ANTICIPATION: IS OUT «THE SADNESS OF LOVE»THE NEW BOOK DEDICATED BY THE FATHER ARIEL S. LEVI di GUALDO TO THE GREAT FIGURE OF CARDINAL CARLO CAFFARRA

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“Far be it from me to cut your wings, I would like to ask you a prayer that you are not required to answer: you can put your hand to this work and publish it in 5 year old?» (Carlo Caffara, 19 January 2017)

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Jorge Facio Lynx
President of Editions The island of Patmos

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The 5 September 2022 five years will have passed since the death of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna, who was one of the world's foremost experts in the doctrine of marriage and the family, of which our Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo was a friend, later discreet and confidential private collaborator between the 2015 and the 2017.

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The objective ambiguities of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation love joy given by the Supreme Pontiff Francis after the closing of the Synod on the family, many bishops have touched very deeply, presbyters and theologians reduced today more and more to silence, as can sometimes happen when one is too open, too much dialogue, too synodal and above all too merciful.

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A lucidly critical book written by a scholar of solid doctrine, capable of drawing up even hard and severe pages if necessary, but completely unassailable on the theological level. Father Ariel spoke of this project with Cardinal Carlo Caffarra in January of 2017, who in response addressed a non-binding request to him, remittance to its free decision: “You could wait five years before publishing it?». He expressed it to him in a long and detailed letter, of which the Author reports an excerpt in the opening of the book:

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Dearest Father Ariel,

I understand your pain for the article appeared yesterday on Future where I was attacked with inaccuracy and malice. Imagine my pain. It is the newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference, of which I was a member for twenty years as bishop of two dioceses.

I have examined the draft of the book you intend to prepare on doctrinal topics related to the last Synod on the family. I have always recognized your writing skills and your theological skills to which you combine the look of an eagle and courage of a lion. You'll get a great job out of it, I'm sure.

Far be it from me to cut your wings, I would like to ask you a prayer that you are not required to answer: you can put your hand to this work and publish it in 5 year old?

I know that you are not emotional and that you proceed with speculative rigor, but these qualities of yours are not common to others, and at this moment the minds are too hot.

If you will listen to me, I will appreciate it from heaven, while on earth I will be a forgotten old cardinal, come before the judgment of God aware of being a sinner, but sure I can say that I did what I had to do with the strength that was given to me.

Next month I will come to Rome and as always we will have the opportunity to meet.

Pray for me.

19 January 2017

XCarlo Caffara

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When the book goes into distribution in early September we will announce it in the columns of ours Patmos Island, because you will hardly be able to learn it from Future and yes The Osservatore Romano.

From the island of Patmos, 21 August 2022

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