Terrorism is the province of state of war but we're unwilling to acknowledge it. Political correctness has morphed into a lie, Cardinal Duka says
Interview yesteryear Mr Petr Honzejk, Mr Tomáš Pergler
- Political correctness has morphed into an outright lie. Conservatively thinking people are at conduct chances of a lynch yesteryear the media, Dominik Duka says
- According to the caput of the Czech Catholics, people don't conduct keep a genuine volition to solve problems posed yesteryear terrorism as well as acknowledge that nosotros are inwards the province of war
- He claims that foster parentship is a degree of slavery
On the contrary, he has a favorable mental attitude to President Zeman. Zeman's critics within the Church should human activeness amongst the appreciation of Zeman's existence the caput of state.
Parliamentary elections are getting closer as well as nosotros could hear proposals from diverse directions that the church building restitutions should endure revised. For example, the fiscal compensations could endure taxed. What produce you lot think most it?
If my reading of the programs was careful enough, exclusively i political party proposed such a affair as well as it was the communist party. More generally, such proposals are existence raised yesteryear an private politician. I don't believe that the voters are really interested inwards such a plan. According to the Median polls, exclusively 3% of the voters are interested inwards the church building restitutions. It's a nib that was backed fifty-fifty yesteryear the Constitutional Court. Also, nosotros conduct keep treaties betwixt the churches as well as the government. To revise this police clit would hateful to kickstart a negotiation that could endure really unpleasant for all the sides.
Will you lot encourage believers non to vote for parties that criticize e.g. the restitutions?
We volition laissez passer no recommendations. After all, nosotros conduct keep never done so. At most, nosotros conduct keep pointed out some criteria as well as values inwards the programs of parties that shouldn't conflict amongst the church building orthodoxy. We volition urge the believers to alternative according to their conscience. It wouldn't endure acceptable for the people to vote according to an order. This view follows from the global determination of the church building after the Second Vatican Council.
Good but let's aspect at ANO, the billionaire's movement, which is the clear frontrunner inwards the polls. Its chairman has invested to hospitals doing artificial impregnation that the Catholic Church refuses. His government minister for regional evolution Ms Karla Šlechtová championed the nationalization of the church building buildings within the Prague Castle complex. Aren't those issues that you lot should discuss?
Our principles are really clear. The believers know what is moral as well as what is immoral.
Concerning these topics, nosotros are organizing e.g. events to back upwards families.
However, nosotros are non fighting against individuals or private political parties.
It's for certain that nosotros must denounce the communist party, its programme as well as its statements which are threats for our democracy.
While we're non satisfied amongst the artificial impregnation as well as other things, the church building doesn't ain the decisive vocalisation here. These laws conduct keep made it through the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
We must continue on debating amongst experts who may explicate to the plurality of the world why these things aren't goodness or right. But the elections are contests betwixt political parties. We shouldn't participate inwards that contest.
This week, the authorities was supposed to utter over materials most a novel sketch of the identify unit of measurement policies. Ms Michaela Marksová, the government minister of labor as well as welfare, had to forthwith take away some proposals, e.g. the proposal that a adult woman could endure artificially fertilized without the approving of her husband. Anyway, it's existence expected that the proposal volition endure rejected.
According to many opinions, it's a compassion because the Czech lodge is lagging behind some Western European countries when it comes to its views on these social entitlements. What's your view?
When I utter over the give-and-take "family", which inwards Czech ("rodina") is related to the verb "to laissez passer birth" ("rodit"), I must insist that this give-and-take cannot endure associated amongst 2 men or 2 women.
And when people hire a adult woman equally a mother, I think that they're getting somewhere beneath the aeroplane of a democratic society. They're drifting towards a lodge where the tiddler has no rights at all. The human existence is existence downgraded to a tool. And the slavery was the scheme that defined a human existence equally a tool. The human rights don't hateful that the people could endure arbitrarily inventing what their rights are.
It's remarkable that the champions of the postmodern ideas say that the truth doesn't exist. At the same moment, when they declare the co-existence of 2 men or 2 women to endure equally goodness equally a family, they all of a precipitous claim to possess the truth. People amongst a conservative thinking detect themselves inwards a hard situation. They're surrounded yesteryear a contemporary Inquisition which isn't using the old medieval fell punishments but it is employing media lynches which are nevertheless sufficient for a consummate devastation of their foes. After such a lynch, the individual is turned into an intellectual or moral ruin.
Your linguistic communication seems to endure emotional as well as rigid – Inquisition, lynch. Who was inwards your view a victim of a media lynch?
These words are truthful. I alive inwards a pluralistic lodge as well as I am a conservative man. And when I aspect at the Internet, I tin come across a immature fellow member of the Communist Party who boasts that if he possessed a Kalashnikov, he would shoot his opponent dead. The trigger-happy mentality is all some us. And a purpose of the people is really afraid of joining the world struggle because people whose thinking is conservative are existence exposed to similar attacks equally they were during the communist dictatorship.
In fact, the really same vocabulary is existence used. I hollo back my schoolhouse years as well as all the slurs that were directed against me during communism – at nowadays the likes of me are targeted amongst the same slurs on the pages of the newspapers.
You often say that nosotros shouldn't spotter at the migration wave. So what should nosotros endure doing instead? What is the work amongst the watching?
It's oftentimes said that the Czech Bishop Conference has announced that nosotros won't convey a unmarried migrant or nosotros volition exclusively convey Christians. This is non true at all. The Conference has issued 2 statements inwards which it has quoted the Pope, too.
We conduct keep prepared most 482 centers where the migrants may endure welcome. When nosotros negotiated amongst the representatives of the state, however, nosotros also said that our Charity of the Czechia is a guarantor for the credence of refugees from the old Soviet Union. The Czechia has accepted most one-half a 1000000 people during the recent 25 years. This number includes many Romani people from Slovakia who may also endure said to conduct keep used the costless motion of the people inwards the EU.
When it comes to the migration from the Middle East as well as Northern Africa, nosotros had to say that nosotros were unable to solve this number yesteryear ourselves. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 work is the linguistic communication barrier as well as safety concerns, too. More than two-thirds of these people are coming amongst no documents at all as well as during the interviews or interrogations, it often turns out that they're non maxim the truth. Moreover, nosotros conduct keep pointed out that jihad has been declared yesteryear some groups.
There are to a greater extent than than xxx jihadist organizations. We know that they're sending masked workers whose undertaking is to create the terrain.
Another number is the merchandise amongst humans. There are numerous problems that brand it necessary for the migration to endure regulated as well as vetted. And nosotros merely cannot irresponsibly convey people who won't endure able to alive goodness lives here. Some organizations sometimes claim that Europe needs ninety 1000000 workers. But it's non a fundamental problem.
What volition happen? The economic scheme of the whole countries from which these people escape volition collapse spell Europe volition endure exposed to a really rigid social tension which volition non exclusively touching the economical output but volition endure a large burden that creates tensions inwards betwixt us as well as ignites a blame game inwards which nosotros volition aspect for the people who tin endure blamed for everything.
So inwards your opinion, who is failing?
Look at the safety situation: The enquiry most the assassinations is exactly when the adjacent i volition convey place. The province of affairs inwards Europe isn't nether control. In Nice as well as Paris, preventive policies conduct keep failed. However, I wouldn't blame the police clit enforcement forces.
The existent work is the absence of a political volition to produce something most it, to acknowledge that the province of affairs basically represents the province of war. Lots of things are existence obscured instead. For example, nosotros are maxim that i of the European Union's greatest achievements is the Schengen free-movement area. However, the Schengen treaty doesn't apply inwards fact. On the border, nosotros are really existence vetted as well as nosotros are gradually losing the advantages of the union. Let us say the truth to the people. The political correctness has changed to obscurantism as well as sometimes to the pronouncement of outright lies.
You conduct keep a unlike human relationship amongst the electrical flow president than your predecessor. However, the Catholic surroundings sometimes criticizes President Zeman strongly. Isn't it dividing the church?
I empathise our province equally a democratic i inwards which people are picking their representatives inwards the elections. And I am obliged to abide by these representatives. At the end, a Christian believer is expected to abide by as well as back upwards the ascendence of the authorities whenever it is working for the mutual or shared good. And he should alter the mental attitude when the shared goodness is nether attack.
However, I don't come across a work of the sort that commonwealth would endure threatened. Sure, at that topographic point are things some us that aren't quite alright. For example, the authorities isn't paying plenty coin to defense. We conduct keep pledged to pay 2% of the gross domestic product as well as we're non doing it. But I don't belong amidst the people who think that the president, the prime number minister, or a government minister should endure blamed for everything.
I can't produce politics. If I won't abide by the institutions of a democratic country, I volition endure shooting into my foot.
OK, then does it hateful that e.g. Prof Tomáš Halík shouldn't vigorously teach inwards politics yesteryear rigid critiques against the president?
Our undertaking isn't to combat through the media. I must abide by that priests as well as believers conduct keep the right to conduct keep unlike opinions. I am no absolute monarch.
But I must say that nosotros should endure constrained yesteryear the etiquette of politeness. The tools chosen to criticize the president should reverberate his existence the caput of state. Our Christian ethics should aid us. It knows some concepts that conduct keep sadly largely evaporated from the society. One of them is calumny or defamation. We should avoid it. I shouldn't strip the individual whom I criticize of his dignity.
Sure, at that topographic point are mistakes that the caput of province sometimes does, I sometimes produce mine, as well as fifty-fifty the Pope does his. No i is infallible. But the purpose of the criticism should never endure a slander.
What produce you lot think most President Zeman's excogitation non to laurels the belatedly Cardinal Mr Miloslav Vlk, inwards memorian?
Let's starting fourth dimension yesteryear assuming that every president has his criteria that create upwards one's hear who is going to endure awarded. And if you lot are aware of the relationships betwixt Zeman as well as my predecessor, you lot must empathise why Zeman could prefer non to payoff Vlk. Of course, I am pleased that the Parliament has proposed to laurels him.
He was older than me, had rigid memories to the Nazi era, has lived through the whole communist era. In some of his afterward fights, however, he was arguably excessively vigorous. Everyone tin explode at some moments, fifty-fifty I sometimes do, but it's ever necessary to abide by that the other individual has a unlike opinion.
And concerning awards inwards general, I would similar to say i thing: To endure rewarded yesteryear Miloš Zeman has meant to undergo a media lynch for at to the lowest degree 2 years.
Would you lot endure happy if the president were a practicing Catholic?
If he were a practicing Catholic, it wouldn't imply that he would endure the best president. He could neglect to endure equipped inwards the political arts, sufficiently psychologically prepared to execute the role of the president.
For example, when the relationships betwixt the authorities as well as the church building were tense as well as negotiations were taking identify deciding who would Pb the church building department at the Ministry of Culture, I was convinced that the optimal individual has been a non-member of whatever church building who was honorable, just, as well as familiar amongst the issues.
It's similar amongst the president. Moreover, a practicing Catholic would confront the conduct chances that he wouldn't endure sufficiently separating the interests of the province as well as the church. The president should primarily endure responsible for the goodness that is shared amongst the non-believers.
So who should endure the adjacent president?
Three Czech presidents then far, Havel, Klaus, as well as Zeman, conduct keep been born inwards the same "incubator", the meridian politics during the transformation era from the communist dictatorship to a costless society. Today, the province of affairs is completely different. The contemporary Blue Planet is existence transformed, the European Union faces the conduct chances of dissolution, which would endure a compassion if that took place. But at the same moment, it is really clear that the European Union cannot continue on existing without a profound reform. The president volition conduct keep to bargain amongst all these facts, he volition confront hard problems. It is hard to say which of the candidates is the best i for the electrical flow conditions.
Do you lot suggest that it's fourth dimension for a novel president?
No, I don't suggest that. It is then complicated that I volition exclusively pray then that the futurity president volition really succeed.
Dominik Duka (74)
The Archbishop of Prague as well as Cardinal was born equally Jaroslav Duka inwards a identify unit of measurement of a professional person soldier. After the terminal high schoolhouse "maturity" essay inwards 1960, he was prevented from farther studies due to communist cadre reasons. He was trained equally a locksmith for machines. In 1965, he was accepted to the Theological Faculty of Cyril as well as Methodius inwards Litoměřice. On Jan 5th, 1968, he secretly joined the Dominican Order as well as embraced the hollo Dominik. In 1975, he was stripped of his "state license for spiritual management" as well as he spent the next fifteen years yesteryear drawing technical schemes inwards Škoda Pilsen. In 1981, he was charged amongst "undermining of the province supervision inwards a higher identify the churches" as well as arrested for fifteen months. In 1998, John Paul II named him the 24th Bishop of the town of Hradec Králové, inwards 2010, Benedict XVI appointed him the Archbishop of Prague. He became the primal 2 years later.
In some other paragraph, the interview discussed when Pope Francis volition brand it – perchance inwards 2022 because of a youth event. They remind you lot that Pope Francis as well as Dominik Duka conduct keep unlike opinions most the migration. Duka has mentioned that "by the way, the Pope has a really express infallibility."
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