PUBBLICHIAMO LA LETTERA ALLE PERSONE CHE VIVONO NELLA CRIMINALITÀ DEL VESCOVO DI NOLA PADRE BENIAMINO DEPALMA
Per chi come noi da anni lotta per contrastare le infiltrazioni della criminalità organizzata nella Pubblica Amministrazione e negli Enti Premises, the letter of Bishop is an important step on the path to the reaffirmation of the principles of legality.
In an area where the Nolan area, where the mafia culture in civil society is so widespread as to make it virtually "institutionalized", the message of Bishop has a special meaning.
In a territory where the crime does not need to "shoot" and that shows, for these reasons, major elements of agitation, it is hard to even try to say that there is a social cancer of such proportions that, as stated by the same Father Depalma, heavily influenced the entire economic system and the level of free access to young people. We
in four years we have tried directly experiencing the full brunt of an unequal battle with an entire "system", and rooted in the institutions represented at different levels and in civil society, which cost us a lot both professionally and socially!
express our closeness and communion with the Bishop and Father Depalma reaffirm that we will be at his side on the path to liberation from the yoke of the mafia system in our communities.
nell'antimafia We believe the facts of the complaint public and courageous action of stress and dell'affiancamento Authority Judicial ... because without a concrete action is never really possible to undertake a journey of civil progress and democratic, probably, our land has never actually started.
Now our action is stale by the awareness of communion with the pastor of the Church of Nola who appreciate the great gift of courage, dignity and love that brought us with its clear and evangelical example.
"I want to scream, as did John Paul II in Sicily:" Repent. " A piercing scream that marked my experience as a pastor. At the same time, however, I would almost whisper, "Another life is possible ... la felicità è una porta che può aprirsi anche per voi… il presunto coraggio di uccidere e fare del male può diventare ver...o coraggio, quello di dire la verità e fare verità dentro di sé…».
Si, voglio parlare con voi e a voi, alle persone che hanno fatto e fanno scelte criminali. Come ogni uomo e ogni donna, anche voi avete bisogno e diritto ad una parola chiara. Probabilmente mi risponderete, in dialetto: «Ma chi te l’ha chiesta? Fai il prete, pensa ai sacramenti…». Non m’importa: io voglio parlare lo stesso. Mi sono spesso rivolto alle istituzioni e alla gente. Questa volta, invece,mi rivolgo a voi. Perché siete voi, proprio voi, il punto.
Forse, se each of you tell his story, many different profiles emerge. Those who lived infused with the Camorra, the point of thinking that the world can only go so, according to the law of the jungle ... those who feel attracted by easy money and power, those who felt the "thrill" of violence, who intended to "be alone", who took this route as a last resort after seeking legal work, who has decided to rebel against the brute force of poverty ... I tell you, as a shepherd, I would not only curiosity, Email a desire to really listen to these stories.
At the same time, however, it is important that you would listen more stories. That of Mario, a trader with his wife and three children, which closed because of your bullying and now live a thousand pulls a deep sense of humiliation and failure, that of Joseph, a businessman who moved to the north, leaving 50 people jobless of our land, to hundreds and hundreds of people killed by the smoke in bed or reduced toxic waste spread without rules. That of Fabio, a young graduate in Chemistry 110 and praise that does not work just because he has dignity and is not willing to stand by unfair rules, often written by you with the collusion of politics and economics "legal." To Navy, which spends the day each week at the window to check the two teenage children Playing under the house, with their anxiety to avoid "bad rounds." I wish that would listen, even if you already know.
Together, these stories say only one thing: how much suffering in our territory! How many tears, how many massacres of innocent people, so many fears for the present and the future! Often we
southern - and I am sure you too - we fill the mouth of love for our land. Everywhere we proclaim our sense of belonging. A victory of the football team we change a week. But if day by day we destroy it, this land, the love that we proclaim is false and hypocritical. It's like saying to love a woman who stands motionless on a chair, available to be slapping at any time. Is this love? No, it's something perverse and degrading. We are wasting a history, culture, land, property which has been delivered. We are destroying the gift of life itself.
In a famous American film, The Bronx, a big Hollywood star, Robert De Niro, who plays the role of a decent bus driver, explains to his son what are the criminals. "I wasted talent, son, remember, wasted talent ...."
Here, talent wasted. Intelligences subtracted to a good cause, and made to serve the worst cases. Ripped hands and handed over to the beauty of ugliness. Feet removed from a straight road to cross a muddy path. And what saddens me most is that associated with your actions, your actions, your conduct even a religious sense. No, no, it is not plausible. In no way God approves of the murder of individuals and a community, violence, arrogance, injustice, lawlessness, blackmail ... And there are big statues of saints, or lavish financial offers or residues of popular superstition you are being true believers. I am telling you as clearly as I am capable of! And while I'm telling you, I say to all the people of God, the laity, priests, religious: the criminal life is incompatible with faith in God the Father!
So many times people tell me with a sense of provocation, "Father, but for 500 euro a month is not better than I do the Camorra?. "No! - I say a rush -. If you earn € 500 is for that very perverse mechanism that directs the crime, and leading the weak to overcome. If you pass the other side, tomorrow your child will gain 300 .... " Of course, easy to talk to a bishop, one who, as you say, "is always closed at that beautiful building."
But even this thought I desist from saying one last thing. When a man or a woman back home in the evening is as if they deal with their day. It is essential for each of us, rest head on the pillow saying, "I did everything I needed and I could, and I'm ready to do the same tomorrow ...." You, if you think about it, you are denying the possibility of a peaceful and just sleep. And negandovelo, you deny your loved ones. And now, the state denies us all. Here, now with great trepidation that I said what I felt, I can rest my head on the pillow with a heart that is free, but no less troubled. I think of you in luxury homes in poor homes, in the cell, the street, in an abandoned farmhouse. I pray for your conversion could be the salvation of this people. In the name of God who loves justice and truth, retrieved the beauty of true humanity, with the your inner change ridate hope to the people, recovering your sense of truth return a serene future for our city, to our development. I trust in you, continue to be the desire of another, the other and the Other. "
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Archbishop Beniamino Depalma - Bishop of Nola Nola
, February 22, 2011
Chair of St. Peter
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