The Pope’s visit to Lampedusa through the experience recounted by Claudio Baglioni. A road to take together
The Pope’s visit to Lampedusa through the experience recounted by Claudio Baglioni.
A road to take together
After endeavouring through the well-known O’scià Music Festival on the Island of
Lampedusa to make everyone understand that integration is an indispensable
value, indeed, an extraordinary treasure, “which it would be truly insane to
renounce”, in the past few days the musician has returned to work on a
discographic project, not by chance entitled “Con voi” [with you].
With it he intends once again to honour the Southern Islands, the symbol of a
lonely humanity that is all too often left to itself. Thus he could not but be
fascinated by Pope Francis and his words during the Mass at the Stadium of
Lampedusa in which the song-writer, lost among the crowds, participated last
Monday, 8 July. And Baglioni speaks of the experience he gleaned from this
extraordinary day in an interview he granted to our newspaper. “I believe that
with this journey”, he said among other things, “Pope Francis has built the
longest bridge ever imagined: from the coasts of a tiny island in the heart of
the Mediterranean to the coasts of Africa, Italy, Europe and all the other
continents, to unite in a single embrace the souls of all those who — everywhere
in the world — are fighting every day to assert the right that no human being
can be deprived of: the right to a free, just, honest and dignified life.
Rights, moreover, are not symbols: they are fundamental and indispensable
realities”. fuente: http://www.osservatoreromano.va/portal/dt?JSPTabContainer.setSelected=JSPTabContainer%2FDetail&last=false=&path=/news/interviste/2013/157q13-La-visita-del-Pontefice-a-Lampedusa-nel-rac.html&title=A%20road%20to%20take%20together&locale=en
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