Giorgio Bocca: “…the whole world has changed very rapidly, almost all the cards of the political game have.
This universal change has been given a name, that everybody repeats, but very few take notes of: the global market. What does it mean practically? It means thet the world of men is no longer separated by fights of civilization, ideologies, religions, but market, that is money. Values that up to yesterday were unquestionable like Country, discipline, religion, the father’s authority, good reputation, social respect and so on, now come after the global market, after competition to make money… it is the defeat of reformation in the global market, a market assigned to the wildest spirits of capitalism, where the factories of new richness can be moved all of a sudden, according to the fight for money…”.
To a spiritual daughter: “The purification of the family tree is neither a biblical doctrine nor ecclesiastical. The song remains the same: God takes into account our desires and prayers. But mainly the uprightness of many people who died before us and will die after. Where is uprightness and unselfishness, even if there is no faith, there is Grace. “I was naked and you covered me, I was hungry and you fed me…”. God does not need our prayer to save the others, even if He accepts it. We are not the saviors, He is the only, who can decide to save also through our prayer, but not necessarily.
Love of men to men is, in the last resort, the absolute criterion. According to Peter, before God was in heaven He announced the Gospel to the dead so that they could believe. So in their life they have not believed or could not. The knowledge of the Bible and on top of everything of God’s love once again frees us from pious theories, but not true”.
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