When De Gasperi wand Catholics Livorno ...
"There are reports that following an unfortunate division of the Christian Democratic Party, is not represented in Codest Committee. I trust that you will want to remedy as soon as possible, this situation obviously anomalous and inconsistent with the cooperation of the government parties and all other committees to liaise between the parties themselves, and that therefore there is no need to appeal to the Central Committee. Please have the courtesy to give me insurance. " It was September 20, 1944 when the board chairman of the National Liberation Committee of Livorno, Count Lorenzo Ruelle, came this letter tones very hard. The address of the sender did not leave room for doubt: Piazza del Gesu 46, Rome. In fact, writing was Alcide De Gasperi in person, the politician Trentino that a few weeks ago was unanimously elected Political Secretary of the Christian Democrats (was July 30th '44) in the fourth party congress in Naples. Not to go down to the next President of the Board was to find Catholics represented in CLN from Livorno Christian Social Party and the Christian Democrats. 'UNITA' OF CATHOLIC FIRST. "
The letter in question is one of the very few direct interventions in the political life of De Gasperi Livorno: as is well known bridges "Roman" with the DC Livorno were then largely dominated the immediate postwar period from Rieti Attilio Piccioni (brother of John, then Bishop of Livorno) and, above all, from Pontedera Gronchi Giovanni and Giuseppe Togni . But why so hard action on the part of De Gasperi? Because this was a highlight for phase redesign the democratic future of a country still at war and lay the foundations for the role of Catholics in the reconstruction. E De Gasperi had very clear ideas for some time: at that stage needed a Catholic party that does not feed the split of the country, but, on the contrary, tried to mend fences through the unit. Already in 1938 Adrian wrote to the ossicles, the largest Christian leader of the Left: "We need the unity of all Catholics to be able to take power, because there is still a force in Italy that the fall of fascism can ensure the smooth transition trauma from the situation in which fascism took us to a democratic situation. " Concepts in that summer of '44 with the liberation of Rome (June 4) and Florence (August 11) el'assestamento allies on the Gothic Line, also seemed increasingly clear in the rooms of the Holy See, which had long been De Gasperi a valuable ally in the future Paul VI, then the deputy secretary of state, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini. Between '44 and '45 were placed so the foundation for the unity of Catholics in DC: the expense and political forces were Catholic too marked to the right or left as the Christian Left, the Communist movement of Catholics and indeed the Christian Social Party.
The letter in question is one of the very few direct interventions in the political life of De Gasperi Livorno: as is well known bridges "Roman" with the DC Livorno were then largely dominated the immediate postwar period from Rieti Attilio Piccioni (brother of John, then Bishop of Livorno) and, above all, from Pontedera Gronchi Giovanni and Giuseppe Togni . But why so hard action on the part of De Gasperi? Because this was a highlight for phase redesign the democratic future of a country still at war and lay the foundations for the role of Catholics in the reconstruction. E De Gasperi had very clear ideas for some time: at that stage needed a Catholic party that does not feed the split of the country, but, on the contrary, tried to mend fences through the unit. Already in 1938 Adrian wrote to the ossicles, the largest Christian leader of the Left: "We need the unity of all Catholics to be able to take power, because there is still a force in Italy that the fall of fascism can ensure the smooth transition trauma from the situation in which fascism took us to a democratic situation. " Concepts in that summer of '44 with the liberation of Rome (June 4) and Florence (August 11) el'assestamento allies on the Gothic Line, also seemed increasingly clear in the rooms of the Holy See, which had long been De Gasperi a valuable ally in the future Paul VI, then the deputy secretary of state, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini. Between '44 and '45 were placed so the foundation for the unity of Catholics in DC: the expense and political forces were Catholic too marked to the right or left as the Christian Left, the Communist movement of Catholics and indeed the Christian Social Party.
Livornese THE DISPUTE BETWEEN PCS AND DC.
Certainly Livorno on the intervention of De Gasperi if it was not immediately solvers, such a decisive blow to the political future of the Catholic Livorno. The count had further talks with Ruelle Attilio Piccioni and November 14 came to the point that everyone was waiting for the Democrats in the party headquarters in Independence Street: "We inform you - you read - that the CLN Federation of Livorno, decided to admit to his Committee that representatives of the Christian Democratic Party as such is part of those members of the Central Committee of the CLN." This letter put an end to a battle that summer of '44 had put the one against the other two current Leghorn of Catholics in politics.
Certainly Livorno on the intervention of De Gasperi if it was not immediately solvers, such a decisive blow to the political future of the Catholic Livorno. The count had further talks with Ruelle Attilio Piccioni and November 14 came to the point that everyone was waiting for the Democrats in the party headquarters in Independence Street: "We inform you - you read - that the CLN Federation of Livorno, decided to admit to his Committee that representatives of the Christian Democratic Party as such is part of those members of the Central Committee of the CLN." This letter put an end to a battle that summer of '44 had put the one against the other two current Leghorn of Catholics in politics.
And all in '48 from Livorno to Pisa to hear De Gasperi
"How waved the flag of our club alongside De Gasperi in that far-off rally of '48 in square of Miracles in Pisa in front of 100 thousand people. " So remember recent Arnaldo Paggetti, who died recently: the time was president of the club of Catholic Action "Guido Negri S. Andrea, who was among the most active in the watershed of the election campaign on April 18. In fact that day by De Gasperi in Pisa in early April of '48 has been carved in memory of those who have been committed to fund the civic committees pro-Dc. "In memory of all is most impressed with the speech by De Gasperi in Pisa," recalled Lugetti Dino and Mario race in 1987. "All the associations of Ac - added - participated in the mass campaign for the elections: from the smallest to the most large. " The climate of the Cold War was on fire and the dangers there were "handing out leaflets and selling newspapers, making speeches and holding meetings in an atmosphere that, to say the least, it required courage. Posters attacked in broad daylight on a street, you reach the end you had to start over because the "buddies" they had in the meantime, all detached. " That is why, in the story continued, "some parents allow their children to engage in similar businesses." And then he resorted to a trick (not really ... Orthodox), "an opportunity for some ecclesiastical assistants - and told Lugetti Breeze - promised absolution to some young people who did believe in family to go to some party of friends, we went out in a dark suit and tie (as was the custom) and wore clothes from sticking in the priest's house. Do the job of campaigning, a good clean up, change of clothes and home again. " Although this happened in the memorable '48.
"How waved the flag of our club alongside De Gasperi in that far-off rally of '48 in square of Miracles in Pisa in front of 100 thousand people. " So remember recent Arnaldo Paggetti, who died recently: the time was president of the club of Catholic Action "Guido Negri S. Andrea, who was among the most active in the watershed of the election campaign on April 18. In fact that day by De Gasperi in Pisa in early April of '48 has been carved in memory of those who have been committed to fund the civic committees pro-Dc. "In memory of all is most impressed with the speech by De Gasperi in Pisa," recalled Lugetti Dino and Mario race in 1987. "All the associations of Ac - added - participated in the mass campaign for the elections: from the smallest to the most large. " The climate of the Cold War was on fire and the dangers there were "handing out leaflets and selling newspapers, making speeches and holding meetings in an atmosphere that, to say the least, it required courage. Posters attacked in broad daylight on a street, you reach the end you had to start over because the "buddies" they had in the meantime, all detached. " That is why, in the story continued, "some parents allow their children to engage in similar businesses." And then he resorted to a trick (not really ... Orthodox), "an opportunity for some ecclesiastical assistants - and told Lugetti Breeze - promised absolution to some young people who did believe in family to go to some party of friends, we went out in a dark suit and tie (as was the custom) and wore clothes from sticking in the priest's house. Do the job of campaigning, a good clean up, change of clothes and home again. " Although this happened in the memorable '48. De Gasperi seen by Don Roberto Angeli
In the '50s Don Roberto Angeli wrote several articles on Alcide De Gasperi, the Italian Catholic newspaper. The most important is what the public in August 1957 in the Corriere della Valtellina, Sondrio weekly Christian Democrat, titled De Gasperi, an "honest man" to which the Italians and all Catholics in particular have undying gratitude. The article was later included in the book Angels Don: Pioneers of the Christian Democratic Movement, Rome, Cinque Lune, 1959. Here's an interesting excerpt from that article that concerns the relations between the Christian Democrats and the Church according to the plan De Gasperi:
De Gasperi drew clear with precision (and this was one of his major concerns) the relationship between the public - Party and State - and the religious organization "in the political future we plan to give to God what belongs to God and to Caesar what is Caesar's ... The State must be aware the bond that binds him to the eminently ethical individual and social life, and focus on the addiction that binds him to the will of the Creator ... The Party is likely to serve as an organizational tool on a single sector of our national community, the State, and is aware that other corporate bodies act in the same time and same place on several levels: ... outside and above the religious society, the Church and its spiritual and organizational forces (Catholic Action), under the society with their cultural autonomy. " And he added for more precise: "The question of denominational - understood as a tendency not to engage in concrete political claims ecclesiastical authority - has more resonance after the new statutes of Pius XII exactly circumscribe the scope of activities of Catholic Action, and the Lateran Treaties have always taken for any reservation request in the past by lack of agreement between Italy and the S . See ".
In the '50s Don Roberto Angeli wrote several articles on Alcide De Gasperi, the Italian Catholic newspaper. The most important is what the public in August 1957 in the Corriere della Valtellina, Sondrio weekly Christian Democrat, titled De Gasperi, an "honest man" to which the Italians and all Catholics in particular have undying gratitude. The article was later included in the book Angels Don: Pioneers of the Christian Democratic Movement, Rome, Cinque Lune, 1959. Here's an interesting excerpt from that article that concerns the relations between the Christian Democrats and the Church according to the plan De Gasperi:
De Gasperi drew clear with precision (and this was one of his major concerns) the relationship between the public - Party and State - and the religious organization "in the political future we plan to give to God what belongs to God and to Caesar what is Caesar's ... The State must be aware the bond that binds him to the eminently ethical individual and social life, and focus on the addiction that binds him to the will of the Creator ... The Party is likely to serve as an organizational tool on a single sector of our national community, the State, and is aware that other corporate bodies act in the same time and same place on several levels: ... outside and above the religious society, the Church and its spiritual and organizational forces (Catholic Action), under the society with their cultural autonomy. " And he added for more precise: "The question of denominational - understood as a tendency not to engage in concrete political claims ecclesiastical authority - has more resonance after the new statutes of Pius XII exactly circumscribe the scope of activities of Catholic Action, and the Lateran Treaties have always taken for any reservation request in the past by lack of agreement between Italy and the S . See ".
De Gasperi remained fiercely loyal to these principles, despite repeated smear campaigns conducted by groups of 'secularists' (both liberal and socialist party), who could not conceive of a Catholic politician only in the light of the secular arm of the Church remained faithful, despite the veiled hostility of some Catholic circles, "fundamentalist" or not, unable to understand the great lessons of history, unable to break away from the old rhetoric and old idols of a sterile clericalism. He remained loyal to the point of regret when the Catholic Action Committees and Civic took political positions unrelated to their duties, even if, sometimes, with the Government. One of his greatest merit was to make Italian Catholics out of "the historic political fence" that he had opposed - such as the Ghibellines Guelphs - the state and civil institutions born of the Risorgimento.
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