(English text after the Italian)

If someone itchies, That scratches and accurate, Instead of doing itchy gossip on the conclave

The church, disoriented and lost, lives in an irreversible state of decline, We have long overcome the threshold of non-revival. Today's church is no longer in Gethsemani, Not even on the cross on the Calvary, is experiencing the moment in its most dramatic way: that silence that seems almost a total absence of God.

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Several readers have written to our editorial staff To ask why we haven't written anything about the vacant office and on the conclave now at the gates.

 

The church, disoriented and lost, lives in an irreversible state of decline, We have long overcome the threshold of non-revival. Today's church is no longer in Gethsemani, Not even on the cross on the Calvary, is experiencing the moment in its most dramatic way: that silence that seems almost a total absence of God. A space of time ranging from the sunset on the Holy Friday to the Sunday of Resurrection. Between the closure of the sepulcher and the empty sepulcher of the Risen One, a sort of divine empty is experienced, before which the only appropriate thing is that silence that cannot be understood and lived except through faith, hope and charity.

Everyone knows how to talk, Species in turn, Few keep silent and live that great silence that leads us to the resurrection. There are those who cannot keep silent and play to the gossip of the Toto-Papa in a whole world dimension, who instead includes the importance of silent, In a dimension all mystagogical.

I can therefore only re -propose, following, what has already been written in the second part of my article published in 2 March, while the deceased Augustus Pope was hospitalized at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome between life and death: «And if the Simonia were back in vogue to the next conclave?» (cf.. WHO).

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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.

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 alone 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 e, not last: ruffiana. 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. And someone even called it "poor church for the poor".

From the island of Patmos, 5 May 2025

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IF ANYONE ITCHES, LET HIM SCRATCH HIMSELF AND KEEP QUIET, RATHER THAN GOSSIP ABOUT THE CONCLAVE

The Church, disoriented and lost, lives in a state of irreversible decadence, we have long since passed the threshold of no return. The Church of today is no longer in Gethsemane, not even on the cross on Calvary, it is living the most dramatic moment in its way: that silence that seems almost a total absence of God.

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Several Readers have written to our editorial staff asking why we have not written anything about the Sede Vacante and the Conclave now upon us.

The Church, disoriented and lost, lives in a state of irreversible decadence, we have long since passed the threshold of no return. The Church of today is no longer in Gethsemane, not even on the cross on Calvary, it is living the most dramatic moment in its way: that silence that seems almost a total absence of God. A space of time that goes from sunset on Good Friday to Easter Sunday. Between the closing of the tomb and the empty tomb of the Risen One, a sort of divine emptiness is experienced, before which the only appropriate thing is that silence that cannot be understood and lived except through faith, hope and charity.

Everyone knows how to speak, especially inappropriately, few know how to keep quiet and live that great silence that leads us to the resurrection. There are those who cannot remain silent and gossip by playing predictions about the future pope, in a completely worldly dimension, and those who understand the importance of remaining silent, in a completely mystagogical dimension.

I can therefore only repeat, below, what I have already written in the second part of an article of mine published on March 2, while the deceased August Pontiff was hospitalized at the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli in Rome between life and death: «And if simony were to come back into fashion at the next conclave?» (See HERE)

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.

 

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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, May 5, 2025

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