An article in the 1988 Ginzburg

A topic that is still present: the crucifix in schools (and government offices). I find it particularly interesting that these arguments that I think all my comment is superfluous:

"They say that the crucifix must be removed from classrooms. Ours is a secular state has no right to require that there be a crucifix in the classrooms. Mrs. Maria Vittoria Montagnana, a teacher in Cuneo, had removed the crucifix from the wall of his classroom. School authorities have imposed the hang of. Now he is fighting to be able to remove it again, and why take away from all the classes in our country. As for his own class, is absolutely right. But I'm sorry that the crucifix to disappear forever from all classes. It seems to me a loss. All or almost all the people I know say that should be removed. Others say it is a thing of no importance. The problems are many and dramatic, at school and elsewhere, and this is a problem with anything. It 's true. Still, I'm sorry that the crucifix to disappear. If I were a teacher, I wish in my class were not touched. Each tax authority is horrendous, with regard to the crucifix on the walls. It can not be mandatory suspension.

But in my opinion can not even be required to remove it. A teacher must be able to hang on, if desired, and remove it if it wants. It should be a free choice. It would be fair also counsel with children. If only one of the children he wanted, listen to him and obey. For a child who wants a crucifix on the wall in its class, you must obey. The crucifix in the classroom can not be simply the expression of a wish. I want, when they are innocent, you must meet. Religious education is a bullying policy. It 'a lesson. We will spend the words. The school belongs to all, Catholic and non-Catholics. Why you should teach the Catholic religion? But the crucifix does not teach anything. Silent. Religious education creates a discrimination between Catholics and among those who remain in the class in that time and those who get up and go away. But the crucifix does not generate any discrimination. Silent. And 'the image of the Christian revolution, which has spread to the world the idea of equality among men hitherto absent.

The Christian revolution has changed the world. Do we want to deny that changed the world? They say that nearly two thousand years "before Christ" and "after Christ". Or do we want to stop saying that? The crucifix does not generate any discrimination. E 'dumb and silent. There's always been. For Catholics, it is a religious symbol. For others, it may be nothing, a part of the wall. And finally for some, at least for a minority, or maybe for one child may be something special, which gives rise to conflicting thoughts. Minority rights must be respected. They say that a crucifix on the wall, in the classroom, the students may feel offended Jews. Why should they feel offended Jews? Christ was a jew and perhaps persecuted, and is it not died in martyrdom, as happened to millions of Jews in concentration camps? The cross is the sign of human suffering. The crown of thorns, the nails, evoke his suffering. We think the cross high atop the mountain, is a sign of loneliness in death. I know of no other signs that give so strongly the sense of our human destiny. The crucifix is part of world history. For Catholics, Jesus Christ is the Son of God for non-Catholics may be simply an image that has been sold, betrayed, tortured and died on the cross for love of God and neighbor.

Who is an atheist, remove the idea of God, but retains the idea of neighbor. Some may say that many have been sold, betrayed and martyred for their faith, for others, for future generations, and on the walls of their schools no picture. It 's true, but the crucifix represents them all. Why is all of them? Because before Christ were never told that men are equal and brothers all, rich and poor, believers and nonbelievers, Jews and non-Jews and blacks and whites, and no one before him had said that in the center of our lives we must situate solidarity among men. And to be sold, betrayed and tortured and killed for their faith in life can happen to anyone. It seems to me that the good guys, the kids, they know right from the desks of the school. Jesus Christ carried the cross. We all happened or happens to carry on their shoulders the weight of a great disaster. In this calamity we call the cross, although we are not Catholics, because they are too strong for too many centuries and is imprinted with the idea of the cross in our thinking. All, Catholic and secular bear or bear the burden of a disaster, pouring blood and tears and trying not to collapse. This tells the crucifix. He says everyone, not just Catholics. Any words of Christ, we always think, and can be secular, atheist or whatever you want, but always in our thoughts float anyway. He said "Love your neighbor as yourself." Words were already written in the Old Testament, but have become the foundation of the Christian revolution. They are the key to everything. They are the opposite of all wars. The opposite of aircraft that are laying the bombs on defenseless people. The opposite of rapes and indifference that so often surrounds women raped in the streets. We talk about peace, but what to say, about peace, more than these simple words? I'm the exact opposite of the way we live and we are now. We always think, finding exactly hard to love ourselves and love our neighbor even more difficult, or even perhaps completely impossible, and yet feeling that there is the key to everything.

The crucifix is not the words evoke, because we're used to seeing that little sign hanging, and many times it seems that at least a portion of the wall. But if we are to believe that Christ was to say, we regret too much that needs to disappear from the wall that little sign. Christ also said: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied." When and where will be satisfied? In the sky, say the believers. The others do not know when or where, but these words are, for some reason, feel the hunger and thirst for justice tougher, stronger and more ardent. Christ drove the merchants from the temple. If he were here today would only drive away the merchants. For real Catholics, must be hard and painful to move in Catholicism which is now moving in this mess that has become frothy Catholicism, where politics and religion are mixed ominously. It must be hard and painful for them to untangle this mess the integrity and sincerity of their faith. I believe that lay people should think more often the true Catholics. Just a reminder that they exist, and dedicate themselves to recognize, in the foamy mess that is now the Catholic world and they rightly hate. The crucifix is part of world history. Ways to look at it and watch it are not, as we said, many. In addition to believers and unbelievers, Catholics false and true, there are also those who believe sometimes yes and sometimes not. They know one thing, that the belief, and unbelief come and go like the waves of the sea. They have the ideas, in general, rather confused and uncertain. They suffer from things that no one suffers. They love the crucifix and maybe they do not know why. They love to see it on the wall. Sometimes I do not believe in anything. E 'tolerance to allow everyone to build a crucifix around the most uncertain and conflicting thoughts "

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