The appeal of Cardinal Bagnasco “Go and vote, it’s your right” – The Republic

ESCAPE from the polls is scary even to the church Genoese. “We must not be crushed by bad examples, from general opinions or prejudices of part – says Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco – we must not be discouraged and then give up our right and duty to participate in elections at any level they pose.” On the eve of the vote for the regional elections, the archbishop of Genoa and president of the CEI calls for not letting prevail the turnout, which today is the greatest danger of these consultations.

In recent weeks, a survey showed even the possibility a waiver of the vote for more than 60% of voters, on the one hand the stomach ache left and right, on the other hand the coincidence of voting with the bridge on June 2 could cause a real collapse of the investment. Against this danger has already acted the day before yesterday also Susanna Camusso, general secretary of the CGIL Liguria, came to Genoa to attend the National Day of LiberEtà, yesterday spoke instead Bagnasco, on the sidelines of a seminar school. “The disaffection that leads to abstention – and were the words of Cardinal – is certainly not good so you have to react.” And to those who asked him if the coincidence of voting with a bridge was desired, the cardinal said that “it is a process with the intention that we can not do.”

Always to another church Genoese follows near the vicissitudes of the economy and of city politics and Bagnasco, as had his predecessors, from Siri on, has maintained ongoing relationships with local institutions, sparing references and exhortations aimed especially at boosting development in a city ​​increasingly bent by the crisis and unemployment, calls that have also attracted some criticism from the political forces opposed to the concrete and the great works.
As president of the CEI, Cardinal then made a number of appeals in recent months compared ethics of public affairs and on this issue Bagnasco has agreed to step yesterday talking about the list of “unpresentable” that dominated the political debate. “Who shows up to do a service to the country, says our constitution, it should do so honorable – he clarified Bagnasco – presentable and unpresentable is a serious issue which must be resolved better and better legal, legal, political, legislative.”

On the other only a few days ago in Rome, when the Episcopal Conference, the cardinal said that “there is a great need for institutional ethics. Without public ethics do not make good laws and if you make good laws not be observed. ” And at that time he had his strong appeal to fight corruption addressed to the bishops by Pope Francis Peninsula. “The request to the leaders of public affairs is a duty – had said at the conclusion of the assembly Cei Bagnasco – we have paid in advance exhortation that the Pope directed us to not be shy or irrelevant in defeating or disavow corruption, public and private. “
The government had then addressed a warning on how the reforms, in particular that of the school. “We must not be caught up in a hurry to get right to the conclusion had been his words – once more relaxed and not with the water in the throat, have more time to feel, it is a prerequisite for better results.” Of
school, and in particular of the Catholic school, she talked about yesterday all morning to Quadrivium, where he held the annual regional conference, and after the meeting, when asked by reporters, Cardinal Bagnasco, tackled a sensitive issue , that sex education in schools, reiterating a principle unavailable for the church, that of the family based on marriage between man and woman. “I do not do sex education and surreptitiously spread the theory

like in school during curricular time – was the invitation of Cardinal – but if anything to do sex education if, and only if, they ask parents as a service additional out of hours school “. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ©

” We must not be crushed by bad examples and not to participate “” The unpresentable? It is a question that must be answered always better “

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