The Supreme Pontiff by Fabio Fazio and the next day's dilemma: between two, who was the Old Professor and who the Blue Angel?

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THE GREAT PONTIFF DA FABIO FAZIO AND THE DILEMMA OF THE DAY AFTER: BETWEEN TWO, WHO WAS THE OLD PROFESSOR AND WHO THE BLUE ANGEL?

I don't want to dwell too much on the image of the elderly professor in the film The Blue Angel with the legendary Marlene Dietrich in the role of the dancer Lola, I leave it to anyone who knows a little about the old cinema and the plot of that dramatic film masterpiece to evaluate, who between the two was the Professor last night and who the Blue Angel, I don't know how to answer and I don't even want to answer, rather: I don't even want to think about it ...

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Two days ago ho ho published an article harsh and severe to comment on the announced participation of the Roman Pontiff in a talk show always known for being a flag of the worst hipster and politically correct Left: What's the weather like, hosted by Fabio Fazio, who for years has been supported by Luciana Littizzetto who has mocked the Catholic Church in every way, the doctrine, the morality and pastoral care of the Bishops of Italy. This is the container - and no one can deny it - in which the Supreme Pontiff has decided to put his contents. Applying the justifying principle that the person is responsible for the contents expressed and certainly not for the container in which he expressed them, in that case I could easily publish an article on the mystery of the Holy Spirit in the magazine Playboy, without anyone daring to tell me anything, because I would only answer for what I write, regardless of the close-ups of the splendid naked models that fill the pages of that monthly magazine. Exactly like the Roman Pontiff guest at What's the weather like responsible for its own contents, certainly not a container that for years mocked the Catholic Church through the armed wing of Luciana Littizzetto, or not?

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That of Fabio Fazio it is not the Left of workers' demands or struggles, policies and trade unions of the old, glorious and also lamented Italian Communist Party, to whom Italy has owed so much since the time of the Constituent Assembly and of which he was the last leader that great gentleman Enrico Berlinguer. Fabio Fazio's is the Left - as I explained and as I will reiterate - with the super-penthouses in Parioli and the villas in Capalbio. A left that has nothing to do with the demands of the Supreme Pontiff, or as I have strictly defined them: obsessive-compulsive neurosis on poor people and migrants. Indeed, for us, the true poor whom we must assist by divine mandate are the poor of Christ, the real migrants to be welcomed or recovered are those far from the Church, or emigrants from the Church. Otherwise, the severe warning of Christ God risks ringing out: "Do not even the Gentiles?» [Mt 5, 47].

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In my humble opinion the presence of the Supreme Pontiff was inappropriate, introduced, as I imagined, from the comments of a court of secularist leftists headed by Roberto Saviano who, like a vaudeville theater before the opening of the big curtain, they attempted to legitimize - succeeding in the eyes of many, Alas! ― their not-being-Catholic, always adverse to everything the Catholic feels on the doctrinal level, of faith and morality. The one I call Gianluigi Nuzzi strategy, with whom I had a debate on live television in 2020, even though he immediately understood in the space of a few seconds that he wasn't attacking me and, like the intelligent person he is, he immediately pulled the oars into the boat.

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Simple yet dangerous and terrifying the split made by these people between Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Church and the Papacy. Only those incapable of understanding and wanting, or those who do not want to understand and want, they can tear their clothes before my words and not notice how these sinister subjects have been presenting Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a "great revolutionary" for years, a "lonely and misunderstood" man, but above all "hindered". And who, would be misunderstood and hindered? Soon said: from the Church, by the very evil Roman Curia and by unspecified conservatives who do not want the great "revolutionary epochal change". Soon said: through this game it ends up being broadcast to the masses, including the army of simple and fragile Catholics, a terrible subliminal message: Bergoglio Yes, Church no, Bergoglio Yes, Papato no… We just need the icing on the pastry chef's cake: Bergoglio Yes, christ not.

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Exactly the Gianluigi Nuzzi strategy who has written about the Church and the true and presumed wrongdoings of the clergy for over a decade about everything and more. From the 2013 however, it does so with a strategy that has something diabolical in it: separates Jorge Mario Bergoglio from his sacred office, he detaches him from the Church and from the clergy of which he is supreme head by divine mandate, it changes it into an unspecified one “misunderstood revolutionary”, it elevates him as a victim and then as such defends him from a corrupt and corrupting system, that is, the Church of Christ. Having done this, he feels so entitled to dump all the worst mud in the world on us. As if Jorge Mario Bergoglio were nothing more than a simple Jorge Mario Bergoglio, while for us he is the Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter and the legitimate Vicar of Christ on earth to whom the Word of God has given the power of the keys [cf. Mt 13, 16-19]. And as such all of us Catholic priests and faithful venerate and obey him, always. Regardless of some of its limitations and defects about which one is not required to remain silent, even more so in the name of the most sinister and blind clericalism which would even have the comical claim of criticizing clericalism, like: can a burglar perhaps criticize and condemn burglary?

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It may be that the solons of the Holy See and those responsible for the Vatican Media have never noticed this dangerous game? Yup, who noticed it, but the problem is that the Supreme Pontiff rejected the old one, consolidated and all in all functional machine of the Roman Curia, which with all its strengths and weaknesses has always fulfilled its delicate primary task: protect the figure of the August Pontiff and his public image. Unfortunately, the problem is known: the Holy Father does not listen to anyone and acts on his own mind, after having turned away numerous faithful and valued servants to surround himself with mediocre subjects and complacent pimps, with the results we have under our eyes today.

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We also want to talk about its obvious inconsistencies? Also the Blessed Apostle Peter, chosen by Christ, God himself, appeared inconsistent and fragile, it is written in the Holy Gospels, in the Apostolic Letters and in the Acts of the Apostles. So explain to me, or clerical novices who ridicule clericalism in a ridiculous way: we can speak of the limitations of the Blessed Apostle Peter, preach and write, while on those of the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio no? Interesting, this new authentically anticlerical ecclesiology is really interesting … and while for years, From speech to speech the Holy Father was pining for migrants, that great man of God and faithful servant of the Cardinal's Church Carlo Caffara he died without ever being received. I don't pay for this, a short time later the Holy Father left the elderly and heroic Chinese cardinal outside the door like a stray dog Giuseppe Zen, over 80 years old from Hong Kong, who for a week waited in vain to be received. In return, But, received that proud and unrepentant atheist Eugenio Scalfari, founder and director of the newspaper The Republic, who for years has written editorials and articles on the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II often bordering on the most sinister anti-Catholic infamy. Perhaps some intend to deny it, or worse, call me inappropriate for daring to report historical facts that are both public and documented? Since when has the truth become inappropriate in the Church?? Or perhaps someone intends to attack me by saying that we need to evaluate the form, or rather evaluate how the truth is told? In this case I will respond immediately in advance: read the Holy Gospels, because these were the reasons of the ancient Pharisees.

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The Holy Father spoke about the chatter of gossip and clericalism. It's a shame, however, that he didn't explain that the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura could easily be closed and its large building transformed into a hostel for Roma, because in the beautiful season he inaugurated the certainty of law, together with that of a fair and impartial judgment, of an acquittal or a just sentence, in concrete facts they no longer exist in this visible Church cloaked in an unspecified and identified mercy. There have been ecclesiastics ousted from their offices overnight after having faithfully served the Church for several decades within the Roman Curia, without ever knowing why. Their legitimate questions remained unanswered and were answered: "Order comes from above, so it's just like that!». Matters of mercy! Not to mention the numerous canonical judicial proceedings that were closed with a peremptory phone call from Domus Sanctae Martha because the suspect for very serious crimes was a friend of the friends of the "magic circle" of the Holy Father, as the Cardinal called him Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, great man and theologian and for this reason unworthily defenestrated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. And in the face of all this and much more, we even had to put up with the sermon on "gossips", "chatter" and "clericalism" pronounced from the unfortunate pulpit of Fabio Fazio's living room. So let me say that if this were not tragic it would be truly comical.

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All this to those who benefit? I really can't find any other questions that could better justify the appearance of the Roman Pontiff on last night's television program. It definitely benefited that talk show, to its handler, to all that plethora of ideological intellectuals who love visibility and who will finally be able to include the Holy Father in their tiaso as a simple first among equals. But as a simple priest I ask myself a question: last night's intervention will benefit the Catholic faithful, to the sacred shepherds, to priests, to the holy people of God who are increasingly disoriented and in need of certainties? I'm afraid not, because last night left many with a sense of emptiness that will end with a question destined to remain unanswered: it was really needed? No, there was certainly no need because we did not understand different things - in terms and substance - of those trite and coy pronounced in an obsessive-compulsive way in nine years of pontificate: migrants, migrants, still migrants, environmentalism, clericalism, rigidity and mercy. Nothing that does not already feel abundantly with every blessing Urbi et in the days of Christmas or Easter and which has already tired even the most devout Catholic papists.

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It couldn't be otherwise, given the editorial line of Fabio Fazio's program which, through Saviano, invests the Supreme Pontiff with the title of "last socialist", something that will surely drive the blessed soul of the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIII mad with joy, of happy memory, than in the first part of his memorable and prophetic Encyclical Of the new things defined Socialism as a "false remedy". A socialist Pope who raises a smile by saying that as a child he wanted to be a butcher and that in front of television screens he is unable to argue a simple theme of theodicy which touches on the mystery of innocent suffering and which has its model in Christ crucified and in the Holy Innocent martyrs a path of real sanctity that is repeated daily in millions of abortions considered as social achievements by the friends of the factional Fazio, whose attendance at New Horizons Community it should at least allow for some healthy crisis of conscience, between one Saviano and another. Mystery of innocent pain and of the little ones that the Holy Pontiff John Paul II masterfully argued in his Apostolic Letter Saving pain and which is inextricably linked to the mystery of iniquity of sin in which forgiveness is certainly not a "right" - as the Holy Father stated and repeated, causing the theologians to fall to the ground under the television screen - but a grace that Christ offered us in his blood and which at every confession is renew.

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The guest was there, for a few more days we will talk about this event which will then fall into oblivion as we usually do on Monday after a Sunday match between amateurs. All this will leave nothing, not a desire for conversion, nor a desire to discover Christ, not even the desire to love the Church more. Indeed, our enemies will say more than ever «Bergoglio is one of us!», so let's take the Holy Father and use him as a club to beat the non-revolutionary Church of Christ, political opponents and those who espouse anti-sovereignist ideas. That's why I'm worried, more than for what was not said last night and for what with skillful manipulative sense the Supreme Pontiff will be told in the following days of what he has never said.

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After last night the Papacy was struck and desecrated, perhaps the only religious leader cloaked in ineffable dignity remains Queen Elizabeth II of England, that as head of the Anglican Community he would never dream of going to any Fazio to be interviewed, because you know: before the King they expect to be called, you keep your head down and answer only and exclusively if he speaks to you and asks you questions. It is the King who questions and who asks, no one can question and ask questions to the King. This is why I say that we have witnessed a traumatic reversal, to a terrible twist of roles, one of which, that of the Roman Pontiff, it is a sacred role by divine institution and mandate. And I honestly don't want to dwell too much on the image of the Elder Professor in the film The Blue Angel with the legendary Marlene Dietrich in the role of the dancer Lola, I leave it to anyone who knows a little about the old cinema and the plot of that dramatic film masterpiece to evaluate, who between the two was the Professor last night and who the Blue Angel, I don't know how to answer and I don't even want to answer, rather: I don't even want to think about it ...

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the Island of Patmos, 7 February 2022

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When a tragic pontificate ends in satire: the Roman Pontiff guest on the talk show of the freak Left by Fabio Fazio who for years took the piss out of Catholic doctrine and morality through the armed wing of Luciana Littizzetto

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WHEN A TRAGIC PONTIFICATE ENDS IN SATIRA: THE ROMAN PONTIFF GUEST AT TALK SHOW OF THE LEFT FRICCHETTONA BY FABIO FAZIO WHO FOR YEARS TAKEN CATHOLIC DOCTRINE AND MORALITY BY THE ASS THROUGH THE ARMED ARM OF LUCIANA LITTIZZETTO

How can you go, or how you can be present even and only with an external connection of a few minutes ― we do not know if it will be in the studio or if it will be connected ― in a living room where the poisonous Luciana Littizzetto has been throwing shit on the Catholic Church and the clergy for years, mocking doctrine at every turn, Catholic morality and the pastoral care of the Italian Bishops?

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I will turn to the Holy Father Francis calling him Jorge Mario Bergoglio for an entirely ecclesiological logic that it is good to explain. In my writings and speeches, in my homilies and conferences I have always addressed the Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter calling him: Supreme Pontiff, Roman Pontiff, or Holy Father, because such is Francis I at the moment in the fullness of his legitimate and indisputable apostolic authority. And it is for that grace of God, often intelligible in our eyes as Catholics that we have experienced many moments of this pontificate as an authentic misfortune. It will take many years, maybe decades to be able to read and then understand how God has filled us with grace through this unhappy and sad pontificate, especially today in its last and desperate swings of the tail. Often, throughout history, God's mercy has bestowed the best graces through misfortunes. An example: after the great plague of 1348, referred to by historians as black Death O big black plague, arrived in Europe from China - for a change! - which exterminated half the population of our continent, it came to life a century after the great Renaissance period.

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So if I say Jorge Mario Bergoglio it is because I intend to make a clear distinction between man and the office of the Roman Pontiff, perfectly aware that the office is conferred on man and that the fullness of the Petrine ministry exists in the man who is clothed with it. This is something that we priests and theologians are aware of, knowing full well that Simon son of Jonah (cf. Mt 15, 17) he ceased to be such to become Peter, the stone placed on the cornerstone which is Christ (cf. At 4, 11; Ef 2, 20) on which the Incarnate Word of God built his Church (cf. Mt 16, 18-19).

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If the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio was also one of the worst, or even the worst pontiff in the entire history of the Papacy, all of us priests and faithful owe him devoted respect and filial obedience, always and regardless. Worthy or unworthy he is the legitimate successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter, who received his mandate from Christ himself, transferring it to all his Successors, of which the reigning Pontiff is the holder in legitimate line of apostolic succession. The Roman Pontiff, when it expresses itself in matters of doctrine and faith, he enjoys the special assistance of the Holy Spirit to the point of pronouncing himself infallibly. But when he acts as a man or as private doctor he can take actions or indulge in those inappropriate expressions, unhappy and misleading to which Jorge Mario Bergoglio has by now accustomed us for nine years now. In this case, like everyone else, he is subject to criticism and reproaches, because neither some of his repeated zibaldoni pronounced on the plane at high altitude nor his unhappy chats with Eugenio Scalfari can be elements of supreme magisterium for us, much less binding. In fact, as the Holy Bishop and Doctor of the Church Ambrose of Milan said at the time:

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«Tell the Bishop of Rome that after Jesus Christ he comes for us, that we venerate and respect him, but also tell him that we don't intend to use the head that God has given us just to put a hat on.".

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After this clarification Let's get to the heart of the problem: to the proven test of facts, the reigning Pontiff has never ceased to be Jorge Mario Bergoglio to become Peter, that is, Francis, as he chose to call himself. Stubborn and undaunted, he continued to be Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an upstream Jesuit poorly trained on a theological and ecclesiological level between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, clearly contemptuous of Romanism and incapable of understanding that it is synonymous with Catholic universality, finally landed in Rome with all the worst anti-Roman prejudices fomented by the Germans in that Latin America they used as an incubator of all the worst theological and ecclesiological drifts. And so, for the first time, we found ourselves on the Chair of Peter a man steeped in contempt for Rome and Roman Catholic universality. And who denies this, the mind, or lives outside of reality, or more simply, it refuses reality in order not to come to terms with the horror of Leopardi's true memory.

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Years ago I explained that the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio could not even be called a provincial, but a headquarters. The analysis is contained in an article of mine from 2017 to which I refer you and in which I explain that "quarterlyism" - a non-existent term in the dictionary because it was coined by me - "is worse than provincialism, why the headquarters is a person linked on a psycho-social level to the neighborhood of a specific city or metropolitan context". And now try to imagine a headquarters sitting on the chair from which Peter must govern the universal Church, certainly not playing the egocentric eccentric in a neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

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The man Jorge Mario Bergoglio he immediately showed himself to be sick of originality, even in a very serious way. It's all part of his character structure, because that's how it's always been, structurally. He must do the opposite or the exact opposite of what all his other predecessors did, until it shows, perhaps completely unconsciously, of not even having the perception of the dignity with which he was invested. Dignity which, however, does not belong to him, but which was given to him only on loan for use and for which he will have to seriously and gravely answer to God according to the terrible warning of Jesus Christ:

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"To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " (LC 12, 48).

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Speaking for the sinner I am, therefore as a person liable to fall and relapse into sin, I confess publicly, especially to you silent Bishops and Cardinals, that I would not want to be in the place of the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio, because according to what the Holy Scriptures report, from Christ risks being told: “I did not entrust to you the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven so that «whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and everything you melt on earth will be melted in heaven " (Mt 16, 19), so that you would drag my Church into a theater of ridicule amidst the laughter of jugglers, of the dwarves and the dancers of the equestrian circus". Nor would I want to be in the place of the silent Bishops and Cardinals, who before the Holy Bride of Christ exposed to the shame of ridicule, they find nothing better to do than engage in that sin that seems to be the most popular among them: the sin of omission, combined with the destructive cynicism of those who slothfully wait for the wind to change, without having to lift a finger, without taking any initiative, without taking on a single responsibility, except jumping with a sprint like professional athletes onto the next leader's cart.

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It's been two days that I am receiving phone calls from brothers scattered throughout the dioceses throughout Italy, shocked and lost after hearing the news that His Holiness he will be a guest on Sunday evening a What the weather is the known talk show conducted by the very sinister Fabio Fazio, who embodies the most politically correct bias of the left radical chic, that of hippies with super-penthouses in Parioli and villas in Capalbio, other than the poor, and migrants, the existential peripheries and the various warhorses of the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio to whom these leftists have always applauded every blow he inflicted on the dignity and credibility of the Church. And I carry out the ministry of confessor and spiritual director mainly with priests, I have the opportunity to feel the pulse of discomfort very well, especially of suffering, because as I have explained several times and as I am now repeating: in what Jorge Mario Bergoglio defined as «The Church field hospital», We are in the emergency room to welcome the injured, he isn't there, nor the ruffians busy flattering him in his court of miracles made up of ideological poor and dreamlike migrants, fruit of his obsessive-compulsive neurosis. And more and more frequently, the red crosses that arrive with sirens blaring in the real emergency room of our equally real one Church field hospital, from above the stretchers they unload priests and faithful in pieces, before which one often has to say: and now, where to start, to sew pieces together and close wounds?

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How can you go, or how you can be present even and only with an external connection for a few minutes - in fact we don't know if it will be in the studio or if it will be connected - in a living room in which the poisonous Luciana Littizzetto has been throwing shit at the Catholic Church and the clergy for years, mocking doctrine at every turn, Catholic morality and the pastoral care of the Italian Bishops? How can you… how can you… this is the question asked to me in recent days by priests who have contacted me from all over Italy: how can the Supreme Pontiff fall so low and therefore drag us all down?

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To all these brothers I responded in various ways, for example by expressing that as priests we were ready, if necessary, also to anti-Catholic persecutions, even to die as martyrs for the faith, because our sacred ministry can also involve these possibilities, in their own way imprinted in our own DNA of priests. Of course, none of us were prepared to die in ridicule, thanks to a Supreme Pontiff who decided to play the jester in the sinister court of Fabio Fazio and Luciana Littizzetto.

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From decline to decline in popularity into which this pontificate has long sunk, loved by all that is not Catholic but suffered with tears of blood by devout priests and faithful, what the original and eccentric has in store for us in the future headquarters Jorge Mario Bergoglio? He's already been to the optician to buy glasses, He recently went to the music store to buy a record. Needless to say, although it bears repeating: all with such casual spontaneity to the point of being followed by the personal photographer and awaited on site by as many photographers. And tomorrow, what will he do, to raise theauditel? He will be filmed by international television while sweeping the churchyard of the Papal Archbasilica of St. Peter with the broom, or while washing the dishes in the kitchen Domus Sanctae Martha singing «One morning, I woke up, oh beautiful hello, hello beautiful …"? Or who knows, after the doctrinally confused and heterodox Bishop Tonino Bello, he will also have heroic virtues proclaimed super life, virtues and reputation of holiness by Ernesto Guevara known as el Che? Because from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, in case you didn't understand, O my Excellent Bishops and Eminent Cardinals, At the moment everything is to be expected, specie a 85 years of age. Maybe for the first time, in Church history, we have a Supreme Pontiff comparable in every way to an unpredictable and uncontrollable loose cannon.

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In this article of mine I did that painful dirty work which certain members of the Roman Curia and the Italian episcopate do not have the courage to do, given the dramatic and meandering lack of virile attributes. Of course, we know perfectly well that throughout history we have had martyr Supreme Pontiffs, Holy Supreme Pontiffs, Political Supreme Pontiffs, Simoniac Supreme Pontiffs, Libertine Supreme Pontiffs, Supreme Theological Pontiffs, Supreme Pontiffs who knew little or badly about Catholic doctrine... we have had all kinds of them, but all of them legitimate successors of the Blessed Apostle Peter, up to and including Francis I. In the two thousand year old collection only the Supreme Pontiff was missing, a jester at the court of the politically correct left of Fabio Fazio and Luciana Littizzetto. Now we will have that too, while the words of the Venerable Bishop are of bitter consolation Fulton Sheen:

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«When God wants to punish humanity he does not give the Pope he needs, but leave the Church the Pope it deserves" (cf. The priest is not his own, 1963).

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I conclude by clarifying that Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and Saint Catherine of Siena would have used much more severe tones than mine. Of course, some poisonous clerical might reply that they were holy doctors of the Church, while I don't. It's true, but in this case it would be good to remember that when Saint Bernard wrote these words to Eugene III:

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«You can show me only one who welcomed your election without having received money or without the hope of receiving it? And the more they have professed your servants, the more they want to dominate within the Church" (Treaty good for every Pope, written for Eugene III, born Bernardo de’ Paganelli)

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or when Saint Catherine of Siena, to the Supreme Pontiff Gregory, because its stench had now reached his city too, well: neither one nor the other had yet been proclaimed Saints, least of all doctors of the Church. And with this I have said everything, to certain poisonous, susceptible clericals ready to look for the speck in my eye so as not to see the beam that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has stuck in his own eye (cf. LC 6, 41), at risk, I'm afraid it's getting more and more serious, of the eternal health of his soul:

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"To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " (LC 12, 48).

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the Island of Patmos, 4 February 2022

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The delicacy of the ancient scorpion: a commendable ironic comment by L'Osservatore Romano on the Sanremo Festival

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THE DELICACY OF THE ANCIENT SCORPIO: A PRAISABLE IRONIC COMMENT DE THE OSSERVATORE ROMANO ON THE SANREMO FESTIVAL

An ironic teaching on transgression offered by the official organ of the Holy See to little beginners who try unsuccessfully to transgress …

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A precise and decisive note from the Bishop of San Remo-Ventimiglia on the Song Festival now reduced to a porcine event

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A PRECISE AND DECIDED NOTE FROM THE BISHOP OF VENTIMIGLIA-SAN REMO ON THE SONG FESTIVAL REDUCED TO A PORCINO EVENT

«The painful performance of the first singer once again he mocked and profaned the sacred signs of the Catholic faith by evoking the gesture of Baptism in a dull and desecrating context ".

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S. AND. Mons. Antonio Suetta, Bishop of Ventimiglia-San Remo

S. AND. Mons. Antonio Suetta intervenes today on the Song Festival now reduced to a porcine event. We limit ourselves to introducing the text of the Bishop of Ventimiglia – San Remo with a question: if a comedian had done a satire on the world LGBT, what would happen from the next day to follow? Because these pseudo-artists don't make provocations, for example on the founder of Islam Mohammed represented in ambiguous poses with a camel? It would be hilarious, how hilarious the shots would be Kalashnikov that the following evening would hit the Ariston Theater with perfect aim … .

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A sad opening of the Festival of the Italian Song 2022 unfortunately confirmed the ugly turn, that, for some time now, took this singing event and, in general, the world of entertainment, public service included.

The painful performance of the first singer once again he mocked and profaned the sacred signs of the Catholic faith by evoking the gesture of Baptism in a dull and desecrating context.

The piece presented, already in the title - Domenica - and in the context of a gospel choir, alluded to the day of the Lord, celebrated by Christians as a day of faith and resurrection, placing it in an environment of words, of attitude and gestures, not only offensive to religion, but above all for the dignity of man.

Not surprising moreover, that the dramatic artistic poverty constantly resorts to makeshift means to make people talk about the character and the event as a whole.

Undecided whether to intervene or not, at first I thought it was convenient not to give further evidence to such an indecent havoc, but then I felt that it is more necessary to give a voice to many believers, humble and good, offenses in the most cherished values ​​to protest against continuous and ignoble attacks on the faith; I felt it was my duty to denounce once again how the public service cannot and should not allow such situations, still hoping that, at the institutional level, someone intervene; I felt it was clear that one cannot declare oneself a believing Catholic and then endorse and organize similar exhibitions; Finally, I felt that it is important and urgent to stem the serious educational drift that threatens especially the youngest with the ostentation of inadequate models.

I am aware that my dispute it will find little echo in the media world dominated by single thinking, but I am even more certain that it will reach clean and courageous hearts, capable of reacting in everyday life to such rampant and poisonous aggressions. Above all, I am convinced that I have to fulfill my duty as a pastor so that the Christian people, also entrusted to my care, do not suffer scandal from a silence interpreted as indifference or, even worse, acquiescence.

True and, as the saying goes, that rdonkey garlic does not rise to heaven, but I think it opportune to urge consciences to seriously reflect and believers to the duty of reparation in prayer, in the good witness of life and in the courageous denunciation.

Sanremo, 2 February 2022

✠ Antonio Suetta

Bishop of Ventimiglia - San Remo

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Reflections on the election of the President of the Italian Republic: after a few days of painful theater, in the end respect and responsibility prevailed

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REFLECTIONS ON THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC: AFTER A FEW DAYS OF PENIOUS THEATER, IN THE END, RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY PREVAILED

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I know that you will be able to make a careful analysis of what happened and you will start again from it to try to mend that relationship with the Italians who, after the little theater these days, they find it hard to recognize themselves in you. Know how to start from here and know how to find in yourself the reasons for your commitment. If not, you will be able to find them, return home, because Italians deserve the best. They deserve honesty.

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Anna Monia Alfieri, I.M.

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The President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella

At the end of a truly impressive week for each of us, during which even those who have “the head on the shoulders” he felt lost, I think of you young people in a particular way. Perhaps you too are disoriented, sorry, and think that, at the bottom of, it is of little use to commit oneself to public affairs. I myself have experienced a sense of profound disorientation, but the words of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella last night, so essential, linear, without any claims, they communicated a feeling of harmony and peace and perhaps they helped us to recover certain fundamental elements.

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The collective reaction was positive, so that of Europe; there was no lack of yellow card celebrations of some politicians who tried to ascribe the success and salvation of the country, just as there was no shortage of improvised constitutionalists, Alas! The non-knowledge hoisted into the system is intolerable and no one thinks that the citizens are distracted, or who are spectators to be made fun of, they forget so much.

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To tie up the threads of a delirious week let's start from the words of the President of the Republic: «Respect» for the Institutions, "Responsibility" for the country and the citizens who will certainly have felt disconcerted and perhaps even impressed. These had already been key words in the President's way of proceeding. Let's go in order then:

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  1. In the 2018 the difficulty of composing a Government, as no party significantly won the elections, had cost him the accusation of impeachment. Even then, "respect" for the institutions and a sense of "responsibility" towards the citizens saved the situation from disaster. First the yellow-green government is launched, then the yellow-red;
  2. In the 2020 Covid like a black swan, while dragging the country into an abyss, makes it clear that a competent Guide is needed, credible and courageous. It is still the "respect" and "responsibility" for the institutions that keep democracy and credibility on the outside. Thus we arrive at a Government of National Unity at the helm of Premier Draghi;
  3. In the 2021 you have the try again, with the rejection of the Zan bill in Parliament, how much the two keywords were missing, having the same author declared in the following days that those articles so controversial could also be excerpted. Wasted time and declaration of incompetence.

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In these three symbolic events we can see how fundamental respect and responsibility towards citizens are. Otherwise, each of them should say: "I'm not there", in the Scalfaro-manner.

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a first lesson under Italian law: the President of the Republic and the highest state offices in Italian law are figures who, when they are established, for their high office, they are in a position above the political parties. Instead, what happened? there, in summary what happened:

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  1. a part, Thursday 27, accuses the other of behaving like children, resorting to abstention, except then, out of a sense of respect towards the institutions, do the same on Friday 28. But in what sense abstention for the sense of the institutions?
  2. And then the circus of it's my turn he was born in it's up to you propose names. But let's joke?

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In front of all this it is reasonable to think that there is no fracture within the coalitions, or presumed to be so, not even among the opposing parties: there was simply a need to keep the salary for another seven months. Like this, to give a semblance of credibility, it was necessary to demonstrate that one was trying, naturally a favor of camera, to speak to their voters. Therefore, reaching up to the eighth session - which strictly became double on Friday - so that on Sunday free everyone, the alarm was clear: the country doesn't hold up, we are in times of crisis, President Mattarella will not be able to escape, because he certainly has respect and a sense of institutional responsibility. In fact, here it is, with a huge sacrifice, also from a human and personal point of view, the President did not hold back and, Once again, puts duty before everything.

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In speech these two words are truly the key to understanding this farce that has been set up. And now what to do? We move forward, unable not to thank President Sergio Mattarella for having once again saved the country from irresponsibility, Premier Draghi who has proven to be a grandfather in the service of the country. Two high-calibre figures who, however, impose a "U" turn on the political class.

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Having said that, I would like to leave on a positive note and a teaching that gives me so much comfort. In the most dramatic moments of life, we need to look at the positive that is always found in every situation: if nothing else, certainly the awareness of the difficulty is healthy. The 28 January 2022, for the first time in the history of republican and democratic Italy, the candidacy of a woman for the presidency of the Republic was proposed and voted for by over 380 Big Voters (more than 400 abstained). Evidently the country has expressed a healthy maturity, in line with the election of the Honorable Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, four years ago, to the Presidency of the Senate. This candidacy is certainly a good message for the younger generations.

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Beyond any partisan consideration ― the role of Alberti Casellati is super parts and it will remain so in any case - as intelligent opening detects, thus the internal jealousies and resentments that have miserably prevailed are evident, clearly preventing the valorization of a colleague… Paraphrasing: «A woman is a wolf». Despite it all, we need to move forward with courage. Nothing is lost that happens for a good that surpasses us.

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A sincere thanks, At that time, goes to President Alberti Casellati who agreed to lend his figure super parts to offer us hope which is not a question of categories but of contents. Certainly the whole story allowed us to measure ourselves against the struggle of many men to welcome a woman leader, the real difficulty of many women in valuing their colleagues. Battles of gender equality ultimately hide a painful truth that we must call by name: men and women are more inclined to give solidarity and support to others who are in an inferior position but are still incapable of valorising them. This is true in politics as in many secular and ecclesial realities, nemo prophet in patria, because envy kills resources. Therefore, after an initial moment of discouragement, we look at the positive and thank these three people who have once again saved the country, given to each of us elements to hope that good wins. Myself, every time I feel discouraged in doing good, delegitimized, attached and I would like to say: “Make do”, I will think of these people who have truly restored dignity to two important words "respect" and "responsibility". Those who live moved by these values ​​will never be able to betray them even if the other does not deserve it because good is never a reaction but an action, a conscious choice. Perhaps this allows most people to live irresponsibly.

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With Sergio Mattarella the history of the Quirinale continues its glorious journey, in the wake of the past: the sense of the institutions, the preparation of the President have averted the collapse in our recent past. In all of this I see, with Father Cristoforo, a "thread of Providence" (The betrothed, cap. IV). But Providence is not enough, or better, Providence needs us, of men and women who freely choose to fulfill their duty: «We are useless servants, we did what we had to do " (LC 17, 10). This phrase has much more value for those who say they place themselves at the service of citizens through public affairs. Men and women of politics: you know it, I have great faith in you. Ma, I admit, that today this trust of mine is put to the test. So, other parte, that you will be able to carry out a careful analysis of what happened and you will start again from it to try to mend that relationship with the Italians who, after the little theater these days, they find it hard to recognize themselves in you. Know how to start from here and know how to find in yourself the reasons for your commitment. If not, you will be able to find them, return home, because Italians deserve the best. They deserve honesty. Sergio Mattarella and Mario Draghi deserve today, as Aldo Moro deserved in the past, Amintore Fanfani and Enrico Berlinguer. These names are written in their hearts, the others have been cancelled.

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Milan, 31 January 2022

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