- Church in the world: short essay by a priest who loves China and its people -

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 … AN OLD ARTICLE FOR EVEN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM CORONAVIRUS

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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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STUDIES OF MEDIASET TELEVISION THAT ARE "MONTE" FROM ABOVE WHICH, AS PRIEST AND Theologian, I'll settle for FAR TOO SHINE THE LIGHT OF ONE MATCH ON, SO THAT YOU SHINE FOR… STRAIGHT AND REVERSE

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If in this time of great crisis and ecclesial and ecclesiastical decadence I try to also turn on a single match, perhaps I deserve the support from those Catholics who do not know what he's like a mountain, how we rise above and, above all, as it turns a simple but valuable match from the television studio of a network of Mediaset. Often God just very little, because even through the light of a match, soul may decide to be saved, through the mysterious gift of freedom and the free will given to man by the Eternal Creator.

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It should reply for those having never found before the red light of a camera that sends live, They have written to me to give me advice. To respond is however necessary premise that narrates the "behind the scenes". Reading some tips they understand that they are given by people who ignore what is the complex structure of the drafting of a television program designed and conducted to fine-class professionals. Example: in an already-planned day program changes can occur due to unforeseen circumstances that require you to mount a service in a few minutes, revolutionizing the entire lineup studied in previous days of painstaking work.

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The screen viewers see Paolo Del Debbio that leads, assisted in the study of transmission by journalist Giorgio Tosi who gave the floor to any member of the "public speaking" for comments or questions. We often see on the screen the connecting services of Henri Kociu, Another good professional that along with the good Ilaria Mura and their colleagues treat the exteriors from various parts of Italy. Few know, however, that for these professionals, realize connections implies displacements, often long journeys, if anything, to broadcast live the answers to two questions addressed to an individual party, or to document, in fifteen seconds, images that serve to support what is being debated in the studio.

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Always behind the scenes I witnessed a change dictated by sudden emergency: during the episode of 17 January Paolo Del Debbio was seized by an illness due to a leg problem, replaced on the spot by Marcello Vinonuovo, responsible for directing and producing the program, who brought forward the entire live television with all the professionalism to him their.

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I saw the young journalist Edward Dallari quickly maneuver in achieving in a few minutes a link from the study of Milan Spallanzani Hospital in Rome to allow the conductor to put questions to a distinguished virologist, after he received news of a new case of coronavirus infection. Needless to say: among the spectators who followed from home, no one can know or imagine that working brings to improvise at any moment that lasted three minutes and then link, not to say how many people worked for those three minutes live link in the interiors and exteriors.

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Also in the episode of 6 February the program underwent changes: it was necessary to include in prime time news of the train derailed Frecciarossa in Lodi. Even in that case they were marked by services and connections in a short space of time, searched and then picked up and taken to some witnesses studio. Even at that time I was in preparation to participate in the program and I could watch live how everything went and how fast and professional skill has been achieved. This is to explain to the readers, in my capacity as a witness and a participant, that behind this program is a job that few imagine; job that requires excellent professional skills, place an incompetent could cause enormous damage similar contexts, especially at a company like Mediaset, who do not benefit from any compulsory television license fee, to be clear that the same as saying: you like it or not, I'll put it ... the electricity bill, so you have to pay it by force.

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Mediaset lives of plays, of advertising. And to produce advertising that produces money, Listens are indeed necessary. This complex set of things in which market information and merge together of necessity, It involves precise rules which also extend to those who will participate as guests or commentators to these programs.

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People my age remember how I was born the three television networks RAI and as years went on. Rai has always been a politicized company in which the first channel was the Christian Democrats, the second channel of the Socialist Party, the third channel of the Communist Party and its friends minority parties. As a result, subject to various professionals of undoubted excellence, This state company has always brulicato an army of inept and parasitic figures that had the sole merit of being friends of friends of that powerful politician who had placed them at the Rai. All of this, a large private company is not if you can afford. Of course, Also the largest private company assumes the friend of the friend of the powerful political, but provided it is capable, because paying with your own money and not with public, enter within itself unable or-nothing parasites in the good graces of politicians, it would not be a simple damage, but a danger that could lead to real failure.

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One of the criticisms addressed to me it was: "Why do not you talk high and theological way as you do in your other writings or different your video-conferences?». another critical: "You must animarti and raise your voice". Finally the drastic and decisive advice: "No, do not go there anymore, it is useless, It's all useless" …

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We leave for order with the answers: first of all, I note that in a "high" and "theological" no longer even speak our existing Italian bishops, sad emblem of a precipitate episcopate in a bleak mediocrity, whereas the Italian Church in particular, the concept of "friend of the powerful friend" - which in our case is not "politically powerful" but far more damaging powerful bishop or cardinal -, It is applied in the worst way as applying the old Christian Democrats, Socialists and Communists with their men or their-nothing parasites placed at the Rai. Indeed, Angle of the chairs of their cathedrals, our supreme masters of faith and doctrine - in case some of my critics they have not grasped -, Far from speaking of the great Fathers and Doctors of the Church and their wise theological teaching, now speak only of migrants and a watered-down and adulterated charity that has nothing to do with what the Bible teaches the Blessed Apostle Paul [cf.. The Cor 13, 13]. Sad and bitter truth: episcopal pulpits most renowned is now also marketed mostly a social concept that has nothing to do with the theological virtue of charity, lot instead with the suicide philanthropy blood volume b'bene.

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Clarified that do good It does not imply exercise the supreme virtue of Christian charity, it should be recalled that following Christ God, those who practiced doing good in ancient Judaea two thousand years ago, He said clearly: "Do not even the Gentiles?» [cf.. Mt 5, 47]. And he added: "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect" [cf.. Mt 5, 48]. Namely: charity is not in emotional quirks of the world, or what is the world like, resides in the Father's thanksgivings, of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Faith, as he learns from the author of the Letter to the Hebrews, far from being emotional impulse "[…] is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen " [EB 11, 1]. So why, in a television studio, I should make those teacher's lessons high theology that our bishops, in their conformist and low art homiletics, do from the pulpits of their churches cathedrals during the great liturgical solemnities of the year, place that Holy Christmas and Easter, for years now, instead of being their celebrations of the Word of God incarnate and risen Christ who defeats death, seem to become emotional obsessive-theater of the most fashionable and philanthropic migrantopoli?

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In the episode of 6 February I was very clear in explaining in a few words that it was necessary to turn in a simple and understandable to an audience who in increasing numbers, Catholics included, no longer he knows even the basics of the Catechism. An objective and sad problem before which, think you can do "high theology" from a TV studio, really it means to live outside of the real world, or at least have with it a bad relationship.

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My critics have not caught that in contrast to some of my brethren radical chic, I granted in the areas I have never failed to make reference to the doctrine, morals and teachings of the Church, with simple words and short phrases that are not allowed to me, but anyone involved. On the contrary, complain that "they did not give you room to explore that theme», as some have written, What it is unjust and false. It is true in fact the exact opposite: They have always given me ample space, along with a sincere respect paid to my figure of a priest, both live and behind the scenes populated by beautiful human beings, with several of them have established a sincere friendship, including people who for many years not exchanged a word with a priest. Said this is taken into account that the program is divided into four blocks whose duration is approximately 40 minutes each. In parterre There are usually four to six guests, each of which must speak at least once. At this time there are presentations to the theme through introductory films, there are almost always several external links, some people who comment or address questions from the public and some commercial breaks. Any mind with common sense and minimum spirit of analysis, should be understood that if one of the guests of parterre unable to speak for a total of three minutes, really he had a great space, to me which are always granted, for which I am grateful to Paul Del Debbio and Drafting.

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With regard to the invitation I addressed to me "not to yell", I want to clarify what are the mechanisms of fast communication targeted to the essential requirements. First of all, alive and raise your voice as I did on a few occasions, it was not an excess but a necessity. It may be that before certain sensitive topics, one or more parties attempt to deviate from the subject in order not to make you talk, preventing you from putting forward a message, for example by clarifying what they teach in this regard the Catholic doctrine and morals, or what really happened in history. In a similar situation, if I did not take the right to conclude a speech or a brief reply saying what is true and what is false, I would do the figure of the subject not only yielding, ometterei but just to clarify what the Church is wrong. Having said that it takes into account that in this delicate context, for those who are listening to me from home, I'm not the freelancer's own personal opinion, but a member of the Catholic Church and her Priests College. I ask then to my critics so sensitive before a priest who in case of need comes alive during a speech: for you, it is more important to say and make clear what is right or wrong, what it is true or false, or, to a distorted view of clerical etiquette, silence while one or more interlocutors say things historically misleading or incorrect? Having said that I add: how to live a priest in a Church that is going through a terrible decline in the ecclesial and ecclesiastical plan. A Church in which I have seen too many priests from, bishops and cardinals implement genuine injustices and abominations which cry before God, all with diaphanous smiles etched on the faces, Voci yeast, tones content and persuasive words. Maybe this is it, the kind of clergy "measured" and "stiff" that appeals to some of my critics, or that some of my critics wish the Church of Christ to be able to have or continue to have?

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People who invited me to "go no", because they say 'no use', are the same as they then complain of the figures of certain media priests of the past and present that, Of pleasure in pleasure go hand in hand with the world, to which always show acquiescence, it cost well say, as it has often happened in front of millions of viewers: "… it's true, the Church says this, But I think otherwise, I have another opinion ». Well, There is perhaps that before the television audience I have also issued a single sigh contrary to the doctrine, morals and teachings of the Church? So some critics should understand that if I do not participate, You are saying that you can tell by the times and rules of the slots, the so-called scene will only be trodden by those priests in sweater and sneakers that give the public an image of a priest secularized and not terribly uplifting, which often he does not transmit to the teaching of the Church, but what he thinks from the egocentrism, often, unfortunately, from the top of his ignorance on the fundamentals of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, so widespread today, even among our clergy. What good, then shut himself, how does the Catholic depressed, in the ghetto made madonnas and self-styled seers announcing impending disasters, while outside everything collapses around us? Rather it needs instead to reflect on the profound affection that Christ God proved to the crowd of people who appeared in his eyes like sheep without a shepherd:

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«[…] and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things " [cf.. MC 6, 34].

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Now more than ever, how many are these "sheep without a shepherd" that we expect, indeed often implore, just a simple word of good comfort?

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Christ the Lord invites us in clear words to be "the light of the world", and in this regard explains:

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«[…] It can not be hidden a city set on a mountain, nor is a lamp lit to put it under a bushel, but on a stand where it shines for all who are in the house. So let your light shine before men, they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven " [Mt 5, 14-16].

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I do not get how some Catholics read the Holy Gospel, which it is not a closed ghetto phenomenon excluded from the world, is the light of the Incarnate Word, as explained by the Blessed Apostle John in the Prologue to his Gospel, where light is used as a metaphor for the "light from light" who is Christ the incarnate Word of God [cf.. GV 1, 1-18]. And that Christ is not a light that lights up "and put it under a bushel", search depressed Catholics ghetto, that among madonnas and self-styled visionaries who will excite you with listings of upcoming disasters, forget - or perhaps you do not know - that the Book of Revelation of John the Apostle Blessed encloses the greatest message of hope. It would be enough to know the simple meaning of the words: the word of Greek origin, apocalypse, means "discover", "Uncover" what is hidden. The apocalyptic message reassures us that the good has already won over evil, Christ God has already triumphed. The Apocalypse is the message of the joy of faith, not the gloomy excitations use of chronic pessimists irredeemable that abound in the Holy People of God.

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What in gifts of grace was given to me in light of Christ's God which it is "Light from Light", I must make it shine in every way, as it is written in the stern warning which is the Parable of the Talents [cf.. Mt 25, 14-30]. If necessary, going quietly with my lamp on the "mountain" of Mediaset and also trying to light a match just inside the studio number 11 from which it is transmitted by direct Straight and Reverse conducted by Paolo Del Debbio and organized by a team of excellent professionals. Because, with the times we live, able to render the world see the light of only one match, It is a genuine grace of God, for people like me try Christological tenderness for all of you, It always seemed more like "sheep without a shepherd".

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For this I am grateful to the friends of preparation of the program Straight and Reverse for giving me the opportunity to be myself, ie a priest, if necessary we can go against the trends of this world, to exercise the right to the political incorrectness that it is written and shown the whole word for word in the Holy Gospel, of which I am a teacher and preacher for the sacred mandate through priestly consecration. All this in a society in which, the priest and the Catholic faith, it now tends to give an image grotesque and distorted. It is indeed notorious that we, to deserve to be treated grotesquely, We worked long, often giving the world the best of the worst of the image of the Church and clergy who could give. And today, the world, It is paying off upsetting the best of ridicule on our worst miseries.

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If in this time of crisis and ecclesial and ecclesiastical decadence I try to also turn on a single match, perhaps I deserve the support from those Catholics who do not know what he's like a mountain, how we rise above and, above all, as it turns a simple but valuable match from the television studio of a network of Mediaset. Often God just very little, because even through the light of a match, soul may decide to be saved, through the mysterious gift of freedom and the free will given to man by the Eternal Creator.

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the Island of Patmos, 17 February 2020

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