Self-defense confirmed by the Union of idiots and Recognized (U.C.C.R.)

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LEGITIMATE DEFENSE FROM THE UNION OF RECOGNIZED AND CONFIRMED CRETIN (U.C.C.R).

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In this electronic jungle also the last of the ignorant, putting his hand on the keyboard of a computer behind the anonymity of the network, becomes an arrogant expert in those disciplines to which we, even though we have dedicated them life and long years of study, we continue to have an ever-based approach and awe the humble modesty, so we feel small, limited and deeply inadequate before the great mysteries of faith.

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Marrucine Donkeys, left hand
do not use: in joke and in wine,
napkins of the careless.
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U.C.C.R. Union of Confirmed and Recognized Cretins

Never the Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo He hath has been irritated with those who have criticized. Lto criticize, that he sometimes practiced severely, subject to the exercise of the freedoms guaranteed [Cost. art. 21]. It falls outside the constitutional rights the right to falsehood, as in the case of homemade blog called U.C.C.R, which would indicate the acronym Union Catholic Christians Rational, where in one written strictly unsigned [cf. WHO] it states:

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«The worrying phenomenon of media priests who find their outlet in social networks. We know well the "progressive" priests who bitterly fought Benedict XVI from their blogs, like Don Giorgio De Capitani, Don Paolo Farinella, Don Aldo Antonelli, Don Franco Barbero. Even Pope Francis has his enemies among the priest-blogger, this time linked to the heresy of "traditionalism": Don Curzio Nitoglia, don Minutella (recently excommunicated), Don Levi Ariel Gualdo and the various members of the Society of St. Pius X. An exception in the midst of so many good pastors, but a big problem because of their visibility donated by the web ' [cf. WHO].

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This rant, which also implicitly includes the Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo among the bad shepherds effectively excluding it from the "many good shepherds", is inserted in the delicate context of the Jewish-Christian relationship to discourse on which are necessary high and deep biblical skills, historical and theological, not a group that is defined:

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"OCCF is just a website, not based, no statute, It has no organic, not impersonating cards and not beating case. The 2 February 2011 as a hobby of a group of university students [cf. WHO] to whom, in no time, join other friends met on the net '.

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Incidentally, jokers of this homemade blog who call nothing less than "Rational", flying on the fact that to exercise the the task of teaching and the function consacration Sacramento shall grace the bad shepherds as Father Ariel, they should explain in a rational way precisely in which matters the "many good shepherds" they know are busy, to well consider that the turnout to our churches is in free fall, that the Holy Bride of Christ is now marred by a moral and doctrinal crisis without historical precedent, that baptisms are sharp fall together at weddings and the Sacraments of Christian Initiation, while on the surviving confessionals - that is, those that the "many good shepherds" have not yet put in stock or sold to antique dealers -, abounds dust and grow above the cobwebs. And they know, these rational, what is the Diocese who holds the absolute national record of empty churches? Well: is Rome.

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Marrucine Donkeys, not use your left hand, you use the … [U.C.C.R. Union of Confirmed and Recognized Cretins]

The small group of university students and various friends united in the network, ignore the Father Ariel S. Levi said to prints of Gualdo 12 years ago the book Herbs Amare, the century of Zionism, on the market for six years, several thousand copies sold and considered by scholars of national and international reputation a "milestone on the Jewish phenomenology". In this book 360 pages with 520 historical and scientific notes, the middle section, equal to 120 pages, It is entirely dedicated to the figure of Pius XII, that about the author debunks with irrefutable historical data ideological controversy mounted against this Supreme Pontiff by certain Jewish circles that, as amply demonstrated, all of them were related to various Marxist movements and various international Masonic lodges. The book is currently being reprinted.

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Unite the Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo to members of the Fraternity of St. Pius X or so-called Lefebvrians, What is indeed grotesque. Indeed, This priest and theologian, Lefebvre has repeatedly indicated as schismatics, accordingly as heretics, repeatedly explaining their mistakes, besides urging on several occasions the Catholic faithful not to participate in their sacred celebrations and not to receive from them the Sacraments, except in the case of life threatening, because in this case even a priest excommunicated and dismissed from the clerical state can administer the sacraments validly [cann. 976; 986 §2; can. 883 n. 3].

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Marrucine Donkeys, not use your left hand, you use the … [U.C.C.R. Union of Confirmed and Recognized Cretins]

Regarding the priest Alessandro Minutella, in a sorrowful article signed by Fathers de The Island of Patmos Ariel S. Levi Gualdo and Father John Cavalcoli [cf. WHO], the two theologians have begged him to backtrack. Soon after, father ariel, not having obtained no effect, he bitterly referred to as a model not to follow, inviting him to renew his profession of obedience to the bishop in communion with the Bishop of Rome [cf. WHO].

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then indicate the Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo as' Papa Francesco enemy " and it tied to the "heresy of traditionalism", denotes two different forms of folly: first of all do not know the devotion that this priest feeds to the Successor of Peter, therefore confuse the legitimate criticism of certain expressions or certain pastoral choices of the Roman Pontiff with those that are its acts of teaching, before which repeatedly, in four years a publicist on the online magazine The Island of Patmos, He called on the due obedience, because "If the Supreme Pontiff gives off a motu proprio, the matter is closed and there is nothing to argue about, It just has to obey ".

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Marrucine Donkeys, not use your left hand, you use the … [U.C.C.R. Union of Confirmed and Recognized Cretins]

These university goliardic that are revealed theologians, ecclesiologists and canonists hobby, they are therefore qualified and disqualified with the expression "heresy of conservatism", ignoring that the Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the Catholic tradition They have spread and defense, some until the shedding of their blood. Indeed, changing the word "tradition" and "traditionalism" in the negative sense until even use it as a synonym for heresy, It is to affirm authentic nonsense, such as those in the negative sense they use the words "dogma" and "dogmatic". It would be enough to know it only superficially and also the documents of the Second Vatican Council to know how many times the Fathers of the Church assembled in this assizes reflect and recall the tradition and respect for tradition, variously defined as "holy", as "sacred" and as a "perennial".

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Given these premises, the boys of U.C.C.R blog They are likely to be counted in the Union of idiots and confirmed Recognized, Please take for what they are, especially as intellectually they prove to be worth, in this electronic jungle where even the last of the ignorant, putting his hand on the keyboard of a computer behind the anonymity of the network, becomes an arrogant expert in those disciplines to which we, even though we have dedicated them life and long years of study, we continue to have an increasingly approach based on the humble awe and modesty, so we feel small, limited and deeply inadequate before the great mysteries of faith.

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the Island of Patmos, 29 November 2018

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Finally invite “scientists” del blog U.C.C.R. to deny this Lectio on a purely and strictly theological level, or otherwise declare that the Gospels Saints and the Blessed Evangelists were wrong

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Catholic Moral and gambling: the problem of compulsive gambling and addiction from gambling

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CATHOLIC MORAL AND GAMBLING: THE PROBLEM OF gambling addiction GAMBLING AND ADDICTIONS FROM GAMES

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For Catholic morality, gambling is not always considered a sin, but may assume that when gambling is offensive to justice and charity, exposing us to vice structured on the addiction that comes from our own free choice.

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the conference on compulsive gambling promoted by Lions Club, at which he gave a talk Ariel S. Levi Gualdo on the relationship between Catholic morality and gambling

Reducing people slaves irrational-emotional feelings, of illusion and dreams, It is not the worst form of slavery?

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Modern slavery It is worse than that of the ancient Romans, it was a legal institution of civil law; an institution that provided for the emancipation, the slave liberation. And once it becomes free, the former slave, species in the imperial era, He could make even brilliant careers. Instead of modern slavery, not codified in any law, because the democratic systems that promuono psychological slavery are those who condemn slavery firmly, but then made the same resulting in exercising massive controls on masses of slaves, for which it is not expected that legal possibility of emancipation already planned rather than two millennia ago in the Roman civil law.

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he teacher. dr. Franco Cirillo (to the left), the father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo (To the right) during the conference

About Gambling, The Catechism of the Catholic Church uses a much stronger end of the term "addiction", uses the term "slavery". And here I would point out that not all addictions are in itself and of itself bad, sometimes they are not even harmful. Indeed, addiction", It can arise from our own glossy initial choice which can then escape our control, until enslaving, but nevertheless it starting from an initial act of our free will. There are in fact two different forms of slavery: We can be enslaved by a violent total deprivation of liberty, or we can be enslaved by various forms of psychological dependence, almost without realizing it.

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Today that has reignited the debate on compulsive gambling and addiction from gambling, we represent, with extreme actuality, This conference held last year [follows the conference video]

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The definition of the essence of man

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THE DEFINITION OF ESSENCE OF MAN

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The man It could be reasonably defined as an animal animated by a rational soul.

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What is the difference between humans and animals endowed with instinct but no reason? Because this is the difference between the animal and the man who instead has the ability to reason. The animal has instincts, the man, which it is certainly not devoid of their human instinctivity, However, it is endowed with free will.

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Because of this, the man, It could be reasonably defined as an animal animated by a rational soul.

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In questa sua Lectio, Dominican theologian John Cavalcoli, through the speculations of classical philosophy and Thomistic metaphysics, ci conduce all’intero di uno dei più grandi misteri della creazione: being human [to open the video click below …]

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Who is Christ the King and what is truth?

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WHO IS CHRIST THE KING AND WHAT IS TRUTH ?

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The ironic question, "What is truth?», Today it no longer resonates into the common hall of Pontius Pilate, unfortunately it resonates for years inside the visible church, where you risk losing the truth to run after our egocentric cravings individualistic made fables.

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Jesus Christ be praised !

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Byzantine icon depicting Christ the King

This XXXIV Sunday in Ordinary Time, with the narration of Blessed John the Evangelist, the Holy Gospel gives us the dialogue between Christ the Lord and the Governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate [cf. GV 18, 33-37], focused on kingship and truth [see text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO].

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The feast of Christ the King It was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 with the intent to manifest the lordship of God over the world in contrast to the forms of modern atheism and to all ismi arisen between the nineteenth and the twentieth century. Of the ismi that humanity is dragged back to the dawn of the third millennium without having them processed yet, but above all without having them resolved. It deserves to clarify that I am referring to the enlightenments, al liberalismi, socialism, of communism, to fascism, to materialisms, of capitalism, to hedonism, to relativism and religious syncretism, to continue with the false ecumenismi until you get to pauperismi and to misericordismi …

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If the Blessed Pius IX realized the consequences of liberal capitalism indifferentist and Marxism during gestation, Pope Pius XI touched the concrete fruit of one and the. Therefore he wanted to propose to humanity the mystery of the cosmic Christ-faith: Christ, the only king of the universe.

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Hence the Supreme Pontiff Pius XI tries again to put Christ on the throne from which he had tried to oust him before, during and after the French Revolution, which extolled so fraudulent three principles far from being invented by the Enlightenment, because they have always been the pillars on which rests the Christian message: freedom, equality and fraternity. But if freedom, which is the greatest gift of God to man, and that is a carrier suffix mystery of creation [cf. Gen 1, 26-31]; if equality, brought to life by our being free creatures created in the image and likeness of God; if the fraternity, that makes us sons in communion with God; But take away the eternal and unchanging foundation that is the Creator, will not be born any Age of Enlightenment, but only the darkness of the alleged reason. And this darkness the supposed purpose will be based on the most satanic human presumptions: You can do without God and to eliminate God from the history of mankind.

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For us Christians, the real reason is Christ the King that recapitulates in himself all things, as expressed by the Blessed Apostle Paul in his letter to the faithful of the Church of Ephesus [Ef 1, 10]. Faced with this opera that encompasses the entire deposit of faith, we are called to penetrate and to let ourselves be penetrated by the mystery of the incarnate Christ, dead and risen. Christ is not a part of our lives, It is the totality of our being and existence, or as he liked to call Bishop Augustine of Hippo and Doctor of the Church: the Christ Allus.

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In the Gospel story of Blessed John the Evangelist, contains the conversation between Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate focused on the concept of kingship. A conversation that takes place after the Jewish authorities had judged Jesus Christ punishable by death, and brought him into the judgment hall before the Governor of Judea so that they ratify their judgment translating it into a death sentence. Like this, Pontius Pilate, He entered into the judgment hall question to Jesus Christ if he is really the king of the Jews. Meets Christ the Lord: "You say this to you, or have others told you about me?» [GV 18, 34]. And here it should be noted that while in the three Synoptic Gospels Christ the Lord responds indefinable "you say it ', in the Gospel of Blessed John the Evangelist He responds very clearly using the greek word reign, basel, which means kingship [in the Holy Gospels with: the kingdom of heaven, It indicates the kingdom of heaven]. A quel point, the King of the Universe Divine, He tries to make it clear to your partner that his kingship is not of this world. Pontius Pilate, but it is a practical military, in its own way a materialist, He continues to interloquire wondering: "So you are a king?». To which Christ the Lord answers: "You say: I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world: to bear witness to the truth. Whoever it belongs to the truth, hears my voice ".

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What the kingship of Christ is not of this world, it must not lead us to believe that it is only and exclusively over the ground, otherwise why, the Word of God, He would incarnate being born on this earth? That God of Christ the King is indeed a divine kingship, which, however, it is fully embedded in the ground world to be exerted on humanity, albeit in different ways and forms quite different from those that characterize the kingdoms of the earth.

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Pontius Pilate, practical and materialistic military, He can not follow the speeches. What interests him is only to know if Jesus Christ is the king of the Jews; So in part does not want, and partly it is not even able to follow the conversation of Jesus Christ, because from good Roman wants to know the facts and know if that man is the king of the Jews.

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Blessed John the Evangelist, in presenting the key question of Pontius Pilate, so the formula: "You are a king?» [GV 1,37]. With this formulation completely different from the question "Are you the King of the Jews?"That emerges instead in the Holy Gospels Synoptic [Mt 27, 11; MC 15, 2; LC 23, 3] the kingship of Christ transcends the very simplistic concept of "king of the Jews", In fact he is not king of a small region of this land, but of the whole universe, one who - as he writes the Blessed Apostle Paul -, by divine will, once raised from the dead was seated at the right hand of God the Father in heaven, above all rule and authority, of each power and domination [cf. Ef 1, 20-21].

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The kingship of Christ, God has then a much larger scale compared to what they think or trying to figure Pontius Pilate: it is placed in a universal dimension in which the royalty of the Redeemer has much broader scope. Christ the Lord is king because through the Incarnation of the Word of God in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, He came into the world "to bear witness to the truth" [GV 18, 37]. It is not by chance, continuing its interrogation, Governor of Judea begins with the question: «What Estin truth», in the Latin text "What is truth?», which translated means "what is truth?» [GV 18, 38]. Question where you could take and interpret a desire to understand, so you know, whereas it is only a rhetorical question formulated in purely ironic way.

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This reflection that will leave you on the Solemnity of Christ the King is that unfortunately it resonates for years inside the visible church, where you risk losing the truth to run after our egocentric cravings individualistic made fables. And this too, two millennia ago, He had said and prophesied the Blessed Apostle Paul in his letter addressed to his disciple Timothy:

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«The day will come, indeed, when they will not endure sound doctrine;, ma, having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales " [II Tm 4, 3-4].

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The way they save themselves and save the visible Church from this destructive danger, there it then instructs the Apostle himself:

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“If we ourselves or an angel from heaven preached a different Gospel to you than the one we preached to you, is anàthema! We have already said it and now I repeat it: if any man preach a gospel other than what you accepted, is anàthema».

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there, what is the truth: iThe throne on which is seated Christ the Lord, the King of the Universe, he who recapitulates in himself all things, things in heaven and things on earth [cf. Ef 1, 10]. And if anyone, whoever it is, should preach a different gospel: is anàthema!

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the Island of Patmos, 25 November 2018

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AVAILABLE THE BOOK OF MASS DE L'ISLE OF PATMOS, WHO

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The splendid interview with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller and the squalid indifferent silence of the press “Cattolica” Reduced regime now the drummers of the Soviet Pravda and TeleKabul

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THE WONDERFUL INTERVIEW OF CARDINAL GERHARD LUDWIG MÜLLER AND THE SHADOW INDIFFERENT SILENCE OF THE PRESS “CATHOLIC” OF SYSTEM NOW REDUCED TO PRAVDA TAMBURINI OF SOVIET AND TELEKABUL

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"The primacy of the Pope is weakened by the courtiers and careerists at the papal court - the same spoken of in the sixteenth century, the noted theologian Melchior Cano - and not by those who advised the Pope with competence and responsibility".

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By analyzing to what extent printing “Cattolica” regime now resembles that of the former Soviet bloc regimes in the flood period cold War, one gets the impression of having made a sad leap backwards. Indeed, a sensational interview as the one issued by the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard L. Müller, may be passed over in silence only by adopting the same indifference with which the spoiled children revolutionar-communists of '68 were indifferent when during the famous Spring Soviet tanks invaded Prague.

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For many of these people, sebbene iscritte da molti anni all’Albo dei giornalisti professionisti, there is no longer even have the right and duty to chronicle. E, if they really must exercise it to launch some’ smoke and mirrors, simply hold forth on human bones found under the floor of the house adjoining the goalkeeper to the apostolic nunciature in Italy [cf. WHO], well guarding against quibble about all the skeletons that lockers Domus Sanctae Martha and can no longer even contain. While that august house they continue to prowl the likes Mons. Giovanni Battista Ricca, poiché il master It is so humble, ma talmente umile, that even if wrong recklessly and coarse in choosing people, never admit a mistake, the whole, obviously, for deep humility issues.

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We offer our readers the interview the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a LifeSite [original text WHO], courtesy translation in Italian journalist Marco Tosatti on his personal blog a stylus assembly.

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LifeSiteThe American bishops have just closed their fall meeting in Baltimore, during which they were prevented to vote on a resolution on a strategy for the involvement of bishops in cases of sexual abuse - those who have committed the abuses and those who have failed to take any measures or has covered up -, because the Vatican has told them to do so. The new guidelines would have predicted a code of conduct and the establishment of an organism to direct supervision by the laity and bishops appointed to investigate the accused of inappropriate conduct. Many Catholics in America were waiting for concrete steps, and now they are outraged. Do you think the decision was wise or believes instead that the bishops would have allowed Americans to adopt their national strategies and set up the commission, as well as they could do the French bishops the past month?

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Cardinale Gerhard Ludwig Müller — You must make a clear distinction, on the one hand the crimes relating to sexuality and investigations conducted by the secular justice - before which all citizens are equal, therefore a valid law for the Catholic Church would be a contradiction in legal systems of modern democratic states - the other canonical procedures for clergy with which the ecclesiastical authority shall determine the sanctions to be imposed in the event of conduct that contradict diametrically l ' ethic consecrated. The Bishop exercises over all religious of his diocese within a canonical jurisdiction in some special cases it is shared with the Congregation for the Faith in Rome, which in turn operates in papal authority force. If a bishop is not fulfilling its responsibilities, It can be held to account before the Pope. Episcopal Conferences can then establish guidelines that become valuable tools in the hands of the bishops, when in their respective dioceses are to prevent or prosecute. In the midst of this American crisis we must remain lucid. Not sure we will come out by adopting rules that allow the lynching and foster a climate of suspicion spread to the entire episcopate “romano”. I do not think a solution to leave the control of the laity with the explanation that the bishops - as some believe - are not able to provide with its own strengths. Not overcome the deficiencies overthrowing the constitution hierarchical and sacramental Church. Catherine of Siena spoke with candor and tirelessly to the consciences of the Popes and Bishops, but he took his place. That's the difference with Luther, because of which we are still suffering the division of Christianity. It would be important if the US bishops' conference is to assume their responsibilities with independence and autonomy. The bishops are not employees subject to the directives of the Pope and are not even, otherwise the army, General called to absolute obedience to the supreme command. Rather they are called to take charge, together with the successor of Peter, as pastors appointed by Christ Himself, the responsibilities of the Universal Church. But they expect that Rome is at the service of unity in faith and communion of the Sacraments. This is the time to join forces to overcome the crisis, rather than to promote compromise and polarizations, so that in Rome there is no grudge against the American bishops and America people are not angry with Rome.

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An important part of the discussion during the meeting of the Episcopal Conference of the United States was still dedicated to McCarrick scandal; how was it possible that someone like McCarrick was able to climb the summits of the American Catholic Church and be able to influence at this point Rome. What is your opinion on the case McCarrick and what the Church should learn from the existence of this web of secrecy that has surrounded a man who, practicing homosexuality, seducing seminarians who depended upon her causing authorities then in sin and, above all, abusando di minori, He led a life consistently opposed to the laws of the Church?

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Io non lo conosco quindi desidero astenermi dal giudicare. I hope there will soon be a canonical trial to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that sheds light on sexual crimes committed by young seminarians. When I was Prefect of this Congregation [2012-2017] no one ever told me about this issue, probably for fear of a reaction too “rigida” on my part. The fact that McCarrick, along with his entourage and a homosexual network, He was able to wreak havoc in the church with methods analogous to those mafia, It is connected to the underestimation of the degree of moral depravity that homosexual acts between adults cause. If someone had heard in Rome to report even suspicion, He would have to investigate and assess the merits of the allegations, preventing McCarrick he was promoted to the episcopate of a diocese as important as Washington, also avoiding naming him a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. And they were also sums were paid under the table [to prevent scandals n.d.t.] - thus admitting responsibility for crimes with young men - any reasonable person wonders how such a person could have been the Pope's adviser in the appointment of bishops. I do not know if this is true?, sure it would be necessary to clarify. A mercenary who helps to look good shepherds to the church of the Lord - this is incomprehensible. In this case, the Church should publicly report on the facts and the links between those involved, as well as on the degree of awareness on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities; We could think of at the same time an admission of responsibility for having evaluated inadequately people and situations.

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Over the past five years have you ever heard of cases in which the then Cardinal McCarrick had been widely confidence and tasks in specific missions by the Pope or the Vatican?

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As I said, I was not aware of anything. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was only responsible for cases of child abuse, not for adults, as if the offenses relating to sexuality committed by the clergy with another consecrated or a layman were not too serious violations of the Faith and the sanctity of the Sacraments. I have always stressed that even homosexual acts committed by religious can never be tolerated; the sexual morality of the Church can not be relativized secular acceptance of homosexuality. It must then distinguish between the conduct occasional sinful, the offense and a life spent in a perpetual state of sin.

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One of the problematic aspects of the case McCarrick is already in 2005 It is in the 2007 there were legal agreements with some victims, but the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark - then under Archbishop John J. Myers - did not inform the public and even their own priests. It held so essential information for those who are still working with McCarrick and trusted him. So did Cardinal Joseph Tobin when, In the 2017, He became archbishop of Newark. As far as I neither Myers nor Tobin apologized for the omissions and for betraying the trust of their priests. He thinks that the archdiocese would have to make public legal agreements, especially after 2002 when the Chart in Dallas aveva chiamato a una maggiore trasparenza?

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In other times, it was believed to be able to resolve complex cases quietly and discreetly. In this way the head was put in a position to continue to abuse the trust of his bishop. In today's situation, Catholics and the public have a moral right to know these facts. This is not making any accusations, but to learn from those mistakes.

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a problem of this magnitude can be solved by adopting new guidelines or is necessary in the Church a profound conversion of hearts?

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L’origine di questa crisi va individuata nella secolarizzazione della Chiesa e nella riduzione del sacerdote al ruolo di un funzionario. Ultimately it is atheism that has spread in the Church. This evil spirit says that Revelation regarding faith and morals must be adapted to the world, independent of God, so that He can not interfere in a life lived according to their own desires and their needs. Only the 5% managers were assessed as pathological pedophiles. Most of them, because of its immorality, He has deliberately stepped on the sixth commandment refusing so blasphemous to the Holy Will of God.

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Cosa pensa dell’idea di istituire nuove norme canoniche che prevedano la scomunica dei preti colpevoli di abusi?

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Excommunication is a coercive sanction that is removed as soon as the responsible repents. In the case of serious violations and offenses against the faith and unity of the Church, It should be decided on the permanent defrocking, namely the permanent prohibition to exercise the priesthood.

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The old Code of Canon Law of the 1917 provided clear penalties against priests involved in abuse and even active homosexual priests. These concrete sanctions are largely removed from the code in 1983, which it is now less accurate and does not even mention explicitly homosexual acts. In light of the serious crisis arising from abuse, He thinks that the Church should return to a more rigorous system of penalties for such cases?

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It was a disastrous mistake. sexual contacts between persons of the same sex contradict directly and fully the meaning and purpose of sexuality as established since the creation. They are the sign of inordinate desires and instincts, the broken relationship between man and his Creator with the fall in original sin. The celibate priest, and the priest married in the Eastern rite must be models for the flock, at the same time instance of redemption which also involves the body and the physical passions. Self-giving, agape, physical and spiritual to a person of the opposite sex, and not wild desire to satisfy, are the sense and purpose of sexuality. This leads to responsibility to the family and the children God gives us.

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During the recent meeting in Baltimore, il Cardinale Blase Cupich ha affermato che bisogna «distinguere» tra atti consensuali tra adulti e l’abuso dei minori, thus implying that homosexual priests with other adults would not be a major problem. How do you respond to this kind of setting?

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Si può distinguere tutto – anche considerare se stessi dei grandi intellettuali – ma non un peccato grave che esclude la persona dal Regno di Dio, at least he can not distinguish a bishop who is bound to the duty of defending the truth of the Gospel and not to exhibit the spirit of the times. It seems to be high time "that will not endure sound doctrine, ma, having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales " [cf. 2 Tim 4, 3].

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In his job as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith he has had the opportunity to see numerous cases of abuse by religious. It is true that the majority of the victims in these cases are male teenagers?

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Over 80% of the victims of these crimes are male teenagers. It can not be concluded that the majority of priests are prone to homosexual fornication, rather than the majority of the perpetrators have tried, deep disorder of their passions, male victims. The crime statistics tell us that most of those responsible in cases of sexual abuse are the same victims' relatives, even parents with their children. From this we can deduce that most fathers are likely to commit these crimes. We must always be careful not to generalize from specific cases, not to fall into the temptation of the slogan of the anti-clerical prejudice or.

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If this is the situation - and the study on sexual abuse conducted in Germany or John Jay Report, report similar numbers - the Church should not directly address the issue of the presence of homosexual priests?

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From my point of view, there are no men or homosexual priests. God created the human being male and female. But there may be male and female with disordered passions. Sexual union has a place only in marriage between a man and a woman. Outside there is only fornication and abuse of sexuality, and with people of the opposite sex in unnatural exacerbation of sin with the same sex. Only those who have learned to control himself meets the requirements for ordination [cf. I Tim 3, 1-7].

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At the moment there seems to be a problem in the Church, within which lacks even the consensus that active homosexual priests have a large part of responsibility in the crisis linked to abuse. Even some Vatican documents speak of "pedophilia", or 'clericalism "as the major problems. The Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli came to say that McCarrick had homosexual relations, but he exercised its power over others. Meanwhile, we who, Father James Martin eats, S.J, travels the world - also called on the world meeting of families in Ireland - to promote the idea of ​​"Catholics-LGBT"Even pretending to theorising homosexuality of some saints. This is to say that there is a strong push in the Church leading to minimize the sinful character of relations between persons of the same sex. She shares, and if shares, how do you think you could - and should - be remedied?

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This is the part of the crisis whose cause nobody wants to see, hiding with the help of rhetoric propagated by the homosexual lobby. Fornication with adolescents and adults is a mortal sin, and no human power on earth can declare it morally neutral. This is the work of the devil - against which often Papa Francesco warns - declare good sin. "Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of devils, lies in hypocrisy impostors, already seared into their consciousness " [cf. I Tim 4,1]. It is indeed absurd that suddenly ecclesiastical authorities use traditional anti-clerical slogans Jacobins, Nazis and Communists to attack priests ordained in Sacramento. The priests are invested with the authority to proclaim the Gospel and administer the sacraments of Grace. If someone is abusing its jurisdiction to achieve selfish goals, that someone is not overly clerical, on the contrary, Christ is anti-clerical because it denies the possibility of working through him. Sexual abuse by clergy must therefore be called haters in the highest degree. But it is obvious - and could be denied only by those who want to be blind - that the sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue originate from disordered inclinations so are sins of fornication that exclude from the Kingdom of God, at least until there is repentance and atonement, and there is a firm intention to avoid such sins in the future. The attempt to obfuscate these things is a negative sign of the Church's secularization. It is thought that the world, not according to the will of God.

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At the recent Synod of youth in Rome they were able to hear voices with the same content. It instrumentum Laboris It used for the first time the term LGBT, while the final document stressed the need to accommodate the Church refusing to them all forms of discrimination against them. This kind of statements would not undermine the constant practice of the Church to deny permission to employ active homosexuals, for example in the role of teachers in Catholic churches?

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L'ideology LGBT It is based on a false anthropology which denies God as Creator. Because it is essentially atheistic or at most barely touches the Christian concept of God, He can have no place in Church documents. This is an example of the influence creeping atheism in the Church, responsible for over half a century of crisis. Unfortunately it continues to operate in the thinking of some shepherds which, in their naive conviction of being modern, They do not notice the poison that they themselves take each day and end with the offer to others.

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We can say today that in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church there is a powerful gay lobby ?

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I do not know because these people with me not expose. But may be you have felt complacent in the know myself away from the congregation and cases of sexual crimes, especially with young teenage boys.

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You recently revealed that during his tenure at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pope had set up a commission which was to provide advice to the Congregation on possible sanctions against priests involved in abuse. The Commission, But, It was prone to a softer attitude towards priests involved, otherwise she would have wanted to impose, in severe cases, the defrocking, for example the case of Rev. Mauro Inzoli. Last year - when she was removed from office at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the magazine of the Jesuits America He revealed that "a number of cardinals had asked Francis to lift the Cardinal Müller from office because on numerous occasions had expressed disagreement, or he had detached, the position of the Pope and they saw in this office and a weakening of the papal Magisterium ". He sees a possible link between the strict criteria which she adopted in dealing with cases of abuse by religious and the cardinal group close to the Pope who would want a softer approach? If this is not the case, still he would claim that he was removed because of his firm defense of orthodoxy?

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The primacy of the Pope is weakened by the courtiers in the papal court of careerists - the same spoken of in the sixteenth century, the noted theologian Melchior Cano - and not by those who advised the Pope with competence and responsibility. While a group of cardinals accused me before the Pope on the basis of my different ideas, then the Church is not in a good situation. If they were brave and upright, They would speak with me directly; then they would have known that as bishop and cardinal, sono chiamato a presentare l’insegnamento della Fede cattolica, not to justify the various private opinions of a Pope. His authority extends on the Faith of the Catholic Church revealed and does not include personal theological opinion or his advisers. Maybe you can accuse me of interpreting love joy Orthodox Key, but they can not say that I have strayed from the Catholic doctrine. It added the irritation you feel when you see people with no theological training to high-ranking bishops, which he felt obliged to express their gratitude to the Pope manifested a kind of childish submission. Maybe they could scroll through the pages of my book Dad, mission and mandate, whose translation in Italian and English is work in progress. Then you could discuss at an appropriate level. The teachings of the bishops and the Pope is subject to the Word of God as found in the Holy Scriptures and Tradition, and must be in His service. It is not a Catholic to believe that the Pope is a person who receives revelation directly from the Holy Spirit, and can interpret it in accordance with their wishes and the rest of the faithful should follow him blindly and silently. love joy It must absolutely agree with Revelation, we should not be the ones to have to agree with love joy, at least not in the heretical interpretations that contradict the Word of God. Sanction those who insist on an interpretation of the encyclical orthodox as any other magisterial document of Pope, sarebbe un abuso di potere.” Only those who are in a state of grace can receive Holy Communion fruitfully. Questa verità rivelata non può essere sovvertita da nessuna potenza terrena e nessun cattolico potrà mai credere il contrario o essere costretto ad accettare il contrario.

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In retrospect, in his role as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to which of the innovations offered to the Church he has opposed more strongly? As part of his testimony he has contributed most to its removal and the way in which it took place, not that that would offer an alternative location within the Vatican?

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I would not have opposed to any innovation or reform. Why reform means renewal in Christ, no adaptation to the world. The reasons for the non-renewal of my mandate I have never been communicated. This is unusual because normally the Pope confirms all the prefects in their positions. I do not know the possible reasons that might be envisaged without ridicule. After all you can not believe, contrary to what he believed Pope Benedict, Müller that lacks sufficient theological training, that is not Orthodox, o sia negligente nel perseguire i crimini contro la fede in caso di abusi sessuali. For this it prefers to remain silent and allow the media to liberal and progressive approach the task of commenting spitefully.

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Currently some observers comparing its removal from the important position in the Vatican - certainly also due to his respectful regard to resistance love joy con il trattamento accondiscendente ricevuto da altri come il Cardinale e McCarrick. Even today it has not been defrocked, Despite his criminal conduct. So it seems that those who have attempted to preserve the Catholic teaching on family and marriage as it has been transmitted are set aside, while those who are in favor of innovations in the field of morality, They are treated with mild or even promoted, Cupich think of the Cardinal and Father James Martin. It has a comment on this?

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Chiunque può formarsi un’idea sui criteri secondo i quali alcuni sono promossi e protetti, while others are combated and eliminated.

 

 

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Sempre nel merito di questa apparente soppressione dei religiosi ortodossi e la promozione di rappresenti progressisti, Padre Ansgar Wucherpfennig S.J. just he received from the Vatican for permission to return to the position of rector of the Jesuit faculty in Frankfurt, although he supports and promotes the ordination of women and the blessing for same-sex couples. He was even asked to publish his articles about it. How do you assess this further development?

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This is an example of how the authorities of the Church of Rome are hurting themselves and how the clear competence and experience of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is sidelined. If this priest believes that the blessing of same-sex relationships is the result of the development of doctrine, and continues its work in this direction, we are faced with nothing but the presence of an atheist thought in Christianity. He does not deny the existence of God in theory, but it denies him as a source of morality, presenting the same way as a blessing rather what in the eyes of God is sin. The fact that the sacrament of Holy Orders can be reserved only for males is not the result of cultural circumstances or a positive Church law so editable. It is based in the nature of divine institution Sacramento, as well as the nature of the sacrament of marriage requires the difference between the sexes.

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From his point of view, He believes that the Catholic Church is close to reaching the control of the issue related to the proper and consistent abuse, and we have found the right solutions? If not, what do you think has been the greatest obstacle to the substantial improvement of the situation? How can the Church again become credible institution in the eyes of Catholic families?

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The entire Church, with his priests and bishops, must please God more than man. La nostra salvezza è l’obbedienza nella Fede.

 

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The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from heaven …

L'Angolo di Girolamo Savonarola: Catholic homiletics in lean times

The sun be darkened, THE MOON WILL NOT MORE HIS LIGHT, THE STARS WILL FALL FROM THE SKY …

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Before this happens there will be many warning signs, left to the perception and reading of a man unfortunately increasingly unable to read the signs that now seem obvious in part, in part they seem to use all, as he told me in one of our recent private talks the late Bishop and Cardinal Carlo Caffara.

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"In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken " [MC 13, 24-25].

In this XXXIII Sunday in Ordinary Time, through the narration of Blessed Mark the Evangelist, the Holy Gospel gives us the parable of the fig tree [see text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO].

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The Evangelist is expressed in a prophetic-apocalyptic style:

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"And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven " [MC 13, 27].

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In the olden days when the evangelist drew up this Gospel, a few decades after the death, resurrection and ascension into heaven of the Word of God made man, it was believed that the return of Christ the Lord in glory at the end of time was near. Even the Blessed Apostle Paul believed, and initially he was convinced that he could be present and involved on this earth at the return of Christ the Lord to the end of time.

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Around the year 52, in the first of the letters addressed to the people of Thessalonica, the Blessed Apostle speaks of the return of Christ the Lord; a return indicated by the greek term presence [Russia], indicating the definitive and manifest divine presence [cf I Ts 4,13-18]. In announcing to the Jews and the pagans the mystery of the Word of God died, resurrected and ascended to heaven, the Blessed Apostle must face each other with the concerns and doubts of those to whom this announcement is addressed, also why he writes:

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"If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so too God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have died " [I Ts 4,14].

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Then followed explain:

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"The dead in Christ will rise first, then us, that we live and that we will still be alive, We shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the, and so shall we ever be with the Lord " [I Ts 4,16-17].

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To explain the truth of the faith Russia, the Blessed Apostle uses allegorical images, as the parables through which Christ expressed God, They are useful and effective to convey a very profound message: the mystery of eternal life in communion with God.

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In the text of the second letter to the people of Thessalonica the Blessed Apostle change the substance of their message and start talking about the terrible events that will precede that day that will mark the end of time, stating:

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"Do not be fooled as if the day of the Lord were truly imminent".

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Proceeding then to explain:

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"Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling with him, please, siblings, not to leave too soon to confuse the mind and alarmed either by spirit or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of the Lord is at hand. No one deceive you in any way!» [Ii Ts 2,1-3].

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Followed at this point that terrible and dramatic story that always should make us think, But perhaps in a very special way in the present that we are living:

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"Before that day will be a falling away and will be revealed the man of lawlessness, the son of perdition, the one who opposes and rises above every being who is called God or is an object of worship, up to sit in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do not remember, when I was still with you, I told you these things? And now you know what prevents its manifestation, which will take place in his hour. The mystery of lawlessness is already in place, but it must be taken out of one who now restrains him. Only then it will be revealed the wicked and the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy brightness of his coming, the unrighteous, whose coming will take place in the power of Satan, with all sorts of portents, and signs and lying wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth and so be saved. And for this God sends them a power of deception so that they believe the lie and thus all those who have not believed the truth are condemned., but they consented to the iniquity [Ii Ts 2, 4-12].

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That referred to as "wicked man" figure is universally known as Antichrist, which he tells the Apocalypse of Blessed John the Apostle [AP 13,13-14] written during his exile on the Island of Patmos, Also known as the site of the last revelation.

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The Blessed Apostle, in his work of evangelization, does not fail to remember that the expectation of Russia Christ the Lord certainly can not be lived in a state of lazy apathy, but extremely active and industrious, as we are exhorted to do in the Parable of the Talents, us data to be put to good use, not to be buried and then returned as such to the Lord's return [cf. Mt 25, 14-30].

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In times of Blessed Marco Evangelista it was thought that this glorious return of Christ the Lord was close. A glory that about two and a half centuries after, the First Council of Nicaea in the year will impress 325 in our profession of faith, Also known as Nicea-Constantinople Symbol, where we profess faith in Russia cheering: «… one day come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end ".

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Trascorrer Over the centuries the expectation of imminent Russia It has faded, not least for the fact that man is subject to time and time, I often forget that what the time is just a man's problem, not of God, which it is eternal and temporal, that is timeless, because only God reigns eternal dimension.

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Our Holy Faith contained in the Holy Gospels and the Apostolic Letters reminds us, together with our Profession of Faith, that creation is not eternal, because eternal is only the mystery of God the Creator and the Word of the Word of God Christ the Lord, His only begotten Son.

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The speech contained in this Holy Gospel It born from a catechetical explanation given to the disciples of Christ the Divine Master, that on leaving the temple invite him to admire the stones with which it was built. The answer of Christ the Lord was above all a prophecy about the future destruction of the temple: ' Verily I say, not be left here one stone upon another " [Mt 24, 2]. Joints on the Mount of Olives, Jesus continued to respond through an entire speech focused on eschatology - a term derived from the greek ἔσχατον [Escaton] which means "the last things" - that is, the end of the world. The eschatological discourse of Christ God has three different levels including the persecution of the faithful disciples [cf. Mt 13,5-13]; the great tribulation before which Christ, God suggested to seek refuge in the mountains [cf. Mt 13,14-23]; evangelical expression used five years ago by Venerable Pope Benedict XVI after its withdrawal from the holy throne said he would retire to the mountain to pray for the Church [cf. talk to’Angelus the 24.02.2013, text WHO]. After that, consumed all these events, The event will take place in the glory of the Son of Man [cf. Mt 13,24-32].

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Christ the Lord, in this the Blessed Evangelist page addresses to us several warnings, first of all, the invitation to be ever vigilant. And as I often say in my homilies and catechesis, and species of these sad times, remember that it is only allegorical or metaphorical language, They are not allegorical and metaphorical content that instead constitute some, undeniable and absolute truths of faith.

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Before this happens there will be many warning signs, left to the perception and reading of a man unfortunately increasingly unable to read the signs that now seem obvious in part, in part it seems to fulfillment of all, as he told me in one of our recent private talks the late Bishop and Cardinal Carlo Caffara, with whom I pondered over this long interview on sentence: "So you also: when you see these things, know that he is near, It is coming " [MC 13, 29].

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The grace of God, through the gifts of the Holy Spirit we have welcomed and made to yield as precious talents, Always allow to salvage our soul for eternal life, just be prepared to go to the Divine Bridegroom, as he urges us to do Parable of the foolish virgins and wise virgins [cf. MC 25, 1-13], which ends with an invitation to watch awaiting the arrival of the bridegroom "for ye know neither the day nor the hour" [Mt 25, 13].

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this last warning, about the day and time who are not known to anyone except to the Divine Father, It should encourage us not to linger forms of schizophrenic catastrophism, unfortunately often transferred from the literature of the most exalted fringes of some Pentecostals and Evangelicals in the Church Catholic, through the sad and pernicious Trojan horse of the followers of some of our Catholic lay movements posing as genuine exclusive owners of the mystery of the Holy Spirit. The task of the elected, is to create with their own lived a saintly life on this earth the supreme prize of his election, only to be gathered from the four corners of the earth and see forever the light of God's Face, whose eternal words will never pass: «Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass " [MC 13, 31].

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TheRussia, therefore closed in the secret heart of God the Father, It is nothing other than the time death and projection in the Eternal Absolute, after the Divine Judge, He returned in glory, he judges the living and the dead. It's this one, I repeat, it is not a metaphor or a poetic allegory - as unfortunately not a few say and teach -, but it is an absolute truth of our Holy Faith.

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the Island of Patmos, 18 November 2018

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AVAILABLE THE BOOK OF MASS DE L'ISLE OF PATMOS, WHO

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci
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From football matches to the Holy Gospel: the most difficult commandment is to love one's enemies

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FOOTBALL MATCHES FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL: THE MOST DIFFICULT COMMANDMENT IS TO LOVE YOUR ENEMIES

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The enemies that we must love, They may be terrorists Isis, the Freemasons, Mafia or false progressives. Just to name a few. An enemy that is a person but that unleashes violence, ideological and physical, against our being faithful to the Church of Jesus Christ.

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In the Gospel of St. Matthew we find the famous warning that urges us to love our enemies:

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«… you have heard it said: You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy; but I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and it sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans? And if you only greet your brothers, what do ye more? Do not even the Gentiles? So be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect " [Mt 5, 43-48].

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Before becoming a monk I always had different hobby artistic and sporting nature. I have always loved football and I also practiced until they are entered the Order of Preachers. I remember an incident related to football, I was very surprised that. It happened during a match of Serie B.

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The fans of Ternana and Perugia, given the geographical proximity, ordinarily do not love. When their teams meet, the respective supporters they always generate accidents and scuffles and the police are needed to avoid the worst. During one of these matches, there were clashes. A Perugian fan found himself on the ground, ready to be lynched by opponents. But at that moment a girl from Terni arrived who hugged him and put a scarf from her team around his neck. In this way, saved the opponent from taking so many blows. The names of the protagonists of this story were never known. but yet, this episode, it led me to reflect on the theme of the love of enemies.

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Also the passage that I have chosen to meditate today his The Island of Patmos come back to this topic: Love your enemies! Per me, it represents the central core of Jesus' message on love. The request that the Lord expresses towards his listeners seems truly impossible. Indeed, Evangelical Greek expresses this love with ἀγάπαω [agapao], which becomes a typical verb of the love of Christianity. A love, that is, which leads to giving one's whole self to the service of one's neighbor.

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In this passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, the agape [love] it is carried to its maximum consequences. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the distinction that the New Testament places in relation to the term enemy. Indeed, there is the fearsome Enemy of which St. Paul speaks: the devil. There are various references that St. Paul makes to the Devil, one of these in one of the letters addressed to the disciple Timothy, precisely where it illustrates what the requirements of the bishop must be [cf. The Tm 3,6].

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It is impossible to pray and give oneself for the Devil. Jesus does not ask to give ourselves for him. The Devil from the moment of his creation made an eternal profession of disobedience to God and to all creation. Stupendous are the words of Faust by Marlowe, in which Mephistopheles, a devil, he claims:

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“I am the spirit that continually denies: I'm right; because what exists is worthy of being destroyed: and it would have been better if nothing ever came into existence. Now therefore all that you men say is sin, destruction, what you call bad in sum, is my special element ".

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The Devil deeply hates and continues to hate all of creation in the first place. And in the first place we, religious. He hates us because he sees in our profession of obedience to God a direct opposition to him. The devil, which is the great divider, he continues and will continue to instigate his degenerate suggestions: relativism, and totalitarianism, modernism, false progressivism ... just to name a few. Ma, next to the Devil, there are other enemies: the men. The Lord refers to these enemy-men when he asks us to love them. Like this, if you decide to love, it is necessary to love all humanity.

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The love that Christ asks of us, his Church, it is a universal love. It is therefore no coincidence that the Church of Christ is called the Catholic Church, or: universal. We recall incidentally that the term "catholic" derives from the Greek against all [kata olon], a neoplatonic category of the philosopher Plotinus which with it indicates "according to the whole". This definition was not of a spatial-geographical type but a qualitative one. Indeed, for the first great Fathers of the Church, to be or to become Catholic meant that "nothing is human".

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In the Catholic Christian dimension it is therefore necessary to love one's enemies and be above one of the fashions of the present time: the fashion of revenge. Or even another of the fashions that unfortunately has infected some Catholics who refer to other Catholics as enemies using these expressions as "we are waiting for them at the, we pray to God that they die soon "e “delicacies” similar …

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We are in the Catholic Church or in the Colosseum as gladiators? Perhaps this is the attitude that Jesus asked of us and continues to ask us to have? Therefore, the enemies we must love, they could be Isis guerrillas, the Freemasons, Mafia or false progressives. Just to name a few. An enemy that is a person but that unleashes violence, ideological and physical, against our being faithful to the Church of Jesus Christ.

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How is it possible to love them? Just with a look under the form of eternity it is possible to fully grasp the teaching of Christ. Jesus tells us love your enemies and you will be children of God, and you will be perfect.

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In our incessant offering of prayer for them, we will try to convert them, to make us children of God for them. Children of God for those who hate us. Be perfect like our Father in Heaven, it implies showing God on one's face to the enemy, as the martyrs of today are doing. At the same time it means welcoming what God is allowing in the action of our enemy. Just think of the gory effects of the Passion. Centurions cause violence and death on Jesus. Jesus allows it and at the same time gives himself to them. The effect is the same redemption of those pagan Romans.

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If we really want to be then, with the grace of God, his consecrated, and one day future priests, we cannot exempt ourselves from the commandment of love for enemies. Really then we will be salt of the earth [cf. Mt 5, 13-16] every act of enmity will unfold in a single universal prayer to God who died on the cross for love.

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It is in our essence as Dominican friars, finally being a cross from which love flows. Otherwise, the cross prostration that we did on the day of our profession, it risks being only a theatrical action. A splendid stage act. We would have been perfect actors, which in Greek is equivalent to perfect hypocrites [the greek hypocrite, hypocrites, comes the word actor].

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It is up to each of us to choose whether we have professed from hypocrites or as true children of God e, as far as I'm concerned, from sons of San Domenico, consecrated for Christ in the various states of life.

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sweet Jesus, Jesus love! [cf. St. Caterina da Siena]

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Rome, 17 November 2018

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Change the Our Father at the behest of the Supreme Pontiff, while there are those who pray that the Lord's Prayer changes the ruling of the Supreme Pontiff style

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CHANGE OUR FATHER FOR WANT OF POPE, WHILE THERE IS WHO PRAY THAT OUR FATHER CHANGE THE STYLE OF GOVERNMENT OF POPE

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Faced with a moral decline and unprecedented doctrinal like the one we are experiencing, Apparently someone has found something better to do than use a word of Our father and the opening of Gloria as of of weapons of deterrence …

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…It deserves to always have a good dictionary

The Italian Episcopal Conference It established - obviously in full, total, collegial and synodal freedom of God's children -, modification of Prayer Our father in the new edition of the Roman Missal [cf. WHO], where the phrase "lead us not into temptation" becomes "not into temptation". Wanting, they could use the expression "and lead us not into temptation", But, at the “exposure” used by the Waldensian Evangelical Community, They have preferred an expression of “abandonment”, perhaps considering that ever, as in this modern age, we have abandoned ourselves. The substance, however, remains the same: the Catholics, like the Protestants, They have altered expression that is rooted in the most ancient texts, as we shall soon see. E and receive, as the seconds, both they have claimed: the return to the true origins of the texts.

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The Church Father Tertullian [Carthage 155 - Carthage 227], explains that the Our father, Prayer that the Word of God Himself taught us [cf. Mt 11, 1] "It is the synthesis of the whole Gospel". This statement should lead at least to the use of the total caution when even touch a single sigh of this.

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As for the phrase "offending" which recites: «And lead us not into temptation» [and lead us not into temptation], in speech n. 57 dedicated to the Passo del Beato Matteo Evangelista [cf. Mt 6, 9-13], the Holy Doctor of Bishop Augustine of Hippo Church is very clear and thorough in explaining that God can not do evil, however, it allows that it operates through Satan and the fallen angels with him which implement. Of course, God does not tempt anyone to sin, however, it allows the forces of evil induce Christians to fall into it. All of this, It is contained in the beginning of creation, founding premise of which they are freedom and man's free. Equally enlightening comment Our father and the phrase “offending” We were given to us by the Holy Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas, that tracing largely the Ipponate says:

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"God perhaps leads to evil, When do we say “Do not take us in tentation”? Reply it says that God causes evil in the sense that He permits, since because of its many previous sins subtracts the man to grace, failed which falls into sin ' [ San Tommaso Aquino, Comment on the Our Father, 6].

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Before the Hipponate e dell’Aquinate, another Father of the Church, The holy bishop Cyprian of Carthage [Carthage 210 - Carthage 258], He explains that God can give power to the Devil in two ways: for our punishment, If we have sinned, or for our glorification, but if we accept the evidence. Is this, says the holy Bishop and Doctor [cf. Latin patrology of the Migne – Vol. IV (C)yprianus carthaginensis The Lord's Prayer], It was for example the case of Job: "There, everything belongs to me I will deliver; just do not keep your hand on him " [Gb 12, 1]. The Lord Himself, at the time of his passion, dice: "You would have no power over me if it had not been given you from above" [cf. GV 19, 11]. So when we pray for not enter into temptation, we remember our weakness, lest anyone consider complacently, no one become proud insolently, no one attribute the glory of his loyalty or his passion, when the Lord himself teaches us humility when he says: «Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit is burning, but the flesh is weak " [MC 14, 38].

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Another great Father of the Church, Origene [Alexandria 185 - Threw 254], to comment on the "and lead us not into Tentazioni"Part of the Blessed Apostle Paul writing to the people of Corinth says:

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"No temptation has overtaken you that is not human; God is faithful and will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also make the way out and the strength to bear it " [ The Cor 10, 13].

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Clarifies so Origen:

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"What, then, does the command of the Savior to pray to lead us not into temptation, since God himself almost tempts us? He says Judith, addressing not only to the elders of his people, but to all who would read these words: "Remember what worked with Abraham, and how he tried Isaac, and all that happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria who was tending the flock of Laban, his mother's brother; because not as cleansed them to try their hearts, He - the Lord - that plagues amend it to those who approach him, punish us too ". Even David, when he says: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous", It confirms that this is true for all the right. The Apostle, around you, He says in Acts "so that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God" [At 14, 22]» [Origene, Commentary on the Our Father].

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However it is not excluded that in the near future, a team exegetes See to it as soon as possible also to change the page of the Gospel of the Blessed Evangelist Matthew tells of the devil that tempts man Jesus in the desert [cf. Mt 4, 1-11], where the divine Son did not approach the Divine Father wondering: "And do not forsake the temptation», place that the Creator allowed Satan to induce him into temptation.

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They will then intervene biblical scholars to rewrite and update also various biblical passages in accordance with the Directive new management e according to the "epoch-making revolution" underway, seen that God tests us and strengthens us by allowing us to be tempted. We can not forget that man is immersed in temptations since its fall triggering the entry into the scene of the world and of humanity's original sin. We read in the Old texts testamentary: "Son, If you come to serve the Lord, prepared the temptation » [Sir 2,1]. But above all remember that the Church, in hardly suspect documents, since it is one of the constitutions of Vatican II, many thought the council of councils, Remember that the temptation is tied to the value of the freedom that man is the "sign of the divine image" [The joy and hope, 8].

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Another text to be corrected is surely that of the Letter to the Hebrews where the Author, taking literature of Psalms, It explains how the same men dared to groped God:

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do not harden your hearts
as in the rebellion,
the day of temptation in the wilderness,
I tried putting myself where your fathers tested,
though I had seen my works for forty years [EB 3, 8-9].

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So let's go to the oldest sources, because for half a century in this part are spectators and victims of the acts and the various "revolutions" of those who want to get back to basics. Several times I have explained in my writings that certain theologians, under the pretext of origins that actually never existed in ancient history, Instead they want to impose their modern thought. But if we want to talk of origins, then it suffices to say that the Prayer Our father, in the ancient and original Aramaic text, recital:

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The phrase "offending" proclaims the exact words letter: "And lead us not into temptation".

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When the original text Our father it was translated from Aramaic to greek, to avoid loading the phrase with a long circumlocution is used only a verb meaning "lead" or "let":

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And if the greek is not an opinion, the "offending" phrase literally translated reads just: "Do not take us in tentation". (D)these two texts arises the third translation, the Latin, altogether fitting and true to the original greek text:

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Our father who art in heaven:

Hallowed be thy name;

Thy kingdom come;

Thy will be done,

As in the sky, and in the ground.

Give us this day our daily bread;

And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us;

And lead us not into temptation,

but free nos a malo.

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For the lovers of returns to basics it should be remembered that the phrase "indicted" "Do not lead us into temptation", comes from the Greek εἰσενέγκῃς, from which the faithful Latin translation induce, that the Italian language is just as faithfully translated induce. That said it is a must and ask rigor: realize the fans back to the very origins, that, these circumstances, this “mistake” Today finally corrected, It dates back to the times of the first apostolic times?

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If the patristic texts known for centuries are those currently known, If the ancient languages ​​and their faithful translations are those that are, this is when each, without being induced to any temptation, He can draw from itself its own conclusions, given that in the name of an unspecified return to basics has altered that original is such that since the Aramaic and Greek remotest origins, and that before the Latin and well before the current modern languages.

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The problem perhaps lies behind this latest quarrel, I'm afraid it has little theological and much sociopolitical, all with more or less clear strategies. Or to better explain the problem: the Catholic Church is experiencing a period perhaps most tragic of its entire history. We are in a climate of great doctrinal decay from which came to life a deep moral crisis, because the moral crisis, the Church always comes from a doctrinal crisis. It goes without saying that not a day goes by now, without some bishop or priest you do not jump to the headlines almost always very serious scandals. The decadence and moral crisis, Priests from the College ended up infecting the College of Bishops, and below the College of Cardinals. Our credibility crisis ranges now between the tragic and the comic-grotesque. It is therefore strange that at a time without historical precedents as what we are experiencing, you do not find something better to do than remodel the words of Our father he was born in Gloria.

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This story recalls the story of the dictator Saddam Hussein accused of hiding arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. Those weapons were never found, But, with all the political and economic implications that followed, there have been two wars in the Gulf that have destabilized the political and economic structures. Like this, soon after, there was talk of … of weapons of deterrence.

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Faced with a moral and doctrinal decay Without precedents like the one we are experiencing, it seems that some have found nothing better to do than use a word of Our father and the opening of Gloria as of of weapons of deterrence, convinced and sure that nobody would have understood and discovered their game …

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and non eisenegkῃs us into temptation

And lead us not into temptation, but free nos a malo.

And don't lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen !

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Reflection moral honesty of language: the Church has always had its own clear and precise language

REFLECTION honesty MORAL OF LANGUAGE: THE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CLEAR AND PRECISE YOUR LANGUAGE

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The church, with workings of centuries, thanks to the works of scholastic theology who have studied the Doctrine of the Faith, He has developed a technical vocabulary of theology and Catholic doctrine, merged with some of the dogmatic formulas. This vocabulary, to its perfection, perspicuity and precision, in principle should not change it.

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The church it's a company that has a specific language. The language is very sensitive issue that involves so very serious prestige, honesty and credibility of the shepherds, theologians and preachers of the Gospel. For when it comes to the Word of God, of Scripture, of Tradition, Dogma, of the doctrine, della predicazione, Catholic culture, della formazione, evangelizing and missionary work, practice of sacramental and liturgical, dell’esegesi biblica, of theological criticism and moral and theological education of the clergy, at stake is the salvation of souls, so it is a sacred duty to use an absolutely clear language, clear and honest, such as to avoid exploitation, misunderstandings or misinterpretations, a language free from any flattery or impairment against the worldly language.

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With all that you certainly can not avoid the problem of interpretation, if it is true that it also arises to interpret the same bright and mysterious words of Christ, Luce del mondo. But here is where it is essential to the work of the Magisterium, with its own language. In this regard it is therefore to be deplored the trivialization, to say the corruption of the language in the current documents of the church due to too reckless in ecclesiastical language, as part of the doctrine and the pastoral, of words extraneous to it, drawn from worldly mentality, quindi fuorvianti, or at least ambiguous and improper.

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It is a misunderstanding of the renewal of ecclesial language promoted by Vatican II. This it is stating that the Council rightly became a promoter of an upgrade and modernization of the ecclesiastical language, in order to make it more understandable and attractive to men of our time, waves more effectively convey the unchanging truths of the faith and make them more credible, overcoming and abandoning certain expressions, formula, languages ​​and ways to say deemed outdated and antiquated, or not more understandable or acceptable by man today. The same language of the Council adopted this principle and strives to put into practice. So many new expressions, He is taken from modern everyday language, They are undoubtedly guess and had a deserved success.

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However, It should be borne in mind that a language can be more or less perfect, più o meno appropriato, more or less suitable to express what you have to communicate. The church, with workings of centuries, thanks to the works of scholastic theology who have studied the Doctrine of the Faith, He has developed a technical vocabulary of theology and Catholic doctrine, merged with some of the dogmatic formulas. This vocabulary, to its perfection, perspicuity and precision, in principle should not change it, if not with great caution and for good cause, avoiding the pretext of facilitating the understanding of the content of faith, recognizing, however, that all things considered, the ways of language, They are not immutable, but evolve for various cultural reasons, social and psychological throughout history.

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Unfortunately, at a certain point there has been a serious misunderstanding that, under the pretext of changing and updating the language, It has ended in many cases to change and warp or abolish certain concepts of faith, falling into what already was the modernist errors condemned by Pope Pius X. Caso noto ed esemplare di questo equivoco è la posizione di Edward Schillebeeckx [1], which confuses the concept of faith in the language, so that, changing the language, It is to change the concept.

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Edward Schillebeeckx is right in claiming that the matter of faith can conceive and express in different types of language and according to different "models of interpretation" and that a date dogmatic formula became less expressive, può essere in qualche modo mutata, in order to better express the same fact of faith at that time and in that particular culture. But the trouble is that Schillebeeckx has been revealed or faith is not in the dogmatic concept, which for him is changing and its, but in a so-called "pre-conceptual experience athematic", of which the concept would not be dogmatic that a questionable, fleeting and subjective interpretation, it was also the doctrine of the Church.

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The Schillebeeckx error It is to believe that the concept is a form of language, whereby, as it can mean the same thing with different languages, He believes it is possible and necessary to mean the same thing revealed and the mystery of faith with different concepts. But this is false, because every concept is that date and what corresponds to a thing only his concept, whereby, changing the concept, la cosa non può essere stessa, but changes.

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But we come to the Council proposal, yes prescribing a new language to express and explain the same immutable truths of faith, but it does not change the concepts of faith, which may continue to be expressed in educational concepts, as they had done the previous Councils. The Council, therefore, uses a modern language; but it is clear that in the background there is the traditional language school, that sometimes emerges, so much so that the Council goes so far as to recommend, as it is known, the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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The Council therefore proposes a language synthesizing the school with the modern. It collects the advantages that come from one and the other: authoritativeness, la dignità, the formality, the accuracy, accuracy, the specificity and subtlety of the language school and today's comprehension; la popolarità, ease, directness, ductility, the efficacy and pastoral nature of the modern language.

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The task now requires the Church's preaching It is to maintain this method proposed by the Council, without giving: one part, the temptation to return to a needlessly subtle scholasticism and away from the way of thinking and expression of our time; on the other, without succumbing to the temptation to abandon the Scholastic, leaving from infecting those modern modes of expression that are affected by the errors of modernity, or best of Modernism.

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The good shepherd strives to be a part of making understandable the people with expressive ways familiar to him and examples suitable to the contents of faith to be transmitted, while you take care of educating the people to the understanding and familiar with those terms that most schools the Church uses for the explanation of dogma and of God's Word.

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Varazze, 11 November 2018

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[1] Cf. my article Il criterio di verità in Schillebeeckx, in sacred Doctrine, 2, 1984, pp.188-205; item EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX, In the DICTIONARY PRIMARY THOUGHT OF DANGEROUS, Institute of Apologetics, Milan, 2016; EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX. A CONFRERE ACCUSES, Chorabooks Editions of Aurelio Porfiri, Hong Kong 2016.

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The poor widow's mite that offers the only two coins that, preached to priests and their bishops, but also to some of our faithful stingy

L'Angolo di Girolamo Savonarola: Catholic homiletics in lean times

The PENCE OF POOR WIDOW THAT OFFERS ONLY THE TWO COINS THAT HAS, PREACHED TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND THEIR, BUT ALSO TO CERTAIN OUR FAITHFUL AVARI

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How many times, in the church dishonor and scandal to the people of God - whose eyes some things never escape - just happened to watch the stories of some poor priests entered in the seminars, maintained to training studies for the priesthood by the good heart of a benefactor or the attentions of the diocese, that their deaths have left considerable inheritance to their beloved grandchildren, But not a single penny to the Church, everything after living a life marked by the greed and avarice?

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from the Holy Gospel of this Sunday: The poor widow's mite

In this XXXII Sunday in Ordinary Time hath proclaimed the incisive of Santo Gospel narrating the story of the poor widow casting into the treasury of the temple has the only two coins [cf. MC 12, 38-44. Text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO]. This text presents us with a difficult reality to escape with flights of fancy, because if the concreteness of the gesture of the poor widow is disarming, the admonition contained in it is not just severe: the two coins represent the sense of wholeness. Offer to God all our being without savings and fear, in the future of our becoming certainty of faith all wrapped up in the mystery of God, Christ. And we presbyters, when during the rite of ordination we said "Here I am!"And shortly after we were consecrated priests, in our own way we became in the two coins of the Poor Widow, by throwing into the treasury of Christ God, who has filed and impressed upon us the great treasure of the gift that has marked us with a permanent and eternal character: the ministerial priesthood.

In the final part of this Holy Gospel Christ the Lord says ...

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"Truly I say to you: This widow, so poor, He has thrown in more than all the other treasure. They have all contributed from their surplus. her instead, of her poverty, He threw everything he had, all she had to live " [Mt 12, 44].

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This warning is contained stern reminder of our deep responsibility. We men are called to serve the Church by the sacred order of priesthood that makes us unworthy participants in the ministerial priesthood of Christ, we are responsible for this double wealth: the faith of the poor widow and the money of the poor widow. Everything that is offered to God must in fact be used for God, to God and to the glory of God service. All that wealth of gifts we got from the Church and for the Church, our death must return multiplied to the Church, as we learn from the parable of the talents [cf. Mt 23, 14-30].

Following in the footsteps of the divine impropriety of Christ, without false modesty or painful secret places, I wish to ask a question to my conscience as a priest: how we sometimes see administering these two treasures, the patrimony of the faith and the material gifts that come from living members of the People of God? Now that people are talking about Mercy, we should be more aware than ever how far the richness of faith will rest or fall throughout the example. So every day we should ask ourselves: as an example we give to the People of God for him to keep, to develop and to spread the wealth of faith?

At this first question it should follow a second no less painful: in a society where more and more families are struggling to get to the end of the month, as the riches within the Church are divided? How prudent and equitable distribution of these substances are used for the highest decorum of the House of the Lord, for the decent support of his faithful ministers, for the support of the poor and needy?

How many times, in the performance of my priestly ministry in various parts of Italy, I happened to get into the sacristy smelly, to extract from worm-eaten cupboards and means of rotten yellowed overalls dirt, the sacred vestments malodorous, or be compelled to testify the precious blood of Christ within goblets giovabili not corroded inside them? And how many times I then happened to pass by these private housing sacristy of my brother and see inside the latest generation electronic devices, maxi highly expensive television screens ... not to mention the painstaking care with which the brother kept clean your car, full of accessories as useless as expensive? I, too, I always keep my car clean, but that is not an economy car is a car of average sufficiently expensive displacement, which is neither a whim nor a luxury but a necessity for my long and frequent trips, often carried out in a state of bad weather and especially for journeys of hundreds of kilometers. But, first car, which is certainly well preserved, I keep clean the Tabernacle of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Several times I happened to find in fact some tabernacle of dust and grease caked, even a dead fly inside the ciborium.

How many times, in the church dishonor and scandal to the People of God - whose eyes some things never escape - just happened to watch the stories of some poor priests entered in the seminars, maintained to training studies for the priesthood by the good heart of a benefactor or the attentions of the diocese, that their deaths have left considerable inheritance to their beloved grandchildren, But not a single penny to the Church, everything after living a life marked by the greed and avarice?

To make it worse all, is that while these accumulated treasures for nonmembers, not to the House of God, not to the poor and needy of his Holy People ... their other brothers entered into ecclesial and pastoral contexts less happy - or if you prefer less profitable - they had to cash in with their family, because they did not manage to move forward, because they had no money to put petrol in the tank car to go to offer their pastoral services, because they had no money to buy a heavy coat, that should make them from the winter cold.

At the conclusion of this painful discussion but I have a precise utility in the economy of salvation, I invite you to read an encyclical written in the year 1935 by Pope Pius XI, To chatolice Priest, in which the Holy Father did not hesitate to point the finger at certain malpractices of the clergy of yesterday and today, going to the root of potential problems that should always be avoided upstream, but especially offering solutions. For this purpose,, he invites the candidates to the priesthood trainers to understand and above all to perceive what true compassion and how it operates. He wrote in that encyclical Pius XI to the paragraph on the choice of candidates for the priesthood:

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"Correct the error when you hear, no human consideration, without the false mercy that would become a real cruelty, not only for the Church, which would give a minister or inept or unworthy, but also to the young man himself who, pushed so above a false way, It could be exposed to be a stumbling block to himself and others, with the danger of eternal ruin […]. To get others to embrace the Gospel, the subject more accessible and more persuasive is the view that law implemented in the lives of those who preach the observance " [full text, WHO].

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This message, and partly the loving drama that lurks behind the two coins of the poor widow. On what can be born or can die on which the faith of God's people and the credibility to his priests are called to serve the Church, certainly not using the Church. This is the embarrassment and the provocation with which Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man and God challenges our indifference and our slumber, asking us now more than ever to announce what has been said on the lines and beyond the lines of his Holy Gospel, not that comfortable and de-empowering often we interpret, the sad and disastrous order to evade the truth, until omit to lead people to know the truth that will set us free [cf. GV 8, 32].

The two money of the poor widow have a profound theological significance: represent and manifest the mystery of faith and action of God's grace on the man who, freely accepted the grace, He responds giving himself no savings, so that people can get into the glorious liberty of the children of God. We just need the Church of God and even less of 'poor widow's mite to enrich ourselves or our hungry factions. The Church serves to enrich the whole of humanity, after having become poor in spirit [cf. Mt 5, 3] to become blessed and to gain eternal wealth of the Kingdom of Heaven, aware that Christ has called us to himself and set up for the sacrament of grace "Fishers of Men" [cf. Mt 4, 19], furnished with the best ways of giving our, as his, can be a miraculous catch.

That said, however, it remains unclear the fact that at the same time it is not even permissible lack of sensitivity and generosity on the part of many of our faithful, because the example of the Poor Widow applied to priests, it must also apply to those many believers until they ask and demand for all their human needs, moral and spiritual, do not hesitate to throw the priest out of bed even at two in the morning, but when the priest has to pay heating or electricity bill of the parish church and the premises for the pastoral and charitable activities, that's falling from the seventh heaven many replicate: "But how, you have not the Vatican ... the Vatican Bank?». And then there is the State, there is the Region, there is the Municipality ... in short, there are so many, there are all, except him, faithful miser, that has to be taken until, then takes, But, whether to grant, then it indicates the existence of other, but most other people's wallets ...

This is to say that the Poor Widow coins have a right and a reverse: one for certain priests - of which we first recognize no limits problem, weaknesses, greed and avarice -, the other for those of our faithful who have only hands to take, never to give, downloading on others the responsibility for maintaining the decorum of the House of the Lord and of social structures, youth, charity, welfare and so on.

One of my trainers, with the wisdom of the whole typical of the elderly He told me one day: it is true, certain priests can give the impression of being stingy, or attached to the money, but behind that apparent attachment, which it is then not actually such, They lie in truth quite different fears: the fear of being alone and abandoned in old age. Often, many of these priests, They were very touched - when they were not old people - as cases of priests who died alone and sick. Said this, always my old trainer, continuing to talk about the fears of the elderly priests, he added: "... and species in certain areas, where the faithful often arrive only extended hands to ask the spirit of those to whom everything is due, it has happened that certain priests, become old, sick and no longer exploitable, finding no money found themselves without someone to bring them a glass of water '.

This is the reason why often insist, with young confreres, on the importance of closeness that especially young people should have towards the elderly priests. And I will tell: every time I was close to elderly priests, I have gained a deep well, because a small thing has been the company that I have done to them, or the help I gave to priests semi sick, compared to what they have given to me, sending me their prudence luggage, wisdom, knowledge …

Priests elderly should not be set aside, but far put to work. It would be good that the bishops, especially the young ones, if they held them close as counselors, instead be surrounded by groups of young priests - often driven by personal interests or career expectations conditioning -, because certain elderly are the living historical memory of their dioceses. That bishops will enable them to make the rectors, i confessori, or the spiritual fathers of the seminars, because in order to develop prudence, wisdom, knowledge, no need for the young rectors be sent to do the socio-psychology courses in secular universities, but older people are able to teach young people not only through their virtues, but also through their own defects, that belong to humanity of each of us, presbyters included.

To give another reading at the end of the Gospel story of the poor widow: the poor widow is the Church that gives his all; two valuable coins that she lays into the public treasury of the temple - which is public and visible to everyone -, I have the prudence and wisdom of the elderly.

Therefore, those bishops who say "We must start from the training ', I have always answered: then you have to reboot the elders, since no young, however gifted, You can have the wisdom of the old. Neither may have the momentum of the poor widow, who gave all of herself through the little he had, but what little was his all. And to really give everything takes time, We need a life. And this old did it, while young people need to learn to do it. And to learn how to do that they need the experience of old, especially of those who in the course of their entire Christian and priestly life have tried to transform themselves - for Christ with Christ and in Christ - into the Poor Widow.

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