November 10, 2009
CASE
Moro, here is the truth about Zaccagnini and Paul VI
The then secretary of the DC and the Pope was willing to do "everything possible" to the leader seized by the Red Brigades without weakness.
Twenty years after his death ... I met Benigno Zaccagnini on the evening of 17 or 18 March 1978, shortly after the kidnapping of Moro and the massacre of Fani. Elio and Ettorina Brigante, the sister of his wife Anna, who sheltered him in their house because of Camilluccia, I was asked by phone if I could give a 'spiritual support' Benigno. From that night very often, even late into the night, I was near the time of those 53 days of a pain for him that lasted 11 more years until his death, November 5, 1989. I've seen it think, suffer, cry and pray until the morning of the funeral of Moro.
Well, today, in solemn commemoration ceremonies like the one in Montecitorio and books dedicated to him with kind words man, and on the politician on the witness of 'secularism' Christian-maybe a bit 'adapted to the circumstances of today - there is always a gap, and on those 53 days are slipping away from shame and fear, as if it were better not to talk about it. Hovers like a shadow of a 'failure' - we also have books! - With implied accusation that affects not only Zaccagnini, but he also Paul VI. Yes: you read in the Letters of Moro hard things to Zaccagnini, but also to Paul VI, who "has done little, maybe they will care." And no one remembers that More had publicly only by his executioners told him that perhaps nothing of the reality in which, Paul VI tried them all, in Italy and abroad, in international organizations, the Red Cross, Amnesty and the UN, and did collect a large sum, if you do need. In mid
April 1978 that the Catholic Civilization (draft always seen in the Secretary of State) wrote that, unless treated at par between the State and Br - had to do everything possible to free Moro: more ... In those days, and on those nights I've seen Zaccagnini also decided to make this all possible, but unless the political attempts of looting did not open any way to save his friend and guide, who alone had convinced him to accept the Secretary of the Christian Democrats. His dramatic phrase repeated many times was this: "If there was a glimmer." The window of opportunity was never there, and indeed Moro was killed on the morning of May 9, when one seemed capable of being opened. He, moreover, not had conceded nothing, become a burden, he would die. Well, after Moro and his family, after his five bodyguards and their families, the first victims of that tragedy was just the two of them, Benigno Zaccagnini and Paul VI.
I followed closely the play in other ways. I was in daily contact - and Zac knew - with Archbishop Cesare Curioni, then chaplain at the historic San Vittore and then inspector general of the chaplains of all Italian prisons, and on behalf of the Pope tried many other ways, including talking with Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini, Br then processed in Turin, which he said is completely unrelated to each other. It was Curioni, among other things, to write at night and under the dictation Pope, Monsignor Macchi this, the first draft addressed to "Men of the Red Brigades." For various reasons then I was in contact with Tonino Tato, Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, and they also knew. The 'strategy of the firm'-informed opinion, and not in hindsight - was not chosen by the fierce tax Zac steely Communist Party, but without the obligation of a reality alternative to painful Zaccagnini and Paul VI. Thus distort the 'vulgate' of the Communist Party who was in command with icy determination, that of Zaccagnini obeyed trembling and powerless and the Pope and the Vatican, which were limited to prayers and lamentations opposing any concession baseless insult, even if it hovers in the commemorations and omissions of recent books. Zaccagnini a little passive and energetic? And yet - he also wrote Enzo Biagi, never denied, he told me that if that March 16 they had the Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro, after the approval of the new government he would resign from secretary did not agree with some appointments of ministers made without his knowledge. Little energy? On the evening of the funeral of Moro in the church of Christ the King prohibited the men from the DC family, there was another house Brigante requiem mass, and got a phone call Fanfani: asked the Secretary for permission to participate, except for personal, the funeral. Benigno's response was strong and dry, "No! You are free, but if you go and I'll report you to the arbitrators to expel from the party. " Last
: a few weeks later, on polling day for the new president of the Republic, Benigno tells me that the phone is distressed because the men in the Dc, Small and others, do not want to vote as President Pertini. Wonder if in his opinion, the choice of Pertini is right and proper. He replies that are elderly, sometimes impulsive and unpredictable, but honest and clean. So I think his confidence on the resignation: "Call your 'Friends' and' them that if they do not vote tomorrow Pertini thou resign." The next day, Sandro Pertini was elected president. The mild Zac had played its part: as usual.
Well, today, in solemn commemoration ceremonies like the one in Montecitorio and books dedicated to him with kind words man, and on the politician on the witness of 'secularism' Christian-maybe a bit 'adapted to the circumstances of today - there is always a gap, and on those 53 days are slipping away from shame and fear, as if it were better not to talk about it. Hovers like a shadow of a 'failure' - we also have books! - With implied accusation that affects not only Zaccagnini, but he also Paul VI. Yes: you read in the Letters of Moro hard things to Zaccagnini, but also to Paul VI, who "has done little, maybe they will care." And no one remembers that More had publicly only by his executioners told him that perhaps nothing of the reality in which, Paul VI tried them all, in Italy and abroad, in international organizations, the Red Cross, Amnesty and the UN, and did collect a large sum, if you do need. In mid
April 1978 that the Catholic Civilization (draft always seen in the Secretary of State) wrote that, unless treated at par between the State and Br - had to do everything possible to free Moro: more ... In those days, and on those nights I've seen Zaccagnini also decided to make this all possible, but unless the political attempts of looting did not open any way to save his friend and guide, who alone had convinced him to accept the Secretary of the Christian Democrats. His dramatic phrase repeated many times was this: "If there was a glimmer." The window of opportunity was never there, and indeed Moro was killed on the morning of May 9, when one seemed capable of being opened. He, moreover, not had conceded nothing, become a burden, he would die. Well, after Moro and his family, after his five bodyguards and their families, the first victims of that tragedy was just the two of them, Benigno Zaccagnini and Paul VI.
I followed closely the play in other ways. I was in daily contact - and Zac knew - with Archbishop Cesare Curioni, then chaplain at the historic San Vittore and then inspector general of the chaplains of all Italian prisons, and on behalf of the Pope tried many other ways, including talking with Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini, Br then processed in Turin, which he said is completely unrelated to each other. It was Curioni, among other things, to write at night and under the dictation Pope, Monsignor Macchi this, the first draft addressed to "Men of the Red Brigades." For various reasons then I was in contact with Tonino Tato, Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, and they also knew. The 'strategy of the firm'-informed opinion, and not in hindsight - was not chosen by the fierce tax Zac steely Communist Party, but without the obligation of a reality alternative to painful Zaccagnini and Paul VI. Thus distort the 'vulgate' of the Communist Party who was in command with icy determination, that of Zaccagnini obeyed trembling and powerless and the Pope and the Vatican, which were limited to prayers and lamentations opposing any concession baseless insult, even if it hovers in the commemorations and omissions of recent books. Zaccagnini a little passive and energetic? And yet - he also wrote Enzo Biagi, never denied, he told me that if that March 16 they had the Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro, after the approval of the new government he would resign from secretary did not agree with some appointments of ministers made without his knowledge. Little energy? On the evening of the funeral of Moro in the church of Christ the King prohibited the men from the DC family, there was another house Brigante requiem mass, and got a phone call Fanfani: asked the Secretary for permission to participate, except for personal, the funeral. Benigno's response was strong and dry, "No! You are free, but if you go and I'll report you to the arbitrators to expel from the party. " Last
: a few weeks later, on polling day for the new president of the Republic, Benigno tells me that the phone is distressed because the men in the Dc, Small and others, do not want to vote as President Pertini. Wonder if in his opinion, the choice of Pertini is right and proper. He replies that are elderly, sometimes impulsive and unpredictable, but honest and clean. So I think his confidence on the resignation: "Call your 'Friends' and' them that if they do not vote tomorrow Pertini thou resign." The next day, Sandro Pertini was elected president. The mild Zac had played its part: as usual.
John Gennari
