Sein, was wir sind

Rocco Buttiglione schaut in den Spiegel. (Der Link stammt von Fono.)

"In the plane on my way to Madrid I was reading ll Corriere della Sera and there was an interesting poll. Do you know that that the clear majority of Italian youth are against abortion? Did you think this was possible? It is so. I want to say also that it is a majority of Italian youth, a much smaller majority, but a majority, that is in favor of euthanasia. This signifies that they are looking for their path and that in this search Christianity is a viable option, and it would interest them, but we need courage, we need courage in the Church.

I don't know if you like to read statistics, but it is always very interesting what you can learn from them, and they have a great impact. Do you know how many Italians think they are practicing Catholics? 57%. Do you know how many of those go to Mass on Sunday? Half. What does this mean? It means that many people would be able to practice their faith more if the Church had more capacity for attraction, more capacity for dialogue, more capacity to be present among the people. Europe is not Christian, but neither is it non-Christian. Europe, like the Italian young people, is looking for its path. In order to discover this path, in order to discover Christ as an adequate response to the desire of the heart of man, it is necessary that there be Christians who give testimony, who have the courage to be that which they are."