The Synod and the “cathofascists” the party boat

— The deadly sins: the pride of non-reason -

 

THE SYNOD AND THE "CATTOFASCISTS "UPHOLSTERY

 

… There are also some Church historians, whose bad faith stems from facts that they should not ignore for scientific duty, for instance: during the first great dogmatic Councils, between the 4th and 9th centuries, the Fathers of the Church did not perhaps freely discuss everything and then its exact opposite, before reaching the definitions that today are dogmas on which faith rests and stands? If representatives of some so-called "right"Catholic had lived in Nicaea in the fourth century during the celebration of that Council and if in those years they had already existed The Gazette the devout atheist Giuliano Ferrara and the press agency Correspondence Romana, through which spread as sensational scoop what some Father deep throat had decided to exit the courtroom about the way the meeting was discussing the nature of Christ, how they would have acted? They would boycott ... they would invite rebellion ... they would invite a “resist” against the Bishop of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople through handwritten threats made through campaigns on Papyri made lead in the cities of East and West by pigeons?

 

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

 

 

FINAL MESSAGE, 'THE CHURCH MUST NOT EXCLUDE ANYONE'

Eucharistic Celebration in St. Peter of the Synod Fathers at the end of the first part of the Synod on the family

Before speaking of the Synod of the family and the topics that will be discussed in it "place that any decision is there to come and that no one should set up processes to less than ever and preventive wars based on nothing" is necessary to clarify what in concrete facts is the status of the European Church and clergy, Why do good pastoral care, and pastoral species of the family, with increasingly empty churches and with a clergy and an episcopate that seems to remember thearmada brancaleone, might be difficult even to the Holy Spirit, who has the divine power to mutate even donkeys in horse breeding; provided in the asses, noble and useful animals, There is a basic assumption: accept to be turned into horse breeding, because if you don't exercise the freedom of the children of God opening for grace, donkeys are and will asses forever.

The Italy, is it not a sick country within which a Catholicism roso from Cancer Metastasis is Italy illnow underway to their natural state of agony? That statement might look defeatist, If laid from the pen of one who has been made to describe in articles, homilies and conferences, the importance of "Theology of Hope” [see WHO]. Maybe the question should be posed in other words and wanting even worse: the Italy was never a truly Catholic country? I tried to explain it long ago on these our columns of’Patmos Island:

«… to answer this question I think we should analyze why Protestantism in Italy has expanded as in Germany, Swiss, Scandinavian Countries, and later in the United States of America, starting from the 16th century. This did not happen because the nobility and the bourgeoisie divided into many principalities and lordships, in the 16th century sought immediately compromises more attractive with the Catholic Church. In Italy the nobility and the bourgeoisie, Although dedicated practice to Deism and agnosticism, in materia religiosa nutriva interessi meno radicali rispetto al resto dell’Europa. This meant that rulers, politicians, nobles, merchants, bankers and mercenaries were more Protestant German Protestants in practice, but Catholics in politics and in the outward forms. That's why in Italy has always opposed the bourgeois state a strong Catholic Church and compact, often formed by armies of "devotees" faithful unbelievers, but all tidy and homework in procession with a tear in the eye and the candle in hand " [Article on Lutheranism, WHO].

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illustrative image of Rome 20 September 1870

Another answer to these questions, In addition to history could also push other statistical data. After 20 September 1870, date that marked the fall of Rome, last shred of the Papal State, absorbed gradually in the ten years preceding the nascent Kingdom of Italy, What are the areas where the turnout at churches resulted in lowest percentage? What other dioceses that have the lowest number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life? Are the former territories of the old Papal States with the Lazio region in the head, for centuries the heart of Church Government, to have a shortage of priests and faithful attendance at churches. The dioceses of this region, in particular the suburbicarie of Rome Diocese, have a clergy made up of priests coming mainly from developing countries, that in some of them the proportion exceeds 50% of the total number of priests; to these must also be added several former religious who left their respective congregations, which have found ready acceptance in the secular clergy, especially in the dioceses of Albano Laziale, Palestrina and Tivoli. Among these "defectors" priests have emerged over time even a good number of subjects of concern which the Bishops of origin were well pleased to get rid, in safe assurance that some bishops in need of Italian "manpower"he would come to accept them, given its need resulting from the shortage of clergy. This with all the consequences that can derive from these wicked choices, when a diocese begins to be composed of a considerable number of priests whose main purpose is mostly to raise as much money as possible to support their families in their respective countries of origin, or poor children who "are dying of hunger". Except discover below, as sometimes happened, that the children to feed were the children that that priest had scattered throughout the villages; this is the real reason why the bishop, after it is moved from one place to another, found that every where the priest left pregnant girls, He is finally freed of problem sending him to Rome to study at the expense of the Congregation of reliable advertising, waiting for some Italian bishop "hungry" for the clergy to take him and therefore willing to collect Paris et boves et et nummularios columbas sedentes. Of all this there is no need to ask account to various Italian Bishops, nor those of Lazio used as a paradigm, because the complaint that in dioceses erected around Rome there were too many foreign priests was raised by the Venerable Pontiff Benedict XVI, those who felt so stung by similar claims if not take it with me, but with the Supreme Pontiff's predecessor now happily ruler.

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sadness and reality …

With this premise does not intend to open a theme in the theme, but only to clarify - before going into the speeches related to the Synod on the family - that we must deal with the reality of a de-Christianized Europe where armies of former faithful swarm, or in the best hypothesis of lost faithful who increasingly ignore the foundations of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, What this attributable not so much to them as to the increasingly poor training of the clergy. A clergy made up an increasing number of priests that arouse serious embarrassment sometimes ― albeit often provided by all "most holy"academic papers now pull behind anyone from Pontifical universities today" and including, soon, the new bishops will be chosen, selected shootout between the most insignificant, so that some personalities of value, that with great effort we can still find in some corner of the Church, don't end up with the hacking mediocrity, flat calm is the stalemate generated by the bishops of that region, because the mezze figure must of necessity play even more figures half of them. On the other hand, we know very well that putting a lion in a rabbit cage or an eagle in a courtyard amidst the scratching chickens, for many it would perhaps be desirable to, but for others it is impossible. Better then protect certain clericalmente "balance" by allowing “rabbits” e “chickens” the full "right" to operate the “best "of their inability, regardless of the fact that they are burying Christianity. However, the "arcane" clerical balances, well worth the destruction of the Church, who is basically only the Bride of Christ; and in the name of the "arcane" clerical balances the Bride of Christ can be safely sacrificed, Indeed thrown directly on the sidewalk under a streetlight, with the bishops and cardinals who draw close to it aboard the scooters trying to scipparle handbag, ma … just to give the money to the poor, is intende!

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rubble …

These are the reasons why in my last lecture I concluded by hoping for the "big bang", that is the inevitable implosion to which we are approaching, to then start all over again to build on the rubble, because in the processes of forfeiture, once the so-called no-return limit has been exceeded, It is no longer possible to go back. Or to better express it all with a pertinent example: a car that ends up on the edge of an Escarpment can be saved with all the people that brings on board, If you do reverse it back promptly on roadway safety. If it is launched along the precipice, at that point it is useless, Indeed it is more harmful to try to reverse gear during the fall; the result will be to split the Exchange, since there is no turning back.

This the real situation in which the Synod Fathers will be working and from which we can not do without, because doing it will emerge from the real to go to space in the surreal. Fathers must therefore move aboard a car about to crash down the precipice, While the driver view all their broken gearbox wondering: «And now, how can we go back?». Now, as to agitate the broken automobile Exchange in the fall is the driver, namely the Holy Father Francis, with foresight he held a extraordinary Jubilee of mercy; and never was more appropriate Jubilee! Thing that I say with those priestly and pastoral knowledge which have not touched certain commentators, those species groups of Catholics sad that would contravene the Holy Father also have stated that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the father and the son and the father and the son is worshipped and glorified and spoke through the prophets» [CF. Symbol of faith].

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logo of the Jubilee of Mercy

To understand the meaning of the Jubilee of Mercy You must be some priests with their hands in the dough of the pastoral, some mechanics with dirty hands of oil. Time ago, the Holy Father, He used the picturesque expression "be shepherds wearing the smell of sheep» [see WHO]; which at the time made me smile, for example, imagining his vicar general for the Diocese of Rome, hear those words, He tried to comply by commissioning shortly to the new Chanel perfumes perfume sheep [scent of sheep], be distributed among the presbyters of Rome. Though perfectly understood what the Holy Father very fair meant to say and what little there was to joke about those words and that much serious invitation how deep.

But let us still use an example: days ago, to a sick person in Terminal I brought the grace and mercy of God, granting him — as is the rite of the sacrament of anointing of the sick "absolution from all sins, including those reserved to the Holy See, According to the powers conferred on me by the Apostolic See, According to the formula: «Ego, facultate mihi ab Apostolica Sede tributa indulgentiam plenariam et remissionem omnium peccatorum tibi grant …». Or good, the Holy Father, in the bubble Mercy look with which he announced this Jubilee [see WHO], has he not made it clear - to those who have heart, soul and true Catholic sentiment "that we are in fact Terminal State? Soon said where we can figure it out: not only the Roman Pontiff decided to send around "missionaries of mercy", What should induce to think is that it has given them full and stable power to perform throughout the Jubilee year, starting Lent, even the sins reserved by the code of Canon law to the Apostolic See [CF n. 18 see WHO]. And as we confessors know, absolution from sins reserved to the Apostolic See can just grant it only to a dying person or to a person in real life threatening, never on other occasions; because in the absence of real life-the acquittal of a reserved to the Apostolic See Sin would constitute a very serious abuse by the Confessor, and the priest that he imparted would be subject to strict canonical penalties [cf. on sins reserved see WHO].

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Synod on the family 2014-2015

The intertwining of the Synod on the family and the Jubilee of Mercy it is not an overlap of "activities", but a necessary logical path, if we consider that Europe, on the family now in agony, is likely to celebrate a solemn funeral shortly with the orchestra of the Freemasons, of the members of liberalism without values, by the puppeteers of the economy without ethics and the ideologues of the omosessualista culture, all together playing the funeral March to trumpets explained. And we, that in this situation we have already been set up in a sense gravediggers, We cannot play do obstetricians with corpses, We can only bless them and bury, if first the corpses have not already buried us.

Burke cappamagna

Cardinal Raymond Burke Leonard, elected which “resistant” from the circles of the so-called tradition, installation cappamagna at one of the various “beauty centers” Of pizzettari&lace makers. And for sure these are the things that make particularly rejoice a subject as the Holy Father Francis.

All of these things in the obvious partly fundamental, they are escaping from almost two years to all those pseudo-Catholic ideologues that having to give vent to the worst of themselves, the Synod have mutated into a political battle ground. And before an agonizing started to discuss on strategies to be adopted for win the next general election, first of which is in their opinion useful defeat the "Kasper theorem" [see WHO, WHO], the report heretical Erdö " [see WHO], the Group of “false prophets” German bishops [see WHO], while giving meticulous information even on how many times the one who has been elected by them as a great antagonist and survivor "champion" of the "non-negotiable values" of the real goes to the bathroom "Catholic tradition”, Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, which was conferred by them the Palma of resistance … but to those who, Maybe Peter? [see WHO]. Then informing day behind day through the Bulletin of the now legendary and comic site church & Postcouncil, how perfect the functioning of his most eminent prostate, but especially in accordance with the Usus antiquior Roman Rite, as proof the first morning urination, then followed by the lauds in the Tridentine rite, first of which is a healthy urine pale yellow color that rivals the angels, that not having sex may not pee, for this I am envious.

Caffara and Cavalcoli

the Metropolitan Archbishop Carlo Caffarra of Bologna with our Dominican theologian John Carlson in the Dominican convent Patriarchal bolognese

Doing all this, which is equivalent to showing that you do not want to understand what the delicate pastoral action of the Church is in times like the ones we are experiencing, these subjects also presume to have or possess the true faith in the one Church, santa, catholic and apostolic, oblivious to profess concrete facts in another baptismo, in particular through their outbursts of hatred towards Peter [example, WHO].

Repeatedly, as a pastor in the care of souls — and certainly not as certain free citizens who play to sociologists or political scientists and as such must always have an enemy on which to vent their own inner discomfort "I remembered that lust is not the first of the deadly sins; the first is the pride followed by greed, envy, IRA ... On the seven deadly sins lust lies in fifth place. There will also be a reason, if in order of ranking, before the "notorious" sex sins, We are in row four? But journalists secularists for a verse, some Catholics on the other ideologues have banked shortly on the ancient obsession with always, sex, to turn this Synod into a meeting called to discuss problems related to human sexuality and its various implications. What indeed false, even if at the Synod there is also an eminent expert in bioethics and sexual ethics such as Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, that in the course of his apostolic ministry, however, he also dealt with many other things, from the ethics of Christological dogma economy, just read his homilies, some of them — without exceeding in lure, Since the Cardinals usually Witcher crina ferrata with brush and I hardly caresses — really worthy a doctor of the Church, species in this increasingly bleak Episcopal homiletic [in this regard, reference should be made to the dramas of the Bishop of Noto, WHO].

Nevertheless, the message about this Synod was passed by members of the "thesis" and those of "antithesis" is the usual prurient hunting pants and to the search of the bedrooms.

John Cavalcoli photos order

from these columns Giovanni Cavalcoli explained how, the Holy Father, He clarified his positions on certain speech concluded the first part of the Synod, dispelling fears that had no reason to exist

To create ideological confrontations and wars was taken the problem of eventual admission to the Eucharist of divorced and remarried persons, so once again, that sacred mystery that is the engine, life and center of unity of the Church, It was used as a means of fiendishly Division and ideological clash; the whole, What severe, based on nothing. And repeat based on nothing, Although some deep throat Cardinals or Bishops ' did leave the synodal Hall speeches or private relations, and at that point, in newspapers around the world and aggressive of telematics magazines usual suspects, he began to thunder against "blows of hand", potential "coup" … until reaching the worst: pastoral practice through the dangerous hazard on which modernists "did not discuss" would have ended up changing the substance of the sacraments, thus launching very serious alarms, ignoring, or pretending to ignore, that the Church cannot alter the substance of the sacraments, May, much less with the pastoral practice [see WHO, WHO, etc. ..]. In short, as the historian Roberto de Mattei explained: "The Church is on the verge of a schism» [see WHO, WHO]. Nothing is served my distinguished colleague senior John Carlson, from our magazine columns, explain with the theological richness that distinguishes how, the Holy Father, He had already made clear its positions on certain speech concluded the first part of the Synod, thus dispelling doubts and fears that had no reason to exist [see WHO].

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Pigeons used at the Council of Nicea in the 4th century, When there were no The Gazette and the Agency Correspondence Romana, for the dissemination of private discussions of the Council fathers

Among these people There are also some Church historians, whose bad faith arises from facts that they should not ignore, for instance: during the first great dogmatic Councils, between the 4th and 9th centuries, the fathers of the Church, not discussed maybe freely about everything and its opposite, before reaching the definitions that today are dogmas on which faith rests and stands? If the leaders of today and the so-called "right" to have Catholic town in the 4th century in Nicaea during the celebration of that Council and if those years were already existed The Gazette the devout atheist Giuliano Ferrara and the press agency Correspondence Romana, through which spread as sensational scoop what some Father deep throat had decided to exit the courtroom about the way the meeting was discussing the nature of Christ, how they would have acted? They would boycott actions ... were incited to rebellion ... they called for resistance against the Bishop of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople through handwritten threats made through campaigns on Papyri made lead in the cities of East and West by pigeons? And in this case, What controversy they basted, admitted and not granted that between adverse schools and especially between dangerous heresies meandering in theOrbe catholica of those times - just think of the Arian heresy -, He was discussing, No communion for divorced and remarried persons, but the very foundation of the Church: the incarnation of the Word and the mystery of the Person of Christ?

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fruit market in Campo dei Fiori in the statue of Giordano Bruno

Aunt Pasqualina that sells fruit in Campo dei Fiori under the statue of that bad boy of Giordano Bruno, he does not know these things, but I, who know them, use the expression of not by chance intellectual dishonesty and lack of scientific criteria on the part of these people who have been building wholes for almost two years theorem on mostly private speeches made by the Synod Fathers which should always, of practice and rigor, discuss in complete freedom and then its opposite, before Peter, assisted by the grace of the Holy Spirit, to say the last word, as always happens and as always happened. And doing it, until today, Pietro has never been wrong, included in the Vatican II, that the Church was the last great Council celebrated, Although some of those warring against improbable Eucharists granted to divorced rispostati with blows of the modernists and progressives, instead it was not an ecumenical council but a great mistake, or at best just a third-party pastoral council, maximum second degree, According at least to fanta-Ecclesiology theological duo Gherardini&Lanzetta.

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poster of Gay Village

From the Eucharist to divorcees the usual suspects move then the shot about gays, Fearing risks of homosexual unions recognition and to follow; and with a painful spirit, In addition to aggressive and bad, We must sorbirci the inevitable Paul Samson and Vainio, supported by a gynoecium of passionate women who, rather than with their brains, write articles from laundry, through which speak in harsh tones and often derogatory "reversed, perverts, pederasty, Sodomites …” [see WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, etc. ..]. Articles in which only the final gloss is missing: «Hangman who spring!», If anything, inviting readers to a pilgrimage to Predappio Memorial tomb of Benito Mussolini led personally by Vainio, having regard to the latest really indecent articles that have been written about Levied Christian on the occasion of the feast of Italian Republic celebrated the 2 June, day in which I, as a priest who at the same time is pure Italian citizen with full rights and duties, celebravo a holy mass for the benefit and prosperity of our beloved Homeland and its inhabitants [see WHO, WHO, WHO].

Rolando Rivi

the martyr Rolando Rivi, assassinated by Red partisans. A picture of the ceremony of beatification, by the prefect of the Congregation for the causes of Saints, Cardinal Angelo Amato

Since we fell upon this theme which I do not intend to leave either vague or suspended, Add also the instrumental use done earlier by these blatant nostalgic on the feast of liberation, that falls on 25 April, on the occasion of which he abused the memory of the venerable priests killed in the so-called "red triangle"Emilia Romagna by Communist partisans [see WHO, WHO], including the blessed soul of seminarian Rolando Rivi [see WHO], thinking of which it is rare that I take the cassock off me, If not replace it, in case of real need, with a decent clergyman. People so much ideology, These columnists incattiviti by strange feelings "truly Catholic", not to even understand the words they wrote themselves, since before his death, refusing to take off the cassock off, the young man said: "I study as a priest and the garment is the sign that I belong to Jesus". Did you understand, Paolo Deotto? You wrote it yourself trying to set up yet another ideological Theatre: the Blessed martyr Rolando Rivi didn't say ' I'm against the Communists fascists», Neither said ' I am against communists fascists», but he said exactly what you bring back, «I am of Jesus» [see WHO]. That statement in itself implies: I am of Him who died for our redemption as a sacrificed lamb and who does not invite partisan hatred towards anyone, calls to hate only sin that separates us from communion with him and his Holy Church erected on the rock of Peter.

It is true that were murdered about 80 priests from the "beasts" in that case redheads, who even raised the murderous shot on a teenager "guilty" of wearing the seminarian's cassock, but to the counterfeit ideologues of Levied Christian should not escape even the “deserving” beasts Black, Although in fact are capable to exploit and distort for their ideological purposes questionable even the heavenly blanket of the Blessed Virgin Mary, willingly waging of nasty wives at the wash house [example, WHO] to throw plenty of mud on the Supreme Pontiff and the Episcopal College, and all - it goes without saying - in the name of the true and authentic Catholic faith of which these subjects incognito by Luciferian pride even feel they possess.

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Don Giovanni Minzoni, Archpriest of Argenta (Ferrara) killed by the fascists with a stick 23 August 1923, martyr of Christ and of the homeland

Wonder therefore to all of them, with historical facts and documents in hand: Why, the 25 April and 2 June, do not also celebrate the memory of all those Italian priests - also superior in number - who during the "glorious" twenty years of Fascism were stunned with sticks and repeatedly attacked by black shirts, Some even while they were in the Church to the altar to celebrate the Holy Mass? It's Paolo Deotto, instead of playing with history together with the aspirant countess Cristina Saif, that on the feast of the Republic has pulled out the garbage hoax of electoral fraud for which the monarchy would lose the referendum in 1946 and weaving the “Catholic” Masonic House of Savoy's praise through the figure of a well-known womanizer [see WHO] "unaware of this dynasty thing of pirates boarding He acted for our country and for the Italian church by 1850 to follow ", instead he would take care to document himself properly, would find out how many times the agents of the "worthy" fascist Ovra have even staged suicides by priests. One of them was buried at the time Earth blessed and no funeral, because it was really believed that he had committed suicide by hanging himself under the altar of the church in front of the tabernacle of the Sacred Eucharistic reserve; then suicide and sacrilege. Only around half the fifties, putting together that several suspicious deaths, He began to nurture serious doubts that that priest no sympathy toward the fascist regime was really suicide, you chose to not deepen further and in that corner of southern Italy was made to fall silent on that and other sad deaths, but the coffin was revived and buried discreetly in the corner of the cemetery reserved for priests; and with this was clarified everything without having to spend even a Word. And to the delight of Deotto, of Vassallo and of the whole club nostalgic Of Levied Christian, We could continue with the youth of Catholic action groups of Scouts and taken a stick, some of whom remained permanently disabled or semi-disabled for life, since breaking bones in the 1930s was no joke and fixing a fractured femur in four or five places was not easy even for the best surgeons; to follow up with the burning Catholic printers, including the Civiltà Cattolica and follow. Be remembered with historical rigor that the so-called infamous “red triangle”, before being red, It was a “black triangle”, incubator and cradle of the nascent fascism, whose founder was a romagnolo away in Milan and his first companions were faithful to much Emilia Romagna. And in that region become fascistissima then comunistissima below, every wrong by reputed sigh “Sante” black shirts priests were toned with a stick, as happened to Don Giovanni Minzoni, in Argenta di Ferrara, which broke his skull with a stick. I therefore consider it a duty to remind the writers of Levied Christian inviting the outrage the public through images of the corpse of the duce and his poor lover [see WHO, WHO, WHO], than the priests died before 8 September 1943 amount to 422, between these 158 they were slain by the Nazi-fascists and 33 by the fascist soldiers of the Republic of Salò. I parish priests died violently before the Italian liberation of Italy from nazi-fascism were 238, to which must be added 41 Deputy parish priests and 129 between seminarians and novices. Statistics, names and descriptions of the dead can be found in the history section of Vatican Archive.

Don Umbeto Pessina

the corpse of Don Umberto Pessina murdered by the Communists in hatred of the faith 18 June 1946 in Correggio (Reggio Emilia)

At the end of this painful issue I affirm - and certainly not lightly - that to "bless" in a more or less subliminal way the "Catholic fascism" and “Devotees” Savoy “Catholics” on the day that the Italy celebrates the liberation of the country from nazi-fascism soil and yet on the day in which we celebrate the Republic day, makes these subjects both as authentic Italians both shames as “Catholics”. All expressed in a regretful and severe tone by the descendant of a family whose members had the "privilege" of taking the blows of the fascists first and then those of the communists., except that for me are both evil and each other. It is therefore my duty - even for some discreet solicitation received from some ecclesiastical authorities who have left everything to my free decision - to make known through my pen, to non-believers and to all people distant from the Catholic Church who, wrong, may swap these subjects and their written very livorosi as an expression of the Catholic World, or worse than think and feel of the Italian church, that these characters are only “loose dogs” without master who as such represent only themselves, they do not represent any title the Catholic World, much less the priestly College Italian, who always cried and prayed for the victims of fascism and for the victims of communism, without ever exalt those killed on one side and ignoring ideological bad faith with those killed by the other party. The Church has always honored the memory of its priests killed in hatred of the faith by both fascists and communists, including a blessed martyr of just 14 year old.

homosexual I cried

… not all gays are pathetic bad boys in disguise at all bitches in heat performing without dignity and modesty in Sodom and Gomorrah of the gay pride or the orgiastic festivities of Gay village

Here is painted the real pasta of which these dark and nasty people are made of whom I ask: have you ever dealt - pastorally speaking - with homosexuals? Have you ever accepted in a confessional these "reversed, pederasty, Sodomites”, These are used to define "caritatevolmente" these humans with spirit and phrasebooks from Social Republic of Salò and ideological methods from Gulag Soviet? Have you ever stopped to listen to these subjects, to learn what they lived and often suffered in the course of their existence, given that not all gays are pathetic bad boys dressed as bitches in heat performing without dignity and decency in the Sodom and Gomorrah of the gay pride or the orgiastic festivities of Gay village? Apparently you have never met and heard, at least according to what you have been writing for months and stating in "your" pseudo “church” steeped in politics, of ideology, of nostalgia passed, in which the charity is not needless by circuitous route, taken as you are to stubbornly reject the present and that future becoming which instead characterizes the Church of Christ as a pilgrim on earth. Have you ever received, listened and learned and lives almost always shocking experiences of transvestites and transsexuals? I you, I listened to them for hours, when for a year I served in an ancient Roman basilica; and remember with affection this group of guys who all Saturday evening were to Mise vespertina, you put at the bottom of the basilica and listened devoutly, obviously not approached to do the Communion, as he did in his time for political provocation genderista sacrilegious Vladimiro Guadagno, said Luxuria, at the funeral of the heretic priest Andrea Gallo; and at the end of the Holy Mass, These guys, they were waiting for me to ask for blessings and prayers for their deceased or for their family members who lived in their countries of origin.

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… If on judgment day the Lord would send these connoisseurs and rich old people to hell, in such a case could provide the Pharisee leader as well as schismatic Bishop Bernard Fellay to raise quaestioni "canonical" with his father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, vigorously protesting that these "excellent customers" had regularly "paid" Masses of suffrage up to the parousia.

But all these are precisely pastoral actions a priest must not shirk. Actions that are not made by the Lepanto Foundation, too busy to contemplate the pond of water rafferma of the lefebvrists, which, if anything, give support to promote conferences against "invertiti“, “pederasty"and “Sodomites“, explaining with inhuman “morale” pharisaic in what way a teenager, in case he died without confession, would unquestionably to scorch in the flames of hell for having masturbated. Place from which would instead all rich immune of the extreme right American entrepreneurs or those arricchitisi in Brazil in ways and forms to clarify, that shade of sollazzandosi their 70 years in pools of their villas with their twenties — think not statuesque male, they are granddaughters who also recite praises and vespers with the Tridentine breviary - instead they will fly rights to Heaven for all the money given up in favor of the works of the schismatic and heretical Fraternity of Saint Pius X and for the perpetual Masses that the same has offered to celebrate after a substantial donation. Obviously, If on judgment day the Lord would send these connoisseurs and rich old people to hell, in this case the head-Pharisee and schismatic bishop Bernard Fellay could provide to go and raise "canonical" questions with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, complaining vigorously about the fact that these "excellent customers"they had regularly"paid"Suffrage masses until the Parousia; and it is not to be excluded that it also invites the “resistance” against the Supreme Court, that is to say its and its, would have arranged bad Judgement, If anything, with de Mattei that puts up a collecting signatures to protest the measure taken and the judgement given by the Almighty.

Worlds Largest Crocodile in Captivity

… We can't close ourselves within a Fort from which scream "executioner who spring!”, Once you have pulled up the drawbridge and have filled the moat of alligators kept fasted.

From "cattofascisti", who are worse than the "cattocomunists", Let's move on to the concrete pastoral dimension; and forgive me if once again I refer to my last conference in which, throughout the first part, I am speaking of that social and scientific progress with which the Church of the twentieth century was called to deal seriously, to equip pastorally through Vatican II [see WHO] We live today in a society subject to mutually radical gods, in front of which we cannot close ourselves within a Fort from which scream "executioner who spring!”, Once you have pulled up the drawbridge and have filled the moat of alligators kept fasted. Before these radical changes affecting the family and perception increasingly deteriorated and deteriorating of the idea of sexuality, interpersonal relationship, by love life or couple, We pastors in the care of souls should be equipped with adequate Church Pastoral tools; because in the face of such situations the Church cannot leave the bishops responsible to the Government of the particular churches, and all their priests to act alone or individually according to personal conscience, If not worse according to free will. Once again proceed with those concrete examples of where you won't find any trace in the article of the club of "Executioner who spring!”That throw fires and lightning bolts up “concubines“, “pederasty"And"reversed”, with thundering shouts from dive against the “Patti sodomitici” [see WHO]. Given that sodomy, yesterday as today it always remains a grave sin but also assuming that sin is condemned, always, whereas, on the other hand, the sinner is absolved every time he is repentant, our problem today is certainly not being opposed to that dangerous carnival that is marriage between subjects of the same sex, Why do we have to take note of the fact that now we are beyond this and that Europe — and beyond — has now succumbed to this sad reality that we, Christian speaking, is a real aberration, that can only lead to the first madness, then from madness to self-destruction, because the culture of life that in unborn life and the family has its own core Center, are replacing a culture of denial of life, thereby imposing an authentic culture of death.

gay couple

… if a pair of twos "his"Or a pair of twos"she"I come to ask for the baptism of"baby toy"taken in adoption to Crown of fiction and mass family standing, I priest, How should I involve?

But we must understand and accept - and here the word accept It should be read as acceptance of a colossal failure — that in several European countries the marriage between same-sex couples and the possibility for them to adopt children date is stipulated by laws in our opinion unfair and monstrous. Now, before laws that have sanctioned a fact, the problem is no longer the fight against Gay marriage, that is a fact because State law in different countries; the problem has now become another, that is what we will soon have to act and react to, for instance: if a pair of twos "his"or one of two"she"I come to ask for the baptism of"baby toy"taken in adoption to Crown of fiction and mass family standing, I used to take orders priest from the Church — and certainly not from The Gazette and from the Lepanto — Fonfazione How should I involve? I definitely need to baptize a creature and perhaps even the obligation to do so. How can I though, two lesbians or two playing the gay family and parents and they have created a real Satanic parody of family, to recite the profession of faith? How do I get subject like, According to the sacred rite of baptism: «You renounce Satan… all his works… all his seductions?», if in concrete facts the work of Satan incarnate is they through what they have done and set up through rented wombs, -surrogate mothers and genetic manipulation? Soon said that in that case would act according to their conscience, given that my priority would be to baptize the creature, then take the two, I would state that I do not intend to review their private life and their public choices that I absolutely do not approve of e, if they really want to baptize the creature, to have it presented to me by a godfather and a godmother, male and female, authentic Christian feelings animated, why otherwise, presented by them, I do not administer the sacrament of baptism, that many of these subjects would be asked only to purely provocative purposes catch attempting once again to force the Church to bow their heads before the their will and then accept that unacceptable that we cannot and we must not accept.

unmarried couples

… If a cohabiting couple receiving the sacrament of matrimony, after having even more children, How should I involve, given that for the Church they are in fact two public concubines?

I am not a parish priest but I have always collaborated with parishes for their various needs not only but especially pastoral liturgical, so I can get easily in the shoes of my brethren pastors. For instance: If a cohabiting couple receiving the sacrament of matrimony, after having even more children, How should I involve, given that for the Church they are in fact two public concubines? Should I perhaps, like many parish priests, pretend not to know that the two have been living together for years and that they continue their cohabitation undeterred while they are preparing for marriage? I have to invite them to separate and go live together only after marriage, or, with a family of fact put up and with children who are already growing, I must respond by requiring them to live as brother and sister until after marriage? In short, What should I answer and, above all, how should I behave in the exercise of the sacred ministry, which I certainly do not exercise in my name but in the name of the Church of Christ, invoking for each sacrament and sacramental celebrated, given or administered the grace of the father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit?

couple engaged

… two young people who have found employment at a distance from their places of origin and who work hard to pay the mortgage of the House and get married as soon as possible, living in a studio apartment sharing spaces and especially saving on expenses, what should I say, going to live in separate houses?

It's still: two young boyfriends in their twenties that with sacrifice go off-site to study at the University "what they can do just because in two share a room and then the costs are halved, otherwise their families would not be able to support them at full single costs because they lack the means - what do I have to say? How should I consider these young people with sacrifice, success or non-success, try to live under the same roof as two boyfriends Christians? I have an obligation to impose “escape from temptation”? I have to treat them as cohabiting concubines and exclude them from the Sacraments only because in a similar situation they live under the same roof? To two young people who have found employment at a distance from their places of origin and who work hard to be able to pay the home loan and get married as soon as possible, living in a studio apartment sharing spaces and especially saving on expenses, what should I say, going to live in separate houses and burning a large part of their profits to pay for the rental of two individual accommodation, otherwise I do not admit them to the sacraments? Of course, these are circumstances that always make it necessary to evaluate case by case, I could then act by responding in consciousness, ma, however pure, man's conscience can be very defectable, for what is appropriate for my priest's conscience is adequately supported by precise indications given by the Church, that face these realities cannot nor escape or hide our heads in the sand like the ostrich, thus leaving the most vulnerable part of the body most deserving of dignified protection exposed and exposed to the worst attacks.

divorced

When some remarried dirvorziati occurred to me telling me which below were divorced but that "his friend" priest had told him that "they could receive communion", I have always responded by saying: «The priest who told you this – if I said – did wrong, therefore I invite you not to receive Communion "

The discourse of the divorced and remarried is more complex to which I do not administer the Eucharist. And when some came to me saying that they were divorced but that "the priest friend" had told them that "they could receive Communion", I always replied: «The priest who told you this – if I said – has severely wrong, Therefore I urge you not to receive communion, while inviting you to participate with devotion to the Mass». The examples are many, including priests who have also replaced the judgment of the authority of the Church, even appointing divorced and remarried men and women as catechists and catechists, allowing them to receive communion without even the ecclesiastical courts asked for the case to be expressed on the validity or otherwise of the sacramental previous constraint, through which you were United in marriage and for which continued to be bound to the Church from Sacramento indissoluble.

Court of Cassation

… the Synod on the family, who then will have to give us clear answers and above all precise pastoral directives to which we must adhere with zeal, so we pastors in the care of souls you can now proceed to explain them and forwarding them to the people of God and if necessary imponendone the scrupulous observance.

Can the Church help pastors or individual priests to legislate in a personal capacity on such delicate matters, or leave them free to act in conscience, whereas conscience often, and especially that of malformed priest, It can be — as I explained shortly before — even several flawed? That's why I started this article just talking about the sad present-day level and increasingly scarce training of priests, certainly not to pull the usual deserve stored to bishops and those in charge of the seminars, to aim on which, today as today, equivalent even more to shoot on Red Cross, but on a hearse carrying the coffin of the deceased to the cemetery.

These are some of the real problems and very sensitive to be discussed at the Synod on the family, who then will have to give us clear answers and above all precise pastoral directives to which we must adhere with zeal, so we pastors in the care of souls you can now proceed to explain them and forwarding them to the people of God and if necessary imponendone the scrupulous observance. Use and abuse of all this for political confrontations and idologici, often played on the Holy Eucharistic mystery used as collision, What is harmful and dishonest; dishonesty is typical of the politicians missed, or politicians trumpet, who chose the Church as their field of rein and clash; is the typical dishonesty of whom, to the mystery of God's mercy, replaces the howling of the Executioner who spring!». And those who operate in this manner can also proclaim himself Catholic from morning to night, playing the ecclesiologist and writing articles tinged with apocalyptic tones on the Synod of the family which will mark - they say - the total fall into the great apostasy from the faith. While sad and tragic the fact remains that those who act so you are not in communion with the Church, because as the rich young [cf. MC 10, 17-22] they have never been emptied of the worst "riches" of themselves to fill with Christ and follow him, which through the Apostle Paul tells us as the most important virtue charity [cf. The Cor 13, 12-13] , that does not stand nor on sentimentality nor on "do-goodism", nor on mercy mundane, But even on ferocious justicialism and least of all on the ruthless and inhuman Pharisaic morality; is based on justice and truth, mix it by faith and hope. And who writes and sowing things so sad and bad, However, in the name of their presumed and only real “tradition”, has faith, has hope and has charity; in short, he is not Christian, And other, but he won't realize its sad otherness, because if the devil manages to take in pride, first it blinds us, then we will do everything he wants.

Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying:
«This people honors me with their lips, but their heart
is far from me.
In vain do they worship me,
teaching doctrines that are precepts of men
».

[Mt 15, 7-9]

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The apologia of pride

— The deadly sins: pride as a denial of the truth -

The APOLOGY OF PRIDE

 

Among the pantheist who believes he is the’the and the absolute lunatic who thinks he's Napoleon, the difference is that some academics believe the first and consider him a genius, while the second considering compassionano, quite rightly, in need of care. But they do not realize that the fundamental driving force of the attitude of both is the same: a subtle arrogance, intelligent and refined, nourished by long philosophical and theological studies in the university professor or theologian, perfect Pharisee; and a crude pride, crass and ridiculous in the second.

 

 

Author John Cavalcoli OP

Author
John Cavalcoli OP

Everyone who does evil, He hates the light
neither cometh to the light
because his works should be exposed [GV 3,20]

No one can lay a foundation
other than what is already there
[The Cor 3,11]

 

THE QUESTION OF PRIDE

 

mosaic pride

depiction of the Pride in a Byzantine mosaic

Pride is already known at the wise pagans, which they have represented the myth of Narcissus, Icarus, Prometheus and Titans. In Greek literature there are many people proud, bullies and bullies regarded with admiration, like some Homeric heroes. The pride we say in greek also hyperephania, compound word that implies the idea of ​​showing more than what it really is. It corresponds to the Latin pride. In both cases the meaning of the term is ambiguous: It can mean yes vice, but it can also have a positive way of overcoming oneself, magnificence, noble feel, pride, thing that makes us understand how the pagan world did not have clear ideas on such an important point of human.

It took the wisdom Jewish-Christian to give pride significance pride applenegative, related to disobedience to God, opposing it to humility and distinguishing it from the legitimate aspiration of man to overcome their limitatezze, the size and rise to God. This is not a trend to the supernatural, which by that very fact it would cancel, but simply a need for perfection. Jesus in the Gospel of Mark [7,22] condemns in no uncertain terms the pride (hyperephania). With everything Greece, Aristotle and Antigone, also he left us wonderful examples of humility, that is the remedy for pride, reminding us how our thinking must be subjected to real - the famous Aristotelian realism - and our will must humbly accept the natural moral law unwritten, but printed in the consciousness.

Pride in Greece is also called hubris, expression meaning a thinking that goes beyond the limits of what is permissible, what in the etymological sense is between-cotanza, ie the trans-cogitate, a self-consciousness that goes beyond what is reasonable to think of himself. Pride has so substantial and fundamental reference to’I namely self-consciousness, the consciousness of their own intelligence and their own spiritual dignity.

THE ESSENCE OF PRIDE

 

pride truth

pride as a refusal to submit to the truth

Pride is essentially and originally the refusal to submit to the truth, the truth about himself and about God. This is clear from the biblical story of original sin. Although it may seem strange for a creature as man, made to find truth in his happiness, remain true to love the words of Christ: "Men loved darkness rather than the light" [GV 3,19]. And the cause of it is nothing more than pride, sad legacy of original sin. It is therefore a sin of thought of themselves; It is an account of himself and his own dignity or grandeur, that is not within the limits of truth and justice, It is not regulated by the real or from being, It does not recognize the limits of their creaturely essence, but it means that the subject has of itself a consideration and a valuation higher than what he actually is. It is what is called presumption.

pretty superbia

… word of a famous star adept of the sect of Scientology!

Hardly the contemporary liberal culture He understands and accepts that there may be a thinking guilty and reprehensible, that it may sin in thought, convinced that thinking like that can create true as he pleases, It intoxicated as it is a false freedom of thought, ignoring that thought is really free and healthy, when he submits to the objective truth and to external reality, independent from the ego or thinking, created by God and not by man. Pride is a form of self-deception with which then the proud seek to deceive and captivate others he believes them to be doing what he, in his delirium, imagine being. Pride produces so bragging and boasting,, Typical of those who always need to have someone around to his service, to be the center of attention, to speak with pride to others even without challenge, of its exceptional qualities and their big business, superior to those of many other.

cat lion pride

arrogance and lack of understanding of the real data

Among the pantheist who believes he is the’the absolute and the madman who thinks he's Napoleon, the difference is that some academics believe the first and consider him a genius, while the second considering compassionano, rightly, a subject in need of care. But they do not realize that the key driver of the attitude of both is the same: a subtle arrogance, intelligent and refined, nourished by long philosophical and theological studies, the theologian or the university teacher, perfect Pharisee; and a crude pride, crass and ridiculous in the second. But perhaps more would need treatment first, remedying its pride with a sincere repentance and the exercise of humility, It does reach that true greatness, that pride promises so fallacious.

pride sticker

intellectual pride

Pride is often the habit of intellectuals and educated people, refined, check, courtly, intellectually equipped, Record title holders. But precisely here lies the danger and the problem: that they, in the last analysis and in a special way, fall into that category of abomination 'rich', of which Christ speaks, selfish and the exploiters, ambitious and greedy and end the wicked and candidates to damnation. It seriously does not use the aid to the poor their material wealth; but it is even more serious advocating pride, that is wasting its spiritual and stimulates souls to rebel against God and go to hell.

THE SIN OF PRIDE
Tarquinio pride

Tarquinius Superbus

But as the superb tricks? How does? How so? By what way? Under such pretexts? With such sophistry and cunning? The superb leverages our innate need for greatness and self-assertion, for example, the certainty of truth and security to do well. All things and worthy in themselves and most lawful, gifts and commands that come from God. Deceives the superb giving us to understand the various ways in which our I or humanity worth and can much more than at first, empirically it appears. It strives to show that we are not subject to any, but that we source and rule ourselves.

arrogant egomaniac

the superb and others

This is not to recognize a reality outside of us and independent of us, but are we to put the real and ourselves with our thoughts and our will, Since the real is nothing but our thinking: being is being thought, It is perceived to be. There is no principle or foundation of knowledge and action objective and reliable, one for all; but each of us is free to place the principle that prefers.

To the proud the world is not a world unto itself, which is to be explained by a cause other than ourselves. The world is our world, It is what we think and we want to be world. The world is a result of our thinking and our action. This is not the simple fact that we know what we do, according to the famous motto of Giambattista Vico, It is very true, but the impious claim of its own very being.

blinkered arrogance

natural accessory of pride: blinders

Undoubtedly, petty people, the limited objectives, incapable of intellectual abstractions, living hand to mouth in the midst of so much trouble or banality or immersed in carnal vices, with a harsh reality, I am somehow protected from believing the delusions of grandeur and the mad dreams of the proud, that promise to be aware of being God or the Absolute, which might not even believe, reach an absolute knowledge or a boundless freedom and omnipotence, that natural men are not interested nor judges possible, contenting, to use a phrase of Sartre, Of terrestrial foods. These people undoubtedly sin, but not so serious and responsible as the proud, and for the matter of the sin of the proud, that touches more closely the spiritual life and the eternal destiny of man, and the fact that the sin of pride leads to clarity of conscience, a calculating cunning and a free will, that there are so perfectly in carnal sins, which, though they may be serious, They are usually the most effect of weakness or push passionate than malice, since they often have their origins in an occasional bad upbringing, morally degraded environments, in situations of poverty or abandonment, or with a background calibrated or mentally deficient.

pride the intellectuals

scene from the opera theater “The intellectuals” Moliere

The pride, most prevalent in educated circles and in the upper classes, proud of their quality, social prestige and wealth, civil and ecclesiastical, It can make use of refined cultural and ideological pretexts covers, Whether with great skill from different philosophies and religions, in particular those traditions Gnostic-idealistic-pantheistic, possibly occult or esoteric, and in the West beginning with Parmenides and India with Vedanta. L’I the illusion of being the appearance or avatar O “moment” sensitive of the Absolute, so that in the end does not have to be accountable to no one for its actions, all is allowed and would arrive at the absolute moral perversion, it normally is not retained in the common rules of civil coexistence and ecclesial, certainly not from personal conviction, but for sheer convenience, that allowed him to reach leading positions and go for wise and respectable.

washing of the feet

Jesus and the washing of the feet

The advent of Christianity, heir of the Old Testament wisdom, so aware of man's creaturely, with humility preaching, his spirit of penance and conversion, his characteristic realism and epistemological cult of obedience to God, It generates an even tougher fight against the spirit of pride, whose origins date back to Adam's sin. Fundamental becomes Christ's example, that although he was Son, he humbled himself the humiliation of the cross and commands us: "Learn from me, I am meek and humble of heart " [Mt 11,29]. Christianity is indeed a great exaltation of man called in Christ to be the son of God, partaker of the divine life, but as long to subside and to humble themselves before God and the same Brothers, which ask for forgiveness and mercy.

pride hypocrisy

other side of pride: the ipocrisia

To impiety, the rejection of the transcendent and honor God, the self-deification, the magic and rebellion to God, Christianity replaces the humble trust, the faithful listen to the Word of God and of the ecclesial community, the devotion, the adoration, praise and contemplation. The arrogance of neighbor, the thirst for domination, to selfishness, all'egocentrismo, the exploitation of others, the hypocrisy, arrogance, below albagia, to arrogance, oppression of the weak, contempt or offensive mockery of others, pride unforgiving, the touchiness, to impatience, the stubbornness, to revenge, all'ingordigia, hateful properties and consequences of pride in relationships with others, Christian ethics replaces humility, meekness, sweetness, the indulgence, mercy, the friendliness, the gratitude, the spirit of sacrifice, generous dedication, the spirit of service, availability, the docilità, sociability, solidarity, the openness and simplicity of heart, selfless love.

pride thoughts

pride is first of all a thought

The superb intentionally conceives thoughts they do appear plausible pride or incite pride under specious pretexts, to cover or justify their actions, hiding evil thinking and makes. But it is said that anyone who understands those thoughts, especially if you learn them from other, or it was also the same author, is a superb and therefore has fault. It can happen, indeed, that one conceives them without realizing the seriousness of what he thinks or its consequences, You remain deceived or believe they have made a great discovery for the good of humanity. In that case, his thoughts are objectively harmful and dangerous, but whoever makes them, or greets them in good faith remains innocent.

Even in the saints or worthy men as for example a Sant'Anselmo, a Duns Scotus, one Eckhart, a Cusano, one Suarez, a Rosmini exist principles or doctrines, especially if taken to the extreme, They are seriously wrong; but this does not prevent that the distinguished authors remain morally irreproachable. Sin those who welcome these thoughts with malice, to satisfy their pride or their passions. The rest, It is not at all certain that all the errors in order to assist the pride, for there are also six other deadly sins, waiting to have their apologists.

 

DEACADENZA the ideal HUMILITY AND RETURN OF THE PRIDE

 

Machiavelli 1

Niccolo Machiavelli and the ancient pagan cult of the ruler

Over the centuries the Christian ideal of human greatness It founded on humility is not always properly understood. After signs of emanatistic theology of Scotus Eriugena in the ninth century, beginning in the fourteenth century German mystic, assimilation to Christ has been confused in Meister Eckhart with an impossible identification with Christ, losing sight of the limits of human nature; and then especially from the Italian Renaissance, with its characteristic anthropocentrism inspired hermeticism of Marsilio Ficino, a misinterpretation of Christocentrism, He has begun to peep the ancient pagan cult of the individual ruler with Machiavelli and magic with Pico della Mirandola and later Giordano Bruno. Rises a Christianity that instead of inciting to humility, under the pretext of human dignity redeemed in Christ, It begins in practice to enhance the pride and to incite him to pride, naturally with all possible expedients, It is well known the clear opposition to this vice to the Christian virtues.

nietsche pride

Nietzsche and the will to power

This happened at the beginning, with Humanism Italian, timidly and with great circumspection; but later in the following centuries in an ever more open, until reaching, since the eighteenth century, to consider the Christian doctrine of humility as an enemy of man. The culmination of this process will be achieved by Nietzsche, the late nineteenth century, with its open exaltation of “will to power” in fierce polemics with Christianity. But to open the floodgates to this torrent of impiety, you ingrosserà viepiù, up to our days, will paradoxically Lutheranism, who also wanted to present himself as a singer of divine mercy and the enemy of human pride and its claim to advance the merits before God. But the well-known fact is that Luther mailed this preaching not without its positive aspects, based on totally false and the shifting sands of the rebellion to the Magisterium of the Church, under the pretext to object to the moral corruption of the papacy, giving clear shows that his exaltation of humility was a fake, concealing the substantial pride to rebel doctrinal authority of the Vicar of Christ and set himself up as judge of his orthodoxy, breaking with this very communion with the Church, who claimed to “reform“, when the first was that he had to reform itself. Thus the content of Christian revelation, no longer held by the Magisterium, They found themselves at the mercy of the first exalted or filofastro, who, on the basis of its idiosyncrasies and a mixt culture, and considering himself inspired by the Holy Spirit, he felt free and allowed to plunder the wealth of Revelation, choosing or rejecting what they wanted, and mixing it if necessary - in defiance of the “pure Gospel” Luther - with other ideologies of begging: new way to satisfy his pride and his desire for fame and notoriety.

Luther 95 thesis

Luther's rebellion paradigm dictated by pride

Already in his life Luther, as is known, It had to do with characters of this kind, which they made him go on a rampage, without which he would realize that they did nothing but put into practice the approach to Scripture, that he first was practicing, in opposition to the interpretation of the Magisterium of the Church. Not including that break away from supervision -”episcopal“- And the guidance of the Magisterium is not a phenomenon of freedom, but it produces chaos and war of all against all, then masked by Hegel under the euphemism of “dialectic”. It seems that still to this day Protestants have not understood. Serve them the ecumenical dialogue?

superhighway neigh capitali

full review of the deadly sins

In this way the Christian pride It became much more serious and harmful the coarse pagan pride, for if this could inflate the values ​​of reason or the simple brute force, the heretic that is available to the immense treasures of Revelation, He could adorn these jewels, that the pay does not even know. And so he was born the Christian pantheism, especially with Hegel and followers to this day. But things got even more dangerous, , when they were no longer just elated, visionaries and false mystics to approach the doctrines of Luther and to use his method of interpretation, but they arrived philosophers undoubtedly brilliant, with academic degrees, these then also be purchased credit in the appropriate circles learned to date and found the Lutheran theology and still a philosophy that was compatible with the doctrine of Luther. These philosophers were not long in coming. The first was Descartes. Then those who wanted to use Descartes to a rational foundation of Protestantism, were Leibniz and Wolff. And the ironic thing was that Descartes founded a rationalistic approach to Scripture, so that he began to choose from in the Bible no longer what he had already chosen Luther, which was taken for granted, but what it was to be compliant “reason”; Not now healthy and balanced Aristotelian-Thomistic reason, already recommended by the Magisterium of the Church, but precisely that reason superb and proud, which he had already formed the subject of hatred of Luther. So it was that his fideism begat exactly the opposite, ie rationalism, just what Luther wanted to avoid.

descartes

pictorial image of Descartes

However Protestants soon realized that the affinity cogito Descartes had with me a Lutheran. The psychological approach was the same: the same withdrawal of’I on itself as the foundation of certainty; and therefore they adopted the Cartesian philosophy, though born in a Catholic environment, like the philosophy of Protestantism, despite the Lutheran contempt for philosophy and for the reason. Ma la philosophy Cartesian, despite his rationalism, It seemed closer to Luther of scholastic philosophy, because Descartes as Luther, He gave primacy to consciousness than the objectivity of reality as the rule of truth, beginning, this, the Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy supported by Roma. Descartes, on the level of reason, rejecting the objectivity of sensitive; Luther, the level of faith, rejecting the objectivity of the Roman Church. But both, then, based on ego, They found themselves, Descartes, the reality of external things and Luther objectivity of the Lutheran community.

Both l'autocoscienza Cartesian As the Lutheran conscience placed themselves at the beginning and the foundation of knowledge: know the reason, that of Descartes; knowledge of faith, to Luther. But nothing from outside could and should contradict this consciousness or get into this consciousness, primary source of truth and certainty. Also this blatant sign of pride.

In Descartes' idealism of ideas innate was explicit, veiled by a false realism and convenience; in Luther, substantially realistic to Ockham, the implicit idealism will come to light by virtue of the Cartesian treatment, that Lutheranism to undergo transcendental idealism work of the nineteenth century.

THE TWO REFORMERS

 

presumption

Chinese wisdom: «As you stretch your neck, goose never become a swan»

Here, then, these two paradigmatic figures, closely associated with each other, in this process of decline of the ideal of humility and of cunning disguised revival of pride: Luther and Descartes. Of course, in words they reject pride, knowing full well, as Christians, that it is a deadly sin. Except that in practice, however, such a thought process, for which objectively, perhaps without themselves being aware, It expresses a state of mind and intent that are clearly inspired by pride and therefore effectively, regardless of their intentions and declarations, They give the appearance of virtue to pride. Both intend to found a Christian thinking adequate to correct its approach as it constituted in their time. Luther wanted to correct the Magisterium of the Church in the interpretation of the Gospel and Scripture; Descartes thought of having to give a definitive basis of the philosophy certainty, until then, according to him, placed on a doubtful basis,, then in order to provide a solid rationale to the truths of faith and theology. It's not maybe, also, this pride?

Luther burns bubble

pictorial representation of Luther burning the papal bull

Luther insists a lot about humility in polemic against pride, continuing in that one of the underlying themes of Augustinian and medieval spirituality in general; but grossly it distorts the sense of the concepts, because in his mind the humility becomes the impotence acceptance of reason and will, slaves of lust and involves faith in the grace without works; while pride would be the attitude of one who claims to work with reason and free will to the work of grace. The humility, But, I observe, by no means implies the renunciation of works rationally and voluntarily made under the influence of grace in view of our salvation. On the contrary, this is precisely the result of humility, for which, trusting in God, humbly we accept the plan of salvation, which provides precisely this human synergy with the divine, both coming from God.

Luther burns the bubble 2

… humility Luther

What humility can be found in the rebellion to the Magisterium of the Church? We also grant the legitimacy of protest against certain administrative abuses of Roma and anti-corruption of the papacy; but the acrimony frantic with which Luther railed against the sacred ministry of the Pope, deprives Luther takes away any credibility in being an example and humility preacher. Moreover, as he pointed to Luther, the Emperor Charles V in a tough but fair indictment, what may have prompted a simple monaco Augustinian, albeit doctor of theology, to be held, alone, after fifteen centuries of Christianity, against all the Popes, and Council, Holy Fathers, Saints Doctors and Saints who preceded him, the discoverer of the true Gospel, until then buried in magic, in fairy tales and superstition, though with a crazy and immeasurable pride? And then,, that humility?

Luther public and private

Luther Luther public and private

Actually ego Luther, under the appearances of love for the Word of God, It hides a principle of pride, that indeed at first glance can be mistaken for zeal for the Word of God and the Reformed Church, but that is not difficult to recognize considering the proud and stubborn feeling that Luther did this his ego, he says yes, to submit to the Word of God, but actually it falsifies and rejects this same word when they refuse to listen to the interpretation of the Church. It is a false humility that says to submit to Christ and his Gospel, but refuses, by an act of arrogance, obedience to the Church and to the Pope.

Descartes does not openly question of humility or pride; however, it is obvious to those who read carefully his fundamental writings, as he has moved from a state of the mind and conceited boaster, beyond all his insurance only seek the truth. Indeed, he shows not to be sincere in these statements, Pending its claim senseless to present himself as the one who, after thousands of years of uncertainty of human reason, even in the great scholars who preceded him, therefore including the Judeo-Christian wisdom, he finally get to give to humanity certain foundation and unshakable to knowledge for all ages to come. It is hard to understand how a bully of this kind was able to gather around him many acclaim to date and be considered the founder of “modern philosophy”. The philosophy of Descartes did not make all that foundation absolutely and finally some knowledge, he had promised, nor could it do, because the foundation already existed in the Aristotelian-Thomistic realism, now it recommended for centuries by the Church, while the works of Descartes were placed on the Index in 1663.

cogito

cogito, therefore I am

Even the famous principle of cogito, He responds to an attitude of mind that lacks humility. In fact the cogito It is presented as a decisive response to an absurd doubt, which concerns the certainty of sensitive knowledge, that is the beginning and the basis of human knowledge, on which it is built the whole edifice of knowledge; whereby, if it would not be worth, any other higher level of knowledge it would be impossible. The Cartesian cogito presupposes that the mind can perceive directly the self-consciousness and the spiritual world without passing sensitive experience, something that does not correspond at all to the real dynamism of human knowledge, which it rises to intellection pure intelligible starting from the experience of material things.

noetic descartes

some posthumous developments based on Cartesian thought

La gnoseology Cartesian then it assumed a conceited and arrogant contempt of the sensitive dimension of our knowledge, we have in common with animals and claim to conceive the self or the person as a pure spirit, confusing the man with the angel. In the epistemology of Descartes plays only prudence and however exaggerated and unreasonable, as it divorced from the simplicity of spirit, who gives up the evidence to it humbly subjects, just the command of the Lord: "Simple as doves, wise as serpents " [Mt 10,16].

Prudence Piero del Pollaio fifteenth century

pictorial representation of Prudence, by Piero del Henhouse, XV sec.

 

It is just prudence who wants to keep a safe distance from the risk of deceiving ourselves and want to have a critical view of reality. We must certainly avoid the naivety that borders on stupidity, and take all precautions, solving all the possible doubts, but doubting the evidence, doubting dell'indubitabile is foolishness, and indocility — apaideusia, Aristotle says - contrary to that simplicity, which is commanded by the Lord and that is wisdom and humility. The task of the philosopher is certain to address the underlying issues and to resolve doubts and problems, that drag on for a long time even at the scholars or to show how question what until then seemed certain; but can not afford to establish his base of knowledge with its stamp principles, because it is a logos that already exists in the mind of every man, in a certain and irrefutable way, and this basis is the certainty of the things. In fact the basis of knowledge - sense and intellect - he founded with elementary highlight what is built on it, but he does not need to turn to be founded, precisely because it is the basis, nor can it be doubted, why not admit another external certainty or higher, such as to resolve any doubts, so as to be in need of being replaced with a further base and better, why, being the only basis, those who would put in doubt, Far from giving certainty, foundation and principle to thought, He would crumble to its foundations by opening the doors to nihilism.

Tommaso Aquino XIV century

St. Thomas, table of the XV century.

St. Thomas, however, shows that the true principle of basic security is not the certainty of doubt, but the certainty of knowing. Doubt about the objective principle of knowledge is not wisdom, nor is prudence, but betrays the pride and folly of those who do not accept the reality or retracts in front of it with the claim to replace it with their own thoughts and ideas. The doubt, as St. Thomas on the basis of Aristotle, is not really thinking, but on the contrary is a block and a paralysis of thought, because it has a real object, given that oscillates between yes and no. Therefore, the cogito Cartesian, far from opening the doors at the thought, It opens them to nihilism, with the presumption that he had finally found the truth first in the history of humanity. The true principle does not confuse thinking with doubt, but it is expressed in this formula: I think I know a thing or, therefore I am.

The philosopher is not forbidden to formulate hypotheses for doubt around the base of thought, indeed must do; It did the same with its famous St. Thomas universal doubt about the truth; but then withdraw immediately from this doubt or this horrible pit of hell, judging it absurd. Descartes, instead, He took that seriously doubt, whereby, as it has rightly Gilson, despite all his efforts, Descartes he is no longer published, so that gives us the certainty that he is ultimately founded on the sand and on the presumption. And what it can push a philosopher to want to replace with his ideas on universal objective principle of knowledge, if not pride?

The epigones OF REFORMERS
Luther's sermon

Pittora portrayal of Luther's sermon

The history of Lutheranism basically follows two strands: There is a traditionalist trend, that captures the Luther organizer, Pastor and Teacher, right of Lutheran communities guided by their shepherds, as its own symbol of the Lutheran faith and its rituals and ministries, like Baptism and the Supper; is the setting right of the Protestant theological faculties; and there is a Gnostic Lutheranism, individualistic and liberal, not at all devoid of religious and cultural values, who takes instead the deep spirit of Luther, charismatic and subjectivist, more prevalent in secular and philosophical circles, who did not fail to give us great personalities from Leibniz to Kant, a spruce, and veil maker, a Schelling, Hegel until Kierkegaard, Von Harnack and Bultmann.

While the ecumenical dialogue with the first strand is easy and constructive, given the numerous convergences between the Credo Lutheran and Catholic, harder appears the comparison with the second strand, both because, while in the former it is still a common vision of Christian faith, in the second the view is of the gnostic-rationalist, and is also why, being the second strand devoid of a common teaching of the Church , You can not compare in terms of official representatives, but it must do so with the individual philosophers, although dean, which are themselves often have absorbed the theology and dogma in their philosophy.

while there an official Lutheran doctrine guarded by the Lutheran World Federation, the comparison with the second strand necessarily requires the other party's choice according to the substantial differences existing between individual thinkers. Here is one thing to deal with the Kantianism, it is one thing to deal with Fichte, it is one thing to deal with Hegelianism, etc..

Luther Bible edition

first edition of the Lutheran Bible translated into German

That's how we find scholars specialists for the individual authors. In them, however, the application of the same subjectivist method and Luther anarchist, averse to letting checked by qualunque authorities, it was not their vaunted consciousness as “Word of God”, He leads them to annacquare to their agency the same doctrine of Luther creating syncretism with other philosophical trends also limit d and quite contrary - it does not create difficulties for the Hegelian -, contrary to what happens in the first strand, loyal to Lutheran orthodoxy. Our vote is that a revival of the Christian faith, thanks to the progress of ecumenism, come back to spread that spirit of humility, which is one of the most beautiful treasures of the Gospel, the principle of the true greatness of man and what did the cultural splendor, moral and spiritual of European civilization in the world.

Varazze, 10 June 2015

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