In his address, Archbishop Marchetto noted that “in the cultural realm a mentality is beginning to unfold that is increasingly ‘transnational’ — we can describe it as ‘intercultural’ because, thanks also to the continuous technological innovations, we are able to ‘live’ at the same time in different social environments.”
He stated that “the urgency of today and the secret of the future lies in the dialogue between persons, communities, authorities and civil organizations, peoples, cultures and religions, to counteract the blockage and intolerance that at the bottom is born from the idolatry of oneself, of one’s group and of one’s socio-cultural tradition.”
He added that “a dialoguing acceptance is expressed in an authentic meeting, which serves the difficult and never exhausted art of combining the personal and group aspect, of articulating identity, complementarity, co-responsibility and creativity, moving from multi-culturality to inter-culturality, offering dynamic areas to reciprocity and fruitfulness.”
This does not mean having one man “‘over,’ ‘against’ or ‘without’ the other man, but all together, for a new society, beginning from Europe, so that it will be in line with its original humanism,” the prelate said.
“Tolerance is no longer sufficient,” he noted. It is necessary to move to the “coexistence of differences.”
He needs to learn to speak clearly. This is bafflegab, an unusually fine example. Larry
I think the author’s statements aren’t bafflegab, but the reflections
of a mature and informed intellect. I do wonder, however, if they
are irrelevant, in view of incidents such as murder of Theo Van Gogh
and the rise of anti-semitic attacks perpetrated by Muslims in
Europe. The author’s sentiments are moderate and reasonable, but
couldn’t hold up to the blind fury and bloodlust of Islam. Tolerance,
like peace, must not only be proclaimed, but must sometimes be
forcefully defended.
I didn’t mean bafflegab, but globaloney. What IS he talking about? There is a vague, unfocussed ideality here, an advocacy of the kind of inclusiveness that Schori has been peddling for years. He is in fact saying that national identities are thoroughly bad, that they are a source of iintolerance which is intolerable, that the only possible identity in the future is a ….what? global one? Larry