At the funeral of Benedict XVI could have been missing the “ideological priest” who denies Communion to a faithful who kneels and rejects him?

AT THE FUNERAL OF BENEDICT XVI THE “IDEOLOGICAL PRIEST” WHO DENIES COMMUNION TO A FAITHFUL WHO KNEES HIM AND REJECTS HIM?

In a world that kneels before all the worst idols, never let anyone dare to kneel before the Most Holy Body of Christ, because it is a real affront!

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No, the “ideological priest” can never miss, especially on the most particular and delicate occasions. What could be better to do than to deny a faithful Holy Communion for having dared to kneel before the Most Holy Eucharist? All at the funeral of Benedict XVI who during his pontificals administered Holy Communion from the kneeler at the altar of confession, offering it to his mouth. This presbyter, besides not knowing the abysmal difference between a “poor priest” it's a “poor priest”, perhaps belongs to the consortium of those who think "Carnival is over"? Someone wanted a "poor Church" and we ended up with the poor Church! Does anyone remember this crowded square, because maybe it will be the last.

 

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when in 2017 I wrote six years in advance of the death and funeral of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI

WHEN IN 2017 I WROTE SIX YEARS IN ADVANCE ABOUT THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI

I don't consider myself a prophet at all, although in my writing of the 2017 I use this word with quotation marks. I think I am simply endowed with that sufficient common sense which I exercise through that critical and analytical spirit which in the Church of large openings and large inclusions is judged today as smoke in the eyes.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

 

The 31 December of the year 2022 just concluded I was touched by the death of the renouncing Supreme Pontiff, on the other hand I laughed when a So-and-so made yet another raid on my writings and books, on which he carries out robberies since 2015, repurposing my concepts as his original ideas, all after having made upheavals. These days he has used the contents of the second part of my article of 2017 which I propose to you today, in which I speak of the future death and funeral of Benedict XVI. I fly over the poor fellow in question with an understandable touch of aristocratic snobbery, who after years of robbing my works finds nothing better to do than point me out as a usurper of the title of theologian and as gnawed by jealousy and envy towards him (!?). It's not the time to rage, from life and from the Church he has already had everything he deserved in severe punishments.

I don't consider myself a prophet at all, although in my writing of the 2017 I use this word with quotation marks. I think I am simply endowed with that sufficient common sense which I exercise through that critical and analytical spirit which in the Church of large openings and large inclusions is judged today as smoke in the eyes, especially from the army of mediocre people who pose as stars of the firmament inside.

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ME REQUIRES THE TREAT THE TRUTH: "THE PETITION IN FAVOR OF THE JOY OF LOVE IS VERY WORST CORRECTION filiales PROSECUTION OF HERESY THAT THE POPE ". AND APPENDIX: A SMALL PROPHECY IN DEATH OF BENEDICT XVI

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Day after day, the Supreme Pontiff Francis is showing himself to be a parent at the height of his own irresponsibility, but not for that never cease to be, For better or for worse, our rightful parent. Therefore, son grieved, It can also tell: "I wish we had a different parent ', but always animated by the full knowledge that his parent is. And as such it must also accept it and respect it, up to accept, with great suffering, the fact that correcting and training the parent has never been the task of the children, while helping the parent yes, this is a real duty of children.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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“In the visible Church you are now the surviving priests of a militant and saving Church which no longer exists, why can you call the paleo-presbyteri, congiungervi waiting for the triumphant Church in the heavenly Jerusalem "

Jorge Facio Lynx, private Talks with Ariel S.. Levi di Gualdo

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New cover for the next edition of Les Miserables, Victor Hugo. In the picture: His Holiness Francis I interviewed the Paduan priest Marco Pozza, worthy son of … Friar Cipolla [cf. item WHO]

The ambiguity of the Holy Father, your refusal a respond and clarify, perhaps due to a cage in which he was locked up or in which he unwittingly let himself be locked up [cf.. response to a reader, WHO], equivalent to a plane without a parachute launch. And before similar launch, you can't talk about predictable end, but only of certain end.

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Just imagine one of those large families made up of two parents and five children aged between five and fifteen, in which the father and mother did not give precise indications and directives on what to do and what not to do, about what you should do and what you should not do, on what is allowed and what is prohibited. And suppose that these parents, if anything even implying or stating what not to do and what is forbidden to do, do not indicate in any way what would be the proper punishment given to those who transgress their command. Well: what would happen?

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To this question I can answer through an image eloquently, sad and humiliating in its squalor for the Church of Christ and for this pontificate. This is the picture that accompanies this article, in which the priest Marco Pozza recovered, chaplain of the Padua prison, He sat before the Pope dressed as a casual young man in sneakers [cf.. WHO].

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To clarify the example chosen through which we will then talk about something else, We must remember that the Code of Canon Law states today:

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"Clerics are to wear a decent ecclesiastical dress according to the norms issued by the Episcopal Conference and according to legitimate local customs [can. 284]. Clerics are to refrain completely from what is unbecoming to their state, accordance with the provisions of particular law [can. 285 § 1]. Avoid those things that, although not unbecoming, is alien to the clerical state" [can. 285 §2].

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Quoted canon, But we also know the answer of certain subjects, which it is more or less this: "But please, let's not formalize ourselves! What only matters is peace, the love, mercy, the welcome. Not fossilizziamoci on hard and dry law, roba of Pharisaic legalisms! What matters it is to stay close to the sheep, take the smell, stinking sheep like them ».

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And just before answers of this kind it is necessary to remember that in addition to this "arid" canon 284, definitely no peace, love, mercy, welcome and stench of sheep, There are forty-eight years of papal teaching in the exercise of such, three predecessors of the reigning Pontiff, one of which canonized and the other beatified - perhaps mistaken in the name of the arid law that is not merciful or pecoreccia ―, based on this "barren" canon have made repeated appeals to the members of the secular and regular clergy, reiterating in every way that clerical garb, It is not a simple totally unnecessary accessory. He appeals to that effect made them the Blessed Pope Paul VI to Catechesis in the Hearing general the 17 September 1969 [cf.. WHO], to follow with the Address to Clergy 1st March 1973. Following the circular letter To meet the Congregation for Bishops to all pontifical representatives 27 January 1976. To follow with the Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Giovanni Paolo II, new incipient, the 7 April 1979, addressed to Priests for Holy Thursday. Always under the pontificate of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II - canonized but not heard and much less followed - follows the Circular of the Congregation for Catholic Education the 6 January 1980, and below that of the Congregation for the Clergy in Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests, paragraph 66, The obligation of the ecclesiastical, the 31 January 1994. It's still: September 8 1982 the Holy Father Giovanni Paolo II wrote a letter to the Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome, published on The Osservatore Romano the 18-19 October 1982 - at the time when the official organ of the Holy See does not yet talked to San Martin Lutero and his “reform” —, reaffirming the obligation of ecclesiastical dress and establishing that in his diocese he wanted priests to wear the cassock [Then read the text WHO]. On this subject back finally even the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI with his expression turned to the plenary meeting of the Congregation for the Clergy on 16 March 2009 [cf.. WHO].

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Assuming that we flee any spirit of pure and dry formalism, every good Catholic evaluates for himself the indignant significance of the public image of a pretino fashion in clothes casual, that with gym shoes bets on the floor interview the Roman Pontiff, predecessor of all those who recommended and reaffirmed the use of ecclesiastical dress to the clergy. From the same pose of the priest in fact anyone can infer that in his long years of Blessed seminar, surely already tense ever since then social-pecoreccio which today makes such trend, perhaps he never even learned the rudiments of good manners, which is not formalism, because education is part of a style of ecclesial life and ecclesiastical linked to the deeper elements of the priesthood and the sacred pastoral ministry spirituality [I refer to my article on pretini trendy: "I seriously pigliateli, take them for the ass " WHO].

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While we roped critical assaulting sometimes disrespectfully and even violent, the Supreme Pontiff for his every breath, on the other we'd like, its staunchest defenders, often no less deranged, They entered the order of ideas that the Holy Father is not perfect and that, precisely for the best protection and preservation of its role, must also necessary to highlight its flaws, which they are not few, and often also produce damage [cf.. My previous article WHO]. Otherwise it falls in total imbalance on either side, harming, in one and in the other case, the Church of Christ, the reigning Pontiff and the institution of the papacy.

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A few days ago, with firm severity, I criticized the authors of the correction filial [cf.. text, WHO] who accused the reigning Pontiff seven heresies expressed in a more or less direct [cf.. previous article WHO]. In those few lines, in flush with tones in some passages about the "cruelty", I strongly attacked one of the signatories, Antonio Love [cf.. previous article WHO]. And I attacked because first of all the love you very much, I venerate him as an elderly priest and I consider him the last great exponent of the glorious Roman School on a philosophical and theological level.

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The deference to truth and intellectual honesty, Today I require all the more reason to say that the correction filial It is really nothing, compared to a defense text of the Holy Father which completely distorts the text of The joy of love, taking for granted and impersonating public opinion of the Catholic openings ever written and ever permissioni dates [see text, WHO]. The correction filial, on which stands for the joy of the noisy pro-Lefebvre Catholics the untimely signing of the schismatic Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, We remember that it is not in communion with Rome, despite the improvident and unilateral concessions made to them by the Supreme Pontiff Francis, there's really nothing, a comparison of the signatures that appear at the end of the text of this effusive Defense: those of many overt heretics. Included among them two excommunicated: Martha Heizer, President of the so-called Basic Association We are church [We are Church], to which has been imposed in 2014 excommunication, not by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, but by the reigning Pontiff. Excommunication extended to her husband Ehemann Gert [cf.. WHO, WHO]. And if these are some of the signatories of the defense, There is something to be feel challenged [cf.. WHO].

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Precisely because of the severity used a few days ago, the evolution of the facts compels me to say that while prosecutors yesterday are mistaken Catholics, today's defenders are mostly manifest heretics, gangrene in its own subjective view of the Catholic Church, not corresponding to the Church of Christ, with the excuse of The joy of love and specious defense of the Supreme Pontiff, instead they try to defend and carry on only their perilous heresies of all time.

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I used the Ecclesiastical Paradigm and painful picture of casual pretino fashion before the Supreme Pontiff in indignified conditions to reiterate that Francis is the emblem of the harmful parent. It is the parent paradigm, Once a decision is made, before the demands of the child explanation, instead of answering, says to him: "Go and ask the neighbor, because he is an experienced parent, he'll give you to the correct interpretation of what I wanted to say '. Just as the Supreme Pontiff said when spurred by questions from journalists invited them to seek guidance to Cardinale Christoph von Schönborn. And you know well that, if there was no cry, it would be funny.

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If a parent does not respond to his son, or fails to identify his son, together with the directive or command given, also the eventual punishment in which incur, He is likely to end up with a teenager who returns home drunk and drugged at three am, aware that the other side is not a merciful father, welcoming and inclusive, but a perfect irresponsible unable to assume their responsibilities. Even worse: even able, if necessary, of blaming the other teenage son who, aware of his age and the risks they can run, He leads a sober life and not going to be of joints around the slums with high-risk persons. E, said this, Please use the specialists of turn of the Holy Gospel and its worst adulteration, not daring to bring up the Parable of the prodigal son [cf.. LC 15, 11-32], because it teaches not to take blows to the loyal son and to raise the dissolute son as a model, all sorry and unwilling to correct himself. On the contrary, having run out of money and wondered data earlier by his father, the profligate back to him to ask for more money, and then return to dilapidarli with prostitutes. Because these are the models that often, in Contemporary Church, are made to pass the Prodigal Son, in defiance up to Christ the Lord and his holy gospel they teach anything.

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Day after day, the Supreme Pontiff Francis is showing himself to be a parent at the height of his own irresponsibility, but not for that never cease to be, For better or for worse, our rightful parent. Therefore, son grieved, It can also tell: "I wish we had a different parent ', but always animated by the full knowledge that his parent is. And as such it must also accept it and respect it, up to accepting with no small amount of suffering that correcting and training the parent has never been the task of the children, while helping the parent, this is a real duty of children.

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Finally, I offer a small “prophecy” at the end of this comment, entitled: In the death of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI. Which might sound like a far-fetched fall style, if not properly explained. And my little “prophecy” it's this one: the Holy Father Benedict XVI, albeit bruised for understandable issues of age, although always perfectly polished, ninety years played is moving towards the natural end of his life, which could happen any day now. If indeed all, from birth, including infants, children and youth, They can be caught at any time from death, more so it is a nonagenarian.

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Given that our churches are increasingly empty, that the cameramen the Vatican Television Center and of Sat2000 they do not know from what angle to frame an increasingly deserted Piazza San Pietro, trying to make it appear more or less full of faithful … well, That said, I say to: the day that will be celebrated the funeral obsequies of Pope Benedict XVI, predecessor of the reigning Pope, God's people will give the last square packed the history of the universal Church. And that square packed, as ever the more you will see in the future, it will be the sign and at the same time the judgment given by the People of God on the pontificate of a Supreme Pontiff who has received and bestowed smiles and words on everyone, even to a son of Lucifer like Marco Pannella, to an indomitable and unrepentant abortionist like Emma Bonino, to a wolf now disguised as a lamb like Eugenio Scalfari [cf.. Giovanni Cavalcoli, WHO]. He received in hearing and embraced the worst dictators dell’America Latina, who with great fall in style treated him to pats on the back and hugs around his waist; then using these images in their own countries to make the Bolivian people or the Venezuelan people believe that the Supreme Pontiff was on their side, What obviously false, totally false! But unfortunately, certain images, in the media have devastating impacts, with all due respect guru communications as Father Antonio Spadaro and Mons. Dario Edoardo Viganò, prudence of which is probably comparable to that of those who chose them and elected to certain offices delicate.

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For all, the Supreme Pontiff Francis had smiles and answers, except for his brothers in the episcopate devotees, as the four cardinals in a very respectful tone demanded an answer, through the ecclesial form of so-called Dubia.

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This is what will happen to the death of Pope Benedict XVI. Unless certain clerical luciferin, sensing also that the square you can not control and that a narrow square crowded around the coffin of 265 ° Successor of Peter, It would be a visible resounding judgment on this pontificate featuring interviews to secular newspapers of great tradition anticlerical, but at the same time it characterized by increasingly empty squares and churches, “Parino the image damage” imposing the celebration of the funeral obsequies privately. If anything inventing - because as such does not beat them to be liars anyone -, that the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI had left her hand that his funeral obsequies were celebrated in private.

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They are spilled rivers of ink on the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI who has renounced the Petrine ministry retiring to private life, but no one has rated her yet “terrible danger” the dead, before a packed square as ever, with an army of Polish Catholics are able to reach Rome - as among others have repeatedly -, even walking and hitchhiking, to be present at the final burial of Pope St. Giovanni Paolo II, canonized, but not heard and not later. And that square crowded as ever, It would be a judgment on the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, He hated by the worst intelligentsia theological captive-Lutheran, but he loved by Catholics. But, that square packed, It would also be a terrible judgment on the reign of his successor, which on one side has bestowed smiles to Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino, interviews with Eugenio Scalfari and hugs to arcivescove Lutheran lesbian clad in priestly insignia, and at the same time ushering in the era of a pontificate with increasingly empty churches in Rome and the increasingly deserted Piazza San Pietro, while two of his cardinal devotees died after devotedly served the church all my life and have confirmed devotion in every way the August Pontiff, but he - the merciful -, It not deigned to receive them and to answer. Perhaps he not received them and did not answer because he was too busy to greet the arrival of hordes giovanottoni in perfect physical health, anything but fled famine and wars, all in the age group far below the Thirty Years', to absolute majority Muslims, which they are launched in the colonization of Europe by now dying dechristianized foraggiati funds from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, But even in spite they called foolish and reckless with anything but name: refugees. All this after having demonstrated the ability to read and to be able to articulate well two Latin words: soli juice

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And who will live, will see, the day we bury his Venerable Predecessor Benedict XVI, if they do decide to avoid the big problem giving him a silent funeral, shut up …

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From the island of Patmos, 19 October 2017

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The Marco Pozza’s show

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Here's another priest who unfortunately did not understand that young people in a very special way, Priests of Christ do not want them so tanned, a fare i divetti low alloy jeans before the altar, as demonstrated by the churches in which they speak, where in the audience, more than young people, There are now just old seventies sessantottino, the con artrite reumatoide, remained with them little guitars in hand to sing God is dead Francesco Guccini, increasingly paralyzed in “forbidden to forbid” and sweet icon “Christ-Che Guevara“. But their sloppiness, give him rope and credit the Supreme Pontiff and miserable television of the Italian Episcopal Conference, that we'd least expected …

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On the death of Benedict XVI who began the Petrine ministry by saying: "Pray for me so that I don't flee in fear before the wolves"

IN THE DEATH OF BENEDICT XVI WHO BEGAN THE PETRINE MINISTRY BY SAYING: "PRAY FOR ME SO THAT I DO NOT FLEE IN FEAR BEFORE THE WOLVES"

Among the many things that are being said about Joseph Ratzinger in these hours, I think this is the most true and flattering: «He served the Church but did not use It».

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Sui mass media are multiplying these days ― and will continue to multiply in the next few days ― comments from characters and personalities, together with an army of characters in search of an author, who do not know the foundations of Catholicism, its ecclesiology, its specific liturgy and its domestic law. In fact, speaking of the "funeral of the Pope" is a purely popular expression, so to speak. And this has always been, not only in the case of Benedict XVI. When the Roman Pontiff dies, the funeral is not celebrated for the Pope but for the one who was. In the past, after death, the so-called "rite of the hammer" took place. The dean of the College of Cardinals struck three blows on the forehead of the deceased with a gavel pronouncing the phrase «The Pope is really dead» (the Pope is really dead). Then he no longer called him by the name assumed at his election to the sacred throne, but with his first name. This thing has a very deep meaning: the pontificate ceases with death, does not survive it.

Benedict XVI, the Supreme Pontiff who loved cats

The ritual of the gavel was last performed in 1922 to the death of Benedict XV. Afterwards, when in 1939 Pius XI died, the then dean of the College of Cardinals Eugenio Pacelli, who will become his successor with the name of Pius XII, he did not use the gavel, rite that has since fallen into disuse. However, it is good to clarify on this occasion that we have always celebrated the funeral of the one who was Roman Pontiff, who ceases to be such at the moment of death to return to the man he was before the election. While in fact an episcopal and a presbyter remain such forever, by virtue of the indelible Sacrament they have received and which therefore crosses death itself, the Roman Pontiff, that his power instead he received it juridically and not sacramentally [cf.. WHO], it ceases to be such with death, for this reason he is called with his first name. That of Benedict XVI is an even more particular case, because he ceased to be the Roman Pontiff 10 Years ago, with his free, legitimate and valid act of renunciation of the Petrine ministry.

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Among many things that are being said about Joseph Ratzinger in these hours, I think this is the most true and flattering: «He served the Church but did not use It». He truly served the Church - "a simple and humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord" - as the 19 April 2005 immediately after his election to the throne of the Prince of the Apostles. Then a few days later, the 24 April, during the Holy Mass for the beginning of the Petrine ministry he pronounced a sentence in the homily that we understood only several years later, even if today it remains to understand its true meaning to the end: "Pray for me so that I don't flee in fear before the wolves" [cf.. WHO].

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This service he had no alternations but was constant: both as Pontiff and as cardinal and bishop and even before that as a priest; both as a theologian and as a student of the mystery of God who has always loved, investigated and defended in his role as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The unanimous and intellectually honest consensus of those who knew him personally - some of whom are non-believers or blatantly non-Catholics - directs the heart of the Christian faithful towards this evaluation of merit, thus leaving to God the inevitable frailties of a man who has indeed committed errors precisely because of those heights of dignity to which he was subjected, as we already see present in the life of the blessed apostle Simon Peter.

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After the great and impetuous John Paul II, the Lord has chosen a meek pastor - perhaps too meek for the historical moment in which he was called to hold the Petrine office - but who has never abdicated the search for the Truth which, before being a speculative path, represents a true and concrete person, it is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, true God and true man, Savior of the world.

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Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, he was the minister of Truth understood as a person of Christ, very rare commodity these days between “high” and “low” clergy. A truth that was affirmed even when it seemed inconvenient for the Catholic Church, said above all when it could scandalize someone and risked losing followers: the «you want to leave too?» [GV 6,67] it is still valid today, compared to "all gentlemen»?

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A truth truly told with parrhesia even when this would have meant martyrdom and persecution, especially when it was necessary to undertake a path of recovery made up of so much purgatory that would have closely affected both priests and religious and high prelates whose scandals and lives in dissonance with the Gospel could no longer be tolerated and mercy kindly, if not with the firm intention of a serious renewal of life and a return to conversion, without prejudice to the dutiful reparation before the world and before God.

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The value and depth of Benedict XVI it is essentially this and there is little else to add: it is the thickness of the Truth and it is right to remind everyone today, tell us priests, engrave it in the minds of the faithful, in an ecclesial moment of extreme fragility in which the Terni fevers of papolatria have affected many and where in these hours we are witnessing the vomiting selfie fair with the late Pontiff in the expectation of earning a few more loyalty or career points.

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I social they swarm reactions to his death, becoming the extremely revealing social basins of that fatuous and incongruous depth of modern man and of the modern clergy. We alternate in exaggerated praise uttered by the most improbable characters who wanted to follow the convenience of the moment by abandoning Joseph Ratzinger when he was no longer useful for achieving their personal interests. They went from the cappamagna to the migrants, from pectoral crosses in gold to the wooden ones of the barges, from the noble simplicity and sobriety of the liturgy to the unadorned sloppiness of the pioneers of the new God-forgetting inclusive worship, from the austere architectural order of St. Peter's Square to the dejections between Bernini's columns of a poor church and that's it.

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At the same time we witness the dance of the hyenas, to some who enjoy pathological satisfaction for his death - often the same ones who defend rights and inclusiveness - and who now rail against the memory of the Pontiff perceived immediately and without appeal as the “enemy number one” to be knocked down. To be knocked down yes, just as the uncomfortable truths that keep us up at night must be broken down, as we see the devil do with Jesus in Capernaum: "enough! What do you want from us, Jesus of Nazareth? You come to destroy? I know who you are: the saint of God!» [cf.. LC 4,31-37].

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Today systematically erase the Truth and truths has become the new mantra of intelligentsia dominant, of those who define themselves as custodians of human wisdom and who should have been able to dialogue with the theologian Pope and frantically seek an encounter with the Truth but did not. He preferred that Thursday 17 January 2008 reject all: "it just is! what do you want from us, you came to ruin us?» An opportunity to be able to give birth to the Truth in the pluriformity of positions of thought, instead transformed into an ideology with the cry of #NEW at La Sapienza University. Twelve years later, many of those proud and titled dissidents of the truth have made a career and are enjoying the prestigious and glittering human success, something the humble man does not desire and does not seek because he knows well that «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity».

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Mysteriously God reveals and challenges the dominant conceptions present in the world through the simple and humble workers of his vineyard. Joseph Ratzinger was, a Pope who embodied that «semeion antilegomenonof the Gospel of Luke, that is, that sign placed there by God and which many have rejected. Only those who have had the wisdom of the heart have understood correctly, understood and now lives the time of silence. Let us live these days in prayer for Pope Benedict XVI, for the Church, for the current Pope Francis. Facts like these are extremely rare and it would be foolish to label them outside a vision of divine Providence and wisdom that is not immediately understandable. We leave the literature to others fantasy and the amphibologies on Benedict XVI. We are interested in his person, his example, his ministry which today is more eloquent dead than alive and which perhaps will still have the merit of bringing many children's hearts back to their fathers. All the rest, for good and for bad, in sizes and limits, in strengths and weaknesses history will judge him coldly and impartially, when it will be and when it will be, if it will be …

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Laconi, 2 January 2023

 

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