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1904–1977 Italy
Giorgio La Pira, TOSD (Raimondo in religious life; 9 January 1904 – 5 November 1977) was an Italian Catholic politician who served as the mayor of Florence. He also served as a deputy for Christian Democracy (DC), the ruling party of post-war Italy, and participated in the assembly that wrote the Italian Constitution following World War II.
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Young people are like swallows, they go towards spring.
Bread, and therefore work, is sacred; the house is sacred, one does not touch one with impunity: this is not Marxism, it is the Gospel.
Men are waiting; they judge the truth of religion according to its fruitfulness in social life.
Christianity everything is a dream: the sweetest dream of a God made man for man to become God.
The seasons are not made by the farmer; they come, and he helps them. They all orient themselves towards summer, towards the days of maturation. This is what history does.
Tomorrow you go to the SS. Annunziata and pray that even in future centuries the Archangel Gabriel will always be an announcer of beautiful things.
We have always said it: the edifice of peace demands, first of all, the peace of peoples with God.
What does it matter if there is always a distance between the eternal ideal and its realization over time?
Human hopes are not entirely alien to theological hope.
The yardstick by which all human activity is evaluated is one: the one that Jesus reveals.
The function of cloistered monasteries at this very decisive historical point of the great human and divine drama?
When everything seems to fall apart everything is still magnificently valid.
What Jesus tells us: to leaven human society so as to bring creatures the gift of a spiritual and material elevation together.
The definition of man is not where he lives, but what he is.
For men, only one law and one end applies: the law of love and the reward of love. Everything else is lies and vanity.
It seems to me that the linchpin of Christianity lies entirely in the final judgment.
Geopolitics comes to coincide fully with the geography of grace.
There is a spring preparing for this apparent winter.
We must return to man, to his greatness and to his toil; and with the return to man we will also return to Christ.
Do what the Middle Ages did: bring this new history, this new humanity, around God, around Christ, around cathedrals, around monasteries, around the temple.
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