Theological and legal doubts about the legitimate validity of the priestly orders of homosexuals – Theological and legal doubts about the legitimate validity priestly ordinations of homosexuals

(English text after the Italian)

 

Theological and legal doubts about the legitimate validity of the priestly orders of homosexuals

The minimum requirements required for the validity of the sacrament of the order are: the man, the Christian, the believer, therefore the correct perception of the Catholic priesthood. The real problem is not that the personality structured on rooted homosexual tendencies has no requirements to become a priest, Obviously he doesn't have any. The problem is other and more serious: If you miss the priest requirements it becomes, that sacred ordination, In addition to being illegal, It is not that it is also disabled?

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There is no aggregation in the world like the Catholic Church where the presence of more or less clear homosexuals is so high, nor is there similar aggregation where homosexuals, together with their narrow associates, they did a blow by entering all the "command rooms", I have been writing it for years (I refer to a old interview of mine 2013 readable WHO).

With the advent of social media Catholic self -styled blogs are proliferated where the customs of the LGBT agenda within the church is claimed, accusing those who complain about the serious problem of the high number of homosexuals within the clergy of being frustrated and repressed unresolved.

The lobby gay ecclesiastical is so powerful Impossible life to those who dared to denounce certain situations, explaining abundantly in advance of the ecclesiastical authorities how things would end. Nor should the virulent armed arm of the powerful be underestimated lobby gay ecclesiastical constituted by gay friendly, the consortium of those who, although not homosexual, protect the members of the Gay pious confraternity for them personal interests, or because moved by great career expectations, aware that gay lobbyists can favor them, or irreparably rubbing them within the diocese or the Roman Curia. Say that at the Holy See, in numerous dioceses, therefore in the universal church, It has come to a level of internal homosexualization that has exceeded all guard limit, It is not a mere imaginative hypothesis but a fact that can only be denied by those who reject the evidence of the facts.

In addition to gay friendly There are those I defined charming men, the danger of which is much higher than that of gay friendly. If in fact i gay friendly lend themselves to support the whims of the lobby gay To make benefits and prebends from it, the charming men they are those who exercise theirs charm male on members of the pious confraternity of gay ecclesiastics, creating around him an army of adorate homosexual serviles ready to act as their armed arm, good as few to attack and bite all together as a pack of hyenas under the impulse or command of theirs charming man. Then, I know charming man He manages to exercise his male seductions on a government man with latent homosexuality who enjoys a certain power within the Church, For example an diocesan bishop or a high prelate of the Roman curia, At that point the ecclesiastical career is guaranteed for him and the damage he will render to others, in particular to the fearsome "rivals" - those who are endowed with those valuable human qualities, morals, theological and pastoral that it charming men It has no - they will shave the inflicted of the white martyrdom.

It charming man, which by its nature is self -centered and ambitious, He defends himself unscrupulous through a connatured vendial-destructive instinct, capable of exercising malice with a method of scientific cruelty towards those who are endowed with that Christological priestly courage that leads them to affirm and remember what is right and what is wrong in the light of the Holy Gospel and the Catholic doctrine. Because the pure hearts, unlike the gay lobbyists, of theirs gay friendly e charming men, do not aim at everything and immediately immmedied, aim for the eternal.

 

The requirements for the validity of the sacraments are minimal, But those minimum requirements must exist

 

Those who practice sacramentary dogmatics know that this specific ground is very delicate, Last but not least because the requirements for the validity of the sacraments are really minimal. Among these lines we will limit ourselves to talking only about the sacrament of the order, Starting from a premise aimed at freeing the field immediately from the disputes of those who thought they could argue that in the texts of sacramentary dogmatic, In those of canon law and in its comments, no express and clear reference is made to those subjects of both sexual and psycho-sexual character to which I will refer in explicit terms. To dispel certain doubts and free the field of equivocal and insistent theological and legal disputes, I will bring attention to an incontrovertible data: until not many decades ago, Everything that directly or indirectly concerned human sex and sexuality had whispered transversely with euphemisms and turns of words in the texts of the magisterium, doctrine and in the Treaties of Catholic Moral, The only talking about certain themes was believed to be what inconvenient. When specialist academic àmbites were addressed themes of Catholic morality linked to human sexuality was resorted to Latin euphemisms, because the same words ordinarily and precisely used in the clinical and scientific lexicon of gynecology, of urology and andrology, they were not deemed convenient within the classrooms of ecclesiastical academies. The same confessors of the time had their own way of expressing themselves, A frasary made of vague indirect implications, taught to young pre -sides since their formation to the priesthood. This "proper" phraser of confessors served to allude without having to resort to unpronounceable terms banned from the ecclesiastical academic sphere as by the confessional, especially from public catechesis addressed to the people of God. This language was also assimilated by the Catholic faithful, In particular, from the penitents that before the confessor expressed themselves for so -called "understood" and "implications" as regards the sexual sphere, the relationships linked to it and everything that was relevant to the violations of the sixth commandment.

I will try to clarify everything with an example: it ran the year 2010 When a ninety -year -old penitent who grew up in that world not far from centuries but of a few decades, During a confession based on his memories of the past he referred to when once, in winter, finding himself alone "... leaving the house unfortunately I slipped". Son on the other era as a man and as a priest, I did not understand and I imagined that being in winter in an area where the snow falls in certain periods, leaving the house had fallen, Perhaps on a slab of ice formed by the snow in a corner not beaten by the sun, or who knows in what other way he slipped and fell. She understood that I had not understood, So he did two other delicate allusions more explicit to make me understand that he had committed a sin of adultery, for which after more than half a century he could not take off the sense of bitterness that had caused her, having always been linked by sincere love to his wife. This is to reiterate that it would not be pertinent or logical to contest that certain exhibitions to which I am clearly resorted to are not contained in an equally clear way in the texts of the magisterium, of the doctrine, of the sacramentary dogmatic, of Catholic morality and the code of canon law.

 

THE ORIGIN LESSON. THE VIRILITY OF mAN approved As an essential element for the Catholic priesthood

 

The catechism of the Catholic Church recites at n. 1577:

«It is validly receiving the sacred ordination exclusively the masculine baptized (“for“)»[1]. The Lord Jesus chose men (“men“) To form the college of twelve apostles[2], and the apostles did the same when they chose the collaborators[3] that they would be succeeded in the ministry[4]. The Bishop's College, with which the presbyters are united in the priesthood, The College of the twelve makes and update and update until the return of Christ. The Church is recognized bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason, the ordination of women is not possible "[5].

Nobody has a right to receive the sacrament of the order. In fact, no one can attribute this office to himself. It is called by God to it[6]. Whoever believes to recognize the signs of the call of God to the ordered ministry, He must humbly submit his desire to the authority of the Church, to which the responsibility and the right to call someone to receive orders is responsible for. Like every grace, This sacrament can only be received as an immersed gift.

Note that the Latin term Source/Resources It is a male noun of the second declination, With it, man is mainly indicated, the male, adult, Virility linked to male sex. The denial and the antithesis of Source/Resources It is also the term of Latin derivation: evil, word that indicates the deprivation of virility and also deriving from Source/Resources. In ecclesial language, To indicate men suitable for sacred orders, the term of sources try, in use in the church of the first centuries to indicate married men who were suitable to access the diaconate and the presbyterate[7]. With the run of time and the free acceptance of the obligation of celibacy that has its roots from the first apostolic era, In our lexic current this expression is used to indicate ascertained men and as such reliable for the sacred orders. The lack of psycho-physical virility therefore constitutes an insurmountable impediment to the sacred priestly ordination. Impediment known and as such sanctioned since the first centuries of the life of the Church, before which no one has the right to dispense, Given that no ecclesiastical authority can dispense from being a man, which is an essential and fundamental assumption of the ministerial priesthood.

In the year 230 Origen was consecrated priest From Teochtiso di Caesarea and by Alessandro di Jerusalemme, without the approval of the bishop Demetrio, who had canonical jurisdiction over him. Origene, The evangelical pass in which the Lord Jesus refers to the "eunuchi for the kingdom of heaven"[8], If it was evirate. This is the reason why his bishop had never wanted to consecrate him in the priestly order[9]. After that sacred ordination the bishop Demetrio, with the approval of the Supreme Pontiano Pontiff[10], the teaching faculty revokes him and deposed it from the presbyteral order[11] for the irregularity of his sacred ordination, that nothing was declared. It is known that Origen is the only one of the fathers of the church of that rich season not to have been proclaimed saint, Although imprisoned and tortured during the anti -Christian persecutions of Decio; but above all despite having been, For intellectual and speculative qualities, at a level higher than various other philosophers and theologians of that first rich and happy Christian era. The reason for obstacle to its canonization was due to the fact that in its great and precious philosophical-theological speculations it assumed the thought considered today's heretical rehabilitation[12]; The great and insurmountable impediment is all linked to its evolution.

In those early years of the Church life, in which the first great philosophical-theological speculations that preceded and gave life to the conditions and subjects then treated by the first ecumenical council of Nicea were underway in the year 325, It was not uncommon for speculative minds, Also including the Fathers of the Church, they fell into heretical thoughts, from which they then amended, This prevented their canonization or their proclamation in Fathers of the Church.

The Code of Canon Law Recalled a little further on refers in a modest and sweetened way to the fact that it cannot be ordained a priest "who has seriously and maliciously mutilated themselves or another"[13]. From this it is clear that the horrendous self-metaling of Origen was what is considered in itself worse than the heresy which can however be remedied through the recognition of voluntary or involuntary error, But a destroyed physical virility cannot be restored, if not with the use of complex surgical interventions practiced by modern surgery, even if with very uncertain results.

Relevant question: Mental castration It can also be worse than physical evolution, place that physical sexuality, With it the male virility that follows, It is a consequence of all mental, from which sexuality and physical sex cannot ignore, being physical sexuality the consequence of mental sex? It is a question that for years I have given unnecessarily to members of the episcopate, But they never replied.

Through the sacrament of the order The participation in the priesthood of Christ according to the method transmitted by the apostolic succession is conferred. The ministerial priesthood stands out of the common priesthood of the faithful who derives from baptism and confirmation. Both, «Although they differ essentially and not only of degree, However, they are ordered to each other "[14]. It is precisely and specific to the ministerial priesthood to be "a sacramental representation of Jesus Christ chief and pastor"[15]. This allows to exercise the authority of Christ in the pastoral function of preaching and government, as well as operating in persona Christi in the exercise of the sacramental ministry. Having said that, it is clarified that the first two essential conditions for the conferment, therefore for the validity of the sacrament, I am the man and the Christian.

Book IV of the Code of Canon Law, in part I who deals with the sacraments, schematizes the "irregularities and other impediments" to receive the sacrament of the order[16]. A detailed list of obvious elements follows, For example, a madman or an affection from psychic infirmity cannot be ordained a priest, the apostates, heretics and killers, who mutilated seriously and maliciously or another or attempted to take his own life, etc … (cf.. text of the canons, WHO). However, you will have to come to Just yesterday ", or a year 2005, After around the world had been placed in the sacred priestly orders in whole armies of homosexuals in the previous decades, with results revealed over time devastating for the entire universal church, To finally see promulgated by the then Congregation for Catholic Education - competent at the time for seminars, Today he returned to being the dicastery for the clergy, as indeed had always been previously -, Unfortunately, a document remained unheeded in many training houses, in which we speak clearly and precisely About the vocational discernment criteria regarding people with homosexual tendencies in view of their admission to the seminary and sacred orders (see text WHO). In short, After for years and years he went on saying "coming out of the house I slipped", suddenly he took courage by saying without euphemisms that everything is called adultery. In the same way, we proceeded to declare without implicit that a person with clear homosexual tendencies did not require to become a priest, never and in no case.

The real problem It is not that the personality structured on rooted homosexual tendencies has no requirements to become a priest, Obviously he doesn't have any. The problem is other and more serious: If despite the lack of requirements that are fundamental and founding for the priesthood, he becomes priest becomes, that sacred ordination, In addition to being clearly illegal, It is not that by chance it is also disabled?

In addition to the "dead letter" of the different exhortations issued by the Apostolic See about the non -admission to the sacred orders of people with homosexual tendencies, there is worse: In the previous decades - but unfortunately also to this - - the sacred priestly ordinations of subjects with obvious homosexual tendencies has been proceeded, hidden behind the illusory certainty that what mattered was insurance that did not practice homosexuality. Statement made repeatedly and implemented not a few bishops and seminary rectors, that however aware of the evident deficiency of male testosterone by not a few of their seminarians, Although perfectly aware of their homosexual tendencies and aware of the dissolute life that followed to live in the various pauses-vacation outside the seminary, They thought of solving the problem by hiding behind the surreal fig leaf ... "The important thing is that they do not practice homosexuality".

It is enormous error to think that a psychological disorder may safely remain as long as he does not mute himself in physical act, Given that - as I have explained several times in my studies and books - the homosexuality practiced physically is only the tip of theiceberg of mental homosexuality. I also explained and shown that often, reduced homosexuals for self-repression to chastity, in their thinking, Acting and interacting can be much worse and more harmful to the Church of those who practice homosexuality on a physical level, Because these seconds at least show off, resulting at least in part less acidic and bad. Unlike the repressed that tend to be not only acids and bad for their very nature, but evil and cruel. A quel point, When we find ourselves in front of deeply bad people who feel perverse pleasure to hurt others by any means, Starting from the dissemination of false news, or by resorting to complaints based on falsehoods built artfully, We are faced with a problem that evaluate homosexuality, because certain subjects would be such, i.e. evil, even if they were heterosexual, Therefore, regardless of their sexual tendencies.

In the long interviews that in internal hole and in the external hole I had over my years of sacred ministry with homosexuals animated by sincere and profound Christian feelings, the phrase expressed most frequently, In tones at times dramatic imbued with profound inner suffering it was:

"… that beats me, I can not control, As far as I commit myself with all my strength to escape the opportunities ".

Homosexuality, rightly derubricated by the list of "diseases", However, it remains a very profound and complex disorder of human personality. Even if in the opinion of the experts of the New clinical order Today it is no longer cataloged as a disease, thanks to the strong pressures exerted on them by the powerful homosexualist lobby, The fact remains that they exist, even in considerable numbers, homosexuals that do not accept the drives of their libido they defined as "disorder" and "disorder", For this they ask to be helped. And the request for help, often, Already in itself it is a request for treatment that as an answer, however, a help offer deserves, also for what is rightly defined today one non-malattia.

I remember among the many a poignant interview occurred in the sacramental confession with a penitent forty -year -old who told me textual words:

"How come, Today it is even possible to take care of many forms of cancer, serious ones included if taken in time, not instead this "disease" that my soul consumes since I had just 15 year old?».

How the Holy Doctor of the Church teaches us Agostino Bishop of Hippona: "Pain exists" - So it manifests itself - "" only in good natures "[17]. The sexual drives, which with a term that has become taboo today were defined In addition to nature, they are much more controllable than those are not against nature, who tend to be uncontrollable complexity itself, or in any case very difficult to stem. And as, These expressed so far, They are not hypotheses but clinical-scientific de facto data, I ask: As could be left to the direction of our seminars and the religious novice of the rectors, of the trainers and the spiritual fathers who, albeit aware of the homosexual tendencies of many of their seminarians and novices, They thought of solving and closing the problem - with the blessing seal of their bishops and their greater superiors - through a ... "provided they do not practice homosexuality"? The whole, which in itself very serious and wicked, While knowing that these homosexuals would have been placed as "foxes inside a chicken coop" within an ecclesiastical environment of everything in the male? How could they, The bishops perfectly aware of the clear trends of certain seminarians, debut even with cynical spirit jokes - heard from myself and various other witnesses -, type: “You can't all be perfect, There are also elements with factory defect, The important thing is that they do not give scandal. However, the church, It needs manovalanza ". Yup, Then we saw it at the tragic yield of the accounts, What happened when the ambitious "laborers" in great career have done theirs blow inside the church, chasing away beating the good designers engineers and architects from the construction site. These are perhaps the conditions through which a bishop can impose his hands, recite the consecrating prayer and grease a new presturious with the sacred chrism, stating that in the Church ... there is also a need for certain laborers?

 

There is no difference between the simony orders and those that occurred for exchanges of sexual favors and consequent blackmail

 

I witness - and several times I have informed the compensation of the ecclesiastical authorities of the Holy See, with related references and evidence - about cases of Italian bishops who under the blackmail have ordered priests of the obvious homosexuals and that, Although they were aware of their bad moral conduct and the incorrigibility of their nature, If they had not ordered them priests, these would have burst into an unwary scandals, covering their diocese by mud, Given that the first to linger in homosexual practices were their trainers and several presbitals of particular importance of the diocesan presbyterio, While on certain bishops sustaining for a sort of sacred modesty. In the face of everything I asked several times to those in duty and authority: If more reconciles of the Church have declared the sacred priestly ordinations and episcopal consecrations that occurred through simony have not been valid[18], that is, through merchandise of money, The more disabled are sacred ordinations and episcopal consecrations obtained through blackmail, In order to keep the sexual merimonies hidden by virtue of which it was not possible to say no to those priestly orders and episcopal consecrations? It is a bishop without freedom that orders a presturious on blackmail and under constriction, validly administer the sacrament of the order? Or perhaps we must believe that paying in money or blackmailing through the money given, it is illegal thing, therefore as this condemned even by the ecumenical councils of the Church[19], mind instead, pay or blackmail through sexual performance, dates and offers, It is to be considered what everything is legitimate for the sacramental and canonical purposes of the validity of the sacrament of the order? Having said that I ask: The gifts of grace of the Holy Spirit, They can pass and produce effect through such and sacrilegious sinful action? I repeat: These are questions aimed severally and publicly and publicly to the competent ecclesiastical authorities, who have never responded on the theological and legal merit.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church considers simony a serious sin against the first commandment, together with the action of attempting God and sacrilege. According to the current code of canon law, The renunciation of an office made for Simonia, It is not valid and the simoniaca provision of an ecclesiastical office is nothing very right; Canonical penalties are also planned, such as suspension or interdict, Against the simoniaca reception or reception of a sacrament[20].It should then be added that the subjects in question, once they are absurd to the sacred priestly order, Far from subsiding and content themselves they have followed to use their poisons to be inserted in seats of maximum importance within the dioceses, To achieve immersed ecclesiastical academic titles, to become professors of Eresiology In pontifical universities, To become diocesan bishops, apostolic nunci, some cardinals; To be sent without any merit and talent to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, then ending, not even forty years old, After not even five years of diplomatic service, In the most strategic key places of the Secretariat of State. This is always to reiterate the immense damage that may derive from that principle of self-destruction today in place, placed in place by people who, Like the bishop of which I told forward, they claimed: “You can't all be perfect, There are also elements with factory defect, The important thing is that they do not give scandal ". However, If the Church really needs manovalanza, It should also be remembered that in the promises that we do before the Bishop and the Assembly of the People of God we promise to keep us celibate, So Casti, i.e. renouncing sexual relationships with those wonderful creatures that are women. Or we promise perhaps not to practice homosexuality, If affected by obvious homosexual tendencies? Because in that case, According to the impious logic of certain bishops and their trainers responsible for the care of seminars, It will be good to review the Roman ritual of the sacred orders of the deacons and priests, Also inserting this new form of solemn promise:

"I promise, as homosexual, not to practice homosexuality and to keep me celibate, aware that celibacy involves chastity both with women but above all with men ".

Good, This promise is also inserted into the ritual, If we really want to be consistent. I wrote in my book of my 2010:

Consciousness cannot be put in peace limiting themselves to public and severe proclamations, then if in fact gay priests increased in proportion to the presence of bishops who reason with a latent homosexual psychology. Or to put it raw: some seminarians between the seventies and the eighties capeggiavano inside of the seminars pious confraternity, Today they are bishops, and just become such, first they are surrounded by related parties, placed more and rigor in all the key posts in the diocese, traineeships. And these subjects, that protects and reproduce each other, they ended up creating a tremendously powerful lobbies within the Church[21].

Today we cannot say that there are no clear and precise documents, for instance:

[…] the church, while deeply respecting the people in question, Those who practice homosexuality cannot admit to the seminary and sacred orders, have deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or support the so -called gay culture […][22]

This and other documents are however treated as a dead letter To the point that today, In several seminars more similar to gods Gay village that not to Catholic training houses, a heterosexual would not even dare to approach, I think I explained it clearly in that book of my 2011 above all recalled.

It is superfluous to explain with what pain and a sense of humiliation, During the last thirty years of the history of the Church, has witnessed the climbing at the top of certain well -known homosexuals, clear and evident, many of which today professors of Eresiology In pontifical universities, Consultors and members of dicasteries, employees in the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See, diocesan bishops, Seminary Rectors, Diocesan General Vicars and Subvia to follow …

 

"You will know the truth and the truth will make you free". MANY HOMOSEXUALS LACK OF THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS REQUIRED FOR THE VALIDITY OF THE SACRAMENT OF ORDER, Starting from freedom and truth

 

In the Gospel of the blessed apostle John the verb of God asserts:

“If you stick to my word, you will truly be my disciples; you will know the truth and the truth will set you free"[23].

Before this assertion, which in its way is also a warning, We should seriously question the inseparable bond that runs between truth, freedom and ministerial priesthood. The homosexual, within the ecclesiastical world, it cannot be free, because it cannot be itself. And who is not himself cannot know the truth and become a tool, Believing that it is possible would be like saying that man has the power to change the evil to good and to bring redeemed grace through sin. God alone can change the evil to good, which partially understandable to the human intellect, since this remains in its entirety an inexplicable mystery, enclosed precisely in the great mystery of grace. God can in fact even use a wicked action by Satan, to ensure that the supreme evil made by the prince of darkness can change by his will and for his divine intervention in great good, But man cannot, through one's fragile nature corrupt from original sin, change the supreme evil in great good, nor can, least of all, use an evil action of the devil to change it in an action of good.

Who does not know the truth because to live he must fall into hiding, then in the simply self-defensive lies, it cannot be faithful to the word, Therefore it cannot be a disciple, It can only renew the Luciferian drama of the betrayal of Judah inside the church, all thanks to the sacred imposition of the hands of certain wicked bishops, that in this way prove to be not apostles of Christ but of the the mystery of iniquity.

We know that Christ established him for men and not for the angels. Therefore, the priest, Despite having by mystery of grace a higher dignity than that of the angels of God, It can be a sinner and fall like such in more or less serious sin; it can also commit very serious sins. The fact remains that a sin, however fatal, but still accidental, committed by a sinner priest, In its form and in its profound and intimate substance it is different from those who decide instead of structuring the sacred priestly ministry on the state of sin deriving from a lack of freedom that needs to be defended with perpetual lie, thus not being able to know the truth and therefore be faithful to the word, regardless of one's sin and his human sinner nature. Act in this way and "build" one's "being a priestly" on such evil elements and perverse, It means not having the idea and the basic perception of what the Catholic priesthood really is, then structure the gift of the mystery of grace of the ministerial priesthood of Christ on the mystery of iniquity.

Treating a theme of such delicacy, We must look good from falling even involuntaryly in the errors that were typical of the donatist heresy, condemned by the Council of Carthage in the year 411. The donatists claimed that the sacraments administered by priests made unworthy by their state of sin were not valid. This heretical thought did not disappear in the fifth century, so much so that the Angelic Doctor dedicate to it 90 questions In part III of the theological sum. My question does not even ask the validity of the sacraments celebrated and administered by unworthy priests and sinners, whose validity is dogmatically and canonically out of the question. The question I intend to raise on the theological level and on the canonical one is whether the sacrament of the sacred order, received by certain particular subjects in certain particular conditions, it is really valid, Given that the sacraments require for their validity of the minimum requirements. And if these minimum requirements, in part or in the totality they were actually absent? In this case we can speak of valid priestly consecration through the sacrament of the order? O, said with a new use of the example shortly before: Why, After the sacred ordination of the famous Evarato Origen, The legitimate ecclesiastical authority has banned it from the sacred orders, while the same ecclesiastical authority, In the centuries to take place, instead covered, protected, pampered and carried out in the best way an army of mental evaded? Simple, because ecclesiastical authority has never stopped to reflect on the fact that Origen, before reaching the extreme gesture of physical self-training, For some time now he had previously moved mentally. So that, its physical castration, It is only the consequence of a mental castration accrued and occurred previously.

I repeat that the question that I put are not the sacraments, undoubtedly valid, even if celebrated and administered by unworthy priests and sinners, but the objective validity in the full substance of the sacrament of the order received by some priests without those minimum requirements required for its validity, Starting from the fundamentals of the faith. Therefore, With all due respect to those who follow to play with the fire pretending that the dogmatic problem does not exist, The sad experience he had with the large army of homosexual ecclesiastics that prevides the Church, especially at the highest levels of the hierarchy, confirms me how high it is, sometimes in the frightening proportion of 7 his 10, The number of people with clear homosexual tendencies that are undoubtedly lacking in some or all the minimum requirements required for the validity of the sacrament of the order; fundamental requirements that are precisely man, the Christian, the believer, therefore the correct substantial and formal perception of the Catholic priesthood by both the deleted and the ordinated. Or someone can perhaps deny it?

Most of these subjects They are in fact clearly heretics and proud diffusers of evils of the mold mostly pro-Filito-Luitrano, or as my Polish confrere has defined them - darius oko - affected by homoeresia:

L 'omoeresia It is a refusal of the magisterium of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. The supporters of’omoeresia do not accept that the homosexual tendency is a personality disorder. Question that homosexual acts are against natural law. The defenders of’homoeresia I am in favor of the priesthood for gays. L’omoeresia It is an ecclesiastical version of’homosexualism (cf.. WHO)

Now I will center on these two elements: The man and the believer as a fundamental and essential assumption of the sacrament of the order, therefore the absence of heresy and the full awareness of the true substantial and formal nature of the Catholic priesthood. It is obvious that a clear homosexual, of those "Beetly" ordered over the last decades, several times defined as "... it is only a little effeminate, But because it is a sensitive soul ... a mystical ... ", In fact, they are prevented from receiving the sacred order, Because the rooted homosexual tendency is to be considered pursuant to Can. 1040 A perpetual impediment - the so -called irregularity to receive orders - in the face of which no bishop and no ecclesiastical authority can grant dispensation, because this would be as if the congregation for the causes of the saints decided to dispense a candidate for canonization from holiness, what that, nowadays …

Let's say that a candidate for the sacred orders tends to give in to the sin of lust In addition to nature, fully aware of sin, Mindful of being in error and for this reason ready to seek the grace and forgiveness of God, Feeling later in the same sin, If anything, even worse than before, but returning to look for grace and forgiveness again, aware of sin and evil. First of all, A subject of this kind shows that he is endowed with a Christian consciousness, therefore of the sense of good and evil. Of course, A wise trainer and a pious confessor can evaluate how appropriate it is to bring to the sacred order a sinner who cannot correct himself; One could evaluate the opportunity to advise him that in the face of any impossibility of controlling himself, It would be advisable to wait, before being entered into the sacred priestly order. However, regardless of his sin and gravity of the same, It remains peaceful that that man is above all a man who likes women, a believer with moral consciousness capable of discerning good from evil, aware of what the Catholic priesthood is and what it involves and requires. And when he, unable to exercise brakes and controls on itself, will linger at the vice of lust In addition to nature, will be aware of evil, of the error and the fact that this does not comply with the priestly state of life.

Having for several years confessor of numerous priests, I also found myself in front of confreres who had had relationships with women in violation of their sacred promises; as I found myself in front of others that, In a more serious and dangerous way they had a stable relationship with a woman. Both the one and the other lived everything with great discomfort, sense of guilt and full awareness of one's sin, in particular the latter, Those who had the so -called "fixed lover". And I can't hide that several of these priests, for impersenable mystery of grace, while living in a state of mortal sin, In the exercise of their sacred ministry they were authentic models of priestly pity, Given the soul and heart to the best treatments of the people of God, as well as effective and precious tools of divine grace.

The person's speech with homosexual tendencies are different structured on an already rooted personality, to which the element of heresy is inevitably joined, or of the homoeresia. The homosexual aware of being such, determined to remain such, who sees the Church if the quiet refuge and the priestly order as a means of making quick career, First of all, it shows that you have a deeply spoiled consciousness, an inability to distinguish good from evil, rejecting the moral teachings of the Catholic Church a priori, of his doctrine and his magisterium; To all this he unites - as I said in the previous lines - that lack of sincerity deriving from the impossibility to be himself that he will force him to live in the lie and in the deception throughout his life. Add to this that many of these homosexuals, Far from feeling in fatal sin, intimately I am really convinced that they are not theirs in error, but the Church, judged by them guilty to indicate as evil what is in truth for them well, convinced that what the Church defines as illegal and illegitimate, since highly sinful for the eternal health of the soul, especially for the soul of a priest, In reality it is neither illegal nor illegitimate or sinful, but it is good and beautiful.

I met priests with homosexual tendencies evident that they did not hesitate to reject documents and exhortations of the Church on this matter containing the relative convictions to certain disorders, or to manipulate them in a really pathetic way; I have heard trainers of different seminars say that homosexuality cannot constitute impediment to the priesthood; I even felt priests to define homosexuality and its practice as "a natural variant of human sexuality", But above all I heard them launch fires and flames on sexual morality to say "retriva" and "repressive" carried out by the magisterium of the Church.

The culmination of aberration However, it consists of those who write and affirm that certain tendencies and sexual practices would concern "the sphere of private life of priests" (!?). To these subjects, Someone of whom he pigeons to be even a superfine canonist, I asked if far from being private affairs, Certain sexual practices of the clerics were not by chance enclosed in the very serious criminal case of carnal sacrilege. Obviously no answer was given. Above all, I asked if he and his associates really believed that a priest, In the "private life" - admitted that a priest may have a private life based on moral disorder -, could practice oral coitus, be sodomized by another man and then say in public shortly after: "Here is the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world". It was before this question as dramatic as realistic that came, instead of response, An unusual reaction and all typical of gay gay: point in the heart and unable to formulate a reasonable reply the subject in question sent a delusional letter of rare violence against me to my bishop and to all members of the presbyité which I belong, complaining about my language, according to him vulgar, After calling me "serious psychiatric case" as well as "obsessed with homosexuals".

Events of this kind They touched in different ways but similar priests and theologians that we dealt with the serious phenomenon of ecclesiastical gay lobby: My Polish confrere dariusz oko, SUPPLY-EXPLARY OF THE German priest Wolfgang F. Rothe of the Archdiocese of München, was convicted of 2021 by the German Court of Cologne to a fine of 4.800 euro and a 120 days of imprisonment for having defined gay priests "cancerous ulcer" and "army of parasites inside the church" (cf.. chronicle WHO). The case has become political, Poland made itself felt and some Polish politicians did not fail to let the German judges know that it was since the years of the Nazi regime that Germany did not condemn a Polish citizen. A similar fate is touched in 2024 to the Swiss priest and theologian Manfred Hauke, publisher of the magazine Theological, guilty of having written that it is necessary to "limit homosexual cricche in the Church", condemned by Bellinzona's Pretura to a penalty of 9.450 Francs. He rejected the measure and asked to go to trial, at the end of which it was acquitted. Meantime, a German court, Shortly afterwards he imposed a penalty of 4.000 Euro following the complaint of a LGBT activist homosexual priest (cf.. chronicle, WHO). Request: What the bishops of these declared and practitioners who denounced their confreres for their confreres have done for “discrimination” e “homophobia”? They kept silent, trembling like rabbits in front of the power of the gaystapo, have been silent. If we think about it, That of these LGBT activists is a typically fascist attitude: "Stroking one to scare it one hundred", So the old fascists acted to spread fear between people. Today we are faced with real "rainbow fascists" hidden behind anti -fascism; violent and aggressive crying victims who complain of racisms and discrimination very often non -existent, In order to pursue freedom of thought and give life to crimes of opinion to condemn anyone who dares not to think that "gay is wonderful".

This is the style and way of acting certain homosexuals who bivaccia between the clergy moved by extraordinary malice. The sad truth is that those who live by their free choice in sexual disorder feeling gratified by the disorder itself, All those vices of the world cannot be cleared within the church and its clergy and its clergy, which for Catholic morality are and remain situations of serious deviation from feeling and Christian living. In a different way but substantially similar, The same character I mentioned above denounced at the Order of Psychologists Father Amedeo Cencini, Canossian presbyter, accusing him of having insulted homosexuals in his articles and conferences. The disciplinary commission examined the application and then said this opinion: "There were no hypotheses of violation of the code of ethics" (cf.. WHO e WHO). However, when someone dares to contradict certain homosexual incactivitis, or it does not give them reason, Here starts to bursts addressed to the professional order accused of defending a homophobic trembling, then accusations to the judiciary, to the magistrates, Accusations to the Italian Republic and so on ... (cf.. WHO e WHO)[24].

Needless to say, But we remember it equally: The damage that these subjects can give to the Church if placed in the priesthood, worse making a career within the clergy and ending up in key positions of government, they are truly incalculable, Because capable of using any unfair and illegal means to take out those who consider dangerous antagonists and irreducible rivals of the powerful and dangerous lobby gay. I know cases of priests to the detriment of which even judicial cases with processes without foundation based on vague clues have been mounted but only on also illications, All with mafia-intimidating style, questioning their reputation and inducing them to waste time and money to defend themselves from bizarre accusations that were then such. And when everything was resolved in a soap bubble, The affected people have not been able to rival anyone, because i clerical gay they hit the use of their serviles "useful idiots", never acting directly, Always behind the interposed person, without ever figuring.

Within the confessional I had to debate with a penitent suffering from Homoerotic drives who tried to contain as much as possible, who told me, upset, that during the sacramental confession a priest had told him:

«Expressing one's homosexuality is not a sin, Because homosexuality is in the order of nature and is a natural variant of human sexuality; And we cannot impose the homosexual to live in chastity, Why preventing a person from expressing his love affectivity would be inhuman ".

The priest in question, In addition to being clearly homosexual, He was also a trainer at a seminar, Professor of theology at a theological study and covered by his "forward -looking" bishop of all the most delicate positions. The question is therefore simple: If the sacred ordination of subjects in whom the requirement of man lacks, of the believer, In addition to the very perception of the Catholic priesthood, it must however be considered valid, In the same way we should consider the sacred orders of subjects valid that support the legitimacy of the Aryan heresy, which in various respects could be less serious than candidates for sacred orders or priests who judge homosexuality as a "natural variant of human sexuality". This is the reason why I believe it can be advanced and support a hypothesis that is anything but unfounded: The sacred orders of these people are disabled as it would be that of a heretic who decisively denies the hyposotic nature of Christ true God and true man and who once admitted in the sacred priestly order will try to spread his heresy as just as just. In one and the other case - it is the herthic Ariano or theHomoeretic - We are faced with an expression of different heresy in form but similar in substance, such as to make such irregularities a perpetual canonical impediment. I therefore repeat that a great sinner can be consecrated in a legitimate and valid way, However, not one who lacks the fundamental requirement of man and the believer and who aims to rise to the priesthood for evil and perverse purposes, Because one account is falling into serious sin, On the other hand, consider what good and just a disordered conduct and aspire to the priesthood for evil and perverse purposes.

While offering to consider disabled orders of subjects of this kind, I do not even open - given the extraordinary delicacy of the topic - the painful chapter about the validity of the episcopal consecrations of those who in a similar way are not men, they are not believers, They do not have the correct perception of the fullness of the Apostolic Priesthood; Not to mention those who, despite being a receptacle for all the worst vices, however, they reached the episcopate through blackmail and psychological terrorism exercised on the ecclesiastical authorities.

THE MYSTERY OF THE GRACE OF GOD, THE SUPPLIES GRACE AND THE SUPPLY THE CHURCH THEY ARE NEITHER A ESCAPE NOR A PANACEA

I believe we can not play on the mystery of the grace of God nor on that great "escapade", or if we prefer Panacea del grace fills he was born in supplies the church, because nothing can make up the grace of God, much less the Church, where the nature of the substance through which and on which the sacramental grace operates completely. Or to put it again with an example: An aged host in which all the matter of bread and a low quality wine and unpleasant taste in which all the matter of wine remains, Through transubstantiation, however, they become undoubtedly, in their metaphysical essence, For the supreme mystery of faith, Body and blood of Christ. But a butter biscuit and an orange drink can never become body and blood of Christ, Because that matter on which the existence of the metaphysical substance depends for divine will from divine will, place that, The precise subjects of bread and wine are transubstantiated, Not any subject of solid foods and liquid drinks.

Where the matter that gives life to the essence of the substance is missing, it can truly make up the grace of God, or it can perhaps make up the Church? And if so, why the father of the church Sant'Agostino would have lost time and precious energies to write and give us the treaty Of nature and grace? Not to mention all the subsequent speculations on the subject made by San Tommaso d'Aquino? Grace operates yes, and always works, but it works on the nature that is there, not on that nature that is not there or that is not defined, why think so, worse support it, it would mean altering and falsifying the very mystery of creation and with it that of redemption.

The mystery of the grace of God transforms, through the work entrusted to our hands, The matter of bread and wine in the body and blood of Christ, while remaining both in the visible form, to the smell and taste the external species of bread and wine, But they become really Christ and really present substantially with his body, his blood, His soul and his divinity. The grace of God, that everything can even, does not transform into metaphysical substance, In the body and blood of Christ, A butter and orange juice biscuit, because God cannot contradict himself, because "This is my bodyHe said it on the bread, ed «This is the cup of my bloodHe said it on wine. And no one can vary these accidental elements on which the metaphysical essence of the substance depends by divine will, If anything, saying ... grace fills, or worse supplies the church, Not to mention certain acid gays that has been mentioned earlier, that pursuant to an exotic ecclesiastical right, everything would like to relegate certain moral disorders to the unquestionable sphere of the private life of the priests (!?). And if in this precise speech I brought as an example the most ineffable of the mysteries donated by Christ God to his Church, l'Eucharist, It is precisely because the priest is the object and Eucharistic subject, and the priest is required In addition to nature A precise form, therefore a precise substance that arises from the mindset of his being for, by 'priestly mind; and the absence of these elements, it cannot be in any way to be suited.

The grace of God only works on what is there, not on what is not there and that there can be no; And this explains it and teaches it clearly the Parable of the Talents[25]. Through the sacred priestly order, an ontological transformation takes place and the priest takes on a new character, which is indelible and eternal. But if a priest is one and a half meter high of stature, The sanctifying and transforming grace of God cannot change it in a high coward 1.90 barefoot. Or better understood: a donkey, in the figurative sense of the term, it can also become a saint, It can also become venerated patron of the priests of the Catholic Church, but it cannot be changed in an Arab stallion, because donkey is and donkey will remain, regardless of what can be the heroicity of its virtues.

Both the hipped and the aquinate clarified without a penalty of misunderstanding the principle that Grace nature perfects but do not supply (Grace does not comply but perfects nature). And when nature is not there, starting from the nature of man, of the virile male, Request for access to the sacred priestly order, What happens, who can never ... make up? The only one who can make up is the man who has put himself in the place of God, if not worse still: instead of Satan.

I would like to conclude with a paradoxical question, But sometimes in the paradox or hyperbole there may be a lot of objectivity. This is the question: In the event that a subject, belonging hidden to a satanic sect, he wanted to become a priest in order to validly consecrate the holy Eucharist then intended for the most evil profanations, thus serving his luciferine congregation, you can, then, Talk about valid ordination? Well, someone wants to explain to me: What a difference there is between a satanist who aspires to the priesthood for evil and sacrilegious purposes and a ho homoeretic that for as many evil and sacrilegious purposes also aspires to the priesthood? I'll explain what difference there is: The Satanist at the Holy Eucharist understood as a real presence of Christ and true really believes it, while in most cases the hhomoeretics In the real presence of Christ alive and true they do not believe in it. The fact that in their speeches of everything speak they are of real presence in their speeches. The mouth of terms are filled as "banquet ... convivio ... feast of joy ... meeting of love …». To the metaphysical language they despised and at the end of transubstantiation defined as an obsolete, they prefer that Lutheran of consubstantiation, With the consequence that their eukaristic celebrations overflowing liturgical abuse and free will of all sorts, they look like Calvinist liturgies, foundation of which it is precisely the denial of the real presence, depicted by Giovanni Calvino right from standing during the words of the Last Supper. E, in doing this, the homoeretic They shy away the word "living and holy sacrifice". Distribute the Eucharist as if they were toy-omigating of zero bread, they do not deal with sacred respect for the sacred vases, do not proceed to their adequate purification, they do not promote the Eucharistic cult in any way. To this is added that many of ours aesthetic ceremonies - Because for thirty years now, finding a heterosexual in the sphere of liturgists is like looking for a needle in a haystack - they also proceeded to abolition of the platforms for the communion of the faithful, but on the other hand they set up the silver plate in their place on which to deposit the Saint Saint Zucchetto red of the bishop, far more important than the collection of Eucharistic fragments. And there is even more: I ascertained that the homoeretic bishops, through theirs homoeretic priests, They are those who teach the people of God who stand up high during Eucharistic prayer, In addition to being the proponents of the elimination of the benches with the kneeling from many churches, Replaced with cinema armchairs, Because to hit the church in the heart and de-doralize it you have to hit the Eucharist above all, Instead of following the clear Paolino warning:

[…] In the name of Jesus every knee folds in the skies, on earth and under the earth; and let every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father[26].

Here is the difference that runs between an satanist and a Homoeretic: The Satanist is a believer, l’Homoeretic no. And who wants to meditate, meditate, but do it soon and well, while the house followed to burn, while the realistic possibility of turning off the fire is increasingly distant, while the church visible it more and more like a great one Gay Village.

From the island of Patmos, 28 July 2025

 

Obtained from a previous article published the 7 July 2016

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NOTE

[1] CIC can. 1024.

[2] See. MC 3,14-19; LC 6,12-16.

[3] See. 1 TM 3,1-13; 2 TM 1,6; Tt 1,5-9

[4] See. San Clemente Romano, Letter to the Corinthians, 42, 4: SC 167, 168-170 (Funk 1, 152); Ibid., 44, 3: SC 167, 172 (Funk 1, 156)

[5] See. John Paul II, Became. ap. Woman's dignity, 26-27: AAS 80 (1988) 1715-1720; Id., Became. ap. priestly ordination: AAS 86 (1994) 545-548; Congregation for the doctrine of faith, You. Among the most important: AAS 69 (1977) 98-116; Id., Response to doubt about the doctrine of the letter. ap. «Priestly ordination»: AAS 87 (1995) 1114.

[6] See. EB 5,4.

[7] See. Clemente's first letter, 44,2, later taken up by the dogmatic constitution The light n. 20.

[8] See. Mt 19,12: «In fact, there are Eunuchi who were born so from the mother's belly; there are some who have been made eunuchs by men, And there are others who have made themselves eunuchi for the kingdom of heaven ".

[9] See. Johannes Quasten, Patrologia. The first two centuries (II-II). Marietti, 1980.

[10] XVIII ° successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter, pontificate, year old 230-235.

[11] See. Bibliotheca Cod. 118.

[12] Apocatastase. According to Origen, At the end of the time there will be universal redemption and all creatures will be saved, including Satan. Therefore, The penalty to eternal damnation would actually have a purifying and non -definitive character. «We think that the goodness of God, through the mediation of Christ, will bring all the creatures to the same end " (Of principles, I, IV, 1-3).

[13] See. Can. 1040

[14] Vatican Council II, Cost. The light, 19.

[15] John Paul II, Is. AP. I will give you shepherds, 25-III-1992, 15, 4.

[16] See. Cann. 1024-1052.

[17] The nature of the good, 19.

[18] N.d.A. The term simonia derives from the episode narrated in the acts of the Apostles [Acts 8, 9-24] in which Simon Mago, healer, he asked the apostles, upon payment, The thaumaturgical power conferred by the Holy Spirit and therefore was consequently cursed by the blessed Apostle Peter.

[19] N.d.A. Example: The Supreme Urban Pontiff, in the year 1093, It all decreed the Simoniache ordinations except for those of the clerics who were not aware of the simony of their orders. The condemnation of simony is decreed by several councils of the Church, Starting from the Council of Calcedon of the year 451 Until the Council of Trent celebrated in the 16th century.

[20] See. can. 188

[21] See. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, And Satan came Trino. Relativism, individualism, disobedience. Analysis on the Third Millennium Church. Ed. Rome, 2011. Reprint: Editions The island of Patmos, Rome, 2019.

[22] Education of the Congregation for Catholic Education About the criteria of vocational discernment regarding people with homosexual tendencies in view of their admission to the seminary and sacred orders the 4 November 2005, approved by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI the 31 August 2005.

[23] See. GV 8, 32.

[24] See. Francesco Strazza: «Between criticism and insult: I can't silent », Week News, edition of 25 November 2022.

[25] See. Mt 25, 14-30.

[26] In II, 10.

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THEOLOGICAL AND LEGAL DOUBTS ABOUT THE LEGITIMATE VALIDITY PRIESTLY ORDINATIONS OF HOMOSEXUALS

The minimum requirements for the validity of the Sacrament of Holy Orders are: man, Christian, believer, therefore a correct understanding of the Catholic priesthood. The real problem isn’t that a personality structured by deep-rooted homosexual tendencies lacks the qualifications to become a priest. The problem is different and more serious: if priest becomes one without the qualifications, isn’t that sacred ordination, besides being illicit, also invalid?

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There is no other organization in the world like the Catholic Church where the presence of more or less openly homosexuals is so high, nor is there a similar organization where homosexuals, together with their close associates, have staged a coup by infiltrating every “room of command”, as I have been writing for years (I refer you to an old interview of mine from 2013, which can be read HERE, in Italian only).

With the advent of social media, self-styled Catholic blogs have proliferated, claiming the acceptance of the LGBT agenda within the Church, accusing those who lament the serious problem of the high number of homosexuals within the clergy of being frustrated, repressed, and unresolved.

The ecclesiastical gay lobby is so powerful that, if necessary, it can make life impossible for those who dare to report certain situations, explaining to ecclesiastical authorities well in advance how things would end. Nor should we underestimate the virulent armed wing of the powerful ecclesiastical gay lobby, the gay-friendly, a large group of persons those who, despite not being homosexual, protect members of the pious gay fraternity for their own personal interests, or because they are driven by high career expectations, knowing that gay lobbyists can either foster them or irremediably undermine them within dioceses or the Roman Curia. To assert that within the Holy See, in numerous dioceses, and therefore in the universal Church, a level of internal homosexuality has been reached that has exceeded all safety limits is not merely a fanciful hypothesis but a fact that can only be denied by those who reject the evidence.

The charming man, who by nature is self-centered and ambitious, defends himself unscrupulously through an innate vindictive-destructive instinct, capable of exercising malice with methodical, scientific cruelty toward those endowed with that Christological priestly courage that leads them to affirm and remember what is right and what is wrong in the light of the Holy Gospel and Catholic doctrine. Because the pure of heart, unlike gay lobbyists, do not aim for the immediate, but for the eternal.

THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE VALIDITY OF THE SACRAMENTS ARE MINIMUM, BUT THOSE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS MUST EXIST

Those who practice sacramental dogmatical know that this specific field is extremely delicate, not least because the requirements for the validity of the sacraments are truly minimal. In these lines, we will limit ourselves to discussing only the Sacrament of Holy Orders, starting with a premise intended to immediately clear the field from the objections of those who might claim that the texts of sacramental dogmatical, canon law, and their commentaries make no express and clear reference to those matters of a sexual or psychosexual nature to which I will refer explicitly. To dispel certain doubts and clear the field from equivocal and unfounded theological and juridical disputes, I will draw attention to an incontrovertible fact: until a few decades ago, everything directly or indirectly concerning sex and human sexuality was whispered with euphemisms in magisterial texts, doctrine, and treatises on Catholic morality; merely discussing certain topics was considered improper. When issues of Catholic morality related to human sexuality were addressed in academic circles, Latin euphemisms were used, because the same words ordinarily used clearly and precisely in the clinical and scientific lexicon of gynecology, urology, and andrology were not deemed appropriate within the classrooms of ecclesiastical academies. Confessors of the time themselves had their own way of expressing themselves, a vocabulary of vague, indirect implications, taught to young priests from the time they were trained for the priesthood. This “specific” vocabulary of confessors served to allude without resorting to unpronounceable terms banned from ecclesiastical academia and the confessional, especially from public catechesis addressed to the People of God. This language was also assimilated by the Catholic faithful, particularly penitents who, before their confessors, expressed themselves in so-called vague innuendos and “implied” but don’t clear, terms regarding sexual matters, related relationships, and everything pertaining to violations of the Sixth Commandment.

I’ll try to clarify everything with an example: it was the year 2010 when a ninety-year-old penitent who had grown up in that world not centuries distant but a few decades ago, during a confession based on her memories of the past, referred to a time, one winter, when she was alone, «… leaving the house, unfortunately, I slipped». A child of another era, both as a man and as a priest, I didn’t understand, and I imagined that, being in an area where it snows at certain times of the year, she had fallen while leaving the house, perhaps on a sheet of ice formed by the snow in a corner sheltered from the sun, or who knows how else, she slipped and fell. She realized I hadn’t understood, so she made two more delicate, more explicit allusions to make me understand that she had committed the sin of adultery, for which, more than half a century later, she couldn’t shake the bitterness it had caused her, having always been bound by sincere love to her husband. This is to reiterate that it would be neither pertinent nor logical to challenge me on the grounds that certain expositions to which I clearly refer are not equally clearly contained in the texts of the Magisterium, of doctrine, of sacramental dogmatical, of Catholic morality and of the Code of Canon Law.

ORIGEN’S LESSON: THE VIRILITY OF THE “mAN approved” AS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT FOR THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states at n. 1577:

«Only a baptized man (for) validly receives sacred ordination[1]. The Lord Jesus chose men (men) to form the college of the twelve apostles[2], and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators[3] to succeed them in their ministry[4]. The college of bishops, with whom the priests are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever-active reality until Christ’s return. The Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason, the ordination of women is not possible[5]».

No one has a right to receive the sacrament of Holy Orders. In fact, no one can attribute this office to himself. One is called to it by God[6]. Anyone who believes he recognizes the signs of God’s call to the ordained ministry must humbly submit his desire to the authority of the Church, which has the responsibility and the right to call someone to receive Holy Orders. Like every grace, this sacrament can only be received as an unmerited gift.

Note that the Latin term Source/Resources is a masculine noun of the grammatical second declension, primarily referring to man, male, adult, or virility associated with the male sex. The negation and antithesis of “Source/Resources” is the term, also of Latin origin: “evil“, a word indicating the deprivation of virility and also deriving from “Source/Resources“. In ecclesiastical language, the term “sources try” is used to indicate men suitable for holy orders. This term was used in the early Church to indicate married men who were eligible for the diaconate and priesthood[7]. With the passage of time and the free acceptance of the obligation of celibacy, which has its roots in the early apostolic era, in our current lexicon this expression is used to indicate men of proven standing and, as such, reliable for holy orders. Lack of psycho-physical virility therefore constitutes an insurmountable impediment to priestly ordination. This impediment is well-known and established as such since the first centuries of the Church’s existence, and no one has the authority to dispense from it, given that no Ecclesiastical Authority can dispense from being a man, which is an essential and foundational prerequisite of the ministerial priesthood.

In the year 230, Origen was consecrated a priest by Theoctissus of Caesarea and Alexander of Jerusalem, without the approval of Bishop Demetrius, who had canonical jurisdiction over him. Origen, having misunderstood the Gospel passage in which the Lord Jesus refers to the «eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven»[8], had castrated himself. This was the reason why his bishop had never wanted to consecrate Priest[9]. After that sacred ordination, Bishop Demetrius, with the approval of the Supreme Pontiff Pontianus[10], revoked his teaching faculty and deposed him from the presbyteral Order[11] for the irregularity of his sacred ordination, which was declared null. It is known that Origen is the only one among the Church Fathers of that rich period not to have been proclaimed a saint, although imprisoned and tortured during the anti-Christian persecutions of Decius; but above all, despite having been, in intellectual and speculative gifts, far superior to many other philosophers and theologians of that first, rich and happy Christian era. The obstacle to his canonization was not due to the fact that in his great and valuable philosophical-theological speculations he hypothesized the thought of the apokatastasis today considered heretical[12]; the great and insurmountable obstacle is entirely linked to his castration.

In those early years of the Church’s life, during which the first great philosophical and theological speculations were underway, preceding and giving rise to the presuppositions and subjects later addressed by the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325, it was not uncommon for speculative minds, including the Church Fathers, to fall into heretical thoughts, from which they amended themselves later. This did not prevent either their canonizations or their proclamation as Church Fathers.

The Code of Canon Law cited below refers modestly and toned down to the fact that «one who has gravely and maliciously mutilated himself or another»[13] cannot be ordained a priest. From this it can be deduced that Origen’s horrendous self-mutilation was considered in itself worse than heresy, which can however be healed through the recognition of the voluntary or involuntary error, but a destroyed physical virility cannot be restored, except by resorting to complex surgical interventions performed by modern surgery, even if with very uncertain outcomes.

Pertinent question: can mental castration be even worse than physical castration, given that sexuality, in the case of the male, is expressed in the characteristics of his sex, and these are an essential part of mental sexuality, on which they also depend, due to the information and conditioning that emanate from it? Both, in fact, both physical and mental sexuality, are fused together and form a single part of the person, in this case: the male? This is a question I have been asking members of the episcopate for years, to no avail: they have never responded.

Through the Sacrament of Orders, participation in the priesthood of Christ is conferred according to the modality transmitted by apostolic succession. The ministerial priesthood is distinct from the common priesthood of the faithful, which derives from Baptism and Confirmation. Both, «although they differ essentially and not only in degree, are nevertheless ordered to one another»[14]. It is proper and specific to the ministerial priesthood to be «a sacramental representation of Jesus Christ, Head and Shepherd»[15]. This allows the exercise of Christ’s authority in the pastoral function of preaching and governance, as well as operating “in person Christi” (in the person of Christ) in the exercise of the sacramental ministry. Having said this, it is clear that the first two essential prerequisites for the conferral, and therefore for the validity of the Sacrament, the man being and the Christian.

Book IV of the Code of Canon Law, in Part I, which deals with the Sacraments, outlines the «irregularities and other impediments» to receiving the Sacrament of Orders[16]. A detailed list of obvious elements follows, for example, a madman or someone suffering from mental infirmity, apostates, heretics, and murderers, anyone who has gravely and maliciously mutilated himself or another, or has attempted to take his own life, etc., cannot be ordained a priest. However, we have to wait until “only yesterday”, that is, the year 2005, after entire armies of homosexuals had been admitted into the Holy Order of Priests throughout the world in the preceding decades, with results that proved devastating over time for the entire universal Church, to finally see the promulgation by the then Congregation for Catholic Education ― competent at the time for seminaries, but today the Dicastery for the Clergy has returned to that responsibility, as it had always been before ―, of a document that unfortunately remained a dead letter in many houses of formation, in which there is a clear and precise discussion of the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders (see text HERE). In short, after many years of claiming «I slipped while leaving the house», suddenly they took courage and declared, without euphemism, that it was all adultery. Similarly, they proceeded to declare, without any euphemism and ambiguity, that a person with obvious homosexual tendencies is not eligible to become a priest, never and under no cases.

The real problem is not that a personality structured by deep-rooted homosexual tendencies lacks the requisites to become a priest. The problem is different and more serious: if, despite lacking the fundamental and foundational requirements for the priesthood, this person becomes priest, isn’t that sacred ordination, besides being clearly illicit, also invalid?

Beyond the “dead letter” of the various exhortations issued by the Apostolic See regarding the non-admission to sacred orders of persons with homosexual tendencies, there is worse: in previous decades — but unfortunately also in the present — priestly ordinations have proceeded without a hitch, concealed behind the illusory certainty that what mattered was the assurance that they did not practice homosexuality. A statement repeatedly made and put into practice by many bishops and seminary rectors, who, although aware of the evident lack of male testosterone among many of their seminarians, and although perfectly aware of their homosexual tendencies and aware of the dissolute life they continued to live during their various vacations outside the seminary, thought they could solve the problem by hiding behind the fig leaf of the surreal… «the important thing is that they don’t practice homosexuality».

It is a huge mistake to think that a psychological disorder can easily persist as long as it does not transform into physical activity, given that — as I have explained many times in my studies and books — physically practiced homosexuality is only the tip of the iceberg of mental homosexuality. I have also explained and demonstrated that often, homosexuals reduced to chastity through self-repression, in their thinking, acting, and interacting, can be much worse and more harmful to the Church than those who practice homosexuality physically, because the latter at least vent their anger, appearing at least somewhat less acid and evil. Unlike the repressed, who by their very nature tend to be not only acis and evil, but cruel. At that point, when we find ourselves faced with profoundly evil people who take perverse pleasure in harming others by any means, starting with the spread of false news, or resorting to complaints based on artfully constructed falsehoods, we are faced with a problem that goes beyond homosexuality, because certain individuals would be such, that is, evil, even if they were heterosexual, regardless of their sexual orientation.

In the long conversations I have had with homosexuals animated by sincere and profound Christian sentiments throughout my years of sacred ministry, the phrase most frequently expressed, at times in dramatic tones imbued with profound inner suffering, was:

«… it’s stronger than me; I can’t control myself, no matter how hard I try to avoid the occasions».

Homosexuality, rightly removed from the list of diseases, remains a profound and complex disorder of the human personality. Although, according to the experts of the new clinical order, it can no longer be classified as an illness, thanks to the strong pressure exerted on them by powerful homosexual lobbies, the fact remains that there are, even in considerable numbers, homosexuals who do not accept the urges of their libido, which they themselves define as a «disorder» and «disturbance», and for this reason they seek help. And the request for help is often, in itself, a request for treatment, which in response deserves an offer of help, even for what today is rightly defined as a non-illness.

Among many, I remember a poignant conversation during sacramental confession with a forty-year-old penitent who said to me these exact words:

«How come today it is possible to cure even many forms of cancer, including serious ones if caught early, but not this “disease” that has consumed my soul since I was just 15 years old?».

As the Holy Doctor of the Church, Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, teaches us: «Pain exists» — and therefore manifests itself — «only in good natures»[17].” Sexual impulses, which, with a term now taboo, were defined “In addition to nature“, are much more controllable than those “against nature“, which by their very complexity tend to be uncontrollable, or at least very difficult to contain. And since what has been expressed so far is not hypotheses but clinical-scientific facts, I ask: how could we have left the leadership of our seminaries and religious novitiates in the hands of rectors, formators, and spiritual directors who, although aware of the homosexual tendencies of many of their seminarians and novices, thought they could resolve and close the problem — with the blessing of their bishops and major superiors — through a… «as long as they do not practice homosexuality»? All of this, in itself a very serious and wicked thing, despite knowing that these homosexuals would be placed like “foxes in a henhouse” within an all-male ecclesiastical environment? How could bishops, perfectly aware of the obvious tendencies of some of their seminarians, even debut with cynical quips — overheard by myself and various other witnesses — such as: «Not everyone can be perfect; there are also elements with manufacturing defects; the important thing is that they don’t cause scandal. Besides, the Church also needs men of service». Yes, then we saw in the tragic showdown what happened when the ambitious “men of service” in high gear staged their coup within the Church, chasing talented designers, engineers, and architects away from the construction site with clubs. Are these perhaps the presuppositions through which a bishop can lay hands, recite the consecratory prayer and anoint a new priest with sacred chrism, affirming that in the Church … there is also a need for certain “men of service”?

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIMONIACAL ORDINATIONS AND THOSE THAT TAKE PLACE THROUGH THE EXCHANGE OF SEXUAL FAVORS AND THE RESULTING BLACKMAIL

I am a witness ― and have repeatedly informed the competent Ecclesiastical Authorities of the Holy See, with relevant references and evidence ― of cases of Italian bishops who, under pressure, ordained openly homosexuals as priests. Despite being aware of their terrible moral conduct and the incorrigibility of their nature, if they had not ordained them as priests, these would have sparked unspeakable scandals, smearing their dioceses. The first to indulge in homosexual practices were their own formators and several prominent priests of the diocesan presbyterate. I, however, pass over certain bishops out of a sort of sacred modesty. In light of all this, I have repeatedly asked those in charge and with authority: if several Church councils have declared invalid priestly ordinations and episcopal consecrations obtained through simony[18], that is, through the sale of money, how much more invalid are those ordinations and episcopal consecrations obtained through blackmail, in order to conceal the sexual trafficking by virtue of which it was not possible to say no to those priestly ordinations and episcopal consecrations? And does a bishop deprived of freedom who ordains a priest under blackmail and coercion, validly administer the Sacrament of Holy Orders? Or perhaps we must consider only paying money or blackmailing through money given to someone is illicit, and therefore condemned as such even by the Church’s ecumenical councils[19]? The paying or blackmailing through sexual services, whether given or offered, is instead to be considered entirely licit for the sacramental and canonical purposes of the validity of the Sacrament of Holy Orders? Having said this, I ask: can the gifts of grace of the Holy Spirit pass and take effect through such a sacrilegious and sinful action? I repeat: these are questions that have been posed repeatedly officially and publicly to the competent ecclesiastical authorities, who have never responded to their theological and juridical merits.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church considers simony a grave sin against the first commandment, along with tempting God and sacrilege. According to the current Code of Canon Law, the resignation of an office made for simony is invalid, and the simoniac provision of an ecclesiastical office is null ipso iure; canonical sanctions, such as suspension or interdict, are also foreseen against the simoniac conferral or reception of a sacrament[20]. It must also be added that the individuals in question, once raised to the Holy Orders Priesthood, far from being appeased and content, continued to use their poisons to gain positions of the highest importance within the dioceses, to obtain undeserved ecclesiastical academic titles, to become professors of heresiology in pontifical universities, to become diocesan bishops, apostolic messengers, and some cardinals; for be sent without any merit or talent to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, only to end up, not even forty years old, after less than five years of diplomatic service, in the most strategic key positions in the Secretariat of State. This, again, serves to reiterate the immense damage that can result from the self-destructive principle currently underway, implemented by people who, like the bishop I mentioned earlier, asserted: «Not everyone can be perfect; there are also elements with manufacturing defects; the important thing is that they do not cause scandal». Moreover, if the Church truly needs laborers, it should also be remembered that in the promises we make before the Bishop and the assembly of the People of God, we promise to remain celibate, and therefore chaste, that is, to renounce sexual relations with those wonderful creatures that are women. Or do we perhaps promise not to practice homosexuality, if we have obvious homosexual tendencies? Because in that case, according to the impious logic of certain bishops and their seminarians, it would be wise to revise the Roman Rite of Sacred Ordinations of deacons and priests, possibly also including this new form of solemn promise:

«I promise, as a homosexual, not to practice homosexuality and to remain celibate, aware that celibacy entails chastity both with women and especially with men».

I wrote in a 2010 book:

«One cannot ease one’s conscience by limiting oneself to public and stern proclamations, if in reality the number of gay priests increases in proportion to the presence of bishops who reason with a latent homosexual psychology. Or to put it bluntly: some seminarians who between the 1970s and 1980s led the “pious confraternity” within the seminaries are now bishops, and as soon as they became bishops, they first surrounded themselves with like-minded individuals, consistently and de rigueurly placed in all key positions in the dioceses, including seminaries. And these individuals, who protect and reproduce each other, have ended up creating a powerful power lobby within the Church very diabolical terrible»[21].

Today we cannot say that there are not clear and precise acclesiastical documents on this thema, for example:

«In the light of such teaching, this Dicastery, in accord with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, believes it necessary to state clearly that the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question (CF. Catechism of the Catholic Church, typical edition, 1997, n. 2358; cf. also CIC, can. 208 and CCEO, can. 11), cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called “gay culture” (CF. Congregation for Catholic Education, A memorandum to Bishops seeking advice in matters concerning homosexuality and candidates for admission to Seminary, 9 July 1985; Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Letter, 16 May 2002: Information 38, 2002, 586)»[22].

This and other documents, however, are treated as dead letters, to the point that today, in several seminaries more akin to gay villages than houses of Catholic formation, a heterosexual wouldn’t even dare approach.

It is superfluous to explain with what pain and humiliation, over the last thirty years of Church history, I have witnessed the rise to the top of the ranks of certain well-known, open, and obvious homosexuals, many of whom are now professors of heresiology at pontifical universities, consultants and members of dicasteries, members of the diplomatic service of the Holy See, diocesan bishops, seminary rectors, diocesan vicars general, and so on and so forth…

«THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE». MANY HOMOSEXUALS LACK THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS REQUIRED FOR THE VALIDITY OF THE SACRAMENT OF ORDERS, STARTING WITH FREEDOM AND TRUTH.

In the Gospel of the Blessed Apostle John, the Word of God asserts:

«If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free»

Faced with this assertion, which in its own way is also a warning, we should seriously question the inseparable bond between truth, freedom, and the ministerial priesthood. Within the ecclesiastical world, homosexuals cannot be free because they cannot be themselves. And those who are not themselves cannot know the truth and become its instruments. To believe that this is possible would be like affirming that man has the power to turn evil into good and to bring redemptive grace through sin. Only God can turn evil into good, something partially comprehensible to the human intellect, given that this remains in its entirety an inexplicable mystery, enclosed precisely in the great mystery of grace. God can in fact even make use of an impious action of Satan, to ensure that the supreme evil wrought by the Prince of Darkness can be transformed by his will and divine intervention into the supreme good, but man cannot, through his own fragile nature corrupted by original sin, transform the supreme evil into the supreme good, nor can he, even less, make use of an evil action of the Devil to transform it into an action of good.

Those who do not know the truth because, in order to live, they must descend into obscurity, thus into the eternal self-defensive lie, cannot be faithful to the Word and therefore cannot be disciples. They can only renew within the Church the Luciferian drama of Judas’ betrayal, all thanks to the sacred imposition of hands by certain wicked bishops, who thus reveal themselves not to be apostles of Christ but of the the mystery of iniquity.

We know that Christ instituted the Priesthood for men, not for angels. Therefore, the priest, although possessing by the mystery of grace a dignity superior to that of the angels of God, can be a sinner and, as such, fall into more or less grave sin; he can even commit very grave sins. The fact remains that a sin, however mortal, but still accidental, committed by a sinful priest, in its form and in its profound and intimate substance is something different from one who instead decides to structure the sacred priestly ministry on the state of sin resulting from a lack of freedom that must be defended with perpetual lies, thus being unable to know the truth and therefore be faithful to the Word, regardless of his own sin and his own human nature as a sinner. To act in this way and to “build” one’s “priestly being” on such evil and perverse elements means not having the basic idea and perception of what the Catholic priesthood really is, and therefore structuring the gift of the mystery of grace of the ministerial Priesthood of Christ on the the mystery of iniquity.

In dealing with such a delicate thema, one must be careful not to fall, even unintentionally, into the errors typical of the Donatist heresy, condemned by the Council of Carthage in 411. The Donatists maintained that the Sacraments administered by priests rendered unworthy by their state of sin were invalid. This heretical thought did not disappear in the fifth century, so much so that the Angelic Doctor dedicates 90 questions to it in Part III of the Summa Theologica. My question does not even remotely call into question the validity of the Sacraments celebrated and administered by unworthy and sinful priests, whose validity is dogmatically and canonically beyond question. The question I intend to raise on the theological and canonical levels is whether the Sacrament of Holy Orders, received by certain particular subjects in certain particular conditions, is truly valid, given that the Sacraments require certain minimum requirements for their validity. What if these minimum requirements were, in part or in full, the fact absent? In this case, can we speak of a valid priestly consecration through the Sacrament of Orders? Or, to put it another way, using the example cited earlier: why, after the sacred ordination of the famous castrated Origen, did legitimate Ecclesiastical Authority ban him from sacred orders, while the same Ecclesiastical Authority, in the centuries to come, instead covered up, protected, pampered, and nurtured in the best possible way an army of mentally castrated men? Simply, because the Ecclesiastical Authority never stopped to consider the fact that Origen, before resorting to the extreme act of physical self-castration, had already mentally castrated himself for some time. Therefore, his physical castration was merely the consequence of a mental castration that had matured and occurred previously.

I reiterate that the question I am raising is not the Sacraments, which are undoubtedly valid, even if celebrated and administered by unworthy and sinful priests, but the objective validity, in the full substance, of the Sacrament of Holy Orders received by some priests who lack the minimum requirements for its validity, starting with the fundamental requirement of faith. Therefore, with all due respect to those who continue to play with fire by pretending the dogmatic problem does not exist, my sad experience with the large army of homosexual clergymen plaguing the Church, especially at the highest levels of the hierarchy, confirms for me how high, sometimes in the frightening proportion of 7 out of 10, the number of clergy with obvious homosexual tendencies who undoubtedly lack some or all of the minimum requirements for the validity of the Sacrament of Holy Orders is. These fundamental requirements are: the man, the Christian, the believer, therefore the correct substantive and formal perception of the Catholic priesthood on the part of both the ordaining priest and the ordained. Or can anyone perhaps deny it?

The majority of these individuals are, in fact, blatantly heretical and proud propagators of heresies of a mostly pro-Lutheran nature, or, as one of my Polish confrere, Darius Around, called them, afflicted with homesesy:

«Homohelates is a rejection of the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Supporters of homoheresy do not accept that homosexual tendencies are a personality disorder. They question whether homosexual acts are against natural law. Defenders of homoheresy favor the priesthood for gays. Homohelates is an ecclesiastical version of homosexuality» (cf. Roman correspondence Agency, On the need to stop homosexual lobbies in the Church, Rome, 08.02.2022).

I will now focus on these two elements: man and the believer as the founding and essential prerequisite of the Sacrament of Orders, therefore the absence of heresy and full awareness of the true substantial and formal nature of the Catholic priesthood. It is obvious that an openly homosexual, one of those “blissfully” ordained in recent decades, repeatedly described as «… only just a little effeminate, but because he has a sensitive soul … a mystic …», is in fact prevented from receiving Holy Orders, because a deep-rooted homosexual tendency is to be considered, pursuant to canon 1040, a perpetual impediment — the so-called irregularity to receive orders — for which no bishop or ecclesiastical authority can grant a dispensation, because that would be as if the Congregation for the Causes of Saints decided to dispense from sainthood a candidate for canonization, something which, these days…

Let us suppose that a candidate for Holy Orders tends to give in to the sin of lust “In addition to nature” (according nature), fully aware of the sin, mindful of his error, and therefore ready to seek God’s grace and forgiveness. He then falls back into the same sin, perhaps even worse than before, but returns to seek grace and forgiveness, aware of sin and evil. First of all, such a person demonstrates a Christian conscience, and therefore a sense of good and evil. Certainly, a wise formator and a pious confessor can evaluate the appropriateness of bringing a sinner who is unable to reform into Holy Orders; one might consider advising him that, faced with the potential inability to control himself, it would be best to wait before being admitted to the Holy Orders of Priesthood. Regardless of his sin and its gravity, however, it remains clear that this man is first and foremost a human being, a believer endowed with a moral conscience, capable of discerning good from evil, aware of what the Catholic priesthood is and what it entails and requires. And when this man, incapable of exercising restraint and self-control, indulges in the vice of lust “Praetrer nature“, he will be aware of the evil, of the error, of the fact that this is not in keeping with the priestly state of life.

Having been confessor to numerous priests for several years, I also found myself confronted by confreres who had had relations with women in violation of their sacred promises; just as I found myself confronted by others who, in a more serious and dangerous manner, had a stable relationship with a woman. Both experienced this with great discomfort, a sense of guilt, and a full awareness of their own sin, particularly those who had so-called “steady woman lovers.” And I cannot deny that several of these priests, by an inscrutable mystery of grace, despite living in a state of mortal sin, were authentic models of priestly piety in the exercise of their sacred ministry, devoted heart and soul to the best care of the People of God, as well as effective and precious instruments of divine grace.

The situation is different for a person with homosexual tendencies in a deeply rooted personality, inevitably compounded by the element of heresy. A homosexual who is aware of his homosexuality and determined to remain so, who chooses the Church as a quiet refuge and the priesthood as a means to advance his career, demonstrates, first and foremost, a profoundly flawed conscience, an inability to distinguish good from evil, and an a priori rejection of the moral teachings of the Catholic Church, its doctrine, and its magisterium. Added to all this — as I mentioned previously — is a lack of sincerity stemming from the inability to be himself, which will force him to live in lies and deception throughout his life. Added to this is the fact that many of these homosexuals, far from feeling themselves to be in mortal sin, are deeply convinced that it is not they who are in error, but the Church, judged by them to be guilty of indicating as evil what for them is truly good, convinced that what the Church defines as illicit and illegitimate, because highly sinful for the eternal salvation of the soul, especially for the soul of a priest, is in reality neither illicit nor illegitimate nor sinful, but rather good and beautiful.

I have known priests with obvious homosexual tendencies who did not hesitate to reject Church documents and exhortations on this matter, containing condemnations of certain disorders, or to manipulate them in truly pathetic ways. I have heard formators from various seminaries affirm that homosexuality cannot constitute an impediment to the priesthood. I have even heard priests define homosexuality and its practice as «a natural variant of human sexuality». But above all, I have heard them hurl rage at the sexual morality they described as «backward» and «repressive» promoted by the Church’s magisterium.

The height of aberration is represented by those who write and affirm that certain sexual tendencies and practices concern «the sphere of the private life of priests» (!?). I asked these individuals — one of whom even pride themselves on being excellent canonists —, whether, far from being private matters, certain sexual practices of clerics were not by chance included in the very serious canonical delicts category of carnal sacrilege. Obviously, no answer was given. Above all, I asked whether really believed that a priest, in his «private life» — assuming that a priest can have a private life marked by moral disorder — could engage in oral sex, be sodomized by another man, and then shortly thereafter say in public: «Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world». This was a question as dramatic as it was realistic. Instead of a response, an unusual reaction arrived, typical of an acid gay man: stung to the quick and unable to formulate a reasonable reply, the person in question sent a delirious letter of rare violence against me to my bishop and to all the members of the presbytery to which I belong, complaining about my language said was vulgar, after having defined me as a «serious psychiatric case» as well as «obsessed with homosexuals».

Incidents of this kind have affected us priests and theologians in different yet similar ways, as we have dealt with the serious phenomenon of the ecclesiastical gay lobby: My Polish Confrere Dariusz Oko, following a complaint filed by German priest Wolfgang F. Rothe of the Archdiocese of Munich, was sentenced in 2021 by the German court in Cologne to a fine of 4,800 euros and 120 days in prison for calling gay priests a «cancerous ulcer» and an «army of parasites within the Church» (cf. Article in italian version, HERE). The case became political, Poland made its voice heard, and some Polish politicians made it clear to the German judges that Germany had not convicted a Polish citizen since the Nazi regime. A similar fate befell Swiss priest and theologian Manfred Hauke, editor of the journal Theological, in 2024. He was found guilty of writing that it was necessary to «limit homosexual cliques in the Church». He was sentenced by the Bellinzona District Court to a fine of 9,450 francs. He rejected the ruling and requested a trial, after which he was acquitted. Meanwhile, a German court shortly thereafter fined him 4,000 euros following a complaint from a homosexual priest and LGBT activist (cf. Article in italian version, HERE). The question is: what did the bishops do with these openly practicing homosexual priests who reported their fellow confreres for discrimination and homophobia? They remained silent, trembling like rabbits before the power of The new Gaystapo. If we think about it, the attitude of these LGBT activists is typically fascist: «hit one to scare a hundred», that’s how the old fascists used to spread fear among the people. Today we are faced with true «rainbow fascists» hiding behind anti-fascism; violent and aggressive, weeping victims who complain of racisms and discriminations that very often doesn’t exist, with the aim of pursuing freedom of thought and of opinion to condemn anyone who dares not think that «gay it’s wonderful».

This is the style and behavior of certain homosexuals who camp among the clergy, driven by extraordinary malice. The sad truth is that those who freely choose to live in sexual disorder, feeling gratified by that very disorder, cannot expect to legitimize within the Church and its clergy all those worldly vices that, according to Catholic morality, constitute and remain serious deviations from Christian sentiment and living. In a different but substantially similar manner, the same individual reported Father Amedeo Cencini, a note Canossian italian priest, to the Order of Psychologists, accusing him of insulting homosexuals in his articles and conferences. The disciplinary commission examined the complaint and then issued this opinion: «No violation of the Code of Ethics was found». But when someone dares to contradict certain acids homosexuals, or doesn’t agree with them, a barrage of insults begins, directed at the professional body, accused of defending a homophobe, followed by accusations against the judiciary, accusations against the Italian Republic, and so on…[23]

It goes without saying, but we must remember it anyway: the damage these individuals can cause to the Church if admitted to the priesthood, or worse, if they advance within the clergy and end up in key government positions, is truly incalculable, because they are capable of using any unfair and illicit means to eliminate those they consider dangerous antagonists and die-hard rivals of the gay lobby. I even know of cases of priests whose legal cases have been fabricated, with baseless trials based not even on vague evidence but only on pure insinuations, Authentic Mafia-Style of Intimidation, casting doubt on their reputation and inducing them to waste time and money defending themselves from bizarre accusations. And when it all dissolved into a soap bubble, those affected were unable to retaliate against anyone, because gay clerics cowardly attack from behind, using their servile “useful idiots” — never directly, always through intermediaries, without ever appearing in the first place.

Inside the confessional, I had to wrestle with a penitent suffering from homoerotic urges, which he was trying to contain as much and as best he could. He told me, shocked, that during sacramental confession, a priest had told him:

«Expressing one’s homosexuality is not a sin, because homosexuality is in the natural order and is a natural variant of human sexuality; and we cannot force a homosexual to live in chastity, because preventing a person from expressing their loving affection would be inhumane».

In either case —whether it be the Arian heretic or the homoheretic — we are faced with an expression of heresy different in form but similar in substance, ad that such an irregularity becomes a canonical perpetual impediment. I reiterate: that a strong sinner can be legitimately and validly consecrated as a priest, but not one who lacks the fundamental requisites of a man and a believer and who aims to to the priesthood for evil and perverse purposes. For it is one thing to fall into grave sin, quite another to consider disorderly conduct as good and just and aspire to the priesthood for evil and perverse purposes.

While I tend to consider the ordinations of such individuals invalid, I will not even open — given the extraordinary sensitivity of the subject — the painful chapter regarding the validity of the episcopal consecrations of those who are similarly not men, not believers, and do not have a correct perception of the fullness of the apostolic priesthood; not to mention those who, despite being the receptacle of all the worst vices, nevertheless reached the episcopate through blackmail and the psychological terrorism exercised on the Ecclesiastical Authorities.

THE MYSTERY OF GOD’S GRACE, THE “SUPPLIES GRACE” AND THE “SUPPLY THE CHURCH” ARE NEITHER A WAY OUT NOR A PANACEA

I believe we cannot play either on the mystery of God’s grace or on that great “loophole” or, if you prefer, panacea, of the “grace fills” (supply the grace) and the “supplies the church” (supply the Church), because nothing can replace God’s grace, much less the Church, where the nature of the substance through which and upon which sacramental grace operates is completely missing. Or to put it another example: an aged host in which all the matter of the bread remains, and a low-quality, unpleasant-tasting wine in which all the matter of the wine remains, nevertheless, through transubstantiation, undoubtedly become, in their metaphysical essence, by the supreme mystery of faith, the Body and Blood of Christ. But a butter biscuit and an orange drink can never become the Body and Blood of Christ, because that matter on which the subsistence of the metaphysical substance depends by divine will is missing, given that what is transubstantiated is the precise matter of bread and wine, not any matter of solid and liquid food and drink.

Where the matter that gives life to the essence of substance is lacking, can God’s grace truly supply it, or can the Church perhaps supply it? And if so, why would the Church Father, St. Augustine, have wasted precious time and energy writing and giving us the treatise “Of nature and grace” (On the grace and the nature)? Not to mention all the subsequent speculations on matter by St. Thomas Aquinas? Grace works, and always works, but it works on existent nature, ot works on nature inexistent, because think whit works on inexistent nature would mean altering and falsifying the very mystery of creation and with it that of redemption.

The mystery of God’s grace transforms, through the work entrusted to our hands, the substance of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, while retaining the external species of bread and wine in visible form, smell, and taste. These external species, however, become Christ truly and truly present in a substantial way with his Body, his Blood, his Soul, and his Divinity. The grace of God, which is capable of all things, does not transform into the metaphysical substance a butter biscuit and an orange juice in Body and Blood of Christ, because God cannot contradict himself, for «This is my body» (this is my body) was said on the bread, and «This is the cup of my blood» (This is the chalice of my blood) was said on the wine. And no one can change these accidental elements on which the very metaphysical essence of the substance depends by divine will, if anything by affirming … “grace fills“, or worse “supplies the church“, not to mention certain acid gay people mentioned above, who, according according to their personal and eccentric “ecclesiastical law”, would like to relegate all of their moral disorders to the unquestionable sphere of the private life of priests (!?)

God’s grace works only on what exist, not on what isn’t exist and can’t exist; and this is clearly explained and taught in the Parable of the Talents. Through the Holy Priestly Order, an ontological transformation occurs, and the priest takes on a new character, which is indelible and eternal. But if a priest is five feet tall, God’s sanctifying and transforming grace cannot transform him into a barefoot, six-foot-three-foot-tall cuirassier. Or to be more precise: a donkey, in the figurative sense of the term, can also become a Saint, can even become the venerated patron of priests of the Catholic Church, but cannot be transformed into an Arabian stallion, because he will remain a donkey, regardless the his heroic holy virtues. Both Saint Augustine both Saint Thomas clearly clarified the principle that Grace Nature completes but not supply (grace does not replace the nature that isn’t there, but perfects the existent nature). And when nature is absent, starting with the nature of man, of the virile male, required for access to the Holy Order of Priesthood, what happens? Who can ever … supply? The only one who can do so is man, who has put himself in God’s place, or even worse: in Satan’s place.

I would like to conclude with a paradoxical question, but sometimes there can be a great deal of objectivity in paradox or hyperbole. This is the question: if a person, secretly belonging to a Satanic sect, wishes to become a priest for the purpose of validly consecrating the Most Holy Eucharist, destined later to the most impious profanations, thereby serving his Luciferian coven, can we, in that case, speak of a valid ordination? Well, could someone explain to me: what is the difference between a Satanist who aspires to the priesthood for evil and sacrilegious purposes and a homoheretic who also aspires to the priesthood for equally evil and sacrilegious purposes? I’ll explain the difference: a Satanist truly believes in the Most Holy Eucharist as the real presence of the true and living Christ, while in the majority of cases, homoheretics don’t believe in the real presence of the true and living Christ. This is demonstrated by the fact that in their discourse they speak of everything except the Real Presence. They fill their mouths with terms like «… banquet… feast of joy… encounter of love…». Rather than the metaphysical language they despise and the term “transubstantiation” they define as obsolete, they prefer the Lutheran term “consubstantiation.” As a result, their Eucharistic celebrations, brimming with liturgical abuses and free will of every kind, seem like Calvinist liturgies, the very foundation of which is the denial of the Real Presence, depicted by John Calvin precisely by standing during the words of the Last Supper. And in doing so, homosexual heretics eschew the term «living and holy sacrifice». They distribute the Eucharist as if it were free tokens of unleavened bread, they fail to treat the sacred vessels with sacred respect, they fail to proceed with their adequate purification, and they do not promote Eucharistic worship in any way. Added to this is the fact that many of our “fatal womens masters of ceremonies” — because for the last thirty years, finding a heterosexual among liturgists is like looking for a needle in a haystack — have also proceeded to abolish the plates for the Communion of the faithful, but in their place have instituted the silver plate on which to place the bishop’s most holy red skullcap, far more important than the collection of Eucharistic fragments. And there is even more: I have ascertained that the homoheretic bishops, through their homoheretic priests, are those who teach the People of God to stand with their heads held high during the Eucharistic Prayer, as well as being the proponents of the elimination of the pews with kneelers from many churches, replaced with cinema seats, because to strike the Church at its heart and de-sacralize it, one must first strike the Eucharist, rather than following the clear Pauline admonition:

«That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father»[24]

This explains the difference between a Satanist and a homoheretic: the Satanist is a believer, the homoheretic is not. And whoever wants to meditate, let him meditate, but let him do it quickly and well, while the house continues to burn, while the realistic possibility of putting out the fire grows increasingly distant, while the visible Church increasingly resembles a vast Gay Village.

From the Island of Patmos, July 28, 2025

This article is based on a previous article published on July 7, 2016

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[1] CF. Codex law canon, can. 1024.

[2] CF. Mk 3,14-19; kc 6,12-16.

[3] CF. 1 TM 3,1-13; 2 TM 1,6; Tt 1,5-9.

[4] CF. St. Clement of Rome, Ad Cor. 42, 4; 44, 3: PG 1, 292-293; 300.

[5] CF. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter. Woman's dignity, 26-27: AAS 80 (1988) 1715-1720; Id., AP. Letter. priestly ordination: AAS 86 (1994) 545-548; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dec. Among the most important: AAS 69 (1977) 98-116; Id., Response to the doubt regarding the doctrine of the Apostolic Letter. «Priestly ordination»: AAS 87 (1995) 1114.

[6] CF. EB 5,4.

[7] CF. First Letter of Clement, 44,2, later taken up by the Dogmatic Constitution The light n. 20.

[8] CF. Mt 19, 12: «For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven».

[9] CF. Johannes Quasten, Patrologia. The first two centuries (II-II). Marietti, 1980.

[10] XVIIIth Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter, pontificate, years 230-235.

[11] CF. Bibliotheca Cod. 118.

[12] CF. Apocatastasis. According to Origen, at the end of time there will be universal redemption and all creatures will be saved, including Satan. Therefore, the punishment of eternal damnation would actually have a purifying and not definitive nature. «We believe that the goodness of God, through the mediation of Christ, will bring all creatures to the same end» (Of principles, I, IV, 1-3).

[13] CF. Can. 1040.

[14] Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution The light, 19.

[15] John Paul II, AP. Ex. I will give you shepherds, 25 March 1992, 15, 4.

[16] CF. Cann. 1024-1052.

[17] St. Augustine, The nature of good, 19.

[18] The term simony derives from the episode narrated in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 8, 9-24) in which Simon Magus, a healer, asked the Apostles, in exchange for payment, for the thaumaturgical power conferred by the Holy Spirit and was consequently cursed by the Blessed Apostle Peter.

[19] Example: In 1093, the Supreme Pontiff Urban II declared all simoniacal ordinations invalid, except for those of clerics who were unaware of the simony of their ordinations. The condemnation of simony was decreed by various Church ecumenical councils, from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the Council of Trent in the 16th century.

[20] CF. can. 188.

[21] CF. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, And Satan Became Triune. Relativism, Individualism, Disobedience. An Analysis of the Church of the Third Millennium. Rome, 2011. Reprint: L'isola at Patmos Editions, Rome, 2019. Currently available only in Italian language.

[22] Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders, 4 November 2005.

[23] CF. Francesco Strazza: «Between criticism and insults: "I can't silent" ", Week News, November 25, 2022 edition (Italian version only).

[24] CF. Phil 2, 10-11.

 

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Carlo Acutis, the Eucharist. Sometimes having crickets for the head is sterile and dangerous

Carlo acute, The Eucharist. SOMETIMES HAVING CRICKETS FOR YOUR HEAD IS STERILE AND DANGEROUS

We have heard prophetic words, who are not only addressed to information professionals, But to each of us. Because everyone, today, we communicate. We do it in the family, at work, sui social, in communities. And every word, each image, every silence... is a fragment of culture, it is a choice of peace or conflict. The Pope told us that «peace begins with how we look, let's listen, let's talk about others".

 

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The canonization of new saints it is always a moment of gift for the Church. For new figures who are models and intercessions for us who remain. Also to focus on some themes that those same saints explored and experienced in their lives.

Pope Leo, confirming the path taken so far by Pope Francis, confirmed the canonization of two saints: Carlo Acutis and Piergiorgio Frassati for the next one 7 September. If therefore in front of the new canonizations, a minimum of debate and reflection are always understandable, and indeed desirable even in a more theological speculative line, some exasperations on the theological and doctrinal assumptions of the saints themselves can be dangerous and sterile if not downright cloying.

The impression that, it seems to me, there is some recent writing behind it is not to enhance the work of a saint, which if as known, by faith, in itself we are obviously not asked to welcome it as the fourth person of the Trinity, however, we are not even asked to use it as a picklock to dismantle a classic vision of Eucharistic theology. This is the case of a recent article by Prof. Andrea Grillo on the Eucharistic theology of Carlo Acutis. An article that does not seem to fully capture the saint's potential. Let's now understand it one step at a time. First of all, let's focus on Carlo Acutis.

Carlo acute: A SAINT OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS[1]

Carlo Acutis, born in London in 1991 and moved to Milan shortly after, he is a figure venerated by the Catholic Church, known for his early and deep faith. His biography reveals a short but intense life, characterized by an extraordinary devotion and an exceptional talent for information technology, which he put at the service of his spirituality. Since I was a child, Acutis showed a notable inclination towards faith. This innate devotion led him to ardently desire to receive his First Communion, which was granted to him in advance, at the age of seven. From that moment, daily Mass, Eucharistic adoration and the rosary became pillars of his day. He attended schools with the Marcelline Sisters and subsequently the Leo XIII Institute, distinguishing himself as a bright and sociable student. Parallel to his studies, Acutis developed a notable passion for information technology, becoming self-taught and earning the nickname of “computer genius”. This skill was not a mere feat for him hobby, but an instrument of evangelization. At just fourteen years old, created a website dedicated to cataloging the Eucharistic miracles recognized by the Church, a work that became an instrument of evangelization worldwide, attracting the attention of numerous faithful. His objective was to make known the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, spreading the faith through new technologies.

Despite his profound spirituality, He was acutely ill when he was young, who loved playing football, playing video games and spending time with friends. His charity was a distinctive trait: he used his savings to help the homeless and dedicated his time as a volunteer in soup kitchens. He was also a point of reference for his classmates, helping them with their studies and offering support to those facing bullying or family difficulties.

In October of 2006, Acutis' life was abruptly ended from a diagnosis of fulminant leukemia. He faced his illness with surprising serenity, offering his sufferings for the Pope and for the Church. He died on 12 October 2006, at the age of 15 year old. His reputation for sanctity spread rapidly, leading to the opening of his beatification process in 2013. Pope Francis declared him Venerable in 2018 It is in the 2020 he recognized a miracle attributed to him, paving the way for his beatification, occurred on 10 October 2020 to Assist. His body is preserved and exposed for veneration in Assisi.

Carlo Acutis is today considered a model of holiness for young people in the digital age, often called “God's influencer” or “the cyber-apostle of the Eucharist”, for its ability to combine faith and technology.

Being personally linked to the digital preaching apostolate, I believe that this propensity for spreading the faith on the internet is one of the points of light, where all young people can take model and inspiration, to become "digital cyber preachers", without becoming bigots or extremists.

AN EXCESSIVE SKIRMISH

Professor Andrea Grillo, in his article The young Carlo Acutis and Eucharistic rudeness [2], offers a critical examination of the theological interpretation of the Eucharist conveyed by the figure of Blessed Carlo Acutis, with particular attention to the insistence on the so-called "Eucharistic miracles". Ask Grillo if you ask him to come to you, a "super-communicator", may have been oriented towards such a "distorted" and "one-sided" understanding of the Eucharist, focused on "miracles" rather than on the genuine ecclesial value of the sacrament.

The Professor carefully examines the official website of the Carlo Acutis Association, in particular the section dedicated to Eucharistic miracles, and critically analyzes the introductory texts written by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, by Monsignor Raffaello Martinelli and the Dominican father Roberto Coggi, who was also my teacher of natural philosophy during the years of my education in Bologna. Grillo defines these texts as «old … heavy … obsessive", suggesting that they embody a "bad theology" imposed on Acutis by "bad teachers". He highlights inconsistencies and outdated theological views in their writings, like the defensive preface by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, the justification of miracles as “occasions” to address other topics by Monsignor Paolo Martinelli, and Father Roberto Coggi's old-fashioned understanding of the words of consecration. The Professor argues that this emphasis on physical miracles distracts attention from the "true" and”unique" Eucharistic miracle, which resides in ecclesial communion and in the unity between the sacramental body and the ecclesial body. The "Eucharistic rudeness", concludes Grillo, it is not attributable to the young Carlo Acutis, but rather to the adults who promoted these unbalanced interpretations, finally proposing one “distorted fixation on Eucharistic miracles” as a role model for young people.

HAVING CRICKETS IN YOUR HEAD

If on the one hand I concede that excessive attention to Eucharistic miracles "carried by adults" in a devotionalistic and almost "eucharistolatric" way risks not understanding the true meaning of Adoration in Jesus Christ present in the body, blood, soul and divinity and also in the Eucharist as communion of the new people of God [3], it seems to us that the professor's focus is not on dismantling a false Eucharistic devotion, ma, as for the opposite, to minimize to the point of almost describing as obsolete the conception of the substantial presence of Christ in the Eucharistic species. Although this is not explicitly said, the the way things are seems excessive. If you really wanted to hit only a "eucharistolatric" tendency, I personally think it is more right to also exalt the passages of goodness of Acutis himself and his desire to commune in Christ also via the internet. Skipping over the reference to the next saint, every reference seems to be designed to attack the doctrine of the real presence, without doctrinally valid reasons.

So jokingly, compared to the professor's positions, I wrote some time ago that this propensity to use Carlo Acutis as a picklock to unhinge "the closed ones left at the Tridentine Council" or as a springboard to skip all the beauty of the reflection on Eucharistic contemplation, this propensity is like having crickets in your head. Three jumps — long, exaggerated and out of focus — of a cricket which I think goes a bit’ resettled. We will now try to answer promptly, documents in hand, to the positions of the Professor.

"Old" and "out of fashion" Eucharist? The truth about the Eucharist as a real presence has no age and cannot be "out of fashion" as Coke Zero will probably become in fifteen years. The doctrine of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the heart of our faith and an immutable pillar, not a passing "fad".. The Council of Trent solemnly affirmed that Christ is «truly, truly and substantially" present in the Eucharist [4]. The Second Vatican Council, far from denying this truth, he explored it further, urging us to participate more fully and consciously in the Eucharistic Sacrifice [5] .Carlo Acutis, with his life, it simply tempted us to remind ourselves of the beauty and power of this eternal truth, demonstrating that it can inflame the hearts of every generation. He tried to make digital and virtual communion starting from real communion with the Eucharistic Christ. If the Eucharist is truly "the source and summit of all Christian life" [6] then it is not at all inessential, but the center of everything.

Eucharistic Miracles vs. the «True Miracle»? Eucharistic miracles recognized by the Church, although they are not "objects of faith" like dogmas, they can be a great help to our faith. Monsignor Raffaello Martinelli, in one of the texts that presents Carlo's exhibition, explains that they can "constitute a useful and fruitful aid to our faith". They are extraordinary signs that God, in His infinite wisdom, offers us to strengthen our adherence to the Mystery. Saint Thomas Aquinas himself explained how the properties of flesh and blood are substantially expressed in the Eucharistic species, even if this property inheres in God by a miracle [7]. This reminder is truly necessary for us who could not worship those properties in the glorious body of Christ, because they were born centuries and millennia after the presence of the Incarnate Word on earth. These phenomena do not eliminate the true miracle of Transubstantiation, but they can help highlight it visibly, leading many to a deeper faith in the Real Presence. Carlo Acutis did not "neglect" the true miracle, but he used these signs to lead others to the heart of that Mystery which for him was "my highway to Heaven".

“Eucharistic rudeness” and "bad teachers"? These propositions of the Professor seem imprudent to us. No theological article authorizes us to process the intentions of other theologians. Father Roberto Coggi, Monsignor Paolo Martinelli and Cardinal Angelo Comastri seem almost described as bad teachers, bearers of an obsolete and stale theology, that, as described, it seems almost distant from Catholic doctrine. We don't think this is the case. Let's read together what the Church tells us. The words of consecration, as the Catechism teaches us (n. 1353), they have their fulcrum in the words of Christ: «This is my Body… This is my Blood…». The Missal reformed in 1970 he took up this formula by translating it from Latin: and in fact he thus proved the essential words that operate the Sacrament remain those instituted by the Lord. How all this can fall into the category of "rudeness" or "fantasy", or bad workmanship, It completely escapes me. None of the authors mentioned above, Furthermore, has never denied the importance of the Eucharist as the Communion of the New People of God, and in particular Father Coggi, in his beautiful book The church, fruit of his meditations on Radio Maria, writes;

«The Church is not presented by the Council only as the mystical Body of Christ, but also as the new People of God. On the contrary, it can be said that the Council particularly emphasized this aspect of the Church, that is, the Church is the People of God. This is demonstrated by the fact that the Council dedicates an entire chapter to this topic among the eight that comprise it The light. In fact the second chapter of the dogmatic constitution The light on the Church is titled: The People of God. Seeing the Church as the People of God opens many perspectives. First of all, it underlines the continuity of the New Testament with the Old Testament: as Israel was the People of God of the Ancient Covenant, thus the Church is the People of God of the New Covenant. It also underlines the historical aspect of the Church. The denominations we have examined in past broadcasts, when we said that the Church is the Kingdom of God, the Temple of God, the mystical Body of Christ, focus our attention on the Church's connection with God, with the Holy Trinity, with the risen and glorious Jesus, that is, they underline the eternal dimension of the Church. But the Church does not only have this aspect, which in a certain sense takes her away from the world and history. The Church is also inserted into human history, the Church walks through time. Saying that the Church is the People of God, the People of God pilgrimage through history towards the goal of eternity – like the ancient People of Israel wandered in the desert towards the promised land -, to say this is to grasp an essential aspect of the Church" [8].

It is truly a splendid passage to also understand the Church as the people of God. In short, attention to the Real Presence is not inattention towards the faithful: but of attention to the core of the Mystery that reaches the faithful. Accusing those who try to communicate the centrality of the Real Presence of "bad theology"., also through popular devotion and miracles, it means not understanding the plurality and richness of the ways through which the faith is transmitted and lived.

Conclusions

The future saint Carlo Acutis is a model of holiness precisely because of his ardent Eucharistic faith, a shining example for all of us and for young people. A non-devotional faith anchored in semi-pagan or Protestant heritage. Acutis' faith is a Eucharistic faith that helps us repeat the action of the little apostle John at the Last Supper. That is, in front of Jesus he rested his head on the chest of Jesus on his Sacred Heart. And in that "huddle" he abandoned all of himself to God. So do we during adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, we can rest our heads on His Sacred Heart. Abandon all our anxieties, all our fears, and also offering everything we have to Him. A beautiful moment of prayer that, from the heart, I also wish Professor Andrea Grillo.

Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 23 July 2025

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For further information

– Council of Trent, Session XIII, Decree on the Eucharist, Canon 1. See. Denzinger-Hünermann, Enchiridion, definitions and declarations on matters of faith and morals, n. 1651.

– Vatican Council II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Holy Council, n. 14.

– Vatican Council II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church The light, n. 11.

– San Tommaso Aquino, QUESTION, III, q. 77, a. 1.

– Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1353.

– R.Coggi, The church, ESD, Bologna, 2002, 81.

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[1] I'll summarize from here https://biografieonline.it/biografia-carlo-acutis

[2] If ban

https://www.cittadellaeditrice.com/munera/il-giovane-carlo-acutis-e-la-maleducazione-eucaristica/

[3] The communion of the faithful in Christ does not exist without the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, although this too, by the way, seems to be hired by the professor.

[4] Denzinger-Hünermann, n. 1651

[5] Holy Council, n. 14.

[6] The light, n. 11

[7] QUESTION, III, q. 77, a. 1, Summa Theologica III, q.76,a.8.

[8] R.Coggi, The church, ESD, Bologna, 2002, 81.

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Carlo Acutis. The factory of the saints passed on the examination of criticism by the theologian Andrea Grillo

Carlo acute. The factory of the saints passed on the examination of criticism by the theologian Andrea Grillo

A debate was recently raised in some ways interesting, Even with some controversy, resulting from the interventions of Professor Andrea Grillo. His punctual criticisms and perplexities were aimed at how Blessed Carlo Acutis is officially presented and on the ecclesiastical advertisement that developed around him, which, according to him, It would be affected by a backward religious sensitivity, which would hold no account of the whole path made by the Church in the years of the post council on the subject of Eucharist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The popular saying, «Joking with infantrymen, Leave the saints alone ", In recent times it seems to have lost value towards the one who is considered the modern blessed par excellence: Carlo Acutis; soon raised to the honors of the altars together with the other young blessed Piergiorgio Frassati.

A short time ago comments have started to circulate about the opportunity of the canonization of Carlo Acutis; they came mostly - and I say it by exemplifying a lot -, with so -called conservative environments. The notes thickened around the speed of the canonization process, which appeared to them more a promotion of ecclesiastical policy than an invitation to holiness. As follows questions about the figure of the next saint who would have little to propose to today's young people, who travel on the network much faster than the blessed considered "information technology", Just for creating a simple website on Eucharistic miracles. It's still, criticisms were moved to the constant presence of the Acutis family; This too is a novelty tolerated by the Church that instead, in the past, It prohibited any public intervention by family members, As in the case of the mother and brothers of the young Santa Maria Goretti. Instead, today's situation where mothers promote the Holy Son promote, or the children and grandchildren who run to keep conference on their father, Mother, grandfather or grandmother high to the honors of the altars.

More recently, from a different front, An interesting debate was raised in some ways, Even with some controversy, resulting from the interventions of Professor Andrea Grillo, Liturgy professor at the Roman University of Sant'Anselmo, reported on his page facebook and on his blog. His punctual criticisms and perplexities were instead aimed at how Blessed Acutis is officially presented and on the ecclesiastical advertisement that developed around him, which, according to him, It would be affected by a backward religious sensitivity, which would hold no account of the whole path made by the Church in the years of the post council on the subject of Eucharist. In particular, He used the expression "bad education" by referring to the overflowing attraction towards the miraculous, underlined in the presentation of Blessed Carlo. Says Grillo:

«How is it possible that the whole path that the Church has made in the last 70 year old, on the level of understanding the ecclesial value of the Eucharist and its celebration, has been communicated in such a distorted way to the young burning communicator, so much that he suggests an understanding so incurred, so defective, so unilateral?».

He therefore moves a criticism, More than Blessed, never questioned, rather to the presentation that is made of him e, rcuardo all'acutis, If his was a passion towards the Eucharistic miracles, According to the professor this was not well addressed. From these statements that I have very summarized, a debate was born that, as always happens, provides favorable and against. Perhaps some claims of the teacher have been able to appear at times pungent, I am referring to those aimed at the famous Motti del Beato, who decreed their luck: "Not I but God" and "everyone is born original but many die photocopies". Nonetheless, Some questions raised are hardly circumvented, aimed above all at the promoters of the cause of canonization and not to the saint, who have "stopped" too unilaterally on the miraculous aspect of the presentation of the Eucharist.

Some problems are likely to emerge sooner or later, Regardless of the canonization of the young Blessed Acutis, Following the new rules issued by John Paul II, also early holy, which have made it possible to accelerate the times to ensure that contemporary figures could be presented, However, in the expense of the loss of a historical perspective and the impossibility of assessing the permanence of a memory and inspiration. The discourse in this circumstance becomes even more delicate because we speak, The Other Brother, of a boy who died at a very young age who, according to the agreed testimonies, humanly showed great enthusiasm, generosity and courage and that the Catholic Church has decided, with simplified procedures compared to the past, but not for this superficial, to propose as a possible model for everyone, especially for young people.

The process that leads to the canonization of a saint it is complex and delicate together. Eventually, It is like a delivery or a gift that the Church makes to all the faithful, When he recognizes the virtues of one of his children. But the faithful - and this often does not happen -, they should have that necessary maturity that comes from theological formation and beyond, that sense of faith which leads to a healthy discernment and critical spirit. Let's think, for example, to the current trend to consider all canonized as doctors of the Church, giving their writings an exorbitant value. While instead we should know that the canonization of a saint does not mean, that fact, that everything he has written or said is to be considered a colorful gold. All the more so when we are faced with the canonization of a teenager, which will certainly have had a non -complete or exhaustive formation. Once, to say, Only children or martyred teenagers were taken into consideration as saints, as in the famous limit of the unaware, Yet very venerated, Innocent saints.

Even if you don't want to exasperate doctrinal problems highlighted by the prof. Andrea Grillo, of understanding of the Eucharist above all, But also with regard to eternal fate - I refer to the statements of our blessed about the desire to skip purgatory thanks to the hospital sufferings - there is no doubt that suits the shepherds and to follow the faithful the ability to know how to skillfully discern everything, knowing how to bring out, According to the evangelical saying: "New things and ancient things" (Mt 13,52).

In my opinion, The gift that Blessed Carlo Acutis is doing to the Church this is it. He unfortunately, as we know, He did not have time to develop a structured knowledge of Eucharistic theology or other aspects of the Christian mystery and stopped at an intuition that has become passion and devotion in him. Of course, It is easy for us to mention San Tommaso d'Aquino, Insigne theologian, where he discusses the Eucharistic miracles and limits their meaning (cf.. QUESTION, III, 76, 8) and compare what may appear to appear an adolescent fixation of our blessed. But the fact is precisely this: that we would compare a theological speech with something that is not theological speech and does not want to be. It is precisely passion and devotion. Not everything can be perfect as we would like it or we expect. We saw it in the emblematic case of Medjugorje, where the Holy See in the end promote the religious experience that you live in that place, while he downgraded the firmness of the Marian messages that started from there, considering them only presumed, In fact, not recognizing them as authentic.

Casomai we can ask ourselves - and in this he helps the blessed Carlo Acutis - Why after the Council of Trent many devotions were born that enriched the Christian experience, that put the simplicity of life in the center, interiority, common life? It was a much more secular than clerical movement, which in itself did not have its own elaborate and structured theology, Yet it translated the Christian faith into a sensitivity, in practices, in ways of living. And instead this did not happen following the last council. We have not been able to renew those devotions, nor give birth to others, despite all the theological and ecclesiological effort of the liturgical movement that, If on the one hand he had reduced many devotions, on the other hand he offered content, Insights and new opportunities for renewed paths. As it is possible that such a rich and vital understanding has not also become devotion, Sensitivity and form of language? So today we are faced with a modern blessed teenager who has thrown himself passionately on aspects of the Eucharist considered devotional, like eucharistic miracles, to which all the most recent acquisitions on that important mystery have not been received. E, According to the presentation that is made of that blessed, It seems that all that wealth has not passed even to the promoters of the cause of Carlo Acutis, even to those who promote forms that leave, as it were, perplexed, like that of a transmission YouTube 24h on 24h of the sepulcher of Blessed Carlo.

The question about why we don't have devotions today that take into account the wealth of the latest acquisitions, who know how to tie liturgical life and testimony of faith marked by the Gospel, With at its center the Eucharist which together is the landing and source of the life of the believer and the communities, It is not so peregrine. In light of two other facts, the second of which is somewhat painful. The first is that the whole course of the process that led to the beatification and now to the canonization of Blessed Acutis, as well as the spread of his cult, They took place during the pontificate of Pope Francis. In Carlo we find the example, indeed, of that "holiness of the next door" to which papal exhortation hints Rejoice and rejoice the 2018. Really, the post synodal exhortation of the 2019, Christ lives, explicitly appoint the blessed, despite being still venerable at the time and he even dedicates him more than one reference (no. 104-107). Someone asked: How is it possible, also from this point of view, that nothing to "reconcile" has been transmitted; Since Pope Francis was greeted as the first pontiff son of the Council?

The second fact is that today, According to the investigations on religiosity in Italy and in particular that of young people, It must be admitted that if we have a next saint boy on one side with a passion and devotion to the Eucharist, Perhaps little formed; on the other there is a great majority of young people and young people who have no devotion to the Eucharist, Last to the "ecclesial value of the Eucharist and its celebration". Is this, For almost all of them, After years and years of catechism and training in specific groups. Here too someone said, probably exaggerating, but without going too far from the truth, which remained only a "some humanitarian and ecological value".

Why all these questions and the debates arising from the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis do not remain a sterile exercise or, As often happens lately also within the ecclesial community, a mark your field, still distancing others who think differently, it would be useful to treasure it. And therefore a reflection would be important at all levels, Starting from the highest in the church, On how to resume a path of training to the Christian life of young people who are serious, that takes into account multiple experiences, but also to start offering solid food to the boys, Without bordering them, of course, But not even taking them simply for the hair, because otherwise they run away or bore themselves. Certain something is being done, But I think the time has come not to waste any more time. The treasures of the Word of God, of liturgical life, understanding the Church compared to these and its tradition, The thousand and more experiences and testimonies of Christian life need to be placed again in the center to make them become culture and why not, also devotion, Passion for Christian life lived in modern times. For the demanding task I imagine that the Church expects the substantial intercession of the two next saints.

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March, Mary and Jesus' lesson on the dimension of the Eternal

Homiletics of the Fathers of The Island of Patmos

MARTA, Mary and Jesus' lesson on the dimension of the Eternal

«Marta, March, You struggle and you get acted for many things, But of one only one is needed. Maria chose the best part, that will not be removed "

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The evangelical song of this Sunday belongs to a tradition that only Luca knows, since it is not reported by the other Synoptics.

The fourth Gospel, however, knows Marta and Maria, The two women protagonists, and reports that they are resident in Bethany, with his brother Lazzaro. Over time, Pericopes has increased its strong influence on Christian spirituality, so much so that it becomes the paradigm of the contrast between active life to the contemplative one. For example, St. Francis of Assisi wrote a "rule" for the herds imagining that the friars should be inspired by these two sisters:

«Those who want to lead religious life in the hermitages, are three friars or at the most four. Two of them act as mothers […] and follow Marta's life, And the two who act as children that of Maria ".

Let's read the Evangelical text.

"During that time, while they were on the way, Jesus entered a village and a woman, named Marta, he hosted him. She had a sister, named Maria, which, Sitting at the foot of the Lord, he listened to his word. Marta, on the other hand, was distorted for the many services. Then he came forward and said: "Man, I don't care anything that my sister left me alone to serve? So say that help me ". But the Lord replied: «Marta, March, You struggle and you get acted for many things, But of one only one is needed. Maria chose the best part, that will not be removed " (LC 10,38-42).

This tale He is placed by Luca after the beginning of Jesus' journey to Jerusalem. More precisely after he stopped to answer the question of a doctor of the law on who is the "next" and having told the parable of the good Samaritan. Following, continuing his journey to the Holy City, before going up for the Monte degli Ulivi and then arrive in the city, Jesus enters a village where the meeting with the two sisters Marta and Maria takes place. We know of the two women and his brother Lazzaro who is not mentioned by Luca. Some hypothesized that they were celibates, Because in the Gospels we are not talking about husbands for Marta and Maria, nor of a wife for Lazzaro, e, according to some commentator, they could belong to the group of pii Israelites called Esseni. Perhaps Jesus conquered followers even between pious essenes who ardently desired eschatological salvation and that in the first century AD. Intensify, apparently, The expectation of the Messiah Davidico? Lazzaro and his sisters Maria and Marta, clearly unmarried people who lived in Bethany near the Mount of Ulivi, they could be examples of sympathizers of this kind.

Much more interesting For us it is the fact that Luca placed this meeting immediately after the parable of the good Samaritan, making the readers perceive the gospel that the two scenes are connected. The parable served to explain what it means to do close; This page instead speaks of love for the Lord. In this way Luca, counterbalanced a philanthropic ideal perhaps too high, Bring the example of Marta and Maria. Some exegetes underline the accurate choice of the evangelist in presenting below the two scenes: The teaching contained in the song of Marta and Maria can be read in relation to the previous parable of the Samaritan which is done next, completing it, since it offers the foundation of merciful behavior. It is important to, that is, listen to the word of Jesus, because authentic expression of the divine will expressed in the commandment of the love of others. Listening to the Word of Christ is therefore the foundation of Christian behavior and becomes the essential condition for inheriting eternal life, who was the request of the doctor of the law. The words of Jesus in Marta, like this, they restore a priority and invite not to lose sight of the essential, what you really need, or, stay at the feet of Jesus.

From the Gospel of John we know that the guests of Jesus are friends of the Lord, in particular it is said of Lazzaro, but here, in Luca, as shown above, he is not remembered, nor is there a failure to curiosity about the emotions or feelings of Jesus towards the guests. We have two sisters, Two women, one of which is even sitting at the feet of Jesus, taking, therefore, The posture of the disciple. Now, never a Jewish master of the time would have accepted that a woman assumed the attitude of a disciple towards him. Mary's behavior is alienating and contravenes the rules imposed by the culture of time. Unless rare exceptions are well known the said rabbinic according to which women should not have been disciple of any teacher and even studying the Torah. That's why this text had ample resonance among those who seek a favorable voice in the Gospel on the identity and condition of women in the Christian community. If we look, indeed, Marta and Maria, We discover that the way they are represented touches a very current theme. Maria is depicted like a disciple at the foot of an Rabbi, While by Marta, Luca, Speaking of his "many services", Use the verb diakone. Listening to the word (v.39) Perhaps it does not remember the Ministry of the Word and the verb "serve" (v.40) does not refer to the Ministry of the Table, to diaconal tasks? The Gospel seems to report a trivial gesture of a person's welcome in his own home, But as often happens when Jesus is half, A simple event has unpredictable consequences. Let's see it closely. Luca writes that Marta and not Mary welcome Jesus to welcome:

“While they were on the way, Jesus entered a village and a woman, named Marta, he hosted him " (v.38).

We do not know why only Marta is mentioned: perhaps because it is then she who actually deals with hospitality? And why there is no man to welcome, as it was of practice, Another man who enters the house, come, eg, Abraham made guests in Mamre under his tent? The rest, It is not the only case that Luca tells us: Let's think of Lidia, that in the book of the acts of the Apostles the author presents as a small entrepreneur who even obliges Paul to stop in his home (At 16,15).

Marta welcomes, so, Jesus, But in a way we would say today "hyperactive". Luca writes that it was: "Distralta for the many services" (v. 40, According to the CEI), So much to be totally absorbed. It is excessively worried and lets itself be taken by anxiety. But on this point we must be precise. Where lies marta's mistake? Her, evidently, He performs too much his "service" (Diakonia) that, while it should be positive, The result is in truth prejudiced. They are neither the welcome of Marta, nor his intention to serve to fall under the blows of criticism, But the excess of his actions and the concerns that are at the origin. The text does not contrast the Diacony of the table or what was the lovely listening to the word.

Marta advances her protest to the master Jesus, without entering dialogue with her sister Maria, which, in the text, never takes the floor; taciturn becomes the central character, In the end praised by the Lord. Marta instead speaks and moves, which refers to the episode preserved in Giovanni, where she always goes to Jesus, He speaks and disputes him that if he had been there his brother Lazzaro would not have died. Mary also in the Gospel of John remains sitting, It is Jesus who calls her and only then does it move towards him. In a situation similar to who knows how many, It happened in every family, What emerges here is the word of Jesus. This story has been preserved precisely to remember what Jesus says and not for the banality of the meeting. And Jesus, turning to Marta, with that double vocative - «Marta, Marta » - Typically biblical, reproaching it veiledly, but showing, But, also sympathy and affection for her, wishes to lead the woman to the essential, To that unique and priority part that Mary has chosen spontaneously.

Jesus tells Marta what he really needs, that is necessary, and now, through the story that Luca does, Readers are also aware of this. It is the good part, As the Greek text says. The CEI version, as we read, he feels to translate with: "Better part". The commentators here are divided, Some prefer the "best" qualifying adjective, others insist that the text, instead, would avoid comparison: improve, indeed, presupposes something less good. San Girolamo also translates, in the vulgate, adopting a superlative: Mary's best part of chosen.

Luca uses the Greek adjective hagathèn (it gives Hagas, «buono»), which in the New Testament first designates the incomparable goodness that distinguishes God in his essence. But then what is the meaning of the word of Jesus who underlines Mary's choice compared to that of Marta, his sister? The Word of Christ is very clear: No contempt for active life, nor much less for generous hospitality; But a clear call to the fact that the only really necessary thing is another: listen to the word of the Lord; And the Lord at that moment is there, present in the person of Jesus! Everything else will pass and will be removed, But the Word of God is eternal and gives meaning to our daily action.

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Social media and ignorance. If the story is written by the winners, of the vile assassin terrorists become martyrs of freedom

SOCIAL MEDIA And ignorance. If the story is written by the winners, Of the vile assassin terrorists become martyrs of freedom

Terrorists can be such if the ideology followed by them loses and ends up defeat, as in the case of the red brigades, but they can become heroes and martyrs of freedom if the ideology they followed wins and imposes itself as a power of government. In fact, if radical Islamism had won and subjugated the United States of America, Today in New York the demolition of the two twin towers would be celebrated in the same way that the grip of the Bastille is celebrated in France and the reversal of the government of Louis XVII.

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The lower the average IQ in society becomes, the more it is necessary to explain even the obvious things. The error that we scholars often make in the theological field as in the spheres of all the most disparate sciences, from medicine to astrophysics, It is to take for granted things that we consider obvious and that in fact are as well, being the most rudimentary elements of the various sciences or simple and basic human common sense. Unfortunately, It is necessary to take into account that today we are more likely to follow the influence illiterates and i tiktoker, Including certain priests who launched themselves in these demented games (cf.. WHO).

As always, let's explain with an example: numerous influence convinced that "a dwarf has his heart too close to his asshole" because they didn't understand the ironic hyperbole of the song A judge by Fabrizio de André (text WHO), they use the word Middle Ages in a derogatory sense, ignoring that the art baggage, science and technology that we have today we owe it all to the Middle Ages. Not only, because if today we know the classical authors; be the culture, Greek and Roman literature and philosophy have been handed down to us only thanks to the Middle Ages, including the most lustful poems of Valerius Gaius Catullus, which not only the Church was careful not to censor or destroy, because if we know them today it is thanks to it and to the scribe monks who transcribed them and handed them down over the centuries.

If in those areas of Etruria which was the territory of the Papal States until September of 1870, The church had not saved and preserved wall frescoes and pottery that depicts phallic scenes, orgies and homosexual relationships between men, Those Etruscan and Roman assets would have been lost. Just as it happened elsewhere, where the Church was not governing, But the "enlightened" liberal governments that judged certain representations scandalous and immoral and for this reason they destroyed them.

The system of modern law we owe it to the great Bolognese glossators who lived between the 11th and 12th centuries and we owe the fundamental element of legal civilization of the protection and legitimate defense of the accused precisely to that inquisitorial process on which unaware and ignorant people about the fact that being condemned by the Tribunals of the Holy Inquisition was very difficult. And it was precisely the courts of the inquisition that sanctioned another element that today is part of the criminal jurisprudence of all the so-called civilized countries of the world: the penalty aimed at recovery, not to the punishment dictated by instincts of revenge, because through the sentence the condemned should not be punished but recovered. The reply of the ignorant is ready: «Death sentences were given!». And here it must be reiterated that death sentences were not rare but very rare, specifying that they must be placed and read in historical contexts to which today's judgment criteria are not applicable, It would be enough to explain that even the death sentence was an extreme act aimed at recovering the convicted. For this the condemned were dressed in white, sign of purity, because with death they paid their debt and extinguished their guilt by reacquiring what in Christian language is called "baptismal purity". And their bodies, after death, they had to be treated with respect and buried with consideration.

To the historical explanations he reiterates the ignorant: Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake, other than killed and buried with respect!». Of course. And according to what was social logic, policy, juridical and religious of the time they did well to burn it at the stake. It was he who made a mistake with rare obstinacy. He was subjected to two processes, One in Venice and one in Rome. With the second Roman trial it was given again ex new to the entire procedural process that lasted in total eight years, During which two cancellations intervened for laughable defects of form, In order to give Bruno as much time as possible to be able to repent. For years he was attempted to induce him to repentance, which he stubbornly refused. Needless to say and explain to certain people who feed on and drink of black legends that cannot be evaluated and judging the Bruno case with the judgment criteria of our social present, politico, legal and also religious. It would be like condemning with a scream of scandal, through the application of contemporary thought, certain practices of the men of prehistory considered in our opinion inhuman and criminals.

There are many historical facts manipulated since the 16th century By the work of Protestant authors and from the end of the eighteenth century XIX by liberal-antique in the following period the French Revolution in the following period. The ardua remains today, If not almost impossible to deny certain black legends now absurd to truths impressed even on school texts of history. As in the case of the story that saw protagonists in the pontifical Rome of 1867 Gaetano Tognetti, 23 year old, Giuseppe Monti, 33 year old, Today celebrated as undisputed heroes and patriots of the Risorgimento. The two self -styled heroes, in the evening of 22 October 1867 They placed and exploded a powerful explosive charge that almost completely destroyed the Serristori barracks, located in a crossbar of the current via della Conciliation, A few tens of meters from the papal archbasilical of San Pietro. In this barracks a company of pontifical Zuavi housed. The explosion caused the death of twenty -five military and two civilians. If shortly before, a large company had not come out of the building, The number of deaths would have been much greater. The inspirer of this attack was mainly Francesco Cucchi, Deputy to the Parliament of Florence, that with other associates used the work of the two attacks, then ended up discovered, arrested, tried and sentenced to death.

Two years after their execution, to Unification of Italy that took place and with Rome which has become its capital, The two attacks were celebrated as heroes and made history as "martyrs of freedom" went down. In 1977 The Italian director Luigi Magni wrote and directed a film of a becera anticlerical matrix by enhancing these two figures and totally falsifying the historical picture of the last gash of life of the Papal States, now reduced to the territory of Rome only and part of the current Lazio region.

Gaetano Tognetti and Giuseppe Monti were not the heroic patriots but of the vile terrorists who killed in an attack by young people in the age group between the 18 e i 25 year old, all mostly components the musical band. Many more than twenty -seven in total could have been the victims, If an entire company had not suddenly left the stable one.

None of the European rulers, starting from the Savoy, He offered Diplomatic Help to Pius IX, asking for the grace of the condemned and the switching of the sentence to the capital penalty in prison, While knowing that at that moment the Roman Pontiff had to deal with the parents of the young victims and the Roman population wounded and angry for their death, including that of a five -year -old girl, Rosa, He died instantly with his father Francesco Ferri, while the mother, Younnse blind, he saved himself falling on the ground stunned. Once the senses resumed he went crazy completely, So much so that it was necessary to intern it in the asylum of Santa Maria della Pietà, where he later died.

This Randal narrative of the facts It has never passed through the legendary stories of the glorious Italian Risorgimento, how pseudo-storichical books feel, novels and even cinematographic productions of anti -clerical directors.

By virtue of what was the real historical story, We would have had to look at these two terrorists in legendary heroes by changing by rear by the work of liberal-antique propaganda, complete with roads, neighborhoods and monuments dedicated to them. This would be equivalent to erecting today in Rome, in via Fani, where he was kidnapped in 1978 Prime Minister Aldo Moro and killed his escort agents, A celebratory monument in honor of the heroic and patriotic Red Brigades. By imprinting to follow on the history books that the red brigades did not constitute a dangerous terrorist movement that stubbornly stained with murders and attacks during the seventies of the twentieth century, But a heroic group of liberators, titled to the name of each terrorist roads and squares.

Terrorists and attacks they can become heroes and be celebrated as such depending on those who win the war and follow the chronicles, By changing ideologies and legends in false historians presented to posterity as history-pastry, complete with great diffusion films, The purpose of which it is to instill in the increasingly glued masses contempt and hatred towards the Catholic Church and the Papacy, in the total contempt of historical truths. Terrorists can be such if the ideology followed by them loses and ends up defeat, as in the case of the red brigades, but they can become heroes and martyrs of freedom if the ideology they followed wins and imposes itself as a power of government. If in fact, radical Islam had won and, always for example, subjugated the United States of America, Today in New York the demolition of the two twin towers would be celebrated in the same way that the grip of the Bastille is celebrated in France and the reversal of the government of Louis XVII, Without nod to the summary executions or to the farsque processes entirely based on false delations that then gave life to a huge blood bath on the guillotine.

The Dutch historian Pieter Geyl (1887-1966) He said that "the story is always written by the winners". Many centuries earlier, The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote in his political work: "The lies of the winners become history while those of the losers are discovered".

Phrase that is anything but easy to interpret, that of Aristotle, that the Italian philosopher and politician Rocco Buttiglione clarified in a lapidary way, interning precisely on the pages of the social media:

"There is historical science that has its rules: control of sources, the verification of the logical consistency of the statements, the obligation to complete information. Historical science wants to ascertain "What actually happened” (What really happened). This does not eliminate but places a limit to partisan. There is the war propaganda of the winners who try to establish itself as an official truth. There is also the war propaganda of the losers, which is periodically rediscovered and opposed to the official versions of the events. However, there is also the serious historical research that evaluates all available data. Often the phrase "History is written by the winners" is used by the losers to rehabilitate its war propaganda. It is good to keep it in mind to distinguish between serious historical revisionism and what is not serious " (cf.. WHO).

Today, From Russia to Ukraine to the Middle East, The story is repeating itself, with the worst overbearing already at work to manufacture the next false heroes of the homeland to be celebrated.

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I send you like sheep in the middle of the wolves

Homiletics of the Fathers of The Island of Patmos

I SEND YOU AS SHEEP IN THE MIDST OF WOLVES

«This is the first image of Jesus the evangelizer that is presented: defeated, kicked, not listened to, unwanted, and it is truly a mysterious scene if we think about who Jesus is the evangelizer. This is not a solitary scene, and if Luca put it here, it is because he knows he is touching something that belongs to a constant of the Kingdom of God"

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After the start of Jesus' pilgrimage towards Jerusalem Saint Luke narrates the sending of the twelve (LC 9,1-6). Now "other disciples" are sent by Jesus ahead of him.

It's a number which the tradition of ancient manuscripts transmits in different ways. For some of them there are seventy-two and therefore they would represent all the peoples of the earth, according to the list of Genesis 10, at least following the Greek translation (LXX); because in the Hebrew text (masoretic) the peoples appear to be seventy. In other Greek manuscripts the number seventy is reported, that is, how many elders were chosen by Moses according to the story in Numbers (cap. 11). In one case or the other, Luke says that Jesus sends not only the Twelve, but also other disciples, and sends them to everyone. Let's read the evangelical text of this XIV Sunday of ordinary time.

"During that time, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him in every city and place where he was about to go. He told them: “The harvest is abundant, but there are few workers! Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest, so that he may send workers into his harvest! Go: there, I send you out like lambs among wolves; Don't bring a bag, nor bag, or sandals and don't stop to say hello to anyone along the way. Whatever house you enter, tell me first: “Peace to this house!”. If there will be a son of peace, your peace will come upon him, otherwise it will come back to you. Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they have, because he who works has the right to his reward. Don't go from one house to another. When you enter a city and they welcome you, eat what is offered to you, heal the sick who are there, and tell them: “The kingdom of God is near you”. But when you enter a city and they will not welcome you, go out into its squares and say: “Even the dust of your city, that stuck to our feet, we shake it at you; but know that the kingdom of God is near. I tell you that, on that day, Sodom will be treated less harshly than that city.". The seventy-two returned full of joy, saying: "Man, even the demons submit to us in your name". He told them: “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. there, I have given you power to walk over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy: nothing can harm you. However, do not rejoice because the demons submit to you; rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven." (LC 10,1-12.17-20).

Staying on topic-number it is clear that twelve evokes the mission to Israel, tale, indeed, it was the number of his tribes; that of seventy or seventy-two can only recall, instead, the universal mission of the Church. However, this has not started, historically, at the time of Jesus, but only after his death and resurrection; the present narration therefore appears as an interpretation, a way of saying that the mission towards the Gentiles was already present in the will of the Lord Jesus. For a sending to the pagans to take place, indeed, those conditions narrated in the Acts of the Apostles must occur, which had not yet been realized at the time Jesus made his journey to Jerusalem. In particular, the persecution of the Church after the death of Stephen and the dispersion of Jesus' disciples; Paul's encounter with Christ; Peter entering the house of the centurion Cornelius and remaining at table with the pagans. In the end, the first assembly in Jerusalem, which resolves issues that had never previously been foreseen, concerning the circumcision or otherwise of converts.

Today's evangelical page can be easily divided into two parts: in the first, instructions on the mission are given, the second describes the return of the envoys. The disciples must go two by two, a probable reference to the value of the testimony which requires confirmation by several: «In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true» (GV 8, 17; cf.. Dt 19,15). Jesus warns them that they will be "like lambs among wolves": they will have to, that is, be peaceful despite everything and bring a message of peace to every situation; they will not take with them clothes, money or other useless things, to live on what Providence will offer them; they will take care of the sick, as a sign of God's mercy; where they will be rejected, they will go, merely warning about the responsibility of rejecting the Kingdom of God. The announcement of the coming of Jesus and the Kingdom, then, foresees an urgency that means the disciples won't even have to stop to greet people. Following this, Saint Luke highlights the enthusiasm of the disciples for the good fruits of the mission and records this beautiful expression of Jesus: “Rejoice instead because your names are written in heaven” (LC 10, 20). This entire passage from the Gospel is an invitation to awaken in the baptized the awareness of being missionaries of Christ, called to prepare the way for him with words and with the testimony of life.

I focus on Jesus' phrase reported above in response to the disciples who rejoiced at the outcome of the mission, because it might seem unsettling, played on paradox, as Jesus often does, which uses apocalyptic language due to the mention of demons submitting, of Satan falling from that sky where the names of the missionary disciples are instead ascribed. The evangelical saying wants to underline that every Christian mission, although requiring human availability, does not totally depend on the envoys, but by the power of the Word and by God. For this reason it also provides for refusal; in the Gospel passage, indeed, The idea emerges three times that evangelization can fail. In the expression of v. 6: "otherwise (the pace, n.d.r) will return to you"; in that of v. 10: «when you enter a city and they do not welcome you»; and also in the allusion to the v. 3: to be "lambs among wolves". We could also mention the warning of v. 16 not reported today by the Lectionary, regarding Corazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum, where we talk about Jesus despised and the disciples who suffer the same fate: «Whoever listens to you listens to me, he who despises you despises me. And he who despises me despises him who sent me.". It is understood that the destiny of the disciple is like that of the Master, there may be successes, but also encounter walls that block the way to evangelization. Jesus, from the beginning of his journey to Jerusalem, he is immediately presented as unwelcome, as they were approaching a village of Samaritans: «they did not want to receive him, because he was headed towards Jerusalem" (LC 9,53). Thus that ancient diatribe between Jews and Samaritans, in which social reasons are mixed, cultural and religious, it seems like a premonition of what we see happening today in the land that also belonged to Jesus. As happens in many similar situations, when the unhealed wounds of memory make the resentment of reconciliation stronger. So Jesus also falls into the exact same situation, how boring, enemy scheme. It doesn't matter who it is, what you say or bring: He is a Galilean to be rejected. Indeed we can say that Jesus right from the start, in the Gospel of Luke, He appears like a reject, when the fellow citizens of Nazareth themselves do not want to believe his first announcement, indeed they tried to put him to death (LC 4).

«This is the first image of Jesus the evangelizer that is presented: defeated, kicked, not listened to, unwanted, and it is truly a mysterious scene if we think about who Jesus is the evangelizer. This is not a solitary scene, and if Luca put it here, it is because he knows he is touching something that belongs to a constant of the Kingdom of God" ((C). M. Martini, The evangelizer in Saint Luke, Milan, 2000).

History repeats itself, also for the disciples, and a culpable refusal to the announcement is expected. But these must in any case tell those who reject them that: if we shake the dust at you; but know that the kingdom of God is near." (LC 10,11).

After the Resurrection of Jesus the primitive Church will acquire full awareness of this dynamic and it will be precisely the persecutions unleashed in Jerusalem against Christians of Greek culture that will ensure that the Gospel reaches, together with Baptism and the gift of the Spirit, also to those Samaritans who once did not want to welcome Jesus, as Luke recounts in the Acts of the Apostles (cap. 8). The obstacles of division are thus removed, because the sign of Pentecost, of the new community that now speaks in all languages ​​and unites peoples into a single people, in a family of God, it has become reality. Thanks to It, foreigners have become friends and, beyond borders, they recognize each other as brothers.

From the Hermitage, 06 July 2025

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Cases of suicide in priests? You have the courage to search for its causes in the bishops who have neglected their clergy to chase poor people, migrants and … cardinal porpores

Cases of suicide in priests? You have the courage to search for its causes in the bishops who have neglected their clergy to chase poor people, Migrants and … Cardinal porpores

A priest who suicide is a failure of the visible church and the entire presbytery to which it belongs, but above all of his own bishop, that as of practice will affirm everything and its exact opposite in front of such a tragic event, in order not to ask the most obvious and Christian question that in these cases should be asked: where we were wrong, If anything, we were wrong?

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The suicide of a priest (service of Future WHO) It is something that is inaenarble as difficult to explain. I didn't know Matteo Balzano, Trentacinque years of age, presbyter of the diocese of Novara, last in order as a series to commit suicide, but I also feel deep pain.

With statistical data in hand, We can say that the cases of suicide of the priests have been increasing during the previous twelve years of pontificate? We can say that the predecessor of the reigning pontiff has not limited himself to reproach us priests, having repeatedly gave us in the face of the world, With the newspapers of the international claims who enjoyed hearing us indicate from his Augustus lips today "sad faces" tomorrow "Zitelloni"? Or perhaps we want to forget when on the one hand it was interviewed by the Pretino trendy Marco Pozza dressed with the jeans Dicillato and the cheeky gym shoe, on the other he literally showed the priests who - none other! - they dared to wear the tale?

There are numerous confreres who assist, or as spiritual director or as a confessor, I know how difficult their relationships are often with certain bishops. Especially how many times, for imperative of conscience, I turned worried to several presules, indicating that their priest was falling into depression, or that had now fallen there. The responses varied from "go to the psychologist" to the threatening marker: «You want to teach me to be a bishop?». After that, The heroics themselves presules were torn their hearts from pulpites for the poor and migrants, For migrants and the poor … and some of them, Among the best in the art of Ruffianism, We also saw him a cardinal on the merits of the poor and the migrant.

A priest who suicide It is a failure of the visible church and the entire presbytery to which it belongs, especially of his own bishop, that as of practice will affirm everything and its exact opposite in the face of such a tragedy, in order not to ask the most obvious and Christian question that in these cases should be asked: where we were wrong, If anything, we were wrong? In fact, it should not be forgotten that the Father and the Son can also make mistakes to make the Holy Spirit proceed, But some bishops no, they are not wrong, May!

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