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On the evening of Jan. 18, 1919, the Appeal to all strong free men, with the attached 12-point Program of the Italian People's Party, was circulated from the Santa Chiara Hotel in Rome.
In the tumultuous, restless Italy and Europe of the end of World War I, Fr. Luigi Sturzo, after a long and intense personal journey, in communion with others, inaugurated the experience of a national party of Catholic inspiration, but secular, with programmatic and reformist characteristics.
The keystone of the Appeal is freedom, understood as a constitutive element of Christian life and public life, a reference and inspiration that will always accompany Fr. Sturzo in his civic, human, political and religious affairs.
It holds, because of its high moral and political appeals a source of unquestionable topicality that speaks with democratic and free force, not rhetoric, to today and to the new problems posed by the contemporary situation to Italy, Europe, that to the overall international order.
The commemoration of the event brings Sturzo's Appeal to the stage, promoting a debate on its relevance.
by Don Luigi Sturzo
adaptation by Francesco Failla
presented from** Istituto Luigi Sturzo - CISS Centro Internazionale Studi Sturzo - SiciliaTeatro Castellinaria **
narrator Sebastiano Lo Monaco
music Dario Arcidiacono
directed by Salvo Bitonti
props furniture and personal effects
belonged to Don Luigi Sturzo
follows
meeting-debate
on the figure of Don Luigi Sturzo
with the participation of
Luca Collodi, editor-in-chief of Vatican Radio Italy
Gaspare Sturzo, President CISS-Centro Internazionale Studi Luigi Sturzo
Giovanni Palladino, administrator of the assets of the cause of beatification of Don Luigi Sturzo
**Prof. Flavio Felice **University of Molise Studies.
Dr. Maria Chiara Mattesini, PhD in History of Political Parties and Movements
Concetta Argiolas, Head of Archives, Luigi Sturzo Institute
organization Santi Lo Monaco, Salvatore Aricò
external relations Loredana Teodorescu
press office Barbara Tieri
