CONSERVATIVE ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE POPE AND SILVIO BERLUSCONI
Benedict XVI, calling the faithful to the Vatican of interfering in Italian affairs
The recent debate on euthanasia clarified the Church's interference in politics.
(di July Algañaraz , Clarin, Argentina - 16/02/2009)
A Mexican que recordara el dicho célebre del general Obregón, lo adaptaría así: "Pobre Italia, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca del Vaticano". Han pasado dos mil años desde que Cristo se le apareció a Simón de Galilea y le dijo que, con el nombre de Pedro, sería la piedra miliar fundadora de la Iglesia. La única institución que ha sabido sobrevivir y prosperar durante tanto tiempo en este mundo incalificable, sostiene, como es lógico, que no es del todo humana pero sí es seguramente romana. Italia es la patria concreta de la historia del catolicismo. Sus Papas universales la han gobernado en buena parte durante siglos, han matado mucha gente cuando creían que no había otro remedio y nunca han dejado de meterse en considering the country's life above their laws if necessary. Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger of Germany is to meet in April aged 82 and four of his pontificate, "is no exception to the rule. On the contrary, convinced that it should be consistent with its traditionalist religious intransigence, since he arrived has emphasized the vocation of the laity interference reproach.
The stone of the growing scandal Vatican suffocating presence in the life of the Italians was the case of Eluana Englaro, The Girl who was in a vegetative state by a traffic accident and spent 17 years in coma. Its parents made a long battle to stop artificial feeding and let her die in peace.
But at the time of Pope Ratzinger this is impossible, although the Italian courts, with a final ruling from the Court of Cassation, has ruled that it should apply the will of parents and conclude with the aggressive treatment . Several senior figures from the Vatican and the Italian Church, which must obey, said above the law is natural law and that life is not a good available. "
About Peppino Englaro, Eluana's father, the Vatican sparked a fierce campaign directly accusing a murderer from the mouth of several cardinals. Premier Silvio Berlusconi took active part in the race against time matched to the Vatican, the English newspaper El Pais described as "shameful." When Eluana died, the charges became more intense.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, was also indirectly accused of murder by conservative politicians of the government.
The Vatican and the Italian Church, which always opposed to pass a law Biological Testament, found in this battle, which has deeply scarred Italy, dividing the country in two between Catholics obedient and indignant laity the opportunity to promote a law that actually serves to place restrictions on wholesale to sterilize their effects. Food and water can not be deleted, will the end of life should be recorded by a clerk with the countersignature of a physician, who must renew every three years.
This weekend began the inevitable protests by secularists. The Democratic Party senator from the opposition center-Ignacio Marino, a doctor, called to prepare for battle. "If the bill (beginning to be discussed in early March in Parliament) goes as planned, we will organize a popular referendum for the abrogation "he said.
Marino promised conservative politicians and the Vatican" a rude awakening " on behalf of the Italian civil rights.
Eluana For the neurologist, Carlo Alberti Defanti, the law is a big step backwards. "I said Defanti - it would be preferable that there is no law."
The turmoil that is winning the political field has a dramatic scenario, that of partido Democrático. Fundado hace menos de dos años como confluencia de los ex comunistas moderados y de un sector de los democristianos, los enfrentamientos debido a la injerencia del Vaticano y al llamado "proyecto cultural" que elaboró el cardenal Camillo Ruini, ex vicario del Papa en Roma, están llevando a enfrentamientos que podrían desembocar en una ruptura. "Si seguimos así, vamos a la escisión", proclamó el líder del ex partido católico La Margarita, Francesco Rutelli.
Rutelli fue el "capo" de los radicales y era un verdadero "comecuras". Hasta que dio una gigantesca voltereta y es hoy un católico de estrecha observancia, jefe of the minority Christian Democratic Party.
In the middle is the pathetic figure of Walter Veltroni Berlusconi who humiliated in the elections of May 2007. Veltroni imagined the alliance of former communists and former Christian Democrats, which is now succumbing to hopeless fights on moral issues. Massimo D'Alema and Pierluigi Bersani lead a frond Veltroni failed to throw out. For the Pope this is the battle of ethics and against moral relativism that is choking the West and Italy is the only specific scenario in which it can implement its rigid beliefs by an ally of Silvio Berlusconi.
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