“God is disgusted with mankind”, this is what Pope John Paul II said, in quoting a sentence from a line by Jeremiah. Ernesto Zacconi, starting from this sentence in an article on the daily paper Il Corriere della Sera, vicariously examined our Eternal Father’s conscience though man’s logic. On the daily paper Il Giornale, Stefano Zecchi, in his capacity as a professor and through the same logic, confuted the words quoted by His Holiness with a commonplace remark, and stated that mankind is made up my many men, both good and wicked, in fact more good than wicked, and emphasised the difficulties that man has to face when taking the straight and narrow path.
Hence, if God is disgusted, “he is abandoning the very people who are walking the straight path”. We can respond to these fruitless disputes by quoting the words that were spoken and written by a “secularist”: “Dishonest people’s faults are also honest people’s faults”, Voltaire. We are quite sure that the words recalled by the Holy Father reflect the thoughts of an overwhelming majority of human beings, of the good from every race and religion who experience day after day the nightmare of so many atrocities.
It is Christmas.
Christmas means rebirth, it means hoping that there may be a turnabout, it means hoping that conciliatory people may actually become good people: this is the wish we all express to you all.

Genina Jacobone

Translated by interpres sas