Ratzinger ha aterrizado en Brasil y le ha faltado tiempo para avisar a los teólogos de la liberación que religión y política no se mezclan. sin duda parecería que no se mezclan en el Vaticano cuando se trata de defender los derechos de los excluidos, de los pobres, de aquellos que están al margen del sistema. para ellos ¿qué? un valle de lágrimas, que lo que venga después será mejor…
en cualquier caso, el obispo Pere Casaldàliga no lo ve así, tal como explica en el libro de Escribano, Descalç sobre la terra vermella -el libro ya no está en mis manos, pero si quedó un fragmento que traduje al inglés para compartirlo con otros compañeros (er, me disculpen las faltas):
The church of Sao Felix not only has a religious commitment, but has also incorporated the responsibility to do politics. “It’s necessary to do politics –says Casaldàliga- and you cannot bring a true religion, most of all Christian religion, if you’re not doing politics. Everything is politics, although politics many not be everything. The first commandment, which is after all the only one we Christians have, as Jesus said and did until his death, is to love each other like he did love us, and the last proof is to give your life and He said he had come so that life in abundance could exist on earth. If I do not worry for the land, the health, the education, the communications, even for the holidays to take a rest, I am not worrying at all for human life. It is because I must worry for the life in this world; life in the other world is His issue that He is going to resolve very well, because there will be life and life in abundance for all. Our duty is to defend life down on earth, improve that life and universalize life here, in this world. And if the Church, the Pope, the bishops, monks and nuns and all those that consider themselves baptized and inside the Church don’t do politics, that is, if we don’t pursue the social, political and economic consequences that the faith brings along, then what kind of love testimony are we giving? How are we going to raise on earth the kingdom of the Lord? What kind of credibility is going to have what we do and say?”
se me ocurren dos retratos más: el de Costa-Gavras, en su espeluznante película Amen, y el del Dostoievski en aquel capítulo de Los hermanos Karamazov, “El gran inquisidor”, en que describe el retorno de Jesús a la tierra y como acaba entre rejas, a petición expresa de sus más poderosos representantes aquí.
