painful and passionate reflection of two pastors, Rev. Salvatore Leopizzi, pastor at Gallipoli (Lecce) and Don Renato Sacco, pastor Cesar, (Verbania), both "militants" by the example of Don Pax Christi Tonino Bello, leads us to a past with the memory that is wrong to look back in time and space, as the events of Genoa warn, the war in the Balkans, created by the fragmentation of the former Yugoslavia and the massacre of Kosovo.
By Don Renato Moray we will meet in October 22 to discuss your next PACE and hope to be many,
while we approach this issue with the help of reflection written for "Mosaic peace "( http://www.mosaicodipace.it/ ) by Don Renato and Don Salvatore.
The game should not miss
October 13, 2010 - Don Salvatore Leopizzi and Don Renato Sacco (priests)
is night when we are on the phone, to share disappointments and concerns of a day, which, perhaps more than others, was full of great violence. We live at opposite ends (Puglia and Piedmont) of our Italy, still united. For now.
They made us reflect and remember so many things the violent ultranationalist Serbian stadium in Genoa, burning flags and claim to Kosovo. But when Kosovo suffered violence and chose non-violence with Rugova, who was interested? Who spoke of Kosovo? Those who condemned the violence? Pax Christi, and perhaps only a few others.
The international community has decided, then, to support the small minority of the KLA, to confirm their choice armed and decided to intervene with the war. And who won in the Balkans? The violence! Even the peace treaties have established what had been achieved through violence. We are scared to remember these things and thinking today, the violence of the stages as a basin from which to draw for political and military abuses. If we add the rampant racism, even though the choruses are punished, it is to shudder.
Faced with the violence of these days someone invoked the death penalty. Not only in Iran but also in Italy.
There is violence in families, in the subways and streets, where he shot and killed for trivial reasons. In institutions where a mayor is killed, the anti-mafia magistrates and journalists threatened, but all in all in a climate of indifference, not only the recovery by the cameras of the metro, but also what we might focus on the consciousness of everyone. It is indifference, silence, even if we do not stop to think that the real problem to solve is to condemn, without hesitation, all violence.
We should all be worried about today, stop, confront: educators, parents, politicians, priests, journalists ... All. Do not feel this anxiety? We will always try to limit and to name the specific violence ... because maybe another is more tolerated, justified.
So we condemn the brutality of the Taliban, but not the bombs and planes.
It condemns cruelty, but he blesses the war. But then the end justifies the means?
It grows in some quarters the thirst for bombs, weapons which will surely damage the worst of those "violent cretins" Stadium in Genoa. Or consider only their violence? And when the war comes as the value to be taught in school?
It is not over. Everyone could make a long list of violence and bullying that we see every day.
Yesterday was October 12, the anniversary of a historic discovery. But it is rather a conquest of a great cruelty on innocent and defenseless people?
For our friend who is learning to drive these days, the instructor said it must have a driving ... aggressive! It is too sweet.
But really there is no room for sweetness in our society? For tenderness, patience, meekness ... ?
Yes, we are very worried. Why the violence in all its forms, you lose the game, not at the table ... but that's life. And perhaps the believers, the whole Church, should draw a lot more this value, non-negotiable, non-violence.
the common good is at stake, the lives of all.
course, there are many signs of hope even if you do not make much noise, for example the statement of the national coordinator of Pax Christi, d. Nandino Capovilla, published today on the website of Pax Christi, to the page http://www.peacelink.it/paxchristi/a/32529.html
with the title "useless massacre":
"Only peace means peace, that is active nonviolence, keeps open the hope" .
Leopizzi Don Salvatore, a parish priest in Gallipoli (Lecce)
Don Renato Sacco, pastor Cesar, (Verbania)
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