Carlo Casini with Vittoria Quarenghi, politics
Tuesday 15 October, in the Queen’s Hall of Montecitorio, the President of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana will open the conference in honor and memory of Carlo Casini promoted by the “Friends of Carlo Casini” Association in collaboration with the Pro-Life Movement, entitled “Public commitment and virtue. The example of Carlo Casini, magistrate, deputy, MEP, leader of the Italian Movement for Life.”
Lorenzo Cesapolitical secretary of the UDC, the party with which Carlo Casini collaborated for many years, will highlight the profile of a singular politician, who has influenced the cultural debate of our time with rigor and coherence. Colleagues from various political areas will also speak, including Rocco Buttiglione and Giuliano Amato, invited to recall some characteristic aspects of Carlo Casini’s parliamentary life, although they had different positions on some issues.
Also present mgr. Domenico SorrentinoBishop of Assisi e Margherita Cassanofirst female president of the Court of Cassation.
The two round tables will be introduced and moderated by Ignazio Ingrao, journalist for RAI1, Vaticanist.
A meeting to remember the public commitment and virtues of Carlo Casini, married to Maria, father of four children Marina, Francesco, Donatella and Marco, magistrate, parliamentarian, member of the National Committee for Bioethics, founder of the Pro-Life Movement, defender of values and ideals, always in search of truth and justice, capable of listening and respecting everyone, even those who didn’t think like him.
«Our conference is part of this great river that for years and in every way has wanted to celebrate and remember it» he declares Luisa Santolini. «Our desire is to remember a person who was excellent in all the fields in which he ventured, but without hagiographic intent. Politics in recent years has not been in good health. We want to remember two things about the political Casini: that he was among the first to recognize the pedagogical strength of a law and therefore the need to write just laws for the common good and secondly that Casini is the living demonstration that one can be holy even by engaging in politics. The same goes for the magistrate Casini.”
Also speaking at Tuesday’s meeting will be Marina Casini, bioethicist, jurist, professor of Bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, President of the Italian Movement for Life, eldest daughter of Carlo Casini. «His public commitment and his service to the Church, welcomed and shared by all of us, characterized the life of the family» he declares Marina Casini. «When it was not possible to go with him, and obviously it happened often, father’s absences were justified by his generous and courageous service which we too, by remaining united, contributed to achieving. The electoral campaigns as well as the Days for Life, the many initiatives of the Movement, the referendums of 1981 and 2005, the numerous civil, political and ecclesial meetings in which it participated or which it promoted, the joys and sorrows due to his “mission” have marked our family life and have always been lived in communion with each other and with him».
In short, a life where the values that were felt in the family were the same ones that he carried forward in his political commitment. Clarity and firmness were combined with an extraordinary humanity. Always with a sincere smile for everyone, Carlo Casini knew how to dilute even the most clear-cut positions into a request and an offer of mutual collaboration.