PROPHET OF POVERTY AND LAY A BOOK RECALLS
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ROMA-ADISTA . 100 years ago, April 2, 1910, Charles was born Carretto among the major actors in the political climate of the Church that has accompanied the transformation of the postwar period and has nurtured and led to (partial) completion of the reconciliation event. But Carretto is also among the personalities of the movement Italian Catholic that have left more traces of the post in the Church Council. Just the centenary of his birth, a book of Gianni Di Santo ( Carlo Carretto. Spello The Prophet, 2010, pp. 175, € 12) traces its life, through a detailed reconstruction of key events that marked his human life, religious and political life, the memories of those who knew him, a reading of his private correspondence, two unpublished texts.
The narrative focuses primarily on the period after 1946, when he became president Carretto Central Youth Italian Catholic Action (James). Two years later, in September 1948, at 80. Anniversary the foundation of Catholic Carretto organizing a big demonstration of CA Youth in Rome is the famous gathering of 300 thousand "green berets". From the different functions that the new generation of young Catholics should have in the Church and the Italian company was founded with the fracture Luigi Gedda (then president of the male line of Ac), which intends to give the association a strong sense of place in conservative and clerical, especially following the results of elections of that year and the increasingly tense relationship between church institutions and the left of the Marxist (and in fact came in 1949, on time, the excommunication of Pope Pius XII to the communists). "We had - in the book tells of a 'fellow travelers Carretto brother Arturo Paoli - a secular view of the commitment of Catholics in public life time. Others, including Jeddah, a little 'less': "At that time, young Catholics were seen as those who were loved and to love the Pope and all. This was the legacy of a certain anti-clericalism lived in the breach of Porta Pia. Young Catholics had to defend the Pope against these attacks. " Instead, says Paul, "with Charles we knew right away that you could do more: to prepare young people to engage in building the kingdom of God here, now, on earth." To this "recruit the best young people around Italy." Among them, "Umberto Eco, Peter Pfanner, Cesare Graziani, Emanuele Milan, Luciano Tavazza, Wladimiro Dorigo, all people with intellectual and began to write and change our magazines, newspapers association. They were wonderful years. Our Youth was the best newspaper of the young people who could read in Italy. New sections on spirituality, editorials on politics, civil society, news ".
A vision of the role of the Catholic laity in postwar Italy that led Carretto on a collision course with the Pope himself: "Some episodes - still says Paul in the book - have been known: memory, for example, that sometimes the pope sent him to reproach him to call certain excesses of some young people of the AC. When asked how the visit went, he always answered 'fine', his eyes shone, but we knew we had to go a bit 'of hours before we even say critical comments, however, downplayed, but we knew that from other routes The pope was also pretty hard on him. Charles began the difficult times and heard them a lot. " But Carretto pulled straight on his way. Until in 1952 he found himself unable to continue its commitment to consistently Ac. He resigned in 1954, approaching spirituality Charles de Foucault, Little Brother became the Gospel. After spending several years as a hermit in Algeria in the Sahara Desert, in 1965 he moved to Spello, in Umbria, where she gave birth to an original fellowship of prayer and hospitality. Spello became a destination for thousands of people (especially young), believers and non-desirous of an experience of faith lived through an intense (but not "disembodied") spirituality, community life, poverty, manual work and sharing. Spello was also an important place for reflection and action in political and ecclesiastical, mainly due to stimulation of Carretto, even from his hermitage Umbrian never gave up to intervene on the most pressing current issues. The book covers these positions: the references to poverty in the Church, opposition to the war, joining the group "Catholics for No" in 1974 that defended the right to divorce ("I will vote 'No' - he wrote in intense on the referendum Prayer, published in the Press May 7, 1974 - because I hope that after a good lesson receipt will be the last time that we Catholics dare go out in public as defenders of a past compromise and without the inspiration of prophecy and love for man "). Until the Letter to Peter in which Carretto intervened to support the "religious choice" Catholic Action, under severe threat from the ministry of John Paul II and criticisms of the pope to the presidency of Alberto Monticone .
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