Giuseppe Lazzati

thumb|Giuseppe Lazzati Giuseppe Lazzati (22 June 1909 – 18 May 1986) was an Italian Roman Catholic rector of the Sacred Heart college in Milan and a former parliamentarian. He was also the founder of the Secular Institute of Christ the King. Lazzati served as a professor and for a time served as a politician at the close of the Second World War despite initial hesitance in doing so. He later resigned to further dedicate himself to his lecturing while instituting the Secular Institute of Christ the King to bring together men who wished to consecrate themselves to God though not as religious. He was a collaborator of several well-known figures in Italian politics such as Giorgio La Pira and Aldo Moro while he maintained close relationships with Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II. Quotes Excerpt from the book entitled Fede e cultura in Giuseppe Lazzati, edited by Luigi F. Pizzolato, Vita e Pensiero, 2007 It is possible to make young people capable of choosing, and to prepare them to be conquerors of freedom: educating for rupture then means only educating to make choices, not providing choices that have already been made. The essential problem is that of men and their qualities; not that of names and structures. In that harsh trial [the concentration camp], Christian education showed its absolute superiority. Our concern arises from the way in which images are used in certain forms of communication. [...] One has the impression that their use, both because of the excessive amount of time in which man is subjected to the tyrannical game of the image, and because of the quality of the image used, aimed at striking the instinct rather than stimulating the intelligence, ends up obeying, more or less consciously, the intention to impose on man, with the violence of oppression, pre-established models of life, useful to those who impose them, rather than stimulating him to a personal search based on the exercise of reasoning intelligence and interpersonal communication open to the frankness of human dialogue. The provocations to the new press on with a peremptory force that, day after day, becomes more difficult and arduous to face by opposing a certain critical scrutiny. On my return [from the concentration camp] there is a great desire to resume my work, which I have not completely abandoned, even from afar, and to resume it with an intensity and determination worthy of the times. There is no true educator who is not a man of prayer through which he is clothed in the genuine spirit of Christ, the Teacher par excellence. If the Catholic University had not found, especially at the beginning, the broad consensus of the faithful and particularly of the most humble, who would not have received an immediate material benefit from it, it might not have been founded and might not have developed and, above all, it would not have had a spiritual impact on the life of the country: it would have remained a matter for intellectuals. Quotes about A partisan, a concentration camp survivor, a constituent father, a professor and then rector of the Catholic University, Lazzati is a point of reference for Catholic democrats in politics. Gianni Barbacetto, quoted in La Milano di Scola: via la Fondazione di Martini, arriva Cl, 22 October 2015. External links Lazzati, Giuseppe Category:1909 births Category:1986 deaths Category:Politicians from Italy Category:Academics from Italy