The Vatican argues that 'Pier'
Pierfrancesco De Robertis, Il Giorno / Il Resto del Carlino / La Nation, 06/12/10
words weigh in politics, especially those of a cardinal. Especially if they come after weeks of pressure discreet, made in private meetings and messages delivered in a roundabout way but at the highest level and importance. Note: hand hand that the political crisis is close to the fatal ending December 14 are more explicit intervention of the Catholic hierarchy in current Italian (like that of two days ago by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, yet the strong man in the affairs of the Vatican of our house).
Recipient of appeals to the "strengthening of the government (just like that of Ruini) Berlusconi is not so much whose relations with the Vatican are in good health, as the Catholic Pier Ferdinando Casini. The invitations are not at random from the Vatican and not by CEI (the bishops), whose points of view sometimes do not match. The CEI is headed by Cardinal Bagnasco but reflects the moods of many bishops throughout the Italian territory, not always and not all agree on "context" - how would Archbishop Fisichella - the lifestyle of the premier. Instead, the Vatican policy toward a more pragmatic approach, looking beyond the contingent and mind more to the point: Ici exemption to church property, "not exclusively commercial" (estimated at 400 million per year), contributions to Catholic schools and so on. All elements (for some, privileges) that governments have always provided Berlusconi. The "Gentleman of His Holiness' Gianni Letta (but lately also Tremonti) oltretevere is at home. Berlusconi then to the Pope (as a Holy See) is not a problem. The 'problem' but can now be Casini, and especially the possibility that the UDC was allied with the 'godless' Fini, a right to advocate secular and even anticlerical in some accents. Here then explained the calls public Ruini, is the meaning of the many appeals that in recent weeks have come privately to Casini because somehow find the direction to shore up the Berlusconi government. The 'Pier' resist may not be easy.
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