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I UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNIST CHINA AND HIS FEAR TO CATHOLICISM, RATHER NOT UNDERSTAND THE REASONS OF THE PHANTOM OF THE HOLY SEE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF BEIJING

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Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So that, the political power that tried to strengthen itself using Christianity as an element of unity and unification, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived Empire Roman keeping inside traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. This is what frightens the Communist government of China, and they are right, on the political level, to be scared, then to act accordingly. It is the Holy See that maybe did not understand the reason for these fears..

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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Rome 2010 – Father Ariel S. Levi to Gualdo Way of the cross the Colosseum in memory of the Blessed Christian Martyrs, along with one of several Chinese confreres with whom he lived in contact in the Capital

I have long wanted spender two words on the Chinese question, but I refrained from doing so because many experts are now self-elected than on the Catholic press, to follow along with the plethora of websites and blogs Catholics, give us valuable pearls of wisdom. Most commentators accredited they just published showgirls to their past by some officer of the Secretariat of State, thus giving continuity within the Catholic Church in what was the relationship between the official organ of the Communist Party, the newspaper Truth [in Italian Truth], and the Moscow Soviet. Moreover, in the Russian language, Truth It means Truth. And what makes you smile, like today makes you smile the name of the newspaper of the Italian bishops: Future. Because at this rate, the future of the pilgrim Church on earth, short unfortunately will not be among the most edifying.

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I have known over the years leading scholars, including several missionaries, who despite having studied the Chinese phenomenon for decades and having lived in that great country, when they named China were imbued with a kind of awe, as aware of its historical and social complexity and its ancient and glorious culture. Above all, since my formation for the priesthood, I have known and lived closely in Rome with several Chinese; and I can assure our readers that the "little" that lived by their lives I may have learned, I may have learned something more than velinari from the true Pontificia, to which some monsignorino of the Secretariat of State, who he has never set foot in China, passed some tissue papers to write that the Venerable Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, chinese ancient lineage, eighty-six years old and already the Hong Kong Archbishop, he is just an angry old man prejudiced against the atheist-communist government of that country. Word of velinari, all at the instigation of some curial, that perhaps has got to much better known both far deeper China, if anything, the sifting of the Secretariat of State of His Holiness cards.

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If a venerable man like Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, Instead of always all kinds of failure on the part of the Holy See to the Government of China, He says "They're giving the sheep to the wolves," and that this is an incredible betrayal ", and finally adding: "The signing of an agreement with the Beijing atheist regime undermines the credibility of the Pope» [Reuters, service WHO], someone, He wants to ask for the case at least of the questions? The problem is that the Church of the surface, dell'approssimativo, but most of the emotional, dialogue over everything cost even destroy everything, He has long ceased to listen to the experts; and after having been more or less settled amicably, decided to go ... Follow your little heart Subjective beating.

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We smile so tenderly both on velinari from sacred palace is on those who improvise experts of this ancient and giant complex, This is China, speaking of which humility has always been the prince instrument used by his real and great scholars, that if anything, at the tender age of eighty, after half a century of studies dedicated to it, with typical candor of connoisseurs tell you: "After half a century of in-depth studies, I learned something China, its history and its ancient culture but ..., of course: just something!».

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A LITTLE COFFEE HISTORY THE GREAT CHINA

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Rome, 2010 – Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo with a Chinese confrere

The first written historical records of China have ancient roots in the Shang Dynasty dating back to the years 1.800-1100 a.C. While the Zhou Dynasty, which will occupy the scene for more than twelve centuries of history, between the year 1.500 and year 250 circa a.C. date back to the first writing characters imprinted on oracle bone, pieces of bone or shells of animals on which were engraved the paintings and inscriptions in its present form evolved match Chinese writing characters in use today. To this we might add that, a technical and architectural level, in greater China were the works that is accurate in both size, but in many ways even in perfection and beauty, outweigh the great works of the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans. Just think of the Great Wall of China, whose construction begins in the fifth century B.C.. Moreover, In the 2009 the archeology department of the Chinese government made it known that the Great Wall was not long, as believed, 8.800 kilometres, ma 21.196,18 kilometres. In any case always known that China has built the largest architectural and engineering feat in the history of all humanity. E, said this, who wants to hear …

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The West today is the product of the little that remains of the greek-Roman culture, to follow with Christian culture. The bases on which will develop over the centuries, the law and politics have their fundamental basis in the philosophy of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle; and as a historical era, We are between the fourth and third centuries B.C.. China begins instead to have a philosophical development from the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.. through Confucianism, Moism and so-called legalism, thoughts from which will come to life and a legal structure entirely different policy, compared to that of the West.

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The right cineif it is old 4.000 year old and since ancient times used to encode its own laws written. For the Chinese culture, the law, It is an absolute rule and a rigid pattern of behavior. As for the law and its application, it should first be given that Chinese law has certainly not assimilated what are the principles of Christianity then transfused in post-Constantinian era in Roman law, where it takes shape the concept of punishment still targeted to the recovery of the convicted offender. As today some things are difficult to understand when analyzed with contemporary analysis criteria, through the same penalty of death was given the opportunity to condemned to expiate the guilt of his crime, then to return to a state of purity through a death penalty that was precisely espiativa, applied not for punitive Revenge, but as an act of mercy aimed at the preservation of the soul's eternal salvation of the condemned.

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In Chinese legal culture, certain concepts are alien: the sentence, whatever it is, action is purely punitive and definitely imposed for a crime committed. Only in Maoist era to life, for purely socio-political reasons, element in itself alien to Chinese culture, for example, the public repudiation of the errors and re-education. But this is items that have nothing in common with the Roman-Christian law, but with Marxism modulated for use by the Chinese regime during the Maoist revolution.

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That alone could be enough to outline two cultures that are born, They take shape and develop through the centuries on the foundations quite different; but above all who speak two completely different languages, thereby generating a different feel and a different experience.

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The western-European, It is a decadent society sick of hatred towards themselves and towards their origins. And those of Europe - with all due respect for the large representation of gays and lesbians who clamoring in the Strasbourg Parliament - are eminently Christian origins, non origins LGBT. It is not by chance, the idea of ​​Europe, and its name, It born within the monastic, from the eighth century, after the fall of Roman Empire.

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If Europe is an old continent less and less identity taken to fight with the very negation of their roots, that Chinese is rather a society that lives an ascent marked by a continuous development, but above all is a company deeply rooted in their ancient and noble origins. After saying this is suddenly the first question: a Catholic church daughter dying of a Europe that denies itself, afflicted internally by a moral crisis without historical precedent, with powerful gay and lesbian lobby through the total subversion of natural law claiming the right "sacred" to the destruction of our civilization; a Europe which for half a century has been weakened by a crisis of the internal principle of authority from which he then came to life the destruction of authority itself ... how can, This kind of Europe, think you can talk to and deal with a culture like China? Or someone can imagine a big Gay Pride in Beijing, with the usual masked pranksters, if anything, from Xi Jinping, severe President of the People's Republic of China, depicted in the form of a pink bunny covered with pajettes? Or need to explain that the case for such a thing, in China, He was sentenced to death within a maximum of forty-eight hours after being beaten up in a public square? In China the government considers homosexuality "a clear sign of “Western bourgeois decadence ". Add to this that the Government of China, requiring parents to be able to adopt a Chinese baby, It imposes to be united in strictly heterosexual marriage and prohibits the granting adoption of children to couples LGBT. The PRC law defines marriage as a union only between a man and a woman and does not recognize any legitimacy to homosexual couples [III Session of the Fifth National People's Congress, 10 September 1980]. Very restrictive even legislation on sex change, which by law can not take place before and after twenty accurate medical reports attesting to the absolute necessity. Very rare in China so are the sex change, by surgical interventions and related hormonal treatment. Said this, someone thinks they can tell the Government of China: … who are you, to judge gay and prevent them from realizing the right to their love, and to crown with the adoption of a child, or with his purchase by a surrogate mother?

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The Orientals in general, Chinese in particular, they do not even conceive that authority and the principle of authority can be separated from the authority of the person who exercises the authority. And here lies the second question: i Merlin of the Secretariat of State of His Holiness, with all due respect to showgirls published by the journalists of true Pontificia, just as the ecclesiastical structure is experiencing its deepest crisis at the global level authority, how they plan to deal with those on the authority principle is based rather any kind of social relationship, political and economic?

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The Chinese system shape and raises its summits of champions almost always trained from childhood in a very meticulous and strict, to be able to play certain roles. And the exercise of certain roles, in Chinese culture not the good-natured principle that applies err it is human, but rather the opposite: in a certain role it is impossible to go wrong, especially when a mistake compromise - even if that happens so mild - the image of the authority and the honor of their country. This is to reiterate that talking about the rising China whose socio-philosophical system is the Confucian roots, so decadent Europe whose socio-philosophical approach, albeit from the same despised and denied, It is greek-Roman and Christian roots, we we compare two worlds and two totally antithetical companies, especially with regard to the concept of man, society, and rights. A single example: in European culture, not only Christian, but also in the lay of which is affected by the Christian root that also denies, pardon and clemency are in fact signs of civil superiority; testing is something that almost all the constitutional and legal systems is expected to act of pardon by the Head of State to also convicted of serious crimes against the state itself. Otherwise, the social culture and Chinese politics, forgiveness and mercy can be a sign of weakness that svigorirebbe unheard of in certain special situations the authority and credibility of the entire social system, political and legal, especially for those who are considered crimes against the People and the State. E, said this, does not lead astray the way between the fifties and the seventies of the twentieth century was modulated by the regime of Mao Zedong's public repudiation of errors against the People and the State, so the re-education of those we call "repent". All this was in fact the sole purpose of converting them into more active propagandists of the Communist Regime, reborn from error and so become witnesses of the truth. A striking example in this regard? That last emperor of China Pu Yi, interned in 1950 in a re-education institute for war criminals, from which he was released from prison in 1959. Once re-educated and become faithful and respectful to the Communist Regime, he worked as an officer in the collection and classification of historical material and as a gardener Beijing botanical garden, until his death in 1967 [cf. Pu Yi, I was Emperor, by Francesco Saba Sardi. Milan, Ed. Italian Bompiani, 1987].

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Let's turn to another example exhaustive: think of what was the 28 august of 2008 the inauguration of the Olympics in Beijing. The whole world was stunned by those sets and the synchronized movements of thousands of extras who gave evidence of what is the kind of perfection that does not admit mistakes. But most of all, behind those unique settings and up to now unique to any other people in the world, It is enclosed in a socio-cultural element that is another foundation of that culture: the concepts of people, state and nation are above the individual. In European society is rather the individual above all, while that of China, above all, there is the concept and identity of the people. And here lies the fourth question: reduced the Catholic Church to an old mare who gives birth to little mice, within which quality and talent are penalized with destructive ferocity, where the mediocre people who have come to power for thirty years now impose categories of authentic under-mediocre as their collaborators and then successors - all on the basis of the principle that chickens scratching around in the hen house certainly cannot surround themselves with golden eagles -, how you can think of to deal with the subjects that have been selected, grew up and trained to be rather true champions of high talent? When the Chinese are put into play, but especially, When any title is at stake is the dignity and honor of their country, only they need to excel and rigor; and they always manage to excel in everything, children how to have a culture that never, and in particular in certain positions and roles, no room for error, and least of all forms of mediocrity.

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An example for even better clarify: Once a Chinese priest of the underground Church come from a few days in Rome, after I had tried to speak to him in English greeting, then in French, while I was wondering inside of me which language he spoke in addition to the Chinese, these turned me so: «Venerabilis Frater, Grace and peace be with you. Ego sum sacèrdos Sìnicus. I do not speak Italian language. Tamen, Senex EPISCOPUS sinicus, He speaks Latin language, He taught me Latin» [Venerable Brother, Grace and peace to you. I am a Chinese priest. I do not speak Italian. But, the elderly Chinese bishops who speak the Latin language, I was taught to speak Latin]. That said I do not want to be disrespectful, but I'd be tempted to invite anyone to enter the classroom of the Italian Episcopal Conference, then to turn in Latin to some’ in the case of bishops, especially those of the last generation who pose as intellectuals sopraffini, and then see what happens, but above all to ascertain what they understand …

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Having clarified the concept of non-wandering which applies to certain social and institutional levels in Chinese culture, Finally we can add one more question, aimed at both Merlin Secretary of State of His Holiness both velinari publishing amenities, namely, the following: the Secretary of State of His Holiness, in which they teem with the foolish people who go unpunished if they make mistakes in their seats, or worse, if they make mistakes never admit their error, especially if their hierarchical level is especially high, it cost well punish the innocent in order to defend the perpetrators of serious damage ... Well, how can they think that we can deal with people in certain public and institutional levels do not admit error, up to consider it an unforgivable damage and a huge disgrace, Chinese place in the socio-political culture does not prevail the defense of the individual, but the maximum protection of honor unitary institutional body?

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In the current historic moment, the Church has neither the strength nor the diplomats appropriate to liaise with the Government of China, to converse with whom it would take to ecclesiastical figures in first able to hit them with their great authority and especially with their great authority. And we today, while we wander from one another grotesque scandal, similar characters, where we plan to take them out?

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PUBLIC IMAGE, CONCEPT OF FORM AND SUBSTANCE IN CHINESE CULTURE

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… this is a government of Cape minister of the Catholic Church – because that on the political level is considered a cardinal by any international governmental authority – committed to illustrate the washing machine and a clothes dryer to the Roman Pontiff, all under the watchful shooting of a cameraman, a clear proof, if anything you need it, this skit knew nothing at all to leave the private sphere, but make their own public …

Since we live in the world of images, then we try to give two completely different images, although today many, too many, do not want to accept the idea that the form, in his own way, contributes to making the substance, or at least put it in the right light. deliberately failing to indicate the person and also the year, so even through the date it goes back to the character, I remember, Years ago, an in-depth documentary in which he was shooting a plenary meeting at the United Nations. With dismay I noticed the representative of the Holy See, that at the UN building has a seat as permanent observer. The representative of the Holy See was dressed with a sloppy clergyman that betrayed the shiny torn by television, with ill-combed hair, Visible white dandruff on the shoulders of the shots in the foreground, and an air somewhat clumsy. Shortly after he was framed - I do not know whether by accident or on purpose - the representative of the People's Republic of China, accompanied by two employees. All three with a bearing authentic princes of their oldest historical dynasties, haute couture clothing, comb your hair, shaved and pulled a shiny better and perhaps more than three actors in Hollywood during the big Oscar night. Before the Chinese, for which the form and substance are inseparable and that not even conceive that in the absence of an appropriate form can be any substance, what impression could do, the sloppy person who represented the Holy See at 'O.N.U? Then, We are having said that we point out that at the material time have just narrated, all in all not do badly spent ancòra like today, I think it said everything, or at least he said he was all you had to say. Species considering today, a Chinese delegation he came with his official style in Vatican City, entering or exiting the Leonine walls could cross the Cardinal barista that comes with terms, a plastic bag, his sleeves pulled above the elbows, to bring the evening coffee to the homeless under Bernini's Colonnade.

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… This is instead a Minister of the Government of the Republic of China, S. AND. Wang Yi, charge of the department of foreign affairs from 2013 al 2018, Today the Council of State, apparently descended from the dynasty of the last Emperor of China. Please note whether in an official public occasion, between “a washing machine and a drying room”, It has a single hair out of place …

Without respect for the figure and age, the journalists of the true Pontificia they instilled poison on Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, who in addition to being Chinese, after being Archbishop of Hong Kong, eighty-six years it presumes know China more than certain velinari it's theirs owner-operators. Yet veiled criticism of him we read that they portrayed as a stubborn senile. No one has focused this cardinal who declares himself an enemy of an atheist government, by members of the Communist government is recognized as a genuine authority. Because this is another feature of Chinese social psychology: recognize the profound value of the enemy. And Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun is a respected and deeply honored enemy of that atheist-communist government with which he, uselessly, It reiterated that the Holy See did not treat, or that at least he shouldn't have negotiated hastily and at all costs, because those of the great China are always very slow tempos praxis.

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THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS ALL THE HISTORICAL REASONS TO FEAR THE CATHOLICISM

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Rome 2009 – Ricordi fraierai …

We come to the heart of the problem: we who presume to trattar with the Chinese and to draw up agreements with them, we know neither the Chinese culture nor China, while the Chinese senior government leaders, selected since childhood, grew up and trained to become the golden eagle, no chickens, instead we know; with us familiar Christianity, more than you can imagine.

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First of all, in Catholicism, unlike various other Christian communities belonging to Protestant Movement, which we know is not a unitary phenomenon, the same goes for Islam, the Chinese Communist government sees a force that is dependent on a foreign power; What this unacceptable for a socio-cultural and political system like China. It is from this fear, Now let's try to analyze and understand the fundamental fear that China's government has Christianity, but especially of Catholicism, because if we want to make a serious and impartial analysis, we must admit that it is a fear completely understandable and above all historically established. In history, Christianity, It has created a unifying effect it has produced but later devastates, in many cases absorbent. most striking case of the story is the fall of the Roman Empire. In the dying empire, since the time of Constantine, Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So that, the political power that tried to strengthen itself using Christianity as an element of unity and unification, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived the empire maintaining in-house traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. If we want to go from antiquity to modernity, take for example the case of Poland of years early seventies of the twentieth century, in which the Christianity, at the level of aggregation, It constituted not only a front against the communist regime, but through Domino effect It originated its subsequent crumbling in all countries of the former Soviet bloc.

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When we are speaking of Catholicism in China, They are mentioned immediately, alone and almost always the Jesuits, who came there to the middle of the sixteenth century. Unfortunately, however, a gross historical error, because the first to bring the Gospel in China were around 1246 the Franciscan Friars, two and a half centuries before the birth of the Society of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. So that, when after the 1260 The Polo Brothers came as merchants and were finally received at court by the Great Khan, who was in Beijing today, they heard the sovereign asked for "news of the Roman Pontiff and the conditions of the Roman Church and the customs of the Latins". Figure factor was a few decades after that of the Franciscan Giovanni da Montercorvino, who managed to win the trust of the Great Khan, and to start a genuine evangelization. Thus the Pope Clement V replied to requests for Brother John, who asked to organize the ecclesiastical districts, China sending another group of Franciscan Friars, along with seven bishops. The group of bishops and religious arrived in China around 1310, After several years of traveling. The bishops had received orders from the Pope to proceed to the episcopal ordination of Brother John, who was the first bishop consecrated in China and the first Archbishop of Beijing [cf. AA.VV. The Franciscans in China. 800 years of history. Ed. Porziuncola, 2001, an extract is available WHO]. Well ... with all due respect the blessed memory of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci [Macerata 1552 - Beijing 1610], Jesuits came over two centuries and a half later. And wanting - always to be historically honest - we can say that they came not least also do damage, besides the doubtless well they work. And passing with a jump of centuries to modernity, we can not omit to mention that the main development of Catholicism in China between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, yes it is also due to the Jesuits, but it is noted that the Jesuit missionaries arrived in the wake of the French and all of them, for greater, They were of French nationality. France, in China, She had indeed many consulates for mainly economic reasons; and the communities and activities of the French Jesuits arose around these consulates. Being able to then arrange for its activities of considerable economic resources, In the 1903 They opened the Aurora University, in present-day Shanghai, which he ceased to be a Catholic university in 1953. Later it was opened in 1905 Fudan University and 1926 the prestigious Fu Jen University in Beijing, now based in Taiwan. The purpose of these institutions, especially Peking University, was to train the future ruling classes of China, all in periods in which the Jesuits ancòra did not show any symptoms of wanting "a poor Church for the poor".

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Previously the Jesuits, by Franciscan missionaries and Dominicans they had been accused of laxity, of the power and prestige Search, but above all to encourage idolatry and the so-called Worship of the Ancestors. The Jesuits tried to justify himself by replicating it for them, bids placed before the Tablets Ancestors, they had no religious ritual significance. Not at all persuaded by their justifications, In the 1645 the Pope Innocent X - to say the least unconscious with those who had to do and then what would have produced - these customs condemned as incompatible with Christianity. The Emperor is outraged by such imperious interference in Chinese affairs, as well as to life the "dispute over rites".

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In 1704 the Pope Clement XI he made matters worse by issuing a decree condemning the practice of Confucian rites and the Worship of the Ancestors, sending a legate watched over him so that application. The emperor, already perplexed by the struggles and rivalries between members of various religious orders present on its territory, He felt deeply offended by papal decree and the manner in which the supervision of its implementation had been established, all followed a decade later by the Bull Ex illa The the 1715 in which the missionaries imposed the renunciation oath to the dissemination and practice of certain superstitious rites. The Emperor replied through their ambassadors: "What would the Pope of Rome, if the Emperor of China were allowed to judge and to reform the ceremonies of the Apostolic See?». And in 1717 Empire forbade Christian proselytizing and preaching the Gospel. Simply said,: If on the one hand, among the members of the Society of Jesus missionaries in China, there was a caste of Jesuits who acted like mandarins and also public that covered political and administrative roles, on the other there were the Dominican missionaries, suffering on the other hand by not less severe myopia, indeed perhaps even worse, They thought they could unleash theological disputes and to launch accusations of heresy, just as if they were in some so-called Catholic country of her time. E, very soon, the serious damage was, producing effects not easily repaired until today …

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Having said that we must clarify, always for the historical and political duty, who was following the work of the joints below the French Jesuits, which began to form the idea that Catholicism was the long hand of a foreign power. It must also be remembered that the first to accuse the foreign priests, and in particular precisely the Jesuits, were Chinese priests, not least for the fact that several times, the missionaries of the Society of Jesus who ran numerous apostolic vicariates, They did filibuster in Rome for the appointment of local bishops, then for the canonical erection of dioceses, stating that it was not suitable subjects, while the truth was that they did not want to lose their jurisdiction over these vicariates, as it would have happened if it had been erected a diocese and appointed a bishop, and particularly if the bishop had been a priest of the place. Needless to say, similar situations, in the same years, or a few decades later, always by the Jesuits, They came to life in the territories of evangelization of the Latin American Continent, with as many missionaries Dominicans and Franciscans to an opposite pole of the earth, but at the same identical manner, they accused the Jesuits of mixing the old local rites with Christianity, the so-called religious syncretism.

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When exploded the Great Cultural Revolution which then he brought to power Mao Zedong, the reason to proceed, the best scenarios, the expulsion of all foreign missionaries from China, It was already so beautiful and packed for about two or three centuries: missionaries and foreign priests were the emissaries and servants of bourgeois power, capitalist and imperialist of the West. A quel point, missionaries who had the better, They fled to Hong Kong and the Philippines, others, including especially those who did not intend to abandon the faithful without priests and pastoral and sacramental care, instead they ended up in prisons, where in the space of a few meters they were crammed numerous people, so much so that to be able to get some sleep 'at night it had to take turns and unwind a bit' each. The suffering of these missionaries were terrible, Why, What we know, none of them agreed to be subjected to re-education programs to become faithful devotees of the Maoist Regime. Programs that were accepted instead of several Chinese priests, jailed on charges of having served foreign powers. In this regard it should be noted, however, that the acceptance of rehabilitation programs loyalty towards the regime, Chinese priests were induced not by the desire to save themselves and their lives, but that of their family. Indeed, the members of the secular and regular clergy who were missionaries in China during the upheaval of the Great Cultural Revolution, their families had them in the various countries of the West, while imprisoned Chinese priests, before being killed, they would have had to witness the murder of their parents, siblings, sisters and grandchildren, then would have been finally executed their.

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Under the government of Mao Zedong, It is approved in 1954 the new Constitution of the People's Republic of China where the Communist Party control is established on any kind of organized activity. Anticipating what this would entail, Pope Pius XII issued shortly after the encyclical Nations to China, condemning the creation of a Catholic Church split from Rome. Incidentally: the text of this encyclical, which is an authentic pastoral masterpiece and at the same time of diplomacy, should read, but just read it on your knees, is today velinari from the true Pontificia, both their owner-operators Secretary of State who instruct them in the publication of their pearls of wisdom [see the text of the encyclical, WHO] …

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… the answer was that the following year, one of the largest dioceses in the country, to Shanghai, governed by Archbishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, It was quickly devastated. At the end of 1954 foreign missionaries still in the area, including two bishops, were just sixteen, between them fourteen in prison. In 1957 the last Catholic religious institutions were closed e created by the Communist Regime the church detached from Rome Patriotic totally subservient to the State. Paradigm of this persecution was the tragic fate inflicted on monks of the Carthusian monastery of Our Lady of Consolation, in the district of Beijing, located about 180 kilometers from the capital. The charterhouse was attacked several times by communist gangs in the 1940s and finally set on fire in 1957. The monks were captured, bound hands and feet with wire and forced to make forced marches under winter temperatures. Most of them lost their lives during these forced journeys, while the few survivors, after being subjected to the great farce of so-called Popular Maoists processes, put to death for refusing to recant and be subjected to re-education processes [cf. James T. Myers, Enemies no shotgun – The Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, cit. pp. 31 e ss. readable text WHO].

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It should also be noted that globally, a Catholic Patriotic Church, He came to life only in China; in various other parts of the world, different regimes, They have attempted to carry out similar operations, but without ever succeeding. Because what were permitted in China? This has been possible because of the strong aversion that the Chinese have a socio-cultural level towards foreigners. This does not mean that China is not hospitable, quite the opposite! The Chinese have a very deep sense of hospitality and the welcome of the stranger, and it is also well disposed and happy, to collaborate with foreigners, provided that deeply respects the ancient and noble Chinese culture and dare not groped to insert elements within his society as completely unrelated. Obviously, this created huge problems at once as for evangelization. But some say, more or less triumphant tones, that "to be successful only were the Jesuits'. Always be honest we must reply that if successful the Jesuits, It means the religious syncretism, or Confucian philosophy mixed with the Christian philosophy and vice versa, then, then we are talking about the biggest failure in which it can fall any missionary work of evangelization, always with due respect of the blessed memory of Matteo Ricci.

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CHINESE COMMUNISM NOT ANALYZE WITH THE WESTERN CRITERIA

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Rome, 2009 – fraierai Ricordi …

Communist China can not be understood if we apply to Chinese Communism Western categories. A fundamental element must therefore be clarified: Communism China has something to himself, Communism Chinesized being a part of a culture that is born of greek-Roman-Christian roots but from Confucian roots. That Soviet and the Chinese have a common basis only red communist flags. An example exhaustive: the Catholic Church was severely persecuted in the Soviet Union, always based on the principle that it was owned by a foreign power. Less he was persecuted the Orthodox Church of Russia, albeit also subjected to persecution and restrictions. That said just remember - always to trace the difference which exists between these two different communism -, that shortly after the fall of the Soviet regime was found that, almost all Communist Party members, from those of higher rank, they were baptized, they had their children baptized and had celebrated the religious wedding in secret. And for the baptism of their children, senior Soviet leaders they had not even settled for a Pope, they had been baptized by some Metropolitan, if not directly, at the very highest levels, personally by His Beatitude the Patriarch of Moscow.

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Said this, I think there is more to with regard to the substantial difference that exists between a Communist regime born of the Great October Revolution in Russia Cristiana, and the Communist regime born of the Great Cultural Revolution in the ancient and noble Confucian China.

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In China Communism, although today completely transformed, It stands firm as a system of government; and paradoxical as it may seem, especially if he said by me, we should also auspicarci that this government can stand the system as long as possible, transforming itself in a very slow and gradual. Simple the reason for this hope: in China there are hundreds of different ethnic groups who harbor ancestral forms of hatred towards each other. The Communist regime is a deterrent and especially brake on the struggles of fierce blast and internal wars. A comparison level we could use the former Yugoslavia, in which were present different ethnicities animated by fierce hatred toward each other, but kept at bay by Josif Broz regime, said Marshal Tito. We then saw what happened in the brutal heart of Europe, at sunset of this regime; the tuna fishing in those years were consumed, They were so violent that the international press reported and described the facts, but he avoided to publish photographs depicting deaths in the most violent. Perhaps someone can imagine, or worse to hope, if anything in the name of Western principles of democracy - as if the fetish of decadent Western democracy were always applicable everywhere and to all cultures -, a Yugoslavia case multiplied to the power of a thousand?

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FROM A “GHOST AGREEMENT” TO THE PROBLEM OF THE MARTYRS AND PERSECUTED

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a painting sent to Rome from Beijing by a Chinese priest Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo the day of his priestly ordination

Unlike velinari from the Truth pontifical and sapients raging from the printed paper to the telematic network, I have no answers to give, but only to ask questions. We start from the first: at a time when the Communist government of China has tightened restrictions against Catholics, up to prevent access to the churches to underage [cf. service WHO], and in a time when the Catholic Church, a planetary level, pour in a state of decay and profound crisis of credibility, as we have been able to reach an agreement? Also because until now, This "ghost Agreement", apart from comments and subsequent warranty speeches, But they do not know the contents, they just follow the vague news papers. How then to blame Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun who complains: "The press, long awaited, the Holy See is a creative masterpiece in so many words to say anything "? [cf. service, WHO]. We do not know in fact what do you think the Chinese government of this agreement, nor do we know what do you think the so-called Patriotic Church, let alone what do you think the underground Church has always been loyal to Rome at the price of blood.

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All we know at the moment It is that there was an agreement with the Government of China for which you do not know the contents. In practice, as if in 1929, to end Roman question, They had been signed the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the then Kingdom of Italy, no but no one knew the contents of those pacts, the manner of their application and then all the commitments and the possible consequences for the two parties that had signed them. But most of all: how many were the bishops of the Patriotic Church legitimized after this agreement? How many have been excluded from the legitimacy instead, for example, for serious reasons, from those bishops who have lovers and children? Or maybe, not to irritate the Communist Regime, They will also be entitled them, Myer before other? And those who were excluded from the case legitimation, it will be because, but especially for those who desire to? How it will work, after this "ghost Agreement" the mechanism of appointment of bishops? Does anyone really think that the Government of China, after this "ghost Agreement", will grant freedom to bishops for the exercise of their sacred ministry and equal freedom to the faithful? For case, after this "historic agreement" of "epochal", as we have defined certain velinari from the Pradva Pontifical, It was accidentally revoked by the Government denial of access in the churches to underage, complete with a prohibition and conduct any pastoral work with young people? But most of all: It never happened, in the two thousand year history of the Church, somebody to make arrangements with the persecutors and the persecuted were in progress? It is by chance someone that Pope Marcellinus [296-304], when the Emperor Diocletian unleashed the last great persecution of Christians, He ran to agree with him? Things did not go in this direction, according to the chronicles that narrate the martyrdom Marcellino, occurred on 25 October of the year 304, by beheading, executed on the orders of Emperor Diocletian. His successor, The Pope Marcellus I, He had to address the issue of so-called child, those who during the persecution disowned the faith in Christ and asked to be readmitted to the Church. Marcello's claims for their admission of repentance path, But not everyone accepted, to the point that it was he, in the end, to be condemned to exile, as we learn from the inscription written by Pope Damasus I in his tomb:

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"True Shepherd, because he appeared to the child the requirement that they had to expiate their denial with tears of penitence, It was considered by those miserable as a terrible enemy. Hence the fury, hatred, The discord, sedition and death. Because of the murder of one that even during peace denied Christ, He was deported Marcello, victim of the cruelty of a tyrant ".

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I am not a velinaro let alone a spin doctors, so I have no answers to give, because in lavish answers and explanations of what you do not know, may provide only velinari from the Truth pontifical; but responses based on the fact nothing. God forbid that someone, just to ask a tin medal on the chest in the decadent Rome, has played clumsily with the persecuted faithful and with the bishops who have spent a large part of their lives in prison or forced labor; because they are the martyrs to whom you can say four words of circumstance, while they, for a lifetime, they paid their loyalty to Rome and the Papacy.

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However if we see now on the basis of an agreement made ghost that we do not know the contents, We will try to get out of this mess by saying: what matters is only the unity. But without explaining what this unit very subjective and very little corresponding to the principles of unity contained in the Holy Gospel resulted in price to pay, It considered that the goods purchased is not clear, and it is unknown the price paid for it, but above all to be paid in the near future. God forbid that the price paid for a tin medal has been paid on the skin of the martyrs and the persecuted Catholics in China, to which inter alia, if you do not take seriously irritate the susceptibility of the Communist government and an atheist, you can not even turn to them as "martyrs" and "persecuted", precisely because it would be grossly offensive to the persecutors with whom you made an agreement and persecution are increasingly being.

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the modern era, the Holy See has signed more agreements of understanding and mutual recognition with countries of culture not only, not catholic, but their non-Christian culture. Just go and see how many countries with the Holy See has diplomatic relations. From year 2007 the Holy See has diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates. The Holy See has diplomatic relations with Turkey, Country where he was apostolic nuncio to the future John XXIII; with Iran, l’Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, the Libya, Algeria. The Holy See has diplomatic relations even with Turkmenistan, where they reside just five hundred Catholic. Well, we who are not subtle minds and high diplomacy specialists as it they are the best elements of the Secretary of State of His Holiness, we wonder: place that the Holy See has diplomatic relations even with countries which have imposed as the state law Sharija and where proselytizing by other religions is prohibited and prosecuted by law, how can you talk, but above all to establish agreements of any kind if they are, the first step, is not that of mutual recognition? Because all countries cited earlier, recognize the Holy See as head of the world's Catholic Community, enough to have established diplomatic relations with it.

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In short: I can talk, I did something which has often, with people not only non-Catholic, but with non-Christians, nor related in any way to any Christian cultural roots, as long as, these my interlocutors, first of all recognize the right to my life.

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That being said I wonder and then ask therefore: how can you talk and establish agreements with those upstream does not recognize the right of your existence, or that the limit, acknowledging your existence, It considered a danger to keep the more and how much better under control? Because it is with this kind of people that the Holy See, theme, It has established a "ghost Agreement". But I am sure that velinari from the true Pontificia They will not hesitate to even clarify this no small dilemma, let's give him time only to receive tissue the hallowed halls, and we will have some enlightening pearls of wisdom, it cost well go beyond the boundaries of reality, but especially over the blood shed by the martyrs and persecuted, place in China, the persecution of Catholics faithful to Rome, They are far from finished. And do not even let us ask ourselves the dilemma, entirely rhetorical, rather than, Rome, these persecuted martyrs has proved authentic and faithful mother ...

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In the final footnote I will explain why I cherish deep respect for the Communist government of China, while instead I have no respect for certain Madame populating and devastate the Holy See, those, to be understood, that the velinari from the true Pontificia do not see, as they are insensitive to the persecution of the Church and clergy who really suffer. Well, the Communists of China, not only have an ancient and noble dignity, but they also ennoble the persecuted and the martyrs. So for me it would be a real honor, being persecuted as a priest for the persecutors so highly honorable and noble, end up in their nation's prisons or worse ancòra; and between the two sides, even in ferocity, there would be a mutual respect between persecutor and persecuted. What respect I should rather feed, for those two or three monsignorini fennel protected by some Cardinal sodomite, that feeling before me discovered, They haunt you for life with a real ferocity menstrual hysteria? I hope that some velinaro from the true Pontificia refer all friends of the Secretariat of State - even though I always read carefully - and especially the August of the Tenant Martha House Sancthae, whose sensitivity and high sense of justice, everything seems to run out with the ice creams sent as a gift to the poor and migrants of Rome, including alleged refugees, however, fled on the spot just come to the reception center of the Italian Episcopal Conference in Rocca di Papa [cf. chronicle, WHO, WHO, WHO]. The whole, obviously, complete with ample photographic and journalistic, so that makes a noise charity and news, as well as political provocation against the current Government of the Italian Republic [cf. chronicle, WHO].

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Which holy envy try for the Chinese persecuted because faithful to the Church of Rome, while i, leaving home to go to do shopping, risk of finding myself with a twelve or thirteen brat that seeing a black cassock you go screaming behind two blasphemies against the Virgin Mary! In Beijing provinces do not scream behind you, if anything will stop at two in the morning while sneaking celebrated Mass for a group of faithful. And this is much more dignified, and for those who stop for both arrested. Even so, China is a great power, while Europe, who is now the mother of all is permissible and granted beyond good and evil, it is just a poor continent to total political defeat, social, cultural, moral and religious [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO etc ..].

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God bless Great China and its noble People !

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the Island of Patmos, 29 September 2018

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HOW TO REMEDY THE excommunication TO HERESY

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The belong or not to belong to the Church, the stay or leave the Church are not such simple things. Of course, there may be forms of separation and total, such as loss of faith with apostasy. But usually there are different degrees of separation and therefore of excommunication. We must also see that idea one gets of the Church and of belonging to the Church or ecclesial communion. One can be convinced to fully belong to the Church, and instead is yours only partially, as for example the Protestants or modernists.

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Alinari photo 1950 – the Dominican Friars, during the Fiorita Festival in Florence, lay a tribute to the place where he was hanged and burned Girolamo Savonarola

St. Paul the Apostle warns: "If any man preach a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be anathema!» [Gal 1,9].

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In every community the president has the power and duty to protect with appropriate remedial measures or coercive community members that it causes harm or endanger the good order and peace. This principle of justice also applies to the Church, as stated in the Code of Canon Law: "The Church has an innate and proper right to coerce criminal penalties the faithful who have committed crimes" [can. 1311].

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From the earliest days of the Church the apostles, taking up the tradition of the synagogue, expelling unruly, troublemakers and apostates, exercised judicial power against serious crimes, as evidenced by the story of Ananias and Sapphira [cf. At 5, 1-11]. So St. Paul expels from the incestuous community [cf. The Cor 5,8]. To condemn the erring, he uses a greek word: anàthema, corresponding to Hebrew dear, which means "cursed" and therefore "excommunicated". So he warns: "If any man love not the Lord, is anàthema!» [The Cor 16,22]. E: "If anyone preaches any other gospel, is anàthema» [Gal 1.8]. Jesus himself repeatedly launches curses. And indeed, since the first centuries the Councils declare anàthema, ie excommunicated those who support the errors condemned.

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St. Thomas Aquinas explains l'Origin of the concept of anàthema and then of excommunication. L'says Aquinas: « anàthema It is a Greek word composed of he went, which means 'above' and thesis, which means 'position', so to call 'anatema'' What-you-place-in-high ', because when it was captured prey like something you did not want to use by men, it was suspended in the temple, so far it has become a habit that those things which are separated from common men, They were "anathema" calls, as we see in the Book of Genesis: "Whether this city accursed [1] and is devoted to the Lord all that is in it " [GS 6,17]» [2].

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From here, in Ecumenical Councils, the much used formula let him be, that will appear for the last time in the First Vatican Council, while it is absent in the Second Vatican Council, This clearly does not mean that the Council did not condemn the errors, claiming which it incurs excommunication. Today's excommunication is what the Church once called anatema, that curse: a verdict of an error or an errant, pronounced authority with the imposition of a penalty and the expulsion or removal of the dissident or criminal from the community.

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"Curse" in this biblical context means "to say the least-bad", but not in the sense of slander, but in the sense of declaring in court that someone has spoken ill or hurt and therefore it deserves to be punished, It deserves a bad penalty. In this regard the Bible says that God curses the wicked and Christ at the Last Judgment when away from the reprobate [cf. Mt 25,41]. The curse can strike the evil deed, but it can also affect the person who has done this deed. It is true that both the Gospel [cf. LC 6,28], As St. Paul advised not to curse [cf. RM 12,14]. But these prohibitions affect those who curse the innocent, as it is forbidden to kill the innocent, but not criminal. Otherwise, the Church would not anathematized for centuries and millennia heretics and schismatics. And if today we hear or read the Popes curse the heretics, we can not ignore that only recently the Church has abandoned this language, that the Commission used safely for a long time, but that today, the current climate of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue, indeed there embarrass. Today it seems to us that the curse has aroused hatred. But it is not necessarily so. Understood in the legal sense, it is an act of justice. And if the word has been abandoned by the Magisterium of the Church, It remains the equivalent term of "excommunication". Now, communion, the unit, the pace, mutual love and harmony in the Church born from the common acceptance by all the faithful of the same truths of faith and the same discipline taught by the Magisterium of the Church under the guidance of the Supreme Pontiff. So we understand that the heretic deserves to be excommunicated. The Church is a community united, coordinated and concordant in mutual by the Holy Spirit, who argues the Pope in the task to found the fellowship with God and the truth of God's word all acceptation. However, with God's permission, within the Church on earth, He works the Devil, with his retinue of "children of the devil" [The Gv 3, 10]. This means that the Church arise and spread heresies, that the ecclesiastical authority is obliged to intervene to warn the faithful and stop the error diffusion. So it happened, for instance, with the phenomenon of modernism at the time of St. Pius X and some theologians, as for example Ernesto Buonaiuti, Alfred Loisy, George Tyrrell, Romolo Murri and other.

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Fact, it happens occasionally that the devil persuades and push cunningly and wickedly some brothers imprudent, ambitious and unwary, which can also be shepherds, to distort the concept of the Church and to work to divide, desecrate and destroy, acting so insidious and covered, with vain and specious pretexts of reform or conservation, to avoid being discovered and seduced more easily.

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These false Catholics, seduced by Satan, openly reveal their perverse and subversive plans, for example masonic or atheists, only to those tawny or unfortunate that, after they were told they thoroughly, perhaps with petty man or glittering promises, They know they have become allies or punch in the work undertaken satanic, while they are keeping the secret or know well before the true believers masquerade. In this sense, the Canon Law warns against 'associations which plot against the Church " [can. 1374].

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After having spun their plots, heretics and schismatics suddenly emerge from the darkness and strike by surprise, as the Psalm says: "Whet their tongue like a sword, hurled bitter words like arrows to hit the innocent in secret; hit him by surprise and have no fear. They persist in doing evil; agree to laying snares " [Shall 64 3-6]. "The poor succumbs to the pride of the wicked, and falls into the pitfalls tramate" [Shall 9, 23]. This can be for power and pressure groups hidden within the Church and of the same class of bishops or cardinals, which apparently they seem respectful of papal authority. But the expert eye, as to what the good doctor, Take a few signs or symptoms for a glimpse of the rot that lies beneath the beautiful appearance, how those whited sepulchres of which the Lord speaks. It is the "enemy" [Mt 13, 25-36], of which the Gospel speaks, that hidden in the wheat field has sown the tares. To about, Jesus recommends to let it grow with wheat and weeds, lest, removing this, be taken even that. You must wait, He says, the Lord's Day, when He unveiling the secrets of hearts, He shall judge. Now, it is clear that here Jesus refers to God's judgment at the end of the world, final judgment and unappealable, determining the ultimate destiny of all of us. But that does not stop at all to Jesus to entrust a judicial power to the pastors of the Church, in the first place to Peter, when orders him to tend his sheep. It 'also clear that this power, limited and fallible, It refers only to the outer hole and does not purport to scrutinize the intimate of conscience, only God knows. However, this power, functional to the maintenance of good order of peace in the Church, is assigned by Christ the right and duty to fix all the conditions and the degrees of membership in the Church, why he is not prohibited, in appropriate circumstances and for valid reasons, excluded from ecclesial communion - that's excommunication - those jumping off it unworthy or to their false ideas or for their misconduct.

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THE excommunication EXCLUDED FROM CHURCH COMMUNION

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Excommunication is a decree authority, Pope or Bishop, with which the prelate, in order to correct - medicines penis O censure, title IV, Chapter I - or protect the community - expiatory penalties, Chapter II -, impose penalties in various ways that isolate him excommunicated from the community and limit the possibility of having relations with it or influence it, because such activity is considered to be dangerous or otherwise objectionable. Such penalties may be, mo 'example: or transfer to another residence, the exile, or discharge from an office or prohibition to leave the place of residence or prohibition of journalism or the administration or reception of the sacraments, until the reduction to the lay state for clerics or expulsion from the Institute for religious.

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The schism and heresy in itself are mortal sins. They are punished according to canon law. It is possible that these criminals escape justice of the Church, but they do not escape the judgment of God. Every believer should be able to recognize a schismatic and heretical, without waiting for the judgment of the Church, because he has to defend against these evil temptations. For this Scripture gives several warnings.

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In condemnation for heresy the Church is infallible and no exceptions. Instead excommunicate in the Church can make mistakes or may lift the excommunication. This is because the question of heresy there is a game the truth of faith, that does not change in this field, and the Supreme Pontiff has received express promise by Christ not to err. Instead excommunication can be linked to the conduct of the excommunicated, which can correct itself, for which it can be removed. It remains, however, that the effect of the excommunication, which can also be unjust, illegal or invalid, It does not touch at all the state of one of the excommunicated before God, state that may be of mortal sin - and in itself the schism and heresy are mortal sin -, but it could also be a state of grace, because it is excommunicated unfairly blamed. Because of this, ecclesiastical power, as he said proudly Girolamo Savonarola to his executioner going to the gallows, It may exclude from the earthly Church, but not from the heavenly.

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It must be said that membership in the Church and consequently the ecclesial communion and the exclusion from it - namely the excommunication - is not a simple act of will, with which it can accept or refuse in toto a proposal or an injunction that is done, as it would be to stay in one room, or to get out of it.

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The belong or not to belong to the Church, the stay or leave the Church are not such simple things. Of course, there may be forms of separation and total, such as loss of faith with apostasy. But usually there are different degrees of separation and therefore of excommunication. We must also see that idea one gets of the Church and of belonging to the Church or ecclesial communion. One can be convinced to fully belong to the Church, and instead is yours only partially, as for example the Protestants or modernists. Because of this, usually there are degrees of membership and degrees of exclusion or separation. Because of this, excommunications are not all of the same weight or level. The branch can be periclitante at various levels. It can be separated from certain values, but not by others. Conversely, ecclesial communion is the belonging summit that starts from a minimum degree to climb to the maximum. Here we are aided by the Gospel image of the vine and the branches. A branch can be partially detached from the vine, but still he receives its sap. Thus the separated brethren enjoy a certain communion with the Catholic Church, even though this communion is not full.

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Every believer must know how to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, must be able to judge for themselves if another brother, was theologian, bishop or cardinal, It is or is not in communion with the Church, and consequently attend, if it is in communion; stay away, if it is not in communion. Here then are the directives of the New Testament: "Stay away from every brother who is in idleness" [Ii Ts 3,6]. "If anyone does not obey what we say by letter, take note of him and discontinue relations » [v. 14]. "Stay away heretic [airetikòn]» [Tt 3,10]. "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house nor greet, for he who greets him shares his evil deeds " [II Jn 10-11]. These are obviously cases in which dialogue is impossible or inconvenient or dangerous or useless for the following reasons: or because the heretic does not accept the correction or because he tries to seduce us or because they treat us with contempt.

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In order to preserve and promote the theoretical and moral values on which rests the fabric of the church a, santa, catholic and apostolic, therefore, care must be the sum of all the faithful, but especially pastors and theologians under the supervision and direction of the Pope, take care that the sound doctrine of the Gospel is rightly interpreted by all, accepted, shared, widespread and defense against heresies, which they are precisely the rejection or the deformation of the truth of faith. The prelate, so, in the Church, and first of the Supreme Pontiff, supreme custodian of the unity of the Church and advocate of ecclesial communion, They have the right to expel from the Church, ie scomunicare, those faithful, which, or their attitude schismatic or heretical or scandalous for their ideas, falsify the doctrine, disobey the Supreme Pontiff or create divisions in the Church.

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There are believers who in fact or for their ideas or their conduct, outside the Church and the Church, yet they want to remain there to change it with their errors. It happens in these cases that the naive or complicit prelate excommunicating them, but let them do or even support them, or, Invite them to preach to the faithful in churches. Conversely there are bishops, priests and faithful into full communion with the Church, which may expose evils and scandals, which, however, the fact of opposing pastors or theologians heretics or schismatics, They are treated by them as if they were excommunicated. There is therefore a difference between the official excommunication and be made out of the ecclesiastical apparatus.

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Whatever Christian can be a heretic, schismatic and excommunicated, besides the Pope, who by divine assistance it is the supreme guardian of the truth of the Gospel and ecclesial communion. In fact, it is excommunicated involves breaking with a higher ecclesiastical or with the Pope. But the Pope evidently has no top soil to which he may rebel, except Jesus Christ. And also it should be noted that a Pope can be a bad pastor of the Church, but you can not teach heresy. Because of this, Code has among "crimes against religion and the unity of the Church" [part II, title I], «L'apostasia, heresy and schism " [can. 1364], and the publication and dissemination of "blasphemy, offense to good morals, of insults, excitement hatred or contempt against religion or the Church [can. 1369] and teachings or doctrines condemned by the Roman Pontiff or an ecumenical council " [can. 1371], which is equivalent to the refusal or misrepresentation or falsification of the teachings of the Pope and councils. This is why the offense of heresy deserves excommunication [cann. 1364, 1331].

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The excommunication can be automatic O sententiae penalties. The first is triggered automatically upon the completion by the crime, for example strike the person of the Pope or embrace heresy to what is already provided for excommunication. automatic it means that the judgment has already ruled. sentence rather it means that we need a process, after which the court renders its judgment, for example to determine whether a person is or is not heretical.

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EXAMPLES OF SIGNIFICANT excommunication

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A recent example, It is one of the four bishops Lefebvre, which, At first excommunicated, They were then subsequently released by Benedict XVI. But those who support the Mass the old order - which also it is in itself lawful - but refuses, as did Lefebvre, the Mass new world order charges of pro-Lutheranism, it is excommunicated. The Mass new world order It is in fact the greatest moment of ecclesial communion. Rejecting the Mass means so separate from ecclesial communion, and for this we are struck by excommunication.

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It was the famous mutual lifting of the excommunication of the Blessed Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras. There is, however, question what sense he had the excommunication of the Pope by the Patriarch Michael Cerularius in 1054. The Pope can excommunicate, but it can not be excommunicated, because it has no land no top from which it can be separated. The Pope is in fact the principle of ecclesiastical communion, while the faithful is what comes from this principle. Now the principiato may separate from the principle, but the principle can not separate himself from himself. So the Patriarch of Constantinople, excommunicating the Pope, He has done nothing but separate from the Church. Paul VI made a magnanimous gesture by revoking the excommunication to Athenagoras, but the Patriarch, beyond his friendship with Paul VI, He made a gesture objectively and legally null and void, as nothing had been his excommunication. It should also be noted that the Church can remove the excommunication of heretics who are heretics, as are our Orthodox brothers, because with them it was not yet resolved their dispute over And the son. It is clear then that this reintegration involves a very imperfect communion, given the permanence of doctrinal deficiencies.

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Throughout history there have been excommunications who not only they have not had the desired effect of inducing or stimulating the excommunicated to repentance, but which have had the effect of provoking even more hatred against the Pope and the Church, as happened to Luther with excommunication by Pope Leo X and Pius V against Queen Elizabeth of England. If the excommunicated already he has a big following, he is proud of what he does and strong, that the excommunication it rears up and tightens more. They are the saints, for example, a St. Pio of Pietrelcina, who obey even unjust censure. But heretics, powerful and troublemakers who are excommunicated, easily do worse. Because of this, especially now that the modernists are very powerful, Popes renounce excommunicate.

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In respect of the excommunication to those who profess the doctrine of communism Marxist atheist, imposed by Pius XII, it has never been abolished, although the Church since then she has done more nod. However, such excommunication keeps in fact its value, since it is obviously impossible that an atheist sharers in ecclesial communion.

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How Much to membership freemasonry, a decree of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1984 It warns that those who are affiliated with Freemasonry is in mortal sin and may not receive Communion. Also in this case the reason for the excommunication is evident: Freemasonry does not recognize the dogma of the Communion of Saints.

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As for the excommunication associated with the mafia, it is motivated by the fact that it is conspiracy to theft and extortion to murder with the application and the private vengeance, It is evident that a member of this association may not qualify for the ecclesial communion. The same is true for the modernists, which, They have a concept of the Church incompatible with the right of the Catholic Church.

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THE REASONS AND PURPOSES OF excommunication

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It deserves to be excommunicated those who shed the heresies, turbo, injures, offends or disorganize the community, creates scandal and divisions among the faithful, disobey authority. Unfortunately, however, today macroscopically - except not to see it blocked by fear or human respect or because the chariot of the modernists or because a party or closed because in their own narrow interests or because suffering allocchismo doctrinal [3] - these characters are multiplying, They are honored and go up to high places, while those who are truly in communion with the Church are beaten, humiliated or marginalized. So scomunicabili are not excommunicated, and it happens that those who are in communion is excommunicated or at least is treated as if it were one excommunicated. A beautiful mess and Injustice, where someone who enjoys it is the devil, obscurantism master that leads to destruction.

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On the question of excommunication species, to ask three basic questions: a first question is to distinguish the right from unjust excommunication or lawful or unlawful; a second is to distinguish the valid excommunication from that invalidates or nothing; and third is to distinguish him excommunicated stated or official from the actual or de facto.

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Excommunication is right, when the prelate spoke out of a concern to safeguard the truth of the faith, ecclesial communion and call of the rebel obedience. About the unjust excommunication, instead, St. Thomas Aquinas says that the excommunication can be unjust or by the scomunicante or by the excommunicated. In the first case it has effect, that is, the subject is officially excommunicated by public decree, even though you do not deserve this measure and, if anything, he would have deserved a decree of praise. So the excommunication can be unjust, as motivated not by respect for higher authority, as would be the Magisterium of the Church, or the fear of God or love for the truth or for the Church, but ignorance, hatred or envy for the excommunicated; or it can be unfair because no foundation or legal or doctrinal reason, and indeed it based on false accusations and reasons or pretexts heretical [4]. The first is valid but illicit; the second is null and void.

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The prelate should be very careful to understand and evaluate the reasons that guide the thinking and actions of the supposed dissident or heretic, especially if it has a large following, not to confuse a prophet with a rebel, as happened with Savonarola or vice versa as not to confuse a rebel with a reformer, as happened to some German bishops against Luther, which, instead of condemning the so-called "Reformer", They went over to Luther. The prelate is not hasty in judging, do not let yourself influenced by the passionate and partisan climate that usually creates around these events, be cautious assess allegations from the environment to the supposed guilty and prefers to listen and consult directly. If it is the case, establishing a process, to avoid the risk of condemning an innocent or acquit a guilty.

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It can also happen that an unjust excommunication It is imposed by a heretic priest, which can not be officially excommunicated, so it is not substantially and actually in communion with the Church, while the subject officially excommunicated, as Orthodox, in fact it remains in communion with the Church.

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It is clear that a prelate who excommunicate based on a false concept of the Church or of obedience or without him first to be subjected to the major superior or to the Roman Pontiff or the Word of God, excommunication invalidly, for which per se, this excommunication, It is null and should not have effect. However, de facto, the action of an authoritarian prelate, influences, bossy, supported by his peers or by the worldly powers to an honest person but helpless can still produce a damaging social effect, exercising violence on excommunicated and his disciples, defames him in the community and harms the community itself so deceived by the false excommunication.

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St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that in these cases the excommunicated may have recourse to the major superiors. Of course, if it is the Pope who excommunicated unjustly, You must have patience, avoiding taking vengeful or resentful attitudes, that certainly would put him excommunicated, if he was right, the wrong. If then, as was the case with Luther, the rebel is rightly excommunicated, it is clear that any objection by the excommunicated, further aggravate his guilt.

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The fact that an excommunication has no vices form - for example, it is issued by legitimate authority or explicit about - does not necessarily mean that it is right, appropriate, beneficial, lawful. It may be originated by arrogance or gross negligence in the scomunicante, as was the excommunication of Savonarola by Alexander VI. And if the excommunication is also infected by formal defects, for example, be the result of an abuse of authority or, as observed by St. Thomas Aquinas, be "not due or because the sentence is contrary to law" [5], besides being unjust in the content and grounds, it is absolutely nothing.

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Such cases are common today the fact that modernism has spread among the bishops, so not only is it rare that a bishop excommunicating a heretic, it even happens that Orthodox believers are excommunicated by heretical bishops. It is clear that an excommunication motivated by a cause heretical, It is contrary to the rules of faith and law, It is nothing, for which the excommunicated in principle may not be taken into account. However, But, it is possible that in this case the prelate inflicts even more, why the excommunicated should resign. Under this St. Thomas Aquinas point of view it observes that an excommunication can be unjust and yet Sorting the punitive effect [6], to which the excommunicated, in the hypothesis, It has no means of escape or get rid, as he had the good fortune to be able to do St. John of the Cross, fleeing from the monastery prison.

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Excommunication is twofold: first, to be an exemplary punishment and healthy; exemplary, to discourage others to imitate him excommunicated; to greet, ie such as to induce him to excommunicated resipiscence, to repentance and penance, that it may correct itself and to be reintegrated into the ecclesial communion. Because of this, must be neither excessive, nor too mild, but with the size of the damage caused to himself and to the Church from the schismatic or heretic, and the quality and quantity of its moral strength and reputation in the Church, as well as of the Ascendant, of fame and following that he has in it. Not too must isolate it from the community, so it does not worsen his hostility to it and does not have the temptation to leave it entirely, but it is maintained in a certain degree of esteem and consideration. It happens indeed that the dissident is subject to unfair and exaggerated hostility by certain overzealous believers or enemies, malignant or short intellect, that the prelate has to defend and protect the dissident also they.

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Excommunication does not even have to leave the excommunicated too much freedom of action and movement, nor should leave too much part of the community, because that would enable him to continue to spread his heresies and to foment rebellion against the Church. The excommunications too lenient, and purely formal, that does not bother him that much excommunicated, lose their deterrent effect and educational, He is derided by him and his followers and are slow to no effect, if not to create a martyr in the eyes of the followers. This will probably be the excommunication of mobsters and such, Unfortunately, It was the excommunication of the Communists.

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According to the excommunication order It is to shed light in the sense of helping to discern who belongs to the Church and who's out, It is thus to free the Church from a dangerous agent discouraging the faithful from wanting to follow. It may happen that the Church in these interventions is too severe, as it seems to have happened in the cases of Peter Waldo in the twelfth century, Albigensian in the thirteenth century, of Jan Hus in the fifteenth century and Luther. They did not lack any good ideas to propose a reform of the Church, though certainly their heresies were condemned. However, they counted among their ranks also people in good faith, whereby, if he had had more confidence in the dialogue, perhaps it would be avoided painful division that continues after centuries.

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RECONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNION

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Paradigmatic is the parable of the prodigal son [LC 15, 11-32]. The excommunicated is not so much one that is driven, but it is one that goes away. The decree of excommunication is very often nothing more than the taking of sorrowful act and the public sad news that his brother has left us, and we became the enemy. In the excommunication there is so much outrage, but rather the pain and the hope that the lost child is found. It's him that if he wanted to go. And if a brother is hunted, because it is already practically was not in communion and communion disturbed. So what is expected excommunication? The return of his brother, his repentance, his repentance. Why are so rare phenomena of conversion? Perhaps the Church has so far not done enough to recover these brothers, these lost sheep. It is used too severely and too little mercy. So at least he thought St. John XXIII in will and in proclaiming the Second Vatican Council. It wanted to retain the prodigal son with the force, without groped to convince him of what would face leaving the parental home. But, we must also recognize that in many cases frankly honesty and humility of which the prodigal son gives evidence in Luke's parable, noticing the bad business that made leaving the parental home, They have always been rare virtue. Almost always heretics seem to do well in eating the husks the swine, and they have, indorandole of specious tinsel, as if they were a sign of freedom and wisdom, and even invite others to follow and others follow.

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What the Church can do in these cases? With the Second Vatican Council it decided to take a new path, that minimizes the use of severity, and then the excommunication and feared let him be. Some theologians have interpreted the choice to reconcile in the sense that the Council would assume that all men, at least subconsciously, They seek God and have grace; that the proclamation of the Gospel should not be proposed in categorical terms and threatening a aut-aut: as the only way of salvation, refusing which opens the hell chasm: or do you believe or you do not save; but simply as a proclamation of mercy, which already all people of good will are being, perhaps unconsciously, whatever the religion to which they belong. In this visual optimistic, because everyone is saved, everyone is free to follow their religion. The doctrinal differences would not matter. The determining factor would be that all of them are the subject of the divine will of salvation. All so, perhaps unconsciously, belong to the Church, which embraces all religions, no one excluded.

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For the modernists we can not say, so, the Lutheran, Jew or Muslim: you are wrong. In fact, he can always tell us: wrong they are to you, but not in my religion. It can therefore understand how in this relativistic loses visual sense or the excommunication interest. It is clear that a church that does not believe in possession of absolute truth, how to conceive the modernists, It does not distinguish more clearly and definitely the dogma heresy, so the idea of ​​excommunication not for her has no meaning. It is therefore opposed to the Church of the past, said by them pre-conciliar, it now appears taxation and illiberal, disrespectful of pluralism, and freedom of conscience.

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others say: the severity and threat of Hell is not served. But then it will not be that in the end God's mercy reaches all accounts, and all are saved? We respect diversity, we focus on dialogue and on what unites us: the common interests of peace and justice. All right. However, There are some truths that touch God or salvation, They do not like the separated brethren. So we do? Some, my idea is that it is good tacerle and only admit those truths in which we all agree. The other let them optional for individual confessions. But this is not the command of Christ. And in fact, the Council proposes the Gospel to all mankind.

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The Council, But, unlike previous, aware with the irreversible human tendency to sin, proper to fallen nature, therefore mainly dedicated to the fight against the world and the condemnation of errors and vices, with its punishments sentenced to disobedient, It seems animated by the confidence that we can build on this earth the general harmony of mankind around Christ [cf. Pacem in Terris], the confidence to make the cooperation of the Church with the world, We can build a humanity right, united and peaceful, in which the Church and the world get along. The world is seen as essentially available for the Gospel, and the Church seems confident of being able to conquer the world, because the whole world waiting for Christ. So the Council seems to minimize the tendency of men to wickedness and sin - hence the need for coercion and discipline -, following on original sin and believe that education, the testimony and preaching of the Gospel are sufficient to create a humanity finally right down here, happy and harmonious.

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but yet, the Apocalypse, provides that the clash of the Church with the world - the Woman and the Dragon - will last until the Parousia, so the end of the story will not be the symbiosis of the Church with the world and the general unification of humanity in harmony and peace, but rather the victory of Christ over the powers of evil and the final separation of the wheat from the chaff, with the salvation of the elect and the damnation of the reprobate.

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Another thing to note: until Vatican II the Church has always held to clarify its identity and oppose the world. Hence the ease with which it contended with the world, He is condemning the errors of the world, and excommunicated those who yielded to the seductions of the world, especially in the modern world. It had great care for her children, There he was kept protected from the snares of the world and from the mistakes of other religions, including non-Catholic Christians, while it was severe towards the world, in whom he saw almost only dangers and corruption. If it contacted the world, The purpose was to convert to the Gospel, according to the command of Christ.

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The Vatican II addressed the Church greater openness to the world and values ​​of other religions. This led to an enrichment and a costume improved, of theology and Catholic culture, but at the same time it decreased the care to preserve the Church from penetration into it of erroneous or dangerous doctrines. So it happened that, if on the one hand, the Church has taken a more conciliatory attitude toward the world, other conflicts have arisen and corruption inside because of the penetration of errors and bad customs of the world, penetration is not sufficiently prevented by the shepherds, which they have greatly diminished the use of excommunication.

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What now has to be is a greater care in pastors, starting with the Pope, the good education of the faithful and of the pastors themselves, in pacifying the minds bitterly divided by a wretched and embittered opposition between Lefebvre and modernists, you drag from fifty, in defending the Church against the penetration of false ideas or heterodox and then in the moderate recovery of a wise and prudent use of the institute's excommunication, not at all giving up on what the Council has produced in the relationship of the Church with the modern world. It is clear that we need to continue the work of evangelization; but do not be under the illusion that in the distant future or close mankind will gather around the church. Nor it is there to hope for a worldwide peaceful coexistence between religions, as some believe, or hope.

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On Christianity, at the behest of Christ, it world domination. Religions must be submitted to the Catholic Christian religion. Christianity does not fit, by its nature, to be a religion on a par with other, as if it were a political party in a world parliament. We do not confuse civil relations among religions with the United Nations. Are not these things planned apocalyptic eschatology. Christianity will continue to expand, but always fighting against the forces of Satan. Always, in the Church, They will mix the wheat and the tares, always it must be purified from sin and expel from its midst the unworthy, always it will be opposed by enemies and always will be persecuted. Always advance and will be renewed in history, and convert the hearts to Christ, always welcome new children, and generate new saints, until, in a known now only to God, the Church will appear and defeat the great apostasy, expected from Sao Paulo, but it will precede the triumphant return of Christ in glory.

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Varazze 24 September 2018

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NOTE

[1] "Utterly destroyed" (eb. cherem), Inviting. of the CEI.

[2] Commentary on the Letters of St. Paul, c.9, 3, lect.I, n.739, Marietti editions,Turin-Roma 1953, p.134.

[3] spiritual defect attributable to opportunism, the flattery and cowardice, now spread among bishops, for which they, for crass ignorance or human respect or attachment to the bishop's throne, They do not even notice to be led by the nose by heretics. Not only they flee before the wolf came into the fold, but they do not even notice its presence by entrusting important ecclesiastical offices to people who should be excommunicated.

[4] QUESTION, Suppl., q. 21, a. 4.

[5] Ibid.

[6] QUESTION, Suppl., q. 21, a. 4.

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STORAGE AND PROGRESS

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To resolve the current intra-ecclesial conflict between modernists and Lefebvre have to give each other these two essential factors of the ecclesial dynamism: preservation and progress.

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Giovanni Cavalcoli, o.p.

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Rereading some texts of the morning meditations the Holy Father in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Martha, the 31 October 2017 - as reported the columnist de The Osservatore Romano the 1 next November -, Pope asks, against the other: The Christians' really believe in the Holy Spirit "that is in them? And have the courage to "sow the seeds", to get involved, or take refuge in a "pastoral conservation ', that does not leave that "the Kingdom of God will grow"? And he answers: "So many times we see that you prefer a pastoral preservation" rather than "let the United grow".

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We would like some comments. It must be distinguished from conservation conservatism. Keep diligently and, jealously and the sacred deposit of divine Revelation, no compromises, without adding and without taking [cf Gal 3,15; AP 22,19] and be faithful to the cost of living is the absolute duty of every Catholic, in the first place the bishops and the Pope.

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conservatism, instead, which probably alludes to the Pope, It is a foolish and useless conservation. It is the store that is no longer needed, It is the cling or nearsightedness or laziness or fear or interest in ideas, costumes, mores, habits, traditions outdated or abandoned by the Church, is the exchange just progress for modernism, get stuck on a historic day phase of the Church's journey towards the Kingdom, is close the eye of the fields are already white for harvest " [GV 4,35]; is close ear to the voice of the Spirit, who "renews the face of the earth", that "renew our minds" [RM 12,2] and day by day renews our inner man [cf. II Cor 4,16]. The Holy Spirit urges the Church to ensure progress, but in the sense indicated by these words of the Lord, He serves to remind us [GV 14,26]and then encourage us to make money.

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Granted - I want to believe - the Pope to speak of conservatism and not of legitimate conservation, does not seem to correspond to truth, It seems like Pope Francis wants to insinuate, that there is a wide spread of conservatism, that nevertheless exists in Lefebvrians; but what now afflicts more and disturbs the Church have a much wider spread of modernism or a false progress and or a false interpretation of the renewal promoted by the Council. And these evils the Pope never speaks, all it is taken from exaggerated and biased polemic against traditionalism, which he is likely to make a bundle of all herbs, Also blaming that healthy conservatism that, along with a healthy conservation, are essential factors of the structure and progress of the Church.

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If Francis wants to be a reformer of the Holy See So begin with the ward or false stop those employees who are infected with Modernism and rahnerismo, and take very loyal employees and loyal to the papal Magisterium and enemies not only of lefebvrismo, but also of modernism, both open while the good sides of one and the other.

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However, there is a certain stubborn, short-sighted and presumptuous conservatism that, under the pretext of fidelity to Sacred Tradition, accused the Popes after the Council to disown, and he would like to return to the doctrinal climate and pre-conciliar pastoral, as if Vatican II did not take place, forgetting that, When a council makes a doctrinal progress, as is almost always the case, the church, more enlightened by the Gospel and overcome certain mistakes, On the infallibility of his doctrine, never comes back, while it may happen that a new Council corrects a defective pastoral practice initiated by a preceding Council, or restore or recover certain pastoral practices abandoned by that Council, because of this plan, for the changing historical contingencies or the fallibility of the churchmen themselves, it may mutate or wrong and therefore can be corrected, after experiencing the adverse effects caused by the error.

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Thus the Council, going to meet a need of the time in which it was celebrated, He insists on the pastoral renewal and gives about many directives, that touch all aspects of church life. But after fifty years of application of these directives, many observers and impartial pastors and lovers of the Church we have conducted for years now to make clear the fact that the pastoral reconcile, for some aspects, It needs a course correction, that perhaps only a new council or a great reformer Pope will implement.

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This in no way means that we should go back in toto to the pre-council pastoral, it means keeping the pastoral achievements of the post-council - for example a healthy ecumenism and interreligious dialogue -, purifying them from certain buonistici excesses and too optimistic towards the modern world, so that today, for lack of vigilance of the bishops, we see an impressive return of modernism, much worse and more insidious than that of St. Pius X times, even because, while this had taken root only in the lower clergy and among theologians and exegetes, that infects the same body Bishops especially in Smart thin to form the rahnerismo.

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All good Catholics, faithful and shepherds, You have now realized this enormous scam, except, I wonder why, the same modernist, which either fall from the clouds, or pretend they do not know or are deaf to appeals and warnings or contemptuously ignore the charges against them or reject them or disdained, poor slandered victims, from superfine hypocrites, persecute the courageous few who discover their plots.

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The great pastoral problem today, It is no longer what it was imposed fifty years ago, as he commanded the Council, to abandon a pastoral too conservative, anachronistic, static, repetitive, too defensive, suspicious, fearful, suspicious and aggressive towards the modern world, indeed poorly known and sometimes misunderstood, for a renewed approach to benign modernity, open, fair, healthily critical, certainly prudent as the serpent, but also simple as the dove, knowing that the world reserves pitfalls, but also that the world created by God offers several values ​​to be recognized, to save, and to lead to Christ.

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On the path of renewal, of becoming, of change, the rejuvenation, development and progress has insisted, and it has gone very far in the past fifty years, and certainly true progress never end; but it has not always advanced in the right way, and more than advance, in many cases, You are deflected or one has strayed from the right path and fidelity to the real teachings of the Council; There is not always a moved with the necessary resourcefulness, moderation, caution and wisdom, in obedience to the guide of the Pontiffs or the doctrine of Catechism of the Catholic Church, indeed often falling into modernism Network, which it is a misleading approach to modernity, in which it is necessary to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, and instead the modernists have confused with one another.

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What then today we must above all do to promote healthy, effective and balanced ministry, It suits this need of the hour, different and in some respects opposed to the historical situation, he had to face and solve the council, It is not so reproach conservatism, although then it may still exist, but it is that the Pope decides, finally, with boldness and courage, heedless of any quacking of modernists, to denounce the rampant modernism, far more dangerous and harmful than lefebvrismo or conservatism, considering the extensive damage that modernism has done in recent 50 year old. and he is making, under the pretext of conciliar renewal, in the Church and in society. And here I note that since 1966 Maritain denounced the danger of modernism. It is not that Maritain was precisely a conservative. We should not insist unilaterally on developing leaving quietly preserving the deposit of faith. It is the opposite that needs to be done, after fifty years of progressive rhetoric, who ended up degenerating into partisan polemics against modernism and preservation.

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The real future of the Church and of humanity

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It must plant it once and for all with a relativism and historicism of Hegel's origin, reported several times by Pope Benedict XVI in the wake of the conviction modernist evolutionism made by St. Pius X. Becoming supposed to be. Its only makes sense in relation to the Absolute, and the story has an end only in the Lord report. Instead, we must find the principles and the absolute values ​​of reason and faith, now largely forgotten, neglected, misunderstood, incompression, e skin disprezzat, among the very people who should keep them and insegnarceli, including bishops. Values ​​that instead have always been taught and always will be taught for the salvation of mankind, by sound philosophy, as rational, and from the Church, as values ​​of faith. We must know for sure what these values ​​of reason and of faith, We need to know why are these and not others, It is necessary to distinguish them from the subjective views and deciduous. We must distinguish dogmatism and fundamentalism by the certainty of faith and rational certainty.

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We should be able to distinguish the immutable values, immortal and incorruptible from those that mutate and become corrupt. Necessary to distinguish the immutable truth and supra-temporal and temporal those mutable, what is true today, it is true always and will always be true - philosophical truths, moral theological - what is true today and will be tomorrow under certain conditions or historical or legal institutions or political or ecclesial realities.

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It is with reason and faith that we know what is right and what is faith. At this point we do not underfoot quicksand, but the rock on which to build the house, the firm ground on which to rest and walk. We know what are the values ​​that will never fail. We know what is the meaning of existence and of life. We know who we are, where we come from and where we can, we want and need to go. We know that God exists. We know who to trust. We know why the good and evil. We know that there is no middle way between yes and no. We know our vocation and our duty. We see our eternal destiny and we can pursue it with hope, perseverance and courage, knowing they will not be disappointed. We know that we can do it. We know what are the values ​​and goods, for which it is worth sacrificing our lives, we know what are the values ​​on which we can not give in, even at the cost of living. We know what is martyrdom. We know we can sell everything, negotiate on everything, fiddling around, outside of our soul. So we buy all. We know it is impossible to salvation without these values, so these are the values ​​that guarantee the salvation. If we abandon delivery that was given to us by Christ, considering it outdated or aged or no longer valid or no longer relevant, for future invented by us in the idea that it is the Holy Spirit, we are not innovators, we make no real progress, but we are traitors, deserters and faithless; we are no longer under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Demon ma.

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Instead it is necessary that we always keep before the eyes del'intelletto and heart the values ​​and the absolute property, perennial and unchanging, God's Word does not pass - The word of God remains forever - that illuminates our path, It shows us our duties, us to experience the divine law, inflames the heart, It pushes us to holiness - the love of Christ compels us —, correcting our mistakes, forgives our sins, It leads to real progress, founded on divine truth always known better in the same sense and the same meaning.

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The appeal to "tradition" to know what is faith and what is not, in itself is not enough, and it is even illegal and wicked, if you claim to appeal directly and subjectively to Tradition, to contest or contradict or "fix" the doctrinal teaching of a Pope or a Council, as they often are the guardians and interpreters supreme and definitive Tradition.

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The error then worsens, whether between the content of Tradition does not discern which ones are truly permanent, inviolable and insuperable, and which it is old and outdated content. Tradition is not a matter of time duration, but the intrinsic value of truth, over the time, the content of the Tradition. We must be able to distinguish in the Tradition that is related to time and historical contingencies passing, what belongs essentially the Eternal and the Absolute, ie the institutional will of Christ ("Divine right") - for example the sacraments - which can never be, It never will be changed or abandoned by the Church.

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Thus it is not sufficient in every case to say: "gives 2000 years' - provided that you know for certain - "has always been thought or done so", because instead it is said that we should continue to do so forever. There is a past that is now past dead and buried. It would make sense to remove a corpse from the grave like the restoration of the values ​​of the past. What is rightly passed, it is good that remains of the past, otherwise it would be like trying to bring back those "things past" [II Cor 5,19], of which St. Paul speaks. Better still an ancient truth that a new error.

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There are indeed compared to Tradition firsts, never before existed. If, however, the Church establishes new things unknown to the previous Tradition, such as women's ministries or The new order of Mass, this is not a break with Tradition, but simply it means that those things were contained implicitly in Tradition.

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These are the lines of true "breakthrough prophetic", the real reform we expect of Pope Francis. Of course he should not listen to extollers time acti, and it does well to arguirli, but above all do not listen to flatterers and false friends, but those who really loves, who urges him to join teaching and pastoral, conservation and development, continuity and progress, loyalty and inventiveness, even if the true friend can have the tone of the warning or reprimand. The "revolution" populist, reckless and low-priced to let dittatorelli ambitious, bellied and demagogues Africa and Latin America, without lowering its sacred dignity of Vicar of Christ.

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If the Pope wants to be father of the poor, as it is clear from its intentions, imitate his Lord Jesus Christ and the countless Holy Fathers of the poor and let stand the Don Lorenzo Milani, i Fidel Castro Helder Câmara gli. The oppressed are not only immigrants. We invite the Holy Father to exercise his mercy with the crushed by the modernists, do not have too much confidence with the modernist oppressors.

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It is true that the lefevriani also speak of "modernists", but they distort the meaning of the concept, when they accuse of "modernism" the Papacy post-conciliar and doctrines of the Council, confuse progress with modernism or Maritain with Rahner or confuse Mass new world order Dinner with Lutheran. Continues below the journalist: "Reality, indeed, It is that "wheat" - words of the Pope - "has the power within, the yeast has the power inside ", and also "the power of the Kingdom of God comes from within; the strength comes from within, the growth comes from within ' ".

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There is no doubt about the truth of what the Pope says here. Only the Gospel image of the wheat grain is not the only image that Christ offers to His Word. No doubt it throughout history, always comes better known by the Church in the same sense and the same meaning, as St. Vincent of Lerins, with the development of the Church's dogmatic.

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To clarify the issue of the conservative function of pastoral and avoid the conservatism, necessary to refer to statements or comparisons of Christ, in which emerges the durability, stability, the immutabilità, incorruptibility, eternity of God's Word, like when, for instance, it is compared to a. "treasure" [cf. ], to a "precious pearl" [cf. ], a "drachma" [cf. ] or a "rock" [cf. ]. It is a word that "does not pass" [cf. ]. It is a word of "eternal life" [cf. ]. The precious things are carefully preserved and jealously. It is a principle of good sense, that everyone understands. And how much more so it must be kept intact and undamaged, at any cost, without change, without corrections, without adding and without taking, although with continuous explanations, the divine message of salvation, who assures us and promises us eternal life.

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Of course, the Gospel message is not like a perishable food, which is corrupt, if it is not well guarded and preserved. In fact, it is not afraid of the wear of time or corrosive agents. It is made of corruptible matter, but it is pure immortal spirit. It is a treasure that, though well guarded, "the thief can not steal and moths can not break '. Who can be corrupted is the possessor, who is unfaithful, negligent and neglected in the store and keep it, and then he can lose. Here apostasy. It can conceive evil and can travisarlo. That's heresy. It can hurt administer. Here human respect, sloth and negligence of the pastors.

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He continues the columnist: "Similarly, said Francis, "If we want to preserve for us the grain, It will be only a grain. If we do not mix with life, with flour of life, the yeast, It will remain only the yeast "". Here the Pope touches an aspect of conservatism. He obviously does not deny that needs store grain: otherwise, if you come to donate? We give what we have carefully preserved. Ma, If values ​​are to be donated, and this is precisely the case of God's Word, although it must donate. They are the very words of Jesus: "If the grain of wheat does not die, it remains only; but if it dies, it produces much fruit » [LC 12,24].

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How to tune preservation and progress

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It can advance the living being that has its own stable identity. In fact the real progress is to improve the conditions of the subject. The course assumes that the preservation of the subject. It is true that life is movement, it is becoming, it is changing. But why is life indeed be development or explanation in the right direction of the existing entity. The progress of the movement must be healthy, that is orderly and well-guided and non-pathological, disorganized or incoherent. Even a madman is full of movement, but no one envies his condition.

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The subject that divides or changes by denying their identity namely by ceasing to keep himself, start a movement that does not involve progress, but dissolution or disintegration. It is the process that leads to death. It is true that the dead no longer exercises the vital activities. However, the stiffness of death does not exclude at all in becoming a corpse which is its dissolution. So the sheer becoming, the simple change or mutate is not a good in itself. All becoming has a direction.

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Not to be trusted to a becoming confused and contradictory. To test whether this is progress, not corruption, We have to see where tents. If it tends to better progress; it tends to worse setback. It should be short, it is becoming, the development or enhancement or improvement of a subject who is supposed to be maintained in its own identity. Otherwise, becoming is not life, my dead, it is not progress, but retrogression, not evolution but involution, but no progress relegation, not decay.

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The concern to preserve their healthy alleged identity, It is a very legitimate concern and dutiful, that has nothing to do with conservatism do not know what "closing another". It lacks in masochists subjects and d It corresponds to what in the animal kingdom is self-preservation, without which that animal would soon be destroyed by adverse agents.

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It is necessary that the Pope, which supreme guardian, advocate, guarantor and moderator, concord and peace in the Church, to assume its responsibilities. It must ask yourself in the position it deserves fair trial, centering on the universal principles of the Church, so that both sides conflict - lefevriani and modernists - can recognize themselves as Catholic.

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It should be, secondly, that recognizes the part of truth and justice - mentioned in this article -, present and carried forward by both parties. The two sides, side by side relationship, fit perfectly, as the two halves of a sphere broken, because God created them just because, unite, do one thing, which it is the same reality of the Church.

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The Pope must make every effort so that the two sides meet each other and approached, overcoming old grudges, ODĪ. and mistrust. It must abandon its current propensity for modernists, otherwise it can not be expected to elicit the confidence of Lefebvre and the modernists remain confirmed in their errors and take on an arrogant attitude, which will not lead to any result. The Pope must make sure that Lefebvre feel understood and appreciated in their good reasons, What the Pope has so far not done, indeed falling into contempt and nell'insulto. They, But, from them, They must strive to accommodate confidently all the doctrines of the Council, as he urged them repeatedly Pope Benedict XVI and, consequently, the following papal teaching until Papa Francesco.

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As for the modernists, the Pope must follow the same method applied to Lefebvre: recognize the good sides and correct defects. Good side of the modernists, that has escaped the Lefebvrians, who misunderstood, is the attention to modern thinking and a willingness to modernization and progress of the Church. But if the Church is relatively easy to correct the errors of Lefebvre, after all few in number and fairly compact, a fact of doctrines and morals, gigantic undertaking, and above the forces of the Church it appears the work of correction of errors of the modernists, and because they are scattered throughout the Church, among pastors and the faithful, and because mistakes are very varied and touch on all the dogmas of the faith. Wanting to make a comparison drawn from garbage, cleaning up the Lefebvrian camp is about cleaning up the modernist camp, as well as to clean up in a Swiss city is to treat the Naples garbage.

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However, a point of agreement between the Pope, Lefebvre and the modernists you might find around the problem Rahner. Indeed, while the modernists consider Rahner their greatest theologian, Lefebvre have sharply Rahner identified in the greatest danger for the Church today. At this point the Pope - it's about time - should decide with courage, come what may, to condemn the errors Rahner, giving a just satisfaction to Lefebvre and to all lovers of truth and of the Church. However, things are not so simple, because really Rahner gave a contribution to the doctrines of the Council. It is at this point that Lefebvre pass from the wrong and so must the Pope correct them, because they consider it as a modernist's contribution to the Council rahneriano. From here their rejection of such doctrines regarded as moderniste, which is false, because Lefebvre interpret those doctrines of modernism in the sense rahneriano; and instead there Rahner gave a positive contribution, otherwise it would not have been approved by Council. If the Pope will be able to show to Lefebvre and the modernists the points on which they meet each other and if one more he will accept the papal corrections, Peace will be made.

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The Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sustain the Pope in its leadership in the Church's mission in the truth, in the unit, in holiness, in a healthy pluralism and harmony, in a renewed evangelization, that enlarges the boundaries of the visible Church, vinca forces hostile to it, religions convert to Christ, reacquaint the separated brethren to the Holy Mother Church, showing the world the face of just God vindicates the humble, merciful comforter of the afflicted, liberator of the oppressed, conqueror of sin and death.

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Varazze, 14 September 2018

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BEFORE A CHURCH VISIBLE FROM A SLICE AND MORAL DECLINE Doctrinal IRREVERSIBLE, YOU MUST OPEN THE FIRST BANK OF SEED

Right now we should treasure of the words of Cardinal Charles Journet [1891-1975] than in his work Church of the Incarnate Word explains: "The axiom “where the Pope there is the Church”, so where the Pope acts as Pope and Head of the Church; if not, neither the Church is in him, neither he is in the Church " .

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Rembrandt, Christ with the Apostles in the boat in a storm

The problem is disastrous, we start diluting the air with a little’ of humor …

… responding to a Cardinal who wanted to cheer him up by reminding him that according to the promise of Jesus Christ Peter's boat would not be prey to the storm and that the end would come in port, Blessed Pope Pius IX answered: "It's true, but the Lord has spoken and given warranties with respect to the boat, not regarding the crew ' [cf. G. Cionchi, The Pius IX hidden, Ed. Kshlom, 2000. WHO]. And with this joke of Blessed Pope Pius IX, who in private it was endowed with a spirit of humor at times hilarious, pass mystagogical aspect is that tragic. It is so true that Christ himself has promised that the Church will survive until his return at the end of time, but the Word of God also gives us a clear question to ponder:

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But the Son of Man, when will, find faith on earth? [cf. LC 18, 8]

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With great clarity the Blessed Apostle Paul wrote to the people of Thessalonica making use of language and dramatic images:

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Please, siblings, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our communion with him not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed neither by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand, so that no man deceive you in any way. Before that day will be the apostate and must be revealed the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship up to sit in the temple of God, ostentandosi as God. Do not remember, while I was still with you, These things were? And now you know what prevents its manifestation that takes place at the time. The mystery of lawlessness is already in place. Meanwhile, those who now holds it holds it, until the middle of bait and then it will be revealed the wicked and the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the light of his coming, because the presence of the wicked will occur in the power of Satan with all sorts of portents, signs and wonders of falsehood and every kind of wicked deception for those who are lost, because they received not the love of the truth and so be saved. Therefore, God will send them a justification of error that they may believe the lie and so are judged all who have not believed the truth, but they consented to the iniquity [2Ts 2,1-3.13-17]

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Then turning to his disciple Timothy, the Blessed Apostle continues to write:

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I charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, do warn, reproaches, exhorts with all magnanimity and doctrine. The day will come, indeed, when they will not endure sound doctrine;, ma, having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales. But you shall carefully, endure suffering, do the work of the gospel proclaimer, fulfil your Ministry [II Tm 4,1-8].

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When the Blessed Apostle John He wrote the text of the Apocalypse on the Island of Patmos, in verse in which he tells ...

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"Fell, fallen is Babylon the great, one that has made all the nations with the wine of her fornication of fury " [AP 13, 8].

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... using an image of the Old Testament It caters to the Roman Empire, then Rome hidden behind "Babylon the Great", all for reasons that anyone can understand. Reasons related in part to security and partly to the spread of the text, in order to prevent their destruction by the Romans at the time about a strong suspicion towards gesuano movement and its spread of his message.

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After two thousand years now, it comes from saying that never as today has that reference to ancient Rome hidden behind the image of Babylon current, place that has long Roma "has made all nations drink of the wrath of her fornication with wine" [refer to the latest articles: WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO].

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I do not mean not even touch the world of private revelations, those recognized by the Church, where it comes from several centuries of the great apostasy. With all due respect to the private revelations approved by the Church, I remember that these are not enclosed in store the Catholic faith, where they are enclosed the Holy Gospels, the Apostolic Letters and the Book of Revelation that speak of the Prince of this world [cf. John John 12, 31; 14, 30; 16, 11], antichrist [The Gv 2, 18; 2, 22; 4,3; AP 1, 13-18] and the great apostasy [cf. Ii Ts 2, 1-12]. In the Old Testament the prophet Zechariah foretells the coming of the foolish shepherd:

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"I will raise up the land a shepherd who will not care for the sheep who perish, will not seek the scattered, will not heal the wounds, nor feed those who stand, but he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their nails even » [Zc 11,16].

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But above all is the Word of God to ask the tragic question: "But the Son of Man, when will, find faith on earth? [cf. LC 18, 8]». This is the reason why for years, although unnecessarily, I keep repeating that the day of his return: "How come again in glory to judge the living and the dead", Christ might even find the shell of a completely emptied Church of the Divine Word and filled with another. And this process of emptying and filling has been ongoing for over half a century, and today is now at an advanced stage, but mostly irreversible.

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The COUNTRY COUSINS

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pop quartet de The Country Cousins

I feel tender affection for all theologians and lay people who set himself to defend the purity of doctrine before this terrible debacle, they continue to battle in vain against Modernism and the theology of Karl Rahner, almost as if doing it for forty years they remained fossilized on this, without realizing that the one, Modernism, the other, the so-called rahnerismo, They are no longer the problem. Sometimes it seems to have to do with the complex pop from The Country Cousins, that even if aged, but always dressed in the same fashion clothes in the early seventies of the twentieth century and with the wedges from twenty centimeters to feet, they continue to sing: "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls' [cf. WHO, WHO]. I am sure that, finally, the sing for the last time in a geriatric department and then inside an oncology center for the terminally ill, because all their lives they sang that reason and until the end of life will step forward to sing the dressing of the late seventies and fashionable dresses with wedges from twenty centimeters to feet; clothing with which they will eventually be deposited in the coffin, while outside it the members of their fan club sing in chorus: "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls'.

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Perhaps, i Countryside cousins some of our theology, think that if one day a Pope ordered the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to disavow new Modernism and declare heterodox theology of Karl Rahner, the problem would be really solved? To think or hope in this is to be not only beyond reason, but just beyond the boundaries of reality. And those who can not perceive reality because fossilized committed to live in the reality that has been created, It does not say hurt the Church, but certainly not helping to solve their problems and make them good.

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With respect to those who followed to waste time both Modernists and with the theology of Karl Rahner - because that made all life and this must continue to make -, what we must instead take note it is that the first and second were the first believers. Just so: Modernists and Karl Rahner were believers as were the great heretics of Arius and Pelagius history. We know how their faith was corrupted by error, but none of them has ever acted to bring harm to the Church, quite the opposite: They were convinced of the good of the Church and especially of being right and therefore felt the duty of conscience to save. Or is someone that the Council of Nicaea to Ario, later St. Augustine debating against Pelagio, They have directed their accusations to be people without faith? Just then cite the case of Joachim of Fiore, whose heretical thought was sentenced in 1215 by the Fourth Lateran Council, but he never doubted either his faith or his personal holiness of life. Joachim of Fiore, who also was a man of deep piety and holiness of life, He was never beatified because speculating on the mystery of the Trinity had fallen - so surely unintended -, in a precise form of heresy that will then take the name of joachimism O millenarianism. But it was another era, In fact today that times have changed, There is instead preparing to beatify the Apulian Bishop Tonino Bello, whose heroic virtues are constituted by the fact that it was a great engaged in social, without taking into account that this effort was built on demagoguery, on populism and pauperism, as well as on a totally uncritical split and sentimental pacifism morality and Catholic doctrine. In truth, the Fair is an authentic heresies receptacle for the most part written, published, filmed and recorded, ie documented; and diffuser of a Christology that begins with Christ to come to himself and focus on man, an ecclesiology that euphemistically could be called daring and Mariology to be confused him with romantic poems. But he spoke of the poor and poverty and was a great involved in social; and perhaps what makes him a true Blessed? And Joachim of Fiore, At that time, when we beatify?

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Wanting there is more and worse: if for the first time in its history the Church proceeded to the beatification and then the next canonization of first bishop heterodox, the great pundits of Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, what ingenious interpretive artifices think of resorting, whereas canonization, unlike a beatification, It implies a verdict of infallible teaching? Why these, Unfortunately, are the questions that for the first time in Church history we are now forced to answer; and find some answers is not easy and not at all easy, from a strictly theological and dogmatic point of view. but yet, sooner or later, you will have to respond to this as to other questions, although I expect that someone will not hesitate to affirm, in the name of that logic able to go beyond all logic, that takes over if a verdict of infallible teaching - I am referring to the hypothetical canonization of Tonino Bello -, This pronouncement will cancel and erase retroactively any overt heresy and shows the canonized, because who has delivered its opinion can not err, foolproof, therefore it enjoys a very special way of the Holy Spirit … perhaps up to be above the order established by God and therefore of God himself?

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The question is therefore logical to say the least: faced with a situation like, what good would it do battle against the errors of Joachim of Fiore, born and lived between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? It would take just as much as today, and can serve to battle against the Modernists and Karl Rahner. Because for certain theologians and thinkers, the underlying problem is not what Karl Rahner was wrong from a doctrinal point of view. The problem, but above all the goal to reach, and more: I am right and they are right to say from a life that Karl Rahner's wrong and wrong. In short: I am right that for forty-four years later to sing in many different ways: "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls'.

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Having said that I continue saying: The older theologians are free to continue to thunder against the Modernists and against Karl Rahner. And as, of certain subjects, I know is stubbornness is the extent to which they ended up falling in love both of their good battles both of their idea of ​​truth, I avoid losing unnecessary time to explain to them that the problem today of the Church are neither heresies of the Modernists or dangerous heterodoxies Karl Rahner, because something else is the problem that they do not want to identify and see.

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Today, inside of the Church live the self-destructive tragedy a disintegration of the deposit of faith and dogma deriving from the swarm of a very large number of bishops and presbyters which are in fact the perfect atheists, of non-believers. Before the objective fact and incontrovertible of this atheism, I would certainly not lose my precious time squirming between modernism and rahnerismo, paralyzed in disputes that today are useless, Whereas the life God gave it to me to use it and not to waste it uncritically and stubborn to the end. Of course, The Stakeholders can say that we came to this thanks to modernism and to rahnerismo. Good, but continue to repeat this, in which realistic and objective logical solution can lead, if not ... "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls' ?

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EXCEEDING THE POINT OF NO RETURN CREATES IRREVERSIBILITY

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in large forfeitures there is always a threshold that marks the point of no return

These wrestlers Against Modernism and Karl Rahner what they want: disavowal of that Modernism already disavowed by the Holy Pontiff Pius X and his two successors, then the repudiation of Karl Rahner, or simply that it recognized the rightness of their theological positions as opposed to those critical of Karl Rahner? Possible that some pundits of logic and metaphysics, lost in their dream world and convinced that they live in it maximum grip with the real human and ecclesial, fail to understand what leads to a gangrenous and irreversible situation like the one we are experiencing? Can not reach to understand that when the decadence that invests regularly the civil and religious company passed the so-called safety limit, no going back, because at that point the irreversible and unstoppable process proceeds regardless of the will more or less good of the people themselves or the little good that remains inside a small church in structure of sin, which it produces an internal sin and who then spreads outside? Someone has never raised the issue of what the Church today can be seen to have lost sanctifying grace because of a diabolical mechanism rejection developed in-house? And do not come to me to tell improperly that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, of which he is head and we are living members [cf. With the 1, 18], because I know. And since I know, I take this opportunity to remind you that the Mystical Body is the union of the faithful, It constituted the cornerstone of which is the Word of God, guided through the centuries by the Roman Pontiff, It remembers the question successor of Blessed Peter the Apostle, not the successor of Christ, of which it is Vicar on earth, no successor on earth. The Mystical Body is not only a moral union formed by the common purpose, as in an earthly society would be what in legal language is referred to as "legal person", it is a collection of souls, joined by a living bond and vital which is the life of God, associate to each of them by means of the Sacraments. So this is not a headless union, or guided by the hierarchy, which are the bishops united to the Roman Pontiff, but a reality that dominates our every human expectation, of which Jesus Christ is the Head of this Body, while the faithful united with Him in the bond of divine grace, are members. This is how a real body, spiritual, which has its basis in Jesus Christ and in sanctifying grace, whose limbs or are already united in the glory of the heavenly Jerusalem, or they are in the certainty of faith of Paradise. However, if the head of this visible body of Christ is excluded and if the visible body is not sanctifying grace, If someone intends to wonder what will become of this visible body? And please, do not tell me that the visible Church can not lose sanctifying grace because of Christ and is assisted by the Holy Spirit, because with all respect I would find myself compelled to reply that I am a priest and a theologian and as such, and as such I can not reason with the illogic of the wizards who read the bottoms of coffee cups. Or is it perhaps the case already happened that Adam and Eve have altered after the creation of the perfect harmony of all creation, after having denied and rejected the action of sanctifying grace of God upon them? [cf. Gen 3, 15]. Said this, anyone thinks for real, in the name of his surreal dogmatic, that the visible Church can not reject and exclude sanctifying grace because being the Church of Christ and being governed by the Holy Spirit, God the Father would never allow? To think, reassure and reassure the people of God transmitting things like that is really abhorrent, in the etymological sense of the term aberration. As we can only speculate that the visible Church would never vacated by God to refuse his sanctifying grace, if Adam and Eve were left free to rebel against the Creator? And if we deny this, then we can easily pass for real from dogmatic theology at the magic of reading coffee cups funds!

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AND NOW THAT IS ANSWERED TO MY PARADIGM OF THE PARATROOPER

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if the aircraft is without a parachute it is physically impossible to stop, back on the plane, wear a parachute and jump again …

Certain subjects they would not hesitate to revolutionize the laws of physics in the name of their subjective truth and their equally subjective logic, but the question that they should ask themselves is very practical and very simple background: for a dreadful error which may also have competition both modernists both rahneriani, or for a negligent to say the least absurd, it happened that a parachutist would have stepped off the plane without having donned the parachute. And this is the current situation of the Church: launch a plane without a parachute. Well, the great masters of Aristotelian logic, the school and metaphysics, at this point should bring the best arguments to explain that this paratrooper, precipitating towards the ground by two thousand meters of height, It can still stop, go back, provide for wear and parachuted launch again. And if these pundits metaphysical answer that he has launched without a parachute because of the Modernists and Karl Rahner, I will say that this, It was also true, now it is irrelevant, because the cause was found and destroyed before he will branch out. If then, even worse, before the paratrooper who rushes without a parachute, those who can never be free of a "logical" answer for everything, They are attacked to say that is the Holy Spirit, at that point, I will say that the Holy Spirit is not Merlin, then invite them to explain how the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, before a free individual or collective act of the will which involves precise consequences, He will cancel its freedom and its free will to bring it back on the plane, let him wear the parachute and then let it run again, after meanwhile he disavowed the modernists and rahneriani, on account of which he has launched without a parachute. Or in other words: it would be as if God the Father had annulled in Adam and Eve freedom and free will to prevent them from rebelling against the Creator and thus committing the original sin. For God did not do it? All in all then it would have avoided trasmettessero to all mankind a corrupt nature due to a sin that their descendants have not committed, but because of them, however, they have contract. What would have cost to God to intervene, suspend for a few minutes their freedom and their agency? Well, ask ourselves why God did not do it, if we really want to be men of faith and logic, men instead of fideism and illogic cloaked behind the highest speculations of scholastic and metaphysics.

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While we know well the problems caused by Modernism and Karl Rahner, beyond which we are now long gone, but also better we understand the shortsightedness of some people who pretend to quickly change a logical answer for everything, up to drown into the glass of water of illogical, it cost as well stick to real shots of magic of the Holy Spirit, thus ignoring the two foundations that are in support of the mystery of man's creation: freedom and free will.

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THE SYPHILIS AND AIDS DISEASE ARE TWO LISTS: UNA NOT AT ALL THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE OTHER

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between syphilis and AIDS there is no connection, diseases are two separate and distinct from one another

Let's go then cautious, Although I myself have partly done, affirming that Modernism and Karl Rahner are the result of the launch of skydiver without a parachute, because the thing is not at all logical and consequential. Or to put it another example: we put that in the United States bursts a real epidemic AIDS. In the event to, while those infected will die without the possibility of cures and effective vaccines against this disease, what would benefit persist in speaking of the Spanish in the sixteenth century prostitutes infected with syphilis sailors of Christopher Columbus, which then spread to the New America among people who never had to know certain diseases before they arrive? But I can guarantee that serves no purpose to explain to these people that the objective problem of modernity is not syphilis but l 'AIDS. Even less will serve to explain to them that between syphilis and l 'AIDS there is no scientific link clinical, there is no connection, because the latter disease is not born as a result of degenerative previous, but it develops in a completely autonomous. Lost time! They will step forward undeterred to cite the cases of Christopher Columbus sailors in the sixteenth century spread syphilis in New Americas, because what they studied, written and explained all my life, so this wish to continue undeterred to write and explain: Syphilis. Or if you prefer better: "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls'. And if you really must acknowledge that today, the real and serious problem, It is not syphilis but people who die from AIDS, at that point, regardless of falling in scientific illogic, just to continue to talk about their beloved and indispensable theories of syphilis, They affirm without ridiculous sentence that 'AIDS It is the logical consequence of syphilis. But if anyone, before certain expressions laugh behind the illogical, they will feel more than ever confirmed in their ideas and in response replicate: inevitably he laughs, because it is a dangerous syphilitic and as such has been heard out and stung.

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AGAIN TODAY BY LOGIC ARISTOTELIAN, BY EDUCATION AND FROM SAN THOMAS AQUINAS? You think irrationality PURE

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welcome to the world of the irrational …

In a visible Church in which the humoral and emotional have taken the place of the objective and rational, where the law is despised leading to accusations of "self-righteous legalism" addressed to those who call upon the application of the canonical norms, where you ride declaring with urticaria before the rigors of the "old doctrine", where even bishops and priests have taken the habit of using the words "dogma" and "dogmatic" in a negative term for people with these entries closed and obtuse, I do my best wishes to all those who today, before a visible Church in which arrogance was elected to the law in a climate of total anarchy, presume to be able to apply Aristotelian logic and criteria of the old and glorious school. I think these people deserve the best compliments, as anyone who deserves them assume with certainty and serious belief that they can read the original texts in Hebrew from the Book of Genesis and the texts of the Holy Gospels in the original greek to an arrogant illiterate in a government role, that far from being aware of his illiteracy feels the opposite person of high culture and as such entitled to despise the knowledge of others, exercising the worst coercion all the authority of which is covered. But how can you think only a joke to start from Aristotle, by the school and by Aquinas, when to impose their study should be arrogant and contemptuous of illiterates who do not know the Catechism of the Catholic Church and who now occupy all the top key roles in the Church and ecclesiastical power?

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Losing then deliberate and unnecessary time, certain theologians insist on explaining that we must start from the Aristotelian logic and by St. Thomas Aquinas, as recommended certain Popes and certain documents of the magisterium, ignoring the recommendations of those Popes have fallen on deaf ears and that those of magisterial documents have been completely set aside. And to waste time I do not feel, especially considering that the use of the life that was given to me I will have to answer to God, I do not particularly love is the unnecessary loss of time or waste of the talents bestowed by Him [cf. Mt 25, 14-30; LC 19, 12-27]. So I leave willingly discuss these subjects dream of an audience of arrogant illiterate under the ruins of the house that falls apart stating with absolute certainty that we must start from the Aristotelian logic, by the school and by St. Thomas Aquinas, as several Popes lived decades and decades ago they have recommended through various documents giving their teaching. And here I wonder: these wise scholastic and Thomist, They have perhaps realized that to better allocate and destroy these magisterial documents, has even come up with the unusual and original ploy to beatify and canonize the Popes their authors, However, at the same time destroying their teaching? And if this is not evil, I honestly do not really know what it is. To then he had doubts in this regard, just ask to reflect on what remains today of the Encyclical Faith and Reason or of the Apostolic Exhortation Familiar Consortium of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II, who it was canonized just as the other side you were literally in pieces these documents to him especially dear. To follow with the upcoming Holy Pontiff Paul VI, which on one hand will be canonized and the other will be given a short new reading and interpretation of his encyclical Human life, all taking advantage of people like S.It is. Mons. Vincenzo Paglia …

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… anyway, in this climate of irreversible collapse just start from the Aristotelian logic, by the school and by St. Thomas Aquinas, all adding to the Mass celebrated with the Missal of St. Pius V, so that the free fall without a parachute is finally interrupted, the paratrooper who is falling to the ground can be stopped in the air, reported on the plane by the Holy Spirit fell in the role of Merlin, so wear the parachute and then launch again reciting: « introibo altar to the Gods, to God who giveth joy to my youth ». When then after this operation it will finally come safely to earth, First we will offer you a cup of coffee, then, after he drank, we can also switch to a metaphysical reading of the bottom of the cup.

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THAT SUPER COUNCIL VATICAN NATO WITH SYNDROME PROGERIE BUT ON WHICH CAN NOT BE DISCUSSED, IN A CHURCH IN WHICH DISCUSS SOME TIME EVEN ON THE FAITH DOGMAS

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pictured the American teenager Samuel Berns, suffering from the syndrome Progerie [disease of the “born old”], in a photo taken at the age of 17 year old, just before he died [It comes from The Corriere della Sera, WHO]

After a process incubazione which starts from the late nineteenth early twentieth century, in the late fifties of the twentieth century came to life a radical mutation of the Church, initially hidden under pretexts of reform and update. And here lies another problem: the inability of many Catholic scholars distinguish Vatican II from the post-conciliar, which does not mean to deny that certain very optimistic facility documents, cast for more with a whole new language which are affected by the German Romantic style decadent, Then we have favored the confusion that has developed in the post-conciliar [see my previous article, WHO]. If we want to look at those who are certain objective limits of the Second Vatican Council, We can just say that his documents were born suffering from the syndrome Progerie, the so-called disease “born old”. And these are because they do not speak to the future, but the man of a mind that was already dying. Quite different was instead the Council of Trent, It wrote in the sixteenth century, proponent of reforms and not revolutions, who had the ability to speak plain language to men the next five centuries of church history. And who that thinks it can deny, which denies it well, but do it in logical rigor, not subjective-emotional-ideological rigor, in this miserable and devastated church visible in the Tridentine which the term - referring to the Council of Trent - is now commonly used by bishops, Priests and theologians in highly negative sense, mainly to show people retrograde and obtuse.

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Even this last speech is useless to this, because by the time we now quite beyond the same problems of the post-conciliar, how long we are now quite beyond most of the same documents of Vatican Council II, that having been cloaked in ideology touted for ecclesiology, make it impossible for anyone to open serene scientific debates aimed to demonstrate and clarify what now certain documents, written for a man of fifty does that already was dying at the time when they were drawn up, today they are nothing more than the old texts, no topical and poorly effective to speak to the man of the third millennium. And after this council dei council the Church was finally embalmed in subjective ideologies based on the idea of ​​a super council that theological schools, groups of people or individuals, They are finally cut out according to their own interests and pleasures, each giving rise to their staff Council egomenico.

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For case, there was something that did not work? Definitely. And all just starting from the style of the language adopted by the Second Vatican Council, documents which, starting from Holy Council, give guidelines but no clear indications, indicating if anything, even the penalties for offenders, then open the doors to postume interpretations for the implementation of reforms. And although for many all is well and everything went well, if we take instead of the first reforms, which it was the liturgical, the evidence shows this is today's reality: if today we enter one of our churches, to this increasingly empty, we will find ten priests who celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice in ten different ways. To this we also add the lay movements that have created their own liturgies that are teeming with all kinds of liturgical abuses. If then in 2004, forty years on from the great liturgical reform, Asked to have enacted the Education Sacramentum [cf. WHO] in which they remember the foundations of the Holy Eucharist, it is evident that something, or perhaps many things, They did not go so well in the right direction.

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This something that did not work well and the right way, between the various names has one in particular that embodies the serious and devastating problem: hermeneutic of discontinuity or of the break up, which as we know are powerful advocates the theologians of the School of Bologna, Today large piazzatori of bishops and cardinals under this pontificate Augusto, from Europe to the Philippines. And what are the consequences of this discontinuity O break up? Very simple: in a few days an overt heretic, that Enzo Bianchi, World preach a retreat to the clergy at the Sanctuary of Ars, where the remains of the saint patron of priests are preserved, Also present at the big event, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. And when the priests together with the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy flock to hear the pearls of wisdom of a person who sows five decades blatant heresies, there is very little to add, except that the phrase soon resound: "Everything is done" [GV 19, 30].

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CATHOLICS WE PROUD THAT WE WANTED TO LEARN THE LESSONS OF HISTORY

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those signs that we are no longer able to read and interpret: on the day that the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI has made withdrawal from the holy throne, three lightning struck in succession by a cross on the ball dell'Arcibasilica dome of St. Peter, the third of which was photographed and taken in video [click on image to open the video]

The real problem is that of a pyramid structure someone moved the stones of the base, causing the progressive collapse of the pyramid from the base to the tip. And while this collapse is underway, someone is seriously debating the urgent need to declare how false the god Anubis, whose frescoes in honor of his cult are found in one of the inner rooms of the pyramid. In short: We disown the Modernists and Karl Rahner while the whole pyramid is collapsing, why then, with their condemnation, at that point the pyramid is rimonterà from itself from the base up to the tip, because the pyramid is of Christ and is governed by the Holy Spirit, then the Son and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, will provide to this. E, how to understand, before those who think in this way and to whom has the similar approaches with Pneumatology, we really metaphysics transformed into magic.

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With an arrogance that eventually would inevitably be punished, Catholics we refused to learn from the solemn lessons of history. All the great ancient civilizations, from the Sumerians to the Assyrian-Babylonians, by the Egyptians to the Greeks until the fall of the great Roman Empire, They triggered at some point of irreversible decay processes. And as I explained with the parachute paradigm, the decline is irreversible when it exceeds the point of no return, when the aircraft is exited without a parachute; a fact born of an act of more or less free choice before which no one, even the Holy Spirit, It can intervene subverting all the laws of physics to the rescue of man free and endowed with free.

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In a short time, within twenty years at most, the Catholic Church as we have known will not exist. There will small groups around the world who have saved the foundations of the deposit of faith. The great ecclesiastical structures will be converted into stable intended for completely different uses, the glorious and ancient monumental churches are museums, concert halls, Art exhibition centers, or brought into various kinds of secular activities. If the reigning Pontiff will be succeeded another two or three similar or worse setting, at present the Holy See will eventually find natural home, the Union of Christian Spiritual Churches Partner, purpose of which will be to continue social mundane activities, charitable and philanthropic, all with the blessing of the Company of the United Nations. School children will receive some meager news of one Jesus Christ as now receive news about the Egyptian pharaohs or the first king of Rome, with the speech entirely focused on her humanity and not his divinity. But most of all, of what was the Catholic Church, It will be handed down to posterity the best of the worst of black legends that it will resemble one of the largest associations of criminals existed over the last two thousand years of history, as long as she does not cleansed from all its ancient ugliness conforming to the world and following the rules of the world, Church becoming the man for the man who has finally put the man at its center.

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Some might say that today should be a new Gregory or a new Leo the Great. Anyone who thinks this, to use the image of the so-called transfert freudiano, It transfers the image of Merlin which was often reduced the Holy Spirit, with the image of a Supreme Pontiff who is himself a Merlin. Indeed, in a situation of complete and unstoppable decline ecclesial, morale, spiritual and doctrinal, what could ever make a Gregory or Leo the Great revived? Perhaps it could govern the Church with the squalid and immoral characters who swarm a number of priests, among bishops and among the cardinals? Or maybe he could control it and purify it with an army of bishops and priests who by tall disturbing number are practicing homosexuals, as demonstrated irrefutably the facts, hardly the malevolent suppositions? Simply said,: the best scenarios, potential or Leo the Great Gregory would soon end the Pope Celestine V.

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But for holy charity: we want to realize that throughout the entire ecclesiastical structure and hierarchy is now totally infected from the queue until the head?

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We must therefore give a reason to all those who in the wake of the new course excited yell "no going back!». They are right, Unfortunately. I myself I have to agree with them: 'No turning back'. But if, however, a courageous Pope who do not know the hat of magician who could be pulled out, condemned Modernism and Karl Rahner, ripristinasse studies of good schooling, of metaphysics and of Thomism, all it would be resolved by magic spell. Again to return to the parachute paradigm ...

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BANK OF SEED

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those signs that nobody reads and interprets more: Angelus on Saint Peter's Square, His Holiness is launching two children two doves, who moments later they are attacked and killed by a crow and a seagull, as the Holy Father said goodbye and wished the crowd "good lunch" rather than dismiss us with a "Praised be Jesus Christ" [click on image to open the video]

While this is coming true, and before the realization of the disaster there are those who can find nothing better to do than to invoke condemnations of Modernist and Karl Rahner, waiting for the Holy Spirit, not in the form of a dove or tongues of fire, but precisely in the form of Merlin, systems all with a stroke of magic, I think more and more to the island of Norway where the institution that preserves 84.000 samples belonging to more than 60 genres and 600 species of cultivated plants and wild species which are endangered by “genetic erosion” or extinction.

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This is our task: save the seeds of the Gospel Jesus Christ the incarnate Word of God, died, resurrected and ascended to heaven. If in fact the building of a church to take fire, The priest what he must do immediately? Remove the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle and get to safety with the most precious treasure. And if in a library of sacred texts outbreak of a fire and those texts were destined to be lost forever, what is the first text that runs to save: The Holy Gospel, or the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle and the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas? What are we to make of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas without the Holy Gospel?

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The church, even if it reduced to a minimum and a small minority of silent people scattered around the world, lathes to sprout in all its purity, who knows how many centuries between. And maybe then you will, that Christ will return in glory to judge the living and the dead: at the time of rebirth. Instead, if Christ returned in glory to judge the living and the dead in this time of total disintegration and decadent, His judgment would be really terrible, just as he himself told us:

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' Verily I say, the day of judgment the land of Sodom and Gomorrah shall be more tolerable fate of that city ' [Mt 10, 15]. "Guai a te, Chorazin, Guai a te, Bethsaida! For if in Tire and Sidon had been done the miracles done in you, some time would be converted dressing the bag and covering of ash. Thus, in the judgment Tire and Sidon will be treated less severely than you. And you, capernao, Will you be exalted to heaven? No, up you will be precipitated into hell!» [LC 10, 13-15].

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The mercy of God is manifested in this way, and mercy is a different from the mercy of our days, emptied of God and filled with the worst worldly man's whims. Just as the Gospel, to which we all say, just to hide what he says, thanks to a visible Church which now shows the world to be ashamed of the true contents of the Holy Gospel, begging forgiveness in the world for light content, precise and strict contained in the Holy Gospel and the Apostolic Letters. We must therefore point to the sperm bank, for the Church that one day people will, perhaps just before the return of Christ the Lord to the end of time. And if we'll save the seeds of the Holy Gospel, then one day, maybe in a few centuries, also flourish the great literature of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church.

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CAN A Roman Pontiff LEGALLY ELECTED AND LEGITIMATE SUCCESSOR OF BLESSED APOSTLE PETER BE FREE OF STATE OF GRACE ?

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Right now we should treasure of the words of Cardinal Charles Journet [1891-1975] than in his work Church of the Incarnate Word explains: "The axiom “where the Pope there is the Church”, so where the Pope acts as Pope and Head of the Church; if not, or The Church is in him, neither he is in the Church " .

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Even in this case I'm tired of debating unnecessarily with those who decisively and absolutely deny taking only into vague consideration the hypothesis that a Supreme Pontiff can be closed to the actions of grace of the Holy Spirit, poured on him with undoubted abundance, but that in him and through him can operate only if he accepts the gifts of grace and puts them to good use. Here, then, that these subjects scrambles their total rejection, and they react to this problem as confirming and supporting of juke box coin the chant ... 'It, But the Pope can never err when judges in the matter of doctrine and faith, it is dogma, dogma, dogma!».

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Question asked to the great pundits of metaphysics and dogmatic: but it is the grace of God that speaks and acts through him, or it is instead he acts irrespective of grace, since it is magically not defeasible in matters of doctrine and faith, It can speak infallibly although closed to the grace and out of the sanctifying grace of God? Because if we are neither before the metaphysical or before the dogmatic, But before the magic. It is in fact the magic that in itself and in itself is totally irrational, while the dogma and dogma are not irrational, They are built on rational principles, for as sure as that the Word became flesh, It has not done thinking vaporous.

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Faced with these closed forms of reasoning which are the consequence of escape from reality by all those who pretend to always have a strong logical answer for everything, unless retreat into four protective formulas when the answers to be given when there are none, I repeat that we are not within either of metaphysics nor in that of the dogmatic, But part of the magic, if not worse Gnosticism. For how can the Holy Spirit, through its thanksgivings, cancel the will or no will of man, that is, his freedom and his free will, for sdoppiarlo to your liking and make it totally necessary unfailing, if its nature was not freely open to God's grace? Because if that happens, in that case God would be in contradiction with the mystery of creation and thus with himself through the Holy Spirit, and in this case our God is a magical God, a Gnostic god. Everything always to return to the great speculative minds that face problems until a few years previously unimaginable, but unfortunately real today, instead of really they close themselves up mirror in the cage of their four dogmatic formulas reiterating firm and immovable before the tragic evidence of the facts: "... it is unfailing, cannot err, it is dogma, dogma, dogma!». And here it is worth remembering that the dogmas are not cages men claiming at one point the right not to reason, but they are as deeply reasoned heart of the mystery of faith, at least according to a great teacher of school, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, which he states the extent to which "faith requires the intellect and understanding the faith" [Faith seeking understanding. In Prosl., Foreword], and again: "I think to understand, I understand to believe » [I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust]. And these two are the main foundations of scholastic philosophy, which never, at its foundation, He has placed the magic.

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Well, I confess that I am tired of these people. I'm tired of those who before a fire in a library of sacred texts destined to be lost forever, They will rush to save the text Iota Romano Amerio and the Holy Gospel burns. Like the rest are a bit 'tired in general, much to ask with some frequency: deserves continue to speculate, analyze and write, or would it be better to shut themselves up for life I have left in a Carthusian monastery with absolute silence vote, dedicating myself to prayer and penance until death? In August, a few days after the completion of my 55th birthday, as time passes, I proposed more than ever to work to good use throughout the life of this time that separates me from death, I intend to waste it or to defend the indefensible or to save the unsalvageable, least of all to expose my human and priestly dignity to public ridicule just to look in the documents of the Supreme Pontiff Francis I that he has never said and written, pulling out all the costs they have the good that just is not there, through interpretative devices that have indeed pathetic, because you can not put your mouth on the good things he did not say after doing the process to its deepest intentions. Before all'indifendibile solutions are three: reproaches and complaints of St. John the Baptist, which as we know lost his head; the speculative analysis of the situation for what it is, however not for what we would like it; the complete withdrawal from the world and total silence vote for life. There are three different ways, but all effective to operate at its best in this disastrous situation and irreversible. For now I have chosen the first solution, the model Giovanni Battista, but I could also decide to choose the third, with perhaps even more effectively.

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The problem, It is not in fact slight: how can we, we, interpret the one who should be the guardian and authentic interpreter of the faith? Or just hurts a lot to some minds have to accept and admit that the keeper of the "magical infallibility", for five years now he has shown with its deliberate and unintentional ambiguity about nothing, It blew up in the Church, the theological and moral relativism, together with the confusion and division, as never before he had been seen in the visible Church? Is it possible that among the pundits of the great theology, not only there is one that poses a question, if anything, likely to remain unanswered, namely this: there may be a case in which a Pope, closed to the actions of the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit, ends up be deprived of the grace of state that is typical of his high office, if anything, with all the consequences that today we have before, all regardless of his legitimate election and the role he equally legitimately busy?

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And with this it is obvious, loved ones and many readers, that on this question, you might as well play the very survival of The Island of Patmos, place that I will never mock you, because "God has entrusted you to me ', and a father can not and should never make fun of the children who demand comfort, help and support in trial, so as not to face the ghosts of the Demons that there circling around, and that scare us a lot in this dark night.

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Right now our salvation is contained in the theological virtue of hope, on which I wrote abundantly in 2014 [see WHO]. Hope is the great virtue median that binds together faith and charity. And since I have been set up in the service of the People of God and entered the priesthood in the universal fatherhood, this Holy People intend to offer the way of hope, but never the way of illusion, because I am a priest of Christ, not a drug dealer of hallucinogens acids, but mainly because I consider that a Holy People of God, not a people ox which give a pat and aspirin while a terminal cancer corrodes by the time our ecclesial and ecclesiastical body, while the visible Church is already in the antechamber of a morgue reduced for the occasion to a circus of clowns, dancers and dwarfs.

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dal'Isola Patmos, 9 September 2018

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