Verona missionaries: is left
junta Tosi prohibits exposing it. The Comboni: our right to use it. Father Zanotelli now give us the Arena
VERONA - On the balcony of Juliet not waving the rainbow flag. The Peace Caravan will go Sunday to Verona in disguise. A private little party in the courtyard of the Temple Votive, almost at home. "Our dignity has no price, "says Father Joseph Pizzoli, director of the Diocesan Centre. People like this, the missionaries. Allergic to taxation. Exactly 100 days ago, local organizers of the caravan's mission of peace had filed for the use of Piazza Bra and the Grand Palace Guard. It seemed a formality. Quietly, on 17 September, the City Council formalized its not. The one in Italy, as discounted green light came after the Bolshevik city not like Milan, Brescia, Reggio Calabria, Agrigento. The details probably induced an afterthought. Worse than the patch the hole, as they say over here as well. "Following a review of the practice ', the Councillor for God's victory was "Pleased to report" the opinion in favor of granting the space required. With a note. "As above, with the proviso to omit any reference to state and party flags only for Institutional . After a request for clarification, the commissioner noted that amongst the partisan references to disguise it also included the flag of peace, "in recent years transformed into a symbol of the extreme left."
Missionaries respond by return e-mail explaining to a God who can keep his bed. "We value our freedom and autonomy" . In his letter, in addition to stating that the Caravan is a venerable initiative religious, Don Pizzoli alderman does not completely wrong. "The fact that this symbol - he writes - has also been illegally taken by a political party with what could be considered a misappropriation, we regret, but it takes away the right to continue using the flag of peace as the proper expression of Our church movement for peace, God's gift to men and all peoples ". Up to here the correspondence between the missionaries and the councilor. But Verona is no place whatsoever. It is the laboratory of the communion of purpose among traditionalist Catholic groups, the Northern League and the radical right. A political experiment that has the mayor Flavio Tosi the demiurge who also cleared through customs by appointing parent skinheads on his list the former lead singer of "acts of war ', reference group of skinheads. Last week, Gianluca Iannone, the founder of the center Roman "Pound House ', opened the first branch of his creation.
"We could not do that here - said enthusiastic -. Verona is home to the right ". A couple of aldermen, in the audience, would have struck. There is a high degree of susceptibility to certain issues and concerns not only the proud missionaries. "We did not just happen" . Vittorio Of God as a matter of size. The monks wanted to hang a rainbow flag of thirty feet on the front of Gran Guardia. "We have not given permission to posters of the exhibition on Mantegna" . The Diocesan Missionary Centre attached a copy of official documents to deny that he ever asked to expose oversized banners. The commissioner of An, card dating back to 1972, does not regret anything. "I was just naive. I put them in a position to act tough and pure instrumental exploiting a controversy. But it confirmed the finding: that the flag is redundant. Since we have granted free use of the square, at least I claim the right to decide what to wear or not wear. And in the last election I seem to remember that the radical left is called your rainbow, or not? Maybe I underestimated the fact that we are always under scrutiny of Verona ". It will be for that.
councilor excess of zeal, well define the sources close to Tosi, however, has put the council in an ambiguous light. An assist on the empty net for the opposition. "In December 2007 - Emanuele lowering of recalls, national coordinator of the Democratic Party - the mayor and some councilors marched at the head of a procession with symbols of the extreme right, evidently considered less threatening of the flag of peace" . Protesting the Democratic Party, protesting students, protesting all. "They want to make it seem a matter of principle, but I swear it is not as' excuse for God is Among the missionary groups that organize the caravan, there are also the Comboni Missionaries, a movement created in the mid-nineteenth century by the adoption of Verona St Daniel Comboni . Father Alex Zanotelli asked Tosi a gesture repairer: "Why do not you give the Arena?" . It would be a novelty. The founder of the blessed peacemakers, Don Albino Bizzotto, dissolves in the memory of the faithful filled the amphitheater. It happened for seven straight years, from 1986 to 1993. "Our appointments were at the Arena at the Ecumenical most beautiful, happy and shared that one could imagine at that time. Verona E, with its missionary tradition was really the ideal ". Other times, it seems.
Marco Imarisio
September 27, 2008 (From the Corriere della Sera)
