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listening to the speeches in form but still elevated in substance to the "mythology" of thirty to forty years ago of the highest academic accreditation, which move from one conference to another without interruption to ruminate endlessly that same mythology, e quelli degli assessori e dei dirigenti culturali che si alternano in TV parlando di nulla, viene da mettersi le mani nei capelli per esclamare: “Misera Genova, fino a che punto sei caduta in basso!” Per fortuna le cose stanno diversamente quando ci si allontana dai riflettori della propaganda ufficiale. In questa città apparentemente plumbea, stretta nella morsa di un conformismo culturale capace solo di autoperpetuarsi, è cresciuto, pur nell’ostracismo caparbiamente perseguito dai paladini del cosiddetto “libero pensiero”, un altro universo culturale fiero e consapevole di sé, che si è dimostrato straordinariamente fertile nei campi della ricerca filosofica e storica e anticipato temi destinati a diventare l’attualità politico-culturale del prossimo futuro, non solo italiana.
Per capire le ragioni di questo strano destino, occorre ricostruire una storia dimenticata o, per meglio dire, azzerata. Una storia volutamente azzerata, che ruota tutta intorno alla figura del cardinale Giuseppe Siri, un genovese di eccezionale cultura e talmente lungimirante da denunciare i rischi della strada imboccata dall’Occidente cristiano già dall’inizio degli anni Sessanta, allorché si era deciso di chiamare progresso ciò che, per dirla in termini crudi, equivaleva né più né meno al trionfo degli istinti. Più che un progresso, insomma, un’autentica deriva verso la barbarie. The great man of the Church of Genoa had the rare gift of intelligence to which he joined a high level of cultural background in philosophy, history and theology: that mix of knowledge to illuminate the seemingly incomprehensible passages of history, even the most remote, and then to have clear mechanisms that generate the growth or death of a civilization. Added to this is a combative character, a vigilant and attentive to the phenomena of their time and skills are truly unique in the organization, especially culture, which made him an undisputed leader when, in the climate of violence engendered by the total context of the values \u200b\u200bof tradition and exasperation del conflitto sociale dilagato in Italia nel corso dei famigerati anni Sessanta e Settanta, si erse a difesa di quella Chiesa tradizionale erede delle migliori conquiste del mondo classico e custode di ogni speranza di umana salvezza.
Per lunghi secoli la vita sociale si era basata sul rispetto dei principi cristiani: rivalità tra stati, guerre, carestie e innumerevoli altre avversità, un tempo all’ordine del giorno, non riuscirono mai a scalfire importanti certezze di fondo, universalmente radicate nella coscienza popolare. La netta percezione del confine esistente tra Bene e Male, Bello e Brutto, Saggezza e Follia e l’esistenza di un Dio-Padre su cui fare affidamento, esigente ma anche misericordioso, Church on earth represented by a promoter of the spiritual and collective witness of the sacredness of everyday life, constituted a formidable barrier against all the aberrations of incivility and barbarism, before succumbing to the attacks become more targeted and devastating of the perverse will to power expressed by the irreligious and totalitarian ideologies which arose in past centuries but which have developed mainly during the twentieth century ideologies very structured and universal claims, like communism and Nazism, whose advent on entire community has already given rise to the greatest disasters of all times, but also changing and apparently "free" or "read" so they seem more than a fad or a habit that a real ideology, but in fact, absolutely disastrous for the many unfortunate people who made the guiding element of their existence. These are all equally attributable to the nihilism, the peculiar expression of that extreme form of denial of transcendence and the meaning of life is increasingly becoming a dark decadence that is literally dissolving the western world. In the years between the sixties and seventies, when the wind of so-called "new age" blew disastrously, Cardinal Siri himself spent all that the Church would gather the challenge of modernity, strongly oppose the confidence to answer better and more convincing than those offered the deceptively-communistic ideology then prevailing permissive. But, while the adverse propaganda made great strides in imposing its concept of aberrant progress, one that would enable man to achieve heaven on earth proposes all the liberty and freedom from all responsibility, including the obligation to observe the Ten Commandments, that is the very substance of our civil society, unfortunately, many men of religion came to surrender to the spirit of the times, figuring it was time to "update" the image of the Church. It was precisely at this difficult context that the cardinal supported by worthy philosophers and theologians such as Father Cornelio Fabro, Adelaide Scratching, Michele Federico Sciacca and tireless employees, including Bishop Bartholomew Fish should be remembered, he inspired the Great comparison, transforming his city into a bustling cultural center. In 1965, around the magazine and Quadrivium Renovatio , both born to his will, gathered young intellectuals, not only religious, fascinated by such a master, able to open their minds to horizons unknown to their peers. But the rest of society came to be involved with Cardinal dynamic, ready to use every means to try to bring home to mothers of families, workers, professionals, entrepreneurs and artists how important it was for the purpose of human dignity and, ultimately, the very survival of their roots remain intact, preserving moral values, identity and traditions of the Fathers: not synonymous with backwardness and obscurantism, as the hostile propaganda would have us believe, but an essential condition of any possibility of progress and elevation. Obviously such a sharpness and an open mind, able to predict clearly what a pain, ugliness, premature deaths and failures to wait, just around the corner, the large population of naive, aroused the greatest alarm in those who pursued the wicked design to exclude God by culture and public life by preaching the end of any sense of limits. The last true prince of the Church inevitably became the target of all the charges and the symbol of a worldview to be felled and cleared. So much so that even the hostility of that part of the Church inclined to compromise with the "new times", he was denied employment to the papal throne to which he was predestined course. But, fortunately, nothing of her teaching has been lost. Soon after his death, when the fall of the Berlin Wall revealed what was really miserable and tragic that kind of "progress" promised by the materialism and atheism of the state, there was someone who revisited some punti forti del suo pensiero, riuscendo ad influenzare in qualche misura la cultura ufficiale e perfino la politica. Ma è solo oggi, quando anche tutte le altre illusioni alimentate dai suoi avversari più accaniti sono rovinosamente cadute e ormai siamo costretti a contemplare il disastro di un popolo debole e invecchiato, impaurito e disorientato, estremamente vile di fronte all’evidenza degli attacchi in arrivo da tutte le parti e subìti nell’inerzia più totale, che i tempi appaiono maturi per riproporre interamente il suo magistero. Da qualche tempo, grazie all’impegno della Curia Arcivescovile, l’eminente figura del Cardinale Siri viene celebrata in convegni e seminari e i suoi scritti, assieme alle opere degli intellettuali che a lui fecero riferimento, cominciano ad essere riscoperti nella loro interezza. A questo primo passo, un altro deve far seguito: far conoscere al popolo l’alto valore della sua lezione; impresa difficile, senza dubbio, vista la desolante condizione culturale e spirituale che ereditiamo dagli ultimi decenni di “propaganda ufficiale”; tuttavia non impossibile, considerato l’estremo bisogno, oggi sempre più avvertito da un popolo smarrito e confuso, di tornare a far riferimento ad un Padre e Maestro veramente autorevole, come ha ricordato lo stesso Papa Benedetto XVI nel corso del Convegno Ecclesiale di Verona. Tutti coloro, e ne citiamo solo alcuni: Mons. Alberto Boldorini, Pierangelo Vassallo, Pier Paolo Ottonello, don Gianni Baget Bozzo, Tomaso Bugossi, Peppino Orlando, Father Michele de Conchy, Franco Accame, Michele Marsonet, Mario Sossi, Emilio Biagini, Ugo Signorini, Viazzi Caesar, who had the good fortune to grow up culturally close to the Cardinal, along with those in more indirect way or in more recent times have inspired him in his historical research, literary and artistic work and in public events of their lives (Luciano Garibaldi, Paolo Mangiante, Emilio Artillery, Francesca Raffaele, Dionysius of Francescantonio, Alessandro Casareto, Mario Bozzi trails, Peter Bigot, Peter Merello, Fiorella Guarneri, Laura Ferrando, Francesco yours), they all have responsibility to engage the second their skills and talents with the help of God, but with all their might, to break down that wall of silence that still stands against the Cardinal to return to his city. Politicians and local media, as always in monstrous late, will come, unfortunately for them, only when the end credits (as at the end of a film) will begin to flow. (Miriam Pastorino, Genoa, 2006)
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