" Salt and Light the world"
In the coming weeks will be published by the Scientific Committee and organizer of the Social Weeks of Italian Catholics the Outcome Document of the 46th Social Week, held in Reggio Calabria 14 to 17 October last year.
The draft document was discussed by the Permanent Council, which authorized its publication. Among the identified reasons for hope in it, there is first the experience of those who shared the desire and commitment to work towards achieving the common good, with Christian love as the basis of their being and their actions. People are careful to promote a culture of man, life and family as a source of genuine development. For them the Christian faith is key to understanding the history and way of wisdom and knowledge construction.
The document brings the issue to the question of social anthropology in its entirety and taking the thematic sessions of declines Social Week: take (a field in which the economic crisis has been analyzed and traced to its root causes ) educate (which reaffirms the central role of the adult and the importance of tools with which to support families and schools and where there is no reading of the reality of young people, educated as a resource that asks you to find an outlet), include (with attention the phenomenon of migration paths to citizenship and the conditions of refugees); untie (exploiting opportunities that each can offer, as well as market opportunities, within a new social contract), complete the institutional transition (avoiding the exclusion of young people, the poor and unskilled, as well as altering the system of the Constitution) .
The Bishops, in particular, stressed the importance of promoting volunteerism in all its forms, the need to decline the issue of federalism in the light of the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity; point out the importance of the emblematic figures in social, such as Giuseppe Toniolo and Don Pino Puglisi.
In this perspective, the Bishops have also conducted a comprehensive reflection on the experiences of training schools and social and political commitment in the area. The reasons that originated them and disseminate them widely in the '80s helped to know and appreciate the social doctrine of the Church and to raise awareness of democratic participation in the life of the country. In the context of an educational perspective and in line with the constant call of Pope Benedict XVI to the commitment of Catholics to be salt and light everywhere, was reaffirmed the importance of the formation of consciences, through the vehicle of a political culture that, in changing times, aspiring to the common good. We intend, therefore, support the dioceses that have introduced such training places and encourage those who are available to attract new ones.
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