{"id":291672,"date":"2009-06-07T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/giordani-dreamt-during-the-1920s-of-a-united-europe\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:53","slug":"giordani-dreamt-during-the-1920s-of-a-united-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/giordani-dreamt-during-the-1920s-of-a-united-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Giordani dreamt, during the 1920\u2019s, of a united Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The  extracts that follow appeared in \u201cParte Guelfa\u201d &#8211; a journal founded by Giordani  during his busy writing career \u2013 and in \u201cIl Quotidiano\u201d, while he was its  director<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/layout\/fotodefault\/_point-1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" align=\"baseline\" \/>There will be no United States of Europe while Europe is  permeated by nationalistic movements. The United States of Europe and  nationalism are two mutually exclusive concepts.\u201d (<em>Parte Guelfa,  1925<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/layout\/fotodefault\/_point-1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" align=\"baseline\" \/>Unity  will be the inevitable effect of economic conditions, when no country will be  self sufficient and the life of each one is intimately bound to the others, it  will be effect of a universally felt need for peace; it will be made real by the  fulfilment of Christianity, whose values emerge when it is clear how much they  are needed.\u201d (<em>Parte Guelfa,1925<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/layout\/fotodefault\/_point-1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" align=\"baseline\" \/>The love  of one\u2019s own country does not imply hate for that of another: love for one\u2019s  family is foolish if it implies hatred for the families that live in the same  apartment block\u201d (<em>Parte Guelfa,1925<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/layout\/fotodefault\/_point-1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" align=\"baseline\" \/>Europe will be saved from economic failure and the threat of future  wars (&#8230;) only if it feels organically one and united as a continent, gathering  together all its resources together to face common dangers, instead of being  engulfed by internal strife. (<em>Parte Guelfa,1925<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/layout\/fotodefault\/_point-1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" align=\"baseline\" \/>This outpouring of peoples, this manifold expansion beyond national  boundaries, responds to a need for freedom. On the positive side, it is an  enrichment of life, and where it happens in a rational way, it is an expression  of Christianity (&#8230;) Right from the start Christianity taught Christians  catholicity, universality. The universal society of the Church considers souls,  rather than bodily appearance. It promotes a universal fraternity, something not  encouraged, and even blocked and often dissected with bloody incisions by  territorial, linguistic, national and class boundaries. (<em>Il Quotidiano,  1945<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some prophetic ideas on Europe written in 1925<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}