Recovering From Shingles Breast

Us against the law (Umberto Eco)

is known the definition of democracy as a flawed system but which has not yet found anything better. From this it follows reasonable assumption, for most people, the mistaken belief that democracy (the best or the least worst system of government) is that for which the majority is always right. Nothing could be further from the truth. Democracy is the system which, since it is difficult to define in terms of quality who has more reason than others, it uses a low quantity, but objectively verifiable: in a democracy governs who gets more support. And if anyone believes that the majority is wrong, worse for him if he accepted the principles that democratic governments must accept a majority that is wrong.

One of the functions of the opposition is to demonstrate that the majority was wrong. And if you can not do it? Then we have, in addition to poor majority, even a bad opposition. How many times the majority can be wrong? For millennia, the majority of men believed that the sun revolved around the earth (and, considering the vast areas of low literacy in the world, and the fact that opinion polls in more advanced countries have shown that many Westerners still believe that the sun turns) here a good case in which the majority is not only wrong but you are wrong again. The majority were wrong to believe Beethoven or Picasso unlistenable unwatchable, the majority Jerusalem is wrong to prefer Barabbas to Jesus, the majority of Americans are wrong to believe that two eggs and bacon every morning and a nice steak meal is no guarantee of good health, the majority was wrong to prefer bears to Terence and (perhaps ) is still wrong to prefer "The pupa and the geek" to Sophocles. For centuries the majority of people felt that there were witches and that it was right to burn it, in the seventeenth century the majority of the Milanese believed that the plague was caused by the spreaders, the vast majority of Westerners, including Voltaire, considered legitimate and natural slavery, the majority of Europeans believed that it was noble and sacred colonize Africa. In politics

Hitler came to power by a coup but was elected by the majority, Mussolini established the dictatorship after the assassination of Matteotti but first enjoyed a parliamentary majority, even if that room despised "dull and gray." It would be unfair play of paradoxes and therefore say that the majority is the one that's always wrong, but certainly not always right. In the appeal to the political will of the people only have legal force ("I have a right to govern because I received more votes") but does not allow quantitative data be drawn from this theoretical and ethical consequences ("I have the majority of the votes and therefore are better ").

In some areas of Sicily and Campania the Mafia and the Camorra have a majority of the vote but it would be difficult to conclude that they are therefore represented the best of those noble people. Recently I read a journalist government (but was not the only use for that matter) that the case nell'ironizzare Santoro (now happily bipartisan target), said that he had the curious belief that the majority of Italians were bent willingly to be sodomized by Berlusconi. Now I do not think that Berlusconi has never sodomized anyone, but it is certain that a substantial amount of Italian allows him without realizing that their favorite is slowly eroding their freedoms. Erode the freedom of a country usually means putting act in a violent coup and establish a dictatorship. If this happens, voters will notice it and, although they are not under tion coup that has changed with him. The coup was replaced by the rustle of State. The idea of \u200b\u200ba transformation of structures of government through violent action Berlusconi's genius was and is to be implemented very slowly, little step by little step, in an extremely lubricated.

Think of unnecessary violence with which fascism, to silence the voice of Matteotti uncomfortable, he had to kill him. Things to medieval times. It would not be enough to pay him a good exit megagalattico (and incidentally, not with government money but with those of citizens paying the fee)? Mussolini was really a man rozzissimo. When a transformation of the institutions of the country takes place step by step, ie for small doses, it is difficult to say that each, taken by itself could create a dictatorship - and in fact he does is when some cassandra sbertucciata. The fact is that for a new populism media dictatorship is the same antiquated system that serves no purpose. You can change the structures of the state at will and according to their own interest without initiating any dictatorship.

We can say that the immunity law prefigures a tyranny? Nonsense. And moderation interceptions really careful to freedom of information? But come on, if someone has murder everyone will know the case to trial, and avoid speaking in advance of the alleged crimes only respects the privacy of where ever each of us. Would you like to go in the newspapers that your conversation with her lover, so it came to know your lady? No, of course. And if the price is that the conversation is not intercepted or corrupted by a powerful mafia in the permanent service of a real, well, our privacy will be a good price. Do you think fascism reduce funding for public schools? But we have to save all, and one needs to set an example by starting with the collective costs. And if this country over to private schools? It will not be the end of the world, there are very good. You Stalinism unwatchable make the news public networks? No, if ever the old dictatorships did everything to make the radio very affectionate. But if this goes in favor of private networks? Well, it appears that Stalin had never favored the private television?

Here, the function of creeping coups is that the constitutional changes are hardly perceived, or are perceived as irrelevant. And where the amount of product will not the second but the third Republic, it will be too late. Not because you could not go back, but because the majority will have absorbed the changes as natural and you will, so to speak, mitridatizzata. A new Malaparte could write a treatise on superb this new technique rustle of State. Even in the face of it because each and every protest and complaint challenging loses value seems that those who complain about giving the body the shadows.

Pessimism global, then? No, trust in benign weather and its continued erosion. A transformation of the institutions that small steps may not have time to take place at all, may be halfway smandrappamenti, fatigue, power failures, mishaps. It is a bit like the joke about the difference between hell and hell German Italian. In both the morning dip in the hot gas, electric chair at noon, rendering the evening. Except that one day in hell Italian petrol does not arrive, another power plant is on strike, and another patient was given the Executioner ... Cut the head of the king or occupy the Winter Palace is something that is done in five minutes. Poison someone with small doses of arsenic in the soup takes a long time, and in the meantime who knows who will live. For now, resist, resist, resist. (L'Espresso, 27 May 2010)

How Do You Make A Herpes Modle

"The Premier wants me to shut up, but not silent on the clan ever" (Roberto Saviano)

writer: "Absurd prefer silence, Berlusconi apologize to the victims."

President Silvio Berlusconi, after I write in a press conference at Palazzo Chigi is from her been accused, even my book has been accused of being responsible for "promotional support to the thighs." Are not new allegations. I get asked for years: to stop a moment to think about what his words mean. How many reporters, social workers, those lawyers, judges, magistrates, how many writers, directors, but also to those citizens who for years, in certain parts of Italy, they find the strength to tell, to expose themselves to object, think to those who have risked and still are risking and yet are accused of being supporters of criminal organizations for only want to talk about. Why it's better for her not to say. And 'best fiction of silence. Visa and left out. Of letting to the police to the courts as if the gangs were theirs. Their business. And the mafia want their businesses exactly what they are, what exactly is our expression even before it became the name of an organization.
I believe that only the truth and only serves to give dignity to a country. The mafia is determined by who tells the crime or the perpetrators of the crime?
The role of the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra, the Cosa Nostra is determined by its turnover - a hundred billion euro profit a year - a turnover which exceeds by far the most granite Italian companies. This can not be said? You yourself have submitted a figure that speaks for the seizure to the mafia value of ten billion euro. This means that the writers have to invent? To exaggerate? To commit crimes with their word? Why? Michele Greek Mafia boss who died in prison in the trial against him, defended himself by saying that "it was all because of The Godfather in Sicily where they were instructed trials against the Mafia. Nicholas Schiavone, the father of boss Walter Schiavone Francesco Schiavone, before the cameras confirmed that the Camorra was the head of the writer of the Camorra, the phenomenon was only linked to street crime and that I was myself who wrote the real Camorra of these stories when told that the Camorra was firm, cement, waste policy.

For clan in recent years have seen tell, the word has always represented an affront because it made all information and behaviors that they wanted to stay a few. Because when the word makes universal citizenship to those who were previously considered as separate arguments, so far, for a few, and in that which is being called an intervention of all, a commitment of many, a decision no longer applies only to the public and black reporters. Remember the words of Paolo Borsellino in memory of Giovanni Falcone spoken just before he was killed. "The fight against the Mafia is the first problem to be solved ... must not only be a separate work of repression, but a moral and cultural movement that involves everyone and especially young generations to push them feel the beauty of the fresh air of freedom which reject the stench of moral compromise of the indifference of contiguity and thus complicity. I remember the happiness of Falcone when in a short period of enthusiasm, I said, the people cheering for us. And this is not meant to refer only to the comfort that it gives moral support to the work of judges, especially meant that our work was also to stir the conscience. "
The silence is what they want. They want it all boils down to a problem between cops and robbers. But it is not. E 'showing, showing that you have the chance to have a contrast. Caserta The same plan that his government has has been implemented is because the light on the organization of Casale first known only to insiders and those who suffered its blackmail.

Yet his accusation is not new. Many personalities of the center-field, when the book came out, they said that I had defamed the Neapolitan Renaissance, which I had advertised that mine was just an insane desire to appear. When you leave there's a fire escape those who set fire and blames those who gave the alarm? Looking at those who paid with his life fighting for the truth, I find it absurd and disheartening to think that silence is the only way recommended. Yet President, he could have said many things to demonstrate the commitment of the Italian mafia. He could tell you that Italy is the country with the best anti-mafia legislation in the world. He might remind us of how we Italians know how antimafia to half the world. Criminal organizations in this stage of general crisis are infiltrating in the financial and economic systems of the West today and Italian experts are called to give information to assist governments to combat criminal organizations of any genealogy. E 'dramatic - and we know many - to be labeled an Italian mafia every time exceeds the boundaries of his land. Of course it is. But it is the silence that we show to be different and better.
Spreading the value of responsibility, the courage of saying, the value of the complaint, the strength of the prosecution, we can change things. Accusing

who tells the power of organized crime to make bad publicity the country is not a way to improve the image of Italian but rather to isolate those who do so. Telling is the way to embracing change. This is the only way to prove that we are the country of Giovanni Falcone, Don Peppe Diana, not the country of Toto Riina and Schiavone Sandokan. I believe that there is no mafia in the battle a right or a left to stay with. I simply believe that there is a movement in which cultural and moral vacuum. I will continue to speak to all, whatever be the political, and above all to his constituents, President, many of whom, I believe, will be stunned and outraged by his words. I ask her constituents, I ask the voters of the PDL to help refute his words. It 'the only way to restore the right direction to fight against the Mafia. Ask you not to apologize to me - now I'm used to - but the relatives of victims of all those who have fallen telling. I am an author who has published his books for Mondadori and Einaudi, both publishing houses owned by his family. I always thought that the history of the game from afar Mondadori was fully in line to accept a kind of narrative as mine, I thought he had the tools to validate also strong positions, different schools of thought. After his words I do not know if it will be longer. And I do not know if it will be for all the authors who have dealt with mafia expose themselves and that Mondadori and Einaudi in recent years have published. The thing I do is meeting people in the publishing house which over the years have worked with me, men and women who believed in my words and have managed to get my stories to the public. People who have often had to defend yourself from being editor, press offices, officers, "bought". And instead so far have done a great job. And 'I want answers from them.

One thing is certain: I, like many others, continue to tell. I'll use the word as a way to share, to adjust the world to understand. I was born, Mr President, in a land of wonders and are devastated, but whose beauty continues to give me strength to dream about the possibility of a different Italy. An Italy that can change only if the south can change. I swear President, on behalf of the Italians who consider their dead all those who have fallen fighting organized crime, that there will be silent day. This I promise. A loud. (© 2010 Roberto Saviano / Agency Santachiara)

Andy's Hot Fries- Halal?

unsuccessful Benedict XVI, Catholics lose confidence (Hans Küng)

Letter the theologian Hans Küng Bishops
1962-1965, Joseph Ratzinger - now Benedict XVI - and I were the two younger theologians of the Council. Today we are older, and the only still in business. I have always understood my commitment to theology as a service to the Church. For this reason, driven by concern about the crisis of confidence prevailing in our Church, the deepest on record since the Reformation to the present, I turn to you, to mark the fifth anniversary of his election to the papacy of Pope Benedict with an open letter. This is actually the only means available to get in touch with you. I really enjoyed his time at the invitation of Pope Benedict, who in spite of the My critical stance towards it I agreed, shortly after the beginning of his pontificate, a four-hour interview, which took place in a friendly way. I was suddenly hope that Joseph Ratzinger, former colleague at the University of Tübingen, however, would find the way to a further renewal of the Church and ecumenical understanding, in the spirit of Vatican II. Unfortunately, my hopes, like those of so many believers who are living with commitment to the Catholic faith, have not come true, I got to know him more than once to Pope Benedict in the correspondence I had with him. Certainly he has never failed to comply scrupulously with the daily tasks of the papacy, and also has made a gift of three beneficial encyclical on faith, hope and love. But in spite of the greatest challenges of our time demonstrates his pontificate every day as another opportunity lost for not having been able to grasp a range of opportunities:

- You missed the approximation to the evangelical churches, even not considered as Churches in the proper sense of the term, hence the Impossible by a recognition of his authority and a joint celebration of the Eucharist.

- Has there been a continuing dialogue with Jews, the pope has reintroduced the use of pre-Council of the Jewish prayer for illumination, has taken on some bishops in the Church known schismatics and anti-Semitic and supports the beatification of Pius XII, and takes seriously the only Judaism as historical roots of Christianity, and not as a community of faith that still pursues its own path to salvation. Jews around the world have expressed outrage at the words of the Preacher of the Papal Household, who during the liturgy of Good Friday compared the criticism of the pope anti-Semitic persecution.

- With Muslims has failed to carry on a dialogue based on trust. Symptomatic of this is the speech by the pope in Regensburg: ill-advised, Benedict XVI gave a picture of Islam caricature, describing it as a religion and inhuman violent and fueling distrust among Muslims.

- Has there been a reconciliation with the natives of Latin America: in all seriousness, the pope said that those colonized people "yearn" to accept the religion of the conquerors of Europe.

- was not taken the opportunity to come to the aid of people in Africa in the fight against overpopulation and AIDS, supporting contraception and condom use.

- was not taken the opportunity to reconcile with modern science, recognizing unequivocally the theory of evolution and adherence, albeit with the necessary differentiation, new research perspectives, for example on stem cells.

- has failed to take Finally, within the Vatican itself, the spirit of Vatican II as a compass of the Catholic Church, carrying out his reforms.

latter point, esteemed bishops, is crucial. This pope has never ceased to relativize the Council texts, interpretations regressive and contrary to the spirit of the Council Fathers, and even going as to expressly oppose the ecumenical council, which represents, according to canon law, the supreme authority of Catholic Church:

- accepted in the Catholic Church, without any precondition, the traditionalist bishops of the Society S. Pius X, ordered illegally outside the Catholic Church, who objected to the council on some of its essential

- promoted by every means the medieval Tridentine Mass, and occasionally he celebrates the Eucharist in Latin, turning back to the faithful;

- does not realize the expected agreement with the Anglican Church in the ecumenical officers (ARCIC), but tries to attract the married Anglican priests to the Roman Catholic Church to waive the requirement of celibacy.

- has increased, worldwide, anticonciliari forces within the Church through the appointment of senior anticonciliari (eg.: Secretary of State, Congregation for the Liturgy) and reactionary bishops.

Pope Benedict XVI seems to be moving further away from the great majority of the people of the Church, which is indeed already led to neglect of what is happening in Rome, and at best identifies with your parish or with the local bishop .
I know many of you suffer from this situation: the politics of anti-conciliar pope has the full support of the Roman Curia, which seeks to stifle criticism and the episcopate in the Church, and to discredit the dissenters by any means. In Rome, seeking accreditation, by repeated performances of baroque splendor and events of great impact in the media, the image of a strong Church, with a "vicar of Christ "absolutist, bringing together into their own hands the powers legislative, executive and judiciary. But the policy of restoration of Benedict XVI has failed. His public appearances, his travels, his documents are not served to influence the direction of the Roman doctrine the ideas of the majority of Catholics on various controversial issues, especially on sexual morality. Even his meetings with young people, largely members of conservative groups charismatic guidance, were able to stop the defections from the Church, or to increase vocations to the priesthood.
In your role as bishops you are certainly the first to suffer painfully to the withdrawal of tens of thousands of priests, which since the days of Council to date have resigned from their jobs mainly because of the law on celibacy. The problem of young players not only priests but also religious orders, nuns, consecrated lay people: the decrease is both quantitatively and qualitatively. The resignation and frustration spread among the clergy, and especially among its most active members, many feel abandoned in their distress, and suffering from the Church. In many of your diocese is likely to increase in the number of empty churches, seminaries and priests empty. In many countries, with the claims of ecclesiastical reform, it was decided the merger of many parishes, often against their will, to form giant "pastoral units" entrusted to a small number of priests burdened with a heavy load of work.
And finally, the many signals of the current crisis will come in the appalling scandal of abuse by members of the clergy on thousands of children and adolescents in the United States, Ireland, Germany and elsewhere, and this is accompanied by a leadership crisis, a crisis of confidence without precedent. One can not fail to mention the fact that the world system of concealment of sexual abuse of clergy respond to the provisions of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (headed between 1981 and 2005 by Cardinal Ratzinger), who from the pontificate of John Paul II gathered , in the strictest secrecy, the documentation on these cases. On May 18, 2001 Joseph Ratzinger sent out a letter to all bishops solemn tones on the most serious crimes ("Epistula de delictis gravioribus"), in the case of abuse by imposing the "secretum Pontificium", the violation shall be punished by the Church severe penalties. E 'therefore reason that many have asked for a personal "mea culpa" to the prefect of the time, now Pope Benedict XVI. Yet it has not seized the opportunity to do the Holy Week, but instead did testify "urbi et orbi" on Easter Sunday, his innocence to the cardinal dean.
For the Catholic Church for all the consequences are devastating scandals emerged, as confirmed by some of its greatest exponents. The generalized suspicion now indiscriminately affects countless pastors and educators of hard work and exemplary conduct. It's up to you, esteemed bishops, ask what will be the future of your diocese and that of our Church. It is not my intention here to propose a reform program. I've done more than once, both before and after the Council. Instead I will confine myself here to submit six proposals, shared - I am convinced - by millions of Catholics who have no voice.

1. Do not be silent. The silence in the face of many serious abuses there to bind. In contrast, whenever you feel that certain laws, regulations or measures have counterproductive effects, you should declare it publicly. Do not write letters in Rome to make an act of submission and devotion, but to demand reform!

2. Put hand in reform initiatives. Many in the Church and the episcopate, complain of Rome, but never take action. But if today in this community or the diocese or the parish Mass desert, where the pastoral work is ineffective, if there is no opening to the problems and ills of the world, if the ecumenical cooperation is reduced to a minimum, we can not download all the blame on Rome. Everyone, from bishop to priest or layman, must be committed to the renewal of the Church in their living environment, whether large or small. Many extraordinary things in the community and more generally within the Church, were born from the initiative of individuals or small groups. It is up to you, in your capacity as bishops, the task of promoting and supporting such initiatives, as well as to answer, especially now, with the justified grievances of the faithful.

3. Act collectively. The Council has decreed, after a fiery debate and strong opposition against the Curia, the collegiality of the popes and bishops, in analogy to the history of the apostles Peter himself was not acting outside the college of apostles. But in the post-Vatican II, the pope and the curia have ignored this fundamental decision the council. Ever since, just two years after the Council and without any consultation with the Bishops, Pope Paul VI he issued an encyclical in defense of the controversial law on celibacy, politics and the papal teaching resumed operations in accordance with the old style non-collegial. In the same liturgy, the pope looks like an autocrat, before whom the bishops, of whom willingly around, appear as extras without rights and without a voice. Therefore, esteemed bishops, should not only act individually, but together with other bishops, with priests, with women and men who make up the people of the Church.

4. The absolute obedience to God alone should be all of you at the time of the solemn consecration to the episcopal dignity, you have sworn unconditional obedience to the pope. However you also know that absolute obedience is due not to the pope, but only to God why you should not see an obstacle in that oath that stop you from telling the truth on the current crisis of the church, your diocese and your country. Follow the example of the Apostle Paul, who opposed Peter "to his face because he clearly was wrong" (Gal. 2:11). May be legitimately put pressure on the Roman authorities, in a spirit of Christian brotherhood, where these do not adhere to the spirit of the Gospel and their mission. A number of targets - such as the use of national languages \u200b\u200bin the liturgy, the new rules on mixed marriages, the adherence to tolerance, democracy, human rights, and many ecumenical cartel others could only be achieved through a constant and persistent pressure from below.

5. Pursue regional solutions: the Vatican is obviously often deaf to the justified demands of the bishops, priests and laity. All the more reason to bet intelligently to regional solutions. As you know, a particularly sensitive issue is the law on celibacy, a rule of medieval origin, which is now rightly called into question in the context of the worldwide abuse scandal. A change in opposition to Rome is almost impossible, but no one is condemned to passivity. A priest who, after serious reflection has completed its intention to marry should not be forced to resign from office automatically if he could count on the support of his bishop and his community. A single bishops' conference could pave the way for carrying out a regional solution. Better yet would be aimed at a comprehensive settlement for the Church as a whole. So

6. will request the convening of a council: if to get to the liturgical reform, religious freedom, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue there was no need for a council, the same is true today in the face of the problems that arise in terms of both dramatic . A century before the Reformation, the Council of Constance had decided to convene a council every five years, the decision was but rejected by the Roman Curia, which even today will certainly do everything to prevent a council from which they may fear that a limitation of its powers. It is the responsibility of all of you to be able to pass the proposal for a council, or at least representative of Bishops meeting.

This, in front of a church in crisis, is the appeal that appeal to you, esteemed bishops: I invite you to throw your weight on the scale of the episcopal authority, re-evaluated by the Council. In the difficult situation we are facing, the world's eyes are turned to you. Countless Catholics have lost faith in their Church, and the only way to help is to restore to address the problems honestly and openly, to adopt the reforms that this entails. I ask you, in total respect, do your part, if possible in collaboration with other bishops, but only if necessary, with apostolic boldness "(Acts 4,29.31). Give a sign of hope to your people, give a perspective to our Church. I greet you in the communion of the Christian faith.

(Letter to the Bishops of Hans Küng - La Repubblica, April 15, 2010. Swiss theologian Hans Küng is an internationally renowned, best known for its positions in the theological and moral, often critical of the doctrine of the Church Catholic. Between 1962 and 1965 he attended the Second Vatican Council as an expert, appointed by Pope John XXIII)