(English text after the Italian)

And if simonia was back in vogue to vogue?

At present, the poor so exalted in this pontificate were left hostage of the whims of the rich as they had never been before, After giving life to a college of cardinal voters who do not represent the various items, The most diverse opinions and positions that have always enriched the church inside, but an univocal voice, monocorde.

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Everyone has their own style, single or collective. In the first, as in the second case, It can be spontaneous, or studied at the table. The Fathers of the Island of Patmos, During their ten years of publicity activity, Starting from October 2014, several times for opportunities, Others for virtue of prudence, have given up on dealing with certain emerging issues related to the Church and the Papacy, Being first of all presbyters; editors and publicists to follow, But forward at all presbyters. Certain themes may require not to be silent, or worse hidden, but treated when you have more cognitive elements that can lead to a truthful, fair judgment.

Because you don't write anything about the health of the Holy Father, They asked us for more readers? Yup, In fact, the Supreme Pontiff Francesco has been hospitalized at the Polyclinic Agostino Gemelli and his health and his state of health have not emitted from these colors of our columns. And on the basis of what we should have done it, Perhaps based on daily medical bulletins, giving to follow breath to the trumpets of interpretations and hypotheses, including the most absurd, which however arouse that unhealthy itching that for the social media It is like yeast in croissants?

When a supreme pontiff is seriously ill, Talking about the succession is inevitable. Who does it with competence and delicacy, who instead with incompetence and lack of respect for his Augusta person. To these seconds it would only be enough to ask who the new Roman Pontiff is successor, If of the one who died before him, or of the blessed apostle Pietro, thus grasping the level of their preparation. Someone complained that talking about conclave is lack of respect and regard towards a supreme pontiff mildly defined by medical bulletins in now "serious" conditions now "stationary", all alternating with various small improvements or worsening. The truth is that the Supreme Pontiff is a terminal patient who is concluding his life and the reserved prognosis will be dissolved after Cardinal Camerlengo will recite the solemn sentence: «The Pope is really dead», Then he will turn to his corpse by calling him with his name of baptism: Jorge Mario. This means that the papacy, being an office and not the extreme degree of the sacrament of the order, once acquired legally, certainly not for the sacramental way, With death ceases. Contrary to the priesthood, acquired sacramentally, which makes us priests for eternity: «You are a priest forever» (Shall 110,4).

At the time he died back in August 1990, My father had 34 less years of the current reigning pontiff. Today, in Italy, The average age of the Italian male is equal to 84 year old; in Argentina, that of the Argentine male, is equal to 74 year old. Dying at the age that is anything but tender 88 years old, After having already exceeded the Italian average and fourteen average of the Argentine one, It could be said very serenely that the Holy Father will certainly not have been cruelly torn by the amorous arms of the nurse. I fell on an engraved with the premature death of my parent who took place within a year for a metastatized tumor not diagnosed in time and therefore impossible to cure, To narrate that while he was in the terminal state I have never wished him to continue living, but I praised the mercy of God who took it as soon as possible. Today, under certain circumstances, even without wishing anyone death, I continue to pray to God so that certain suffering are brought soon to the house of the divine Father, without ever forgetting the salvific value of human suffering, of which the Holy Pope John Paul II spoke in his magisterium in his apostolic letter saving Passion, which opens with the words of the blessed apostle Paul:

«Complete in my flesh what is missing from Christ's sufferings, in favor of his body which is the Church "" (With the 1, 14).

Those who declare that they pray for the health and healing of the Holy Father, inviting to do the same, either they live in the world of the Irreale or think that in front of a dying elderly, all the more a Roman pontiff, Galateo rules are applied to pathetic, if not perhaps ridiculous. You have to pray yes, But so that God grant the Holy Father the grace of a peaceful death, limiting his physical suffering, human and spiritual. With the complex and serious pathological state that afflicts it, including a total absence of immune defenses, its public exhibition would be impossible, Equally problematic to receive people who could be a vehicle for transmission of micro bacteria. If he stayed alive for other months, would return to Martha House Sancthae in conditions of this physical debilitation for which it would be necessary to set up a space-like space at that residence with the constant control of a team of specialists present day and night. All of this, It is perhaps wishable to a man like the reigning pontiff for whom isolation and lack of free contact with people would be something unbearable and unsustainable? This is to respond to all those romantics who pray for the now lost health of the Holy Father and for his impossible healing.

Think right now about a next conclave, It has not fallen in style but simple obviousness. And when the doors of the Sistine Chapel will close, The church will have to deal with the various problems left inheritance by this pontificate, which remains judged overall only by history, perhaps even in many years. The Supreme Pontiff Francesco was elected after an act of renunciation by his predecessor, Rare event result for all of us traumatic, especially for the unhappy ways chosen at the time by Benedict XVI, complete with an extravagant invention of the "Emeritus Papacy", or of sviant terms as "extended papacy", "Active papacy and contemplative papacy" ...

That of the Holy Father Francis It is a pontificate that is placed in a social and geopolitical context of great decadence on a planetary level, With a sceristianization of Europe that has already reached irreversible levels for twenty years. Elsewhere, an bleeding of faithful was consumed in what were once the two lungs with which Catholicism breathed: Latin America and Africa. Francesco's was a pontificate full of problematicities, made of ambiguity and lack of clarity, There are no lack of forms of despotism put in place in the total contempt of ecclesiastical laws and rules. Deny that this pontiff will leave a confused church, divided and quarrelsome due to open processes on all fronts, based on the unusual principle that "the important thing is to open the processes" without however concluding and bringing them to full fulfillment, It means denying the most clear evidence of the facts. But, Those who tell us that in several years will not have to be made thanks to Francesco's pontificate for having preserved and saved the Church by problems and damage that without his action, not understandable on the spot, they would have been greater, or even irreparable? Francesco is a complicated man who fits as such in a very complicated historical moment, any judgment given to the present on him and his pontificate could be completely wrong tomorrow. Certain expressions or decisions judged as eccentric - and in fact they are -, how completely different could appear tomorrow? It wouldn't be the first time that certain men, not included at the moment in their action, they were subsequently celebrated as a personality that were on decades compared to the present time in which they lived. That's why sometimes, just when you are perplexed, disoriented and suffering for certain ambiguous attitudes and not easy even to decipher, while exercising the legitimate critical sense it deserves prudentially suspend the judgment.

One of the serious problems that this pontificate will leave to the next conclave it is given by the fact that the cardinal voters do not know each other among them. The last secret consistory took place in 2015. Let's clarify: The Consistor is the assembly of the cardinals convened by the Roman Pontiff and can be secret, public, semi-public (see WHO). The one in which only the cardinals gathered to discuss in private form are called "secret", i.e. secret, with the Supreme Pontiff, Regarding the various problems of the Church and its government. Today, to the serious problem of cardinals who do not know each other among them, Another unknown to the secularists of the international left who magnify the poor church for the poor adds it, so much poverty excites them in the houses and on the skin of others, praising this pontificate that would have appointed dozens of cardinals "from the suburbs of the world" and "from the poorest countries". We fly over the scarce doctrinal and theological formation by several of these sant'Uomini from those privileged situations for which today a cardinal purple can be deserved: "The suburbs" ... "poor countries"… Several of these cardinals are bishops of countries where the presence of Catholics cannot be called even a small minority: on the island of Tonga, whose bishop Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi is, The baptized Catholics are about 10.000. Cardinal was created in the 2020, at the age of just 46 year old, Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Vicar of Mongolia, where Catholics count 1.200 baptized on 3.300.000 inhabitants. These cardinal voters, Emblem of the "poor church for the poor" of the various "existential suburbs", they govern local churches that can survive and live in contexts of great discomfort and authentic poverty thanks to the donations that come to them as rich local churches, or by large foundations dependent or related to them. To be understood: A single Austrian parish, German, Australian, Canoeing About, North American … It can maintain an entire diocese in certain poor countries of Latin America, of Asia and Africa, where the relationship between the euro and the dollar and their national currency is totally disproportionate in purchase value.

Tomorrow, in the Sistine Chapel, a group of cardinals from these countries, rigorously chosen among the exponents of the so -called more advanced progressiveness, With delicate ease they will make people understand that the cords of the bag hold them, leaving dozens of "poor-peripheral-existential" cardinals the obligatory choice played on the survival of local churches that can live only thanks to external aid. Of course, once this was called simonia, Today it is called instead "poor church for the poor".

At present, the poor so exalted in this pontificate they were left hostage of the whims of the rich as never before, After giving life to a college of cardinal voters who do not represent the various items, The most diverse opinions and positions that have always enriched the church inside, but an univocal voice, monocorde. And among the various damage perpetrated, This will perhaps be the worst, because weighs as a heavy mortgage like lead on the next conclave. This with all due respect to the poor Church, that inside the Sistine chapel will beat the poor with the cords of the bag of the most progressive and more ideologized rich.

From the island of Patmos, 2 March 2025

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WHAT IF THE SIMONY RETURN AGAIN AT THE NEXT CONCLAVE?

At present the poor so exalted in this pontificate have been left hostage to the whims of the rich as they had never been before, after having given life to a College of cardinal electors who do not represent the various and noumerous voices, opinions and positions that have always enriched the Church internally, but a single, monotonous voice.

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Everyone has their own style, individual or collective. In the first, as in the second case, it can be spontaneous, or studied on the table. The Fathers of this magazine The Island of Patmos , during ten years of journalistic activity, starting from October 2014, several times due to opportunity, other times due to the virtue of prudence, have renounced dealing with emerging themes linked to the Church and the Papacy, being first and foremost presbyters ; editors and publicists to follow, but presbyters ahead of everything. Certain topics may require to be dealt with when there is greater knowledge that can lead to a truthful, fair and balanced judgement.

Why don’t you write anything about the health of the Holy Father, several readers have asked us? Yes, in fact the Supreme Pontiff Francis has been hospitalized at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for two weeks now and we have not uttered a sigh about him and his state of health in these columns of ours. And on the basis of what should we have done it, perhaps based on the daily medical bulletins, followed by interpretations and hypotheses, including the most absurd ones, which however arouse that unhealthy itch which for social media is like yeast in croissants?

When a Supreme Pontiff is seriously ill, talking about succession is inevitable. Some do it with competence and delicacy, some with incompetence and lack of respect for his August Person. These latter it would be enough ask, whose successor’s the new Roman Pontiff is: of the one who died before him, or of the Blessed Apostle Peter? Thus grasping the level of their preparation. Someone has complained that talking about a conclave is a lack of respect towards a Supreme Pontiff blandly defined by medical bulletins as being in sometimes “serious” and sometimes “stationary” conditions, all alternating with various small improvements or worsening. The truth is that the Supreme Pontiff is a terminally ill patient who is ending his life and the reserved prognosis will be dissolved after the cardinal chamberlain recites the solemn phrase: «The Pope is really dead» (The Pope is truly dead), then he will address his corpse by calling it by his baptismal name: Jorge Mario. This because the papacy, being an office, not the extreme degree of the Sacrament of Orders, once acquired by juridical means, not by sacramental means, ceases with death. Contrary to the priesthood, acquired through the Sacrament, which makes us priests for eternity: «You are a priest forever» (you are a priest forever) (Ps 110,4).

Way back in August 1990 my father died, he was 34 years younger than the current reigning Pontiff. Today, in Italy, the average age of the Italian male is 84 years; in Argentina, that of the Argentine male, is 74 years. Dying at the age of 88, after having already exceeded the Italian average by four years and the Argentine average by fourteen, one could say very serenely that the Holy Father will not be cruelly torn from the loving arms of the nanny. I mentioned the premature death of my parent which occurred within a year due to a metastasized tumor that was not diagnosed in time and therefore impossible to cure, to narrate that while he was in a terminal state I did not wish him to continue living, but I prayed to God’s mercy that he would take him as soon as possible. Today, in certain circumstances, without wishing death on anyone, I continue to pray to God that certain sufferers may be brought quickly to the House of the Divine Father, without ever forgetting the salvific value of human suffering, which the Holy Pontiff John Paul II spoke about in his magisterium in his Apostolic Letter Salvifici Pain, which opens with the words of the Blessed Apostle Paul:

«In my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church» (With the 1, 14).

Those who invite prayer for the health and healing of the Holy Father live in the world of the unreal. We must pray, yes, but so that God grants the Holy Father the grace of a peaceful death, limiting his physical, human and spiritual suffering. With the complex and serious pathological state that afflicts him, including a now total absence of immune defenses, his public exposure would be impossible, and it would be equally problematic to welcome people who could be a vehicle for the transmission of micro bacteria. If he remains alive for a few more months and returns to the Vatican, to the Martha House Sancthae, his conditions of physical debilitation will be so serious that it will be necessary to set up a hospital-type space in that residence with the constant presence of a team of specialists present day and night. Is all this perhaps desirable for a man like the reigning Pontiff for whom isolation and the lack of free contact with people would be something absolutely unbearable and unsustainable? This is to respond to all those romantics who pray for the now lost health of the Holy Father and for his impossible recovery.

Thinking at this moment about an upcoming conclave is not a fall in style but simple obviousness. And when the doors of the Sistine Chapel close, the Church will have to deal with the various problems left as a legacy by this pontificate, which remains judgeable, overall, only by history, perhaps even many years from now. The Supreme Pontiff Francis was elected after an act of renunciation by his predecessor, a rare event and a traumatic for all of us, especially due to the unfortunate methods chosen at the time by Benedict XVI, complete with the extravagant invention of the «emeritus papacy», or misleading terms such as «enlarged papacy», «active papacy and contemplative papacy» (!?)…

That of the Holy Father Francis is a pontificate that takes place in a social and geopolitical context of great decadence on a global level, with a de-Christianization of Europe that has already reached irreversible levels for twenty years. Elsewhere a hemorrhage of faithful has taken place in what were once the two lungs with which Catholicism breathed: Latin America and Africa.

Francis’ pontificate was full of problems, ambiguities and lack of clarity, there were also forms of despotism in total contempt of ecclesiastical laws and rules. To deny that this Pontiff will leave a confused, divided and quarrelsome Church due to trials open on all fronts, based on the unusual principle that «the important thing is to open the trials», without however concluding them and bringing them to full completion, is to deny the clearest evidence of the facts. However, who tells us that in several years we will not have to thank the pontificate of Francis for having preserved and saved the Church from problems and damage which without his actions, not understandable at the time, would have been greater, or even irreparable? Francis is a complicated man who fits into a very complicated historical moment, any judgment given in the present about him and his pontificate, could be completely wrong tomorrow.

It would not be the first time that certain men, not understood at the time in their actions, were later celebrated as extraordinary personalities who were decades ahead of the present time in which they lived. This is why sometimes, precisely when one is perplexed, disoriented and grieve for certain ambiguous attitudes and not even easy to decipher, despite exercising legitimate critical sense, is necessary and prudently suspending judgement..

One of the serious problems this pontificate will leave for the next conclave is this: tthe cardinal electors do not know each other. The last secret consistory took place in 2015. Let’s clarify: the consistory is the assembly of cardinals convened by the Roman Pontiff and can be secret, public, semi-public. What is called “secret” is that in which only the cardinals gathered to discuss in a private, i.e. secret, form with the Supreme Pontiff participate, regarding the various problems of the Church and its government. Today, to the serious problem of the cardinals who do not know each other, there is another one unknown to the secularists of the international left who glorify «the poor Church for the poor», so much does poverty in the homes and on the lives of others excites them, praising this pontificate which has appointed dozens of cardinals «coming from the peripheries of the world» and «from the poorest countries».

Let us not dwell the poor doctrinal and theological training of several of these holy men coming from those privileged situations for which today they can deserve a cardinal’s purple: «the suburbs» … «the poor countries». Several of these cardinals are bishops of countries where the presence of Catholics cannot be defined as even a small minority: on the island of Tonga, of which Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi is bishop, there are around 10,000 baptized Catholics. Giorgio Marengo, apostolic vicar of Mongolia, where Catholics number 1,200 baptized out of 3,300,000 inhabitants, was created cardinal in 2020, at the age of just 46. These cardinal electors, emblem of the «poor Church for the poor» of the various «existential peripheries», govern local churches that can survive and live in contexts of great hardship and authentic poverty thanks to the donations that come to them from rich local churches, or from large foundations on linked to them. To be clear: a single Austrian, German, Australian, Canadian or North American parish can maintain an entire diocese in certain poor countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa, where the relationship between the Euro and the Dollar and their national currency is totally disproportionate in terms of purchase value.

Tomorrow, in the Sistine Chapel, a group of cardinals from these countries, rigorously chosen by Holy Father among the exponents of the so-called most advanced progressivism, will with delicate ease make it clear that they hold the purse strings, leaving dozens of “poor-peripheral-existential” cardinals the forced choice based on the survival of their local churches that can only live thanks to external aid. Of course, once this was called simony, today it is instead called «poor church for the poor».

At present the poor so exalted in this pontificate have been left hostage to the whims of the rich as they had never been before, after having given life to a College of cardinal electors who do not represent the various and noumerous voices, opinions and positions that have always enriched the Church internally, but a single, monotonous voice. And among the various damages perpetrated, this will perhaps be the worst, because it weighs like a lead-heavy mortgage on the next conclave. With all due respect to the poor Church, which inside the Sistine Chapel will strangle the poor, with the purse strings by rich most progressive and ideologicalized.

From The Island of Patmos, March 2, 2025

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