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I propose the following article posted in recent days to the newspaper story of Benedict XVI in Africa, which has given so much to talk about the many "wise" and "responsible" politicians of our time.

It takes a really brave! Go in Africa where AIDS kills every day, where thousands of people die of hunger and thirst, where the guerrillas are ethnic massacres and violence of every kind, and start to talk about condoms. And then to say what? I'm not the best weapon to fight AIDS. "But on what planet is this?" I asked yesterday a girl of 18 years.

A spontaneous reaction and its understandable, but also rushed. Similar to that, certainly less naive, the media and many politicians these days do not expect more than a pretext to harass the pope. Maybe even pulling dance alleged differences with the "poor" John Paul II, who surely will must be turning in his grave because in many official documents, wrote exactly the same things. Ratzinger's words it is good to read from the Vatican Information Service, trusted source for official: "I would say that you can not overcome this problem only with AIDS slogans. If there is no soul, if Africans do not help, you can not solve the scourge with the distribution of condoms on the contrary, the risk worsening the problem. The solution can only be in a two-fold commitment: first, a humanization of sexuality, as a human and spiritual renewal that brings with it a new way of behaving with each other, and second, a true friendship also and especially with the suffering people, the availability, even with sacrifice, personal sacrifice, to be with the suffering. "

words very different from so many headlines these days fired. But leaving aside, for once, the usual ballet media (which speaks for itself), I would try to understand, however, where Benedict will find the courage to say and do things like that. Of course, after discarding, and it seems reasonable that the hypothesis could be simply crazy. "One dare not if it gives itself" Manzoni said. And then, where he, Ratzinger, the courage to speak ill of condoms in places where AIDS makes millions of deaths?

I think the reasons could be summarized in two main ones, in some way inclusive of many others. The first element of courage comes from what is commonly called "the Church's presence." And for millions of Africans do not have the cruel faces of the Republic that Ratzinger chose to art for his photos, but the authentic and generous of thousands of Christians in those lands are really the face of AIDS. I speak of the many Catholic movements, from the Caritas Community of Sant'Egidio, dall'Avsi of Communion and Liberation, Opus Dei. In short, people who looks at the heart of the AIDS problem far more than they do the promoters of advertising campaigns, politicians or commentators on their comfy sofas. Well, that people move to the same ideal of the pope, the same hope of faith is worth helping a man suffering from AIDS and stand by him in pain. When the pope speaks of AIDS, therefore, speaks for his father and representative of who does all of those "mixed" with AIDS so far. The Africans know and they know be grateful, as evidenced by the extraordinary hospitality of those days.

Alongside this first certainty, there is one second. And it is perhaps the most difficult aspect of the Church that goes down, even to many Catholics. It 's the fact that the Church is so determined to not detach any concrete help from the work of an attempt to change the mentality. A Never disconnect dall'umanizzazione humanitarianism. Or to put it in a way more pleasing to me, the commitment to social and educational. To do this you need to make judgments about what is more humanized, including in relation to sex life.

The thing will not please many, but it is precisely in these terms: the Church does not engage in social simply because it is a good thing and that's it. This, if anything, is why all the rich of the West make a minimum of solidarity to get a clear conscience.

The Church helps people because it has the idea of \u200b\u200bman as something great, beautiful, extraordinary. In any social situation you are, whatever his skin color. And (this is really angry, 'more), whatever his state of health. In short, a love of life that is not afraid to be radical. For this will never give up, I hope, to say that sexuality is an exceptional gift in which to play the human life and should not be treated as mere objects of pleasure. For this will never give an opinion on what he considers more human.

How good a Pope as well. His courage confirms me in the way that I have encountered Christianity in the classroom, through men who have always challenged me thus: "You be the judge, what is more real and more human." On all aspects of life, from education to politics, from family relationships to sexuality. Always to the end. "Because the man - I was told - is done to get to the bottom, without cowardice, without always be with your backs up, like Don abundance." In short, always with the "condom".

And that invitation to judge "the way" if they accompanied another equally fascinating: "Never be afraid to say publicly that you (and never one for you) you feel is most true and human. No problem to say the easiest thing and correct what the prevailing mentality (today more and more feel-good) deems acceptable. " This courage it took him often, and it takes still under the fire of criticism more conformist. That same conformist criticism that today the Pope is not afraid to pull him saying so many things that appear "out of this world." I just got a pope like this: makes me want to never remain silent in their corner.

Pino Suriano