Greta, the cosmos and rising life

Editorial Staff

A maxi-advertisement in favour of life in its infancy hung on a building in Rome caused a sensation. The slogan refers to the young activist against climate change, Greta Thunberg: “Dear Greta, if you want to save the planet, let’s save the puppies of man”. In my house I heard the reaction of my 16-year-old daughter: “Why keep a son if I know I can’t educate him? If I know he was born of rape? If I know my partner doesn’t want it? And again, why keep him if, among other things, we are in financial straits?”. I’m a little ashamed, but I admit I couldn’t answer. P.M. Personally, I admire you for not answering with prepackaged sentences that might not have touched your daughter’s heart. The answers we are called to give to our young people are answers that take into account their questions and not simply our convictions. Your daughter’s four questions are true questions and the fact that you have listened to them without blaming them can become an opportunity for frank and humble dialogue. Of course, it is never elegant to minimize the effort of someone who engages in one just cause by calling another into…