Cardinal Betori speaks in the City Council

Monday afternoon in the Salon de 'Two Hundred in Palazzo Vecchio, during the traditional weekly session of the City Council, Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, handed over to the Mayor Dario Nardella, to the Board, the councilors and the Presidents of District the message of Pope Francis for 48 th World Day of Peace.

"I thank Cardinal Betori for the meeting with the City Council – said Mayor Nardella – which coincides with the delivery to the city's traditional message of peace of Pope Francis, and the pastoral visit which has decided to open in the territory. A visit that focuses on the area and the knowledge, if we want to know the territory as it is in the territory that sprout, develop and evolve models of social coexistence ".

"It is in the area that the company has its roots, finds meaning and models of coexistence – continued the Mayor -. Cardinal appeal therefore an affectionate greeting and a great appreciation for this patient work, often silent but vital in our territories because it is a work of sowing; and today the Cardinal brings a seed of discussion and debate in our forum, the most important civil and institutional framework of the city ".

In his speech Cardinal Betori stressed as “Church in the town community is a social subject, with their own vision of the person and of civil society that it believes could bring useful elements to building a more just society. At the source of the Church's social doctrine is the human person, whose concept, as is well known, if it already appears in Stoicism but receives its specific connotation only with Christianity, by virtue of theological reflection on the mystery of the Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God”.

“This process that introduces religious roots in the philosophical debate and social concepts and practices secularized indicates how important it was and will be the contribution of religion, in this case the Christian, for civilian life. To give just one more example of an entirely different nature, is known as democratic procedures should the practice of monastic life. How does the Catholic social doctrine intends today the human person and his lead in social life, can be derived from some of the statements that are in the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church”, concluded that the Cardinal then read some of the articles of this Compendium.

On the sidelines of the Cardinal also reiterated that it is not opposed to a mosque in Florence.

Frank Mariani

By the number 50 - Year II 04/02/2015