issionaries are not on their own when they side against
globalization but recall the importance of equal and united development for all, argues the Director of the Italian Missionary Publishing
House (Editrice Missionaria Italiana (EMI), Comboni Fr. Ottavio Raimondo, responding to an article of “Hard Times”, attached to a daily newspaper published by the Berlusconi family.
Why is everything permitted in this world except discussing Cesar with his power and with his myths of peace based on legions? But what right? The right to make slaves and to annihilate? Yesterday with the cross, today with bombs?
Fr. Raimondo clarifies the motives the bring the missionary world close to the new global movement. In a long article entitled “Without a Shadow of Mercy for the West” which appeared in “Tempi Duri” (“Hard Times”), missionaries and their newspapers were accused of “a complete identification with the “no-global” thinking” in “sustaining that the world should not choose the west as its model and it style of life”
Fr. Ottavio Raimondo, in an editorial published on the EMI web page, says that for Italy, the missionary world “says to all that this system in which we live has no future, it is not the dream of God, simply because it is not for all, it is exclusive, marginalizing. In the second part of the editorial, the Director of EMI recalls the meaning of missionary commitment.
“Ours is an invitation to change route to have a future. Precisely because we love the west of which we are children, let us say friends – let’s thing about it, let’s pause to see where we are going. We can be quiet but then the stones would talk. What is happening in today’s world is not worthy of human being and, much less, of a Christian”.
He continues by asking: “Why is everything permitted in this world except discussing Cesar with his power and with his myths of peace based on legions? But what right? The right to make slaves and to annihilate? Yesterday with the cross today with bombs?” The editorial concludes with an invitation to “move” toward the bank “of conviviality, of the gift and of happy and sustainable sobriety”.
(From VID)