“Cardinal Sarah’s J’accuse”
On January 12, 2017, Matteo Matzuzzi published in Italian daily Il Foglio: “The West has become the tomb of God.” Cardinal Sarah’s J’accuse. With these words the journalist announced the publication of a debate with the Guinean cardinal, published in the latest edition of Italian magazine Vita e Pensiero (a cultural review of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – Ed.)
“The real crisis that our world is experiencing today is not economic or political; it is essentially a crisis of God and at the same time an anthropological crisis,” Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
“Western culture,” he continues, “has been progressively organized as if God did not exist: many today have decided to pass on God. According to Nietzsche, for many Westerners, God is dead. And we have killed Him; we are His assassins, and our churches are the crypts and the tombs of God. (…) Man no longer knows who he is, or where he is going: in some sense, it is a return to paganism and idolatry: science, technology, money, power, success, unrestricted freedom, unlimited pleasures, are, today, our gods.
“It is therefore necessary to remember, that the God who made world and everything in it (…) gives us life, breath, and all things (…) for in Him we have life, movement and being,” the prelate says, alluding to St. Paul before the Areopagus of Athens (see Acts 17).
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(Sources: cath.ch – iMedia – Il Foglio – DICI no. 349, 17/02/17)
