Frankenstein's monster and the dangers of modern transhumanism – Frankenstein’s monster and the dangers of modern transhumanism – Frankenstein's monster and the dangers of modern transhumanism

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FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER AND THE DANGERS OF MODERN TRANSHUMANISM

The ethical implications of Frankenstein and modern transhumanism are profound. In Frankenstein, the creation of artificial life raises questions about the responsibility of the creator and the rights of creatures. In the same way, transhumanism challenges traditional concepts of identity, dignity and intrinsic value of human life.

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The work Frankenstein d Mary Shelley, published in 1818, tells the story of a scientist who challenges natural limits by creating life artificially, giving life to a monster that becomes a threat to both him and society.

In the contemporary world, transhumanism emerges as a movement that seeks to overcome human limitations through technology.

Transhumanism is a philosophical and scientific movement that proposes the use of technology to transform the human condition, improving their physical abilities, intellectual and psychological. The promises of transhumanism include the defeat of disease, increasing longevity, the expansion of intelligence and the improvement of sensory and motor skills.

The dangers of transhumanism are equally significant. The main concerns concern the loss of human identity, social inequality aggravated by unequal access to technologies, the safety risks associated with new biotechnology and the ethical implications of genetically modifying humans. Moreover, there is fear of the emergence of a new form of eugenics and the creation of an even larger gap between rich and poor.

Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein, raises questions about the unpredictable consequences of manipulating life. Victor Frankenstein, creating the monster, he challenges natural limits and suffers the consequences of his scientific arrogance. The monster, abandoned and misunderstood, it becomes a destructive force, reflection of the moral and ethical responsibility that accompanies the artificial creation of life.

Shelley's worries they are similar to the dangers of modern transhumanism, where the pursuit of overcoming human limitations can have unintended and harmful consequences. Both contexts highlight the danger of science without ethical boundaries and the need to consider the long-term implications of our technological innovations.

The ethical implications of Frankenstein and modern transhumanism are profound. In Frankenstein, the creation of artificial life raises questions about the responsibility of the creator and the rights of creatures. In the same way, transhumanism challenges traditional concepts of identity, dignity and intrinsic value of human life.

From a theological point of view, both narratives question the position of the human being as a co-creator together with God. The Catholic vision holds that human life is sacred and that there are ethical limits to technological intervention on human nature. Genetically modifying humans or creating artificial life can be seen as an attempt to usurp the role of God, putting human dignity and the established moral order at risk.

Human beings are created in the image and likeness of God (cf.. GN 1,27), which gives each person an intrinsic dignity. Genetically modifying humans or creating artificial life can be seen as an attempt to usurp the role of God, jeopardizing the dignity of God and the moral order established by Him. Moreover, Psalm 139:13-14 underlines the intimate and divine participation of God in the creation of human life:

«You created my kidneys, you wove me in my mother's womb. I will celebrate you, because I was beautifully made, marvelous; wonderful are your works!».

These biblical texts support the thesis according to which human intervention in creation must respect the limits established by God, preserving the sacredness and integrity of life.

The Catholic vision can make a significant contribution to the debate on the limits of technology and human dignity, underlining the sacredness of life and the importance of an ethics based on human dignity. The Catholic Church supports a prudent and ethical approach to science and technology, respecting the natural limits and integrity of the human person. The Vatican document Dignity of the Person reinforces this position by stating that «human beings must be respected and treated as persons from conception” (cf.. n. 4) and that «science and technology must be ordered to the good of the human person and his integrity» (cf.. n. 3). This document emphasizes that any scientific progress must be evaluated in light of respect for human dignity, avoiding practices that disrespect life or that may lead to excessive manipulation of the human condition.

The Catholic perspective can offer a necessary balance between innovation and responsibility, promoting the use of technology for the common good and the integral development of human beings, without compromising dignity or creating inequalities. Defending the intrinsic dignity of every person, the Church can help guide technological development in ways that benefit all humanity, especially the most vulnerable.

The Catholic vision offers valuable ethical guidance, emphasizing human dignity and the limits necessary to ensure that technological progress serves the common good without compromising the essence of the human condition, the image of God.

Jundiaì, 31 August 2025

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FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER AND THE DANGERS OF MODERN TRANSHUMANISM

The ethical implications of Frankenstein and modern transhumanism are profound. In Frankenstein, the creation of artificial life raises questions about the creator’s responsibility and the rights of creatures. Likewise, transhumanism challenges traditional concepts of identity, dignity, and the intrinsic value of human life.

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Author
Eneas de Camargo Beast

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Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, published in 1818, tells the story of a scientist who challenges natural limits by creating life artificially; creating a monster that becomes a threat to both himself and society.

In the contemporary world, transhumanism emerges as a movement that seeks to overcome human limitations through technology.

Transhumanism is a philosophical and scientific movement that proposes the use of technology to transform the human condition by enhancing physical, intellectual, and psychological capabilities. The promises of transhumanism include the eradication of disease, increased longevity, increased intelligence, and improved sensory and motor skills.

The dangers of transhumanism are equally significant. The main concerns include the loss of human identity, social inequality exacerbated by unequal access to technology, the security risks associated with new biotechnologies, and the ethical implications of genetic modification of humans. Furthermore, there are fears of the emergence of a new form of eugenics and the creation of an even greater gap between rich and poor.

Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein, raises questions about the unpredictable consequences of the manipulation of life. Victor Frankenstein, in creating the monster, challenges natural limits and suffers the consequences of his scientific arrogance. The monster, abandoned and misunderstood, becomes a destructive force, reflecting the moral and ethical responsibility that accompanies the artificial creation of life.

Shelley’s concerns are similar to the dangers of modern transhumanism, in which the pursuit of transcending human limitations can have unintended and harmful consequences. Both contexts highlight the danger of a science without ethical boundaries and the need to consider the long-term implications of our technological innovations.

The ethical implications of Frankenstein and modern transhumanism are profound. In Frankenstein, the creation of artificial life raises questions about the creator’s responsibility and the rights of creatures. Likewise, transhumanism challenges traditional concepts of identity, dignity, and the intrinsic value of human life.

Theologically, both narratives question the position of the human being as a co-creator with God. The Catholic view holds that human life is sacred and that there are ethical limits to technological intervention in human nature. Genetically modifying humans or creating artificial life can be seen as an attempt to usurp God’s role, jeopardizing human dignity and the established moral order.

Humans are created in the image and likeness of God (cf. Gen 1:27), which gives each person an intrinsic dignity. Genetically modifying humans or creating artificial life can be seen as an attempt to usurp God’s role, jeopardizing God’s dignity and the moral order He established. Furthermore, Psalm 139:13-14 emphasizes God’s intimate and divine participation in the creation of human life:

«For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well».

These biblical texts support the thesis that human intervention in creation must respect the limits established by God, preserving the sacredness and integrity of life.

The catholic vision can make a significant contribution to the debate on the limits of technology and human dignity by emphasizing the sacredness of life and the importance of an ethic based on human dignity. The Catholic Church advocates a prudent and ethical approach to science and technology, respecting natural limits and the integrity of the human person. The Vatican document Dignity of the Person reinforces this position by stating that «the human being must be respected and treated as a person from conception» (no. 4) and that «science and technology must be ordered to the good of the human person and to his or her integrity» (no. 3). This document emphasizes that any scientific progress must be evaluated in light of respect for human dignity, avoiding practices that disrespect life or that could lead to excessive manipulation of the human condition.

The catholic perspective can offer a necessary balance between innovation and responsibility, promoting the use of technology for the common good and integral human development, without compromising dignity or creating inequalities. By defending the intrinsic dignity of every person, the Church can help guide technological development in ways that benefit all humanity, especially the most vulnerable. The catholic vision offers valuable ethical guidance, emphasizing human dignity and the necessary limits to ensure that technological progress serves the common good without compromising the essence of the human condition, the image of God.

Jundiaì, 31 August 2025

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FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER AND THE DANGERS OF MODERN TRANSHUMANISM

The ethical implications of Frankenstein and modern transhumanism are profound. Em “Frankenstein”, the creation of artificial life raises questions about creator responsibility and creature rights. Similarly, transhumanism challenges traditional concepts of identity, dignity and intrinsic value of human life.

Pastoral reflections

Author
Eneas de Camargo Beast

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To work “Frankenstein” de Mary Shelley, published in 1818, tells the story of a scientist who defies natural limits by creating life artificially, resulting in a monster who becomes a threat to both himself and society.

In the contemporary world, transhumanism emerges as a movement that seeks to overcome human limitations through technology.

transhumanism is a philosophical and scientific movement that proposes the use of technology to transform the human condition, improving physical capabilities, intellectual and psychological. The promises of transhumanism include overcoming disease, increased longevity, the expansion of intelligence and the improvement of sensory and motor capabilities.

However, the dangers of transhumanism are equally significant. Major concerns include loss of human identity, social inequality exacerbated by unequal access to technologies, the security risks associated with new biotechnologies, and the ethical implications of genetically modifying human beings. Furthermore, There are fears about the emergence of a new form of eugenics and the creation of an even greater divide between rich and poor.

Mary Shelley, em Frankenstein, raises questions about the unpredictable consequences of manipulating life. Victor Frankenstein, when creating the monster, defies natural limits and suffers the consequences of his scientific arrogance. The monster, abandoned and misunderstood, becomes a destructive force, reflecting the moral and ethical responsibility that accompanies the artificial creation of life.

Shelley's concerns resemble the dangers of modern transhumanism, where the quest to overcome human limitations can result in unintended and harmful consequences. Both contexts highlight the danger of science without ethical boundaries and the need to consider the long-term implications of our technological innovations..

The ethical implications of Frankenstein and modern transhumanism are profound. Em “Frankenstein”, the creation of artificial life raises questions about creator responsibility and creature rights. Similarly, transhumanism challenges traditional concepts of identity, dignity and intrinsic value of human life.

From a theological point of view, Both narratives question the position of humans as co-creators with God. The Catholic view holds that human life is sacred and that there are ethical limits to technological intervention in human nature. Genetically modifying humans or creating artificial life can be seen as an attempt to usurp the role of God, putting human dignity and the established moral order at risk.

The Bible states that human beings are created in the image and likeness of God (cf. GN 1,27), conferring an intrinsic dignity on each person. Genetically modifying humans or creating artificial life can be seen as an attempt to usurp the role of God, putting at risk this dignity and the moral order established by Him. Furthermore, the Psalm 139,13-14 highlights God's intimate and divine participation in the creation of human life:

“You created my inmost being and knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because you made me in a special and wonderful way; your works are wonderful!».

These biblical texts underlie the view that human intervention in creation must respect the limits established by God, preserving the sacredness and integrity of life.

The Catholic vision can contribute significantly to the discussion about the limits of technology and human dignity by emphasizing the sacredness of life and the importance of ethics based on human dignity. The Catholic Church advocates a prudent and ethical approach to science and technology, respecting the natural limits and integrity of the human person. The document Dignity of the Person (Dignity of the Person) of the Vatican reinforces this position by stating that “the human being must be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception.” (n. 4) and that “science and technology must be ordered for the good of the human person and its integrality” (n. 3). This document highlights that any scientific advance must be evaluated in light of respect for human dignity, avoiding practices that disrespect life or that could lead to excessive manipulation of the human condition.

The Catholic perspective can offer a necessary balanceO between innovation and responsibility, promoting the use of technology for the common good and the integral development of human beings, without compromising dignity or creating inequalities. By defending the intrinsic dignity of each person, the Church can help guide technological development in ways that benefit all humanity, especially the most vulnerable.

The Catholic vision offers valuable ethical guidance, emphasizing human dignity and the limits necessary to ensure that technological progress serves the common good without compromising the essence of the human condition, image of God.

Jundiaì, 31 August 2025

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Those anonymous virile attributes that send letters of protest to diocesan bishops, Holy See, Italian Episcopal Conference …

Those anonymous virile attributes that send letters of protest to diocesan bishops, HOLY SEE, ITALIAN EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE…

The anonymous author of this delusional text signed by a non-existent person “Catholic feminist association” he doesn't even have the faintest idea of ​​how women think and act, especially feminist militants. In that text there is no feminine spirit but all the acidity of the bad and cowardly subject suffering from obvious sexual disorders who takes pleasure in harming others, to institutions, to the Church itself.

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From this magazine of ours an article of mine was taken where I talk about youth problems, taking as an example the case of the rape of a young woman 17 year old, without deliberately mentioning the date on which the event occurred, the place and above all the person.

What interested me was only the fact itself to use as a paradigm. From this article that I invite you to read (see WHO), someone tried to bring out with rare bad faith what I never wrote and stated, to start a controversy and send notes of protest - needless to say, strictly anonymous! — to the Holy See, to the Italian Episcopal Conference and to my Bishop. Only the European Parliament is missing, the United Nations Society and the Pentagon.

The San Marino website Giornalesm.com fabricated the hoax he agreed to publish a false statement entitled: «How is it possible that a Catholic priest belonging to the diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro can publicly spread a message that minimizes gender violence and humiliates the victims?». All signed by someone who doesn't exist “Catholic feminist association” (The text can be read WHO).

Stupid people have a great limit which then becomes their problem which ends up unmasking them: the confidence of being intelligent. This operation follows the usual style with which Marco Parrucchino da Montefeltro had the manager of a blog write and sign years ago a poisonous and violent article against Cardinal Beniamino Stella who deservedly kicked him out of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy after recognizing him as a dangerous manipulator (see WHO). It's the same style as recently, after a series of poisoned attacks directed at S.E. Mons. Gianpiero Palmieri Bishop of Ascoli Piceno-San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto from the blog I can not remain silent, a local newspaper published an article to which the Episcopal Curia promptly responded with a statement in which it specified:

«Finally, praise for a news blog not even registered as a newspaper that mainly deals with gossip makes you smile, also ecclesiastical, to feed his bubble of readers. We remind you that in this blog many articles do not contain the name of the person writing the pieces... and therefore, objectively, it doesn't come out" (see text of the press release WHO).

For all answer, the hag of I can not remain silent (end this, «Request», often used against others on those columns), he replied by attacking and insulting the Piceno Bishop again and even threatening unlikely lawsuits (see article WHO and all the above WHO).

The anonymous author of this delusional text signed by a non-existent person “Catholic feminist association” he doesn't even have the faintest idea of ​​how women think and act, especially feminist militants. In that text there is no feminine spirit but all the acidity of the bad and cowardly affected subject from obvious sexual disorders who takes pleasure in harming others, to institutions, to the Church itself.

Unsolicited advice: since Marco Parrucchino da Montefeltro and Samantha Silere would in themselves be jurists, they should be reminded that the circumstantial process and that more subjects, thanks to the clues that ended up forming the evidence, they ended up sentenced to life imprisonment, without it having been necessary to find them with a bloody knife in their hands and the body of the murdered man lying on the ground. But both are so limited that they think they can get away with anonymous stabs in the back without anyone ever discovering them., without anyone putting together all the rich clues they sow around. And to say that they are also qualified jurists who delight in questioning those who seriously have legal and theological skills, certainly not just by title!

Note for the San Marino site he published and who washed his hands by writing to Pontius Pilate «We receive and publish»: they verified the existence of the phantom “Catholic feminist association”? But this, as known, it is the level of people who play to question the seriousness of others, starting from that of the undersigned that the journalistic activity is carried out first and foremost in accordance with the law and above all with undoubted professionalism.

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Rediscover the philosophy of care: from the accumulation to the person to taking care of the possibilities

Rediscover the philosophy of care: From the accumulation to the person to taking care of the possibilities1

Careful is an essential element of each civil consortium, The degree of development of a mature society is recognized not so much by its ability to do or create but in its ability to take care of others. Also in the hypothesis of the best of possible worlds in which wars have finally been abolished, poverty and diseases, the imperative to the treatment remains unchanged within that human component, too human but also happily human that allows us to keep us authentic.

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Authenticity as a waste of time. Summer time is that propitious moment to rediscover the most genuine sense "of the self".

And this not only as a psychological reality comprising the awareness and perception that an individual has of himself but just as an ontological subject that reflects and memory on his own being. Summer is that appropriate time to recover on one's humanity, It is not a time of inertia or laziness as for a long time has been considered but it is a time when the consciousness enriches and deepens.

It is precisely of the human being, indeed, formulate questions and ask questions that touch their essence. Our ancient fathers of thought had noticed that each of us is capable of philosophize on one's existence: on being and on getting there.

This research path It can only concern individual and daily choices, the situations that oppose the objections and to which a sense must be made, Up to the contemplation without judgment of that good and that evil with which every man is stabbed and which makes him so unique and rare enough to characterize him within a tension towards the truth, between torment and grace. It should be recognized that today we want more and more rarely philosophize on ourselves and on the world that surrounds us and this is objectively and philosophically evil. We consider all this as a loss of useless time and privilege easy strategies and solutions - last minute - falling into that sin of modern man who is identifiable in an inauthentic existence.

When I am not able to determine myself, others will take my place and do it for me, together with all those realities that the modern world has in this regard: fall asleep the critical conscience to live a continuous present made of a compulsive succession of events that leave me passive and sadly pleased spectator.

Philosophical thought allows us to put a brake To this swirling whirlwind of events, It is capable of distinguishing between truths and authenticity and is precisely in the authenticity that we see the individual in his being ontological more deeply, in keeping himself faithful to himself and therefore to his own human nature. In some ways, man's authenticity is knowing how to be consistent in that search for truth and meaning.

Martin Heidegger, He reproaches the risk of falling into non -authenticity for the many duties, obligations and commitments in which he lives and who move him away from himself and from others. We all have too much to worry about being and existing, to be there and to exist in the life of others.

The authentic man, who is capable of chasing the truth of his own being, loves slowness, which is a bit that ability to know how to waste time to be able to then find it not in a quantitative but qualitative sense. And an unpopular logic today that of losing to earn and if we think about the most important things of man's life seem to be constantly at a loss to be able to work properly, To grow and develop harmoniously.

I happen to aim to add spouses to me aimed at In tired, these two simple questions are tired: «How long you dedicate to your husband/wife?»; “How long you can cut yourself in your day to be together?»The answer is almost always the same, except small variants: “Father we don't have time, We are too busy, We are too busy ". These responses are the signal of a personal and couple authenticity that is suffering, of a being who is no longer.

The same speech we can do it in different areas: between children and parents, Among friends and work colleagues. Even within the Church, the need for authenticity touches the person of consecrated and faithful. The non -authenticity of being is like rust that corrodes the humanity of each with the risk of becoming so part of it that it is then difficult to distinguish it from what is authentic. It is only in the authenticity that I allow myself to be and to be there, to know myself and the other. It is not the things to hurry that they determined me, They are not the roles with which I present myself in the world that identify me or what others load me on the shoulders through a thousand expectations.

The authentic ontological subject which contains the truth of myself and the same that allows me to know and dialogue with the truth of the other, But to do this you need to be able to waste time, walk slowness, which is the real form of memory as Milan Kundera wrote. Knowing philosophize of our ancient fathers included all this, whose profit consisted above all in a waste of time that was able to cure and look after the person.

Care as the possibility of being and being there. We are all in need of care, Just as we can all be the active subjects of a cure. The cure is not only a prerogative of the weak and fragiles but is part of every being in the world, in the awareness of not being able to live as an absolute to itself.

The myth of man who "He must never ask" regardless of his being male or female - it is precisely a mirage of the ideology of well -being, of those who presume that they can do themselves alone, A Promethean myth of absolute that we have seen shipwreck with the pandemic event of a few years ago that has put this way of seeing the modern man as an invincible and master of himself. Careful is an essential element of each civil consortium, The degree of development of a mature society is recognized not so much by its ability to do or create but in its ability to take care of others. Also in the hypothesis of the best of possible worlds in which wars have finally been abolished, poverty and diseases, the imperative to the treatment remains unchanged within that human component, too human but also happily human that allows us to keep us authentic. An example is the evocative image of Anchise brought in her arms by her son Enea that ancient mythology has identified as an icon of the virtue of pity - preceding and anticipating the piety Christian - and which includes and contains duty, devotion and affection, all characteristics that we find in the care of others here enclosed in the authenticity of a relationship between father and son.

Perhaps it is necessary to return to rediscover a philosophy of care In order to subsequently process an effective ethics of the treatment: The awareness of wasting time knowing that "having care means taking you to heart, worry with concern " (cf. L. Mortari, Philosophy of care, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan 2015), Just as the gesture of Aeneas suggests. The one who taking care of the old father, After the defeat of Troy, It is mutually kept by him in that narrow of the Penati, The protective deities of the family, In the hands of the old parent.

Because these calls? Why know philosophize It allows us to read and interpret the present that surrounds us by fleeing the non -authenticity and distortion of the truth of being who resides as eventuality for every man. We all remember the cases of recent news of Laura Santi and Don Matteo Balzano, Well they are these two lives broken by suicide that make a duty to know how to stop and interrogate about the importance that every man has and on the care that every man deserves to have. Questions can only be formulated in front of these two lives that are no longer, Not to seek easy consolations and unnecessary responsibilities but to underline once again as we often prefer to sit on the deception of non -authenticity that on the tiring loss of time that cure involves.

When a civil society abandon itself in illusion to normalize and regulate the suicide of a man - also intended as an Eutanasic choice - based on justifications that are part of despotic and capricious circumstances or to an unnecessary necessity, Well we are at the top of the non -authenticity of man and therefore at the end of his inhumanization and the denial of his ontological being, anti-man par excellence. M. Heidegger spoke of "taking care of the possibilities" (cf. Heidegger, Signplace, (1967), Adelphi, Milan 2002, p. 21), meaning how man has the opportunity to suck and achieve the best possible life form, realizing that capacitivity of his being who is not limited to existing alone but is characterized by a planning, from a broader becoming of existence: "Being in getting there". And this is precisely becoming wider than existence, The authentic care that the modern world must know how to rediscover as an element of civilization and humanization in the face of the danger of the denial of being that sees suicide as a tolerable and severe disease as a fatality from which it is no longer possible to go out.

The possibility of aspireing and making a better possible form This is what man allows the man to be able to be in any context and situation of his existence, opening doors that until then seemed closed, Overcoming apparently insurmountable obstacles. Knowing how to recognize each other united to the other moves the courage to promote large possibilities of humanization, of responsibility, of encouragement and support of one's authentic identity.

Let's try again at philosophize And we imagine several areas where each of us also lives and works. Perhaps certain situations that appear to us difficult or desperate are characterized not so much by malice, from envy or blind fate but by the lack of knowing how to take care and feel the subject of a caring and careful cure. How can we make us bearers of that being in having within a situation of terminal disease or of oppression and mortal despair that empties of every sense? In other words, what responsibility we have in front of these more or less expressed care needs, more or less conscious and aware? The care of assigning us is above all gratuity and ardently desire to waste time and to compromise with the other with respect, without pretending to be domain or imposition. The cure requires courage that nowadays more than ever is expressed as a political act in the original sense of the term.

Go c. Tronto, one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary reflection on the philosophy of care, He underlines how this represents one of the basic practices for a good democratic coexistence and for non -ideological social justice and this is true but not yet sufficiently understood because still relegated to circumscribed areas such as family ones, private or confessional.

Let's remember this and we return to philosophize and to think that behind the apparently pitiful proposals of euthanasia and easy emotion for those who have left us with an extreme gesture, There is the option of care that allows us to "repair our world so as to be able to live in the best possible way", that world that includes everything: our bodies, Our personal identities, our environment. (cf. B. Fisher, J.C. Tronto, Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring, in e. Abel, M. Nelon, Circles of Care, SUNY Press, Albania 1990, p. 40).

Sanluri, 18 August 2025

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1 Article freely taken from the quadrimestrral of practical philosophy Sophia's key, N.27 year x Giuseo 2025, cf.. Articles by Elisa Giraud and Chiara Frezza.

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Seventeen years, drunk and drugged, raped at four in the morning. All the fault of the patriarchate

Seventeen, Drunk and drugged, Raped at four in the morning. ALL THE FAULT OF THE PATRIARCHY

If a girl of 17 years old, drugged and drunk, she leaves the disco at four in the morning asking for two pusher Tunisians to be accompanied home because she cannot stand up, behind him he has two unfortunates who have failed miserably as parents and educators. But you have to blame the patriarchy, to machismo, to society, even aliens and reptilians if desired, it is simpler and more convenient, rather than take responsibility for our disastrous family and social failures.

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In a corner of Italy a girl of 17 years old she left the nightclub at four in the morning without being able to drive her car microcar with which she had arrived around 22, She was so drunk and high on cocaine.

He decides to leave his minicar in the nightclub parking lot and ask for a ride from two unknown boys, of twenty-year-old Tunisians with various criminal records for issues related to drug dealing. While they were on the street the two stopped and, since they were there, they decide to rape her.

Faced with this fact, some things need to be clarified immediately: if a girl of 17 years old drugged and drunk she asks to be accompanied home by two strangers at four in the morning because she can't stand up, no one has the right to rape her. Having said this, the devastating political correctness that prevails does not allow us to affirm that the opposite is true, if a girl of 17 years old, she doesn't want to take serious risks, she will avoid going out drunk and drugged from the disco at four in the morning by asking for a ride from two strangers. This second statement is not legitimate to make, because it is not read as an invitation to prudence but as an attempt to limit the freedom of certain young people who must be granted everything, for better and especially for worse. Then if something happens, at that point we start looking for the faults in others.

Extremely serious mistake to indicate the two rapists as Tunisians, it's pure racism. We need to hide their nationality to avoid discrimination and if it were to come out we should hurry to point out that they could also have been two Italian rapists, because with the surreal “they could be”, the victim will certainly be much less traumatized by the rape she suffered. He has soAbove all, it must be made clear that consummated rape is the fault of the patriarchy. Read more, or to mount all the ideological and media protests of the case, just call Elena, sister of poor Giulia Cecchettin and her father Gino, now specialized in invoking everything and more, from patriarchy to machismo, while not admitting that if a girl is 17 years old, drugged and drunk, she leaves the disco at four in the morning asking for two pusher Tunisians to be accompanied home because she cannot stand up, behind him he has two unfortunates who have failed miserably as parents and educators. But you have to blame the patriarchy, to machismo, to society, even aliens and reptilians if desired, it is simpler and more convenient, rather than take responsibility for our disastrous family and social failures.

From the island of Patmos, 17 August 2025

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For over half a century it has been trying to justify the whatever with the theory of the pontiffs deceived, not informed, put before the facts accomplished …

For over half a century it has been trying to justify the whatever with the theory of the pontiffs deceived, Not informed, FACED WITH FACTS ACCOMPLISHED...

There are times when we would like things to be different and that others were to blame. Let's therefore also blame the Maltese cardinal Mario Grech, without forgetting, however, that the Supreme Pontiff gives assent.

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I felt sincere tenderness when reading on the portal Informazionecattolica.it a short but incisive article, well written and argued, in which it is explained that the controversial LGBT Jubilee would be the classic low blow without the knowledge of the Holy Father Leo XIV. Writes the Author:

«There is an entirely curial art which consists in making the Pope say what the Pope has never said. It's not about forging words, but to build sets. Strategic invitations, photographed meetings, immortalized smiles, And that's it: the next day the titles will be ready, and the message will be launched - even if the Pontiff has not changed a comma of the doctrine" (cf.. item WHO).

There are times when you would like things to be different and that it was the fault of others. So let's also blame the Maltese cardinal Mario Greek, without forgetting, however, that the Supreme Pontiff gives assent. And Leo XIV is not Francis, speaks and reads English, followed by Spanish and Italian almost as native speakers. I assume you know that certain gestures have great resonance, but if he doesn't know, or if he doesn't understand it, in that case he would be naive. Then, even if he were dragged into certain games he would still have the opportunity to correct them or reprimand those who dragged him into it without his knowledge, it has already happened in the past with several of his predecessors.

Now I am “old”, this way of doing, on both sides it no longer belongs to me, for this reason I decided at the time to save my faith and my vocation by retiring to a hermit's life.

Once again it seems that our Father Ariel has hit the mark, when a few days after the election of the reigning Pontiff he thus concluded an article which I invite you to reread today with the eyes of the present:

«God bless the Roman Pontiff, Since in this condition of disaster it could do little or nothing. But, before a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding, will already constitute merit of grace and salvation, through the glory of Christological failure" (cf.. item WHO).

 

From the Hermitage, 17 August 2025

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“I can not remain silent” and that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: “homosexuality”

I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY"

It doesn't really do it, The man of truth, to pronounce this word taboo: “homosexuality”, Not even as it is such a trivial and painful story of clerical homosexuality and Marchette.

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The head of the Silerian gang dedicated 18 minutes of video to the case of a young man in his opinion, is equivalent to the ox that gives the cuckold to the donkey.

History: A canon of the papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is in love with a young ephebic who decides to maintain. He did it for philanthropy or bad understanding Christian charity? It is not known, But one thing is certain: To think badly it is a sin but often we get it right, Giulio Andreotti said using this phrase borrowed from Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani (cf.. WHO).

The man of truth and irrefutable evidence Thus he returns to lend his face - increasingly rounded, from which the ephebic teenager's air is now toned to the stark of the thirty years - to launch an attack on cyanide as his style, during which he was not even able to sigh the two words on which he was born and stands all history: an ecclesiastical homosexual on one side and a young man kept on the other.

It doesn't really do it, The man of truth and irrefutable evidence, to pronounce this word taboo: “homosexuality”, Not even when it comes to such a trivial and painful story of clerical homosexuality and brands.

From the island of Patmos, 16 August 2025

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Our previous articles on the Band of the Silerian:

– 16 August 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY" (To open the article click WHO)

– 14 August 2025 — There is a homosexual? AT THAT TIME I CAN'T BE SILENT Also defends the indefensible (To open the article click WHO)

– 29 March 2025 — Always about I CAN'T BE SILENT: DAL “Vertical man"A" Fireculo "and" quadhow "of Leonardo Sciascia (To open the article click WHO)

– 21 March 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And the story of that convinced seamstress that he can give Giorgio Armani high fashion lessons (To open the article click WHO)

– 12 February 2025 — The Opossum is to the knowledge of the Vatican as Henger is in chastity and like his deceased husband Riccardo Schicchi is at work Confessions OF SAINT AUGUSTINE (To open the article click WHO)

– 15 January 2025 — AT THE CLERICAL BORDERS WITH REALITY: THE WOMAN SUFFERS FROM FREUDIAN PENIS ENVY, The Opossum of the envy by Matteo Bruni Director of the Press Room of the Holy See (To open the article click WHO)

– 20 January 2025 — THE OPOSSUM IGNORE THAT A NUN CAN QUIETLY BECOME GOVERNOR OF THE VATICAN CITY STATE, As already was Giulio Sacchetti (To open the article click WHO)

– 22 November 2024 — THE EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT OF RENATO TARANTELLI BACCARI. WHEN YOU ARE AFFECTED BY LIVER CANCER, THEY CHARGE ON THE ATTACK THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)

– 31 May 2024 — A NOTE FROM FATHER ARIEL ON THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT: «AS ANNOYING AS A SEA URCHIN INSIDE YOUR UNDERPANTS» (To open the article click WHO)

– 8 December 2023 — WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN? (To open the article click WHO)

– 14 October 2023 — THE ARCHABOT EMERITUS OF MONTECASSINO PIETRO VITTORELLI HAS DEAD: CHRISTIAN PIETY CAN ERASE THE SAD TRUTH? (To open the article click WHO)

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«Magnificat», the great “hard rock” of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the solemnity of the Assumption

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«MAGNIFICAT», THE GREAT HARD ROCK OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ON THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION

Even the heresiarch Martin Luther, that the Blessed Virgin was always very devoted - which most of the Catholic faithful, But also many scholars ignore -, In the 1521 he composed an intense little book entitled The Magnificat translated into German and commented.

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On Christmas Day 1886 the young writer and poet, agnostic at the time, Paul Claudel, pass through the portal of Our Lady from Paris and the song of the Magnificat, evangelical text of the liturgy of Vespers.

He later confessed that he emerged from that experience transformed, destined to become the singer of the Christian faith known to all; many know his drama: Announcement made to Mary. Years after, In the 1913, will narrate:

«On that day I believed with such strength of adhesion, with such an elevation of my entire being, with such a strong belief, with such certainty, with such an absence of doubt that later nor the books, nor the reasoning, nor could the fate of a troubled life shake my faith".

The 15 August of each year, the calendar commemorates the solemnity of the assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of the Lord, despite the widespread secularized denomination of "Ferragosto". Well, that one enters a solemn cathedral like Our Lady or in a small chapel lost in the mountains, each one, on this day, will hear that song of the Magnificat which distinguishes the Holy Mass of this Solemnity. Here is the passage reported by the evangelist Luke.

«In those days Mary got up and went quickly towards the mountainous region, in a city of Judah. Entry into the house of Zaccarìa, greeted Elizabeth. As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leapt in her womb. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed in a loud voice: “Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb! To what do I owe the mother of my Lord to come to me? there, as soon as your greeting reached my ears, the baby leapt for joy in my womb. And blessed is she who believed in the fulfillment of what the Lord told her”. Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God, my savior, because he looked at the humility of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed. The Almighty has done great things for me and Holy is his name; his mercy to those who fear him from generation to generation. He explained the power of his arm, he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts; he has overthrown the mighty from their thrones, he raised up the humble; he has filled the hungry with good things, he sent the rich away empty-handed. He helped Israel, his servant, remembering his mercy, as he had told our fathers, for Abraham and his descendants, forever”. Maria stayed with her about three months, then he returned to his home" (LC 1,39-56).

Maria, pregnant with Jesus, while he is visiting his relative Elizabeth, pregnant in turn with John the Baptist, intones this extraordinarily long hymn that Luke reports. It is the only time that the words of the Mother of Christ expand to the point of understanding well 102 words in Greek, including articles, pronouns and particles. The other times, only five in total, Mary's sentences reported in the Gospels are short and almost halting, as in Cana during the wedding in which his Son also participates: «They have no more wine» and «Whatever I tell you, do it" (GV 2, 3.5). Let's follow, At that time, the poetic flow of this Marian psalmody woven onto a palimpsest of biblical allusions.

Ideally the singing is for soloist and choir. The first movement is intoned by Maria's "I".: «My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God, my savior, because he looked at the humility of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed. The Almighty has done great things for me." (LC 1,46-49). Origen asks (III):

«What did he have, the mother of the Lord, humble and low, she who carried the Son of God in her womb? Saying: “She looked at the humility of her handmaid”, it's as if he were saying: he looked upon the righteousness of his handmaiden, he looked at his temperance, he looked at his strength and his wisdom" (Origene, Homilies on Luke).

In the second movement of the hymn the voice of a choir enters into which Mary's voice joins, just like a soprano who lets her singing emerge. It is the choir of Christians, heirs of those "poor" of the Old Testament, the grapes (Anawim), those who are stooped, not only under the oppression of the powerful, but also in the humility of adoration towards God, thus overcoming the arrogance of the proud. These, socially poor, but above all faithful and just, they celebrate, ideally uniting with the voice of Mary, the particular divine choices that differ from worldly logic, privileging not the strong or the powerful, but the last and the marginalized; thus overturning historical hierarchies. The Evangelista Luca, using the Greek aorist tense called «gnomic», because it refers to experiences acquired beyond their temporal character, describes through seven verbs, a number that indicates fullness, the singular divine choices:

«He explained the power of his arm, / he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts, / he has overthrown the mighty from their thrones, / he raised up the humble, / he has filled the hungry with good things, / he sent the rich away empty-handed, / he has helped his servant Israel" (LC 1,51-54).

It is a constant logic of God which we also find on the lips of Jesus: «So the last will be first and the first, last" (Mt 20,16) and “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted" (LC 14, 11).

The charm of Mary's words, In the Magnificat, it has been imprinted in Christian spirituality ever since, informing the lives of many saints and has given rise to a myriad of comments of all kinds and many works of art, both pictorial, how musical. Even the heresiarch Martin Luther, that the Blessed Virgin was always very devoted - which most of the Catholic faithful, But also many scholars ignore -, In the 1521 he composed an intense little book entitled The Magnificat translated into German and commented.

This beautiful song of Magnificat it is placed by the Liturgy as the setting of the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary which is celebrated everywhere, in the East, as in the Christian West. Since the Dormition-Assumption of Mary is a sign of the ultimate realities, of what must happen in a future that is not so much chronological but rather meaningful, a sign of the fullness that our limits yearn for: in her we sense the glorification that awaits the entire cosmos at the end of time, when "God will be all in all" (1Color 15,28) and in everything. She, the Vergine Maria, it is the portion of humanity already redeemed, figure of that promised land to which we are called, strip of earth transplanted into the sky. A hymn of the Serbian Orthodox Church sings Mary as "land of heaven", earth now in God forever, anticipation of our common destiny.

I would like to conclude with the words of a famous prayer with which Saint Francis greets Mary today remembered as Assumption into heaven:

«Hail Madam, Santa Regina, holy parent of God, Maria, that you are a virgin made Church / and elected by the most holy heavenly Father, who consecrated you together with his most holy beloved Son and with the Holy Spirit Paraclete; / you in whom there was and is every fullness of grace and every good. / Ave, his palace, ave, his tabernacle, ave, your home. / Ave, his clothing, ave, his handmaiden, ave, his Mother. / And I greet you all, holy virtues, that by grace and illumination of the Holy Spirit you are infused into the hearts of the faithful, because they are unfaithful / make them faithful to God" (FF 259-260).

 

From the island of Patmos, 15 August 2025

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There is a homosexual? Then “I can not remain silent” also defends the indefensible

There is a homosexual? AT THAT TIME I CAN'T BE SILENT Also defends the indefensible

The Silerian leader and his anonymous writers do not miss an opportunity to accuse those who emphasize the objective danger of the cancer of the gay lobby within the Church of being "obsessed with homosexuals", of being "unresolved homosexuals", complete with bombastic phrases with a "projection" type effect, obsession, internalized homophobia", meaningless expressions that he remembers as suchno the legendary "supercazzola" of My friends, has now become a neologism in the vocabulary of the Italian language.

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Some crimes or misdemeanors they strike the collective imagination and are more reprobated. It is the case, for instance, of the abuse of minors by some representatives of the clergy.

Since information has appropriated these facts, public opinion now reacts instinctively to the point of placing any representative of the ecclesiastical world among the possible perpetrators of such aberrant crimes. You just need to be familiar with the world social for feedback.

When they find one of these hot cases in their hands, it is understandable that the Pastors of the Church act with the utmost prudence and transparency, trying to limit the scandal within the ecclesial structure as well as the disapproval of civil society. E, first of all, they try to safeguard victims of abuse, even if on this aspect the journey is still at the beginning. If you take a look at the websites of every Italian diocese you will find the link which refers to the office responsible for the protection of minors and vulnerable people, with the relevant listening center, according to what was prepared by Motu Proprio of Pope Francis: You are the light of the world the 2019.

In these days the French Episcopal Conference he advised (WHO) the Bishop of Toulouse to reconsider «the decision taken regarding the appointment of the chancellor of his diocese», because a priest convicted by civil justice of child abuse had been chosen for this position. Reactions from within the French Church, public opinion and the press were not long in coming, especially after some bishops felt they could no longer remain silent on this matter. We remember, The Other Brother, that that type of chancellor role involves responsibility for the diocesan archives and it should be underlined that the Code of Canon Law requires an intact reputation for certain positions, which made the nomination of that individual problematic.

So it arouses curiosity ― although now in those parts one is no longer surprised by anything ―, what a blog (WHO) active in our country, has once again felt that irresistible itch not to remain silent and has launched an immoderate attack against the entire French Episcopal Conference, guilty of having given that advice to the Bishop of Toulouse, up to the point of saying:

«This attitude on the part of the French bishops is scandalous and cries out for vengeance before God. Jesus Christ was treated the same way the French bishops now treat Bishop. Guy de Kerimel» (The bishop of Toulouse, n.d.r.).

Really!

They just can't do it! Even in the face of a case as horrible and sanctioned by justice as that of a priest who sexually assaults a minor, they must find mitigating circumstances, launch veiled accusations but above all move the conversation elsewhere, in order to make the thesis prevail, if one has served his sentence, he can go back to doing what he used to do and even get promoted. Without taking into account the sensitivity of the matter, of public and ecclesial opinion, of bishops exercising their right to counsel e, sometimes, criticize each other. No, for certain categories of people - coincidentally always those - it is the others who make mistakes, to train seminarians and priests badly, to carry out their duties incorrectly. But there's more, always to remain in the sad ambit of the tragicomic: the Silerian leader and his anonymous writers do not miss an opportunity to accuse those who emphasize the objective danger of the cancer of the gay lobby within the Church of being "obsessed with homosexuals", of being "unresolved homosexuals" (!?), complete with bombastic phrases with a "projection" type effect, obsession, internalized homophobia" (cf.. WHO), meaningless expressions that he remembers as suchno the legendary "supercazzola" of My friends, now risen to neologism in the dictionary of the Italian language Treccani.

Among the anonymous columnists of that poisoned blog there must be a disturbance borderline latent, that comes up every now and then. Like when, always recently, he blog I can not remain silent he set off spearheaded against the Bishop of Ascoli Piceno-San Benedetto del Tronto, S. AND. Mons. Gianpiero Palmieri. With the usual method of throwing rumors and accusations out there, immoderate statements used as annoying squeaks, to get to the actual accusation. The Bishop would have welcomed into his Diocese a religious very close to Marko Rupnik, on whose head there are many accusations of abuse of all kinds. Yup, but on that religious man welcomed, however close to the aforementioned former Jesuit mosaic artist, there is no accusation at all. The Bishop was imprudent? Perhaps. But from here to even accusing him of being the devil (sic!) even claiming to abuse the conscience of his priests by silencing them, this does not correspond (cf.. WHO, WHO, WHO). Perhaps an abuse of conscience and sexual abuse perpetrated by an adult heterosexual priest towards adult women is more serious than that inflicted by a homosexual priest on a male minor? At this point one almost wants to think that for the Silerians it is a yes, or better to say: when at stake are the exploits of a practicing and unrepentant homosexual, everything is justified, as in the striking case of the late Abbot of Montecassino, whose exploits would have made the Marquis de Sade and Guillaume Apollinaire pale (cf.. WHO).

This can be achieved if touched in one's beliefs or in one's own desires that the Church should be a certain way and that it should welcome people into seminaries or training houses with tendencies, let's call them that … eccentric. Otherwise we get agitated, part the reprimand, one loses the light of reason as well as of the pen and one writes everything and more against others, even against bishops to whom filial respect and devout obedience should be given for the role they play. And that's not enough, even against entire Episcopal Conferences guilty of having asked a brother for prudence, avoiding giving such a prominent and delicate task to someone who perverts his vocation as well as his homosexual inclination, abused a minor.

However, the answer is simple and short: how many by free choice live in sexual disorder feeling gratified by their own disorder, they claim to clear within the Church and its clergy all those vices of the world which for Catholic morality are and remain situations of serious deviation from Christian feeling and living. And who dares to oppose all this, He is accused of being "obsessed with homosexuals", an "unresolved homosexual", a "projection" affection, obsession, internalized homophobia". If there was no cry, it would really be funny.

 

From the Hermitage, 14 August 2025

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Our previous articles on the Band of the Silerian:

– 16 August 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY" (To open the article click WHO)

– 16 August 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY" (To open the article click WHO)

– 14 August 2025 — There is a homosexual? AT THAT TIME I CAN'T BE SILENT Also defends the indefensible (To open the article click WHO)

– 29 March 2025 — Always about I CAN'T BE SILENT: DAL “Vertical man"A" Fireculo "and" quadhow "of Leonardo Sciascia (To open the article click WHO)

– 21 March 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And the story of that convinced seamstress that he can give Giorgio Armani high fashion lessons (To open the article click WHO)

– 12 February 2025 — The Opossum is to the knowledge of the Vatican as Henger is in chastity and like his deceased husband Riccardo Schicchi is at work Confessions OF SAINT AUGUSTINE (To open the article click WHO)

– 15 January 2025 — AT THE CLERICAL BORDERS WITH REALITY: THE WOMAN SUFFERS FROM FREUDIAN PENIS ENVY, The Opossum of the envy by Matteo Bruni Director of the Press Room of the Holy See (To open the article click WHO)

– 20 January 2025 — THE OPOSSUM IGNORE THAT A NUN CAN QUIETLY BECOME GOVERNOR OF THE VATICAN CITY STATE, As already was Giulio Sacchetti (To open the article click WHO)

– 22 November 2024 — THE EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT OF RENATO TARANTELLI BACCARI. WHEN YOU ARE AFFECTED BY LIVER CANCER, THEY CHARGE ON THE ATTACK THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)

– 31 May 2024 — A NOTE FROM FATHER ARIEL ON THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT: «AS ANNOYING AS A SEA URCHIN INSIDE YOUR UNDERPANTS» (To open the article click WHO)

– 8 December 2023 — WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN? (To open the article click WHO)

– 14 October 2023 — THE ARCHABOT EMERITUS OF MONTECASSINO PIETRO VITTORELLI HAS DEAD: CHRISTIAN PIETY CAN ERASE THE SAD TRUTH? (To open the article click WHO)

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Be similar to those waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding

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BEING SIMILAR TO THOSE WHO WAIT FOR THEIR MASTER WHEN HE RETURNS FROM THE WEDDING

Jesus' disciples live on earth, But like pilgrims, while their residence is in the skies. We are, therefore, called to an wait that many times exceeds us.

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«The night [of liberation] it was foretold to our fathers, so that they had courage".

These are the opening words of the first reading this Sunday, taken from the Book of Wisdom, and they prepare well for listening to the Gospel passage reported below:

"During that time, Jesus told his disciples: "Do not fear, small flock, because it pleased your Father to give you the Kingdom. Sell ​​what you own and give it as alms; make bags that don't age, a safe treasure in the heavens, where the thief does not reach and the woodworm does not consume. Because, where is your treasure, your heart will also be there. Be ready, with their robes tight at their sides and their lamps lit; be like those who wait for their master when he returns from the wedding, so that, when he comes and knocks, let them open immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds still awake upon his return; verily I tell you, he will tighten his clothes around his waist, he will have them sit at the table and come to serve them. What if, arriving in the middle of the night or before dawn, he will find them like this, lucky them! Try to understand this: if the master of the house knew at what time the thief was coming, he wouldn't let his house be broken into. You too get ready because, in the hour you don't imagine, the Son of man is coming". Then Peter said: "Man, you say this parable for us or even for everyone?”. The Lord replied: “Who then is the trusted and prudent administrator, that the master will put in charge of his servants to give the food ration in due time? Blessed is that servant who is the master, arriving, will find himself acting like this. Truly I tell you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But if that servant said in his heart: “My master is late in coming.", and began to beat the male and female servants, to eat, to drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will arrive on a day when he doesn't expect it and at an hour he doesn't know, he will punish him severely and inflict on him the fate that infidels deserve. The servant who, knowing the master's will, he will not have disposed or acted according to his will, he will receive many beatings; that instead of, not knowing her, he will have done things worthy of beatings, he will receive few. To anyone who was given a lot, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, much more will be required”» (LC 12,32-48).

The first three verses of today's Gospel (12,32-34) they make their own text, because they close an entire pericope dedicated to Jesus' teaching on the possession of material goods. They are His final invitation, which can only be grasped if one has in mind what was written just before in the Gospel, but not reported in today's liturgy, or the verses from the 22 al 31 of the chapter 12 by Luca. Those who follow instead, part of today's song (vv. 35-48), are to be considered as an exhortation to vigilance. They are a set of sentences, of images and small parables - the exegete Maggioni calls them: «mentioned parables» — which have a common denominator: the return of the "Son of man", that, as was said, requires vigilant waiting.

To specify this wait Jesus compares himself from time to time to a Lord (the gentleman, v. 36.37.43) returning from a banquet, he comes to the door and knocks, then reward the servants who remained awake by serving them at the table. Or a thief (the thief, v. 39) who arrives at an hour that the owner of the house (the host) disavows. Or again to that Lord who promotes a trustworthy and prudent administrator with responsibility (the faithful steward, the wise one, v. 42). All these images finally, Jesus reveals to us, they fit the figure of that «Son of man [that] he will come at an hour you don't think" (v. 40).

Being attentive and vigilant at the cost of losing sleep is crucial, but who are those who wait? In the passage Jesus speaks of servants and administrators, but everywhere in the text the people called to supervise are indicated with the second person plural, as if to include both the disciples who then heard the Lord, both contemporary listeners or readers of the Gospel, so we too: "you be ready" (v. 35); «you must be similar to…» (v. 36); "get ready" (v. 40). Finally, the answer given to Peter who had asked emerges: «You are telling this parable for us or even for everyone?». The Lord, revealing a ranking of responsibility while waiting, says to him: "To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more ". In this way it is clarified that if the recipients of the teaching, all in all, they are all believers, However, the responsibility of the leaders of the Christian community to whom Jesus dedicates a specific parable stands out.

Let the discussion be addressed to the Church and its leaders is clear from the terms used, which refer to a precise space-time context, be it the house, of the night or of the extended time of waiting. Jesus speaks of "girded sides" (v.34), while the word "house" is explicitly mentioned and then there is the night because of the "lit lamps" (v.35) and of the "second and third watches" (v.38 in Greek). We have here a reference to the theme of the Exodus - the "girded loins" are an explicit citation of Is 12,11 — where the Easter celebration took place in the evening, at home and in the family (Is 12,3). The hasty departure from Egypt of the children of Israel which took place at night is evoked and lifting the edges of the long oriental dress and tying it at the hips with a belt made the journey easier. It seems that Jesus wants to urge the Church to set out, to make an exodus, but in reality it is a matter of proceeding in depth rather than in extension, a journey that makes us ready to receive the One who is about to arrive: the true path is made by the Lord who comes! The center of the announcement of the three parables is therefore the coming of the Lord and the name of the path to which the disciples are called is vigilance. In fact, Jesus has already given instructions so that it is not hindered by useless obstacles such as greed (LC 12,15), the worries (LC 12,22.26) and fears (LC 12,32) that occupy the heart and take away freedom.

The parable of the vigilant servants (vv. 36-38) seems to be the narrative version of a beatitude - "blessed are those servants" (v. 37); «lucky are they» (v.38) – which might sound like this: «Blessed are the vigilant servants, because the Lord himself will become their servant". The reversal of values ​​present in the Beatitudes is expressed here in the paradoxical figure of the master returning home, even late at night, e, finding his servants awake to open the door for him and welcome him to greet him, he himself begins to serve them. But this is the logic of Jesus which overturns worldly logic and which should apply in the Christian community: «Who is bigger? Who is at the table or who serves? Perhaps he is not the one who sits at the table? Yet I stand among you as one who serves" (LC 22,27).

A sense of imminence dominates the entire narrative for something that has yet to happen and yet implies anything but staticity or standing still. From everything we have seen above an indeterminacy seems to emerge, which however conveys the meaning of the Christian experience well. Jesus' disciples live on earth, But like pilgrims, while their residence is in the skies (Letter to Diognetus). We are, therefore, called to an expectation that often surpasses us. The problem of vigilance in these short parables, said another way, it is that of time, especially in everyday life, weekdays. Everyday, any weekday, if full of anticipation, it is "the day of the Lord". As in Luke's parable, every day is a good day to stay awake, keep the lamps lit and welcome the Son of man who will return. Thus he invited us to await the Collect prayer this Sunday: «Let not our lamp go out, because, vigilantly awaiting your hour, we are introduced by you into the eternal homeland".

From the Hermitage, 10 August 2025

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The inevitable crying by prefiche of LGBT activists ready to transform an ideological clash into a funeral in polemical clash

The inevitable crying by prefiche of LGBT activists ready to transform an ideological clash into a funeral in polemical clash

And that God has today's pity of their souls and tomorrow of ours, perhaps much more sins, because it may be that these two deceased, Like the publicists and prostitutes in which Christ warns us, They pass forward in the kingdom of heaven. Nobody knows the judgment of God, But we know from the words of the Holy Gospel what it is well and what is bad, What is virtue and what is sin.

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What the parish priest should have done who celebrated the funeral of the two famous gays who died in a terrible road accident, Maybe magnificent their splendid “marriage”?

This is the sin that LGBT activists accuse the priest, almost as he had pronounced an unforgivable blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (cf.. Mt 12, 31-32), that is, having talked about "friendship" instead of "love", ignoring in a malicious and inhuman way that the two were "married" and not "friends" (!?). These are the disputes moved by the inevitable activists, Obviously made - superfluous to say but I say it the same - with crying with professional premies (see WHO).

Personally I would have agreed to celebrate the funeral only in private form, behind closed doors, For a precise reason: Because from now consolidated pastoral experience we know that these occasions change in LGBT theater to advertise unacceptable things directly within churches as they are contrary to Catholic doctrine and morality, as well as whining in ideological sauce by politicized lobbyists at maximum power ready to criticize the doctrine and the magisterium of the Church that anyone - of course - has the right to reject, However, not to bend to one's whims, This nobody can ask for it or demand it, If you really want to be consistent. Or that maybe, we priests and theologians, Let's go to Mario Mieli Circle of homosexual culture to pretend that they teach the wonders of heterosexual virtues? None of us would pass through the mind to demand or worse make such an absurdity.

And now forward with the comments of the Cath-Arcobalenati: “But if there is amore … What matters is the amateur … Jesus preached the administration …”. Yup, preached love intended as Grace (charis) Greek word with multiple meanings: grazia, beauty, kindness … Jesus preached this kind of love-charis inviting to pass through the narrow door (cf.. LC 13, 22-24); preached love-charis inviting to deny ourselves - i.e. sin - and to take their own cross each (cf.. MC 8,34), certainly not to take it in the ass.

And here the CATTO-CARABALNATI will scream “to the vulgar priest”, Perhaps the usual indignant letters to the ecclesiastical authority written without even having washed their hands at the end of their playful practices, in order not to admit that vulgarity is not made up of my word “ass” expressed incidentally through an evident Pauline hyperbole; vulgarity is made up of two men who play husband and wife. Vulgar, but as well as vulgar also without a sense of human measurement, They are those who would like to force the Church to approve certain disorders, that anyone who remains free to practice, as I remain free to consider them such, without preventing anyone from living the sexuality that best wants, without giving moral judgments to anyone, if not expressly requested by the person concerned in private. And even when requested in private I have always expressed them with extreme delicacy in relations with the individual person, always keeping in mind that it is my Christological mandate to fight sin but always welcome the sinner, while no one can ask me to bless the sin instead, to affirm that evil is good and that good is bad, nor am I willing to take seriously, but if necessary only around a few poor gay sfranto who would like to relegate, complete with absurd references to doctrine and canonical law, Certain moral disorders in the strictly private sphere of people.

And that God has today's pity of their souls Tomorrow of our perhaps more sins, because these two deceased, as Christ warns, they could also go on like publicists and prostitutes in the kingdom of heaven (cf.. Mt 21, 28-32). Nobody knows the judgment of God, But from the words of the Holy Gospel we know what it is well and what it is bad, What is virtue and what is sin. It should not be forgotten that in his preaching the divine master makes a call to hell and damn for dozens of times.

The emotional replica of the Cath-Arcobalenato is taken for granted: "Yup, But there are worst things ", "Yup, But many others make worse …». Maybe these people don't even need to confess, not only because the priest - starting from the writer - is more sinful than them, But because the others would always and in any case commit worst sins. Never tell him that theirs is not a Catholic thought but an extravagant Catholicism to the how-mi-pare, Because at that point the protest letter for our bishops will already be ready and …

in front of the domineering lay, as long as he is pleased

albeit imbued in rotten wrong in doctrine and moral,

Li Boni 'Piscopi d’Ultima and penultimate generation

I do not hesitate to make their priests horrid slaughter meat

(Bishop discraziati, Unpublished by Dante recently found).

Despite the times of episcopal lean cows I was blessed: My bishop is not a macilent cow's cow but a vitellone of pure Lucanian breed and with him certain subjects, indistinctly hetero from homo, they would go to knock on empty, because he is intelligent and jealous of his priests. For this it is good not to lose time, Because it would end up realizing that talking to him badly unnecessarily of his priests is just waste, But who wants to lose it, that you also accommodate.

From the island of Patmos, 4 August 2025

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