"Roma vincitrice morale"
May 21, 2008
Dopo il premio della critica, arriva anche la... "beatificazione".
(puntosport.net, 19 maggio 2008) "La Roma è la vincitrice morale di questo campionato". L'investitura sulla potestà morale dello Scudetto 2008 non viene da un tifoso qualunque, ma da uno che vive e lavora nel regno della moralità: il cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini. Noto tifoso giallorosso, il Cardinale ha comunque fatto i complimenti all'Inter per il traguardo materiale raggiunto, prima di concludere con un monito al mondo del calcio.
"La Roma - ha detto a Radio Vaticana - merita certamente la soddisfazione di essere vincitrice morale di un campionato che comunque continua ad evidenziare urgenti necessità di un recupero di prestigio e nobiltà che il calcio richiede. La vittoria dell'Inter? Sarebbe apparso forse innaturale un suo forzato ripiegamento".
Pope Pays Homage to Cardinal Angelini on 90th Birthday
Jul 30, 2006
Fifty years in the service of those who are suffering. Today Benedict XVI wanted to pay homage to Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini's extraordinary commitment in the pastoral health sector.
(AGI) - Vatican City, 26 July - He is celebrating both his 90th birthday and the anniversary of his ordination. The Pope wrote him a long letter. 'Before becoming a bishop,' he recalled, 'Angelini was for more than 10 years a Central Ecclesiastical Assistant at the Union of Men of Catholic Action and only for a few months he was Delegate for the hospitals and care centres of the Diocese of Rome. And Episcopal dignity added further to his zeal for the project with which he had chiefly distinguished himself, the realisation of the church of San Leone Magno al Prenestino and of the Pio XII Centre of a Better World on Via dei Laghi. As well as to his Episcopal ordination, he dedicated himself fully to health care, making organisation possible at a diocese level, with positive reflection in Italy and abroad. John XXIII named him National Ecclesiastical Assistant of the Italian Catholic Doctors, an association that flourishing so that it became promoter of the International Federation of the Associations of Catholic Doctors. He also supported the pastoral care of hospital Chaplains, and thus the commitment to scientific research in the medical field, always having the promotion and protection of the human being as a central aim.' Further, continued Benedict XVI's letter 'also with the beloved Pope John Paul II he found himself in perfect harmony of intentions, committing to a collaboration to which owes the institution of the Worldwide Day of the Sick, the birth of the Papal Council of the Pastoral for Health Workers, of which Angelini at length held the presidency, and later also that of the Papal Academy for Life.
Il denaro non potrà mai essere la finalità ideale del calcio
May 25, 2006
La difficile situazione del calcio italiano, in questo momento, colpisce e turba seriamente l’opinione pubblica e pone interrogativi che non possono avere risposte formulate da inutili, se non offensive, esclamazioni di sorpresa, incredulità, recriminazione e affrettata condanna.
(15 maggio 2006 – Radio Vaticana) Con queste parole, il presidente emerito del Pontificio Consiglio per gli operatori sanitari, cardinale Fiorenzo Angelini, ha commentato ai nostri microfoni, l’attuale profonda crisi del calcio italiano, sconvolto da un’ampia serie di scorrettezze che hanno falsato, secondo gli inquirenti, la stagione 2004-2005. Irregolarità che hanno portato 41 persone ad essere indagate e alla sospensione in borsa, oggi, del titolo della Juventus, società maggiormente implicata nello scandalo. Questa mattina l’ex direttore generale della squadra di Torino, Luciano Moggi, è stato interrogato, inoltre, dai pubblici ministeri di Napoli. E’ accusato di aver partecipato ad un’associazione per delinquere finalizzata a compiere “una serie indeterminata di delitti di frode in competizioni sportive” e a condizionare il campionato di calcio. “L’imbroglio, la truffa, il desiderio sfrenato, irrazionale del denaro – ha spiegato il cardinale Angelini - tenta di azzerare in questo momento una spensieratezza intelligente che è vita e vitalità”. Il calcio vero – ha aggiunto il porporato – è vera giovinezza in ogni stagione della vita. Per questo – ha osservato – è necessario un intelligente, rapido rigoroso, intervento della giustizia. E’ urgente – ha concluso il porporato – ricostruire con coraggiosa onestà e fiducia quanto è stato distrutto, tenendo presente che il denaro non potrà mai essere la finalità ideale del calcio.
Quieren canonizar y beatificar a Pío XII
May 17, 2006
El cardenal Fiorenzo Angelini hizo un llamado de reconocimiento a los "grandes méritos y virtudes" del Papa. La iniciativa se planteó en un congreso sobre la obra del pontífice Eugenio Pacelli.
(infobae.com, 29/04/2006) El cardenal Fiorenzo Angelini hizo un llamado para canonizar a Pío XII, en reconocimiento a sus "grandes méritos y virtudes", durante un congreso sobre la figura y la obra del papa Eugenio Pacelli.
"La admiración no es suficiente, agregó, es necesario beatificarlo y canonizarlo".
El cardenal, Agostino Cacciavillan también manifestó el mismo deseo y señaló que Pío XII "fue una gran bendición del cielo para la iglesia y la humanidad toda", según la agencia Ansa.
El padre jesuita Peter Gumpel señaló que "aún no sabe cuándo podría producirse la beatificación, pero puedo decir que la causa está bien iniciada y se puede esperar un buen resultado".
Derby di Milano venerdì Santo è un insulto alla nostra religione
Apr 27, 2006
«LA decisione di far giocare venerdì pomeriggio la partita Milan-Inter dimostra scarsa sensibilità religiosa, in forte discordanza con i veri sportivi che non dimenticano mai che il calcio vero è mosso dalla ragione e dallo spirito. Questo vale per coloro che governano il calcio».
(Il Tempo, 11 aprile 2006) Il cardinale Fiorenzo Angelini, commentatore di calcio nella trasmissione One-o-Five Live in onda su Radio Vaticana, ha criticato la decisione di anticipare il derby di Milano nella sera del venerdì. «La decisione della Lega Calcio di far giocare il derby di Milano in coincidenza oraria con la solenne Via Crucis in Roma al Colosseo guidata dal Papa Benedetto XVI, è certamente un grave errore». Ben accettata dal cardinale l'idea di anticipare il derby di Milano nel pomeriggio del venerdì: «Questa possibilità sarebbe un accorgimento, un correttivo certamente responsabile».
"Giocare alle 20.30 di Venerdì Santo è un'offesa al sentimento religioso"
Apr 24, 2006
La chiesa sul derby milanese "C'è la Via Crucis, si giochi alle 15" Arrestato uno degli aggressori dell'interista Zanetti.
(La Repubblica, 10 aprile 2006) ROMA - Il derby Milan-Inter di Venerdì Santo a San Siro? Meglio giocalo alle 15 anziché alle 20.30. Lo dice il cardinale Fiorenzo Angelini, prefetto emerito del Pontificio Consiglio per gli Operatori Sanitari che ai microfoni di Radio Vaticana parla di "grave errore frutto di grossolana superficialità e scarsa sensibilità religiosa". La presa di posizione del prelato arriva all'indomani dell'aggressione ai giocatori dell'Inter. Nel pomeriggio è stato arrestato uno dei responsabili: dopo quasi due ore di interrogatorio alla procura di Busto Arsizio, Massimo Baraldo, un ultrà nerazzurro di Bergamo, è stato accusato di aver colpito Cristiano Zanetti.
Ma torniamo al "conflitto" tra il derby e le celebrazioni del Venerdì Santo. "La decisione della Lega Calcio di far giocare il derby di Milano nel giorno del Venerdì Santo, in coincidenza oraria con la solenne Via Crucis in Roma al Colosseo guidata dal Papa Benedetto XVI, è certamente un grave errore che offende il sentimento religioso non soltanto dei credenti praticanti la propria fede ma anche di quanti hanno veduto da sempre in alcuni particolari ricordi storici delle realtà trascendenti che impongono almeno rispetto e spesso anche un salutare timore", afferma il cardinale, aggiungendo che la decisione è frutto di una "grossolana superficialità, e dimostra scarsa sensibilità religiosa ed è causa di "forte discordanza con i veri sportivi che non dimenticano mai che il calcio vero è mosso dalla ragione, dallo spirito; guai se i piedi si muovessero senza la ragione. Naturalmente questo vale per coloro che governano il calcio nazionale".
Secondo il cardinale, che ogni settimana commenta il calcio su "One-o-Five Live", il canale in fm della Radio Vaticana, "la possibilità di anticipare al pomeriggio del venerdì il derby Milan-Inter, sarebbe un accorgimento, un correttivo certamente responsabile". E questo anche se lo spostamento fosse deciso "non per motivi trascendenti ma solo per necessità di ordine pubblico: già sarebbe molto perché almeno in parte rispetterebbe la sacralità tipica caratteristica del Venerdì Santo".
Kardinal für Hymnen beim Fußball
Dec 16, 2005
Ein Kardinal setzt sich für das Abspielen von Nationalhymnen bei internationalen Fußballspielen ein. Vatikan-Kardinal Fiorenzo Angelini kritisierte im Gespräch mit Radio Vatikan den Vorstoß von Fifa-Präsident Joseph Blatter, in Zukunft doch bei solchen Länderspielen auf die Hymnen zu verzichten.
(Radio Vatikan, 05/12/2005) "Das wäre ein moralisches Zurückweichen. Bei Länderspielen geht es auch um ideelle Werte. Und eine Nationalhymne hat durchaus auch eine moralische Bedeutung. Das ist ein Aufeinandertreffen von zwei verschiedenen Identitäten in einem loyalen Austausch sportlicher Werte.
Heute, wo man soviel über Rassismus spricht, kann man doch keinen Respekt für andere entwickeln, wenn man nicht zuerst sich selbst und die eigene Identität respektiert.
Wenn Blatter die Hymnen wegnehmen will, warum nicht auch die Länderfahnen bei den Olympischen Spielen? Man soll sich für sowas nicht schämen. Es gibt wirklich keinen Grund, die Nationalhymnen beim Fußball außen vor zu lassen."
French Pro-Life Geneticist Jerome Lejeune to be Considered for Catholic Beatification
Apr 15, 2005
"He was a man of science who lived his Christian faith in his profession work, heroically, showing his faith with a simplicity and joy, serving life with a full devotion and complete disinterest," said Cardinal Angelini, the former president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care.
Rome, Feb. 20 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - Cardinal Angelini made his proposal during the first day of a four-day meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Lejeune was appointed by Pope John Paul as the first president of that body when it was created in 1994. The French physician died just 33 days after the appointment.
"He was a man of science who lived his Christian faith in his profession work, heroically, showing his faith with a simplicity and joy, serving life with a full devotion and complete disinterest," said Cardinal Angelini, the former president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care.
Born in 1926 in Montrouge, Jerome Lejeune gained international fame in 1958 when he discovered the Trisomy 21 genetic defect responsible for Down Syndrome. As he gained renown as a scholar, teacher, and researcher, he continued his work with children suffering from severe disabilities. In his later years he became an outspoken defender of human life, speaking out frequently against abortion in Europe and abroad despite the hostility of many of his medical colleagues.
Dr. Lejeune gave important professional testimony during abortion-related court cases in the US and during the Borowski case in Canada. Many pro-life activists who met the world-renowned geneticist were moved by the exceptional depth and warmth of the humble medical scientist.
Jim Hughes, vice-president of International Right to Life and president of Campaign Life Coalition, Canada hosted Dr. Lejeune in Toronto in the 1980's. Hughes says that the doctor was an obviously holy man and recalled that "Before he would go out on speaking engagements he would contact various convents of nuns and ask for prayers for the success of the event". Lejeune would usually attract an audience of a few thousand people to his pro-life talks, said Hughes, and his stories to large and small groups were usually "beautiful and inspiring".
During a 1997 visit to Paris for World Youth Day, Pope John Paul II made a point of visiting Lejeune's grave, paying homage to the illustrious French scientist.
Since Lejeune died in Paris, the responsibility for opening a formal cause for his beatification lies in the hands of that city's Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger.
If people do "not believe Humanae Vitae, they are committing a sin
Apr 15, 2005
In a dramatic, impassioned address to Catholic physicians and health care workers in Toledo, O., Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini declared that "Humanae Vitae" "is a doctrine of the Church expressed in a very solemn form," and if people do "not believe that, they are committing a sin."
(The Wanderer, no year) TOLEDO, O.- Cardinal Angelini, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, spoke here April 6th for nearly an hour and one-half to approximately 150 area health workers at St. Vincent's Hospital, reading first in English from a prepared text, and then speaking from the heart, in Italian, with a translator at his side.
"I didn't come here to agitate you," the cardinal said repeatedly during his uncommonly blunt appeal to doctors to embrace the principles of "Humanae Vitae" and make it the inspiration of their work. It was clear, however, from his dramatic inflections and gestures that he was not in Toledo to affirm any lukewarmness toward Pope Paul VI's encyclical or to encourage Catholic doctors who treat the encyclical with benign neglect.
"Humanae Vitae", said Angelini, "is the message of Christ, and we must admire it. It is a magisterial teaching of the Church and we are obliged to observe it and make sure it is observed by others."
Cardinal Angelini, who was asked by Pope John Paul II to establish the council ten years ago in order to disseminate, explain and defend the Church's teachings in the field of health care and to promote their introduction into 30,000 Catholic health institutions worldwide, reminded the doctors of the moral obligation they have to promote "Humanae Vitae" in their work.
If they fail to do so, he warned, it is tantamount to denying Christ as St. Peter did, or betraying Him as Judas did.
He exhorted doctors to examine their consciences in this matter. He revealed that for the past two decades, he has gone to Confession every week, and he reminded doctors that they will find the fortitude they need to promote "Humanae Vitae" in their work if they make use of that sacrament often.
"I talk to you as a priest," the cardinal said. "There is a need for intellectual obedience to the Magisterium. When one is a member of the Church, one chooses to obey.
"In "Humanae Vitae" Pope Paul Vl invited physicians and health care workers to study and find ways to facilitate the Church's law, and he reminded them that they are able to give great 'peace of mind to married couples who have the duty to propagate human life.
"Human life should be conducted with feelings of sacredness and responsibility. You must be ready to make sacrifices to make sure that it is," he stated.
He offered the doctors the analogy of a stoplight. "What would you say if President Clinton passed a law getting rid of all the red lights, because they are an inconvenience? What if he got rid of every public service?
"One cannot live life without law. There are advantages and disadvantages with the law. We do not like to stop at a red light when we are in a hurry."
"What the Magisterium of the Church is trying to do," the cardinal said, "is to maintain life the way God lovingly gave it."
In these extemporaneous remarks, the cardinal also appealed to the doctors to read and study the messages of Pope Pius XII, which, he said, provide ethical and moral principles still relevant today and are read by many intelligent priests and doctors, both Catholic and Protestant.
In the section of his address he delivered in English, because it was "so important," the cardinal insisted that doctors have a responsibility to constantly update their moral training.
"This is a field in which deficiencies and gaps in both individuals and professional associations are often worrisome. The prejudice persists that the teaching of the Church on morals and bioethics is constituted by a series of 'No's,' whereas it is extremely positive and stimulates ever more careful, rigorous research to the point of scrupulousness.
"Every 'no' by the Church is accompanied by a motivation which, in the final analysis, is a 'yes' to life and its inviolability."
The cardinal then enumerated the "inalienable rights" which doctors should affirm "firmly and courageously":
"Fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses must not be donated or sold, must not be denied progressive development in their mother's womb, and must not be subject to any kind of exploitation."
"No authority, not even the father or mother, can make an attempt on their life."
"The manipulation and dissection of embryos and fetuses, abortion, and euthanasia must not be carried out by those engaged in serving life."
"The seeds of human life must always be protected."
"The human genome, of which each generation is only the guardian, must not be the object of speculation for ideological or commercial purposes."
"The composition of the human genome is the patrimony of all humanity and, therefore, must not be patented."
"In keeping with the Hippocratic tradition and the tradition of the Church, the health care workers must reject all deliberate deterioration of the genome, all exploitation of gametes, and any induced alteration of reproductive functions."
"The alleviation of suffering, the healing of illness, the safeguarding of health, and the correction of hereditary defects are the essential aims of the Catholic health care worker, while preserving all due respect for the dignity and sacredness of life."
Vatican slams Italian soccer
Apr 14, 2005
Sundays mean Church and soccer in Italy. With Vatican Radio now featuring cardinals as soccer commentators on a weekly show, the combination also holds true Mondays.
(AP/slam.canoe.ca, October 18, 2004) VATICAN CITY - Just three weeks old, the program's learned "opinionisti" are making headlines with their sage - and sometimes controversial - advice for coaches and club managers.
The first guest was Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, who condemned the way that players are selected for the Italian national team.
"There are pressures and recommendations," Angelini said. "The fact that playing soccer has now become an economic reality creates a consideration where being or not being on the national team can increase or decrease the commercial worth of an athlete, which is very sad."
Italy coach Marcello Lippi did not take well to Angelini's comment.
"I understand that Italy is a Catholic country, but now we've got cardinals talking out?" he said. "I'm having a hard time understanding this."
Lippi may have to get used to it.
The weekly show, called Not Only Sports, airs each Monday on 105 Live, an FM station broadcast in the Rome area that was started four years ago to give the Vatican a new, younger voice.
After the first edition, the program was picked up by RAI state radio and is now being rebroadcast nationally.
"It's a man of God talking sports, an earthly pastime, talking the people's language," said Sean-Patrick Lovett, the director of 105 Live. "Sports is something that the people are interested in.
"The church is not just about sex scandals and papal decrees."
The show's host and producer, Luca Collodi, hopes to feature a different cardinal each week.
Joining Angelini this Monday was Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the archbishop of Genoa, known in sports circles for offering up occasional radio play-by-play of his favourite team - Juventus.
Angelini lamented the presence of too many foreign players in Italy's biggest clubs.
"It's true we're in a world of globalization, but we don't need to go and draw from foreign teams," Bertone said. "We need to help our young players. Great champions have been born on our fields."
Collodi said future guests could include Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, a big Lazio fan, and Vatican-based Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, known around town as a tennis lover.
"Last year we had legendary broadcaster Nando Martellini," Collodi said, referring to the RAI commentator who broadcast Italy's 1982 World Cup victory. "Unfortunately he died and we had to come up with something new for this season."
Despite the fact that at 88-year-old Angelini's slurred speech was difficult to decipher, Collodi was pleased that Angelini committed to set the tone as the first cardinal commentator.
"He's very competent on sports. Every morning the first newspaper he reads after mass is Corriere dello Sport," Collodi said, referring to the Rome sports daily.
"It's not just by chance that the show is called Not Only Sports,' Collodi said. "Sports is very popular within the church. Go inside any church parish and you'll always find a gym, a basketball court, people practising sports."
Lovett rejected the suggestion that the show could be a case of a moral authority weighing in on a sport that often contains amoral activities.
"I don't think that's the case at all," he said. "These are just sports loving prelates. (Angelini) speaks more as a sports lover than as a man of God.
"The outside world doesn't expect a man of the cloth, especially one wearing a red beret with a gold chain around his neck, to expound on the soccer fiefdom. It's the heavenly realm meets the earthly realm."
The show has yet to touch upon one of the stickier sports issues within the Vatican and a city sharply split between its two soccer teams, AS Roma and Lazio. Which team does the pope cheer for?
"Angelini is a Roma fan. As for the pope, that's still very difficult to determine," Collodi said, lowering his voice and adding: "Rumours say he had a preference for Lazio."
Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, 88
Apr 14, 2005
Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, 88 - so, not one of the voters because over 80 - told a Roman newspaper that he does not see "the possibility" of an Italian Pope.
(Inside the Vatican April 6 2005) Cardinal Francis Arinze, in Nigeria, seemed to take his own candidacy off the charts by saying that the Western world is "not ready" for "an African Pope."
This occurred just as a Spanish newspaper, La Razon of Madrid, published an article in which a priest argued that the American CIA was attempting to use the world's media to influence the election precisely of Arinze, in order to avoid the election of a strong European Pope.
A priest sketched for me a scenario in which, with no Italian candidate (per Angelini) and no African (per Arinze) the choice would fall naturally on... Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. But, Ratzinger is opposed by a considerable, but minority, group of cardinals, this theorist said.
These opponents will become so concerned that they may even foment protests and demonstrations, then, as an ultimate weapon, threaten... schism. "Ratzinger will be elected, but, fearing he will split the Church, he will step aside when the left threatens schism. The moment of the battle has not yet come. It will come after the reading of the Testament."
Calcio: cardinale Angelini, rigiocare Chievo-Juventus
Apr 14, 2005
'Non omologare il risultato di Chievo-Juventus o rigiocare la partita'. Lo afferma il cardinale Fiorenzo Angelini.
(ANSA) - CITTA' DEL VATICANO, 14 MAR 2005 - Intervenuto a One O Five Live, canale della Radio Vaticana, il porporato ha detto: 'Non ce l'ho con la Juventus, che ha fatto la storia del calcio italiano, ma le situazioni strane capitano sempre alle stesse squadre'.
Angelini si e' dichiarato favorevole alla moviola in campo: 'In alcuni casi eclatanti svela subito gli errori macroscopici'.
Reaction to Italian Andreotti’s Acquittal
Apr 14, 2005
Cardinal Angelini described everything that has happened since 1993, in the six long years of the legal process, as "years of dishonor for our country because, for unknown, disgraceful reasons, a man who should have been thanked for all he has done for Italy -- a true symbol, has been exposed to public ridicule.
ROME, OCT 26 (ZENIT).- Over the last few days the media in Italy has been publishing reactions to Senator Giulio Andreotti's acquittal. The Senator is a well-known Christian Democrat, and one of the most representative figures of Italian history over the past fifty years.
The legal process to which he was subjected, was drawn-out, without evidence, and based on statements of "repentant" Mafia elements, who accused him of collaboration with this criminal organization.
Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, personal friend of the Senator, gave his opinion on this complex case to the newspaper "Avvenire." The case has called into question the methods used by Italian justice.
"My testimony is one of friendship, in line with the biblical proverb that states: 'a true friend is a friend forever, in misfortune he becomes a brother.' I have always been his friend, especially when he fell -- or rather when they made him fall -- off his horse, as opposed to when he was surrounded by waving wreaths," Cardinal Angelini said.
The Cardinal saw Senator Andreotti two days before the sentence. "He came to the chapel of the Holy Face, where I was celebrating Mass. As a priest and Bishop I found myself unable to offer him consolation because once again I realized he is a true Christian. Over all these years I have admired the attitude of a man who, vilified, faced the test that came his way with great serenity, the same serenity that characterized his fifty years in public life at the highest levels."
Cardinal Angelini described everything that has happened since 1993, in the six long years of the legal process, as "years of dishonor for our country because, for unknown, disgraceful reasons, a man who should have been thanked for all he has done for Italy -- a true symbol, has been exposed to public ridicule. Instead, they have demeaned the symbol and dragged it through the mud. But it is right that today justice has rehabilitated this debased symbol, knowing how to find reasons to restore the confidence that was wrenched from people."
In general, Italians have expressed relief over the outcome. Cardinal Angelini interpreted this as a "natural" reaction. "Italians must feel relived to see that the forces of evil cannot suppress the forces of good. Undoubtedly, there is a crisis, but it is a crisis of persons who do not know how to express values because they don't have any. I think that, by his suffering, Andreotti has contributed to the rebirth of politics capable of searching for real culture, for the essentially natural honesty that is in the heart of every man, whether he is a Christian or not," the Cardinal said.
The analysis made by many in the foreign media is that Andreotti could not be condemned because, in so doing, Italians would have condemned themselves and half a century of the country's history. When Cardinal Angelini was asked to comment on this, he said: "I have always said that Andreotti was struck, in order to destroy and dismantle Christian Democracy. Not having been mortally wounded like Aldo Moro, he was stricken by this prosecution. I will not go into the question of political issues, but I think that if he had remained in his public post, Catholics involved in politics would have had a very different role."
Cardinal Speaks on Mother Teresa, Terminal Illness
Apr 13, 2005
Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini president of the pontifical council for health-care workers, today commented on the serious physical condition of Mother Teresa of Calcutta in a meeting with reporters in Rome.
VATICAN (CWN, Nov. 26, 1996) -- "It often happens that people with terminal illnesses ask to be allowed to die in peace," Cardinal Angelini said. "That is not a form of suicide. It is a form a respect that one owes to that person, in particular in the last moments of life and especially when the person in question understands the situation. That is a very noble attitude."
"Turning to Mother Teresa," the cardinal said. "I interpret her position this way: Let me pay, leave me in my intimate moments with God.' That is a very noble desire; it is an ascetic form of affirmation."
"When the end of life is coming, scientifically speaking, it is important to avoid intrusive treatment, if that treatment plays no positive role," Cardinal Angelini concluded.
Le ministre de l’éducation veut supprimer le cours de religion
Apr 13, 2005
"C'est du marxisme et de l'anti-catholicisme", a déclaré le Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, président émérite du Conseil Pontifical pour la pastorale des agents de la santé.
ROME, 13 août (ZENIT) - Le ministre de l'éducation italien, Luigi Berlinguer, vient de soulever une polémique nationale. Il a textuellement déclaré à la presse : "Ça suffit avec le catéchisme dans les écoles". Et il a ajouté : "Il faut modifier le Concordat" entre l'Église et l'État.
Les partis catholiques de centre-gauche, qui constituent la majorité gouvernementale avec le Parti Démocrate de gauche, auquel appartient Berlinguer, ont menacé de provoquer une crise de gouvernement. Ceux-ci avaient accepté de s'unir à la coalition gouvernementale des Démocrates de gauche à condition que le rôle public exercé par l'école privée en Italie, et particulièrement l'école catholique, soit reconnu.
Le cours de religion en Italie est actuellement une option et n'est pratiquement pas reconnu sur le plan académique.
"C'est du marxisme et de l'anti-catholicisme", a déclaré le Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, président émérite du Conseil Pontifical pour la pastorale des agents de la santé. Le cardinal reconnaît qu'il parle à titre personnel mais sa pensée reflète largement la position du Saint-Siège. Dans un communiqué officiel, la Salle de Presse du Vatican a confessé sa surprise devant les déclarations du ministre. Tout d'abord parce qu'un ministre n'a pas le pouvoir de modifier les accords entre l'Église et l'État, et en second lieu parce que "le Saint-Siège est convaincu que dans l'Europe d'aujourd'hui il est urgent de faire découvrir aux nouvelles générations les racines chrétiennes qui imprègnent les traditions culturelles d'Occident. La question de l'enseignement de la religion à l'école est en train d'être revalorisée par plusieurs pays d'Europe".
Le Cardinal Angelini rappelle que "Le Catéchisme de l'Église Catholique", le code fondamental et culturel de la religion chrétienne, est une exaltation de la liberté de la personne, indépendamment de la croyance religieuse. La connaissance de la religion catholique est selon lui, un fait de culture.
Cardinals as Soccer Commentators
Oct 18, 2004
The program is just three weeks old and the first guest was Cardinal Angelini, who condemned the corrupt way that players are selected for the Italian national team.
(Monday, Oct. 18, 2004) Vatican Radio now features cardinals as soccer commentators on a weekly show. The program is just three weeks old and the first guest was Cardinal Angelini, who condemned the corrupt way that players are selected for the Italian national team.
'Non giocano i più meritevoli'
Oct 13, 2004
"Se lo schiaffone fosse veramente curativo, allora benedetto lo schiaffone. Ma se lo schiaffone fosse un modo di dire di Lippi, cosi', per cavarsela e togliersi dalle polemiche sulla nazionale azzurra e dagli assalti dei giornalisti, allora non mi starebbe proprio bene''.
(Il Resto del Carlino, 12 OTTOBRE 2004) ROMA - Ieri mattina dalle onde di radio Vaticana è arrivata anche l 'opinione di un esperto particolare: il cardinal Angelini. "Se lo schiaffone fosse veramente curativo, allora benedetto lo schiaffone. Ma se lo schiaffone fosse un modo di dire di Lippi, cosi', per cavarsela e togliersi dalle polemiche sulla nazionale azzurra e dagli assalti dei giornalisti, allora non mi starebbe proprio bene''.
Il cardinale Fiorenzo Angelini, prefetto emerito del Pontificio Consiglio per gli Operatori Sanitari, opinionista del programma sportivo del lunedi' mattina è intervenuto sulla difficile situazione azzurra: ''Stare o non stare in Nazionale dipende certamente, ma purtroppo relativamente, dai valori essenziali dell'atleta. Ma ci sono anche le pressioni e le raccomandazioni. Il fatto, ormai, che il gioco del calcio sia una realta' economica, finanziaria, porta alla considerazione che lo stare o no in Nazionale possa aumentare o meno il valore commerciale di un atleta, e' cio' e' molto triste''.
''E' triste - ha concluso il porporato - perche' la cosa non esalta la dignita' della persona umana. Ma è la realta'. Per cui i valori scelti per comporre una Nazionale non sono sempre i valori oggettivi , ma sono valori dipendenti anche da tanti altri elementi che possono addirittura creare un mancato aumento di valore, una reale diminuzione del valore di un atleta, ad esempio per gli infortuni".
Pressioni e lobby dietro una convocazione, per il prelato. Mancanza di italiani in campo, per il mister Lippi. due facce di una stessa medaglia che ha come filo conduttore la 'tristezza' dei risultati della Nazionale.
E una battuta anche contro il modo di Lippi di bestemmiare in campo: "Lo trovo un pessimo esempio, e manca di rispetto verso il proprio Paese"
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