ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA NOT A MODEL OF MERCY CATHOLIC PRIESTS SHOULD FOLLOW THAT THE FAITHFUL

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When you were ordained priest promised obedience to the Bishop and all his successors. This we should remember that we are called to obedience in faith, no obedience into sentimentality and emotion. Therefore, The true and faithful priest, obey not only the Bishop who he likes, that he He considered worthy O which estimates, but it obeys to the Bishop as such, as High Priest and member of the Apostolic College.

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The Fathers de The Island of Patmos They remained bitter about the case of the priest Palermo Alessandro Minutella [see WHO], so they decided to dedicate two different writings: Giovanni Cavalcoli, an indirect reflection but to him valuable due to the fact that all that is modern is not modernism; Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, more directly, also he considered it in the consciousness of having to recall the duties of his priestly vows.

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At the venerable brother in Christ

ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA

Presbyter of the Church of Palermo

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At our online magazine The Island of Patmos We received messages from readers asking onlookers about your preaching and catechesis in the video spread online network. I replied trying to "fix" the scandal shot towards which you were plummeting.

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Then I was contacted from journalists covering of church and ecclesiastical affairs, including two of the foreign press, they asked me theological opinion and canon. At that point it was no longer possible to "tune the message", and in priestly consciousness, in theological science and in compliance with the laws of the Church, I had to respond fairly and accurately.

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Your video plays here, It contains serious defects of substance and form. In it you from start to your speech reporting the cases of two of your brother priests of the ancient and noble Church panormitana that demean the dignity of the Sacred Order of Priests. Of these two names do not [see video-homily WHO], But while hinting that it is Fabrizio Fiorentino [see WHO] and Cosimo Scordato [see WHO]. Between the two the most harmful is certainly Cosimo Scordato, which he should not be allowed to teach sacramental theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Palermo, for its obvious and documented unorthodox tendencies related to both the ecclesiology is the dogmatic sacramental.

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Use two figures of questionable priests the pastoral and theological level, should you cause for pain, no reason to build the thesis that ... the other is worse, thus presenting yourself before the people of God as an innocent victim because of priestly virtues model. Indeed, your cassock - the same that I always wear every day -, Pastoral lose all meaning and sense of visible witness of your renunciation of the world, if it does not dwell in a soul able to recognize mystery of grace for the indelible mark of the priesthood even in a confrere who carelessly spread their pictures in a bathing suit on the computer network. Indeed, if your priestly cassock is also intimately experienced with Christian piety to visible defects of others, It will become a lot worse than the swimsuit flaunted by your brother in the photographs of him published in the electronic network. Is this, in deep consciousness, I tell you in my capacity as confessor to many Priests.

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None of the Disciples Christ God has ever accused of having accepted into the College of the Apostles Judas Iscariot, who then betrayed him. Nor has anyone ever denied the authority of Peter reminding him of having denied Christ three times and that he had taken flight as many times. Far from it, the Blessed Apostle Paul, which also severely scolded in Antioch [cf. Gal 2, 1-11], He never doubted the authority of Peter, knowing that the command to feed his flock [cf. GV 21, 1-19] and of strengthening his brethren in faith [cf. LC 22, 31-34], at that weak pescatore galileo, undignified and culturally limited, He was transferred to the mystery of grace by Christ, God himself [cf. Mt 16, 13-20].

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That said I'll note as follows :

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1. from videos of your homilies and catechesis, It reveals a flawed theological training and structured in the style of preachers of certain evangelical sects, up to slip into heterodoxy in an attempt to preserve the orthodoxy of the deposit of the Catholic faith ;

2. your calls to the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasars are bold and arbitrary and they can deduce that your knowledge of the work of this scholar of the twentieth century is approximate, quindi falsifying, because having read and studied does not mean to have understood, and especially highly complex arguments such as those of this Author, to sift them not just a smattering of decadent neoscolastic, It is required a solid education and metaphysical Aristotelian-Thomist ;

3. Your transcends forms of Mariology Mariolatry, however, in a Latin-Mediterranean context in which the shepherds in the care of souls have the obligation and duty to correct certain deviant forms of popular piety linked to conventionally popular cults of the Blessed Virgin and the saints.

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I stop to these brief theological aspects to invite you to reflect on the way you have gone scandal in the People of God, attacking your bishop during a liturgical action from inside the parish church entrusted to you, because through such rants have shown:

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1. to use other people's shortcomings, then the same reasons and the same aggressive emotion through which Martin Lutero attacked the Ecclesiastical Authority and the Rome already the German heretic called before you, "the great whore", term to which you have added to your: 'Multinational forgery' [cf. WHO] ;

2. similarly to Luther, denouncing the immorality, the corruption and moral decadence of the church world - all that really exist and as such to be frowned upon, then as now -, you believe that the solution lies in your "ego" and break with ecclesial communion ;

3. you have grossly disrespectful to the Pope implicitly accusing him of heresy, often also with delirious speeches, and you also missed badly of respect apostolic authority of your Bishop, claiming to act in the name of the "defense of truth" which in fact, however, represent only your personal idea of ​​truth, place the custody of the truth is not entrusted to you, much less to your subjectivity imbued with a sentimentality that denotes an emotion that you can not control and.

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I think I can express so with authority and credibility because I have often criticized the private doctor Corrado Lorefice, of which I disagree with the theological approach geared to that of Bologna School I judge always pernicious, all within the freedom of the children of God and the legitimate theological dispute has always recognized and promoted by the Church, provided that done in wisdom and especially with charity [you can see in this regard my Lectio last year, WHO]. I have not even hesitated to show discomfort for the appointment of Italian Bishops belonging all the penalty to a specific school of thought and taken to the episcopate by those who claim the "plurality of ideas within the Church", but at the same time impose a de facto single thought, this thing that is called in other languages blow. That said I could continue a long time in painting the unique thought, deficiencies and above the mediocrity of the Bishops of last appointment, but never put in question their minimum apostolic authority, well it was the worst Bishops of Church history, to which we must obey, regardless of their intelligence and their human qualities, theological and moral; and that as long as they do not would end up falling into heresy. In this second case, to pass sentence on the heterodoxy of a Bishop, It can proceed only the Roman Pontiff through the relevant departments of the Apostolic. We have to report to the Authority of the Church any cases of heterodox bishops, But we can not condemn them, because our position is less sacramental, so we can not erigerci courts of those possessed of the supreme sacramental degree of fullness of the Apostolic Priesthood.

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When he was ordained priest promised obedience to the Bishop and all his successors. This we should remember that we are called to obedience in faith, no obedience into sentimentality and emotion. Therefore, The true and faithful priest, obey not only the Bishop who he likes, that he He considered worthy O which estimates, but it obeys to the Bishop as such, as High Priest and member of the Apostolic College. And in his particular Church, the Bishop personifies Christ holding and unites all living members of the body which is the Church. Therefore, S. AND. Rev.ma Mons. Corrado Lorefice, Primate Archbishop of Palermo and Sicily, is the bishop to whom you have respect and filial obedience, because the Priesthood, to you as to us all, It was given in "free loan", not "possess". And you are called to exercise the sacred priestly ministry in communion with your Bishop in the ways and forms established by him.. The validity of Masses you celebrate, do not depend on your “magical power“, but from the Eucharist celebrated by the High Priest of the Church of Palermo, who has given you permission to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice, administer confessions and preaching. And as these faculties you gave them according to the canonical laws of the Church, these faculties can revocartele on reasonable grounds, yes it is true that we are all priests marked with an indelible and everlasting character, but it is equally true that the priesthood is not ours, It is not our possession, It is a service to which we are called; and how to serve the Church through the Priesthood, it is established by the Bishop of the particular Church in communion with the Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the universal Church, certainly you can not determine this by asking you before the faithful above the authority of the High Priest of the Church panormitana, because your action is wicked, reprehensible and outrageous before the People of God.

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In your public speech you have stated clearly and implicitly not to recognize the authority of your Bishop, which does not fail to make hoax. And of egocentrism filling state that can not be interested in anything any suspension from the exercise of the ministry and so on, so that you will continue your work in a way that best reputerai right and proper.

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Know that before you, Martin Lutero, He acted in the same way before the decree of the Supreme Pontiff, which he responded by calling the Successor of Peter: "ass", "Satan", "Lots of dung". And like you this heretic "set fire" to the papal decree, he physically, you with words.

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I believe that the Archbishop of Palermo was patient and prudent, compassionate and merciful. Had I been your bishop - is obviously an example academic -, I would have been too patient, prudent, compassionate and merciful, but by that time I would have taken steps to revoke the right to celebrate Mass in public, administer confessions and to preach. And once she summoned and locked in a room with me, I made you repent of your sins, If that room you had not gone out after she kissed the hand with the knee flexed recognizing my apostolic authority, rinnovandomi obedience and declaring that would have acted in the manner indicated by me and controlled by virtue of the grace of state given to me, place the grace of your state does not exist and above all can not operate and produce fruit without the top grace of the bishop was.

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Of different, between your bishop and me, But there's one thing: after I rebuked you'd also lost his license to teach theology to a dangerous brain poisoner as Cosimo Scordato and I would never want to Fabrizio Fiorentino to go around the world dressed as a trendy carefree bachelor to be selfie to be published on the electronic network. This is the substantial difference that exists between me and a poor person aequitas and a sense of proportion as Corrado Lorefice, that by the grace of God and the Holy See will is the rightful Pastor of the local Church in Palermo.

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I suggest fraternally first publicly ask forgiveness to your Bishop, apologizing for having stuck with the faithful during the celebration of Holy Mass. After that would be appropriate for you to retire for a period of two years in a monastery, making you follow a good spiritual director for the care of your soul and an elderly theologian specialist who can heal the severe deformation of your theological thinking steeped in adulteration and serious errors.

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If foresight, mature and humble not do this, the future that awaits you is likely to be that of the "shepherd" of a Christian sect dress outside by Catholic priest, surrounded by the aura of the beloved Holy Spirit and animated by a catastrophic vision that constitutes the very negation of our Holy Faith, certainly not the great message of hope contained in the Apocalypse of the Blessed Apostle John. a catastrophism, your, based on pessimism that is negation of our Holy Faith, which is based on the theological virtue of hope that no accident is placed in the middle between the other two theological virtues, right to join together with faith and charity.

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Do not wait until no further ado to ask so docile and humble forgiveness of your Bishop, to which you are not required to pay tribute estimate, because you never gave it to him promise, as none of us has ever promised to estimate the proper Bishop, But obedience yes, him that you, because gliel'hai solemnly promise.

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I bless you with priestly fraternity and I guarantee you my remembrance in prayer for your conversion and your renewed communion with the Bishop of the ancient and noble Church of Palermo.

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the Island of Patmos, 02 April 2017

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