Bagnasco says youth join ISIS because culture lacking-update

CEI head urges reaction against corruption

(ANSA) - Rome, March 23 - Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, head of the powerful Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), said Monday that Europe must consider why its citizens are joining Islamic State (ISIS) extremist death squads. The problem is not because of unemployment but due to a culture at home that is found to be "empty of its own spiritual, moral, anthropological" guidelines, said Bagnasco. Meanwhile, he told the CEI's ruling council that honest people "can and must react against corruption" after the latest in a long line of graft scandals. Corruption, he said, is "a very grave offence for the poor and the honest. That is intolerable". As well, he warned that gender education could lead to the creation of "transhuman" beings. But Italian parents have the "freedom of education for their children," which is permitted not as a "favour" but instead is a "fundamental right".

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Bagnasco says youth join ISIS because culture lacking-update