New episode of near and far. The letter from the Bishop of Brescia, Luciano Monari, former bishop of the diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio and now an honorary citizen of Piacenza, was written when he was still the case in Libya would explode. Today we offer because we believe that more today.
foreigners, guests, fellow citizens. The path that the Bishop of Brescia, Bishop Luciano Monari, indicates in his letter to the Christian community takes the signs of Ephesians: "So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are saints and family of God."
Published on the occasion of the patron saints of the city, Faustino and Jupiter, which is reminiscent of February 15, the letter analyzes the phenomenon of migration wondering what the attitude of dioceses, parishes, church groups and Catholics involved in politics. The latter, the bishop said, should "avoid and prevent any form of discrimination." "With this term," specific, "I refer to oppressive measures that transform the rights choices complacency that use bureaucratic delays to sfiancare people and forcing the resignation or renunciation, using two weights and two measures depending on the nationality or skin color. It is not permissible for a Christian to take advantage of the weakened state of the contractor immigrant to impose unfair contracts (of course I think the lease contracts or employment. "
But before turning to the political community and civil Bishop turns to the Christian , wrote Monsignor Luciano Monari, "is called to accept the baptized believers wherever they come from: they are full members of our own community." Against those who believe "we must work actively to provide a warm and we want people who take the initiative to reach out to newcomers, to involve them, introduce them gradually in different places and different initiatives parish. "
"We can not let immigrants," the bishop added, "all the trouble to get into the community should also be a community that takes care of it explicitly." If an immigrant feels accepted, will integrate even more easily, as suggested by the letter indicating moments of welcome parties, groups of hearing the word of God, devotion to Mary. A similar argument can be made even for Orthodox Christians, Protestants or evangelicals. Although, as regards participation in the sacraments, the bishop recommends taking everything clearly and without ambiguity according to the regulations of the various documents of the Holy See and the recent handbook published by the CEI "for the pastoral care of parishes to the Catholic Eastern non-Catholic '. Monsignor
Monari not forget even the complexity and issues with movements, sects and religious communities from Africa and Latin America that seek "to the satisfaction of a psychological need subjective "and warns of" danger that these movements represent the faith. " So I ask that you do not offer rooms for parish psychological practices that border on religious.
Other routes, however, requires dialogue with believers of other religions, particularly Muslims and Buddhists. Can not stay out of them, says the bishop. Without confusing religions in a mixture to be indistinct, however, stressed that "all religions claim to know and some aspects of God and true man, and can support the growth of human coexistence and mutual respect. It is our duty to all the love that accepts the existence of the other cordially. " It recommends encouraging the presence of children and young people of other religions in the life of speakers. So as to facilitate opportunities for dialogue and celebration, linking some suspects and fears that melting instinctive and do overcome isolation and fear. "We can lead people to believe in God just by loving practice with sincere love and generous, with a way of life that is friendly and fraternal."
is not merely doing good, but to try, even all those policy and legislative solutions that will improve the quality of one's existence and the civil community as a whole. That is especially the Catholics involved in politics should ensure the reception of refugees fleeing conditions of injustice and oppression, noting that the goods of the earth belong to everyone and must serve for the sustenance of all. Should ensure that those who work with us and contributes to our welfare, "see his work recognized and to be put in order." Also, for those already settled, should strive to change the rule that will automatically lose your residence permit immigrants who lose their jobs. "The logic of this rule appears to be entirely selfish," the bishop writes, "As long as I need you I hold you and make use of the wealth they produce, but just your presence will serve stops hunting '. It should still take care of the problem of children born to foreign parents who belong as citizens in a country in which we do not know the language, traditions, culture and customs, while they may not belong to the Italian one where they live, attend school, live; "Children are, from the cultural point of view, Italian, 'says Monari. So how should encourage family reconciliation and inclusion education of foreign children.
Respect for the dignity of the other should guide the choices of Catholics, the bishop concludes, convinced that "discrimination may seem like a convenient choice if one considers only the economic profit, but in fact it is behavior that uses the other as if it were one thing and ends - a kind of boomerang-effect - to corrode the soul of the person who does. "
From Famiglia Cristiana (Annachiara Valley)
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