social crisis, economic and political. At the end of 2010 are all taken by the confusion. As recently said Cardinal Bagnasco, "we are distressed to see how that Italy is caught in its decision-making mechanisms, while the country appears dazed and confused looks." Why this crisis is so helpless, so that we can not even have to agree to deal with it, despite feeling the urgency like never before? A surprise
Censis Report 2010 has identified the nature of the crisis in a "low desire" that manifests itself in every aspect of life. We have less desire to build, to grow, to pursue happiness. To this fact should be given the responsibility of "evident signs of weakness both personal and mass behaviors and attitudes disoriented, indifferent, cynical, passive adaptive media influences prisoners, condemned to this without deep memory and a future. " Why, if we were able to achieve significant results in the past (home, work, development ...), now "we are a society marked by dangerously empty" cycle and a town full of interest and enthusiasm follows another marked by its cancellation?
All this shows us that the crisis is so social, economic and political, but above all because it concerns the anthropological conception of the same person, the nature of his desire, his relationship with reality. We were deceived that the desire would be kept alive by itself or even that it would be more alive in the new situation of being achieved. Experience shows, however, that desire can not flatten out if an object is equal to its needs. We find that all "full and desperate." 'And well in the loss of desire has its origin and the cynicism of young adults, and general weakness in what is the alternative? Voluntarism without breath and without horizon, without genius and without space, and a moralism of support to the State as a last source of consistency for the human flow, "as Don Giussani to Assam in 1987. Twenty-five years later we see that both of those answers - and hope statist individualist voluntarism - have not been able to give us the desired consistency and we face a crisis more helpless, more vulnerable than before. Paradoxically, our grandparents and parents were humanly better equipped to address such challenges.
Censis hits the target again when it identifies the true urgency of this moment in history: "Return to desire is the civic virtue necessary to reactivate a society too satisfied and flattened." But who or what can rekindle the desire? This is the cultural problem of our age. With it are forced to confront all those who have something to say about the crisis: parties, associations, unions, teachers. Not just a more ideological response, because of all the projects we have seen the failure. We therefore forced to witness an experience.
The Church, whose contribution can not be limited to providing shelter care for the shortcomings of others, should demonstrate the authenticity of his claim to have something more to offer. As noted by Benedict XVI, "the decisive contribution of Christians is only the understanding of faith becomes the understanding of reality." He should show that Christ is so present as to be able to awaken the person - and then all his desire - to the point not to make her completely dependent on historical junctures. How? By documenting the presence of persons other than humanity in all fields of social life, school and university, work and entrepreneurship, and commitment to the political institutions. People who do not feel doomed to disappointment and bewilderment, but they live up to their desires because they recognize this response.
We hope to resolve the grave situation where everyone - including our leaders today have the difficult responsibility of leading the country through this major crisis - we decided to be very reasonable subjecting reason to experience, if that is, freeing from any ideological presumption, we are willing to recognize something that already works in reality. Support those in the social and political life, has not resigned himself to a limited extent of their desire for this work is built and driven by a passion for man, is the first contribution we can make the good of all.
Communion and Liberation, December 10, 2010
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