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Scandal in Rome has buffeted the church - Italian political corruption purges

National Catholic Reporter, March 26, 1993 by Peter Hebblethwaite

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Yet for last year's April 5 election, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, who runs the Rome diocese on behalf of Pope John Paul II, made the usual preelection plea for "the unity of Italian Catholics" - a not very subtle way of telling them to vote Christian Democrat. When they did not obey, Ruini consoled himself with the thought that the situation would have been worse had he not made his appeal.

Martini, meanwhile, in Milan, also advocated "the unity of Italian Catholics." But by that be meant not automatic support for the Christian Democrats so much as unity on the values of honesty and integrity.

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His most recent book, Journey Around the Vocabulary of Ethics, is moving up to join the Catechism on the best-seller lists. It would make excellent prison reading for those with unwanted time on their hands. Reading can be an influence for good. Di Pietro got one politician to "confess" by simply placing a copy, of Fyodor Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment on his desk.

Scandal in Rome has buffeted the church - Italian political corruption purges

National Catholic Reporter, March 26, 1993 by Peter Hebblethwaite

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