Family Day is “an event aimed at giving visibility to civil society, the majority of which is in favour of the family. That’s all Family Day is intended to be: a visible and real fact of life – that of the family with all its rights and duties”. That’s how Eugenia Roccella, spokesperson together with Savino Pezzotta, defends the national event in support of the family due to be held in Rome on 12 May. It has already – she explains – received the support of over 150 associations. “What frightens me – continues Roccella – are the silence and resignation to the insensibility of policy towards the family, which despite being the mainstay of the country, now risks elimination”. Roccella dismisses the “simplifications of the media” which want to place Family Day, this “great expression of unison”, in the “all too familiar category of the conflict between secular and Catholic society”. “The family is not a Catholic category”, she insists; it is something the “majority of Italians” have close at heart” and brings with it a heritage of feelings, spirituality and culture that cannot be lightly thrown away”.
