{"id":343090,"date":"2014-05-18T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/igino-giordani-and-europe\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:12:41","slug":"igino-giordani-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/igino-giordani-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Igino Giordani and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Igino Giordani <\/a>\u201ctruly foretold, by at least a quarter of a century, certain aspects of the communitarian process which was started after the Second World War: he saw the real interdependence of the economies of the European States,<\/strong> the winners and the losers, and the common risk of becoming the debtors of the USA, an \u2018American Dominion\u2019. He saw a growing movement of social solidarity and an Europeanization of culture provoked by the bloody experiences of war. To distance themselves from the \u2018brink of collective suicide\u2019 and save themselves from a new \u2018imminent massacre\u2019, and to avoid the \u2018decadence\u2019 \u2013 which would be \u2018taken advantage of by races (yellow and black) which have been stirred up by us and continents which have been brought to life by us\u2019 \u2013 he pointed out to the peoples of the old continent an inescapable historical duty: the overcoming of nationalisms in the formation of a Federation of the United States of Europe. He held however as an absolute necessity the passage to democracy of all the states:<\/strong> he saw it also as an aim that \u2018diplomacies do not know how to achieve\u2019. And so he called on a \u2018spiritual force\u2019 that could work as an \u2018element of unification\u2019<\/strong> [\u2026]\u201d. \u201cThe clear distinction \u2013 but not separation \u2013 between religion and politics<\/strong> was already then a tenet in his conception of the lay nature of the State. With full respect of such a distinction he expounded his European \u2018utopia\u2019 with a spiritual basis, \u2018utopia\u2019 which looks today to be much less unreal, to such an extent as to appear \u2013 appropriately re-dimensioned \u2013 like a real intuition. The historian <\/strong>cannot exaggerate and speak about prophetisms; but at the same time he cannot ignore the above mentioned premonitions of Giordani back in 1925<\/strong> on the risks, prospects and problems of a future Europe; nor can he undervalue his certainty of the role of Christianity in Europe<\/strong>, and especially, of the unifying role of moral and cultural values<\/strong>, which are indispensible aspects, to reach, beyond economic co-interests and the necessary institutional structures, a substantial harmony between the different identities of peoples for the birth of a European \u2018consciousness\u2019.\u201d<\/strong> Tommaso Sorgi, Igino Giordani. Storia dell\u2019uomo che divenne Foco<\/em>, Citt\u00e0 Nuova Ed., Roma 2014, pp. 109,111. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the European Elections get closer, we offer Igino Giordani\u2019s prophetic vision on the union of the European States, dated 1925, taken from a recently edited book by Tommaso Sorgi.<\/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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343090","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=343090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}