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Freedom is female: against violence against women

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Incidents of violence against women are increasingly numerous and increasingly clamor when rising to prominence in the news. This phenomenon has ancient origins, and it is basically the result of ignoble conception that women would be inferior to men.
Sobering figures released from a survey carried out by ISTAT in 2006: the 31.9% Italian female population aged 16 and the 70 years said they had immediately, at least once in your life, violence from the opposite sex. More than 90% of the nearly seven million women have suffered violence did not declare the fact to the appropriate authorities. The question that arises is: What motivates a woman to not want to denounce a fact so serious and especially the person who perpetrated?
In Italy every three days a woman is killed by a man who is or has been romantically linked. Most cases of violence suffered by women is familiar in nature, experienced within the home. In women who suffer violence from their partner's different forces come into play, the first of which is the intention to save or "change" the companion itself. Women often fail to be resigned to the idea of a love that has fallen apart; even the confidences with relatives sometimes bring victims to review its position, and to support partners who try to talk it down and disistimarle. It is a process, the low esteem of themselves, that's interesting women "in career", the more educated and socially active.
There are different types of violence, starting from the physical to the more subtle and devious, psychological violence, the fruit of a love sick and distorted, that often puts women greater difficulty in finding the courage to escape the daily trickle made at the same time stroking and verbal slapping.
What to do, Therefore? Women who are victims of any kind of violence should have the strength to get in touch with your nearest centre, help and support. Expert who will advise you and will find together will devise a way out.
Secondly, I recommend to all, men and women, read This is not love, a collection of stories that tell the domestic violence against women. Because, ultimately, that violence against women is a real cultural problem, that should be understood and eradicated with greater awareness.

Maria

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Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus: La riforma di Francesco

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In his apostolic letter Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus issued issued "Motu Proprio", Pope Francis applies the canonical process reform in cases of annulment of marriage in the code of Canon law. This reform, According to the basic premise, was suggested and stressed by the demands of the secular world and the need of the Church to be present in the world and represent yet have a safe connection for the souls of the faithful. The reform continues in the path traced by the teachings of Paul VI, which you uttered forcefully during his pontificate on care and salvation of souls according to the divine plan of the Trinity, whereby all its institutions should aim to communicate the divine grace and favour the good of the faithful ". With this reform Francis intends to promote not the nullity of marriages, as erroneously was read in several articles published on the subject, but the speed and simplicity of processes so that "the hearts of the faithful awaiting clarification of their State is not burdened with the long darkness of doubt". The Bishop's role is central in this reform: He shall judge "finally to be translated into practice the teaching of the Second Vatican Council in which it was decided to make clear that the bishop himself in his Church's pastor and Chief Judge among the faithful". In addition, He must accompany the spouses not only during the trial in judge, But even in the next path in their lives in the role of pastor and confessor. Among the circumstances that may allow the case of nullity of the marriage by means of short process include: lack of faith, the brevity of married life, abortion, the extramarital affair, the concealment of infertility or a serious illness, physical violence inflicted to wring consensus. One is inclined to doubt the ability of the Church to be "present in the world", to be linked to concepts or old dogmas and now exceeded, not understand the faithful, not to be abreast of modernity, When no one realizes its ability to live in the world. Live doesn't mean necessarily accept and adapt, means to understand and confront herself, its tradition, belief and trace the journey of the faithful.

Francis chose a pontificate "horizontal", to share with the faithful, to understand with them what the path that God has reserved for the Church, with only one great certainty, Faith.

Roberto

 

 

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The yield of the President

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Nothing evokes best the end of mandate of Obama as his gaze resigned and aged, a far cry from the image of strong man, dreamer and determined that gave new confidence to Americans by instilling in their hearts the idea of a new American dream. Barack Hussein Obama II was elected President of the United States of America in 44° 2008, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 and reelected to the same position as President in 2012. Not only: It was the first American President to talk about gay rights and to fight for them. Despite the difficulty in fulfill a task so delicate Obama was able to end the war in Afghanistan, exhausting as that of Viet Nam, to defeat the King of terror Osama Bin Laden, to guide the country through a difficult global economic crisis, to improve the living conditions of Americans launching a campaign that would remedy the problem of obesity. Obama succeeded in everything, or almost. It is said that a pessimist is a realist well aware of facts, and it's a very realistic Barack what admits that no, Unfortunately in the United States of America you cannot make a law against indiscriminate use of arms. And say we tried in all ways: from awareness to food and basic necessities in Exchange for weapons. The dreamer was convinced he could drive a country differently from its predecessor, that George W. Bush so bound and dependent on large power lobby, from weapons to oil. Awareness not to hold the power to make a simple law that may restrict and regulate the use of arms among individuals was a bitter and painful awakening. 2405 people died in America as a result of the massacres perpetrated in cinema, schools, shopping malls, private homes, streets, Piazza and other gathering places, Every tragic event of its kind following the public humiliation of a man posing in front of Americans apologizes, you look down and say "No, We can't ".

Roberto

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Places of remembrance: sacrifice, Defense and homeland

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When addressing issues such as the sacrifice of the alpini during World War one must proceed with extreme caution: on one side, not addressing the argument, you are likely to forget their contribution, military and human, in that conflict; on the other, If you overdo it by treating the topic with too much emphasis is likely to expire at a discounted demagogismo. About World War II all has been said and written. Texts were produced, video, Photo, stories; It now has a wide range of information telling us about the incident. Magnifying glass which focuses on this conflict, to try and explain the causes and effects, highlights the great characters of the history of the era (Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, Stalin) and great Nations (Germany, France, United States, Russia and Japan). However, a large focus is likely to tarnish those who, on the field, He fought the war firsthand, in the front row. While not forgetting the atrocities suffered by the prisoners in the concentration camps, millions of men have sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland. Sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland. It's a repetition intentional, Although this sentence with modern eyes is outdated because ancient are words like sacrifice, Defense and homeland. These three concepts associated to our nation are now, in the eyes of us contemporaries, taken for granted: is natural and obvious that our nation does not require the sacrifice of its inhabitants to defend their boundaries in the interest of one's own country. If however today, These concepts are so cheap to pass unnoticed is because someone in the past he had to deal with. Starting from the natural principle that nothing gets you nowhere, then these three concepts sacrifice, Defense and homeland we had to get, win on the battlefield. In the 1940s was not granted for a man leave his family, charging a backpacker and walk on foot along the road to go to war. In Cuneo and province thousands of men have left their land and lent their hands of peasants to the homeland. The reason for this war was often too difficult to understand, and perhaps at that point didn't care even just try to understand the causes of that conflict. The only thing that mattered was return home alive and defend their land. On the first point, the story tells of the dramatic battles and long Siberian retreats, the second our alpini have always responded to this. It becomes increasingly difficult for us, today, understand that sacrifice because, unfortunately, with the passing of the years fail those protagonists who fought that war. There remain however those memorials theaters of clashes, of assaults, of battles, of deaths and prayers. These are places that we should learn to conserve because they represent our past, are testimony to this and a precious heritage for the future.

I extend a special memory at the 4th "Livorno" Infantry Division that between 1940 and the 1943 He fought on the southern side of Stura Valley near Passo Sant'Anna, Step 2156m, Top of Crosillias, in the province of Cuneo. The sacrifice of these men allowed him to maintain a bridgehead between the borders of Italy and France subsequently allowing French troops to break through the enemy lines on the north side, forcing the enemy to flight.

Roberto

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