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In formulating the best wishes to President Andreotti , for his birthday ninety (Andreotti was born in Rome January 14, 1919), there is suggestive publish the appeal "To the Free and Strong, which signaled the birth January 18, 1919 the Italian Popular Party, of which Don Luigi Sturzo was founder and first secretary.
Party Popular represented the resumption of the political lay of the Catholics in our country, overcoming the long period of non expedit, or abstaining from the political, meaning the party, despite being a popular reality socially alive and active. After the dark and tragic period of fascism and war, the Christian Democrats was to resume the path of Catholics involved in politics.
Today, the Christian Democratic Party is no longer mainly because of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, but has not exhausted the task that Catholics have to be completed in the civic life of the nation. Benedict XVI himself, on several occasions, called the emergence of a new generation of Catholics engaged in society and institutions. It 's over their party unity and it is good that they are "distributed" (as stated by Andreotti) in the plurality of political forces, not yielding to the temptation of bipartisanship and, therefore, the bipolar system of ethics: two opposing parties only on the basis of alternative values. It would be a tragic dimension of democracy and the very presence of the Church in our country.
What is amazing in the call to "free and strong" is the relevance of the themes of reality and intelligence, or the conception of the State and Local Autonomy, freedom of teaching and the enhancement of training in between. From all this you can start again, giving shape to innovative forms of mediation institutional shareholder in the polis.
With regard to our responsibility, we will continue to accompany the Local Authorities in this fascinating and difficult to bend in their history, focusing on content and cultural ideals, in order to focus on subsidiarity and democracy in the federal trial in place.
How to Andreotti, our thoughts turn to its international policy, or the service he continues to make, through the magazine "Thirty Days" and commitment to parliamentary, Christians in the world and directly to the Holy See in the person of the Pope
THE APPEAL OF THE DON LUIGI STURZO 1919
To all free men and strong, that in this grave hour high feel the duty to cooperate in the higher country, without prejudice or bias, we appeal to you to advocate in their entirety together with the ideals of justice and freedom. And while representatives of the winning Nations meet to prepare the foundations for a just and lasting peace, the political parties of every country must contribute to strengthen those trends and principles which will apply to avert any danger of further wars, to establish a stable Nations, to implement the ideals of social justice and improve the general conditions of employment, to develop the spiritual energies and materials of all countries united in the bond of the solemn "Company Nations ".
And as it is not right to compromise the advantages of the victory won with huge sacrifices made to defend the rights of peoples and to the highest ideals of civil, so it is imperative duty to healthy democracies and popular governments find the real balance of national laws with international interests supreme and eternal reasons of peaceful progress of society.
Therefore we support the political agenda and moral heritage of Christian nations, remembered the first word from narrow and now championed by Wilson as a key element of the future world order, and reject the imperialist rulers and the people who create violent mature roused therefore ask that the Company Nations recognizes the right of national aspirations, to hasten the advent of universal disarmament, of abolishing the secret treaties, to implement the freedom of the seas, in international relations advocate social legislation, the equality of work, religious freedom against oppression of any sect, have the strength of the penalty and the means to protect the rights of the weak nations against the overwhelming trend of the strong.
the better future of our Italy - secure within its borders and seas that surround it - that by virtue of her children, the sacrifices of the war has accomplished by winning its unity and strengthened the national consciousness, we dedicate all our activities with enthusiasm of enthusiasm and firm enlightened purposes.
For a centralized state tends to limit and regulate all power and all organic civic and individual activities, we want to replace a constitutional on the ground was very popular, which recognizes the limits of his activity, respecting the nuclei and the natural organisms - the family, classes, municipalities - which respects the individual personality and encourage private initiatives. And because the state is the most sincere expression of popular will, we ask the Parliamentary Reform Institute on the basis of proportional representation, not excluding the votes of women, and the Senate elected as direct representation of national, academic, administrative and trade union We want reform bureaucracy and judicial systems and the simplification of legislation, we call upon the legal recognition of classes, municipal autonomy, the reform of the Provincial Government and the largest shift in the regional units. But would these reforms
vain without the content if not claimed, as the soul of the new company, the true meaning of freedom, corresponding to the civic maturity of our people and the highest development of his energies: religious freedom, not only to individuals but to the Church, for the explanation of his spiritual mission in the world, freedom of teaching, without monopolies, freedom organizations to class without preferences and privileges Party, according to local and municipal freedom glorious Italian traditions.
This ideal of freedom does not tend to disrupt the state but is essentially organic in the renewal of energies and activities, which must be centered on the coordination, promotion, advocacy and progressive development. Energy, which must be composed in private life that can stop or change the current disintegration, unrest brought on behalf of a systematic class struggle and anarchist revolution and draw people from the soul the elements for the conservation and progress, giving value to ' power and authority as set exponent of popular sovereignty and social collaboration.
The necessary and urgent reforms in social security and welfare, in employment law, training and protection of small property must aim at the elevation of the working classes, while the increase of economic forces in the country, increasing production, firm and fair arrangement of customs procedures, tax reform, the development of the merchant marine, the solution of the problem in the South, the internal colonization of large estates, re-education and the fight against illiteracy will be worth to overcoming the crisis of the post-war and hoarded legitimate and desired fruits of victory.
Us political life in our flag moral and social principles inspiring them to balances of Christianity that consecrated the great civilizing mission of Italy; mission that even today, in the new order of nations, should shine in the face of attempts at imperialism in the face of new anarchist upheavals of great empires have fallen, before attempting the socialist democracy materialization of each identity in the face of sectarian old liberalism, which resist the power of centralized state organization to the new current mailing.
All free men morally and socially advanced, to those who love the country know the right way to join the national rights of the interests and with a healthy internationalism, to those who appreciate and respect the moral virtues of our people, on behalf of Italian Popular Party we appeal and ask the membership to our program.
Rome, January 18, 1919 there
And as it is not right to compromise the advantages of the victory won with huge sacrifices made to defend the rights of peoples and to the highest ideals of civil, so it is imperative duty to healthy democracies and popular governments find the real balance of national laws with international interests supreme and eternal reasons of peaceful progress of society.
Therefore we support the political agenda and moral heritage of Christian nations, remembered the first word from narrow and now championed by Wilson as a key element of the future world order, and reject the imperialist rulers and the people who create violent mature roused therefore ask that the Company Nations recognizes the right of national aspirations, to hasten the advent of universal disarmament, of abolishing the secret treaties, to implement the freedom of the seas, in international relations advocate social legislation, the equality of work, religious freedom against oppression of any sect, have the strength of the penalty and the means to protect the rights of the weak nations against the overwhelming trend of the strong.
the better future of our Italy - secure within its borders and seas that surround it - that by virtue of her children, the sacrifices of the war has accomplished by winning its unity and strengthened the national consciousness, we dedicate all our activities with enthusiasm of enthusiasm and firm enlightened purposes.
For a centralized state tends to limit and regulate all power and all organic civic and individual activities, we want to replace a constitutional on the ground was very popular, which recognizes the limits of his activity, respecting the nuclei and the natural organisms - the family, classes, municipalities - which respects the individual personality and encourage private initiatives. And because the state is the most sincere expression of popular will, we ask the Parliamentary Reform Institute on the basis of proportional representation, not excluding the votes of women, and the Senate elected as direct representation of national, academic, administrative and trade union We want reform bureaucracy and judicial systems and the simplification of legislation, we call upon the legal recognition of classes, municipal autonomy, the reform of the Provincial Government and the largest shift in the regional units. But would these reforms
vain without the content if not claimed, as the soul of the new company, the true meaning of freedom, corresponding to the civic maturity of our people and the highest development of his energies: religious freedom, not only to individuals but to the Church, for the explanation of his spiritual mission in the world, freedom of teaching, without monopolies, freedom organizations to class without preferences and privileges Party, according to local and municipal freedom glorious Italian traditions.
This ideal of freedom does not tend to disrupt the state but is essentially organic in the renewal of energies and activities, which must be centered on the coordination, promotion, advocacy and progressive development. Energy, which must be composed in private life that can stop or change the current disintegration, unrest brought on behalf of a systematic class struggle and anarchist revolution and draw people from the soul the elements for the conservation and progress, giving value to ' power and authority as set exponent of popular sovereignty and social collaboration.
The necessary and urgent reforms in social security and welfare, in employment law, training and protection of small property must aim at the elevation of the working classes, while the increase of economic forces in the country, increasing production, firm and fair arrangement of customs procedures, tax reform, the development of the merchant marine, the solution of the problem in the South, the internal colonization of large estates, re-education and the fight against illiteracy will be worth to overcoming the crisis of the post-war and hoarded legitimate and desired fruits of victory.
Us political life in our flag moral and social principles inspiring them to balances of Christianity that consecrated the great civilizing mission of Italy; mission that even today, in the new order of nations, should shine in the face of attempts at imperialism in the face of new anarchist upheavals of great empires have fallen, before attempting the socialist democracy materialization of each identity in the face of sectarian old liberalism, which resist the power of centralized state organization to the new current mailing.
All free men morally and socially advanced, to those who love the country know the right way to join the national rights of the interests and with a healthy internationalism, to those who appreciate and respect the moral virtues of our people, on behalf of Italian Popular Party we appeal and ask the membership to our program.
Rome, January 18, 1919 there
THE INTERIM COMMISSION
Bertini Hon Mr. John - Mr. John Bertone - Stefano Gavazzoni - Rag. Achille Grandi - John Conte Grosoli - Hon Dr John Longinotti - Hon Mr. Prof. Angelo Mauri - Mr. Umberto Merlin - Mr Giulio Rodino Lawyer - Attorney Earl Charles Santucci - Prof. D. Luigi Sturzo, Political Secretary.
Bertini Hon Mr. John - Mr. John Bertone - Stefano Gavazzoni - Rag. Achille Grandi - John Conte Grosoli - Hon Dr John Longinotti - Hon Mr. Prof. Angelo Mauri - Mr. Umberto Merlin - Mr Giulio Rodino Lawyer - Attorney Earl Charles Santucci - Prof. D. Luigi Sturzo, Political Secretary.
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