In the coming days in all the libraries will be released a new edition, enlarged, the autobiography of Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, archbishop emeritus of Bologna (Memoirs of an Italian cardinal and digressions, Cantagalli Editions, 668 pages, 25 €). In the first edition, Cardinal Giacomo Biffi writes his memoirs and asides "to let me in the chest of time, where the mystery of faith gives way to a series of events that apparently may seem unrelated to each other. A faith that is all the more authentic the more you compare with the world, with the questions "secular" In parts added in the second edition there is one of the statements of House Speaker Gianfranco Fini, who, at the end of 2008 , opening the proceedings of a conference dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of the shameful race laws, criticized the Church for not having done and said nothing. Biffi devotes several pages to reconstruct what happened and especially cites the courageous anti-racist sermon the cardinal archbishop of Milan, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, now blessed. In his autobiography, before sinking against Fini, Cardinal Biffi recalls the events of those days of 1938 that had "shocked" although he had not yet eleven. And remember: "It is a voice raised in Milan - was the first and remained the only one - who had the courage to openly distance themselves from such madness. On November 13, Cardinal Schuster from the pulpit of the cathedral of Milan, for the beginning of Advent Ambrosiano, delivered a homily that from the very first words, instead of calling the liturgical context, deal immediately with the argument that most worried him: "It is born abroad and meanders a bit 'everywhere a kind of heresy, not only attentive to the supernatural foundations of the Catholic Church but in human blood materializing the spiritual concepts of individual, nation and country, denies any spiritual value to humanity, and thus constitutes an international danger of not less than that of the same Bolshevism. This is called racism. "
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