There they are, today, the companions of the time. They did not make the revolution, but many have careers and money. And the arrogance is often remained the same. Under the gray hair and baldness roars again the young fanatic ever since. The only revolution that have made - or rather, who have served - was the sexual revolution. For the consumption of the consumer society. Today, the belly, bobbing behind their tie of wealthy journalists, powerful politicians, university barons, warns and rebukes. E - behold! - What?
against the unbridled sex (obviously not his own but that of Berlusconi). Frowning pontificating against sex disposable weave prayers on the moral dignity of women, teach us the sacred respect for the female body, preach moral rigor. In some cases, from a life of a generation that has known - after the sexual anarchy of youth - a succession of marriages and relationships ...
The show is amazing. Perhaps it is even an opportunity for reflection. I have refrained until now from writing about the miseries of the news and I answered no to some political talk shows who wanted to invite me to "judge a Catholic" the "nights of Arcore. However
weeks I see and hear some former revolutionaries, inspired air and virginal purity, raise their loud cry against those who profane pictures with scantily clad "women's bodies", against those whose sexual mores and wild - in disbelief - I rub my eyes .
Not only remembering the youth seasons. I wonder: what newspapers have written so far? Which week? What had the cover? Women wearing burkas? And what books have launched? What films and filmmakers who have exalted? What costumes have practiced and legitimized? What moral claimed?
Suddenly everyone seems to have become castigatissimi censors. It was inevitable that such a band of Puritans is next to Oscar Luigi Scalfaro being, he, a bigot of the first hour. Remember the episode that made "immortal"? It made the scene in the fifties to a lady, accidentally caught a glimpse of the restaurant, guilty of having a low-cut dress. The event "for the dignity of women", therefore, will attend this Scalfaro. And I read that
Republic "will also attend Nichi Vendola: Another Italian history is possible, there is a better Italy for which women are not cannon fodder, commercialization of bodies, the stars in only one establishment to escort".
Yes, dear Nichi (in the role the moral theologian), Italy this exists. Are you sure that is exactly what you want for decades?
is left of this wonderful slogan: "I'm man enough to say." But enough for what? The famous "sexual freedom"? The slogan "the body is mine and manage it? A sessuomania this mass?
Let's talk. Last May I took part in an episode of "Annozero" on priests and pedophilia. It was very interesting, but I remember when I tried to broaden the horizon by proposing to analyze the (often pathological) sessuomania mass that characterizes our customs and our culture, Santoro broke off the conversation move on. Not considered interesting. Yet this is the stifling atmosphere.
I am a father, I have young daughters and it sucks a society where young women - in any environment! - Are discriminated against if they are not in the game or do not accept certain compromises. It sucks a society where girls or boys are branded as idiots if they say they believe in chastity or virginity.
Or where you are considered dangerous if a person says that marriage is only between a man and woman, if you insist to say that gender is not an opinion (that nature - either male or female - is debatable), if you consider divorce an evil, whether it condemns abortion, the morning after pill and if you dare question the "sacred condom revered by the dominant culture.
Some people try to yank some Christians to wrest their excommunication of the sinner Berlusconi. Gad Lerner has amplified the voice of the nun who thundered, "It is not lawful" against the Cav as the Baptist against Herod.
Good. But with the nun - About Erode - thunder "it is not lawful," even against a dominant culture that has to be global, legalized abortion in the coming fifty years to score a billion, a culture that increasingly lower the level of protection of human life.
And I would remind the little nun that John the Baptist thundered especially against the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees, he called: "You brood of vipers."
Even Jesus will thunder against them. He shows compassion for the sinners, tax collectors and prostitutes, but not for the "whitewashed tombs" that points the finger at other people's sin: "they are beautiful to look at the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all rot. "
E 'of all of us talking. Because of a great sinner like Zacchaeus, Jesus can make a saint, a great saint like Paul or Augustine. But of those who presume to judge others, the whitewashed tombs? Moreover they will be with his finger pointed at Jesus' right under the cross.
were saying the event for the dignity of women. Will defend the dignity trampled on Muslim women on the continent?
and dignity of Christian women in Pakistan, the dignity of Asia Bibi, a young mother sentenced to death, still held and subjected to any humiliation, for the Christian?
E 'Christianity which required women to recognize their dignity.
Roberto Benigni himself, commenting on the "prayer to the Virgin" of Dante, had this to say: "God himself has since asked Mary her yes or no that its women gained the right to say yes or no" .
Just yesterday we were celebrating St. Agatha, Virgin and martyr. The story of this young man in the third century shows us the only true revolution that restored dignity to women. Certainly not the culture of the Republic and the Espresso or the common (or, of course, the television culture). But only Jesus Christ.
(Source: Anthony Socci, synthesis Available in The Citadel, February 8, 2011)
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