Novus Ordo: "Religion does not interest me because it does not address the issues"
The New World Order wants to put an end to Dogmatism. Here is further proof.
Despite very little publicity, "Disarming Beauty" has become an
editorial success. Its author presides over the movement Communion and
Liberation, and approaches the profound crisis that affects our time in a
new way.
JULIÁN CARRÓN
President, Communion and Liberation
"We
see it in relationships with friends, in relationships at home with
children, in relationships with colleagues... that it is difficult to
agree on even the most elementary things. This means that the nature of
the crisis reaches such a deep level that it affects everyone's life."
The
merit of the book is that it approaches issues such as freedom, reason,
realism and truth in an exciting way. Above all, it proposes ways out
of the crisis.
The main way he proposes consists of a real encounter with Jesus Christ, who he suggests is the force of disarming beauty.
JULIÁN CARRÓN
President, Communion and Liberation
"To
me a religion reduced to a rite only once a week... what interest would
it have? Only a little. If it has nothing to do with everything that
happens in life, it would not have any interest...Fr. Giussani has
communicated Christianity to us by showing that one lives much better,
one responds much better to the challenges of life, to the dramas of
living and to the beautiful things that happen in life when one has
encountered Christ."
Luigi Giussani was
one of the most important Italian priests of the last century. In his
classes in a Milan institute and later in the university, he understood
that young people lost the faith because it was presented to them in the
wrong way. In this quest for what he called an "educational method" the
movement Communion and Liberation was born.
JULIÁN CARRÓN
President, Communion and Liberation
"If
what we find in front of us is a Christianity reduced simply to a list
of 'things to do,' or to a series of rites that one does not understand
anymore, or simply to a set of truths that are totally foreign to every
day life, then I understand that this religion has no interest. However,
at the beginning this was not like this. When Jesus began to preach in
front of the Palestinian men two thousand years ago, His presence was
attractive. Even the people far from religion were interested in Him."
The
key is "to present faith as disarming beauty." Julián Carrón says that
just as the mountains do not need additions to show all their beauty,
faith stripped of all kinds of power will be more luminous and
attractive.
It is exciting work reminding people not to lose hope in this era of change, and most especially to help spearhead the solution.