To me this "old" bishop - far more courageous, pugnacious and blunt some of its "young" mellifluous and media colleagues - really like.
lives, writes and says things that I share and love, but I struggle every day to nourish myself and to find people with which, often in spite of myself, I find myself crossing the desert this agonizing weltanschauung "western" ...
The tragedy of Haiti can move from point-blank memory and the unconscious of many Friuli experiences, traumas and memories incurable ...
But this is just a glimpse, a moment.
Then you suddenly, dull and busy, in the usual dasein nell'ipocrita banality and self-extinguishing of one who is outrageously too rich to really conceive of the existence of the poor.
CHRISTIAN ACTION ON Neoliberalism
Casaldáliga Pedro, bishop of Sao Felix do Araguiaia, Brasil
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The great challenge for any human conscience, and of course for all pastoral activity, and 'without doubt, the neo-liberalism, that system, and now a single man, and believed the final, the "latest" of human history. They are not special 'in its policy' in its economy 'in sociology, but' I want to share human and Christian, with you this global challenge. To exit any ingenuity, and 'remember that neo-liberalism and' pure capitalism, even more, and 'high capitalism to its ultimate consequences. It 's not only the capital over labor, but the capital against labor, work that would be a right for all and that is' forbidden to becoming a growing majority, because of unemployment. The profit for the financial gain, that neoliberal capitalism is the total market, and powerful, making a purchase of humanity itself. The 'private, each time more privately and privatization, neoliberalism and' capitalism exclusion decreed by the immense majority of mankind. Capitalism has always been impeded many "have", by a majority, neoliberalism now prevents it from "be" an immense majority. Let's talk about the third or fourth world. For the neo-liberal system the world perfectly splits in two: those who have and do count and can live well, and those who have not and are not and, therefore, are too many. The capitalism that we can call more traditional states took possession and capitalized on them. The neo-liberal capitalism advocates and force structure of the minimal state. With whom, in fact, you are denying the same company. One world, with its villages, without a truly representative and was the guarantor of the space, opportunity and harmony of living for the city and its citizens, namely a world free society. Yet without a future. Neoliberalism and 'how much murderous suicide. In other countries of this world, the third, the curfew, unemployment, hunger, violence. This violence and 'very understandable reaction from structurally raped. In our poor countries the informal economy (of the to Ed) and 'now approximately 70% of the economy. Today, violence and 'be moved to a new economy of subsistence. Also for the first world, however, there is the prospect of unemployment and the dramatic lack of meaning. And both worlds uncontrollable tide of migration. Now, the most sensible analysis of the near future, have defined the XXI century as the century of migration. "The new barbarians" invade the new empire. Or by 'space to mankind or humanity if it takes ... And this total unfairness of neoliberalism, that ends the alternatives, utopias, socialization humanizing gives inequitability total impunity. No one is accountable. Theorists and theologians of this idolatrous religion have had the courage to accept that 15% of humanity will have a de facto right to live and live well. The rest of humanity will survive ... The God of life, Padremadre of all humanity, calculation 'evil, commitment' naively and will soon give way to these other gods and the minority ... death. For us, the neo-liberalism and 'essentially unjust, and' sin, mortal sin, because it kills. A merely human opinion and even more so if and 'Christian, can only condemn neo-liberalism, the philosophy and practice. We do not deny the right course and even the need of the market. Still, in its way, humanity has exercised, we deny, this is the first and the whole market. The human being is not 'just buy and sell. The profit at all costs and without further considerations and unbridled consumerism physically kill those who do not have access to it, morally and kills the supposed beneficiaries. Also then destroys the human environment. E 'antiecologico by definition. For religion, humanity and 'divine lineage. E 'destined to life. And for the religion of the universe, with its potential and 'a common home: the home of all the sons and daughters of the Padremadre God. Having faith in the God of life and his plan for humanity, necessarily require a total rebellion in the face of an exclusive, homicide and ecocidal. I come advocating the macro-ecumenism, also aware of some sensitivity, and not precisely for whatever my Christian and Catholic identity. I believe in macro-ecumenism because I believe in one God, Present, and Met Invoked in all religions. From a macro-ecumenism lived with clarity and sincerity, and 'clear that the great causes of humanity would revert to our cause. Why are the cause of God, human rights are divine rights. Christian talking about: the great cause of Jesus: the kingdom, which and 'God's plan for humanity. Liberation theology, preventing stroke, went to meet the neo-liberalism proclaiming the option for the poor and their causes as options of the church, and the ethical standard for society. You and 'repeated much the statement by John Paul II on the theology of liberation (= "the theology of liberation and' over 'Ed). It 'good to remember that liberation theology was not communist, the Berlin Wall ever was the chair of the theology of liberation, and that is neoliberalism and' the greatest that humanity has a high wall between a privileged minority and a majority of outsiders. About another option for the poor and liberation theology just recognize that these poor people are each time more and more poor confess the God of the poor and his son, who proclaimed them 'blessed, and think about the relationship between this God and these poor among the poor and the gospel. What will be the option for the poor? What remains of the theology of liberation? There are two questions that must be imposed. The answer 'straightforward: as long as' the God of the poor exist, and there will be poor in the world and there are Christian men and opting for this God and these poor people, and there will be heads of Christians who think the relationship that exists between the poor and the God of the gospel will be the God of the poor and liberation theology. The option for the poor and not ', for the church of Jesus, a voluntary option, or more: and 'option storicosociale the church, the political-economic version of the commandment of love. I remembered these days, the three definitions of God: - "I am the one who brought you out of Egypt," says the Lord in the Book of Exodus (20:1). I am the God of liberation - "I am who I am" (Exodus 3:14). I am your future, are the utopia of humanity. - "God is 'love' or more accurately translated," God is to love "(1 Jn 4:16). God and 'solidarity. These three definitions are simultaneously the most radical divine condemnation of neo-liberalism, slavery in the market, the end of utopias, and non-solidarity, and at the same time are the supreme guarantee of the hope of the poor, in this dark night to deny that even the space of survival, and 'confirmation of the revealed theology of liberation and the alternative policy of solidarity , participation and equality fraternity. I speak of the church of Jesus, the Christian churches, and to believe that there will probably be the first challenge: the existence and expression in today's world of real ecumenism. The unit 'of Christians is not' just a kind of state recognized by Jesus himself ... "They all be one so that the world may believe", but also a condition for the sacramental world alive. If the church has a mission in this world, no doubt, and 'to proclaim and practice the divine sonship and brotherhood and sisterhood of man. Many times in history the Church of Jesus did not know the diaconia (Ed service) that Jesus dreamed of: to be near, close to the marginalized of society, proclaiming the good news to the poor and free the prisoners, to feed, clothe, humanize. .. The terrible wars of the different counter-Christian and the many crusades of conquest, as well as the anxiety of power, luxury and numbness in the face of institutionalized injustice, have gone to church a "debt" which will delete the previous step for its credibility and for a truly effective new evangelization. You may fear, rightly, that the future history will condemn the church of today does not manifest courage against neoliberalism, as now we condemn the church yesterday for failing to deliberately pronounced against colonialism in Latin America, Africa or in Asia and, more specifically, against the enslavement of black people. I think she suffers as a schizophrenia-old, the dichotomy between faith and politics, between love and economics, between history and eschatology. Basically do not really believe in the incarnation of God in this together 'in the human and the divine figure of Jesus of Nazareth. The most current programming paradigm and always more evangelical church that Jesus should be liberating evangelization, community and inculturation. In our continent by the grace of God, the blood of our martyrs for the church in Latin America has been able, in theory at least, proclaim this integral evangelization. Since the Second Vatican Council, is located in our time and our place in the signs of the times and places, the three great councils of continental Medellin, Puebla and Santo Domingo, took, respectively, the option for the poor, the community as communion and participation "and inculturation. In the most lucid and practical, the church in Brazil in practice, and not only she, is translating this program renewed in basic ecclesial communities in pastoral specifications, multiplication and diversification of ministries and national programs to respond to emergency situations or to popular demands. The "Fraternity Campaign" that the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops organized since 1964, had as its theme in 1996, "brotherhood and politics," and the motto was the beautiful utopia of Psalm 85: "Justice and peace will embrace" . Just read the themes and slogans of these thirty-three annual campaigns to perceive the will to incarnate the faith and to make social love. Following the famous statement of the pope, during a flight while he was in Central America, about liberation theology, I call 'a journalist Mexico to wonder if this time it was really dead theology. I held in my hand, precisely, the basic text of the Brazilian countryside of brotherhood is all that and 'pure theology of liberation, even in its contents and methodology of see, judge and implement. And 'certain that the same Pope, in another flight to Latin America, led by reporters, said flatly: "I'm a liberation theologian." And, in the historical map that the pope always send 'Brazilian episcopate in a burst of high emotion, John Paul II said that "liberation theology is not' only appropriate but also necessary." The Second Vatican Council calls the update, renewal modern church always renovanda (which must be constantly renewed). Unfortunately for some, the Vatican was an unwelcome breath of the Spirit, and now would pass even topical. The great theologian Rahner's thought, on the contrary, we employ a century to implement this council Pentecostal. Rather, this constant renewal, the renewal of the larger church, it will be only to the extent that she will convert to the God of life and history revealed in Jesus Christ, and excluded the history and life, crucified with Him in extent that she will be in the world not to condemn but to save it. With a complete salvation, and that 'total liberation.
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