Not only restaurants, shops and families, the high bills also endanger the life of the parishes .
From the north to the south of the country there are requests for help from parish priests, who see the risk of having to reduce the celebrations to save light and heating more and more concrete.
In Sardinia, the parish priest of San Vero Milis has decided to turn off the bell tower of Santa Sofia in protest, while that of San Vincenzo in Atessa , in the Theatine area, has published the amount of the figures on the web. In Claut, in the province of Pordenone, another called the community to lend a hand by citing art. 315 of the civil code ("rights and duties of the child").
The Council of the CEI is meeting from Tuesday 20 September and, even if it is not on the agenda, the topic could see a first confrontation between the bishops.
Meanwhile, today in all Italian parishes the Day is celebrated to promote deductible offers for the support of the clergy.
"The Church is your home and it is nice to want to make it work, supporting the priests; it is nice that you too want to help. There is no Pantalone who pays, as they say in Rome: there are trousers we have and sometimes even with some patches… ", is the appeal of the cardinal president of the CEI Matteo Zuppi .
(Unioneonline / D)
