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The beginning of the Petrine Ministry of Leone XIV and the disenchantment of an old priest who hopes but does not illumulate

God bless the Roman Pontiff, Since in this condition of disaster it could do little or nothing. But, before a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding, will already constitute merit of grace and salvation, Through the glory of Christological failure, Because the future and the slow and painful rebirth of the Church will be played all about the search for the unit. So: good failure, Blessed Padre Leone 14.

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In front of a Roman pontiff who is dignified, to a decent pontifical liturgy as they had not been seen for a decade, to a square San Pietro Gremita, After years of triumphs of squares and increasingly empty churches, Among the riot of jubilations of the Laicists of the international claims who praised the "revolutionary pope", When he hearing a Roman Pontiff who speaks by carefully measuring words through speeches elaborated on doctrinal and theological content, at least, should lead me to rejoice with enthusiasm. Yup, I can also rejoice, but I can't rejoice, nor to be enthusiastic.

The Holy Father Leo XIV inherits the incancrenity situation of a church that stagnates in an irreversible condition of decline and that has long overcome the threshold of no return, I go by saying and writing from 15 year old (cf.. WHO e WHO). Of course, more than little, My words count for nothing. Imagine, We have lost the habit of listening to the Word of God, After doing what we wanted, between manipulations and surreal exegesis of convenience, What will ever count the thought of a Mr. Nothing and a Mr. none like me? All the more I feel like saying: If the Holy Father manages to do only something, this will not be much, but very much.

A man alone cannot change things, Not even Francesco d'Assisi succeeded in it, Also for this reason, on the end of life, he was hiding from Verna. And shortly after, Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Eliminate the previous chronicles and biographies drawn up by Tommaso da Celano, provides to invent an golden legend for ecclesial use, political and social, so complicated was the figure of the true Francis, the real one (cf.. I refer to this article WHO). This tries again that we do not want the saints, which are almost always complex figures, not easy to read, often provocative and even irritating; We want the candela santini for the use of the dense army of the faithful beotes, Those all hearts that we priests have always looked at us from educating as it would be convenient by virtue of the mission entrusted to us by Christ. In fact, if we had educated and formed the faithful, These would have finished seeing our defects above all, our serious contradictions, By understanding that we priests are the updated and worse version of the ancient Pharisees before which Christ urged the devoted believers to do what they taught, Not what they did in their daily experience (cf.. Mt 23, 1-10), reproaching them to load on the shoulders of the people of the unbearable weights that they would never have touched even with a finger (cf.. LC 11,46).

The church car hasn't been working for decades, The engine is worn. The vipers will remain in place, they have already recycled up jumping within a few days on the chariot of the new winner. Touch or remove in a short time of prelates who changed the Roman Curia in a clerical association with mafia -style criminal, It would be imprudent and dangerous. Any change requires careful reflection, prudence and time, especially today that the Holy Father cannot rely on elements of value with which to work. His predecessor placed in all the key places of the Roman Curia Ruffiani and Delatori, In the best mediocre subjects hypothesis, almost always burdened by moral problems, so much that it is therefore blackmailed and controllable in a perverse system and pervertor, therefore manageable and if necessary usable to hurt others and spread the metastases of evil throughout the ecclesial body.

The level of the formation of priests He has lowered himself in recent years to horrible levels, In the seminars we have grown generations of priests weaned with the milk powder of the emotions of the hearts, then feeding them with the homogens of sociologisms. Infimal, doctrinal levels, Theological and pastoral. Now it is almost practical to hear priests who during the homilies manage to cross three deadly heresies over the first minutes, without even realizing it.

I try to exercise the theological virtue of hope (The Cor 13.13), But looking at me by confusing it with the illusion. On the thresholds of 62 years of age I am an old disillusioned priest, More and more withdrawn and distant from all the laps and ecclesial and ecclesiastical circles that over the years have gone the worst evil with diabolical malice. Several times I had to defend myself from false accusations linked to the facts that have never happened, A deeds never completed, to things never said and never thought. I will follow to defend myself until I want to want and strength, Above all as long as it will be worth it, because sometimes he does not even deserve to defend himself from the false.

I'm totally disillusioned, while following hoping, because I have faith. It is in fact with the faith and hope that the virtue of charity can be exercised. I don't know if I am realistic in an objective way or if my pains and the many humiliations suffered during the entire priestly life make my analysis spoiled on what is also real and incontrovertible, This will tell the time. Disillusionment is the most serious disease that is encountered in the season of old age, It is such a serious disease that it is called chronic as a disorder, therefore incurable. We must serenely accept everything by taking from old age, Among the various beautiful elements that can give us, The acceptance of those personal limits of ours that sometimes life puts us in front of our failures.

The throbbing emotional hearts would be envied with their "faith" made of stars, by Ephebian Christ and Fotoshoppati and of Languid Madonnine who wander the world for the world to distribute Tremebondi messages and secrets to the various self -styled seers. Instead, I who lived 38 years in the secular world before starting training to the priesthood and become a priest a 46 year old, Despite having traveled and met men and women of the most different cultures and societies, I have no memory of having known bad subjects in anywhere, cruel and evil as those I met in the church inside the Catholic clergy. May, in my secular life, I met humans who were bad, cowards, liars and traitors like certain priests, that are not a few at all, like some scandalized soul pia would havetened to reply by accusing me to linger in tremendous generalizations. And the more you go up to the hierarchical scale the more badness, the cowardice, The lie and betrayal increase in level when you reach bishops and cardinals.

Leone XIV is not Mago Merlin, In hand he holds the ferula if necessary, or pastoral stick, not the magic wand. Will try to do and, surely, Farà, but it will not be able to do much in this church no longer reduced even in a whore, To use the expression of the Holy Bishop and doctor of the Church Ambrogio who called it "chaste whore», that is, "holy and whore". Today the church is reduced to a grotesque circle of Checche acid, bad and incact to maximum power, drugs of power and placed in all control rooms, Starting from the Roman Curia located in the nation with the highest percentage of gays around the world: the Vatican City State.

Before the mystery of Christ and human suffering We must ask ourselves thoroughly in what eternal life would consist, except in the recovery of everything we have forgotten, considered useless or lost in our earthly life according to the principle of recapitulation:

«[…] that is, the design of recapitulating all things in Christ, those in heaven and things on earth " (Ef 1, 1-10).

In a few pages I wrote the manifesto of my failure consumed as a man and as a priest, feeling in this associated with that of Christ not accepted (cf.. GV 1,11) betrayed (cf.. LC 22,48) and abandoned (cf.. Mt 26,56). And such would remain the Christ: A sensational bankruptcy, If his resurrection had not intervened, to which all of us Christological failed we have been made participants. It is in fact the resurrection of Christ and our resurrection in Christ that changes the perspective of failure and change it in a step of passage, In a great moment of grace, In an access door to eternal life.

God bless the Roman Pontiff, Since in this condition of disaster it could do little or nothing. But, before a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding, will already constitute merit of grace and salvation, Through the glory of Christological failure, Because the slow and painful rebirth of the church will be played on the search for the unit (cf.. WHO). So: good failure, Blessed Padre Leone 14.

From the island of Patmos, 18 May 2025

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THE BEGINNING OF THE PETRINE MINISTRY OF LEO XIV AND THE DISENCHANTMENT OF AN OLD PRIEST WHO HOPES BUT IS NOT DELUDED

God bless the Roman Pontiff, since in this condition of disaster he could do little or nothing. However, in the face of a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding will already constitute a merit of grace and salvation, through the glory of Christological failure, because the slow and painful rebirth of the Church will be played out entirely on the search for unity. Therefore: happy failure, Most Blessed Father Leo XIV.

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Before a Roman Pontiff who presents himself with dignity, before a decorous pontifical liturgy like we haven’t seen in a decade, before a crowded St. Peter’s Square, after years of triumphs of increasingly empty squares and churches, amid the jubilation of the secularists of the international left who praised the “revolutionary pope,” hearing a Roman Pontiff who speaks carefully measuring his words through speeches elaborated on doctrinal and theological content, at the very least, should induce me to rejoice with enthusiasm. Yes, I can also rejoice, but I cannot rejoice, nor be enthusiastic.

The Holy Father Leo XIV inherits the cancerous situation of a Church that is stagnant in a condition of irreversible decadence that has long since passed the threshold of no return, I have been saying and writing for 15 years (see HERE and HERE). Of course, more than a little, my words count for nothing. Imagine, we have lost the habit of listening to the word of God, after having done what we wanted with it, between manipulations and surreal exegeses of convenience, what could the thought of a Mr. Nothing and a Mr. Nobody like me count for? All the more reason I feel like saying: if the Holy Father manages to do just a little, it will not be much, but a lot.

One man alone cannot change things, not even Francis of Assisi succeeded, which is also why he hid at the end of his life at La Verna. And shortly after, Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, having eliminated the previous chronicles and biographies written by Tommaso da Celano, proceeded to invent a golden legend for ecclesiastical, political and social use, so complicated was the figure of the true Francis, the real one. This proves the fact that we do not want Saints, who are almost always complex figures, not easy to read, often provocative and even irritating; we want candle holy cards for the dense army of the faithful childish, that we priests have always been careful not to educate as would be appropriate by virtue of the mission entrusted to us by Christ. If in fact we had educated and trained the faithful, they would have ended up seeing first of all our defects, our serious contradictions, understanding that we priests are the updated and worsened version of the ancient Pharisees before whom Christ exhorted devout believers to do what they taught, not what they did in their daily lives (see Mt 23:1-10), reproaching them for placing unbearable burdens on people’s shoulders that they would never have touched even with a finger (see Page 11:46).

The Church machine has not worked for decades, the engine is worn out. The vipers will remain in place, they have already recycled themselves by jumping on the bandwagon of the new winner in a matter of days. Touching or removing in a short time armies of prelates who have transformed the Roman Curia into a mafia-style clerical criminal association would be imprudent and dangerous. Any change requires careful reflection, prudence and time, especially today when the Holy Father cannot rely on valuable elements with which to work. His Predecessor has placed in all the key positions of the Roman Curia sycophants and informers, in the best case mediocre subjects, almost always burdened by moral problems, so much so that they are therefore blackmailable and controllable in a system that is now perverse and perverting, therefore manageable and, if necessary, usable to harm others and spread the metastases of evil throughout the ecclesial body.

The level of priestly training has dropped to horrible levels in recent years, in seminaries we have raised generations of priests weaned on the powdered milk of the emotions of little hearts, then nourished with the homogenized baby food of sociologisms. The doctrinal, theological and pastoral levels are very low. It is now almost common practice to hear priests who during homilies manage to enunciate three heresies in the space of the first few minutes, without even realizing it.

I try to exercise the theological virtue of hope (The Cor 13.13), but I am careful not to confuse it with illusion. On the threshold of 62 years of age I am an old disillusioned priest, increasingly withdrawn and distant from all the ecclesiastical and ecclesiastical circles and circles that over the years have brought me the worst harm with diabolical malice. I have had to defend myself several times from false accusations related to facts that never happened, to deeds never done, to things never said or even thought. I will continue to defend myself as long as I have the will and strength, especially as long as it is worth it, because sometimes it is not even worth defending oneself from falsehood.

I am totally disillusioned, even though I continue to hope, because I have faith. It is in fact with faith and hope that one can exercise the virtue of charity. I do not know if I am objectively realistic or if my pains and the many humiliations suffered throughout my entire priestly life make my analysis of what is real and incontrovertible flawed, time will tell. Disillusionment is the most serious illness encountered in old age, it is such a serious disease that it is defined as chronic disorder, therefore incurable. We must serenely accept everything, taking from old age, among the various beautiful elements that it can give us, the acceptance of our personal limits that life sometimes puts before us together with our failures.

One would envy the emotional hearts and their “faith” made of little stars, of ephebic androgynous photoshopped Christs and of languid Madonnas who wander chattering around the world distributing messages and secrets to the various self-styled seers. Instead, I who lived 38 years in the secular world before beginning my training for the priesthood and becoming a priest at 46, despite having traveled and met men and women from the most diverse cultures and societies, I have no memory of having met anywhere such bad, cruel and wicked individuals as those I have met in the Church within the Catholic clergy. Never, in my secular life, have I met human beings who were bad, cowardly, liars and traitors like certain priests, who are not at all few, as some scandalized pious soul would hasten to retort accusing me of indulging in terrible generalizations. And the higher you go up the hierarchical ladder, the more wickedness, cowardice, lies and betrayal increase when you reach bishops and cardinals.

Leo XIV is not Merlin Magician, in his hand he holds the “cane”, or pastoral staff, not the magic wand. He will try to do and, certainly, he will do, but he will not be able to do much in this Church no longer even reduced to a whore, to use the expression of the Holy Bishop and Doctor of the Church Ambrose who defined it as “chaste whore”, or “holy and whore”. Today the Church is reduced to a gay circle grotesque; an army of evil and vengeful gays to the maximum power, drugged with power and placed in all the rooms of command, starting from the Roman Curia located in the nation with the highest percentage of gays in the world: the Vatican City State.

Faced with the mystery of Christ and human suffering, we must ask ourselves what eternal life would consist of, if not in the recovery of everything we have forgotten, considered useless or lost in our earthly life according to the principle of recapitulation:

«to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ» (Eph 1, 1-10).

In a few words I have written the manifesto of my failure as a man and as a priest, feeling associated in this with that of Christ who was not welcomed (see Jh 1:11), betrayed (see Page 22:48) and abandoned (see Mt 26:56). And Christ would have remained such: a resounding failure, if his resurrection had not intervened, in which all of us Christological failures, have been made participants. It is in fact the resurrection of Christ and our resurrection in Christ that changes the perspective of failure and transforms it into a stage of transition, into a great moment of grace, into a door of access to eternal life.

God bless the Roman Pontiff, since in this condition of disaster he could do little or nothing. However, in the face of a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding will already constitute a merit of grace and salvation, through the glory of Christological failure, because the slow and painful rebirth of the Church will be played out entirely on the search for unity. Therefore: happy failure, Most Blessed Father Leo XIV.

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THE FUNDAMENTAL GAME OF THE FUTURE AND THE NEW POPE IS PLAYED ON THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH

Significantly, the historian Lucetta Scaraffia notes the impossibility, after 12 years of pontificate, to grasp a legacy of Pope Francis, that is not that of mere confusion.

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The info-entertainment of mass-media, after the predictions of the entire papal nomination, now focuses on determining the characteristics of the winning personality: Leone XIV.

He will continue the reforms of his predecessor? He will confirm his openings? How the synodal path will be completed? It's moderate? It's progressive? It's a bit of one and a bit of the other? He is merciful to migrants? He will get along well with Donald Trump? Such questions are mostly followed by statements that sound like slogans, functional to mark a sense of belonging rather than a substantial vision, spiritually significant.

In particular, you lose sight of it, in my opinion, the fundamental match who presents himself to the Pope: the unity of the Church. The exact question is: which unit? That is to say, how this unity should be conceived? How it should be interpreted? How it should be declined?

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, in the homily of Mass for the election of the Roman Pontiff the 7 May, he had declared:

«The unity of the Church is wanted by Christ; a unity that does not mean uniformity, but firm and profound communion in diversity, as long as we remain in full fidelity to the Gospel".

Communion in diversity: but when diversity threatens communion? And when, instead, it is an undue uniformity that threatens the richness of legitimate diversity? Re refers to "full fidelity to the Gospel": this is the decisive criterion. Ma, in truth, the question, more than resolved, it seems to move: how to determine, indeed, "full fidelity to the Gospel"?

It's the same theme who had addressed Cardinal Ratzinger in the homily of the Mass for the election of the Roman Pontiff the 18 April 2005. In this homily, which will mark the program of Benedict XVI's pontificate, Ratzinger had precisely determined the criterion of unity: the truth, whose ultimate dimension is the Son of God himself, measure of true humanism. And he had courageously placed the meaning of such a criterion in the ideological context of dominant relativism. Without evasion and pretence. With intellectual honesty.

With the pontificate of Francis, instead, a different paradigm of ecclesial unity has imposed itself: a Jesuit paradigm.

I found a significant illustration of this paradigm in a conversation between journalist Ross Douthat and Jesuit Father James Martin S.J. about the legacy of the recently concluded papacy (see video interview of 26.04.2025 WHO). Douthat highlights how the dramatic character of Francis' pontificate was determined by the drive to change the Church's teaching and practice on a series of difficult and controversial issues, such as the possibility for divorced and remarried Catholics to access Eucharistic communion, the possibility for women to become deacons or even priests, the possibility of blessing same-sex couples. How far has Francis gone on these issues?? Martin, in the first instance, states that this type of "hot" issue had a secondary character for the Pope compared to the proclamation of the Gospel. Secondly, states that Francis "went as far as he could". In this regard he tells how the Pope, in a personal meeting of his 23 October 2024 as delegate of the synod, was concerned about the "unity of the Church" due to the "resistance" coming from sub-Saharan Africa, from Eastern Europe and even the United States. «And he repeated several times that unity is more important than these conflicts. So I think he tried to open the door to discussion about some of these issues without breaking the church.".

Upon closer inspection, this is what characterizes Martin's account what concerns Francis is the particular relationship between ecclesial unity and truth. Apparently in his speech he does not seem to operate a binding concept of truth. But in reality a truth is asserted. A truth that does not seem binding, but which gives direction. An implicit truth, given as a presupposition, which takes a position for an indefinite openness regarding the controversial issues proposed. A critically unthematized truth, theologically emancipated, that is, it lacks a serious comparison with biblical data, reduced at most to a generic reference to mercy. It is a non-binding truth? Not exactly. It is a critically disengaged but politically binding truth, that, not by chance, tackle different positions (and logically incompatible) as «resistances».

In such a dimension there is no room for authentic dialogue, but if anything for mediation, for an accommodation. As if there were forces and interests at play. Ecclesial unity, so, it is not based on truth. It doesn't blend, to quote Ratzinger's words, on the «Son of God, measure of true humanism". Unity is a composition of forces, Lastly, founded on the supreme power of the Pope, whose vicarial role is diluted, to make his personality stand out instead.

In light of this Jesuit paradigm of ecclesial unity the authoritarian and contradictory character of the Jesuit papacy is explained, often detected by the most sensitive observers. In the perspective of a similar conception of ecclesial unity, indeed, contradictions are no problem: they can coexist. Even if the contradictions come from the Pope himself: it is not the truth that creates unity, but his supreme power. The price of this setup was, however, very salty. Significantly, the historian Lucetta Scaraffia notes the impossibility, after 12 years of pontificate, to grasp a legacy of Pope Francis, that is not that of mere confusion. O, at most, the promotion of certain policies, very much, too detailed, on the subject of mass immigration and political economy which, instead, they would have required the recognition of a healthy pluralism of positions.

Definitely, the new course of Leo XIV's papacy it will be determined by how he interprets, in light of the lessons of the latter 12 year old, ecclesial unity and its relationship with the truth. His episcopal motto "In Illo uno unum" and his Augustinian training give rise to hope. May God send her well.

Trieste, 12 May 2025

 

 

 

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