JESUITS: THE MAFIA IS YOUR ENEMY
(AGI) -Palermo, 2 Apr. - First: an empty criminal record.
Second: firm actions against the mafia. Third: economical policy and services which combat poverty and which don't privatise essential goods like water and health products. These are the directions for Sicilian which the Jesuit Social Network released in order to evaluate who to vote for in the upcoming Italian elections on the 13-14 April. The JSN is a network which united Jesuits and secularists who are active in different ways in social programmes, from the south to the north of Italy, through thirty or so cooperatives, foundations study centres and informal groups. Once of the most famous of these is the Istituto di formazione Politica Pedro Arrupe (The Pedro Arrupe Institute of Political Training). For the network of Jesuits "anyone who wants to join the political arena" must have a "clear criminal record", but above all they must have a political vision which "is for the good of the public and not for their own personal interests". Furthermore, they must consider "urgent" the debate concerning the "presence of the mafia in southern Italy and not only in the outskirts of the cities but in the institutions, the community, the economy and at a national and international level". Economic policies must be handled with the resources available and should be aimed ay social inclusion rather than aimed at a misunderstood concept of liberty which excludes others", which also has "less waste of public resources" and uses more money for teaching, for social policies, for health and for protecting the common goods like water". The worker must be the one who "takes centre-role" in all this.