PHILANTHROPIC GOODNESS AND CHARITY. BEFORE THE DEATH OF GINO STRADA WE ARE CALLED TO PRAY, IN FRONT OF HIS WORK, TO HIS THOUGHT, IN HIS IMAGE OF A LAY FACE LEAVE US THE RIGHT OF CRITICISM AND DOUBT

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta, without the substantial income of an NGO come Emergency - which for Afghanistan alone was able to benefit from 60 million euros in 10 years - has managed to bring peace and assistance to the suburbs of India. By placing herself as a disciple of Christ in rending health and social wars, just as scary and perverse as those fought by Emergency. With one important difference though, which many Catholics still deliberately ignore, what for Doctor Gino Strada e Emergency it is secular philanthropy tanned in the spotlight, for the little Albanian nun it is hiding and heroicity of Charis in which grace made person is identified with Christ.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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The great Genoese singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André sings in one of his famous pieces from the sixties:

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«When death calls me, no one in the world will notice, that a man died without speaking, without knowing the truth, that a man died without praying, fleeing the weight of pity " [The Testament, 1966].

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The death of Doctor Gino Strada it reminded me of these lines. In the face of death, every man remains alone. Ma, be clearly stated, before death every man remains alone before God, which is the only one that can decree the right meaning is thickness to an entire existence, without the need for anyone to worry about organizing the canonization theater by direct route. Surgeon and founder of the powerful NGO Emergency, he was the icon of modern secular philanthropism, atheist and convinced militant [See. WHO]. Charismatic character, how controversial; loved and opposed on various fronts and often also by his own medical colleagues who have raised various doubts about his "disinterested humanitarian activity".

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Since youth he was a passionate leftist, zealous member of the Student Movement of the State University of Milan in which - in those villains Years of lead - you didn't go too far when you had to repress a thought other than the politically imposed one or you had to put a dissident opponent in line. Gad Lerner himself - ex manganellatore by Lotta Continua, then passed on the columns of owner's newspaper of Casa Agnelli and following the direction of Tg1 [See. WHO, WHO] - remembers his friend in those years in which Strada represented:

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«[…] the best Milan and the best Sessantotto, it is the demonstration that utopia is not naivete but creative faith […] I remember him in demonstration with the helmet on his head before the green coat of the war doctor " [See. WHO].

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Nothing different could have been expected from a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist current such as the one frequented by the young Gino Strada in the 1960s and 1970s. As far as we know, the late surgeon has never denied that past of gruff and quarrelsome radicalism, indeed there would be reasons to believe that his warlikeness and philanthropic tenacity, coupled with a well-known verbal violence that occasionally manifested itself to his opponents, was born in that period, although afterwards there was the conversion that fromeskimo led him to the white doves, to multicolored flags, respect for others and the ultra-clean olive branch [you see WHO, WHO].

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His death sparked a chorus of praise exaggerated that we hardly find for other philanthropists especially from a certain fringe of the Catholic world who in the person of the seraphic Fra Enzo Fortunato can only praise him [See. WHO] and that with Don Vitaliano Della Sala can only be moved by his memory proposing him as is the beginning of faith for the unbelievers and for those who wish to discover God [See. WHO]. Instead for Peace of Christ, well-known association born Catholic and dead of the left, Gino Strada is a peacemaker [See. WHO].

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For charity, all opinions are legitimate and thoughts worthy of being expressed, yet dear Readers, I don't know about you, but to me the whole question is not convincing. And it is not convincing why these testimonial leading Catholics did not utter a word to the declarations of some time ago on “dark sides” and on “shady areas” of which she was unlawfully suspected, if not openly accused Mother Teresa of Calcutta [See. WHO, WHO] who - I may be allowed the pun - has undoubtedly made more road than Strada on the path of humanitarian and charitable works, so much to obtain in 1979 the Nobel Peace Prize which now they would like to give posthumously to the doctor of Emergency [See. WHO]. Unfortunately, Mother Teresa had the unforgivable flaw of having been a Catholic nun, declared enemy of sin and secular atheism, as well as all those workhorses dear to the modern left which, on the one hand, speaks of peace, on the other, takes it away through sponsorship of abortion, of euthanasia and the meticulous dissolution of the natural family institution.

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Mother Teresa, without the substantial income of an NGO come Emergency - which for Afghanistan alone was able to benefit from 60 million euros in 10 year old [See. WHO] - has managed to bring peace and assistance to the suburbs of India. By placing herself as a disciple of Christ in rending health and social wars, just as scary and perverse as those fought by Emergency. With one important difference though, which many Catholics still deliberately ignore, what for Doctor Gino Strada ed Emergency it is secular philanthropy tanned in the spotlight, for the little Albanian nun it is hiding and heroicity of Charis in which grace made person is identified with Christ, Eucharistic bread that the Sisters of Charity adore daily and for a long time before approaching the poor, sick and marginalized. This is the fundamental difference between the Church and the Social Center, between charity and philanthropy, between Agape e Philia.

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The testament that Doctor Gino Strada leave the world is controversial and the burden of the Christian escapes piety, as De André e would say, although many will try to make him fall into the ranks of the great Italians to be praised and idolized - as was done for the propagator of the right to abortion and euthanasia Emma Bonino [See. WHO] - we know that things are different and we reserve the right to disagree. Yup, let us tell you what we don't like, let us express our concerns, even in front of the praises of Doctor Gino Strada, allow us to do our own Austro-Hungarian mourning ceremonial by pronouncing a solemn "I don't blame- I don't know him - in front of that coffin, so that the fragility that opens up the possibility of redemption even in the last instant of life is recognized.

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Obviously the most staunch advocates of correctness and respect short they will argue that it is no longer the case to rant by bringing out the skeletons of the past of a deceased. Skeletons that, let us say, now we no longer find even inside the wardrobes because they are beautifully displayed in exhibitors and shown to everyone with Luciferian pride. Then, the left pacifundist and politically correct has for years cleaned up the real experience and therefore the biographies of many of their idol characters ...

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Such delicacy is undoubtedly understandable, and it is a kind of honor of arms to the one who has been defeated by death and who, as Jacopone da Todi admonishes in one of his lyrics, puts an end to all pride and ambitions: «When I'm happy, how tall, go to mind burying». However, this privilege is promptly denied when i company, to which Gino Strada has always looked with benevolence and inspiration, they must defeat their usual opponents. Then, in this case, they discover not only admirers of the past of those to whom they want to make fleas but rather they become interpreters and judges stigmatizing the sin of others, just as it has been so many times with regard to the Church and priests [See. WHO].

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In this case, no time is wasted to discredit the sacredness and senselessness of the Christian religion, bringing to light every slightest mistake or itchy scandal and concluding with Nietzsche that God is undoubtedly dead, as he has been singing for more than fifty years company Guccini. And if rightly of Benito Mussolini it is forbidden to say that, among the countless disasters as a dictator, he also did good things; of left-wing dictators only the good things remain. Oblivious of the disasters that this thought has wrought and which are many and such to those wrought by fascism with the difference of intellectual superiority that has distinguished them for several years.

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We even heard, ai vari talk show televisions, leftists committed to making fun of some politician who manifested certain Christian sentiments - sincere or insincere this is not known to us, not being able any of us to read the consciences of others - because guilty of being divorced and remarried. Unless you declare a few minutes later, in the rest of their speeches, that abortion is a great social achievement and euthanasia an act of "mercy", or by supporting the legitimacy of "marriage" between same-sex couples, all - I repeat - after having made a mockery of the opposition politician as ... divorced and remarried (!?).

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The death of Doctor Gino Strada it looks more like an apotheosis of the ancient Roman emperors, in which there is no shadow of sin and whose assumption to heaven is taken for granted. His, the man who did only good: Rome has spoken, Because over! His, the man who has been sanctified by a certain left who needs his own creed, of dogmas, liturgies and obviously of their own saints. And who should dare to make some criticism, to raise some doubts or perhaps to have a different opinion is undoubtedly a criminal, an enemy of peace, a bad person, numb and heartless, in short, a real piece of shit, lemma used several times by the Father of the Italian language: «[…] I saw a head so gross of shit», writes in Comedy the Supreme Poet Dante to indicate ruffians and seducers [See. Inferno, 116].

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This is what happened to the columnist of the Unit, Fabrizio Rondolino than in one of his Tweet defines Emergency "An anti-Western political organization disguised as a walking hospital that must be isolated and boycotted" [See. WHO; WHO]. Rondolino is certainly not what today we could define a right-wing man or a baciapile; but yet, he too was tightened to the ropes and isolated for touching the untouchable [See. WHO]. Well, everything seems normal to you? Enjoyable. And personally I want to raise my doubts, bring criticism, support the thesis ofThe Devil's Advocate. And I do it towards Doctor Gino Strada not as a deceased man to whom my prayers go, but to the public figure and media face of secularism towards which the right to criticism can and must be applied as we still live in a democratic country.

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Why a saint - even when he comes from secularism - he is forced to pass the proof of works, only in this way will he be able to grant the longed-for miracles, only in this way will its credibility be strengthened, otherwise he will only be a poor martyr as his friends from Bergamo use to say. And then we see these works by the surgeon Strada, let's analyze its virtues of Emergency. I would like to say that in the world and in Italy we have many doctors unknown to most who have not had the same luck of visibility and income but who have remained equally faithful to the Hippocratic oath. Doctors who we find saving lives in a provincial hospital ward, inside the guerrilla of the modern existential peripheries, with grueling shifts, unscrupulous and ethical colleagues, dilapidated and inadequate structures, with public health on the verge of disarray. Doctors who continue to be doctors in Italy, sacrificing families and children and who during their holidays stay for free in the clinics of Caritas in Rome or in those of the Opera San Francesco for the Poor in Milan. Which certainly do not perceive the prerogative of an experienced war surgeon, ie approx 3 thousand euros per month [See. WHO] but even here the estimates are confused in the vagueness of the income of Emergency [See. WHO].

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You will hardly find these doctors in the good living rooms of the TV, sitting on soft pillows of that politically correct of company Fabio Fazio. Men in white coats who do not have the patronage of a representative and wealthy NGO behind them, albeit against the war, in fact it survives thanks to the war and the misfortunes of others. Which reminds me very closely of the beautiful and meaningful film by Alberto Sordi del 1974: As long as there is war there is hope [See. WHO]. Doctor Gino Strada says «I am not a pacifist, I'm against wars ". Sure Doctor, she was able to wisely choose which wars to fight and which wars to avoid, within a calculated double standard that someone has had the goodness to detect [See. WHO] and which remains completely unknown to many of his colleagues who, on the verge of collapse, they have no alternative of choice. Either drink or drown. Or perhaps we have to conclude that to be considered true doctors it is necessary to board an NGO ship or serve in a war hospital.?

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Idealism is fine up to a certain point, I understand and encourage him in a 20-year-old but after that he risks the illusion of utopia that made Vauro Senesi affirm:

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«[…] today a utopian has died convinced that peace is a utopia achievable with will and passion. A dreamer who tried to practice dreams died today. Today a realist died, certain that peace cannot be built with weapons " [See. WHO].

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Utopia is such because it is unattainable and when man strives to make it happen, disasters happen. The same disasters of those who try to make God by presuming to eliminate poverty with their own strength, the death, the illness, war and suffering.

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Doctor Gino Strada has helped many people in the war territories it is true, but none the less his colleagues in Italy have done and are doing, saving women and children from abortion, terminally ill with a sweet euthanasia death, poor derelicts who cannot pay for a specialist who asks from 200 Everyone 500 euro for a visit or a diagnostic test that cannot wait for six months on the waiting list to be completed.

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Let us also sanctify the works of Gino Strada and Emergency provided that with him there are also the names and surnames of many other unknown doctors, otherwise we risk propaganda and political visibility, which is why in the future Strada will still be idolized. Yet these things a philanthropist should flee from, but what do you want, there are no longer the philanthropists of the past.

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To those who speak inappropriately, indeed, completely out of charity, combining this word with a declared atheist, indicated by the Blessed Apostle Paul as the highest and most fundamental of the theological virtues [See. The Cor 13, 13], it would be enough to recall the stern warning of Jesus Christ:

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«[…] if you love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans? And if you only greet your brothers, what do ye more? Do not even the Gentiles? So be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect " [See. Mt 5, 46-48].

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This explains the substantial difference which runs between philanthropism and ideological goodness and Christian charity, which is together with faith and hope, but which of all three is the most important. It is not an easy message for our army of confused Cattocomunists to understand, and we Fathers of The Island of Patmos, in the exercise of our apostolic work, we will never stop spending ourselves, with all our human and spiritual strengths, to try to make it clear that even atheists do good philanthropism, whereas, the charity, only true Christians can do it.

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«Charity has no fictions: flee evil with horror, attach yourselves to the good " [RM 12, 9].

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Laconi, 16 August 2021

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