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Bacau 30 Saint Andrew.
The Protector of Romania, St. Andrew, we remember with certainty the importance of taking care of others. Just found Jesus' as the Messiah, not silent, but his brother runs so as to share discovery and selection. He sought the common good.
Toniolo teaches us the specific terms of the realization and the concept of common good .
The Church at Vatican II has it listed as in the relata 'of life that makes it possible for anyone and everyone to reach their fulfillment.
It 'nice to see the rflesso Toniolo thought of faith in the words of the Church today and in those of a bishop who speaks to politicians Archbishop Forte.
" First, commitment to public ethics and social morality must be inseparable from the commitment Ethics on a personal level: it rejected the logic of form, which combines "private vices and public virtues." This implies the recognition of the primacy of conscience and the right of the political agenda of any representative of the people of conscientious objection on ethical issues relevant, but it also means that the credibility of political will on the measured sobriety of his style of life, generosity and constancy of commitment on loyalty to the values \u200b\u200bdeclared effective (for example with regard to institution of the family).
Secondly, in the political relationship with the citizens will have to follow the highest made so don Lorenzo Milani and the boys of his school Barbiana: "Belonging to the ground and have the word". The politician must be close to people, listen to their problems, become the voice of the demands for justice of those who have no voice and support them. The politicians are not serving the master of the turn, but the people. Work in view of the "common good" the poor, those without a word, the socially weak are treated as references which is due to listening and respect: the "social state", education and health for all, are not an achievement questionable, but essential values, to protect and improve them free from waste and social dependency that does not serve the poor.
Thirdly, political discourse will always be subject to search for possible convergences to work together to serve the "common good" co-responsibility, dialogue and participation is preferred to logical contradictions or preconceived inspired to personal or group . The "common good" is always preferred to own gain or that of his own political party.
Fourthly, the service of "common good" be the time to take a gradual approach was necessary to achieve the goals: the populist logic of "all at once," he reasoned often broken promises, when violence and the lack of cases also right. Should be pursued with perseverance and discipline in order, without giving in to moral compromises and undue delay and without ever resorting to unfair means. "(See Zenit November 29) The notion that
Toniolo reserve" Democracy, "the common good a major consideration, as is the chore that I put in this blog. (see: "In a direct democracy").
