The clash of the Church with Islam is about to cease or the contrasts will last until the end of the world?

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THE CLASH OF THE CHURCH WITH ISLAM IS ON TO CEASE OR POINT CONTRASTS LONG WILL UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD?

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the Crusades, They had nothing to do with the violent methods with which the Muslims imposed their faith, but they served merely to defend the pilgrims of the Holy Land from Muslim aggression. As is known, Crusades ceased in the sixteenth century with the advent of tolerant Ottoman Empire. Ma, as it is well known from the history, the Turks resumed the attempt to militarily invade Europe. If Islam then attempted invasion by the armies, Today the attempts of immigration more, in the hope that their presence will be strengthened so, up to influence the politics of the countries where they are located. Which of course does not mean that we should not accept the needy. But you have to have discernment, because Muslims know very well to pretend.

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Author John Cavalcoli OP

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"And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth to devour her child when she brought it forth".

Revelation of St. John the Apostle, 12,4

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Giovanni da Modena Mohammed to Hell

Giovanni from Modena, Co-cathedral of San Petronio in Bologna. Depiction of Dante's Inferno. Top left: Muhammad condemned to eternal punishment to the false prophets

The fight that has lasted for centuries XIV Islam [1] with the Church is about to cease, or the doctrinal conflicts will last until the end of the world? There are only two: if Islam ceases its hostility and makes peace with the Church, we will have a precorrimento the final resurrection; but if ostinerà until the end, expect the occurrence of the words of the Apocalypse: "They marched across the surface of the earth and besieged the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, that deceived them, He was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet: They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever " [AP 20, 9-10].

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Fourteen centuries Islam fights the Church and he wants to destroy it and replace it in the lead humanity to salvation. The fundamental reason why the Koran is opposed to Christianity is our faith in the divinity of Jesus Christ, Son of God, only Saviour of the world. In this sense the Qur'an is in continuity with the pre-Christian Jewish religion.

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The Quran, as we know, It is presented as true divine message of salvation for all mankind, as opposed to the Christian, because it believes that it is impossible that God could create a divine son. For the Qur'an is blasphemy and idolatry claim to associate with God, which it is only one, He considered as "Father", another god regarded as the Son, besides the fact that it is blasphemous to think that a man can be God. The Qur'an shows esteem for Jesus "son of the Virgin Mary", considered a great prophet, model of holiness, which will appear in the end times in the line of prophets and biblical patriarchs, beginning with Noah and Abraham, descendant of Adam.

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Jesus, According to the Qur'an, He recognized the one God, Creator, wise, Provident, Almighty, just and merciful and taught good morals. But it was inconsistent and presumptuous for having made God, deceiving his disciples that they consider. But as if that were not enough, It introduced a third deity, in addition to himself ("Son") and the father", and it is the "Holy Spirit". So Christians, despite their claim to be monotheists, They are actually polytheists, because they worship three gods. But blasphemy is added blasphemy: Christians consider themselves "children of God", sharing the presumption of their master.

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The Koran thus considers accommodate whatever good there is in the teachings of Jesus, correcting errors, especially the idea of ​​one God in three persons. For the Koran this is nonsense and blasphemy: God is a kind and is a person. Three people would do three gods. Likewise for the Koranic faith it is impossible that a man has two natures: a human and a divine.

Man has a human nature and God's divine nature. Otherwise, for the Muslim, would shuffle the natures in one human person and God would be profaned by lowering it to the level of human. Considered God or "Son of God" is an unbearable arrogance. Believers are "brothers" not because they are all children of God, but brothers in a broad sense in the common condition of believers.

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As for us Christians, even for Muslims, "Brothers" in the religious sense are only the co. In this way a Christian can not be "brother" of a Muslim, as he does not consider it his brother. But for both religions, given their universalistic, all the men, if they want to save themselves, They are called to be brothers in the acceptance of the one faith, which for us is the Gospel, for Muslims, the Koran.

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Certainly the distinction between nature and person is thin. It requires intelligence metaphysics that few can reach. Yet the Trinity and the Incarnation faith are the pillars of our faith, and we realize that the children can reach even two thousand years. The risk of tritheism or modalism [2] is real and perhaps many are tritheists without realizing; yet the Christian experience always tells us that God in what illuminates the mind even of the obedient child, open to the truth and trusting in his educators. Allow the little ones to come to Me.

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However there is no doubt that Islamic monotheism It seems more reasonable than the Christian Trinitarian. This explains the fact that for centuries XIV vast crowds of people have preferred the first to the second. Or to hook or by crook, given the taxation method and almost terror with which Islam has always spread their faith among the masses.

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The main question is: who communicates to us the Word of God, Christ or Mohammed? This does not mean that the Koranic theology, which is affected by the Bible Old Testament, It does not have its own charm, its rationality and its credibility, that spontaneously attract the interest and admiration of many elected philosophical minds, Religious and mystical during these fourteen centuries until today [3].

We can not forget that, as it is known to historians, Aristotle's entry into 13th century European culture is due to the fact that the study of the Stagirite was cultivated by Muslim sages, who used it to comment on the Koran. The Dominicans Albert the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas we owe the idea of ​​using Aristotle's interpretation of Christian revelation.

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The opposition of the Qur'an to Christ It is not a total rejection of Christ, on the contrary, being awarded merit and quality; yet it is the main essential element rejection of his mission: that of being the sum and definitive guide mankind to eternal salvation. God revealed to Muhammad in the Qur'an that Muhammad is the eschatological prophet, ie the one who fills the whole work of the earlier prophets, including Christ. to save himself, so, not just the Gospel, indeed it is misleading, as it teaches the Trinity and the Incarnation.

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Muhammad is presented as sent by God to perform this task, because in the Qur'an God figure to be the One Who instructs Muhammad informing him of everything that needs to communicate to mankind for his salvation. The faithful, so, reading the Koran, It is to learn from God Himself that He turns to Muhammad, all the truth and all the precepts of his faith.

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From here we see that the mission of Christ, as it results from the Gospel, and that Muhammad, as stated in the Quran, They are incompatible and mutually exclusive. If one is true, the other is false. By whom depends the salvation of man? From the Gospel or the Koran? From here it follows that the Church and Islam are incompatible.

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It is evident that a divine revelation It must be accepted with respect and "submission" (islam”). It is absolutely certain source and establishes a moral conduct absolutely secure and honest. It's saving Word. It is universal truth, absolute and immutable, wrong either abandoned or changed for any reason. Can be, if necessary, only interpreted, commented and explained. If they can get theoretical and practical conclusions. But it must be transmitted from generation to generation as it is, It should be "repeated" ("Koran" is the noun Kuran, which means "repetition").

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But one question arises in us spontaneously: as Muhammad made sure that the message received was truly the Word of God? How and based on what or to what evidence or signs became safe? And how did he persuade the disciples of this? Especially as this supposed "revelation" purported to supplant that of Christ, that for six centuries was the cause of Christian civilization. You could say that perhaps Muhammad did not know the Gospel and the Church. However, what I wonder is why his disciples down the centuries, that they have had the leisure to inquire and to compare the Koran with the Gospel, They not have made certain unreliability of the Koran? How was it possible and how it is still possible to take such a party? This is not faith, But fanaticism and fideism. It is a great mystery. To invalidate the Qur'anic revelation would be enough just to compare it to that of Christ, well-highest wisdom and based on well other evidence. But the paradoxical thing today, in the climate of intellectual and moral relativism that is experiencing Europe, is that while many Christians, It would provide an authentic divine revelation, certified by an infinite number of tests, They have a weak faith, cowardly, sterile, uncertain and doubtful, so lower the Gospel to the level of opinion among others; conversely Muslims, that, on the contrary, They would have every reason to doubt, show an arrogant complacency, source of violence and persecution.

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However, it is something comforting, comforting and important that Christianity and Islam They have shared many truths of natural religion, starting with the divine attributes. This thing has been recognized by the Catholic Church in the Second Vatican Council for the first time since the birth of Islam in the seventh century. It is a sign of great hope for the conversion of Muslims to Christ and the Islamic expansion relegation.

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There can be a peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims? We assist in these fourteenth centuries to ups and downs in different situations depending on countries and regimes. Consoling is the co-existence for eight centuries in the Holy Land Franciscans with Muslims. The Holy See and numerous Catholic initiatives, following the Council's determinations, treat the dialogue with Islam at the level of, educational and social structures and cooperation in humanitarian works.

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We know the difficult life of Christians in Islamic countries. And we know how in the Middle East Islamic arrogance forcing many Christians to flee, as they occur persecution and sometimes even massacres. Nor can we deny that the Western powers seek to oppress and exploit the Islamic world for the conquest and exploitation of energy sources.

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It is undeniable in these fourteenth centuries the constant effort to spread Islam in the world by cultivating the dream to invade Europe, civilized land from Christianity, where there is Rome, seat of the papacy. subjugate Rome, for Islam, would the victory on Christianity. In recent decades, millions of Muslims have settled in Europe and very few have converted to Christianity. What are their intentions? They hope to conquer Europe in this way? Using democracy? The recent acts of terrorism will probably want to be a warning to Europe of the revolutionary potential of extremist groups, but they do not seem sufficiently condemned by official circles. The European Christian world is weak, weak and skeptical. There are theological trends, as for example that of Schillebeeckx, sua Christology with "eschatological prophet", that seems made to give way to Islamic fundamentalism. It is a body without antibodies and that the Islamists have understood this well. L'Europe, However, not only it has de-Christianized, but it has also become irreligious, so it is hard to imagine Islamization of Europe agnostic, relativist and Enlightenment, unless it is not Islam itself to revive the religious sense, as happened forty years ago with the conversion to Islam of the Marxist philosopher Roger Garaudy or fifty years ago esotericist Rene Guenon. Pantheism eternalista Emanuele Severino there is something of the Islamic fatalism.

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Europe looks increasingly at the crossroads, If therefore there will be a resumption of Christianity, as already warned Cardinal Giacomo Biffi in 2000 [4], Europe is likely to be Islamized, not as petty forms of customs and religious practices of Islam, but intellectual absolutism that characterizes his fanaticism. The man needs certainty and the European invertebrate or, as he prefers to say Biffi, European nihilistic, You could find a substitute for certainty in Mohammedan arrogance, where is that, instead of the Archangel Gabriel, takes transcendental consciousness. The other part, the Church must be able to return to those territories, that in the past were stolen with the Islamic invasion force. The Muslims, not content with having invaded and de-Christianized by force these immense territories, now they dream, as they have for centuries, to conquer Europe until arriving in Rome, as they did in the fifteenth century, destroying the Christian Empire of the East with the conquest of Constantinople.

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The real clash is on the question of divine revelation. The Archangel Gabriel revealed to Muhammad that Jesus is not the Son of God, but simply prophet, It may be the same as that revealed to Mary her divine motherhood? Evidently or false gospel revelation or false that Koranic. When it is a question of true or false, you can not invoke the respect of the "different" or the value of religious pluralism. You have to understand and choose which side is the truth.

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What is now more of a wonder time we Christians It is like the Muslim faithful, after so many centuries of progress of morals and sciences, and in the field of literary criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, fails to distinguish the Koran those parts which undoubtedly express high theological and moral wisdom from other parts evidently marked by time or, worse, Infected by real theological and moral errors, particularly the unreasonable refusal of the Christian dogma of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

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Muslims must take the courage to four hands and, precisely in the name of God, XIV after centuries of wars and unnecessary controversy, rather, harmful for us and for them, They decide once and for all, in the light of modern exegesis, a sound philosophy and theology, and taking account of the honest morals of modernity, to purge the Koran from its mistakes and its views exceeded. In particular it is necessary to take away the senseless opposition to Christian dogma, just for the respect of those parts of high theological science, religious and moral, which are precisely in line with those same dogma, the valid parts that the same Church of Vatican II acknowledges the Koran.

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The real challenge and then nell'apologetica. The Church has recognized the values ​​contained in the Qur'an. Now Islam recognizes the value of the Gospel. In any form of proper human relationship must apply the law of reciprocity, as he said Cardinal Giacomo Biffi in his aforementioned speech 2000 precisely on the subject of the Church's relations with Islam. The Christian apologetics and Islam do not stand up to comparison. An objective comparison, free, informed and dispassionate argument and signs of credibility between the two religions, induces any honest soul, lover of truth, of virtue and of God, attentive to the value of the historical evidence, to notice the very credibility of Christianity against Islam.

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Simply compare the moral and spiritual personality of Muhammad with that of Christ; the history of Christian holiness with Islam; the best philosophical and theological Christian production compared to Islamic; the greater wisdom of Christian morals; the much richer and advanced technical-scientific production of Christian civilization; the greatest respect for the human person (man and woman); the greater wisdom of legal and political institutions; greater wealth and variety of cultural institutions, social, charitable and welfare; the best methods of spreading the religious message, based on the respect of the person and his freedom of choice, without force or temporal punishment threats.

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As it is especially evident from the teachings of Vatican Council II, Christianity is liberal, understanding and tolerant towards other religions, respectful of freedom of opinion, appreciates their values ​​while not concealing their flaws. However, Islam, as is known, it is authoritarian, oppressive, and discriminating, earning it the title of fundamentalist fundamentalist. It does not reject the method of persuasion, so certainly many, out of Islamic States, They do Islamic freely; ma, where political power, He prefers the imposition, as it evidenced by this statement of the philosopher Al-Gazali eleventh-twelfth century: "Of course it is not good that you apply pressure in religious matters; but we must recognize that the sword or whip are sometimes more useful philosophy or belief. And if the first generation that does not adhere to Islam with his tongue, the second will adhere also with the heart and the third will be considered Muslim forever "[5].

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The post-conciliar Magisterium of the Church It clarifies that plurality of religions, outside of that Christian, above all the other monotheistic religions, Jewish and Islamic, it is not without importance in the matter of the salvation of mankind.

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If Christ is the one and supreme Savior [6], and if his religion is the only divine religion, It is founded by a God, and therefore between all excels, it does not mean that non-Christian religions do not give their contribution, albeit partial and even worse in the salvation of mankind.

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Even if they have not been founded by Christ, but by simple sinners, as large, it does not mean that somehow or measure, as they have good, do not derive from Him and do not tend to Him, that, like God, It is at the origin of every way to God. All those who are saved, whatever religion they belong to, So they save thanks to Christ, even if they do not know and if this happens through the mediation of the founder of the religion to which they belong.

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The Church has done its part. Now it's up to Islam. The Second Vatican Council rightly emphasized the values ​​common to Christianity and Islam, which can be summarized in monotheism and in a common reference to the Old Testament. But he did not think to point to the Christians how they can lead Muslims to Christ and how they can meet Christ. In addition, the Council has neglected to remember the mistakes and the dangers that come from the Qur'an. The Islamic world then seemed relatively peaceful and had not yet risen Islamic expansionist recovery initiated by Khomeini in Persia in 1979, with its characteristic anti-Christian aggression, that today has become very dangerous for his doggedness, even resorting to terrorism, and bets on Europe, the birthplace of Christianity or, as they say the Muslims, the home of the "Crusaders". It is therefore more necessary than ever not to lose heart and not give in to the temptation to repay evil with evil.

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Of course it requires an armed defense against armed aggression [7], It must destroy the terrorist centers, We must defend and welcome among us persecuted Christians, but especially, based upon the teachings of the Council, going well in the sense that I said, we need to pray for the conversion of Muslims, and that the Church must (in a new Council?) organize intelligent and effective action for the evangelization of Muslims, Giacchè they too are called to salvation in Christ.

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If Muslims want to convert to Muhammad, we must answer them gallantly and sincerely want to convert them to Christ. Who is the true Savior? This is the challenge for today's world. The Dominicans and the Franciscans from their first rise conceived the design of converting Muslims. And we now know what we are doing? Tergiversiamo between anger, frustration and a "dialogue" hypocrite?

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It is therefore necessary to put Mohammed in his place: the lower it will be under Christ its true honor, his true glory, perhaps what unconsciously she desired. So not above Christ, but below. Not after Christ, but the journey towards Christ. Not he has to correct Christ, but Christ corrects him. Mohammed does not have anything to lose, but everything to gain. And while rises in dignity, It is released from the sinner's mistakes. It, too, is saved by Christ. He will not be the one to raise Christ to himself, but on the contrary it is Christ who raises all his faithful and with him, fourteen centuries, because to them, perhaps unconsciously, It has been given to know Christ, because like all men, They are accountable to Christ.

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In the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, there is a fifteenth-century fresco depicting Muhammad in hell. For a dozen years the church is guarded by the police, because it is feared a reaction of some Muslims angry about the insult to the Prophet. But we know how it will be found Mohammed before Christ? A clash or match?

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Varazze, 5 August 2016

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[1] I disagree with Magdi Cristiano Allam in denying the existence of a moderate Islam, so according to him, Islam is an extremist and violent essence [cf The Qur'an explained by Magdi Cristiano Allam, Elledici publishing, Torino-Leumann 2008]. It is a judgment too hasty, that needs clarification, those who tried to take on 'Patmos Island Ariel S. Levi of Gualdo in some of his articles in which he also dealt with the problem of a "violence inherent". In Islam there are moderate and there are extremists. In the same way, It is a hasty judgment and therefore unfair to those who say that it is a "religion of peace. There is an order of peace: the proposal salvation to all, but the means are violent. Apart from the fact that being moderate or immoderate are more moral qualities of the people, that the doctrines, although it is true that there are advocates doctrines of peace and generating violence doctrines. Finally, we take into account the fact that the extremists and the peaceful exist both in Islam as in Christianity. The aspiration to peace is inherent in man, but only the sacrifice of Christ reconciles man with God and men among them. bellicose vision is rather cyclic Gnosticism, which begins with the myth of the goddess Shiva, to reach up to Nietzsche through Hegel.

[2] Heresy of the first centuries, according to which the three persons are three different ways of being of the one God. She reappeared today with Rahner, who argues that the three persons are three different ways of subsistence of the one God. No, the three people three subsistences distinct of the one God.

[3] This flowering of great philosophical Islamic figures can be found primarily in the XI-XIII, with Averroè, Alfarabi, Alkindi, Avicenna, Avempace, Algazzali, etc.. Rimando, for further, to André Guenon studies, by Olivier Lacombe, Louis Gardet and my brothers, Egyptian Georges Anawati and Father Pier Paolo Ruffinengo, I had as a metaphysical teacher way back in 1972.

[4] Speech at the Foundation seminar migrants the 30 September 2000.

[5] Cit. by John Halls, Isis Islam and Eastern Christians, Jaca Book 2016.,p.138.

[6] Cf Declaration Lord Jesus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of 6 August 2000.

[7] The rest of the Crusades, at least in the purpose intended by the papacy and the saints of that time, eg San Bernardo, St. Louis IX and St. Catherine of Siena, They had nothing to do with the violent methods with which the Muslims imposed their faith, but they served merely to defend the pilgrims of the Holy Land from Muslim aggression. As is known, Crusades ceased in the sixteenth century with the advent of tolerant Ottoman Empire. Ma, as it is well known from the history, the Turks resumed the attempt to militarily invade Europe. If Islam then attempted invasion by the armies, Today the attempts of immigration more, in the hope that their presence will be strengthened so, up to influence the politics of the countries where they are located. Which of course does not mean that we should not accept the needy. But you have to have discernment, because Muslims know very well to pretend.

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If to prevent Islamist fundamentalism are open mosques, then go reopened the brothels to prevent illegal prostitution

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SE TO AVOID’fundamentalism ISLAMIST ARE OPEN FOR THE MOSQUES, THEN ARE ALSO reopened CASE OF TOLERANCE TO PREVENT ILLEGAL PROSTITUTION

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[…] This time the battle of Lepanto immediately lose the right from the start, because sadly lacking in our faith and, with faith, the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary, invoked through the Holy Rosary from the Holy League as Supreme Queen of the Militia Catholic; relied upon by the rowers in the holds of ships rowed chanting "Hail Mary … Hail Mary …». Did not remember that on the contrary, in our modern Europe, after the first bloody attacks of jiadisti in Paris, out of Bataclan, scene of carnage, a pianist surrounded by the crowd, He played and sang Imagine John Lennon, whose words are a hymn nihilistic atheism? In those days I ventured to mention the obvious, writing that the pianist, the corpses of the dead killed by jiadisti, He had played funeral march dell'Europa. Other than the rowers in the holds of ships during the battle of Lepanto rowed rhythmically chanting "Hail Mary… Hail Mary…»!

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Author S. AND. Mons. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo Bishop of Laodicea Combusta

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"You too will be a voice not comfortable in the Church. For this I invite you to always invoke the grace of God that this inconvenience can always be entirely the work of God for the good of the Church itself, but never your work "

by an interview with the Father Oreste Benzi [cf. WHO]

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Battle of Lepanto

The Holy Pontiff Pius V [1566-1572] entrusted the armed to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Holy League on which hung the destinies of the West and of Christianity threatened for centuries by Muslims came to Vienna. The Muslims were defeated in 1571 in the great naval battle of Lepanto. After the victory the Pope instituted the feast of the Holy Rosary, together with the title of Help of Christians [Help of Christians] addressed to the Mother of God (Paolo Veronese's painting)

As Bishop of Laodicea Combusta, Diocese erected as suffragan of the Patriarchate of Antioch, in a country, Turkey, Today at the absolute majority Muslim, I think I can speak with some authority on the subject. However, they returned recently in Anatolia after a two week stay in the capital of Saudi Arabia, where I attended the many events that took place in the outskirts of Mecca, where thousands of faithful devotees of Islam have protested against the recent bombings committed by Islamists in Europe.

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In our Catholic cathedral in Riyadh, dedicated to Christ the Great Prophet, Priest and King of the Universe, built after the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York with the generous contribution of His Majesty the King of Saudi Arabia عبد الله بن عبد العزيز السعود [Abd Allāh bin Abd al-Azīz Āl Sa ūd] and His Royal Highness the Emir of Qatar لشيخ حمد بن خليفة آلثاني [Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani] I also celebrated a Holy Mass of suffrage for the priest Jacques Hamel, slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb by a group of jihadists in a French church.

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I can testify that among Muslims Saudis is much appreciated and shared the thinking of the Holy Father Francis that the 4 June, receiving in the Vatican the second of three wives of the Emir of Qatar, he has declared:

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"Christianity and Islam have the same root, and believe in the same God".

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Of course, slight change form purely outward, those in philosophical language could be defined as elements accidental purely contingent, just some examples: in the Catholic world we have the strict obligation of priestly and religious celibacy, Chastity also extended to married laity in certain conditions and situations and monogamy that the penalty is for everyone. On the other, instead, in the Islamic world have polygamy the emirs that they send one of their second wives in audience by the Roman Pontiff. But as I said it is just subtleties, I dare say merely "semantic", a bit 'like our nuance of "and a son"With Orthodox Christians only ... shades that do not detract from the real substance made by "the same root ', as said the Holy Father to the second of three wives of the Emir of Qatar. And although everything to me, the upcoming gate of my 53 th birthday, with my three perpetual in aged 19 ed i 24 years - it reached the threshold 25 already fired -, I doubt that the Holy Father never would grant the grace to receive Jasmine, the second of my three perpetual, Colombian di Cartagena de Indias, although I think the priest in exactly the same God he believes the Emir of Qatar, which, however, he has three official wives and a harem well fed even more women, none of which, against the other, He has never done the primary and secondary schools by the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians as it did my perpetual Jasmine.

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And this great "root" that unites Christianity and Islam, certainly it takes off by longing deep breath through which - as wisely reminded us of the Pope speaking to reporters on the flight back from Poland [cf. WHO, WHO] - "The Islamists seek peace and the meeting '.

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Very softly I dare correct a human oversight of the Supreme Pontiff, because only a human mistake is, or have forgotten the saying that truth, "The Islamists', "The peace and the meeting ', the nearest in every way and especially at all costs. And I repeat: May the Holiness of Our Lord Augustus reigning Pontiff forgive the audacity to talk about my poor profoundly filial and loving devotion.

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The whole, from "roots" to "yearnings", I think to be able to confirm and witness, having been welcomed in Saudi Arabia with a devotion as deep as moving, Bishop when I went as a guest of honor in Riyadh to baptize 72 beautiful Christian girls, given the absence at the time of a diocesan structure and its Catholic missions. And before these creatures that promise to grow very well in health and especially in beauty, Muslim men in particular, I am overcome with joy, They did nothing but repeat myself: "Know Your Excellency that these girls are already creatures of Paradise, allocated to it in advance for a specific task related to the spiritual edification of the blessed men ... " [cf. WHO].

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Per me, Bishop of a small diocese of Anatolia, it was not easy to answer Arabia Sovereign that - and I must say, albeit with a certain insistence - he expressed the wish that Riyadh is established as soon as a metropolitan archbishopric and that his bishop can be promoted, eventually, Also the dignity of Cardinal, for its good name but above all for the historical prestige of this ancient Arab country which, within its territory, is home to the City of Mecca.

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To His Majesty Arabia, which it is very dear to the ancient prestige of their country, I replied that I'll spokesman for his request to the Roman Pontiff, although I doubt would welcome, indeed, although he has made cardinal bishop of the Island of Tonga, where Catholics do not arrive needless to 10.000 anime, I doubt do likewise in Saudi Arabia, well before the request of his sovereign. Saudi Arabia is in fact a very rich country, and the Holy Father prefers to promote archbishops and cardinals, priests and bishops belonging to the new theological category that are existential suburbs, from among those that within the last three years of church history have procured the license from "streetwise priest, borderline, suburban …”. Although until recently they were archpriests the monumental mother church of Modica [cf. WHO], art city in which there are extraordinarily beautiful churches, including the one dedicated to St. George, a temple with five naves by comparison with which, the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, It is little more than a chapel [cf. WHO]. E Modica is a noble and beautiful city that already at architectural-urban level manifests opulent wealth and in whose … existential suburbs, You are not found at all the villas miseries - As perhaps he has been led to believe the Holy Father by one of several thugs around him - but there are dealerships of Maserati, Porsche and Ferrari [see suburban area of ​​Modica existential, WHO]. It is in fact from these environments or from these existential suburbs, that arise books of Giuseppe Dossetti students then magnify a Poor Church for the poor, although the most appropriate work that maybe they should write would be a clerical review of Animal farm George Orwell [cf. WHO]. A bit 'like some of the characters Community of Sant'Egidio Andrea Riccardi, whose Lord are distributing meals to the poor in Santa Maria in Trastevere wearing the Armani suits and Dolce&Gabbana, with Bulgari jewelry and Cartier.

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Having said that I went on to explain to the Sovereign Arabia that the Holy Father is also quite reluctant to you face proselytizing among the populations of the countries of non-Catholic culture, as he expressed in his memorable homily on the feast of the Epiphany:

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"For the Church to be a missionary does not mean to proselytize, but it is equivalent to express its very nature: It is enlightened by God and reflect his light. This is his service. There is another way. The mission is his vocation: to shine the light of Christ is its service » [cf. WHO].

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It is a new reading of the famous warning of the Word of God who commands us:

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«Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, whoever does not believe will be condemned " [cf. MC 16, 15].

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However, given that perhaps, Our Lord Jesus Christ, He being infinite mercy [cf. Mt 12,7], did not care that much to develop a theology of mercy, here is that his warning, After twenty centuries of faith and Christian tradition, today must be read in another way, as I have explained to the King of Saudi Arabia to advance him that his request may not be accepted by the Roman Pontiff, which it seems to judge with suspicion anything that would even vaguely resemble proselytism. Once you explained this, the Saudi Sovereign asked a question to which I have not been able, however, to answer:

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"Eccellenza Reverendissima, with this speech what will you tell me? Perhaps the world, to proselytize, we were only us Muslims?».

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I replied to the Sovereign Arabia:

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"Unfortunately I am not able to give an answer, But I can suggest to your Majesty to ask herself this question to the Supreme Pontiff, when the next time you travel to the Vatican State on a visit ».

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... How many times I explained in my writings and public lectures, today's ecclesial situation is a drama without historical precedent. On several occasions I have indicated sloth as the most practiced sin from my Brother Bishops. Sloth aggravated by something devastating: escape from reality. When in fact the reality is not seen, or when you deny obstinately, then take body and life challenges of optimists addressed to the Holy Spirit of God through their psuedo-teologismi, all it veiled over the blanket of the false hope that brings them more or less to say: "We should not fall into despair or pessimism, because both the Church is Christ's, He then will think there '. Undoubted truth of faith, because that of Christ - though rejected by the builders of yesterday and perhaps even more so than today - remains the "cornerstone" [cf. Mt 21,42; MC 12,10; LC 20,17; At 4,11; Ef 2,20; RM 9,32], but our role as bishops and to guide the People of God to which the Holy Bride of Christ has been entrusted, which is, the economy of salvation and in the mystery of redemption? Perhaps our role and our mission is to live in a state of paralysis and impotence hopeful? At this point, if I may propose the gold medal at dell'ecclesiastica value unconsciousness to all these surreal optimistic that for the first time, in the entire history of the Church, the grace of the Holy Spirit of God did not invoke, but the challenge right. E, worst thing, defying God's grace through their indolence and their sins of omission from which comes their escape from the real, consequently incitement to escape from the real revolt to all that the people of God to which the present day, the Lord Jesus, would prove immense "compassion", so our faithful him appear today more than ever "like sheep without a shepherd" [cf. MC 6, 30-44].

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It is therefore legitimate to ask: before a Galantino Nunzio, that by now devoid of all sense of modesty Catholic goes extolling the high theological quality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - even considered heretical by orthodox Lutheran theologians - devoting to it commemorative items of that sort of branch of the Grand Orient of Italy this seems to be The sun 24 Ore [cf. WHO]. Before a Corrado Lorefice, that shortly after he was elected Archbishop of Palermo invites to talk in his cathedral church, the bad teacher and false prophet Enzo Bianchi [cf. WHO], announcer and propagator of the worst heresies. Before a Matteo Maria Zuppi, that shortly after he took office at the Chair Archbishop of Bologna Metro, denying and insulting the wise and prudent pastoral continued by his two predecessors Giacomi Biffi and Carlo Caffara, in this city teeming with Muslims, It calls on boldly to solve the problems of Islam by building mosques in and around Bologna. Or, before a Cuttitta Carmelo, Bishop of Ragusa, who does not hesitate to put to the public pillory its own priest “guilty” to have responded to a question with a pithy joke about gays - firm but not outrageous - and that throughout the application response time lost record with ashes on his head, getting in the bishop in the hours following the proud elders of the association Arcigay sodomitic [cf. WHO, WHO, etc. ..] … Well, before this, and more, such miracles should never take the Holy Spirit of God in the Church that is to say to certain people ... "so belongs to Christ ', if it really in the people to whom the Church is entrusted and that as such are responsible for its protection and the solution of its internal and external problems, lacks in fact the will to react and act? I understand that when you are invited to speak in cathedrals Enzo Bianchi, or when a bishop who leads the appointments weeks and weeks, however, find time to receive a few hours after the Pia Brotherhood of the Sodomites of South Eastern Sicily, more than the fruit we are now at gastric lavage after a lunch that caused a food poisoning, but to affirm, before the clerical sloth and the impotence of not acting ... "so we will think Christ", because "the Church is governed by the Holy Spirit", it means unfortunately do not know the first rudiments of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, or in any case falsarli, because if God were accustomed to intervene if necessary and then inhibit the freedom of man and his free will, first of all may he would have prevented had subverted by an act of rebellion superb the mystery of creation through the fall, broadcasting since then to follow a corrupt nature to all mankind. And these things, sincerely, should be the bishops to teach, should certainly not to remind them that the bishop of a diocese archaeological dream, as terrified by the fact that before the House of God in flames, many members of the College of Bishops affirm with confidence: "Do not be pessimistic, soul! Both the Church of Christ and is ruled by the Holy Spirit of God, then we will think Him!». And in the meantime, waiting for God to think about it, we, in addition to inviting the Enzo Bianchi in cathedrals, as well as extend an apology to the sodomites proud and proud, in addition to calling the building of mosques, it is not by chance that we should also think to proclaim the Gospel on the one hand, and to run with the fire hose to extinguish the fire that flares up more and more in the House of God, on the other hand?

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With all the respect that is due to its high apostolic office, I find it disturbing theories of my Venerable Brother in the Episcopate and Archbishop of Bologna Matteo Maria Zuppi, who thinks he can solve the problem of fundamentalism Islamist building to them of the mosques [cf. WHO, WHO], inside of which may be controlled according to him the subjects at risk. It is a manifest error of assessment very dangerous what dell'episcopo felsineo, offer them because of similar structures, on the contrary would only mean putting these same subjects at risk in a position to make converts through the preaching of hatred towards the West and Christianity, all in a more comfortable way than they do now in many buildings and in numerous illegal basement, where perhaps it is good to remain, until they show to recognize all civil and liberal rules of our country and by entering into an arrangement with the state in which there are clear Muslim duties to the Italian Republic and conversely the Italian Republic to Muslims.

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Why not instead have the loyalty to say and admit ― Bishops interreligious dialogue partners ahead of all -, that an agreement is made with the Muslims always impossible for the existence of tens of different groups and fragmented that not even communicate with each other? Not say this, in facts it means lying, why more, alteration or denial of reality, inevitably leads to the ideological falsehood. Obviously, my Brother Bishops of interreligious dialogue a at all costs e whatever it takes, This can not say or admit, why therefore should admit that both their, and above all the Holy See, do not talk at all with Islam, as sometimes they would have us believe through news and press-releases, but they only exchanged a few words with some group of Islamic, if anything, even a minority and sometimes even unpopular with most of the other groups, But doing seem all as dialogue only to those of the poor perhaps considered poor Catholic faithful from Obtuse cheat with clericalese. Said in other terms: ecclesiastics, from the Holy See and the Holy Father, speak only, occasionally, with some isolated imam or some of the numerous Islamist groups, which is to say: in concrete facts only in dialogue with themselves or with the idea that they themselves have made Islam. And in doing this, I do entirely for granted that they are in good faith, because if instead they were aware of this and then accordingly in bad faith, it would be a truly unprecedented severity, especially to the people of God, accustomed to think through very solid unitary religious criteria, related primarily to a solid concept of central authority of the Catholic Church, whereas, nell’Islam, it is just the opposite: the unit is not in force, but the fragmented structured on anthropological criteria of tribes.

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Everyone stop to this by saying that "the Grand Imam of Cairo he met and embraced the Holy Father Francis », or "The Grand Imam of Cairo has condemned the terrorist attacks". Because not only, Grand Imam of Cairo, Islam is not the Supreme Pontiff, because for those of his convictions was listed as "shameful" and "traitor" by many other Muslim groups, not at all and not necessarily jiadisti, some of which have also launched for a "death sentence". The Grand Imam of Cairo, who is a Sunni - without having to go looking for even some of the other numerous adverse Islamic religious groups - does not at all enjoy the support and universal favor of Sunni Muslims themselves, then imagine what they think of him many other Muslim groups around the world.

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Given then that Islam is not a homogenous reality but a set of anthropological reality and tribes, of cultures and religious feeling sometimes well into bitter conflict with each other, my question would merit a serious response, precise and especially realistic: Most Holy Father, Eminent and Reverend Bishops and Cardinals Brothers, you want to explain, the Catholic faithful devotees, of which you are divinely-appointed guides and pastors, with who, in truth, You have been talking, admitted truly dialoghiate with someone? In dialogue with the great and serious Islamist problem, or, pretending instead of dialogue with it, just try to exorcise a fear that is likely to soon become a sad reality? Namely the following: this time, the battle of Lepanto, we will lose immediately right from the start, because sadly lacking in our faith and, with faith, the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary, invoked in 1571 through the Holy Rosary from Holy League as the Queen of the Militia Catholic; relied upon by the rowers in the holds of ships rowed chanting "Hail Mary… Hail Mary…».

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Did not remember that on the contrary, in our modern Europe, after the first bloody attacks in Paris out of the Bataclan, scene of carnage jiadista, a pianist surrounded by the crowd played and sang Imagine John Lennon, whose words are a contemptuous nihilist anthem atheism? [cf. WHO]. In those days I ventured to mention the obvious, writing that the pianist, the corpses of the dead killed by jiadisti, He had played funeral march dell'Europa [cf. My previous article WHO]. Other than the rowers in the holds of ships during the battle of Lepanto rowed rhythmically chanting "Hail Mary… Hail Mary…»! Not at all … as I just said, the corpses of the dead killed by jiadisti, He emasculated the cry of "Peace&Love"That stands between the ostrich of duvets gay pride, Today the emotional crowd, without Christian roots and without God, sings:

 

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.[Italian translation]

Imagine

Imagine there is no heaven
it's easy if you try
no hell below us
above us only the sky
imagine everyone
live for today
Imagine there are no countries
it is not hard to do
nothing to kill or die for
and even religions
imagine everyone
living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
and the world will be whole
Imagine no property
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
a brotherhood of men
imagine everyone
divide the world
And the world will live as one
[original text WHO]

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Given this situation based on purely objective data and certainly not on the catastrophic subjective moods that I do not even touch, as it regards the construction of mosques relied, I think it's fair to say that by applying the same logic of my Venerable Brother Bishop of the Archdiocese Felsinea, you should similarly invoke the reopening of brothels, considering that in this way would have taken hundreds of Misses which at sunset crowd the avenues surrounding the Bologna urban walls. With easy and comfortable brothels available, a thick army corpivendole could play its ancient craft in very very best hygienic conditions, They would have heating in winter, air conditioning in summer, adequate medical checks and so on. And such a principle is not applicable only to prostitution, so is the drug dealing. If indeed hashish e marijuana They were legally sold at tobacco as state monopolies, would have taken the whole market of so-called soft drugs that - without penalty any possible accusation of racism - according to the facts but above judicial acts, It is mostly in the hands of the North African countries of the Maghreb, which of course have nothing to do with Muslims; and if most of them are such, They should be considered only as the "comrades who did wrong", as they said the old communist to every terrorist attack of the Red Brigades.

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No one remembers those lovable imam expelled years ago in the North of our country, who preached a moral and ethic rather Sui generis - In some respects vaguely similar to that of today's Jesuit casuistry - they affirmed its residents faithful in Italy and originating in Tunisia and Morocco, of drug dealers profession, that such smuggling was not against the laws of Islam, if drugs were sold only to "Christian infidels"? The name of these imams, the exact date of the event and their expulsion from Italy do not remember them, But, those who want to check everything, You can always turn to the Prosecutor's Office of Treviso who proceeded to the arrest of traffickers and the expulsion from our national territory of the two preachers, because in the archival court records you are definitely always kept records of those admirable sermons with its sworn translation from Arabic into Italian.

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Also in this case, to avoid that in the wake of moods and bad moods someone face of all with the same brush, the Pope Francis reminds us dutifully to the real human and Christian saying, always speaking to reporters on his recent return trip from Poland:

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"If I speak of Islamist violence I must also mention the Catholic violence […] but not all Christians are violent and not all Muslims are " [cf. WHO].

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If I were a person instead of following the ambiguities nebula Jesuitical casuistry instead applied the Aristotelian logic, I could respond to this statement - but obviously wrong, is intende! - Through two clear and precise questions: is there anyone, from the Supreme Pontiff, able to bring with analogous example the case of only one among the approximately 400.000 members of the secular and regular clergy of the Catholic Church around the world, I've said from the pulpit of our church that drug dealing is not contrary to Catholic morality, if drugs are sold only to the Lutheran heretics, Pentecostals, Adventists, and so on? And anyone can, from the Supreme Pontiff - always with regard to the "Catholic violence" he mentioned the Holy Father at high altitude where the air is sometimes lacking oxygen - to list when and where, the Catholics, they slaughtered human beings, civilian aircraft hijacked, detonated bombs between unarmed citizens? Or, when it happened that only a Catholic has entered into a mosque to slaughter an imam while preaching, bellowing with bloody knife: "Christ is great!”? Given this statement his umpteenth, or the Holy Father shows anything like that in support of his hypothesis about the "Catholic violence", or, on the model of all its cautious, sages and saints Predecessors, get into the habit of speaking only after careful consideration and after as much careful preparation of written texts that are primarily measured and weighted, leaving it to Hollywood actors and to Pop star the cuff interviews with journalists. Given that, both Hollywood actors both Pop star, They tend to express themselves, for their good image and that of their production company, cautiously at times even greater than it in fact it does not, however, shows that they have the Head of the Catholic Church.

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Well, these bishops e cardinaloni, nearing mondanizzazione and unrepentant pleasure, that interact with everything and everyone except with their Catholic faithful and as my Venerable Brother Archbishop Felsineo invoke the construction of mosques - all in a socio-historical moment at very high risk in which our churches are increasingly empty, while in our country the birth rate is 25 years a point and a half below zero - they realize they are using the same basic arguments of abortionists? Yup, exactly the same: "Legalize abortion means to defeat and eliminate the scourge of clandestine abortion". Change the subject, but the basic logic that drives the argument of Matteo Maria Zuppi is the same: "To control and eliminate Islamist fundamentalism, we must avoid illegal immigrants and build him gatherings of mosques in the sunlight ".

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At this point we just have to wait that someone of my brother bishops have just mentioned between these lines opens the diocesan phase of the beatification process of Marco Pannella, if we consider that many bishops, and in particular those of the last appointment, argue through logical criteria that characterized the instances of leader radical in its demands on the legalization of abortion, dell'eutanasia, of genetic testing, of drugs … by passing the bad as well in order to avoid the greater evils or to solve the serious social problems still related to various practices or illegal businesses. Now, that in this way has argued a henchman of Lucifer as Marco Pannella, nothing to say, but with the same underlying logic argomentino now several bishops, in truth I have a lot to say; and since no one says, at this point I say, raising my episcopal voice from the ancient ruins of my dream cathedral church reduced to four stones scattered on the ground turkish the Anatolia region, that my place to say it can be moved: or total unconsciousness, or conscientious imperatives that come to me by the grace of God. One thing is certain, if in Bologna, Archbishop of application and on the basis of motives from it flow, there were open mosques, as far as I'm concerned, making use of the same logical arguments, I could get me promoted the request for reopening of brothels, because basically: better to have prostitutes under control the sunlight scattered around in a clandestine manner, with all that this entails harm, including national and international mafia, racket and especially the violence of these poor creatures, Venerable priest Oreste Benzi called "women reduced by the cruelty of man in slavery for their own pleasure".

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Venerated and beloved Father Oreste Benzi, in May of 2007, a few months before your death, without me as He has never seen or known before that our only meeting, my dicesti: "You too will be a voice not comfortable in the Church. For this I invite you to always invoke the grace of God that this inconvenience can always be entirely the work of God for the good of the Church itself, but never your work ". If one day I join you in the true Paradise - certainly not in the materialistic and hedonistic one of the rewarded Muslims 72 virgins [cf. WHO] and, if anything, even with 72 mother in law! - This will be evidence that I put into practice your holy counsel leaving operate the grace of God. If I have to make me a long purgatory, with 72 hysterical virgins and especially with 72 in-law even more hysterical of them, This will be proof that I rather fancy I; and I am working I have surely wrong, up to deserve the severe purgation in a parody of paradise with 72 virgins and frigid 72 mother-in-law incognite.

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