The work of the XV International Study Colloquium promoted by the Paolo VI Institute, dedicated to the theme: “The question of God in an age of crisis, continues (until tomorrow) in Concesio (BS). GB Montini and religious culture between the two world wars ”. Jörg Ernesti opened the works who treated “Liturgical formation in Christian education: Montini and the reception of the liturgical movement in Italy”. “The liturgy – said the speaker – whose love was born in the young Montini thanks to the Oratorian Father Giulio Bevilacqua and in the encounter with Benedictine spirituality – did not remain a private interest, but was fully manifested also in his ministry, first of all when he became ecclesiastical assistant general of the FUCI, where the idea of community learned from liturgical prayer was able to express itself at its best “. The correspondence with university students, professors, assistant priests of the Fucini circles of the Peninsula was the subject of Simona Negruzzo’s report, while the historian Eliana Versace, speaking of “Education in the faith, charity and political culture” described the Montini’s role as educator thanks to the testimony of a forge, Ugo Piazza, who between 1929 and 1933 kept detailed diaries on the life of the Roman Circle, which today allow “to open a new window” on the reality of the Fuci in the Montinian years. The rector of Lumsa, Francesco Bonini, for his part, discussed the concept of modernity, also applied to the story of “modernism” and focused on two significant issues: “the confrontation with doctrinary liberalism and idealism, also in relationship with the Roman question, and the comparison with the various declinations of the corporatist idea and the advent of totalitarianisms. He then resumed and contextualized De Gasperi’s affirmation in repeated interventions in ‘L’Illustrazione Vaticana’, ‘tertium datur’, according to which, overcoming doctrinary liberalism and totalitarianisms, an idea and a program of pluralist personalist democracy germinates from social doctrine and from the philosophical reflection of what can be defined as a Thomism or a rationalized natural law, as a sure basis for post-World War II democracies ”. After Cesare Repossi’s speeches on Giovanni Papini and Domenico Giuliotti, two converts who were esteemed authors by Montini, Massimo Borghesi closed this second day with the report “Totalitarianism and democracy. Montini and the Catholic thought of the 1920s and 1930s “. “The emergence of political totalitarianism, explained Borghesi – represents a completely new phenomenon, which appears on the European scene at the end of the First World War, and in front of which the Church found itself unprepared to manage a new morality as a new policy, if not appealing to the syllabus of Pius IX. With Mussolini’s rise to power, the young Montini questioned the concept of nationalism, which can be particularistic or characterized by an idea of a nation open to the universal. He contrasted the Pauline-Augustinian paradigm with a ‘sacred’ Roman empire ‘, in the’ eschatological awareness that Regnum Dei can never coincide with an earthly empire ‘. This eschatological dualism led Montini to a clear rejection of any apology for fascism and the restoration of the Sacrum imperium ”. The Colloquium will end tomorrow morning with the report The Demiurge of technology and Madonna Economia: idols, paradoxes and redemption of modernity by Tiziano Torresi, and the conclusions of the Secretary General of the Paolo VI Institute, prof. Xenio Toscani.
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