach to the difficulties of the South, should promote the necessary national solidarity." Hence the calibrated opinion on federalism: "The prospect of planning to redistribute the country in a federal would be a defeat for all, if the federalism accentuated the distance between different parts of Italy." What is needed, say the bishops, is a "federal solidarity," which "would represent a challenge for the South and could be resolved in his favor," somehow forcing administrators southern "to make directly responsible for the quality of services provided to citizens "(No. 8). "The problem of development of the South has not only economic, but inevitably refers to a deeper dimension, which is ethical, cultural and anthropological." is necessary to promote a "culture of the common good, citizenship, law, good governance and sound business in the rejection of the illegality: they are the main points which need to be supported and promoted in a large educational project " . The belief that dominates the whole document is that 'an authentic and integral development in education has its foundation more solid. " And in reference to this it is noted that, for its part, "the Church must constantly feed the human and spiritual resources to invest in such a culture to promote the active role of believers in society. " This commitment 'calls for pastoral aims to erase the gap between religious practice and civil life' (16). In this way the South is no longer an 'issue', but 'a laboratory in which to exercise a different way of thinking than the models that the processes of modernization often produced "(17).
all depends - primarily from southern - that is the case.
