LETTER OF CARDINAL CARLO CAFFARRA THE POPE: "INSPIRED BY OUR CONSCIENCE ..."

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We reproduce the letter that Cardinal Carlo Caffarra sent in April to the Supreme Pontiff, and that after two months was made public. Theologian Carlo Caffarra is recognized as the most authoritative expert on issues related to family and life. The Holy Father Giovanni Paolo II considered it a point of reference and again made use of his cooperation in the preparation of important acts of the Magisterium. Even the Pope Francis I has for Him estimate, not least because of his fidelity to the Successor of Peter, but unfortunately, The Holy Father is in a “cage” in which it was put by some obscure characters that surround it and from which unfortunately is not easy to get out …

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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the Pope Francis I and Cardinal Carlo Caffarra

The recent letter by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, He was very touched Father Giovanni Cavalcoli and me, not on an emotional level, but in spiritual depth, as well as the theological and pastoral plan. Both deeply we value Cardinal Carlo Caffarra and knowing what we know is a genuine man of God, an authentic model of faith, a high caliber theologian.

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These days there is little to smile, but with a devoted affection expression, we want to say to Cardinal: "Father Cardinal, the day when as we all, she will respond for their actions before God, maybe you will have to answer for some thoughts, for certain words, for some works … but not for the omissions! And maybe - though none of us can interpret and even more so in advance of God's judgment -, we like to hope that his manly, Pastoral and praiseworthy escape from complacent omissions, will result from the Supreme Judge, full forgiveness for any sin as we all in thoughts, word and deed. Indeed, escape from those omissions in which not only a large part of the episcopate has fallen, but on which it has its own characterized pavido act and operate pastoral, It is on his part an act of true heroism for which Christ the Bridegroom of the Church to make big merit ".

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Cardinal Carlo Caffarra during Mass

The public talk by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra is a far cry from the mention of those in closed high prelatizi salons launch fires and lightning on to say and not to say the Holy Father, on the confusion in which the Successor of Peter has slid us with some of his ambiguous expressions. The mention of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra is moved by Free heroic love for Christ's Church, while the drawing-room gossip of certain bishops and curial is only due to a hatred that stems mainly from careers and not granted charges. Indeed, if some of them the Holy Father Francis had set the coveted cardinal's hat, Today they argue that The joy of love is the greatest document of the pontifical magisterium of the last five hundred years, and that a Pope like Francis I have not seen since the days when the Word of God Incarnate walked over the waters of ancient Palestine lakes.

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Cardinal Carlo Caffarra

In men of God as Carlo Caffarra, we see that light of our Christological future hope before which we express faith more than ever: "I think the Church one, santa, catholic and apostolic ". Instead, before the politicians in Business, which are upstream of those responsible for the increasingly untenable situation in which we pour, we can only say: "It preserves the Church one, santa, catholic and apostolic "by the immense damage it went from defenders of the values “politicians” non-negotiable, that at the time when the wind pulling on the other hand, They could see already the cardinal about the defense of the values “politicians” non-negotiable. Characters whose life and work has been a life of slavery entirely conditioned by the desire to achieve a great seat of an archbishop and a cardinal's hat; bishops that at best have left diocese the collapse composed today by priests divided and contentious; bishops with their priests have been most evident with a more or less comparable to that of a watermelon paternity; bishops who before God and history will be judged as managers and childbirth fathers of today's bad episcopate, born to reactive mechanisms - after all understandable -, Italian episcopate facts emerge from the devastating subjects that preceded them yesterday …

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Cardinal Carlo Caffarra during a conference

… it is true, Today we have an episcopate unfortunately formed by several elements imbued with the worst heresies modernist, But, even looking into a possible tragedy “positive outcome”, we can at least say that we no longer have those politiconi bishops and their priests in crisis abandoned the priesthood, they were in the House and talk to Gianni Letta to see if he, too, a good word, could facilitate their transfer to the archbishopric of Milan or the Patriarch of Venice. And having to choose among the bishops who came and went from the living rooms of the worst political award-investigated and those who today, perhaps for conformity or for convenience, They speak only of refugees obsessively, Alas, I would be forced to Christian intellectual honesty to choose these seconds, from santegidino S. AND. Mons. Matteo Maria Zuppi and from’child prodigy S.It is the school of Bologna. Mons. Corrado Lorefice, kissing one and the other ten times the hand. And with each hand kiss I would try to erase from the memory nefarious recent memory of their predecessors defenders “politicians” of non-negotiable values, that before the orgiastic feasts of Silvio Berlusconi made no bones to declare that … "One can not judge from his private life Prime Minister, but by his acts of government ", adding a reprimand to many Italians who dared even to remain outraged by certain feasts red light, that "The outrage is not a Christian sentiment". And today these bishops, retirees and as they say beautifully trumpet, They are the ones who most of all clamoring as parlor lions on the The joy of love and remarried divorcees, while Silvio Berlusconi, that was judged "not on his private life but by his acts of government", Today is eighty years old and as a third mate just thirty years old girl, It was in favor of all the anti-Christian legislation, and it is more or less pathetic as they were and are certain defenders bishops "politicians"Non-negotiable values, behind which only they hoped for a cardinal, thank God never come, while their darling, Berlusconi, like a tree we recognized all of them from the fruits that gave …

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Is there any spare virgin vilified who intends to complain because today we have an Italian episcopate that reactively, and also understandably, It is for the most part all skewed to the left?

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from The Island of Patmos, 20 June 2017

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Carlo Card. Caffara

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Most Holy Father,

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it is with some trepidation that I address Your Holiness, During these days of the Easter season. I do so on behalf of Cardinals: Walter Brandmuller, Raymond L. Burke, Joachim Meisner, and my personal.

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We would like first of all renew our total commitment and our unconditional love to the Chair of Peter, and for your august person, in which we recognize the Successor of Peter and Vicar of Jesus: the "sweet Christ on earth", as he put St. Caterina da Siena. There is minimally belongs the position of those who consider a vacancy in the See of Peter, nor to those who also want to attribute to others the responsibility of indivisible gift petrino. We are motivated only by the awareness of serious responsibility from the gift cardinal: be advisers to the Successor of Peter in his ministry sovereign. And the Sacramento Episcopate, that "he has placed us as bishops to nourish the Church, He has purchased with his own blood " [At 20, 28].

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The 19 September 2016 we delivered to Your Holiness and to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith five dubia, [Ed. cf. WHO] asking her to resolve uncertainties and to clarify some points of the Post-Synodal love joy.

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Having received no response from Your Holiness, we came to the decision to ask you, respectfully and humbly, Hearing, together if it will appeal to Your Holiness. We enclose, as is the practice, Hearing a sheet in which we expose the two points on which we wish to entertain us with you.

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Most Holy Father,

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It is now one year after the publication of love joy. In this period they were publicly interpretations of certain passages objectively ambiguous of the Post-Synodal, not differ from, but contrary to the permanent Magisterium of the Church. Although the Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith has repeatedly stated that the Church's teaching has not changed, They have appeared numerous statements of individual bishops, of Cardinals, and even of Episcopal Conferences, approving what the Magisterium of the Church has never approved. Not only access to the Holy Eucharist of those who objectively and openly living in a situation of serious sin, and intend to stay there, but also a conception of moral conscience contrary to the Church's Tradition. And so it is happening - oh how sad to say! - that what is sin in Poland is well in Germany, what is forbidden in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia it is permitted in Malta. And so on. This brings to mind the bitter realization of B. Pascal: “Justice on this side of the Pyrenees, injustice beyond; Justice on the left bank of the river, injustice on the right bank”.

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Numerous competent lay, deeply love with the Church and solidly loyal to the Holy See, They have turned to their pastors and to Your Holiness, to be confirmed in the Holy Doctrine on the three sacraments of Marriage, Confession and the Eucharist. And in these days, in Rome, six lay people from every continent have proposed a much frequented Study Seminar, the significant title: "To clarify".

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Faced with this serious situation, in which many Christian communities are splitting, we feel the weight of our responsibility, and our conscience pushes us to ask humbly and respectfully Audience.

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Want Your Holiness remember us in your prayers, The as we assure you that we will do in our. And we ask for the gift of His Apostolic Blessing.

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† Carlo Card. Caffara

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Rome, 25 April 2017
Feast of San Marco Evangelista

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SHEET HEARING

1. Request for clarification of the five points indicated by “dubia”; reasons for such a request.

2. of confusion and bewilderment Situation, especially in pastors, in the first place the pastors.

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