Word: sturzo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life. The son of a poor Sicilian sharecropper on land owned by Don Luigi Sturzo, Italy's great political priest, Mario Scelba was Sturzo's godchild and protege. At 15 Scelba began politicking in his home-town Catholic youth movement at Caltagirone. He became secretary to Don Luigi, who founded what is now Scelba's Christian Democratic Party. When the Fascists forced Sturzo into exile (in Brooklyn, part of the time), Scelba remained in Rome as his agent...
Italy has few more appealing public figures than Don Luigi Sturzo, the white-haired priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party, and Giorgio La Pira, the bustling little mayor of Florence. Both are ardent Roman Catholics who believe in infusing militant Christian principle into politics. Both are men of compassion and understanding. Both believe in putting into practice the words of the Gospels. But they emphatically disagree on one vital point: the role of the state in human affairs...
...Pharisee. Mayor La Pira, who has been known to go barefoot after giving his shoes to a poor man, and regularly distributes food to the poor, pounced back with a long open letter to "the Rev. Sturzo": "You should experience what the mayor of a city with a population of 400,000 has to suffer, expecially when that city has some 10,000 unemployed, when some 2,977 young people are still looking for their first jobs and when there are many concerns starting to lay off people . . . More than 2,000 have recently been evicted from their homes...
...head the commission, Premier Scelba picked Italy's most articulate foe of statism: Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged and respected Senator-priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party, launched Scelba in politics and last month gave a stirring lecture (TIME, March 8) on the menace of too much government...
...talk about Italy's No. 1 threat−Communism−not much is said about another ailment which works on Communism's side. The other sickness: statism. This leftover from Fascism stultifies free enterprise in business and perpetuates a swollen bureaucracy in government. Last week Don Luigi Sturzo, Italy's aged and respected political priest, addressed himself to the problem Italian politicians prefer not to talk about. Said Don Luigi...