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Poverty is to recognize and keep what was received: Leone XIV's small steps for a Christian thought on poverty

7 June 2025/0 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

Poverty is to recognize and keep what was received: I PICCOLI PASSI DI LEONE XIV PER UN PENSIERO CRISTIANO SULLA POVERTÀ

Ci piacerebbe assistere ad altri passi concreti nel cammino di una povertà teologica e pastorale che interessi, eg, the dignity of worship and churches, cosa che il Serafico Padre San Francesco curava molto e non disdegnava di togliere qualcosa alla propria mensa per onorare la casa e l’altare del Signore donando la giusta dignità.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Cap.

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Ironizzava Indro Montanelli: «La Sinistra ama talmente i poveri che ogni volta che va al potere li aumenta di numero», così scriveva riferendosi a un concetto ideologico di povertà appartenente ad alcune correnti politiche.

(Gli aforismi di Indro Montanelli)

Questo grande maestro del giornalismo italiano conosceva bene la vita delle persone e la storia d’Italia e si era accorto come taluni paladini sociali non custodiscono e accompagnano la povertà e il povero ma lo utilizzano, spesso creando delle riserve protette in cui i termini di “povero” e di “povertà” vengono innalzati come un paravento per coprire le proprie distorsioni di pensiero o di illeciti.

Questo pericolo di travisamento non appartiene al solo mondo della politica e del sociale ma è anche presente all’interno della fede, in cui una condizione come quella della povertà bene si presta a trasmutare in qualcosa di alienante da Dio e dall’uomo. La storia del francescanesimo, eg, conosce bene il rischio di un uso ideologico della povertà, in nome della quale si sono reclamate riforme, si sono pretese revisioni di stili di vita, si sono sognate nuove fondazioni fino all’imposizione di quella povertà violenta e aggressiva che è sfociata nell’eresia. Ahimè, nulla di tutto questo ha poi portato i frutti sperati, se non quelli della dispersione e dell’ulteriore divisione. La bellezza del francescanesimo più puro — vicino non tanto all’idea del fondatore ma a quella che Cristo ci ha consegnato — sta nello scegliere liberamente con letizia la povertà del Figlio di Dio senza imporla. Senza sognare un’ideologica «Chiesa povera per i poveri» ma arricchendo la Chiesa e gli uomini di quella essenzialità dell’unico necessario che, pur essendo ricco si è fatto per noi povero per arricchirci, proprio in virtù del suo essere l’Eterno presente.

Riguardo poi alla tendenza a trasmutare il significato di un valore e la sua parola corrispondente al fine di colpire i propri nemici, oggi tale uso è piuttosto frequente. Stesso discorso possiamo fare con altre parole come amore, rights, inclusione e sinodalità. Non si tratta di una sola questione semantica o demagogica ma anzitutto di quel peccato di superbia tutto umano e pagano di chi ha la sicura pretesa e sicurezza di poter eliminare un male oggettivo a prescindere dall’intervento di Dio usando la volontà unità ad accordi e compromessi. How not to remember, about that, quel presunto movimento politico italiano venuto dal basso che aveva la pretesa di aver finalmente abolito la povertà ponendosi come il paradigma del novelty in ambito politico. well, conosciamo tutti bene l’epilogo, il movimento si è riciclato e la povertà che si era detta abolita è magicamente ricomparsa.

Non dobbiamo farci delle illusioni in fatto di povertà, lo sappiamo bene da Gesù (cf.. MC 14,7), questa è una tra le tante macchie endemiche della nostra creaturalità peccatrice che ci accompagnerà nel pellegrinaggio terreno fino alla ricapitolazione di questo nostro mondo, fino a quando Colui che deve venire si manifesterà glorioso e avrà posto tutti i nemici sotto i suoi piedi (cf.. Mt 11,2; 1 Color 15,21). The rest, Gesù stesso durante il suo ministero pubblico non ha eliminato la povertà materiale e la miseria ma ha insegnato a soccorrerla e intervenire davanti alle innumerevoli tipologie di povertà umana: di cibo, di salute, di senso, di relazioni, di bene, of God. I suoi discepoli, over the following centuries, pur santificandosi dentro i diversi contesti di povertà non sono mai riusciti ad abolirla del tutto. E questo vorrà pur dire qualcosa, perché non appaia come una vittoria dell’uomo ma di Dio che nel Figlio sottomette ogni cosa. Gesù non ci ha detto solo che i poveri ci sono e ci saranno sempre, ci ha detto primariamente che Lui c’è e che bisogna necessariamente partire da questa presenza concreta del Risorto per poter portare avanti un pensiero teologico e pastorale che si possa contrapporre anche alla povertà e che realizzi nell’oggi quel già e non ancora escatologico in cui la povertà, the suffering, il peccato e la morte saranno definitivamente sconfitti.

Piccoli passi che partono dal Risorto e conducono a incontrare il Risorto, non moti ideologici e rivoluzionari della superbia umana ma strategie di speranza. Credo che possiamo tutti convenire in tal senso vedendo come il Pontefice Leone XIV ha messo in atto i primi segnali di un concetto teologico di povertà inteso come il riconoscimento di quanto ha ricevuto da Dio al fine di custodirlo per poterlo a sua volta tramandare.

La decisione di ritornare ad abitare presso il Palazzo Apostolico (you see WHO, WHO). Questa decisione segue un concreto percorso di povertà e di valorizzazione di quella residenza che è stata tradizionalmente riservata al Pontefice dal 1870 until the 2013. Si tratta certamente non solo di una localizzazione concreta all’interno dello Stato della Città del Vaticano ma di una storia che continua e della certezza di una presenza che i fedeli di tutto il mondo hanno imparato a conoscere e ad amare osservando quella finestra aperta alla domenica mattina e illuminata alla sera: stella polare che dona sicurezza e speranza ai tanti naviganti nel mare della fede. Una presenza consolatrice quella dell’appartamento papale, that back in 2005 ha provocato in tutti i fedeli cristiani un tuffo al cuore in quella sera del 2 aprile quando la luce della camera del Papa si spense segno del consummatum East di Papa Giovanni Paolo II.

La scelta di Leone XIV di riprendere ad affacciarsi al balcone del Palazzo Apostolico ridisegna la vita del nuovo Pontefice e gli assicura una maggiore protezione e intimità, conforme al suo ruolo di leader politico e spirituale ma soprattutto perché quel vezzo di risiedere in Domus Sanctae Martha stava diventando ormai troppo ingombrante anche in termini di costi. Dentro un pontificato appena trascorso che ha imbastito una buona parte della sua visibilità mediatica sulla povertà e sull’uso “altro” del denaro, come conciliare i 200 mila euro al mese necessari per la sicurezza del Pontefice? Come fa notare il vaticanista de Il Tempo in un suo contributo di domenica 25 May, i famosi cinquanta metri quadrati si sono dilatati fino ad occupare l’intero secondo piano della Domus (you see WHO). Questo con un ingente adeguamento strutturale che ha richiesto degli oneri in termini monetari forse non indispensabili se si fosse mantenuto lo storico appartamento papale che adesso dovrà per forza essere ristrutturato dopo dodici anni di inutilizzo e con conseguenti spese aggiuntive. A essere rispettosi del defunto Pontefice e del suo entourage dirigenziale non possiamo non notare un palese corto circuito in tutto ciò o piuttosto un rigurgito di quella vecchia tentazione prometeica di chi vuole abolire la povertà per finire poi col cadere nell’eccesso opposto. Queste cose purtroppo si pagano doppiamente: anzitutto in senso monetario e poi come accuse pronte per essere scagliate addosso alla Chiesa e al suo Vicario.

Oltre alla ingente somma mensile di denaro per garantire la doverosa sicurezza alla persona del Papa, a ben rifletterci volendo c’è dell’altro. La Domus si affaccia su via Gregorio VII, di fronte a diversi palazzi in territorio italiano che potrebbero essere potenziali postazioni da cui far partire un’offensiva terroristica contro il Santo Padre. Non è pretestuoso pensare che il Governo italiano si sia da tempo affrettato — dal 2013 a oggi — a sventare questa possibilità non remota, pensando a un piano di sicurezza ben strutturato, magari facendo evacuare gli stabili interessati e piazzando reparti specializzati attorno alle zone più sensibili con ulteriore dispendio di denaro? E tutto questo in nome di cosa, forse della povertà? Da francescano e da parroco che ha dovuto amministrare e continua ad amministrare beni non suoi, sono certo che la vera povertà risieda nella gestione intelligente delle cose e delle strutture che già si hanno. Saper salvaguardare e mantenere efficienti le cose, non aggiungere spese non necessarie ma potenziare e migliorare quelle già esistenti: insomma partire dal minimo necessario piuttosto che dal massimo consentito.

Altro piccolo passo verso un cammino di povertà concreta è stato quello che possiamo definire come il Bonus Conclave, cioè la somma di 500 euro elargita ai dipendenti del Vaticano che venne sospesa nel 2013 in occasione dell’atto di rinuncia di Benedetto XVI e dell’elezione di Francesco. Un riconoscimento che premia il lavoro di tutti i dipendenti dello Stato della Città del Vaticano per le ulteriori fatiche in vista del Conclave e dell’elezione del nuovo Romano Pontefice. Cinquecento euro non sono molti, ma possono fare la differenza all’interno di una famiglia che può permettersi di affrontare il mese successivo con più serenità; ma più di tutto, quel che conta e viene apprezzato, è il gesto sensibile in sé verso i dipendenti. Anche in questo caso la povertà esercitata consiste nel riconoscere e premiare chi lavora per il Papa e per la Chiesa e che merita di avere una retribuzione equa e dignitosa, perché il cibo, le medicine e le varie utenze domestiche non possono essere pagate con i Our father.

In conclusion, ci piacerebbe assistere ad altri passi concreti nel cammino di una povertà teologica e pastorale che interessi, eg, the dignity of worship and churches, cosa che il Serafico Padre San Francesco curava molto e non disdegnava di togliere qualcosa alla propria mensa per onorare la casa e l’altare del Signore donando la giusta dignità. Ci piacerebbe assistere a una carezza autentica di povertà verso i diseredati che vivono attorno al colonnato della Basilica di San Pietro che, their goodness, ancora non sono capaci di usare i servizi igienici messi a loro disposizione e rendono via della Conciliazione con le immediate adiacenze dei veri e propri vespasiani a cielo aperto. Tante cose si potrebbero in verità fare, ma nutriamo la segreta speranza che il Sommo Pontefice Leone XIV le sappia già, perché il guaio di una povertà ideologica e gridata consiste nel rendersi conto degli immancabili disastri che qualcun altro dovrà riparare.

Sanluri, 7 June 2025

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From Francesco Le Lion Xiv. What the future will reserve for us

27 May 2025/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

From Francesco Le Lion Xiv. What the future will reserve for us?

We wish the very beat Father Leone XIV to be himself, no longer Robert Prevost but Pietro, A wounded healer, to reconstitute the figure of the sweet Christ on earth healthy and to know how to heal the Church that lives in a traumatized situation. You have to at least try us, even without succeeding, but try. This will already constitute a merit of grace and salvation, Through that logic of the Christological failure that shines the world in the glory of the cross and wins the world.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Cap.

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Just two weeks after the election of the Roman Pontiff Leone XIV We cannot fail to notice in the Church an atmosphere of generalized euphoria combined with that feeling of relief similar to the one who at the end of the day dismisses the narrow shoes to get comfortably in slippers. It is enough to retrace the images of the pontificate beginning Holy Mass to notice a San Pietro square very crowded until the entire Via della Conciliation, which has not happened for at least a decade now.

Many were present. Not only did ordinary people want to be present at the event of the beginning of the Ministry of the new Roman Pontiff but also several prominent personalities from all over the world have made their tribute, nourishing in their hearts the secret hope that the new head of the Church could constitute a valid political and social ally in the current geopolitical chessboard.

The election of a pope is something extraordinary, Without a doubt it is a unique event in the world, which with easy irony takes place precisely “at every death of Pope”. but yet, This election in particular was loaded with numerous hopes and expectations precisely for the singularity of the pontificate of Pope Francis and of that objective eccentricity of the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio of which, if necessary, We talked with regret and sometimes embarrassment on our magazine, always with respect but above all to "Pope Vivo", unlike the "heroes" who only today, to "Dead Pope", they raise perplexity, criticism and even irony. Hence the realistic comment of our canonist editor Padre Teodoro Pjudged:

«To us who, in the face of certain undeniable extravagances, If necessary, we criticized the Holy Father Francesco with a face open, with grace and respect, Now it will be the task of defending him from dead from those who have enhanced him alive, up to sink into forms of real papolatria, Obviously far from disinterested, having then obtained what is hoped for benefits, Ecclesiastical appointments and charges ".

We pay attention, After each papal election there is from many commentators and journalists the immoderate use of that female noun which is "continuity", term that means and indicates the resumption of that line of government - made of tradition, idea, guidelines and styles - that the deceased pontiff had in his government of the Church and that the new should continue almost as a testamentary legacy. Confirming the fact, Most of the latest predictions about possible papabili all focused on profiles similar to of which, Just as that Latin phrase teaches: Similar with similar. But the history of the papacy and the conclaves always reserves surprises and unexpected events.

I remember how in the 2005, Upon the death of John Paul II, Benedict XVI's election was greeted as a sign of great continuity with the predecessor. Time then highlighted how the two pontificates proved to be different both for personal history, Both for styles and temperaments and that the only continuity found was the one present in the command of the Risen Lord to Pietro: "Pasci my sheep" (GV 21,17). These two Pontiff's Romans have been united by the desire to lead the spacecraft of the Church and to feed the Holy People of God with fortress and not without the painful calvaries.

This is to say that regimenting a pontificate Within personal expectations and previous inheritance leads to disappointments and that the continuity that counts for a pope is that with Jesus Christ and not with his predecessor, It was also a canonized saint. This was also the thought that many cardinals shared during the latest general congregations in view of the conclave and is the one that in a not so veiled way was also able to express Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re during the Holy Mass before entering the conclave.

Such scattered reflections are positive Because they help us mature in the knowledge that a pope should be loved both in his ministry and as a figure but at the same time we are equally convinced that the Pope, whatever it is, In his fragile and bankruptcy humanity it is not a outsider and therefore it needs all the support and the advice possible, Because we are all passable of that failure that our director Father Ariel has masterfully expressed in one of his recent article (you see WHO).

The advice is a gift from the Holy Spirit and not a human compromise, It is that gift that the psalm 16 it describes this: «The Lord gave me advice, Even at night my heart instructs me " (Shall 16, 7). The task of advising and instructing the Supreme Pontiff belongs primarily to God through the Son but also through the suggestion, The wisdom and mediation of the Sacred College to which it is responsible for generously exercising the gift of the Council towards the person of the Supreme Pontiff.

May 8th, from the loggia of the blessings of the Basilica of San Pietro, We were able to see a pontiff overlooking with visible emotion and awareness of his role, The television images could not hide the emotion of the eyes and the nervousness that crashed the lips. He presented himself to the world as a pontiff, with the appearance of a pontiff, For those who wanted to see a pontiff and nothing else. That gift of the Council will have worked effectively in the heart of the cardinals in view of the election? We hope so, But we wish to hope that you continue to work in the years to come both in the Cardinal College and inside the Apostolic Palace. The conditions would seem good - the conditional is a must - from the moment in which Leo XIV overlooked the balcony of the loggia of the Basilica we were able to perceive its intentionality of recovering the Church on the person of the Risen Christ and accompanying all men within a path of Easter awareness.

We want to cultivate the theological virtue of hope and feed a realistic trust, without falling into easy conspiracy "amphibologies" or in the trap of seeing in the mozzetta, in the pontifical stole and on the golden cross of the golden or controversial signs. The presence of these signs is not an expression of a carnival farce or a Renaissance legacy, they represent the elements of a pope and help to outline his clear figure, which respects canons that are not fashionable or political but that take root into a specific language and that mean precise realities. To all those people like in the world you like, it will benefit that it is true that the dress does not make the monk, however the monk has the dress, which must wear and bring with dignity, as a visible sign of the office to which it is called to fulfill.

The world of people who like, dependent on the various look e outfit He lashed out against Leone XIV because of his appearance by blatantly like a pope. Sui social Among the various comments, the most flattering, under the various news of the election, was: "I don't like", And that's why? Simple, For some time the figure of the Pope and the Papacy has been unstructured and mortified and this does not want to be an attack on the predecessor of Pope Leo XVI but only an objective reading. With Pope Francis we saw the successor of the blessed apostle Pietro present himself at the terminus of his earthly existence in a wheelchair, with a poncho sdrucite, with approximate trousers (Perhaps even with the bladder catheter) as well as one of the many elderly people of the worst assisted health residence. What did this way of appearing to that world made of the people like this? Nothing, simply nothing, There were no shields because the goal appeared very clear from the start, Desructuring the soul of the papacy, normalize it and perhaps bring it to the minimum terms and Francesco was in this the right man at the right time, unaware pawn (perhaps?) but also a fragile man who has not had the ability to be protected, guide and defend.

I think none of us would like to carry around his elderly parent in conditions of transading and fragility. I who have served for several years as a hospital chaplain I know well the reality of health and welfare environments and I can guarantee that the sick person, even if attached or terminal, He is not happy to show his physical fragility to strangers, often also with some family members, but always try to keep one's dignity; but yet, The exact opposite happened with Francesco and we must excuse ourselves of this.

Another peculiarity of Leone XIV It was present to the world with the words of the Risen Christ: "Peace is with all of you", It is the word of Christ who wins the world and the Pope can only lean on the Risen One and leave the supremacy to him. This greeting would be enough to be able to identify a possible pastoral journey for the new pontificate of Leone XIV. A pontificate of lift that must touch several fronts: From the most immediate Roman Curia together with the presbytery of Rome - widely mistreated - up to the international relations between the peoples in which the Holy See with its boss can only demonstrate that moral and maternal authority to bring man back to reasonableness.

A necessary reconciliation, I said, that can only start from the recognition of those wounds that are also present within the image of the current papacy. The rest, The Blessed Apostle Pietro himself began his ministry with obvious injuries and a personal past to be repeated, This is good to remember it to escape the mania of the papolatria always lurking.

We wish the Beatissima Father Leone XIV to be himself, no longer Robert Prevost but Pietro, A wounded healer, to reconstitute the figure of the sweet Christ on earth healthy and to know how to heal the Church that lives in a traumatized situation. You have to at least try us, even without succeeding, but try. This will already constitute a merit of grace and salvation, Through that logic of the Christological failure that shines the world in the glory of the cross and wins the world. Who knows that the figure of the Church as a field hospital does not take fullness in the current pontificate. There are those who want to see the new pontiff as the one who will bring back to tradition, There are those who want to see him as a continuer of Francesco's work, who a conservative in the form but a new Bergoglio in substance.

For the moment we want to exercise the doubt understood as an exercise of prudence and suspend the judgment within the frame of a healthy realism. Sure it would like to relive what in the apocryphal book of Acts of Peter It is known as the tradition of quo Vadis. Jesus teaches Pietro that in Rome a pope can be alone and only if he leaves himself crucify. And with this awareness we want to bend our knees since now and pray for the Holy Father. Long live the Pope!

Sanluri, 27 May 2025

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Leone XIV. A roaring start between mass media, Communication and peace

22 May 2025/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Gabriele

LEONE XIV. UN INIZIO RUGGENTE TRA MASS MEDIA, COMUNICAZIONE E PACE

Abbiamo ascoltato parole profetiche, 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. E ogni parola, ogni immagine, ogni silenzio… è un frammento di cultura, è una scelta di pace o di conflitto. Il Papa ci ha detto che «la pace comincia da come guardiamo, ascoltiamo, parliamo degli altri».

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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Sembra che, almeno inizialmente, il mondo cattolico abbia accolto con attenzione e speranza le parole del nuovo Romano Pontefice, Leone XIV, specialmente nei suoi primi discorsi.

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For example, rivolgendosi ai giornalisti convenuti a Roma per il Conclave, il Santo Padre ha lanciato un messaggio di profonda semplicità e straordinaria rilevanza: un invito pressante ad abbracciare una «comunicazione disarmata», autentica e costruttiva, capace di edificare ponti di pace in un’epoca segnata da divisioni e conflitti. Questo appello non è rivolto solamente ai professionisti dell’informazione, ma a ogni uomo e donna, chiamati a riflettere sul potere trasformativo delle parole e sul loro impatto nella creazione di un futuro più sereno per l’intera umanità. Vorrei un po’ parlare di alcuni spunti che il Santo Padre ha avviato nella mia personale riflessione teologica e condividerli con tutti voi.

«Beati gli Operatori di Pace»: Il Fondamento Teologico. L’appello di Papa Leone XIV alla comunicazione di pace affonda le sue radici nel cuore del Vangelo. Il suo discorso si è aperto con una potente citazione della beatitudine: «Beati gli operatori di pace» (Mt 5,9). Questa non è una semplice esortazione, ma una promessa di felicità e una definizione di coloro che sono veramente figli di Dio. Il Successore di Pietro ha chiarito che la pace di Cristo non è un’assenza di conflitto o il risultato della sopraffazione, ma un «dono che guarda alle persone e ne riattiva la vita». È una pace fatta di riconciliazione, perdono e del coraggio di ricominciare.

In questa luce, la comunicazione disarmata si rivela uno strumento essenziale per costruire attivamente questa pace dinamica e trasformativa. Le nostre parole hanno il potere di sanare ferite, di ricostruire relazioni spezzate e di infondere speranza in coloro che l’hanno perduta. Essere “operatori di pace” nel nostro comunicare quotidiano significa quindi rispondere a una chiamata divina, contribuendo attivamente alla realizzazione del Regno di Dio sulla terra.

Un Appello Speciale ai Giornalisti: Custodi della Verità e Seminatori di Pace. Il Sommo Pontefice Leone XIV ha rivolto un’attenzione particolare ai giornalisti, agli operatori di Mass Media, riconoscendo il loro ruolo cruciale nel plasmare l’opinione pubblica e nel raccontare la complessità del nostro tempo. Li ha ringraziati per il loro servizio alla verità, specialmente in momenti delicati come il Conclave. However, a questo riconoscimento si accompagna una chiara esortazione alla responsabilità. Egli ha chiesto ai giornalisti di abbracciare una «comunicazione di pace», rifuggendo da un linguaggio aggressivo e dalla logica della «guerra delle parole e delle immagini». Un momento particolarmente toccante del discorso è stato il ricordo dei giornalisti incarcerati per aver cercato e riportato la verità. Papa Leone XIV ha espresso la solidarietà della Chiesa e ha chiesto la loro liberazione, sottolineando come solo un popolo informato possa compiere scelte libere e consapevoli. In this way, il Pontefice non solo riconosce il ruolo fondamentale dei media, ma li investe di una missione etica di primaria importanza nella costruzione di una società più giusta e pacifica.

L’Intelligenza Artificiale: potenziale immenso che richiede discernimento. Nel suo sguardo attento alle sfide del mondo contemporaneo, Papa Leone XIV ha posto una particolare ed iniziale attenzione il tema dell’intelligenza artificiale. Ha riconosciuto il suo «potenziale immenso», capace di trasformare la comunicazione e di offrire benefici all’umanità. However, ha anche sottolineato la necessità di un «discernimento» e di una «responsabilità» condivisa nel suo utilizzo, affinché questo strumento rimanga al servizio del bene comune e non diventi «disumano».

Questo richiamo evidenzia la consapevolezza della Chiesa di fronte alle rapide evoluzioni tecnologiche e la sua volontà di guidare queste trasformazioni con saggezza e attenzione ai valori fondamentali della dignità umana. La tecnologia, so, non è vista come una minaccia, ma come un nuovo «spazio da evangelizzare con intelligenza e amore».

La tecnologia finalizzata alla carità sfugge alla algocrazia: al potere degli algoritmi di elaborare dati per controllare le menti e gli uomini. Una IA è macchina lavoratrice per l’uomo che in Dio cerca l’amore. Non c’è logica di controllo e di dominio, ma servizio.

«Noi Siamo i Tempi»: L’Esortazione di Sant’Agostino alla Responsabilità Personale. A conclusione del suo discorso, Papa Leone XIV ha citato una frase di Sant’Agostino di grande profondità: “We live well, e i tempi saranno buoni. Noi siamo i tempi». Questa affermazione ci ricorda che non siamo semplici spettatori del nostro tempo, ma protagonisti attivi nella sua costruzione. La qualità del tempo che viviamo è direttamente connessa al modo in cui viviamo, alle nostre scelte, alle nostre parole.

Questo richiamo alla responsabilità individuale è particolarmente significativo nel contesto dell’appello alla comunicazione di pace. Ogni volta che scegliamo di comunicare con verità, amore e rispetto, contribuiamo a rendere i tempi «buoni». Non dobbiamo attendere passivamente un futuro migliore, ma impegnarci nel presente per costruirlo attraverso le nostre azioni e il nostro modo di relazionarci con gli altri.

La Comunicazione come Creazione di Cultura e Atto di Carità. La visione di Papa Leone XIV sulla comunicazione va oltre la semplice trasmissione di informazioni. Egli la considera uno strumento potente per la creazione di una cultura di dialogo, di incontro e di pace.¹ Il Pontefice ha affermato che «la comunicazione, indeed, non è solo trasmissione di informazioni, ma è creazione di una cultura, di ambienti umani e digitali che diventino spazi di dialogo e di confronto». In this perspective, l’atto di comunicare diventa quasi una «missione», una «forma di carità».

Questo eco del pensiero del suo predecessore, Pope francesco, che ha più volte sottolineato l’importanza di «disarmare la comunicazione» e di costruire una «cultura dell’incontro», ci invita a considerare la comunicazione non come un’attività neutrale, ma come un impegno morale e spirituale che ha il potere di edificare ponti di fraternità e di diffondere i valori del Vangelo nel mondo.

Un Cammino Insieme Verso la Pace. Un cammino verso la pace di Cristo ci insegna che anche parlare è una missione, è una forma di carità. So what, as the Pope says: disarmiamo la comunicazione… e costruiamo pace. Questo è solo l’inizio di un cammino che Papa Leone XIV ci invita a percorrere insieme: quello della comunicazione disarmata, Evangelica, vera.

Abbiamo ascoltato parole profetiche, 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. E ogni parola, ogni immagine, ogni silenzio… è un frammento di cultura, è una scelta di pace o di conflitto. Il Papa ci ha detto che «la pace comincia da come guardiamo, ascoltiamo, parliamo degli altri». Questa è una rivoluzione spirituale. Un cambio di sguardo che può trasformare le nostre relazioni, le nostre parrocchie, i nostri ambienti di lavoro. Non si tratta di essere «buonisti», ma di essere «buoni secondo il Vangelo», capaci di uno stile che non urla, non aggredisce, ma semina fiducia.

So what, quale comunicazione vogliamo costruire? Una comunicazione che difende la verità con amore, che non è ideologica né superficiale, ma profonda e libera. Una comunicazione «che non separa mai la verità dalla carità», come dice san Paolo. Una comunicazione che sa farsi voce di chi non ha voce, che non si lascia sedurre dal potere, ma sceglie la debolezza della Croce come linguaggio di salvezza.

Il Santo Padre Leone XIV ci parla anche della «tecnologia», e in particolare dell’intelligenza artificiale, che definisce uno «strumento immenso». Also here, non si tratta di avere paura, ma di esercitare «discernimento». L’evangelizzazione passa anche da questi nuovi spazi: ma deve farlo con sapienza, custodendo la dignità della persona. E poi … quel passaggio finale, così agostiniano: «Noi siamo i tempi». Non dobbiamo aspettare tempi migliori. «Siamo noi a renderli tali», ogni volta che scegliamo la verità, il perdono, la speranza.

Allora domandiamoci, really, con sincerità: «quali tempi vogliamo costruire oggi nel mondo?» Un tempo di paura o di fiducia? Un tempo sterile o generativo? Il Papa ci chiede di essere «testimoni di una cultura nuova», di una Chiesa che non si chiude ma dialoga, che non combatte ma accompagna, che non impone ma illumina. Una Chiesa che comunica pace perché vive di pace. E anche noi, vogliamo camminare in questa direzione: offrire contenuti che nutrano la fede, che costruiscano una comunità pensante e orante, capace di abitare il mondo con lo stile del Vangelo.

Ricordiamolo sempre: «per andare in Paradiso, dobbiamo cominciare a costruirlo insieme, qui e ora». Facciamolo insieme a Papa Leone.

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The beginning of the Petrine Ministry of Leone XIV and the disenchantment of an old priest who hopes but does not delude himself - The Beginning of the petrine ministry of Leo XIV and the Disenchantment of an old priest Who hopes but not deluded

18 May 2025/2 Comments/in Actuality/by father ariel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the island of Patmos, 18 May 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the Isle of Patmos, May 18, 2025

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More than "good evening" and "good lunch" we needed a lion who reminded us to "accept Christ without condition"

12 May 2025/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

PIÙ CHE «BUONASERA» E «BUON PRANZO» AVEVAMO BISOGNO DI UN LEONE CHE CI RICORDASSE DI «ACCETTARE CRISTO SENZA CONDIZIONI»

Papa Leone nella sua prima omelia ci ha già ricordato che dobbiamo accettare Cristo senza condizioni, sebbene questa verità venga ritenuta dal mondo e dai potenti una cosa assurda, essa resta l’unica maniera per camminare da cristiani e per corrispondere al ministero petrino che da Pietro giunge fino a noi oggi.

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Il Sacro Collegio Cardinalizio ha dato da pochi giorni alla Chiesa un nuovo Pontefice: Leone XIV. Da cattolici e consacrati, vogliamo e speriamo che questa gravosa scelta sia stata — se non proprio guidata — almeno ispirata dallo Spirito Santo in quella maniera misteriosa con cui Dio è capace di orientare il mondo e gli eventi, anche quelli che palesemente sembrano negare la sua azione e presenza.

In un mio recente articolo (cf.. WHO) ho già avuto modo di spiegare il ruolo dello Spirito Santo dentro il grande rito del Conclave, certamente l’azione dello Spirito di Dio resta il più delle volte misteriosa all’uomo e quindi è difficile voler avere la pretesa di un controllo e scandagliare tutte le sottigliezze che lo Spirito Santo intesse nella vita di noi uomini, compresa quella permissione all’errore e finanche al peccato che per l’uomo diventa l’occasione per riscoprire la grazia divina.

How not to remember, about this, proprio l’apostolo Pietro nel momento del suo rinnegamento, un momento di grande tragicità e infedeltà, a fronte di tutte quelle esperienze di fede che Pietro ha avuto modo di vedere stando con Gesù nei tre anni di vita pubblica. In che modo Pietro sa ripagare il Maestro dopo aver spergiurato amore e fedeltà? Con quelle parole pesanti come il piombo: «Non lo conosco». E se Pietro tenta di disconoscere Cristo, Cristo però conosce bene Pietro e il suo cuore e per questo per lui prega e lo invita preventivamente sulla strada del ritorno:

«Simone, Simone, there: Satana vi ha cercati per vagliarvi come il grano; but I prayed for you, perché la tua fede non venga meno. And you, una volta convertito, confirm your brothers " (LC 22,31-32).

Di questi due versetti del Vangelo di Luca l’invito alla conversione e al ritorno dell’apostolo è fondamentale. Gesù sembra quasi dire a Pietro che il suo compito di guida nella fede e di capo del collegio apostolico e della Chiesa non può prescindere dalla capacità di una continua conversione e di un ritorno in sé stesso in cui c’è lo stesso Cristo ad attenderlo. Come non vedere in ciò quello sguardo penetrante di Cristo a Pietro dopo il suo rinnegamento. Quello sguardo pieno di misericordia che penetra nell’anima, «in interiore homine», dove Pietro riconosce finalmente la verità nella Verità. E la verità è che Pietro è tale solo quando sa essere «Kephas» che nel suo significato originale che i nostri fratelli cristiani orientali sanno dare — più di quello che noi occidentali siamo soliti interpretare — significa pietra instabile e traballante. Tu Pietro sei pietra instabile finché non trovi la stabilità in Cristo che è pietra d’angolo, finché non ti fidi del suo comando a gettare le reti quando è giorno pieno e a quello di pascere le sue pecorelle, finché non ti ricordi che Cristo ti chiede di amarlo e tu puoi solo offrirgli il tuo povero bene.

Avendo davanti agli occhi della fede la persona del Beato apostolo Pietro, possiamo lecitamente domandarci che Papa sarà Leone XIV? Personalmente non desidero altro che egli sia un annunciare di Cristo risorto e che riproponga ogni giorno al mondo la fede pasquale. Questa è la cosa più urgente oggi nella Chiesa e nel mondo. I problemi ci sono, le riforme sono necessarie, la pace è un grido da invocare sempre, the dialogue, l’accoglienza e le relazioni politiche e internazionali sono buone cose ma senza la solidità di Cristo pietra d’angolo nulla di tutto questo salva e restituisce all’uomo la speranza. In questa danza della libertà umana, dovrà scomparire l’uomo Robert Francis Prevost, per lasciare finalmente il posto al Pontefice Leone XIV, il quale con fatica e sofferenza dovrà rendersi trasparente affinché in lui Cristo si manifesti.

Da fedeli cristiani siamo chiamati ad abbandonare da subito le colorate tifoserie papolatriche the “I like it”, “I do not like” che equiparano il Santo Padre a un leader politico o a un influence con le proprie ideologie e i propri entourage Power. Tutte queste cose non possono reggere alla prova della fede dell’apostolo Pietro che confessa:

"Man, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; noi abbiamo creduto e conosciuto che tu sei il Santo di Dio» (GV 6,68-69).

Papa Leone nella sua prima omelia (cf.. our article WHO) ci ha già ricordato che dobbiamo accettare Cristo senza condizioni, sebbene questa verità venga ritenuta dal mondo e dai potenti una cosa assurda, essa resta l’unica maniera per camminare da cristiani e per corrispondere al ministero petrino che da Pietro giunge fino a noi oggi.

Altra cosa da evitare e da non sperare è quella di rendere Papa Leone XIV un emulo dei pontificati precedenti, lui non è un Francesco, un Benedetto, un Giovanni Paolo II: lui è Leone. Vivere di nostalgia, con la testa rivolta al passato, fino a farsi venire il torcicollo non appartiene ai cristiani. La nostalgia è il terreno fertile in cui nascono le divisive fazioni dei tradizionalisti, dei progressisti, dei sedevacantisti e di altri patologici modi di essere e di sentire che si contrappongono e soffocano la vera fede pasquale.

Assistere in questi giorni ai vari tentativi di tirare per la mozzetta il Papa per portarlo dalla propria parte — ecclesiale e politica — è uno spettacolo disdicevole e puerile. Il tempo saprà darci il polso di questo nuovo pontificato in cui lo Spirito Santo — così come quella simpatica famigliola di gabbiani che hanno fatto il nido vicino al comignolo della Sistina — starà a vigilare affinché la barca della Chiesa non venga definitivamente affondata dai marosi.

Sanluri, 12 May 2025

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The fundamental match of the future and the new papacy is played on the unity of the Church

12 May 2025/in Actuality/by Antonio Caragliu - jurist

LA PARTITA FONDAMENTALE DEL FUTURO E DEL NUOVO PAPATO SI GIOCA SULL’UNITÀ DELLA CHIESA

Significativamente la storica Lucetta Scaraffia rileva l’impossibilità, after 12 years of pontificate, di cogliere un’eredità di Papa Francesco, that is not that of mere confusion.

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L’info-intrattenimento dei mass-media, dopo i pronostici del toto-nomine papale, si concentra ora nel determinare i caratteri della personalità vincente: Leone XIV.

il Sommo Pontefice Leone XIV in visita pastorale nella regione delle Ande peruviane all’epoca in cui era Vescovo di Chiclayo

Continuerà le riforme del predecessore? Confermerà le sue aperture? Come porterà a termine il percorso sinodale? É moderato? È progressista? È un po’ l’uno e un po’ l’altro? È misericordioso con i migranti? Andrà d’accordo con Donald Trump? A simili interrogativi seguono per lo più affermazioni che suonano come slogan, funzionali a segnare un’appartenenza di schieramento più che una visione sostanziale, spiritualmente significativa.

In particular, si perde di vista, in my opinion, la partita fondamentale che si presenta al Papa: l’unità della Chiesa. La questione esatta è: quale unità? That is to say, come deve essere concepita questa unità? Come deve essere interpretata? Come deve essere declinata?

Il Cardinale Giovanni Battista Re, nell’omelia della Missa pro eligendo Romano Pontifice the 7 May, aveva dichiarato:

«L’unità della Chiesa è voluta da Cristo; un’unità che non significa uniformità, ma salda e profonda comunione nelle diversità, purché si rimanga nella piena fedeltà al Vangelo».

Comunione nelle diversità: ma quando le diversità minacciano la comunione? And when, instead, è un’indebita uniformità a minacciare la ricchezza delle legittime diversità? Re fa riferimento alla «piena fedeltà al Vangelo»: è questo il criterio dirimente. Ma, in truth, the question, più che risolversi, sembra spostarsi: come determinare, indeed, la «piena fedeltà al Vangelo»?

Si tratta dello stesso tema che aveva affrontato il Cardinale Ratzinger nell’omelia della Missa pro eligendo Romano Pontifice the 18 April 2005. In questa omelia, che segnerà il programma del pontificato di Benedetto XVI, Ratzinger aveva determinato con precisione il criterio dell’unità: the truth, la cui dimensione ultima è lo stesso Figlio di Dio, misura del vero umanesimo. E con coraggio aveva calato il significato di un simile criterio nel contesto ideologico del relativismo dominante. Senza elusioni e infingimenti. Con onestà intellettuale.

Con il pontificato di Francesco, instead, si è imposto un differente paradigma di unità ecclesiale: un paradigma gesuitico.

Ho trovato una significativa illustrazione di questo paradigma in una conversazione del giornalista Ross Douthat con il padre gesuita James Martin S.J. circa l’eredità del papato appena concluso (vedere video-intervista del 26.04.2025 WHO). Douthat evidenzia come il carattere drammatico del pontificato di Francesco sia stato determinato dalla spinta a cambiare l’insegnamento e la pratica della Chiesa su una serie di questioni difficili e controverse, come la possibilità per i cattolici divorziati e risposati di accedere alla comunione eucaristica, la possibilità per le donne di diventare diaconi o addirittura sacerdoti, la possibilità di benedire coppie dello stesso sesso. Fino a che punto Francesco si è spinto su tali questioni? Martin, in prima battuta, afferma che questo genere di temi «scottanti» avevano per il Papa un carattere secondario rispetto alla proclamazione del Vangelo. In seconda battuta, afferma che Francesco «è andato fin dove ha potuto». A tal proposito racconta come il Papa, in un suo incontro personale del 23 October 2024 come delegato del sinodo, fosse preoccupato della «unità della Chiesa» a causa delle «resistenze» provenienti dall’Africa subsahariana, dall’Europa orientale e persino dagli Stati Uniti. «E ha ripetuto più volte che l’unità è più importante di questi conflitti. Quindi penso che abbia cercato di aprire la porta alla discussione su alcuni di questi problemi senza rompere la chiesa».

A ben vedere ciò che caratterizza il resoconto di Martin circa le preoccupazioni di Francesco è il particolare rapporto tra unità ecclesiale e verità. Apparentemente nel suo discorso sembra non operare un concetto vincolante di verità. Ma in realtà una verità viene fatta valere. Una verità che sembra non vincolare, ma che conferisce una direzione. Una verità implicita, data per presupposta, che prende posizione per un’indefinita apertura circa le questioni controverse proposte. Una verità criticamente non tematizzata, teologicamente emancipata, priva cioè di un serio confronto con il dato biblico, ridotto tutt’al più a un generico riferimento alla misericordia. È una verità non vincolante? Not exactly. È una verità criticamente disimpegnata ma politicamente vincolante, that, not by chance, affronta le posizioni diverse (e logicamente incompatibili) come «resistenze».

In una dimensione simile non vi è spazio per un dialogo autentico, ma semmai per una mediazione, per un accomodamento. Come se in gioco ci fossero delle forze e degli interessi. L’unità ecclesiale, so, non si fonda sulla verità. Non si fonda, per riprendere le parole di Ratzinger, sul «Figlio di Dio, misura del vero umanesimo». L’unità è una composizione di forze, Lastly, fondata sul potere supremo del Papa, il cui ruolo vicariale si stempera, per far risaltare invece la sua personalità.

Alla luce di questo paradigma gesuitico dell’unità ecclesiale si spiega il carattere autoritario e contraddittorio del papato gesuita, rilevato sovente dagli osservatori più sensibili. Nella prospettiva di una simile concezione dell’unità ecclesiale, indeed, le contraddizioni non fanno problema: possono convivere. Anche se le contraddizioni provengono dallo stesso Papa: non è la verità a fare l’unità, ma il suo potere supremo. Il prezzo di questa impostazione è stato, however, molto salato. Significativamente la storica Lucetta Scaraffia rileva l’impossibilità, after 12 years of pontificate, di cogliere un’eredità di Papa Francesco, that is not that of mere confusion. O, tutt’al più, della promozione di alcune politiche, very much, troppo dettagliate, in tema di immigrazione di massa e di economia politica che, instead, avrebbero richiesto il riconoscimento di un sano pluralismo di posizioni.

Definitely, il nuovo corso del papato di Leone XIV sarà determinato dal modo in cui egli interpreterà, alla luce della lezione di questi ultimi 12 year old, l’unità ecclesiale e il suo rapporto con la verità. Il suo motto episcopale «In Illo uno unum» e la sua formazione agostiniana fanno ben sperare. Che Dio ce l’abbia mandata buona.

Trieste, 12 May 2025

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Leone XIV's first homily was a harmonious continuity with the tradition of the Church

11 May 2025/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Theodore

Leone XIV's first homily was a harmonious continuity with the tradition of the Church

The mission is urgent, because the lack of faith often brings with it dramas such as the loss of the meaning of life, The oblivion of mercy, the violation of the dignity of the person in its most dramatic forms, the family crisis and many other wounds of which our society suffers and not a little. This is the world that is entrusted to us […]

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It may appear presumptuous Stop the homily of the Supreme Pontiff Leone XIV, pronounced in its first real public appearance, The Holy Mass pro ecclesia celebrated with the cardinals who participated in the conclave of its election.

The Supreme Pontiff Leone XIV at his first view to the central loggia of the Papal Arcibasilica of San Pietro

Or it could simply be beautiful enhance this first act of the new bishop of Rome, imagining, without going too far from the truth, that these words that he pronounced to comment on the Gospel actually sorted by his heart, are his own, meditated in the short space of time obtained between the impact of the election, the emotion of the presentation to the public and the world and this first public commitment. To be, as we'll see, they seem like a program for the Church that started to preside, The figure within which he will want to move and even in what way he feels that he is involved.

Referring to a personal reading of the beautiful papal homily (WHO), I just want to underline three aspects.

The first and most important is the reference to Christ. It might seem redundant to underline it: of whom a pontiff should speak if not of Jesus? But the fact that he immediately mentioned, At the first appearing from the central loggia of the Basilica of San Pietro and now here in his first homily, it is significant. He said that Pietro's words remember in the Gospel «You are the Christ, the Son of the living God " (Mt 16,16) they express "in summary the heritage that for two thousand years the Church, through the apostolic succession, keep, deepens and transmits. Jesus is Christ, the Son of the living God, that is, the only savior and the detector of the father's face ". Leo XIV is placed, like this, in continuity with the tradition of the Church, Just as his recent predecessors did. John Paul II with his: "Open, indeed, open the door and to Christ "; Professor in his first homily. Pope Benedetto who has scaled the mystery of the Lord with his intelligence and taught the Church to recognize him and Pope Francis who helped us to see his face in all, especially the poorest. And of Christ Pope Leone traces the identikit:

«To make yourself close and accessible to men, He revealed himself to us in the confident eyes of a child, in the lively mind of a young man, in the mature features of a man (The joy and hope, 22), until it appears to his, After the resurrection, with his glorious body. Thus showed us a model of holy humanity that we can all imitate, together with the promise of an eternal fate that instead exceeds every limit and capacity ".

The second aspect that I want to underline the papal homily is precisely the reference to holiness. He sees it as a gift, but also as a path of personal and community transformation. Holiness that exceeds merits and limits because it anticipates our birth (cf.. Gives 1,5) And thanks to the baptismal rebirth he leads us and makes us participate in the mission of Christ. A task that involves the Pope firsthand and then the whole Church: «City placed on the mountain (cf. AP 21,10), ark of salvation that navigates through the waves of history, Lighthouse that illuminates the nights of the world. And this not so much thanks to the magnificence of its structures or for the grandeur of its buildings ..., as for the holiness of its members, of that "people that God has purchased because they proclaim me the admirable works of him, who called you from the darkness to its wonderful light " (1PT 2,9).

In the end, A third reason I like to pin from the homily of the Holy Father: the comparison with the world, including the ecclesial one of believers. The Pope says:

“It's not a trivial question, indeed it concerns an important aspect of our ministry: the reality in which we live, with its limits and potentiality, his questions and his beliefs ".

As happened in the days of the Lord The answers to his question, «People, Who says he is the son of man?», they appeared incomplete and sticks, So even today the world often misunderstands the Christian message due to excess of sufficiency or overhanging. but yet, The Pope says:

«Precisely for this ... the mission is urgent, because the lack of faith often brings with it dramas such as the loss of the meaning of life, The oblivion of mercy, the violation of the dignity of the person in its most dramatic forms, the family crisis and many other wounds of which our society suffers and not a little. This is the world that is entrusted to us, in which, as Pope Francis taught us many times, We are called to witness the joyful faith in Jesus Salvatore. Therefore, for us, too, It is essential to repeat: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God " (Mt 16,16).

As we have read, he recalls the theme of the mission, Which he had done the night before, overlooking the main loggia of the Vatican Basilica (WHO).

But the mission also turns to believers, since they can run the risk of adapting the Gospel and the image of Christ to their personal visions. These are the words of the pontiff: «Even today there is no shortage of the contexts in which Jesus, although appreciated as a man, it is reduced only to a kind of charismatic leader or superman, and this not only among non -believers, but also among many baptized, who end up living thus, at this level, In factual atheism ".

In the last lines of the homily The Holy Father recalls the importance of the personal relationship with Christ, In the commitment of a daily path of conversion and recalls the whole Church to live the belonging to the Lord bringing everyone to everyone's good news.

Finally, the Holy Father speaks of himself. It does so by citing the letter to the Romans of the apostolic father Ignazio of Antiochia, To define his task and role of bishop of the Church who is in Rome, called to preside over the universal Church in charity. And always reporting the words of Sant’Ignazio:

«Then I will really be a disciple of Jesus Christ, When the world does not see my body " (Letter to the Romans, IV, 1).

Concludes his homiletic intervention like this:

"It referred to being devoured by the belves in the circus - and so it happened -, But his words recall in a more general sense an indispensable commitment for anyone in the Church exercises a ministry of authority: disappear because Christ remains, get small for him to be known and glorified (cf. GV 3,30), spend all the way because nobody is missing the opportunity to know and love him. God gives me this grace, today and forever, With the help of the tender intercession of Mary Mother of the Church ".

The homily ends as it started, with reference to Christ. It is worth remembering the citations used by Pope Leo in this liturgical intervention. The letter of Sant’Ignazio of Antioch to the Romans, above, nine references to songs from the New Testament and only one of the old man. Then there are two quotes from the Council, taken from the two documents that speak of the Church: LA LAMP OF GENTIAL AND HOPE AND HOPE.

An intervention, it was said at the beginning, which would seem programmatic, therefore leaving to hope for a continuation that could be profitable for the Church. I believe that the pope does not only expect the wait, but also the support of prayer and the effective collaboration of believers.

Velletri of Rome, 11 May 2025

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«We in the Vatican, here in the Vatican…». The Silerian donkeys in the chair and the anal fissures

11 May 2025/in Actuality/by father ariel

«NOI IN VATICANO, QUA IN VATICANO…». The Silerian donkeys in the chair and the anal fissures

Mister I cannot be silent è come una maestrina con la bacchetta in mano a caccia del minimo errore altrui, che si siede su vaso e, sebbene seduta, sbaglia mira e la fa fuori, salvo dar poi degli ignoranti e degli incompetenti agli altri […]

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Più molesto delle lacerazioni alla mucosa anale causata dalle ragadi, Mister I cannot be silent e i suoi anonimi blogghettari, alias «noi in Vaticano, qua in Vaticano…», nelle ultime settimane hanno dato il meglio di loro stessi nel distribuire patenti di «incompetenti, ignorant, analfabeti, ladri di stipendi…» e via a seguire [cf.. WHO].

Bersagli privilegiati dei loro incessanti attacchi I'm Paolo Ruffini, prefetto del Dicastero per le comunicazioni, Andrea Tornielli, direttore dei media vaticani, Matteo Bruni, Director of the press room of the Holy See.

Non è la prima volta che la maestrina dispensatrice d’insulti si siede poi sul water, sbaglia mira e la fa tutta fuori, as in this case:

«Robert Francis Prevost, Now Papa Leone XIV, ha compiuto un gesto che esprime la sua devotion al santo Vescovo di Ippona, Augustine, fondatore dell’ordine al quale si era consacrato» [cf.. WHO].

St. Augustine, al secolo Aurelio di Tagaste, vissuto tra 354 and the 430, come vescovo favorì la fraternità e forme di vita comune tra i membri del clero in quanto servi di Dio, ma non fondò mai alcun ordine religioso. Agli inizi dell’anno Mille circolavano già da tempo tre regole attribuite a Sant’Agostino: the Regula consensoria, the Regula ante omnia fratres carissimi, the Regula ad servos Dei, nessuna delle quali è stata riconosciuta autentica, piuttosto ricavate da vari scritti e sermoni dell’Ipponate. These “antiche regole” sono dunque autentiche quanto possono esserlo le opere dello pseudo-Dionigi areopagita o la Donazione Costantiniana. Gli agostiniani, denominatisi tali in quanto ispirati alla spiritualità e alla teologia agostiniana e non certo perché Sant’Agostino fondò un ordine, nascono canonicamente nel 1244, otto secoli dopo la morte del Santo vescovo e dottore della Chiesa, in seguito all’unione in un’unica fraternitas di Eremiti sparsi per la Tuscia; unione promossa dal Cardinale Riccardo Annibaldi della Molara, con approvazione del Sommo Pontefice Innocenzo IV sancita con la bolla Incumbit nobis the 16 December 1243. Solo allora si comincerà a parlare di Ordine Agostiniano, In the 1244.

La pia leggenda — ma di pia leggenda appunto si tratta — che fa risalire le origini dell’Ordine a Sant’Agostino, è quindi attendibile quanto la tesi peregrina dei fautori della neoscolastica decadente che per giustificare la filosofia di Aristotele posta da San Tommaso d’Aquino alla base speculativa del suo pensiero, giunsero a inventarsi che il filosofo di Stagira non era pagano come si pensava, perché aveva percepito e intuito Cristo quattro secoli prima l’incarnazione del Verbo di Dio (!?).

All’amico di vecchia data Andrea Tornielli, a Paolo Ruffini e a Matteo Bruni, ho rivolto una domanda molto personale: in che modo orinate? Hanno risposto di farlo in piedi davanti al water. In tal posizione può essere che, malgrado la migliore attenzione, qualche piccola goccia esca fuori senza volere, quando si gestisce una macchina mediatica internazionale complessa che con tempi frenetici pubblica in decine di lingue notizie che si susseguono veloci, rendendo talora inevitabile l’errore umano, the oversight, o la notizia stessa che, una volta data, può richiedere di essere integrata o corretta. Instead, una maestrina con la bacchetta in mano a caccia del minimo errore altrui, che si siede sul water e, sebbene seduta, sbaglia mira e la fa fuori, salvo dar poi agli altri degli ignoranti, degli incompetenti e persino dei soggetti che abusano del titolo di teologi senza a suo dire esserlo, difficilmente è giustificabile; non lo è lei e non lo sono gli avvelenati che insultano a raffica sul suo blog senza metterci la propria faccia e il proprio nome, nascosti, come tutti i vigliacchi, dietro l’anonimato.

From the island of Patmos, 10 May 2025

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If someone itchies, that scratches and accurate, Instead of making itchy gossip on the conclave - If Anyone Itches, let him scratch himself and keep quiet, rather than gossip about the Conclave

6 May 2025/in Actuality/by father ariel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Everyone has their own style, single or collective. In the first, as in the second case, It can be spontaneous, or studied at the table. The Fathers of the Island of Patmos, During their ten years of publicity activity, Starting from October 2014, several times for opportunities, Others for virtue of prudence, have given up on dealing with certain emerging issues related to the Church and the Papacy, Being first of all presbyters; editors and publicists to follow, But forward at all presbyters. Certain themes may require not to be silent, or worse hidden, but treated when you have more cognitive elements that can lead to a truthful, fair judgment.

When the doors of the Sistine Chapel will close, The church will have to deal with the various problems left inheritance by this pontificate, which remains judged overall only by history, perhaps even in many years. The Supreme Pontiff Francesco was elected after an act of renunciation by his predecessor, Rare event result for all of us traumatic, especially for the unhappy ways chosen at the time by Benedict XVI, complete with an extravagant invention of the "Emeritus Papacy", or of sviant terms as "extended papacy", "Active papacy and contemplative papacy" ...

That of the Holy Father Francis It is a pontificate that is placed in a social and geopolitical context of great decadence on a planetary level, With a sceristianization of Europe that has already reached irreversible levels for twenty years. Elsewhere, an bleeding of faithful was consumed in what were once the two lungs with which Catholicism breathed: Latin America and Africa. Francesco's was a pontificate full of problematicities, made of ambiguity and lack of clarity, There are no lack of forms of despotism put in place in the total contempt of ecclesiastical laws and rules. Deny that this pontiff will leave a confused church, divided and quarrelsome due to open processes on all fronts, based on the unusual principle that "the important thing is to open the processes" without however concluding and bringing them to full fulfillment, It means denying the most clear evidence of the facts. But, Those who tell us that in several years will not have to be made thanks to Francesco's pontificate for having preserved and saved the Church by problems and damage that without his action, not understandable on the spot, they would have been greater, or even irreparable? Francesco is a complicated man who fits as such in a very complicated historical moment, any judgment given to the present on him and his pontificate could be completely wrong tomorrow. Certain expressions or decisions judged as eccentric - and in fact they are -, how completely different could appear tomorrow? It wouldn't be the first time that certain men, not included at the moment in their action, they were subsequently celebrated as a personality that were on decades compared to the present time in which they lived. That's why sometimes, just when you are perplexed, disoriented and suffering for certain ambiguous attitudes and not easy even to decipher, while exercising the legitimate critical sense it deserves prudentially suspend the judgment.

One of the serious problems that this pontificate will leave to the next conclave it is given by the fact that the cardinal voters do not know each other among them. The last secret consistory took place in 2015. Let's clarify: The Consistor is the assembly of the cardinals convened by the Roman Pontiff and can be secret, public, semi-public (see WHO). The one in which only the cardinals gathered to discuss in private form are called "secret", i.e. secret, with the Supreme Pontiff, Regarding the various problems of the Church and its government. Today, to the serious problem of cardinals who do not know each other among them, Another unknown to the secularists of the international left who magnify the poor church for the poor adds it, so much poverty excites them in the houses and on the skin of others, praising this pontificate that would have appointed dozens of cardinals "from the suburbs of the world" and "from the poorest countries". We fly over the scarce doctrinal and theological formation by several of these sant'Uomini from those privileged situations for which today a cardinal purple can be deserved: "The suburbs" ... "poor countries"… Several of these cardinals are bishops of countries where the presence of Catholics cannot be called even a small minority: on the island of Tonga, whose bishop Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi is, The baptized Catholics are about 10.000. Cardinal was created in the 2020, at the age of just 46 year old, Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Vicar of Mongolia, where Catholics count 1.200 baptized on 3.300.000 inhabitants. These cardinal voters, Emblem of the "poor church for the poor" of the various "existential suburbs", they govern local churches that can survive and live in contexts of great discomfort and authentic poverty thanks to the donations that come to them as rich local churches, or by large foundations dependent or related to them. To be understood: A single Austrian parish, German, Australian, Canoeing About, North American … It can maintain an entire diocese alone in certain poor countries of Latin America, of Asia and Africa, where the relationship between the euro and the dollar and their national currency is totally disproportionate in purchase value.

Tomorrow, in the Sistine Chapel, a group of cardinals from these countries, rigorously chosen among the exponents of the so -called more advanced progressiveness, With delicate ease they will make people understand that the cords of the bag hold them, leaving dozens of "poor-peripheral-existential" cardinals the obligatory choice played on the survival of local churches that can live only thanks to external aid. Of course, once this was called simonia, Today it is called instead "poor church for the poor".

At present, the poor so exalted in this pontificate they were left hostage of the whims of the rich as never before, After giving life to a college of cardinal voters who do not represent the various items, The most diverse opinions and positions that have always enriched the church inside, but an univocal voice, monocorde e, not last: ruffiana. And among the various damage perpetrated, This will perhaps be the worst, because weighs as a heavy mortgage like lead on the next conclave. This with all due respect to the poor Church, that inside the Sistine chapel will beat the poor with the cords of the bag of the most progressive and more ideologized rich. And someone even called it "poor church for the poor".

From the island of Patmos, 5 May 2025

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

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

— Ecclesial actuality —

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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

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

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

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

Everyone has their own style, individual or collective. In the first, as in the second case, it can be spontaneous, or studied on the table. The Fathers of this magazine The Island of Patmos , during ten years of journalistic activity, starting from October 2014, several times due to opportunity, other times due to the virtue of prudence, have renounced dealing with emerging themes linked to the Church and the Papacy, being first and foremost presbyters ; editors and publicists to follow, but presbyters ahead of everything. Certain topics may require to be dealt with when there is greater knowledge that can lead to a truthful, fair and balanced judgement.

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When the doors of the Sistine Chapel close, the Church will have to deal with the various problems left as a legacy by this pontificate, which remains judgeable, overall, only by history, perhaps even many years from now. The Supreme Pontiff Francis was elected after an act of renunciation by his predecessor, a rare event and a traumatic for all of us, especially due to the unfortunate methods chosen at the time by Benedict XVI, complete with the extravagant invention of the «emeritus papacy», or misleading terms such as «enlarged papacy», «active papacy and contemplative papacy» (!?)…

That of the Holy Father Francis is a pontificate that takes place in a social and geopolitical context of great decadence on a global level, with a de-Christianization of Europe that has already reached irreversible levels for twenty years. Elsewhere a hemorrhage of faithful has taken place in what were once the two lungs with which Catholicism breathed: Latin America and Africa.

Francis’ pontificate was full of problems, ambiguities and lack of clarity, there were also forms of despotism in total contempt of ecclesiastical laws and rules. To deny that this Pontiff will leave a confused, divided and quarrelsome Church due to trials open on all fronts, based on the unusual principle that «the important thing is to open the trials», without however concluding them and bringing them to full completion, is to deny the clearest evidence of the facts. However, who tells us that in several years we will not have to thank the pontificate of Francis for having preserved and saved the Church from problems and damage which without his actions, not understandable at the time, would have been greater, or even irreparable? Francis is a complicated man who fits into a very complicated historical moment, any judgment given in the present about him and his pontificate, could be completely wrong tomorrow.

It would not be the first time that certain men, not understood at the time in their actions, were later celebrated as extraordinary personalities who were decades ahead of the present time in which they lived. This is why sometimes, precisely when one is perplexed, disoriented and grieve for certain ambiguous attitudes and not even easy to decipher, despite exercising legitimate critical sense, is necessary and prudently suspending judgement..

One of the serious problems this pontificate will leave for the next conclave is this: tthe cardinal electors do not know each other. The last secret consistory took place in 2015. Let’s clarify: the consistory is the assembly of cardinals convened by the Roman Pontiff and can be secret, public, semi-public. What is called “secret” is that in which only the cardinals gathered to discuss in a private, i.e. secret, form with the Supreme Pontiff participate, regarding the various problems of the Church and its government. Today, to the serious problem of the cardinals who do not know each other, there is another one unknown to the secularists of the international left who glorify «the poor Church for the poor», so much does poverty in the homes and on the lives of others excites them, praising this pontificate which has appointed dozens of cardinals «coming from the peripheries of the world» and «from the poorest countries».

Let us not dwell the poor doctrinal and theological training of several of these holy men coming from those privileged situations for which today they can deserve a cardinal’s purple: «the suburbs» … «the poor countries». Several of these cardinals are bishops of countries where the presence of Catholics cannot be defined as even a small minority: on the island of Tonga, of which Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi is bishop, there are around 10,000 baptized Catholics. Giorgio Marengo, apostolic vicar of Mongolia, where Catholics number 1,200 baptized out of 3,300,000 inhabitants, was created cardinal in 2020, at the age of just 46. These cardinal electors, emblem of the «poor Church for the poor» of the various «existential peripheries», govern local churches that can survive and live in contexts of great hardship and authentic poverty thanks to the donations that come to them from rich local churches, or from large foundations on linked to them. To be clear: a single Austrian, German, Australian, Canadian or North American parish can maintain an entire diocese in certain poor countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa, where the relationship between the Euro and the Dollar and their national currency is totally disproportionate in terms of purchase value.

Tomorrow, in the Sistine Chapel, a group of cardinals from these countries, rigorously chosen by Holy Father among the exponents of the so-called most advanced progressivism, will with delicate ease make it clear that they hold the purse strings, leaving dozens of “poor-peripheral-existential” cardinals the forced choice based on the survival of their local churches that can only live thanks to external aid. Of course, once this was called simony, today it is instead called «poor church for the poor».

At present the poor so exalted in this pontificate have been left hostage to the whims of the rich as they had never been before, after having given life to a College of cardinal electors who do not represent the various and noumerous voices, opinions and positions that have always enriched the Church internally, but a single, monotonous voice. And among the various damages perpetrated, this will perhaps be the worst, because it weighs like a lead-heavy mortgage on the next conclave. With all due respect to the poor Church, which inside the Sistine Chapel will strangle the poor, with the purse strings by rich most progressive and ideologicalized.

From The Island of Patmos, May 5, 2025

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The Holy Spirit, The conclave and the election of the Roman Pontiff bishop of Rome – The Holy Spirit, the conclave and the election of the Roman Pontiff Bishop of Rome

1 May 2025/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

(English text after the Italian)

The Holy Spirit, The conclave and the election of the Roman Pontiff bishop of Rome

A soma animal cannot aspire to become a racing horse. Grace perfects the nature that exists in man, but it can't distort it, because it does not go beyond nature that is not there, So teaches the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Cap.

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In time of vacancies, The fever of the conclave infects everyone: Both believers and non -believers are careful not to follow the prudent protocol of a "vigilant expectation" and everyone launches into predictions that mostly reflect their personal desires to outline the profile of the next vicar of Christ.

Among the various fans how not to include romantics, those who insist on arguing that the new pope will be elected by the Holy Spirit in person. that way, This concept means little or nothing, If not for a certain trusty coloring. but yet, If we go deeper than the thought of these simple souls we will discover that this idea sounds like a sort of insurance policy that should make cardinal voters and the people of God safe from unfortunate or embarrassing situations. For charity, A legitimate position which, however, does not take into account the dynamics with which the Holy Spirit actually acts in the history of man really, Just as he acted in the life of the Lord Jesus and the Church in his two thousand years.

Example: If we take the genealogy of the Gospels, We can perhaps say that within that story of those names made of specific events the action of the Holy Spirit has always been present? My old professor of fundamental morality - Jesuit shrewd of the old company of Jesus - would have replied: "Yes and no". Would have said Yes for the fact that the result of genealogy and the person of Jesus born from Mary, no for the fact that among those cited people who have built the historical scaffolding, Relational and family that has allowed the embodiment of the verb we must detect numerous and abundant fragility and resistance to grace that are not at all new in the history of man.

Someone could objectively object, "Well, Oh well, The important thing is the final result ", This is true as long as we talk about Christ and as long as we take him as a last reference, But when there is man this is still true? To go even deeper, After the ascension of the Lord, The ground time of the Risen One ends and the time of the Church begins, in which they are men, Apostles and disciples of Christ, to carry on a deposit that was entrusted to him by the Master. The book of the acts of the apostles shows us several times that the trend of the Church has not always been peaceful and without problems, Even after Pentecost and the gift of the Holy Spirit. And over time, The situation has not changed much. We must be honest in considering the Holy Spirit not as a severe tutor that leads obtorto neck his disciple by force of slap but like an wise and prudent pedagogue that leaves a lot of space and freedom to his disciple always staying a few steps from him, Also allowing the healthy and inevitable falls.

This means in a nutshell? It means that - as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in 1997 - The Holy Spirit does not intervene with his finger of fire in the Sistine chapel indicating the candidate for which he should vote, But intervenes in the mind of the cardinals with a fair human and historical discernment oriented to choose the candidate who debates between the banks of the "worst" and the "slightly less worse". Beyond the joke, The history of the Church teaches that among the various vicars of Christ not all of them were the champions and the pious, rather. Some have done a lot of damage - it is undeniable - but at the same time they have also been able to give the Church something good in the times when they lived and exercised the Petrine Ministry, In this we can certainly see the action of the Holy Spirit, In that little good that has not been completely ruined by bulky personalities and social and political interference together with sympathies and human alliances.

This is precisely the elasticity that the Holy Spirit exercises in the Church without depriving the man of his freedom and without coating him to the good. Next to the Holy Spirit-let's face it once-there is also the anti-Spriter that makes many cantonate take and resides in the stubbornness of the man who wants to make his own head relegating the Holy Spirit to the only time of the song of the I came Creator.

Attribute to the Holy Spirit everything that happens inside a conclave or during a celebration of a synod or a chapter it would be pure superstition and naivety. We have to dare and be sufficiently sorted in recognizing that the anti-Spite works months earlier to guide the fate of an event, It matters little if it is a conclave or a condominium meeting.

The hope that we all nourish it is that the Holy Spirit can speak to the heart of the cardinals making the truth shine and together by instilling the courage of a change or the beginning of a new move. A high -speed train cannot be stopped in a bang, It needs time and maneuvering space. So it is in the Church, There is always a need for a reversal of course and a conversion but nothing can happen suddenly or after a conclave. Often, It is the story that tells us, The damage done by some popes needed years to be repaired, Other times decades, sometimes, to remedy, It was necessary to convene an ecumenical council. Or perhaps we want to forget that both the Lateran Council is the Council of Trento, They were also the consequence of several not particularly recommended popes that have followed between poorly built political events, Power struggles, financial intrallazzi and simonia?

The 7 May the conclave will begin, The human matter within which the next vicar of Christ will be chosen is represented by the Cardinal College made, as in the case of genealogy, of men who know little about each other, fragile and sometimes refractory to grace. This must not be a reason for discouragement, but only of healthy realism. A soma animal cannot aspire to become a racing horse. Grace perfects the nature that exists in man, but it can't distort it, because it does not go beyond nature that is not there, So teaches the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas: «Grace does not preclude nature but it perfects» (QUESTION, I, I, 8 ad 2). The Holy Spirit is not the magic wand that automatically and unquestionably dictates the right choices but is the attentive observer of man's dialogue with God, It is there to support this dialogue for the good of the Church and for the salvation of man. But when the man explodes from his accompaniment here we experience all the inconvenience of destabilizing and divisive choices. In this case - as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said - the only security that the Holy Spirit offers is that between the various falls and stubborn of man and the Church, everything does not come totally and irreparably ruined.

In short, The Holy Spirit has yet to put us na 'pezza, We trust in this with the wisdom of the Roman people, with which we agree when he says that "a pope died always another". This is encouraging, This we want and together we hope that the next Roman Pontiff bishop of Rome will be given by God, not tolerated for human agreements, nor inflicted as the result of the Entes.

Sanluri, 30 April 2025

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THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE CONCLAVE AND THE ELECTION OF THE ROMAN PONTIFF BISHOP OF ROME

A pack animal cannot aspire to become a racehorse. Grace perfects the nature that exists in man, but cannot denature it, because it does not go beyond the nature that does not exist, as the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas teaches.

— Ecclesial actuality —

Author
Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Cap.

In times of vacant see, the fever of the Conclave infects everyone: both believers and non-believers are careful not to follow the prudent protocol of “watchful waiting” and everyone launches into predictions that mostly reflect their own personal desires to outline the profile of the next Vicar of Christ.

Among the various fans, how can we not include the romantics, those who insist on maintaining that the new Pope will be elected by the Holy Spirit himself. Said in this way, this concept means little or nothing, if not for a certain fideistic coloration. Yet, if we delve deeper into the thinking of these simple souls, we will discover that this idea sounds like a sort of insurance policy that should protect the cardinal electors and the People of God from unpleasant or embarrassing situations. A legitimate position that however does not take into account the dynamics with which the Holy Spirit actually acts in the history of man, just as he acted in the life of the Lord Jesus and of the Church in its two thousand years.

Example: if we take the Genealogy of the Gospels, can we perhaps say that within that history of those names made up of specific events the action of the Holy Spirit has always been present? My old professor of fundamental morality — a shrewd Jesuit of the old school by Company of Jesus — would have answered: “Yes and no”. He would have said yes because the result of the Genealogy is the person of Jesus born of Mary, no because among those people cited who built the historical, relational and family scaffolding that allowed the incarnation of the Word we must note numerous and abundant fragilities and resistances to grace that are not at all new in the history of man.

Someone might hastily object, «Well, okay, the important thing is the final result», this is true as long as we talk about Christ and as long as we take him as the final reference, but when there is man is this still true? To go even deeper, after the Ascension of the Lord, the earthly time of the Risen One ends and the time of the Church begins, in which it is men, apostles and disciples of Christ, who carry forward a deposit that was entrusted to them by the Master. The book of the Acts of the Apostles shows us several times that the progress of the Church has not always been peaceful and free of problems, even after Pentecost and the gift of the Holy Spirit. And over time, the situation has not changed much. We must be honest in considering the Holy Spirit not as a severe tutor who reluctantly leads his disciple by force of slaps but as a wise and prudent pedagogue who leaves a lot of space and freedom to his disciple by always remaining a few steps away from him, even allowing for healthy and inevitable falls.

What does this mean in a nutshell? It means that — as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in 1997 — the Holy Spirit does not intervene with his fiery finger in the Sistine Chapel indicating the candidate for whom one should vote, but intervenes in the minds of the cardinals with a discreet human and historical discernment aimed at choosing the candidate who is torn between the shores of “worse” and “slightly less worse”. Beyond the bad joke, the history of the Church teaches that among the various Vicars of Christ not all have been champions and pious, on the contrary. Some have done a lot of damage — it is undeniable — but at the same time they have also been able to give the Church something good in the times in which they lived and exercised the Petrine ministry, in this we can certainly see the action of the Holy Spirit, in that little bit of good that has not been completely ruined by cumbersome personalities and by social and political interference together with human sympathies and alliances.

This is the elasticity that the Holy Spirit exercises in the Church without depriving man of his freedom and without forcing him to do good. Alongside the Holy Spirit there is also the anti-spirit that causes so many blunders and resides in the stubbornness of man who wants to do things his own way, relegating the Holy Spirit to the sole moment of singing the I came Creator.

To attribute to the Holy Spirit everything that happens inside a Conclave or during a celebration of a Synod or a Chapter would be pure superstition and naivety. We must dare and be sufficiently shrewd to recognize that the anti-spirit works months in advance to direct the fate of an event, it matters little whether it is a Conclave or a condominium meeting.

The hope we all have is that the Holy Spirit can speak to the hearts of the cardinals, making the Truth shine and at the same time instilling the courage to change or begin a new step. A high-speed train cannot be stopped suddenly, it needs time and room to maneuver. So it is in the Church, there is always a need for a change of direction and a conversion but nothing can happen suddenly or after a Conclave. Often, history tells us, the damage done by some Popes has taken years to repair, other times decades, sometimes, to remedy it, it has been necessary to convene an ecumenical council. Or perhaps we want to forget that both the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent were also the consequence of several not particularly recommendable Pontiffs who followed one another amidst less than edifying political events, power struggles, financial intrigues and simony?

The Conclave will begin on May 7th. The human matter within which the next Vicar of Christ will be chosen is represented by the College of Cardinals made up, as in the case of the Genealogy, of men who know little about each other, fragile and sometimes refractory to grace. This should not be a reason for discouragement, but only for healthy realism. A pack animal cannot aspire to become a racehorse. Grace perfects the nature that exists in man, but cannot denature it, because it does not go beyond the nature that does not exist, as the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas teaches: "Grace does not preclude nature but it perfects" (QUESTION, I, I, 8 ad 2). The Holy Spirit is not the magic wand that automatically and unquestionably dictates the right choices but is the attentive observer of the dialogue of man with God, he is there to support this dialogue for the good of the Church and for the salvation of man. But when man separates himself from his accompaniment, we experience all the discomforts of destabilizing and divisive choices. In this case — as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said — the only security that the Holy Spirit offers is that among the various falls and stubbornness of man and the Church, everything will not be totally and irreparably ruined.

The Holy Spirit still has to patch us up, we trust in this with the wisdom of the Roman people, with whom we agree when they say that «when a Pope dies, another is always made». This is encouraging, this is what we desire and together we hope that the next Roman Pontiff Bishop of Rome will be given by God, not tolerated by human agreements, nor inflicted as the result of the anti-spirit.

Sanluri, April 30, 2025

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