AFTER THEY CARRIED THE MADONNA BADOMASUS AND THE CHRIST IN THE HIGH HEELS IN PROCESSION TO THE GAY PRIDE, I AM UNDER TRIAL FOR GIVING INCONSISTENT TO AN LGBT PROMOTER

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I am in the hands of your generosity: on one side I have only you, on the other, a pack of wolves who certainly do not want my condemnation - which is realistically unlikely - but that of the Catholic Church, to attach an ideological medal on the chest and continue to slap us with the next sadomasochistic Madonna or with the next Christ on high heels, bordering on complaints if anyone dares to reply to the promoters of the fascism of anti-fascism, at the intolerance of the tolerant and to discriminazione dei paladini della antidiscriminazione.

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The sadomasochistic Madonna carried the procession on 5 giugno al Gay Pride di Cremona dai fascists of anti-fascism and come on discriminatori dell’antidiscriminazione

I soliti lobbisti LGBT hanno portato in processione al gay pride di Cremona la Madonna sadomaso preceduta lo scorso anno dal Cristo in minigonna sui tacchi a spillo e varie altre amenità inscenate a queste parate porcine. Non si sa bene sulla base di quali libertà, perché la dissacrazione di tutto ciò che è cattolico non rientra nelle libertà sancite dalla Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana.

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While in the streets of Cremona the statue of the sadomasochistic Madonna paraded through the work of the most creative gaiety that has always felt free to express outrages to Christian sentiments, I find myself under criminal trial because sued by a promoter LGBT, complete with an association belonging to the most radical segment of the lobby LGBT which filed a civil party. For what damage is not known.

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My respect for the law it does not allow me to give you details and to go into details, because the trials are held in the courtrooms, not in the newspapers or in the squares. It is the judges who have to judge, not the supporters of the parties involved. I can only tell you that in a legitimately controversial area, perhaps animated but not insulting, without harming the dignity of the human person, I publicly reproached a promoter LGBT committed to the defense of "civil rights" to be inconsistent and to "spit on the plate where he ate", because while on the one hand it supported ideology gender, marriage between same-sex couples, the adoption of children for gay couples, abortion and euthanasia considered social achievements and to follow all the things that I do not share but that anyone is totally free to express, at the same time he was studying at a Catholic university owned by the Holy See, even benefiting from a scholarship, while his colleagues paid 20.000 euros to do that same two-year master. Request: to me a Catholic priest and theologian, would be allowed to join and join an association LGBT con tutte le mie convinzioni morali, sapendo che non perdo occasione per rigettare ciò che di ideologico queste associazioni propagano? Questioni di pura e semplice coerenza. Se uno è contrario a tutto ciò che la Chiesa Cattolica insegna sul piano morale — ed è libero di esserlo — perché andare a studiare proprio in un’università cattolica di proprietà della Santa Sede con tanto di borsa di studio? The nature of this controversial debate was so clear that the Public Prosecutor ordered the filing "due to particular tenuousness of the fact". However, my plaintiff filed an objection to the dismissal order, forcing me to go through a trial, which means first of all spending money.

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The logic of the whole is simple and clear: hit one to put it to bed 100, because the sadomasochistic Madonna and the Christ in a miniskirt on stilettos are fine, they are part of the gay freedom of expression, but a critical response to these activists and promoters is not allowed, May! Not only: you end up in court with a lot of association LGBT who forms a civil party in order to claim damages (!?).

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Unfortunately I have no back neither a law firm that sponsors Catholic activists nor a Catholic association that supports them financially. But I am a priest and a theologian with a courage recognized even by my worst enemies, which allows me to work to give a voice to many Catholics, increasingly pushed towards a new Indian reservation by the intolerance of the tolerant, or if you prefer come on fascists of anti-fascism.

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Last year I asked the readers for help, you gave it to me and I am grateful to you. Thanks to your free offers, I was able to pay the legal fees incurred up to now, but unfortunately I have to sustain others for the subsequent phases of a process that should have ended with an archiving but which was pushed up to the sentence, with all that it will entail not so much in time as unfortunately in expenses. If you believe that mine is a work that really gives voice to the thought of many of you forced to remain silent, please support me, because I can't rely on anyone's help.

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When this story is over I will give you a precise account of all the progress, but I can't do it now, because as I explained I would lack respect for Justice and those who are called to administer it.

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I am in the hands of your generosity: on one side I have only you, on the other, a pack of wolves who certainly do not want my condemnation - which is realistically unlikely - but that of the Catholic Church, to attach an ideological medal on the chest and continue to slap us with the next sadomasochistic Madonna or with the next Christ on high heels, bordering on complaints if anyone dares to reply to the promoters of the fascism of anti-fascism, at the intolerance of the tolerant and to discriminazione dei paladini della antidiscriminazione.

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the Island of Patmos, 21 June 2022

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IL COVID CI IMPEDIVA DI METTERE L’ACQUA NELLE ACQUESANTIERE MA IL CLERICAMENTE CORRETTO CI “ALLOWS” DI BENEDIRE LE COPPIE DI GAY DOPO LA LORO UNIONE CIVILE IN MUNICIPIO

Il presbitero che ha inscenato e presieduto il tutto si è affrettato a giustificare che sono state solo benedette due persone. E, se dopo la Comunione Eucaristica i due “sposini amorosi” sono saliti all’altare per ricevere un grembiule, simbolo del servizio da loro prestato a questo gruppo di cattolici LGBT in cammino, ciò «non è stato un gesto liturgico», It stated, pure se il tutto è avvenuto nell’ambito della sacra liturgia e non nella sala da fumo del bar poco distante dalla chiesa parrocchiale, perché quando certi tipi di preti pensano di poter prendere in giro gli altri credendosi di prassi più scaltri, finiscono col perdere sia il senso del ridicolo che quello della umana decenza.

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Non è paradosso né ossimoro ma semplice realtà: per disposizione della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana è stato proibito per due anni di mettere l’acqua lustrale dentro le acquasantiere delle chiese per evitare di veicolare la diffusione e il contagio da Covid-19, solo in questi giorni ne è stato ripristinato l’uso. A wise and prudent choice already adopted in past centuries during the great plagues. Similar caution was not applied to other cases linked to more serious epidemics. And so, directly in the diocese governed by the President of the Assembly of Italian Bishops, two proudly practicing homosexuals who shortly before sealed their "civil union" in the nearby municipal building of Budrio in the province of Bologna were welcomed into the church and blessed.

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We "old priests" born under the pontificate of the Holy Pontiff Paul VI and raised under the long pontificate of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II, we were used to the idea that the worst virus was sin, forge of all the worst pandemics. Today I must acknowledge that we were wrong. In truth, it was only the holy water piles, to be potential vehicles for viral infections and pandemic development.

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In the light of ecclesial and ecclesiastical logic I would like to point out that I doubt he was adequately informed on Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, by the priest-comedians of this sacrilegious drama, because it is a sacrilegious act, there is little to go around it. If he had been informed, I doubt he would have consented, above all knowing what media hype certain gay antics have always aroused, expanded, in the specific case, from the delicate role covered by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna, which is President of the Italian Episcopal Conference. For this I believe a priori in the total innocence of Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, who was certainly the first victim of this drama, which I dispatch for him, because he is a good man, fair and always very welcoming and caring towards priests, ever since he was auxiliary bishop in Rome.

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Let's summarize the news and then move on to comment on a word and a concept that has now become taboo: sin. On 11 June it happened that two young men made their "civil union" official in the Municipality of Budrio in the province of Bologna. The time to cross the square to reach the parish church of San Lorenzo, dove erano attesi da una folla festante e da 14 sacerdoti concelebranti, verosimilmente tutti clerical gay friendly. A presiedere la sacra liturgia è stato Gabriele Davalli, Diocesan manager - unbelievable, hear! ― della pastorale della famiglia e arciprete di una parrocchia limitrofa, che aveva seguito i due “sposini amorosi” durante il loro cammino nel gruppo di Cattolici LGBT.

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Alcuni confratelli di quel presbiterio hanno contattato la nostra redazione precisando:

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«Casomai il responsabile della sceneggiata volesse correggere il tiro a danno ormai compiuto, saying he only blessed two people, know that all the annexes and connected typical of wedding ceremonies were present, give flowers to the photographer to shoot the two in the front row under the presbytery " [cf.. WHO].

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And as they predicted it went just like that: the presbyter who staged and presided over everything was quick to justify that only two people were blessed. E, se dopo la Comunione Eucaristica i due “sposini amorosi” sono saliti all’altare per ricevere un grembiule, simbolo del servizio da loro prestato a questo gruppo di cattolici LGBT in cammino, ciò «non è stato un gesto liturgico», It stated, pure se il tutto è avvenuto nell’ambito della sacra liturgia e non nella sala da fumo del bar poco distante dalla chiesa parrocchiale, perché quando certi tipi di preti pensano di poter prendere in giro gli altri credendosi di prassi più scaltri, finiscono col perdere sia il senso del ridicolo che quello della umana decenza. What else to add: every comment to such a lot of hypocrisy clerical chic it would be superfluous, so we conclude with a question destined to remain unanswered, and then move on to more serious things. I don't know who formed the presbyter Gabriele Davalli in fundamental theology and Catholic morality. But, since it was definitely me who was badly formed, that among my precious formators I also had the Cardinal Carlo Caffara, in a calm way, indeed in a timid way, with the blush that burns my cheeks, because as you know I'm a shy country boy, in a subdued way I dare to ask: Gabriele Davalli, after having admitted to Eucharistic Communion two gays declared fresh "newlyweds" and after having given them the apron, symbol of the service provided before the end of the Holy Mass, were you aware or not that in the evening, the two, they will surely have celebrated by hugging each other, with a lot of ceremony and blessing received in the morning during the Holy Mass? Or do you think maybe, dear gabriele davalli, that in the evening they went to bed reciting the Holy Rosary to the Blessed Virgin Mary asking for her intercession to have the support and strength necessary not to fall into shameful sin? This, it would be what I would ask Gabriele Davalli if I were his bishop, which obviously, by his grace and by my grace, are not.

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The sad truth is that one diocesan responsible for pastoral care for the family and thirteen other priests gay friendly who concelebrated by turning the Eucharist into a sacrilegious theater, they actually blessed sin and publicly confirmed two people in mortal sin. And if anyone is able to prove me wrong - at the head of all the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna, which as I repeat I consider completely not guilty, as well as a good and just man - come forward and show me otherwise. Above all I wish that, bishops in the lead, tell me publicly - not with the classic regretted private letter - that the Catholic theology and morality with which I was trained I can safely throw them down the toilet and then flush the drain. But above all I would like them to explain to me that everything that until yesterday was an ugly mortal sin, today it has become love to be welcomed and blessed. After they explain this to me, publicly, the next day I will return my mandate to the exercise of the sacred priestly ministry in the hands of the bishop who gave it to me and I will retire to private life.

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In civil society being homosexual and practicing homosexuality is not a crime. I add: and it never could be, I would be the first to take to the streets to protest, if anyone tried to prosecute homosexuals as such in any capacity. Homosexuality is not a disease, at the limit it can be a more or less serious psychological disorder or discomfort in those who live it badly or in those who do not accept it and who therefore suffer from it. As a Catholic priest and as a theologian I have always recognized people the right to live the sexuality they want and not to be discriminated in any way for their sexual choices and practices., the Catechism of the Catholic Church also says so, which incidentally it is good to remember:

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2357 ― «L’omosessualità designa le relazioni tra uomini o donne che provano un’attrattiva sessuale, esclusiva o predominante, verso persone del medesimo sesso. Si manifesta in forme molto varie lungo i secoli e nelle differenti culture. La sua genesi psichica rimane in gran parte inspiegabile. Appoggiandosi sulla Sacra Scrittura, che presenta le relazioni omosessuali come gravi depravazioni (cf.. GN 19,1-29; RM 1,24-27; 1 Color 6,9-10; 1 TM 1,10) la Tradizione ha sempre dichiarato che “gli atti di omosessualità sono intrinsecamente disordinati” (cf.. Human person, n. 8). Sono contrari alla legge naturale. Precludono all’atto sessuale il dono della vita. Non sono il frutto di una vera complementarità affettiva e sessuale. In nessun caso possono essere approvati».

2358 ― «Un numero non trascurabile di uomini e di donne presenta tendenze omosessuali profondamente radicate. Questa inclinazione, oggettivamente disordinata, costituisce per la maggior parte di loro una prova. Perciò devono essere accolti con rispetto, compassion, delicacy. A loro riguardo si eviterà ogni marchio di ingiusta discriminazione. Such people are called to carry out God's will in their life, e, if they are Christian, to unite the difficulties they may encounter as a result of their condition to the sacrifice of the Lord's cross ".

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For me the question is entirely theological, since I am a priest and not a theologian master chef. If God did not prevent Adam and Eve from committing original sin, we can perhaps prevent us, to men, to commit sins? Because, whether some of my worldly brothers like it or not gay friendly, ready if necessary to disguise a farcical "marriage" between two men as a blessing that as such is not denied to anyone, in any case, the fact remains that for Catholic morality and the law of God in which it is rooted "acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered". Once the act has been condemned, that is sin, regarding single homosexuals instead, that is, the sinners, Catholic morality clarifies: «[…] they must be received with respect, compassion, delicacy. In their regard, any mark of unjust discrimination will be avoided ". All this always repeating, as it regards the sin, that certain acts "are not the fruit of a true emotional and sexual complementarity" and that "in no case can they be approved".

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Sodomy is a grave sin against nature created and ordained by God. So if certain priests knew and practiced the basic elements of Catholic theology and morality, if they simply knew the Catechism, rather than disguising the "sham marriage" of two men as a "blessing", they should be aware that sin is part of the exercise of man's full freedom and free will, but that sin disfigures the soul of the sinner and causes scandal to the community of believers. Therefore, the sin, yes, it is part of the full exercise of human freedom, but it is not, however, a right and no one, especially within the Church, can claim it as such, not even the couples of homosexual "loving newlyweds".

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Several times in my public writings, but also during my private conversations with those confreres who use me as a spiritual director or as a confessor, I found myself explaining the substantial difference between sin and sinner, especially to young priests who have come out of set of that science fiction film to which our seminars all peace are now reduced, joy and love. We priests, as sanctifiers, teachers and guides of the People of God we not only have the duty to reject sin, because on our priestly consciences there is the imperative and the obligation to fight it. The sinner's speech is different, which is ours where it is our duty to welcome, assist and love, especially those who commit the gravest sins, because above all for them Christ shed his redemptive blood on the cross. So, if instead of welcoming the sinner we reject him as such, we would betray and profane in the worst way the holy mission that Christ God has entrusted to us through the institution of the ministerial priesthood.

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The underlying problem is that an army of sixty-eight presbyters and sixty-eight grandchildren raised by them and raised to an overdose of unspecified peace, joy and love, they no longer know the difference between sin and sinner, which is a fundamental and substantial difference. Useless as it may be, perché nulla di ciò che è strutturalmente ideologico può essere scalfito, cerchiamo adesso di comprendere bene quel pericolo mortale costituito dal terrificante peccato propagato dai lobbisti LGBT, di cui lungamente ebbi a parlare nei miei lunghi colloqui privati con il Cardinale Carlo Caffarra. Questo pericolo ― che ripeto è mortale e terrificante ― è dato dal fatto che gruppi costituiti da sedicenti cattolici auto-denominatisi “Cattolici LGBT” si stanno facendo largo all’interno della Chiesa e delle comunità parrocchiali, infinocchiando in modo grandioso vescovi, preti e suorine stolte. E si stanno facendo largo non per essere seguiti e curati spiritualmente, non per curare le loro fragilità e ferite, non per cercare di sanare le loro anime dal virus epidemico del peccato, ma per essere legittimati e confermati nel peccato mortale. Trappola questa nella quale un esercito di vescovi, preti e suorine stolte stanno cadendo come pesci dentro la rete. La lobby LGBT è entrata ormai da un decennio dentro la Chiesa come un cavallo di troia per rivendicare e dimostrare che il primo a sbagliarsi è stato anzitutto Dio nel crearci maschio e femmina. In errore non sono loro, sempre ammantati di vittimismo e dolorismo, lo è la Chiesa che con la sua “retrive” e “cupa” morale osa impedire a due gay o a due lesbiche di amarsi, negando a questo modo — a loro dire — l’essenza stessa del Santo Vangelo, che è amore e solo amore. Of course, che il Santo Vangelo è amore, basterebbe però chiedersi e comprendere quale vero amore diffonde, perché l’amore che annuncia finisce a sanguinare sulla croce con quattro chiodi piantati nella carne e con una corona di spine sulla testa, cosa del tutto diversa dai tripudi porcini e dissacranti the various gay pride, che anche di recente ci hanno regalato la Madonna sadomaso e Cristo sui tacchi a spillo. O forse il Santo Vangelo, in nome di un non meglio precisato “amore”, ci consente di benedire l’unione di due uomini, di festeggiarli in chiesa e di ammetterli alla Comunione Eucaristica, affinché possano rientrare la sera nella loro camera da letto, “benedetti” e “santificati”, a sodomizzarsi a vicenda in nome dell’amore? È forse questo l’amore annunciato dal Santo Vangelo?

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Fu per questo motivo than in 2009, quel sapiente uomo di Dio del Cardinale Carlo Caffarra, pur ricoperto di tutte le peggiori contumelie, criticato e insultato su tutta la stampa gay friendly of the left radical chic, proibì a un coro composto da 25 omosessuali dichiarati di radunarsi nei locali della parrocchia bolognese di San Bartolomeo della Beverara. Perché un conto è accogliere il singolo omosessuale, che va accolto, respected, amato e accudito spiritualmente, always. Altra cosa permettere che direttamente all’interno delle strutture ecclesiali ed ecclesiastiche siano costituiti gruppi di non meglio precisati omosessuali cattolici, che come l’esperienza ci insegna e come di prassi è quasi sempre accaduto, pongono anzitutto in discussione la dottrina e la morale della Chiesa Cattolica. Perché è la Chiesa, che deve piegarsi al capriccio del loro peccato, accoglierlo e legittimarlo, infine benedirlo. Cosa questa che la Chiesa non potrà mai fare.

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Ogni tanto qualche vescovo mi accusa di usare toni forti, others, molto più numerosi, mi pregano invece di dare pubblica voce a ciò che loro non sempre possono dire in toni forti. E come potrei non usare toni forti, di fronte a un esercito sempre più fitto di preti che non sono più in grado di distinguere neppure il peccato dal peccatore? Però il problema non sono loro, sono io che sono duro. E nella Chiesa visibile intrisa di un non meglio precisato amore la durezza non è ammessa, perché ormai non siamo più «il sale della terra» [Mt 5, 13] ma lo zucchero della terra. As a result, benedire in chiesa durante l’azione liturgica due omosessuali che la sera tornano a giocare alla cavallina, questa è cosa veramente buona e giusta, almeno per tutti coloro che hanno deciso di mutarsi in zucchero della terra.

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Ogni stagione storica ha i suoi personaggi, ma in circostanze di questo genere sentiamo certamente la mancanza del Sommo Pontefice Giovanni Paolo II. Perché in casi più o meno analoghi, verificatisi ormai in numerose diocesi del mondo, non avrebbe esitato a chiamare dinanzi a sé i rispettivi vescovi. E per spirito di autentica carità cristiana gli assistenti di camera, prima del loro ingresso in udienza, avrebbero raccomandato: "Excellence, prima di recarsi dal Sommo Pontefice passi dalla Farmacia Vaticana, acquisti e indossi il pannolone di contenzione, perché sarebbe sicuramente imbarazzante, per lei come per chiunque, pisciarsi addosso dinanzi al Santo Padre». Oggi le cose sono cambiate, abbiamo il presbitero padovano Marco Pozza, per gli amici Don Spritz, that in jeans e scarpette da ginnastica slacciate va a intervistare il Santo Padre e che non avendo di meglio da fare pubblica un messaggio di auguri per una coppia di suoi amici gay in occasione del loro matrimonio, salvo correggere poco dopo il post cambiando la parola “marriage” with “unione civile”. Ciò che però solo importa è di non presentarsi dinanzi al Santo Padre con una talare romana addosso e un rispettoso ferraiolo sulle spalle, perché in quel caso si può correre il rischio di essere fulminati con uno sguardo. Ma tutto finirebbe con un’occhiata fulminea, perché per far pisciare addosso qualcuno occorrerebbe la tempra che all’occorrenza sapeva avere il Santo Pontefice Giovanni Paolo II, ma soprattutto sarebbe necessaria la sua santità, perché solo i Santi, when the case requires it, riescono anche a farti pisciare addosso per la salvezza della tua anima.

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Mio amato e venerato Carlo Caffarra, provo santa invidia per te, che sei stato chiamato nel settembre 2017 alla Casa del Padre, dove vorrei essere anch’io, risparmiando così a me stesso l’abominio della desolazione che ci attende, why now, certi nostri pavidi e improvvidi vescovi, amorevoli verso il peccato ma stizzosi verso quei loro preti che il peccato osano sempre condannarlo, da tempo ci stanno facendo veramente aspirare la grande grazia della morte.

the Island of Patmos, 16 June 2022

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THE "UNFORGIVABLE" SINS OF PRIESTS BEFORE THE HOLY VIRTUES OF THE ANALPHABETIC CATHOLICS OF THE FAITH

… we could modify and rewrite the final part of our profession of faith: “I believe in social media and in the life of the world to come ". And if anything,, rather than the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, we could rename it Symbol of faith of the illiterate Catholic, who laughs at knowledge and who gave life to the faith of «… according to me, I think that …". And all this, that is very clear: it is not the fault of the priests at all.

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using fiction fantasy Father Ariel S.. Levi di Gualdo has given those who question and seek answers a journey into the mystery of life by enclosing the doctrine on hindmost behind the lines of a dystopian novel or “fantateologico”

In putting his hand to a new book or articles related to the doctrine of the faith, I always ask myself a question: this further waste of time is necessary, considered that the first to show that they want bread, circus and a lot of itch are the Catholics first, or self-styled, or the little that remains of the disastrous Catholic world? It is legitimate and admissible for a presbyter and a theologian to be assailed by questions that lead him to ask such serious and heavy questions to himself.?

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In the digital age i social media they have brought out legions of fools who until yesterday discussed the most complex historical issues in a bizarre way, social, political and religious giving their "pearls of wisdom" in bars or hairdressing salons, where everything remained enclosed at the end of their "learned" discussions. Today, in the wrecked upside-down world we live in, in a condition of irreversible decay - a phenomenon I have been talking about and writing about for two decades now -, the ignorant equipped with a culture that does not even reach a medium-low level, plagued by those forms of illiteracy that can be both recurrent and digital, on social media it can have ratings and a following that the most qualified scientific experts or popularizers cannot even imagine. Just think of the so-called influence, which, as the name implies, have the worst influences on our young people and adolescents, it is useless to detail at what low and immoral levels.

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In this confused chaos we also find a large army of true or presumed Catholics, launch into the spasmodic morbid search for things that can excite their itches, but they have nothing to do with the truths of the revealed faith. At most, theirs is pure fideism, almost always supported by magical elements, superstitious, esoteric, millennial, in conclusion: decadent neopaganism, which has nothing to do with that great pagan culture to which Christianity is the first to be indebted, it is enough to quote Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, to follow the great thinkers, Roman literati and jurists.

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To returning illiteracy and digital illiteracy is joined by another form of illiteracy, that of the illiterate in the doctrine of the faith, the arrogance of which is often greater than their own ignorance. May it never be that a priest or a theologian dares to intervene, worse to recall or highlight the errors of certain illiterates in the doctrine of the faith. I've done it several times too, generally with these results: the dialogue begins with an aggressive "you are incompetent because you don't know that ...", to end with an imperative «be ashamed!», if not worse with a lapidary «you are a priest ashamed!».

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I social media they should not be underestimated with a spirit of superiority and snobbery clerical-chic, because they constitute a world in which hordes of Catholics or presumed Catholics bask in the most unlikely Marian apparitions ever recognized by the Church, who often publicly disavowed them in a decisive and unappealable way, they were so false, but above all deviant for the faith, especially of the simplest and most fragile people. Amazing revelations about the true Third Secret of Fatima follow, according to them, kept hidden by the Church in a malicious way. The "prophecies" of Nostradamus, written in quatrains so ambiguous that anyone can come up with anything they want afterwards. The sensational falsehood of the "prophecies about popes" attributed to the Irishman St. Malachi Bishop of Armagh, lived in the twelfth century, widely denied by the learned Jesuit scholar Claude-Francois Menestrier at the end of the 17th century^[1] and already reworked à manipulated earlier in the sixteenth century. The "prophecies" of the Blessed are also very tantalizing Anna Katharina Emmerick, declared inauthentic by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the same time as his beatification^[2]. Although unfortunately I have found how useless and fruitless it is to explain to certain illiterate people in the doctrine of the faith that beatifying a servant of God or canonizing a blessed does not imply beatifying and canonizing everything he said., written or done, least of all to recognize his mystical visions or inner locutions. Equally useless to explain that the apparitions and Marian messages, including those recognized by the Church, they do not constitute pillars of the deposit of credit and they do not at all oblige believers to adhere to faith.

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Faced with this and to what follows which is harmful to the faith and the health of souls, the terrible warning of the Blessed Apostle Paul resounds:

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«The day will come, indeed, when they will not endure sound doctrine;, ma, having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales " (II Tm 4, 2-4).

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Sui social media the criticisms directed at priests and to all the highest ecclesiastical hierarchies they sprout like wildflowers after the rain, of practices that are always severe and merciless. In this sense, I think I am the last person to be accused of partisanship, they try it several of my books - which of course I invite you not to read, what a huge waste of time that would be! - and numerous articles in which I highlight the worst defects of the clergy and of our ecclesial hierarchies, doing deep analysis, impietose e severe, May finished at se stesse, because every critical analysis always contains possible solutions, together with so much bitterness, but above all to my inextinguishable love for the Church, which is eternal as is the priesthood with which I have been marked and ontologically transformed with an indelible character.

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Over time I have seen firsthand how the defects and shortcomings of our clergy constitute a splendid pretext for that army of Catholics, or self-styled, who in no way intend to commit themselves to a serious journey of faith, which implies first of all being trained and guided, rely on teachers and follow them. Much easier to go online, type in a search phrase and then start turning from one blog to another, where sensational incompetents presume to speak of the most complex and delicate foundations of faith seasoned in a sensationalist sauce, without ever missing two essential elements to arouse the necessary itch: catastrophism and conspiracy.

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You are perhaps assailed by the ancient question: who we are, where we come from, Where are we going to go? You want to know what the mystery of eternal life is, the immediate or particular judgment of God, the resurrection of the dead and the universal judgment? Don't waste time buying and reading my book The path of the three keys, where in narrative form I speak of hindmost through a dystopian novel, among other things, it costs 22 Euro, it would just be money thrown away, after all it is the useless work of a priest and a theologian who tried to translate the main mysteries of faith into literature in the season of his human maturity, intellectual and spiritual. You want to know what the mystery of life is? Just type a key phrase on a search engine and then drink from the most absurd pages in which improbable and mostly anonymous internet "theologians" mix together myths, pagan beliefs, legends, reincarnation theories, near-death experiences, pieces extrapolated from some wildly manipulated writings of the Fathers of the Church, finally presenting gods potpourri who have nothing Catholic and Christian. And if a priest or a theologian dares to explain that the foundations of the Catholic faith are quite different, it will be enough to answer as usual: «…ah, but I read that ... ". And if we start talking to these people about some social media, exercising our ministry as pastors in the care of souls and theologians, reactions and responses will be those I have already mentioned: «Be ashamed!», always in the best hypothesis, of course.

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In the opinion of many Catholics who proclaim themselves to be devotees and practitioners, the blame for all this is attributable only to priests who do not preach well, who do not do catechesis, which are not available, to follow with the whole sequela of the defects of our clergy, which the undersigned has never denied nor intends to deny, having brought them to light without hesitation.

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Let's try to examine the glass which as usual is always half empty and half full, starting from the crisis of vocations, by the progressive reduction in the number of priests and their ever higher age in all Western countries. If today, a priest alone, he is forced to take care of four or five parishes scattered throughout a territory, several kilometers away from each other, in which up to fifty years ago there were a parish priest in each, up to seventy or eighty years ago also the assistant parish priest, fulfilled his painful ministry as a "compulsive celebrator" of Holy Masses running from one church to another, how much time will he have left for all other pastoral activities, especially including catechesis and the formation of the faithful, in addition to taking care of one's spiritual life? How Much, to study and prepare? The Eucharistic celebration represents the culmination of a life path that engages the Christian in many actions. The experience of faith and the life of faith is not reduced to a Sunday Holy Mass, that the path of Christian life is the maximum fulfillment. Therefore it would not be better to leave only one parish church open in all that district and close the others, if priests to be sent to every parish scattered from town to town there are no more? No, It can not be done, because the faithful will rise up instantly - and usually in a turbulent way -, putting forward the problem of the elderly who would have to move uncomfortably in the parish four or five kilometers away, thing this unacceptable. Their protests almost always add references to the lack of Christian charity, except not even knowing what this fundamental theological virtue is for the Catholic faith, which however constitutes a term with effect, especially if pronounced by someone who does not even know its meaning. At that point the bishop, not intending to have problems with the faithful who know the word "rights" but ignore the word "duties" of believers of Christ, calls the poor priest and in an amiable way invites him to sacrifice himself for the good of salvation of souls, ignoring - hopefully involuntarily -, that it is not about the faithful, but of the worst kind of infidels: that of overbearing egoists.

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Had the Holy Mass on Sunday around the corner of the house and forced a poor priest now on the verge of exhaustion to celebrate in three parishes starting at 8.30 Everyone 12.30 in the morning and in another two from 17 Everyone 19, here we see the same "poor elderly" - for whom it is impossible to travel four or five kilometers to reach the nearest church on Sunday -, get in the car in the early afternoon and drive 40 O 50 kilometers to go to a large shopping center in the provincial capital. But they must have the church next door, because in that case they are elderly people for whom it would be a mortal sin to lack unspecified charity, while if they have to travel a distance ten times greater in the direction of the large shopping center, in that case they suddenly become youngsters, preferring promotional discounts much more, or the get three pay two, to all the fundamental principles of Christian charity, which should also be exercised towards priests.

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The theory that the faults are all of the priests, while the faithful who make up the members of the People of God are innocent creatures tortured by inadequate shepherds, is destined to be taken seriously only by those bishops who in order not to have problems with the protests of the pretentious and selfish prefer to sacrifice the physical health and spirituality of their priests, not hesitating to reduce them to serial celebrators of Messe running from one parish church to another in all the surrounding villages.

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A completely secondary task of the bishops it would also be to remind their subjects^[3] that if Christian families, or the little that remains, they are no longer able to promote birth, welcoming and stimulating new vocations to the priesthood, no one can complain that the Church does not "make" more priests, also because priests are not manufactured, the first nucleus in which a vocation is welcomed and cultivated is the Christian family. But since, as we said just now, the new generation bishops are happy to welcome all the honors of the episcopate, but not the heavy burdens that it entails, they prefer to squeeze their priests increasingly reduced in number like lemons on the citrus squeezer, increasingly at an older age, more and more sold out, often frustrated and unmotivated, surrounded by self-styled selfish faithful, lazy, gossip and quarrels, of which, however, they decide to please whims and whims, thus avoiding having problems to solve and unpopular decisions to make, like the suppression of parishes that can no longer have a parish priest, something that most of the bishops are careful not to do.

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Complain that the Church and priests do not spread sound doctrine it is false and ungenerous. There are numerous religious institutions that have taken care to set up excellent sites on the internet to make the text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the documents of Magisterium of the Church, the lyrics of the Old Testament, of the Holy Gospels and of Apostolic Letters with comments and explanations. There are numerous sites that collect the Sunday homilies, videos in which bishops, parish priests and theologians engaged in pastoral activities and in the dissemination of Catholic doctrine hold lectures and conferences, many bishops publish a commentary each week with accurate explanations of the Holy Gospel (just a few examples: WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, etc …). Our editor and Capuchin theologian Ivano Liguori gave our readers a series of catecheses on the Sacrament of Penance collected in the column Catechism breakfast with Cappuccino, that we have published in video on ours Patmos Island. What diffusion they had? They have been greatly appreciated by a number of "niche" Catholics interested in truly deepening their knowledge of the faith and the Sacraments.

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We confessors know this well when certain people come to confession, often without even knowing why, how they confess or how they don't confess. Repeatedly, after listening to penitents who for ten minutes made nonsense gossip, With all the kindness of the case, I recalled that this precious sacrament is used to absolve sins and return to the communion of God's grace, it is no coincidence that the formula reads: «I absolve you from your sins …». This precious Sacrament does not serve to absolve from a chat, of which God is the first to know what to do with. Again, let us ask ourselves: if a man who left his wife, who later married civilly, then he also left his second wife, to go and live with a much younger girl than him, who has always led a life that constitutes in and of itself a negation of the basic values ​​of Christian life, coming to confession only because he has to act as a godfather or a witness to a confirmation candidate or a wedding - which, moreover, he should not and could not do -, it is never possible to tell you about it: «beh, I don't kill, I don't steal, I don't hurt anyone… maybe sometimes I get angry, sometimes it happens that he tells some little lies ... ". Request: it is never possible? And if this happens, we are sure that the fault lies with the priests who, according to some, would not dedicate themselves to the precious ministry of confessors? The army of Sunday Catholics who receive the Most Holy Eucharist despite having their consciences burdened with mortal sins and who are careful not to confess, perhaps convinced that only priests commit sins, by chance they too constitute our grave fault? We priests are guilty of the fact that a very large number of faithful no longer even have a sense of good and evil? It is the fault of us priests if we find ourselves with faithful or presumed faithful ready to cover ourselves with heavy insults on social media if we dare to remember that abortion is a serious crime, that euthanasia is by no means a gesture of love for a terminally ill person, that two men or two women cannot marry, least of all to adopt "toy children", because far from being love, this is rather the abomination of desolation? This too is the fault of the priests who do not carry out their ministry well? Or, more simply, it is simply a question of self-styled Catholics who attack us for reminding them of the obvious: that evil cannot be called good, least of all love?

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If the theory is true that numbers speak on the internet which constitute a precise thermometer of reality, the panorama that opens up before our eyes is bleak, to be exact this: a video uploaded to YouTube by an anonymous man with no face and name who speaks of Nostradamus' "prophecies" finally interpreted, one month after its publication has recorded 545.321 views. The same day, an Italian bishop, already an excellent specialist in ecclesiology, teacher, formator of priests and laity, pastor dedicated for years to adult catechesis, publishes a catechetical exegesis on the resurrection of the dead referring to the Holy Gospel of that Sunday of the liturgical year, one month after its publication has recorded 223 views. But yet another anonymous one was soon served with abnormal gaps on the foundations of the Catholic faith YouTube publishes a video that heralds the unveiling of the true Third Secret of Fatima kept hidden by the Church right from the title, one month after its publication has recorded 361.222 views. The same day, a learned Dominican theologian specializing in Mariology, publishes a catechesis of 30 minutes to explain the meaning and the profound meaning of the Marian apparitions of Lourdes and Fatima, one month after its publication has recorded 644 views.

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The Church has understood since the advent of the digital age the importance of social media and the means of communication offered by the internet, took the opportunity and took care to make available all those materials that once the faithful Catholics could have found in bookstores or libraries, while those who wanted to hear the exegeses of a good specialist would have had to go who knows where to listen to one of his lectures. Today they can go online and find all these materials. But the numbers, as I just explained, they speak clearly, above all they talk about something else.

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If the numbers speak on the internet, the question is a must: all this, what good is it? Perhaps to create sui social media a square where the perennial lament towards the Church and the priests is raised, by those who follow the new one Friar Cipolla of Boccaccesca memory that exhibits his improbable and absurd relics to fools, while the catecheses organized in the parishes are deserted, our books remain unsold and our catecheses and conferences unheard? This disinterest in the doctrine of the faith, it is perhaps all the fault of the priests?

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The Internet has served to give a voice to an army of pseudo-Catholics always ready for the public and severe lament towards the Church which "no longer evangelizes" and towards "priests who no longer act as priests, who do not do catechesis and who do not instruct the faithful ". Let's clarify: while knowing in depth the serious defects of the visible Church and the shortcomings of my confreres, the numbers, however, tell the opposite. If the faithful want to deepen the issues related to the foundations of faith, or to know something about the mystery of life, of death, of eternal life, of the resurrection of the dead ... they do not go at all to open the numerous pages in which the defective visible Church has made available the Catechism and the commented guide to its reading, they go to drink on blogs and videos where perfect incompetents talk about near-death experiences, tickling people's morbid curiosity. They don't start studying i hindmost, they go and tap into the itchy videos about Nostradamus prophecies. They do not delve into Mariology or the Catholic and healthy devotion to the Virgin Mary, dive like dolphins into the ocean of nonsense of subjects who ignore the fundamentals of faith and tease them with the nonsense of perfect charlatans about the true unrevealed Secrets of Fatima. Besides, you know, for some people the Holy Church is not a mother, she is a teacher but a liar, a cross between a secret sect of powerful and a criminal association that neither announces nor guards the truth, quite the opposite: it hides and disfigures it (!?).

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I fly over to another virulent disease which has been developing after 11 February 2013 the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI made it free and legitimate act of waiver to the sacred throne. In addition to the inevitable conspiracy theorists, dark characters have been unleashed, moved by rare verbal violence and aggression, who have declared the renunciation invalid because, according to them, it occurred under duress, thus making the election of the Successor invalid, defined by several roped leaders of certain demented theories as «usurper antipope, heretic and apostate "as well as" antichrist emissary ". These people support their own bizarre theories on a lack of knowledge of the history of the Church that has an unsettling, cite the Apostolic Constitution Dominic Flock which governs the election of the Roman Pontiff, but unfortunately they have never read, nor is there evidence that they misquote an article after having misunderstood it and completely ignoring that in the following three articles their statements are totally denied. They make absurd references to the Code of Canon Law, but they do not know how the law of the Church is born, it develops, it is interpreted and applied. A real sautéed vegetables finally drowned with the sauce of Marian prophecies and apparitions, in turn distorted and manipulated. What else to say and add, if not ... what a pain! But it is the visible Church that is not up to par with faithful so thirsty for the truth, to be populated with priests who do not live up to the needs of Catholics who are so demanding and eager to exercise the highest and holiest virtues of the Christian life.

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The sad reality - wanting ridiculous, if the whole did not constitute the disaster of faith and above all of souls -, is that if a Catholic or self-styled such has doubts, he is careful not to consult all the materials and sources made available to the Catholic Church on social media, but it sling up Facebook, his Twitter or your Instagram, which, as is well known, are well-known centers of catechesis and doctrine. Unfortunately, there is little to be surprised: be tramite and social media many have come to medicine do it yourself or to the exact sciences do it yourself, perhaps faith could be lacking do it yourself?

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The widespread complaint about the Church that does not evangelize more or lazy priests who do not listen and who do not do catechesis, without taking anything away from the shortcomings of the visible Church and those of the priests, it's just a false justification. There are many parish priests, even of large parishes, who after the Sunday Mass remain for the remaining six days without seeing a parishioner, with their elderly widowed mother and the sacristan who participate in the weekday liturgies constituting the only assembly of the faithful. Despite having tried to organize catechetical meetings for adults and various activities for young people. Obviously, if it all turned out to be unsuccessful, this is not due to the indifference of the faithful, the fault lies entirely with the priest, if anything, also of the bishop who put him in that parish. Then, when some of these faithful or pseudo-faithful present themselves because they need the priest, want for a clearance, want for a certificate, to the slightest objection raised to them the answer will be: "... but I read on the internet that ...".

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We are quite sure that it is the priests who have become fugitives who fail to teach the foundations of Catholic faith and doctrine? Because the numbers say something else, above all, the consequences produced by the numbers themselves say so.

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Animated by this awareness I decided to publish a new work after the summer where I will explain ours I believe O Profession of Faith, whose real name is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, because it is the result of two great dogmatic councils of the Church and of an ancient history, complex and also fascinating, although I am aware that I will never be able to arouse the charm of one or the other fake madonna who deposits tremendous secrets to a group of charlatans who have been teasing the itch of Boeotians for forty years by announcing "we're close now ... we're close ...". The whole also by mouth - alas! - the director of Radio Maria, left free to speak by our omissive bishops who have painfully tolerated certain forms of mariolatry that are sometimes worse than a blasphemy against the Blessed Virgin uttered by a drunkard in a tavern ...

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If you want, this mine, you can call it "holy priestly frustration". By administering confessions to numerous priest confreres of whom I have been confessor for years, I have often found myself having to answer this dramatic question: «To whom I have given my life, if day after day I am forced to acknowledge that all initiatives aimed at the evangelization of the faithful end in sensational failures?». Truly dramatic question to which I answered: "You gave your life to Christ God who sweated blood in the Garden of Olives (cf.. LC 22,39-44), to Christ God before whom the crowd chose Barabbas (cf.. Mt 27, 15-26), to Christ God abandoned by the disciples who fled (cf.. MC 14, 50-52), to Christ, God denied three times by Peter (cf.. LC 22, 54-62). But above all to Christ God who died on the cross, before which the bishop who consecrated us priests addressed the solemn warning: “Be aware of what you are going to do, imitate what you celebrate, conform your life to the mystery of the cross of Christ the Lord "^[4]».

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I am fully aware that I will waste a whole summer writing a new book that will sell few copies and that will be read by few people, the same ones that we will then find ranting about social media against the Church that does not evangelize and priests who do not do their duty as teachers and pastors in the care of souls, or ask questions about the pages Facebook in which, without pain of ridicule, they ask you to explain the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God with a joke of three lines, and then replicate after a few seconds: "... but I disagree, because in my opinion ... because I read that ... ". A book that will perhaps be of use mainly to me, to be able to tell God, the day I find myself face to face with him, that I have tried to fulfill in every way the mission that Christ has entrusted to me by calling me to be his priest, though, as is well known "... but on the internet I read that ...".

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What else to add in conclusion, in case we could modify and write again the final part of our profession of faith: “I believe in social media and in the life of the world to come ". And if anything,, rather than the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, we could rename it Symbol of faith of the illiterate Catholic, who laughs at knowledge and who gave life to the faith of «… according to me, I think that …". And all this, that is very clear: it is not the fault of the priests at all.

the Island of Patmos, 6 June 2022

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Notes

[1] See. Refutation of prophecies falsely attributed to St.. Malachi on the elections of the Popes, edited by Cristiano Wagnero, Leipzig in 1691.

[2] Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: «[…] the works in question cannot be considered either written or dictated by Emmerick and not even authentic transcriptions of her statements and narratives, but a literary work by Clemens Brentano and with such extensions and manipulations that it is impossible to establish which is the real core that can be attributed to the blessed. It follows that the writings in question are not the true mirror of the Augustinian nun's thought and mystical experiences.. The individual statements, both those who express a healthy religiosity, and those that present quirks and anti-Semitic sentiments, arose from the creativity and artistic imagination of Brentano ". The Osservatore Romano, edition of 7 October 2004.

[3] In the new pastoral lexicon this term has been dropped into disuse, which, on the other hand, has a profound meaning on the sacramental and ecclesial level, given that "subject" means "subject to the apostolic authority of the bishop", such are his collaborators presbyters and such are the faithful of the particular Church entrusted to him and in which he carries out the function of pontiff in his capacity as member of the College of Apostles.

[4 From the sacred rite of presbyteral ordination.

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AND NOW I WILL EXPLAIN WHY THE ONANIST NARCISM OF JOURNALISTS MAKES MORE VICTIMS OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE TO GENERATE MORE DESTRUCTIONS

Italy is a country of narcissistic pathogens with a complex of crafty people looking for easy luck, allergic to hard work and sacrifice, who continue to believe that what matters is finding the friend of the right friend to have the road smoothed. A country, our, where the number of those who write is greater than those who buy books and read. And let's not talk about those who don't have time to read because they are engaged in high activities “cultural” and who try to understand something with questions that reveal all the dementia that poisons them.

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A few days ago the Editions The Island of Patmos they have published a new book of mine, obviously it is very well written. The text is a precise and lucid analysis of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, with critical and ironic points of information mainstream that clouds public opinion, with rare exceptions. It is useless to linger in portraying how good I am, because in my job I am a champion. E, that said, I do not go further, talking about foregone things bores me.

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For the record I add that I am also humble, because how I recognize my virtues and abilities - which I could not put to use if I ignored them, as taught in the Holy Gospel the Parable of the Talents [cf.. Mt 25, 14-30] ―, in the same way I also recognize my limitations and shortcomings, which I am the first to highlight, then making fun of myself publicly. This is the difference between a Ferrari and a cart, between a truly humble priest and a clerical who whines with a twisted neck «no, I'm not worthy ... I'm not up to par!». But becoming a hyena when you retort: "It's true! And in addition to not being worthy or up to par, with the occasion I remind you that you have not indicated your worst unworthiness and limitations that cause a lot of damage to others too, given the delicate role in which the villains who direct the puppet theater have made you rise. Wait up, now I will list all the reasons for your not being worthy, of your not being up to par ... ". And so you will have made yourself a new enemy of those relentless ones by which I keep myself witty in mind, brilliant in the dialectic, youthful and sporty in the body, because the more attacks they give me the more they revitalize me and make me reflective, sharp and combative. However, we golden eagles are like that, even if the chickens that dig in the hen house do not give peace, without ever forgiving yourself for being what they are not and what they can never be.

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Selling books in Italy is difficult, ours is a people where fake experts and intellectuals swarm who rigorously presume above all to know, then to write. Full lockdown for Covid-19 even those who could barely write the shopping list had become essayists, but above all novelists. But if we take these people - as I have done several times - and make them talk through the technique with which idiots who do not even realize they are being subjected to an interrogation disguised as dialogue, to the question of how much they study and what were the last literary works they have read, roughly the answer will be this: «Studying… reading? But I don't have time, I'm too busy writing!». If we then go and read their piles of junk, in addition to the lack of writing skills, a total lack of knowledge of the greatest works and the main literary styles will immediately emerge. The sources from which they draw are sites and blogs found on the telematic network, where as many "scientists" abound who think they can deal with history, philosophy, theology, geopolitics, exact sciences and so on, using as a source all the bullshit published on Wikipedia by an army of anonymous failed researchers and old retired professors angry with the entire cosmic universe.

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Italy is a country of narcissistic pathogens with a complex of cunning looking for easy luck, allergic to hard work and sacrifice, who continue to believe that what matters is finding the friend of the right friend to have the road smoothed. A country, our, where the number of those who write is greater than those who buy books and read. And let's not talk about those who don't have time to read because they are engaged in high activities “cultural”, or who try to understand something with questions that reveal all the dementia that poisons them. To such a man, than on a social he asked me about political Zionism, answered: «On this issue I wrote a book In the 2006, explaining the complex historical phenomenon ". The demented reaffirms, I then turned out to be a tenured teacher in a high school: "Yup, but he could not answer me in a few words, because I don't have time to read ". The thing that I find truly unique is that only one these subjects send some protest emails to the Ecclesiastical Authority to accuse me of being an aggressive vulgar, a shame of the Catholic priesthood guilty of sending them to fuck off. Frankly, if an author who has dedicated five years of intense work and research to the treatment of a very delicate and complex issue, Fuck off someone who expects everything to be explained to him in a few words after candidly declaring that he doesn't have time to read, the sfanculata it should be judged as the minimum wage, not an attack of lese majesty such as to claim my head from the Ecclesiastical Authority, you don't think so?

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Maybe mine were other times, but I would certainly never have gone to a reception with an academic to ask him to summarize his book in two words and thus introduce me to the exam without having to read it, being busy with other matters. The old professors I had to deal with would never have let me pass the exam, except after learning their thousand-page book by heart, included footnotes.

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A book to sell and disseminate, as it advertises? Romantics think: journalistic reviews, if anything, after an appeal, of practice and rigor, to the friend of the friend. I will be frank: as for me, I can send a free pack of family-size toilet paper to journalists to help them reduce the heavy consumption costs due to their diarrhea problems, but a book of mine in homage not even to die, because mine are high quality works. Throughout Italy, the journalists to whom I give my books as a gift are only five friends to whom I repeat each time: "Don't feel obligated to do a review".

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Someone might think that this is an oddity of mine, basically I know many celebrities of Italian journalism, including directors of various national newspapers. there, let's start with the latter: why the editor of a newspaper who writes with his feet, to the point that it does not need to be checked by the proofreader but by an accurate one editing of his writings, it should favor the launch of the book by a much more gifted and cultured author, who writes very well and analyzes the facts with an impartiality unknown to him, held as he is to be accountable to masters, shareholders and various owners, unless they declare themselves truthful and independent from one television program to another, with an ass face more or less comparable to that of a whore who proclaims herself a virgin? It would be as if Fantozzi's daughter afflicted by understandable complexes and then became the mother of a creature more similar to a monkey than to a child, was asked to advertise Monica Bellucci's beauty and to write that her daughter Deva, by the enchantment of nature, she is even more beautiful than the mother herself.

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I want to reveal something unknown to many: the journalist is the first not to read and not to document himself. With the exception of a few and rare Italian gold pens now reduced to a happy niche world, our journalists are in conditions of embarrassing ignorance, mainly due to the fact that the mass of the public wants bread and circus, blood and confetti. Or maybe you haven't noticed that in the editions on-line some newspapers now highlight some sentences in bold type in the articles, so much are they aware that the webete average or digital illiterate, which make up a frighteningly high percentage of the public, he never reads an article from top to bottom? For this they highlight three or four sentences, so that webeti and digital illiterates have the illusion of having formed an opinion, to then go crazy by a social to the other, more arrogant and aggressive than ever, to give ample proof of when they did not understand a fucking emeritus. The journalist who has acquired a certain notoriety is a narcissist-onanist who does not even read the articles of his other colleagues published on the same page where his article is published. He is too busy liking himself to be able to accept the existence of much better men and above all much more capable than him.

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Certain newspaper editors that every night you see wandering around the talk show, they have no idea what their newspaper publishes, other than carefully reading the sketch from top to bottom before the finished and approved paper goes to print, imagine! Yet they are called not by chance “responsible directors”, precisely because they are responsible before the Law and the Council of the Order of Journalists for what the various authors publish in their newspaper. The sketches were read with extreme care by Indro Montanelli and Enzo Biagi, often calling the journalist who wrote the piece to ask him for explanations, or corrections and changes, to give him a suggestion or to urge him to continue working well that way. And several of these old editors have come up with good journalists, some have remained so, improving over time, others have ruined themselves by becoming vain narcissists as soon as they come into the limelight.

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I'm not interested in selling 100 O 10.000 copy but to do my job well and be counted in the circle of the best, of the loyal and consistent, in which for years I have my well-deserved space earned at a high price in 58 years of life. Mine is a work rooted in the present but projected into a future perspective, several of my books published ten or twenty years ago are proof of this, where with precise analyzes, decided and often merciless I anticipated the future. And then things went as I had described them in those works of mine years in advance. And I never took pride in exulting "I said so ... I wrote it ...", if anything, I expressed my most sincere pain and I really suffered for not being wrong, because years later I would have liked to have been able to refute myself and explain that my analysis was completely wrong. This is the point from which we could start a very serious discussion on the great Christian virtue of humility, which has nothing to do with the poison of clerical collotors.

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This is why I don't send my books as a gift to anyone, if not a few close friends, leaving people free to draw from a safe and honest source, or to continue to roll up between bread and circus, blood and confetti, thinking I have understood everything with the typical unconscious arrogance of those who continue to read the title and perhaps the subtitle, along with two or three sentences highlighted for the mass of webeti and digital illiterates, that thank God they will never be able to constitute the audience of my Readers.

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Unfortunately Giovanni Boccaccio and Pietro l'Aretino they could not know me because the centuries have separated us. Certainly, from their well-deserved Paradise they appreciate me and cheer me on, not for some balls they wrote about almost eight centuries ago, enclosing their ridiculous images in the extraordinary figure of Friar Cipolla who tried to fuck the poor Boeotians by exhibiting his relics as amazing as they are improbable. Today Frate Cipolla directs one of the main Italian newspapers, then in the evening he participates in talk show, where with unparalleled seriousness he supports the undoubted authenticity of the relic of the pen dropped to the Archangel Gabriel during the Annunciation made to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to which all those who read only the title and subtitle trust, the most careful two sentences highlighted in bold in the article, so that they can end up fucked up much more than the peasants who populated the Italian countryside of the fourteenth century. Maybe, the man of today, had the sense of self-irony and above all the critical and speculative sense that the man of the Middle Ages had, maybe!

the Island of Patmos, 7 May 2022

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THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONFLICT. CAN A PEOPLE BE ILLUSED BY ONE INFLUENCE AND ASK EUROPE TO PARTICIPATE IN A SUICIDE?

For us Catholics, the model of heroism is not the Ukrainians who ask for weapons convinced that they can defeat Russia and who also want to involve the European Union in their mass suicide while the United States of America is blowing the fire. E, I say suicide, if all goes well, because if things should end up getting out of hand we run the serious risk of a Third World War.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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