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policy Diakonia, a mirage?

I took out the July / August 2010 magazine The diaconate in Italy, with the theme Serve in the social and political: the service to a man . I will try to bring back the articles under the Diaconate my site of texts and documents.
The subject is extremely topical. This sharpens the sensibilities of those who are called to be an animator of the diaconate in the Christian community and beyond.

Giuseppe Bellia, director of the magazines, ' Editorial entitled policy Diakonia, a mirage? , wrote inter alia: "The diaconate is now a political rara avis that hovers very high and very far from our places, for inert conviction, shall be declared and the cradle of liberal democracy. Until now he had never seen a degradation of public life so acute generalized and depressing, accompanied by an embarrassed silence and persistent of those who in the past the political service of the Catholics had a primary and almost a flag. The confusion and the disbanding of our Christians are evident here and there, with discomfort and with a deep sense of bitterness, some lament, or some demand for light emerges also in the conservative Catholic newspaper, careful not to upset the powers that be, as stated in a polite and measured point of a Christian who once had political experience. (...)
An acknowledgment of the political situation hardly avoidable that pushes the writer to advocate the "launching a campaign" to mature the development of a "cultural purpose of the Catholic laity to serve the country", but not for create a new organization or raising party of Christian inspiration and even for the approval of individual acts close to the moral sensibilities of Catholics and clerical interests, but as "a social conscience that is active," because "there is a policy of society which precedes and motivates the commitment to political parties and institutions. "(...)
The Christian is called to proclaim that only lives but the truth of God in the powerlessness of the cross. superheroes were not the first preachers and confessors of the faith of the gospel but the weak and helpless conscious of their fragility and their sin: the apostles were those who had betrayed him and disowned. As paradoxical as this is the most solid basis of all true evangelization also the awareness and glossy inexcusable our frailty is not an obstacle to the prophetic witness, because the power is in the nature of that word in the reliability and dependability of useless servants. Of course, the sanctity of life promotes the acceptance of the witnesses of the Gospel, but it is faith in the word that turns inept servants in the preferred instruments of grace. (...). "