March 17, 2011: A manifesto called for the national identity
Italy was not born with the political unit created in 1861.
however, was the precious heritage of the medieval and Roman civilization, inspired by Christian faith, to push the Italians to shape the landscape, build cathedrals, to build universities, to reach the summit in the various arts and to serve Christianity with political , diplomatic, military and cultural figures. Forming the nation over the centuries that includes Dante Alighieri, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Francis of Assisi, Christopher Columbus and many others in the arts, faith, in the culture they inhabited and made big.
not questions the unit reflecting on the many wounds still open, born as a result of the choices of those who, in the name of the ideology of the Risorgimento, wanted:
- replace the traditional Italian and Catholic ethos, so evident in the unrecognized antigiacobine outbreaks of anti-Napoleonic epic and with a small or large secularism of patriotism and good feelings, without being able to find any significant popular support;
- build a central state, upsetting the 'Italy of the towers' characterized by a large variety of political forms and significant forms of autonomy;
- 'remake Italians', losing a significant part of the invaluable spiritual and cultural riches of the nation and especially violence affecting the South, which had given so much to the history and culture of the Italian Catholic and European.
- to promote the discovery and defense of the Italian historical roots and national identity respecting local autonomy guaranteed by a true federalism, consequent application of the principle of subsidiarity;
- to facilitate the achievement of a real "shared memory", for example by recognizing exemplary Catholics who underwent the Italian Revolution, as Blessed Pope Pius IX , and so-called losers of the Risorgimento, and dignity of "places of memory" where they ate massacres and violence would not be fair to forget.
