Don Milani e il concilio - 9788810521724

Don Milani e il concilio: La direzione complessiva della Chiesa conciliare è indubbiamente «estroversa»: la storia del Vaticano II dimostra che fin dall'inizio una parte crescente e poi maggioritaria dei vescovi e dei periti si collocò sulle prospettive di papa Giovanni XXIII, rifiutando un approccio nostalgico alla cristianità e adottando uno sguardo più umile, meno trionfalistico e capace di rapportarsi con il mondo dall'interno, non dall'alto. Il pensiero di don Lorenzo Milani rimase sostanzialmente immutato prima, durante e dopo il Concilio, probabilmente perché il priore di Barbiana ne aveva anticipato alcuni tratti fondamentali. Eppure, alla fine della sua vita, don Milani si ritenne sorpassato dal Vaticano II nelle intuizioni che aveva espresso anni prima con Esperienze pastorali: «Oggi il mio libro lo leggono i conventi molto arretrati e le suore, come lettura spirituale».
The overall direction of the conciliatory Church is undoubtedly "extroverted"; the history of Vatican II shows that from the beginning a growing and then majority of bishops and peritists placed themselves on the perspectives of Pope John, rejecting a nostalgic approach to Christianity and adopting a more humble, less triumphant and able to relate to the world from within, not from above. In other words, the Council was able to take note overall that secularization was an irreversible process, in front of which it was convenient - evangelically - to position itself as yeast, salt and light. The thought of Don Lorenzo Milani remained largely unchanged before, during and after Vatican II, probably because the prior of Barbiana had anticipated some fundamental traits, perceiving exactly the instance of mission and dialogue From the Council Church. Yet, at the end of his life, the Prior of Barbiana considered himself to have been overtaken by Vatican II in the insights he had expressed years earlier with pastoral experiences: "Today my book is read by the very backward convents and the nuns, as a spiritual reading." If, however, Don Lorenzo could laugh at the fact that the Council had flanked him and perhaps in some sections even passed, it is because he lived it from afar, but longing and supporting many of those principles that were proclaimed in that assise.