A GOOD PRIEST IS SUCH IF TO PRAISE HIS BISHOP HE WAITS FOR THE END OF HIS EPISCOPAL MANDATE: ANDREA TURAZZI, FROM TODAY BISHOP EMERITUS OF THE DIOCESE OF SAN MARINO-MONTEFELTRO
«Venerable Bishop, I want you to know that during your episcopate you gave me the ten best years of my priesthood, this is something for which I will always be deeply grateful to you"
From today H.E. Mons. Andrea Turazzi he is Bishop emeritus of San Marino-Montefeltro, my Diocese of belonging.
My Bishop for a year, after meeting me he told me in that distant May 2015: «You were born to be a hunter and I was born to be a veterinarian». He smiled at me fondly and continued: «Both hunters and veterinarians are needed in the Church, just please don't shoot with heavy buckshot, if anything use smaller pellets".
For a priest, not loving a Bishop who presents himself in this way is impossible. And I loved my Bishop, even though I have never said it publicly, because it would not have been appropriate and prudent.
Last year, while a controversy was raging into which I had directly dived with my cassock on without even undressing and putting on my bathing suit, mi said: «I don't question your reasons, impeccable on a doctrinal and theological level, I just ask you to try to be a little more moderate". After extending this invitation to me he added: "Sure, no one can say that you lack courage, maybe you even have too much of it. For this I don't feel like addressing you in any way, for this is your nature and the character God has given you, no one can ask you to be different than you are, I only ask you for a little moderation in the legitimate controversy, nothing more".
As always I listened to him. And a few days later I sent him a private message in which I thanked him in these terms: «Venerable Bishop, I want you to know that during your episcopate you gave me the ten best years of my priesthood, this is something for which I will always be deeply grateful to you".
If to use these words of affection he's someone like me, that I did not hesitate to publicly call a powerful Cardinal a criminal, stating that I would have preferred to deal with those of the Banda della Magliana rather than with him and his henchmen (cf.. WHO), this means that I had the grace of having as Bishop an authentic man of God and a true model of a Pastor in the care of souls, something that is increasingly rare in these sad times that the universal Church is experiencing. In his life and in his episcopal government my Bishop was an elevated model and living realization of the teaching of the Fathers of the Church who exhort:
«All the priests, in union with the bishops, they participate in the same and unique priesthood and ministry of Christ, in such a way that the same unity of consecration and mission requires the hierarchical communion of presbyters with the order of bishops […] The bishops therefore, thanks to the gift of the Holy Spirit which is granted to priests in sacred ordination, they have in them the necessary collaborators and advisors in the ministry and in the function of instructing, sanctify and govern the people of God […] For this common participation in the same priesthood and ministry, bishops should therefore consider priests as brothers and friends, and take care of them, in everything they can, their material and above all spiritual well-being" (See. By decree of the Presbyters of the Order, n. 7).
Only now who no longer has the power of pastoral governance over the Diocese and over me, I can publicly say how much I revered it, appreciated and loved my Bishop. And how difficult it wasn't for me at all, with a Bishop like that, put into practice this exhortation of the Fathers of the Church:
«I presbiteri, for their part, keeping in mind the fullness of the sacrament of orders enjoyed by bishops, let them venerate in them the authority of Christ the supreme shepherd. Let them therefore be united to their bishop with sincere charity and obedience. This priestly obedience, pervaded by the spirit of collaboration, it is based on the same participation of the episcopal ministry, conferred on priests through the sacrament of orders and the canonical mission" (See. By decree of the Presbyters of the Order, n. 7).
To the bishopIt is due filial respect and devout obedience by the presbyter, We solemnly promise this on the day we receive priestly consecration. And I respected and obeyed my Bishop, because it was due to him. Then I also respected and loved him, but not because it was due to him, because neither esteem nor love is due to any Bishop as such; if I poured them on him, it's because he deeply deserved them.
Sorry for the Brother Priests and it hurts believers of Christof this Diocese of Feretra that the mandate of the Bishop has not been extended. One would almost scream "wasteful".!” in front of a man of 75 years in perfect physical health, equipped with all the necessary human and spiritual strengths, of knowledge and wisdom. But on the other hand, the Rome of the "field hospital Church" and of the "existential suburbs" seems accustomed to it, today even more than yesterday, to decide on the dry cards, especially when it comes to the much vaunted "suburbs".
I have no idea who his successor is because I don't know him, I only know that his name is Domenico Beneventi, 49 year old, priest of the Diocese of Acerenza, a Diocese particularly dear to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, very active and industrious in recent times in presenting new suitable candidates for the episcopate. From now on I wish the new elected Bishop not only to be respected and obeyed, as due to him by sacramental bond; I also wish him to be loved and esteemed as his predecessor was. But the love and esteem of the clergy and the faithful must be earned at a high price, often even at the cost of tears and blood, precisely because they are not necessary things. This is the hardest work for any Bishop, which always translates into success only in authentic men of God, ready to conform to the mystery of the Cross of Christ the Lord.
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CHARITY WASHES AND MAKES EVEN DIRTY MONEY CLEAN, The great saints of charity teach it in the history of the Church
Some bishops of Migrantopoli and Pauperopoli seems to want to present themselves more pure and immaculate today than the Blessed Virgin Mary, in order to please the world and please it. Until not to understand that charity "everything covers" and "everything transforms", which, however, cannot grasp and understand, If like their president they find themselves a subject who affirms: "The Gospel is not a distillate of truth".
When the blessed apostle Paul he composed praise to charity also spoke to the present day. This is the characteristic of the Word of God: An eternal language that communicates to men of all time and that over the centuries reveals new messages enclosed in those same words.
The Holy Scriptures they have a style and apocalyptic language in the etymological sense of the term. Although the term apocalypse is spoken in current language, the greek revelation, is erroneously used to indicate a catastrophic event or the end of the world, Its true meaning is "to be dischedamed", "Remove the veil that covers", then discover. Between the term apocalypse and the term epiphany, deriving from the Greek recover, which means "I make myself manifest", There is a close link. Epiphany intended as a manifestation of divinity is a continuous "unfortunate" of the contents enclosed on the lines, within the lines and beyond the lines themselves of the Holy Scriptures that enclose the Word of God.
In the song in question, also known as Hymn to Charity, The blessed apostle Paul expresses:
“Charity is patient, love is kind; It is not envious, It does not brag, not puffed up, no disrespect, does not seek its own interests, don't get angry, ignores the evil received, does not rejoice, but rejoices with the truth. It bears, Love believes, It hopes all things, It endures all things. The charity will never end. […] And now these three remain: faith, hope and charity; but the greatest of these is love!» (The Cor 1, 1-13)
We compare this song Paolino, Easy and understandable only apparently, with a recent fact of ecclesial news:
"" The Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital of Rome has done well to refuse the rich donation of the Leonardo company "because" it's dirty money, weapon, blood -dirty, dirty war ". Mons. Giovanni Ricchiuti National President of Pax Christi and Bishop of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti, takes a more clear position after that The RepublicHe wrote that one and a half million euros would be refused. "Finally," he says "we are in line with a church that truly frees himself of these conditioning, of these donations that come, as in the case, from an industry that produces weapons. The Vatican did well to refuse this offer. I say it as a bishop: It is a church that loves the truth "" (cf.. WHO e WHO).
First a question. After the president of Peace of ChristHe announced that our current "is a church that loves the truth", It would be necessary to clarify two fundamental things. The first: earlier, the church, For two thousand years which truth loved, assuming that she loved her? The second: what is the truth?
Recently, The President of the Bishops of Italy, In the total silence of our national episcopate, he said that "the Gospel is not a distillate of truth" (cf.. WHO). At least, Pontius Pilate, At the time he did not have a statement like that of the President of the Bishops of Italy, in a much more elegant way he asked Christ a question: «What is truth?», What is the truth (cf.. GV 18,38).
It is not easy to talk about truth In today's emotional church of Migrantopoli and Pauperopoli. Let's try to make up for that St. Thomas Aquinas than in the lounges of the increasingly ignorant clerical radical chicIt is variously indicated as "old" and "outdated". For the Angelic Doctor O Doctor Common The truth is God himself the very highest and the first reality(Summa Theologica, I q. 16 a. 5 (c)). The truth is never fully deceived, For this reason «truth and incorrect opinion, Truth and lie in the world are continually mixed in an almost inextricable way […] it becomes recognizable, if God becomes recognizable. He becomes recognizable in Jesus Christ. In him God entered the world, And he raised the criterion of truth in the middle of the story " (Joseph Ratzinger, in Jesus of Nazareth, Pilate's question, pp. 216-218).
By the will of his divine founder The Church of Christ was not born for pleasure in the world and pleased him, but to fight it:
"If the world hates you, know that it hated me before. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you from the world, that's why the world hates you " (GV 15, 18-19).
If incorrect opinions overlap with the truth who come to life from subjective or collective emotional elements, It remains completely hidden in the emotional church of Migrantopoli and Pauperopoli, Where he does not hesitate to say that "the Gospel is not a distillate of truth", All in the silence of the whole the Italian episcopate.
Refusing that donation He was still tried once to please the world, In particular, the one composed of people who far from going to the Holy Mass for Easter and for Christmas, They don't even know how to get the sign of the cross. This is the world to which our church visible with an increasingly exotic flavor wants to please at all costs, forgetting one's history, starting from that of the great saints of charity.
Let's start with the Jesuits, to which in the historical moment present it is right to confer a deserved right of priority: The pharaonic institutes built around the world, megalomania is not infrequently, Together with the churches adjacent to their colleges, who on many occasions have made so much irritating the diocesan bishops, because they are deliberately built larger, rich and solemn of their cathedral churches, with the money and contributions of those who were built? Because the Spaniards and Portuguese who offered them ample funding were the same as they managed the slave trafficking market or that if necessary administered justice in a casual way, that means: first they cut your head or implies you, then they possibly evaluated if you really did something wrong. Today's Jesuits, that of migrantopoli and pauperopoli are the propulsion ideological engine, A minimum of history have not really have it?
To the great saints of charity and to the great pedagogues to which we owe the foundation of precious assistance institutes for orphans, abandoned elderly, for the education of poor children and for the welcome and care of the disabled, it gives San Filippo Neri but to San Giovanni Bosco, passing through San Vincenzo de 'Paoli and reaching the most recent St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo, San Giovanni Calabriaand San Luigi Orione, who provided the necessary money funds for the realization of their works? when in 1980 It was blessed Luigi Orione, Shortly thereafter various protests were raised by circles of people who did not even know the first six words of Our father, including the pathetic Anpi protest (National Association of Italian Partisans) who accused him of being a supporter of the fascist regime thanks to which he had funds for the realization of his works; protest that was then repeated in 2004, When Blessed Luigi Orione was canonized.
The great works of these saints of charity they are still active, some of which constitute clinical and assistance centers considered to be of true excellence at European level: The Turin Opera of San Giovanni Benedetto Cottolengo, The enormous welfare works of Genoa of San Luigi Orione, The Sacro Heart Hospital of Verona of San Giovanni Calabria ... Someone, He ever wondered where and who came from the money? More than anything else, he wonders if today, especially in the face of certain absurd protests, The visible church would have had the courage to body them and canonize them, or if instead he would have sold to groups of people who do not even know the first six words of the Our fatherbut who pretend despite the fact that they dictate the law, with our ecclesiastical authorities that bend their heads and give in to political and ideological whims by non -Catholic and non -Christian environments. In this regard, I refer to my works Herbs Amare e Pius XII and the Shoah in which I explain the external influences exercised by certain fierce groups that they attempted with any unfair means, Until the manufacture of real false historians, to block the cause of beatification of Pius XII and the ceremony of father's beatification Leon dehon for which the date had already been set 24 April 2005 in St. Peter's Square, but which was canceled for improbable accusations of anti -Semitism moved to him by some Jewish circles. Given that never and in no case the Church can take orders from the modern great Sanhedrin and accept its protests, The question to ask was the following: Assuming that his father Leon Dehon wrote some critical phrases about Jewish entrepreneurs - who were rigorously read and contextualized historically in the context of the industrial revolution -, Given that his beatification process lasted almost half a century, because certain Jewish circlesthey attest to patients until ceremony of beatification set to give life to the public controversy in the world press? Simple: even if those writings had always known them, they had to demonstrate, with a real proof of strength, that they were able to give orders to the Church and induce it to relegate not only from a decision taken, but even from a beatification ceremony already made official and set. This was the real purpose, which was widely obtained for their arrogance and our weakness. The problem was not the beatification in itself and in itself of Father Leon Dehon, The Church can be blessed those who want and must never accept protests for this purpose, since the Jews have no kind of obligation to venerate our blessed and saints in their synagogues, Just like certain fringes of political Zionism, born and developed from the breast of Judaism, They do not accept criticisms aimed at the Israeli army when it is unwilling, except to shout as prefiche to anti -Semitic to anyone who dares to disagree with actions that do not constitute a legitimate defense but real crimes against humanity.
These great saints of charity they did not hesitate to accept money from the assets of known and known subjects for their immorality and for the somewhat casual way with which they carried on their business without getting too scruples. Li boni Jesuitwho were, whose rigid moral was well known and which for a long time attempted to transform teenagers into the prey to hormonal crises into a bead army of San Luigi Gonzaga, There have never been particularly scruples in accepting conspicuous donations from the greatest whores and phenomenon of the Spanish courts. Puri and Casti had to be only teenagers, to which he imposed themselves in their colleges, up to time far from remote, to sleep with your hands out of the bed sheets in order to avoid the risk of committing “abominable impure acts”, while at the same time, Under the sheets of those to whom they owed great donations of money for the construction of their pharaonic structures, Instead, you could do everything and more, In impure acts truly abominable.
The big problem - Place that "the Gospel is not a distillate of truth" - is given by the inability to read the words of the blessed apostle Paolo on charity, For example the statement that it "covers everything". If his words were read and included in their depth, It would come to understand that for the realization of works of charity, not only the money of the companies that manufacture weapons should be accepted, But even the money donated by Mexican drug traffickers. Because if that dirty money is entirely used for works of charity in favor of poor people, weak, oppressed, disabled and sick, they will still become clean, because charity "everything covers" everything, or if we prefer: "Everything transforms", because only the divine charity, which is Christ, it can change the evil to good, So the dirty money in clean money. Otherwise a theological problem of no small importance may take over: deny that the grace of God can change the evil in good. As is well known, however,, One of the things that these days are less fashionable in the Church of the emotional and the politically correct is theology.
Certain bishops of Migrantopoli and Pauperopoli They seem to want to present themselves today more pure and immaculate the Blessed Virgin Mary, in order to please the world and please it. Until not to understand that charity "everything covers" and "everything transforms", which, however, cannot grasp and understand, If like their president they find themselves a subject who affirms: "The Gospel is not a distillate of truth".
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GIUSEPPE BETORI, A MAN OF CULTURE AND A BISHOP WHO SUCCEED IN THE DIFFICULT TASK OF MAKING THE FLORENCE PRESBYTERY WELCOME
While a miserable poison dealer states: «Without forgetting that the clergy of Florence is fed up with Betori who has done more damage than anything else», Instead, a question resonates in all of us which, if desired, arouses anxiety in our souls: and then?
Starting from the last week of Advent and followed by the solemnities of Holy Christmas, the Fathers of the Island of Patmos - who before being scholars and publicists are first and foremost priests - were engaged in pastoral activities. Certain solemnities, in particular Holy Christmas and Holy Easter, they are always preceded by sermons, confessions and spiritual directions, today more than ever anything but easy, considering the times of confusion that the Catholic faithful are experiencing on the one hand, we priests on the other hand. We therefore resume our publicity activities on this magazine of ours with the presentation of a very interesting video which we recommend you watch..
At the end of next February Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, Metropolitan Archbishop of Florence, will celebrate his 77th birthday. He has spent many of these years of his life 16 at the head of the Florentine Church, which is coming soon’ to leave in the hands of his successor.
Despite the malicious judgements recently spread by some obscure, painful character who has set himself up as an intransigent judge of the entire ecclesiastical hierarchy (cf.. WHO) and who usually states «we in the Vatican… here in the Vatican…», except not being able to even get close to the entrance gates of that small Sovereign State, among the majority of the Florentine clergy there is the awareness that this Umbrian bishop - despite the limitations of every human being - has truly made a great contribution to his particular Church and to the entire Italian Church. For this reason it will undoubtedly be regretted for the balance, the clarity and theological and cultural depth that he demonstrated in his apostolic service.
Doing a realistic analysis of the last twenty years it will emerge that we have had the opportunity to experiment with two completely different types of bishops. In the past, between the end of the pontificate of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II and the pontificate of the Venerable Benedict XVI we had the season of "professor bishops". Understandable, the crisis of doctrine had generated situations that he illustrated well 14 years ago our Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo in one of his books on the analysis of the Church:
«The crisis of doctrine has generated a profound crisis of faith which in turn has given rise to a moral crisis within our clergy» (cf.. And Satan became triune, Editions The island of Patmos, 2010).
On this issue Our Father Ivano Liguori also recently returned with a precise and dramatic article of his:
«From the doctrinal disorientation of the Church to the sin of the priests and the recycling of the laity. Prospect of an intransigent culture which while condemning sanctifies and condemns by sanctifying" (cf.. WHO).
The so-called “professor bishops”, in light of these issues, in themselves they weren't a bad idea, but the results are not always happy, when we began to have people catapulted from a university chair to an episcopal chair at the head of the dioceses, because they are two substantially different professorships. Bishops often lacking pastoral experience who tended to relate to their priests as teachers with students or who transformed assemblies and meetings of the clergy into academic lessons, ignoring, often not understanding at all, the problems that their priests experienced and had to face every day.
At the next change of wind the need for "shepherds with the smell of sheep" began to be invoked, which in itself would not be a bad idea at all, just as that of the "professor bishops" was not. Unfortunately, when ideology undermines behind the apparent good intentions, or if we want real prevention towards the "princely" (!?) Italian episcopate, the results can only be unfortunate. And today we find ourselves with a substantial number of bishops pulled out of Caritas centers or from unspecified "peripheries", only capable of talking about the poor, migrants and the «Church on the move».
Instead of moving forward we were catapulted backwards, in the early seventies, when the sixty-eighters spoke of "forbidden to forbid" and of "imagination in power". On the doctrinal and theological preparation of these bishops all projected into a social system that we have already seen abundantly fail in the various social-welfare and political fields, let us draw a compassionate veil out of Christian charity. In fact, when the President of the Bishops of Italy responds by stating that "the Gospel is not a distillation of truth" (cf.. WHO), there's not much else to add, both regarding the "frontier" or "street" priests, both regarding the "Church going forth" that appears to us, more than "outgoing", on the verge of bankruptcy, proof of this is the fact that for some years we have been trying to resolve the problems by placing all possible and imaginable commissioners under commissionership, with one exception: the Society of Jesus.
Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, perhaps one of the last of a generation now in extinction, he was able to put his science and culture at the complete service of pastoral care. Character at first approach introverted and shy, in his relationships with his clergy he showed great listening and welcoming skills, he was a teacher and a guardian of the faith, not a professor in the chair. He loved his Church and knew how to make himself loved, even by those who welcomed him upon his arrival with that air of condescension, suspicion and distrust typical of us Florentines, that we are historically subjects that are not exactly easy to handle, treat and govern. His homilies, always profound but at the same time clear and understandable, have aroused esteem and respect on the part of the Catholic faithful.
And while a miserable poison dealer states: «Without forgetting that the clergy of Florence is fed up with Betori who has done more damage than anything else» (cf.. WHO), Instead, a question resonates in all of us which, if desired, arouses anxiety in our souls: and then?
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WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN?
Why bother with this person who does not arouse any charm and interest in us, but only Christian and priestly compassion? Because it has happened very frequently that multiple people from Italy and abroad have asked us for information on this "great connoisseur" and "frequenter" of the Holy See and the Vatican.
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The Fathers of the Island of Patmos they have many interesting topics to deal with in the context of the doctrine of faith and talking about certain characters is not within their aspirations. However, we have duties that we cannot avoid. The site manager I Can't Be Silent continues to present himself as an excellent expert on the Roman Curia, of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. And this actually creates several problems.
Recently, when he attempted to beatify the unfortunate Archabbot of Montecassino who died a few weeks ago, alluding in his various posts that the Church should apologize to this "innocent" (!?), completely overlooking the fact that his deeds were and remain unspeakable, by these columns he was sensationally denied through gods dubiato which he obviously never responded (see article WHO).
He always fired in bursts on people and institutions of the Holy See, going against everyone's grain, from the Supreme Pontiff to the soldiers of the Vatican Gendarmerie. For months he has been relentlessly mocking and insulting Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communications of the Holy See, and Andrea Tornielli, Director of Media of the Holy See, indicating them as «incapable, incompetent, ignorant…», to the point of accusing them of being "illiterate". Whether Andrea Tornielli ― like it or not ― is an internationally renowned professional in the field of journalism and after over thirty years of profession one of the best-known Vatican experts in the world, It's not something that seems to interest Mr. Marco Felipe Perfetti, to whom it would be useless to remind that the director of the Vatican Media, repeatedly accused of "illiteracy", he certainly didn't self-publish, like he did, a booklet at your own expense, because he is the author of dozens of books translated into multiple languages, including substantial biographies on the Supreme Pontiffs of the twentieth century which at a documentary level remain works of high historical interest.
However, if calm "dubia" are addressed to him who insolent and mocks everything and everyone, by the Supreme Pontiff to follow (see video collection WHO), in this case he wouldn't hesitate to send some cheerful priest to complain to the Bishop of one of us. Already, because for some time Mr. Perfetti has wanted to clear the gay Trojan horse into the Church, stating in his writings and videos that clerics dedicated to the practice of homosexuality are only people who have the right to live their sexuality as they see fit in their private lives. In this way, however, he shows that he is unaware - despite presenting himself as an expert in Canon Law - that for a priest the concept of "private life" is very different from how he understands it., both on the level of Catholic morality and on that of law. The exercise of unnatural sexuality - because homosexuality remains such according to Catholic doctrine - if practiced by a cleric falls in fact and in law into the very serious crime of carnal sacrilege, certainly not in the exercise of freedoms linked to the private life of clerics.
Why bother with this person which does not arouse any fascination or interest in us, but only Christian and priestly compassion? Because it happened very frequently that more people, from Italy and abroad, they asked us for information on this "great connoisseur" and "frequenter" of the Holy See and the Vatican.
As already said and explained previously (see article WHO), This character cannot set foot in the Vatican, both for what he writes and for the bursts of insolence he utters. And if he were to get close to one of the access gates to the territory of this state, they wouldn't even allow him to enter.
When he uses expressions like this in his videos «here in the Vatican… we in the Vatican…», he boasts of knowledge and connections that he absolutely does not have. The only people he knows are some anonymous low-level minutants who have remained tied to the stake and who vent their frustrations deriving from their failed ecclesiastical career through him., providing him with doses of poison to spread through the social media. If not, to the many naive people who follow his site and take what he says and writes as true, he should prove his connections by shooting one of his videos from inside the Vatican City State. If he can't do it from the San Damaso Courtyard, or while walking under the frescoes of the Third Loggia of the Secretariat of State, could shoot one from the Vatican Gardens, or at the corner of the Governorate Palace under the statue of San Michele Arcangelo, or in front of the beautiful Fontana del Veliero. Instead he continues to present himself as a great connoisseur of Vatican matters while continuing to shoot and distribute videos while he is near Via della Conciliazione, or outside Bernini's Colonnade, or mainly from other external or internal places, all rigorously located within the territory of the Italian Republic, except to say "here in the Vatican... we in the Vatican...".
If growing up involves effort that some can't stand this is their problem, as long as they don't make people believe they are what they are not, or to enter where he is not allowed to set foot at all, forcing others to respond that this great frequenter and connoisseur of the Holy See who begins by saying "here in the Vatican... we in the Vatican...", to the point of dating their videos with the words "Vatican City", he is simply someone who cannot even get close to the gates of access to the Vatican City State. And if the person concerned could demonstrate the opposite, that proves it, rigorously replying to the merits of what was contested against him in light of the truth of the facts.
the Island of Patmos, 8 December 2023
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Our previous articles (2023-2026):
– 28 June 2026 — SILERE NON POSSUM AND THE RAINBOW AS A TROJAN HORSE. WHEN THE FIGHT AGAINST ABUSE BECOMES THE PRETEXT TO REWRITE CATHOLIC MORALS(To open the article click WHO)
– 22 June 2026 — Press release: THE ISLAND OF PATMOS SUBJECT TO REPEATED UNFOUNDED REPORTS (To open the article click WHO)
– 11 June 2026 — MARCO PERFETTI: TELLING ME THAT I AM A PROBLEMATIC IS AS OBVIOUS AS SAYING THAT MADDALENA WAS A PROSTITUTE (To open the article click WHO)
– 5 May 2026 — ESTONIA, A PROMISED LAND, A DIFFERENT WORLD... AND A DAILY BADNESS OF THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)
– 30 April 2026 — I CAN'T BE SILENT: THE DAY WHEN CRIMINAL LAW DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS BORN IN THE SACRESTY (To open the article click WHO)
– 27 April 2026 —WHY IN THIS CASE "I CAN KEEP SILENT"?(To open the article click WHO)
– 31 March 2026 — THE MALIGNANT NARCISSIST AND THE USE OF BLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE CHURCH AND ITS FAITHFUL SERVANTS(To open the article click WHO)
– 21 March 2026 — THE ABBOT OF SOLESMES AND THE ILLUSION OF LITURGICAL SYNTHESIS: BETWEEN SUBJECTIVISM AND DOCTrinal CONFUSION (To open the article click WHO)
– 28 February 2026 — I CAN'T BE SILENT. AN EXTRAORDINARY MARCO PERFETTI BETWEEN CONFIDENT CANON LAW AND «SCANDAL IN THE SUN»: THE DECEASED AUGUST SAID THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN(To open the article click WHO)
– 16 February 2026 — DONNE, LAW AND THEOLOGY USED AS A SLOGAN BY THE SILERE NON POSSUM BLOG(To open the article click WHO)
– 8 February 2026 — THE ATTORNEYS OF ITACA AND THE EPIC OF THE ENFORCEMENT THAT CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)
– 10 December 2025 — MARCO PERFETTI, I CANNOT SILENCE OTHERS: THE CULTURED CRICKET AND THE MOSQUITO THAT THINKS IT IS A GOLDEN EAGLE (To open the article click WHO)
– 6 September 2025 — THE VERY POWERFUL SILERE NON POSSUM IS MAKING GOOGLE SHAKE (To open the article click WHO)
– 16 August 2025 —I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY" (To open the article click WHO)
– 14 August 2025 — There is a homosexual? AT THAT TIME I CAN'T BE SILENT Also defends the indefensible(To open the article click WHO)
– 29 March 2025 — Always about I CAN'T BE SILENT: DAL “Vertical man"A" Fireculo "and" quadhow "of Leonardo Sciascia (To open the article click WHO)
– 21 March 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And the story of that convinced seamstress that he can give Giorgio Armani high fashion lessons(To open the article click WHO)
– 12 February 2025 — The Opossum is to the knowledge of the Vatican as Henger is in chastity and like his deceased husband Riccardo Schicchi is at work Confessions OF SAINT AUGUSTINE(To open the article click WHO)
– 15 January 2025 — AT THE CLERICAL BORDERS WITH REALITY: THE WOMAN SUFFERS FROM FREUDIAN PENIS ENVY, The Opossum of the envy by Matteo Bruni Director of the Press Room of the Holy See(To open the article click WHO)
– 20 January 2025 — THE OPOSSUM IGNORE THAT A NUN CAN QUIETLY BECOME GOVERNOR OF THE VATICAN CITY STATE, As already was Giulio Sacchetti(To open the article click WHO)
– 22 November 2024 — THE EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT OF RENATO TARANTELLI BACCARI. WHEN YOU ARE AFFECTED BY LIVER CANCER, THEY CHARGE ON THE ATTACK THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT(To open the article click WHO)
– 31 May 2024 — A NOTE FROM FATHER ARIEL ON THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT: «AS ANNOYING AS A SEA URCHIN INSIDE YOUR UNDERPANTS» (To open the article click WHO)
– 8 December 2023 — WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN?(To open the article click WHO)
– 14 October 2023 — THE ARCHABOT EMERITUS OF MONTECASSINO PIETRO VITTORELLI HAS DEAD: CHRISTIAN PIETY CAN ERASE THE SAD TRUTH?(To open the article click WHO)
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THE CASE OF THE BISHOP OF TYLER AND CARDINAL RAYMOND LEO BURKE, THE HEALTHY RELATIVISM ON THE FIGURE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF AND THE WISE LESSON OF CARDINAL CARLO CAFFARRA
Better to have a Supreme Pontiff who governs the Church badly, however, fulfilling the apostolic power of the keys conferred by Christ God on Peter and his Successors rather than a pious Pontiff who has the keys consigned by Christ God to Peter taken away from him, leaving others to open and close, bind and untie.
Some argue that Francis is not a good Supreme Pontiff. Whether it is or not is entirely relative, because Francis is the legitimate successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter. If he has fulfilled his high office well he will receive the deserved reward from God, if he has performed badly he will have to tremble before the warning of the Holy Gospel:
"To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " (LC 12, 48).
Some argue «I don't like Francesco». Sympathy is entirely relative, a Supreme Pontiff must not arouse emotional sympathy but Catholic and devout respect, because it is due to him, therefore it must be followed and obeyed, whether he's nice or not.
Some argue that Francis governs the Church badly. Whether you govern it well or badly is entirely relative, better a Supreme Pontiff who governs the Church even badly, it will cause much less serious damage than someone who lets it be governed by fierce power groups or who allows himself to be governed, because the damage caused by the latter will be much greater than that caused by a bad government. It is therefore better to have a Supreme Pontiff who governs the Church badly, however, fulfilling the apostolic power of the keys conferred by Christ God on Peter and his Successors (cf.. Mt 16, 19), instead of a pious Pontiff who has the keys handed over by Christ God to Peter taken away from him, leaving others to open and close, bind and untie.
Some argue «Francis expresses himself in an ambiguous way, spreading confusion in matters of doctrine and faith and for this reason it must be corrected". This statement marks the transition from the relative to the absurd: the Supreme Pontiff is the supreme custodian of the deposit of faith, however paradoxical it may appear, it can legitimately be criticized with due respect, however, it cannot be correct. The correction, even the fraternal one (cf.. Mt 18, 15-17) implies that it is exercised by a single person, or an entire college of people endowed with superior doctrinal and moral authority. Not even an ecumenical council, highest expressive body of the Church, could define anything, without the approval of the Supreme Head of the Church. Criticizing the Supreme Pontiff, in those spheres where criticism is legitimate and possible, implies the exercise of the freedom of the children of God, while correcting him would imply the exercise of an authority superior to his, of which no one in this world is the custodian.
Certain publicists and commentators they are tearing their clothes crying about persecution for the removal of H.E. Mons. Joseph Edward Strickland from the chair of the Texas Diocese of Tyler. A few days later, the tearing of clothes continued with Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, to whom the Supreme Pontiff decided to revoke the benefit of free accommodation owned by APSA (Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See) he was born in cardinal dish, today referred to as a cardinal's allowance. Also in this case it is necessary to understand with an example: if I say that inviting a questionable and problematic figure like Luca Casarini to the Synod of Bishops was imprudent, in this case I express a completely legitimate critical opinion, equally legitimately I could ask the Holy Father that perhaps it would be appropriate to ask for an account and reason from those trusted people who presented it to him, without explaining to him in a prudent way, precise and detailed that this character is an ideologue who, both in the debate and in the political sphere, has always created major divisions and strong contrasts. It's a completely different thing if, as the Bishop of Tyler did before the Synod and then during the current Synod, I had stated that that discussion assembly was seriously harmful to the doctrine of the faith, for the Church and the People of God, because this would not have been a completely legitimate critical opinion, but a judgment of unacceptable weight, also because it contains an implicit accusation: the Supreme Pontiff is not able to supervise the doctrine of the faith and therefore safeguard it.
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke he has been holding meetings and conferences around the world for years, effectively undermining, albeit in a pompous way, the magisterium of the Supreme Pontiff, inviting a nebulous and unspecified «resistance», without explaining who should be resisted, but leaving it clear to whom. Even in this case we are well beyond the legitimate right of criticism.
Incidentally I would like to mention than in 2020 I published a book provocatively titled Sadness of Love, dedicated to the memory of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, of whom I was a disciple, often in line with him, other times respectfully critical of some of his positions on moral matters. And he, who was a great man and above all a man of God, loved to argue with me precisely on those points on which I might not agree., because this is theological speculation based on debate according to the styles and tradition of classical scholasticism. Unfortunately, some bishops and priests have only read the provocative title of that book, without ever having read even two pages, they accused me of having written a work of non-fiction against this post-synodal apostolic exhortation. Which is false and extremely ungenerous towards me, because in that book criticisms were made of the style of language, to the numerous and in my opinion useless sociologisms, on several ambiguous passages, unclear and subject to different interpretations. We are within the sphere of the legitimate exercise of critical thinking, which would cease to be such if I had instead made criticisms, even indirectly or subliminally, to that Synod and to the final exhortation published by the Supreme Pontiff under the title of love joy. An exhortation that leaves open hypotheses for discussion on topics yet to be defined, without the previous discipline established by the Holy Pontiff John Paul II in his post-synodal apostolic exhortationFamiliar Consortium has been modified, for example regarding the admission to the Sacraments of divorced and remarried people living in a state of irregularity. Therefore, bishops and priests who affirm the lawfulness of this admission, because they say contained and given in love joy, they state falsely, they are in grave error and mislead the faithful. In love joy in fact, no permission in this sense is sanctioned.
Cardinal Carlo Caffarra gave a solemn lesson in 2017 to some of our people today who wander from conference to conference calling for "resistance". He imparted this solemn lesson with one of his memorable declarations, made after some attempted to present him as an antagonist of the Supreme Pontiff Francis:
«Excuse the joke: I would have been more pleased if it were said that the Archbishop of Bologna has a lover rather than it being said that he has a mind contrary to that of the Pope. Because if a bishop has a thought contrary to that of the Pope he must go, but just you have to go by the diocese. Because lead the faithful on a road that is not what Jesus Christ. He would therefore lose himself eternally and risk the eternal loss of the faithful. Being considered against the Pope is something that deeply saddened me, because it is slanderous. Because not only has the Pope never spoken about this, but when he spoke he asked for a debate. And the debate is real if all voices can speak. I was born a papist, I lived as a papist and I want to die as a papist!».
I believe the Holy Father, at this juncture, all in all it was also too good, with both the Bishop of Tyler and Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke. Personally I wouldn't have been, because for the type I am, to a Bishop or Cardinal who has repeatedly questioned the protection of the doctrine of the faith by the Supreme Pontiff, perhaps I would have led them to say that Innocent III, Boniface VIII and Alexander VI all three put together were much more tender and much less severe than me.
the Island of Patmos, 6 December 2023
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WHY HAVE WE FATHERS OF THE MAGAZINE THE ISLAND OF PATMOS NOT TALKED ABOUT THE SYNOD? BECAUSE WE ARE PRIESTS AND THEOLOGIANS, NOT GOSSIPARIES THAT EXCITE THE IRRATIONAL MOODS OF THE PEOPLE
Even before it began, this latest Synod was preceded by proclamations from unspecified internet experts who sowed terror not so dissimilar to that of the Hamas terrorists, to give a completely absurd-paradoxical hyperbolic example. If in fact Hamas terrorists kill innocent civilians, this other type of terrorist kills, in the increasingly lost faithful, the little that remains in them of faith and ecclesial feeling, of being members of the living body that is the Church.
In one of my latest articles to which I refer you (see WHO) I spoke about the decline of the principle of authority in relation to social media, where even the least imbecile can launch into dealing in a grotesque and surreal way with topics that are the subject of complex historical debates on a scientific level, historical, social, politico, theological…
We the Fathers of this magazine we have convinced ourselves that when faced with certain desolations the ancient saying of Publius Terentius Afro is valid (190-159 a.C), universally known as Terence: «They are silent, praise them enough» (They are silent and in doing so they praise). With this maxim, the famous Roman playwright of probable Berber origin meant that sometimes silence prevents words from being expressed, also clearly, end up being distorted or even deliberately misunderstood by those who are inclined to misunderstand or look for any excuse for a dispute. From this maxim by Terenzi was born the famous popular saying "a beautiful silence was never written".
A personal note: for reasons that need not be explained, during this last Synod I had the opportunity to come and go from Martha House Sancthae several times, to meet and speak with various bishops from various parts of the world, clarifying the obvious that I certainly don't need to clarify, because the whole thing, for me as for many other scholars and theologians, it falls within the scope of obvious things about which there would be absolutely nothing to discuss. But, as I wrote in my previous article (see WHO) sometimes it is necessary to explain especially the things that seem obvious to us, in this crazy decadent world in which a boundless army of people thinks of giving maximum and unappealable sentences with a Tweeto a post su Facebook, after having fed themselves on the blogs of people who speak and discuss complex issues that they really don't know about practice and rigor.
Even before starting this latest Synod was preceded by proclamations from unspecified internet experts who sowed terror not so dissimilar to that of Hamas terrorists, to give a completely absurd-paradoxical hyperbolic example. If in fact Hamas terrorists kill innocent civilians, this other type of terrorist kills, in the increasingly lost faithful, the little that remains in them of faith and ecclesial feeling, of being members of the living body that is the Church (cf.. With the 1, 18).
For weeks we have read and heard proclamations in which certain web terrorists gave the best of themselves to disorient simple and increasingly lost Catholics by foreseeing the imminent customs clearance of priestly celibacy and married priests, women priests, or at least women deacons, the blessing at the altar of homosexual couples and so on to follow. And all these elements that to define as fantastic is just an understatement, they were announced as certain, indeed presented as taken for granted.
At the end of the Synod the Supreme Pontiff Francis spoke publicly, clarifying that priestly celibacy would not be affected in any way, reiterating what we have known for centuries: priestly celibacy, which has its roots since the first apostolic era and which has great value on a spiritual level, ecclesial and pastoral, it is not a dogma of faith but an ecclesiastical discipline. There is proof that even in the Catholic Church there have always been Eastern Rite priests who are married and have families. Having said this, the Holy Father reiterated that he does not intend in any way to modify ecclesiastical discipline on the celibacy of priests belonging to the Latin rite community, specifying that nothing similar "will happen under my pontificate".
Regarding the issue of women priests, the Supreme Pontiff Francis had already expressed himself several times in the past, therefore he did nothing but reiterate the pronouncement given in definitive form by his Holy Predecessor John Paul II which clarified for the present and future future: «The Church does not have the power to grant sacred priestly ordination to women» (cf.. WHO).
If in the preparatory stages of the Synod there was talk of the LGBT world, from the draft of the final document this acronym has completely disappeared, to the certain displeasure of that cheerful character Father James Martin supported not long ago with an article in the well-known pseudo-Catholic weekly slush Christian, originally born as Christian family, which he announced: «Pope Francis has restored dignity to LGBTQ people and this is a blessing for everyone» (cf.. QUI). So no blessing to the happy rainbow couples under the steps of the altars for the obvious reason that the Church, with the excuse of blessing the people who always need to be blessed, is not so naive and unprepared to end up blessing what for Catholic doctrine and morality remains the sin against nature (Catechism, n. 2357), which as such cannot be blessed, not even with the excuse of only blessing people. This is a topic on which the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith had already expressed its opinion (cf.. WHO). Several times over the last few years I have written and explained that the Church has the duty to welcome the sinner, especially the worst sinners, because if she did not do so she would betray the mission that Christ God has entrusted to her (cf.. Mt 9,13), always being careful, however, never to welcome sin, which cannot be welcomed, much less blessed.
This is why we remained silent, because we are priests, theologians and above all men of faith aware that even today the Church is experiencing very delicate moments, or if we want even confused and sad, In any case, she will never be able to betray the mission that Christ God has entrusted to her to meet the whims of the world, because God chose us from the world but we are not of the world (cf.. GV 15, 18-19).
Let's move on and conclude with two elements. The first: the essence of ecumenical councils and synods of the Church; The second one: the unusual attitude, perhaps even questionable and ambiguous of the Supreme Pontiff Francis.
The Catholic Hamas terrorists who have carried out campaigns for months and weeks aimed at exciting people, now at terrorizing them, they demonstrated first of all that they have no idea what councils and synods are in the two-thousand-year history of the Church. First let's see the difference between the two: by ecumenical council we mean, as the word itself says, an extraordinary event that involves all the bishops of the universal Church. The term “ecumenical” in fact it derives from Greek world (oikoumene) and it means universal. Otherwise instead, the Synod, which can be local or even global, it involves a slice of the episcopate, or invited and selected participants, which can also represent Catholic universality, but which do not constitute an ecumenical council, that is, that most important and solemn act of the Church which requires and implies the participation of the entire Catholic episcopate.
In both cases, whether it is an ecumenical council or a synod, participants are simply not entitled, but precisely the duty to discuss everything and its exact opposite. In discussions they can, indeed, even the most unlikely or even absurd hypotheses must be raised. Perhaps the great Fathers and Masters of classical scholasticism did not do this, often starting in their disputes even from surreal and paradoxical elements, in order to stimulate the speculative sense and arrive at wise judgments? What does this take to make clear to the aggressive blogger or to those who have a sentence on Twitterthey have solved problems that have not yet had a definitive answer for centuries. Therefore, than certain fringes of the episcopate, that is, the inevitable Germans and Northern Europeans, have raised certain questions, It shouldn't have surprised anyone, including hardcore bloggers and tweeters, if only they had known the rudiments of Church history.
The Supreme Pontiff Francis for its part remains an enigma, as I defined it in an old article of mine from 2013 commenting on his first ones 100 days of pontificate (see WHO) where I compared him to the Pied Piper of Amelin, which deserves enormous credit: having made all the mice come out for what they really are, after they had hidden themselves in the most false and calculated condescension for thirty years under the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. At least today, thanks to this Augusto Pifferaio, we get to know the mice one by one for what they are and what they really think. This will make it especially difficult for them, or rather, really impossible to be able to recycle it at the next change of helmsman of Peter's boat, given that a 87 years and with health problems of no small importance, the Supreme Pontiff Francis will certainly not last forever. If so tomorrow, as if nothing had happened, a playful cardinal even went so far as to lower himself into a manhole to reconnect electricity to the inhabitants of an illegally occupied building (see WHO), if he showed up with three meters of cappa magna and a galero on his head - something that certain chameleons would be capable of doing because by their nature they lack the very sense of modesty - we would all ask him: "But you, Were you perhaps not the one who, under the pontificate of Francis, went in trousers and rolled up shirt sleeves to bring coffee in the evening to the tramps who had transformed Bernini's colonnade into a public urinal?, after showing off gold cufflinks and artfully pleated purple robes under the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI?”.
For the umpteenth time the Supreme Pontiff Francis brought them together, speak and vent in a Synod, causing them all to come out into the open again. Once the discussions were over he announced "then we'll see", concluding with a "see you next year", assuming of course that the Holiness of Our Lord is always alive.
Of the two one: or we are faced with a man who alone is crazier and more deranged than Joanna of Castile, Henry IV and Ludwig II of Bavaria all three combined, or we are faced with a man who in a very difficult and complex historical moment did what was best and most appropriate to have been done, using his state grace wisely and prudently, although at the moment his actions cannot be understood. In fact we cannot affirm either one thing or the other, because we lack the elements to be able to do it. Maybe it will take many years, but one day history will clarify the great "enigma" for us Francesco, how I defined it in 2013 after the first ones 100 days of his pontificate, revealing him as the right man who rode out an extraordinarily delicate season in the best way.
the Island of Patmos, 29 October 2023
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«WE WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN AND YET BELIEVED». THAT SINGULAR CONCEPT OF «SCANDAL» OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF …
From Saint Paul VI to Benedict XVI, for sixty years we have had Supreme Pontiffs who with exhortations and documents have repeatedly recommended the use of the cassock to the secular clergy, today we have a Supreme Pontiff who mocks the cassock together with the priests who wear it.
Now let's see who doesn't scandalize the Holy Father
the presbyter Marco Pozza, official interview with the Supreme Pontiff.
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The presbyter Marco Pozza, official interview with the Supreme Pontiff
The presbyter Marco Pozza, official interview with the Supreme Pontiff
Here is the grotesque image of a Church totally de-sacralized by those priests who praise an unspecified "Church open to all" …
And to think that several have died, so as not to take off the cassock …
The young Rolando Rivi died a martyr by refusing to take off his cassock, today it would have been a "rigid" destined to cause a "scandal"
"The great march of intellectual destruction continue. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones of the street; will become a religious dogma to reaffirm. It is a rational argument that it takes all immersed in a dream; will be a sensible form of mysticism say that we are all awake. Fires will be stoked to witness that two plus two equals four. Swords will be drawn to show that the leaves are green in summer. We will find ourselves defending not only the incredible virtues and the incredible sense of human life, but something even more incredible, this immense, impossible universe staring at us in the face. We will fight for visible wonders as if they were invisible. We will look at the grass and the skies impossible with a strange courage. We will be among those who have seen and yet have believed " (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Heretics, 1905)
the Island of Patmos, 25 October 2023
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THE ARCHABOT EMERITUS OF MONTECASSINO PIETRO VITTORELLI HAS DEAD: CHRISTIAN PIETY CAN ERASE THE SAD TRUTH?
Christian piety cannot omit the truth. Therefore, the site manager I cannot be silent what is is confirmed: one that «He spoke badly of everyone, except Christ, apologizing to the dir: “I do not know him”!» (Epigraph by Paolo Giovio on Pietro l'Aretino).
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Among the various sites that are said “Catholics” there is one called I cannot be silent. A young man is responsible for this, who we understand has been kindly accompanied in the past to the exit doors of seminaries and religious institutions. It is perhaps for this reason that he feels legitimated to write pearls of wisdom on the problems of the Catholic Church, but above all on the training of priests - which is the most complex and delicate thing that can exist -, presenting himself as an expert in this regard?
His articles are numerous in which he repeatedly attacks people and ecclesiastical institutions with an acidic style. No one was saved from his stabs: by the Supreme Pontiff - who can be respectfully criticized, not, however, contested and mocked -, to follow with high prelates of the Roman Curia and prefects of the various dicasteries of the Holy See, which can also be criticized, but I didn't laugh in a mocking and arrogant way. He showed real ferocity towards the director of the Vatican Media and the head of the Holy See Press Office, to the point of accusing them - at best - of "incompetence" and "illiteracy".. He even took it out on the Vatican Gendarmerie, composed of elements selected for undoubted excellence as well as endowed with rare education and courtesy, to which he dedicated, even though, ironic comments regarding their professionalism.
He likes to present himself as an expert “Vatican things”, as if he were coming and going from the sacred palaces, omitting to say that it does not possess any passto transit through the territory of the Vatican City State, where we do not know he is a welcome guest.
it does not concern us in any way how this individual - who does not appear to benefit from the support of a wealthy family or the income from a professional job - can camp out in Rome where the costs of living have always been high, today more than ever to the stars, because the subject of the question is completely different.
In today's article (cf.. WHO) this excellent expert on the Roman Curia publishes a comment on the death of the Archabbot emeritus of Montecassino, Dom Pietro Vittorelli, already presented in the past as an innocent victim acquitted of the accusation of having stolen money from the abbey's funds:
«It concludes, today, a long and unjust judicial via crucis that began in 2017" (cf.. WHO).
Considering that they are in fashion i dubia, we intend to submit some of them to the person responsible for this Site with the express invitation to respond strictly on the merits of the seven questions that follow:
It is true that Pietro Vittorelli did not simply use but rather abuse hard drugs and that he was a cocaine addict who was so severely addicted that he ended up admitted to a discreet Swiss clinic to be detoxified where the cost for three months of treatment amounted to approximately 160.000 Euro?
It is true that the serious neuro-cardiological problems that severely debilitated Pietro Vittorelli were the consequence of his abuse of a narcotic substance known as crack, which finally caused him a strong thrombosis?
It is true that when he was hospitalized as an emergency, the specialists who treated him were embarrassed when they learned from the clinical analyzes that Pietro Vittorelli appeared to be making massive habitual use of cocaine and crackand that this was precisely the cause of the serious attack that had struck and severely debilitated him?
It is true that Pietro Vittorelli was an irrepressible practicing homosexual who led a life in total contrast with Catholic morality, the principles of the priesthood and monastic life and who used to avail himself of the paid services of young people escorthomosexuals around Europe, leaving traces of this in his chatprivate, later acquired by the investigators as documentary evidence, in which he expressed himself with a style and language of unspeakable immorality?
It is true that Pietro Vittorelli traveled around Europe suffering from compulsive shopping reaching the point of spending up to approximately 50.000 euro in a single month, with transactions documented by his credit card records, paying hotel to 5 luxury category stars, gourmet restaurants, high fashion boutiques and perfumeries?
It is true that what is contained in the points 1-5 they are all elements meticulously documented in investigative documents then passed by the investigators to the Holy See for information, in consideration of the fact that Pietro Vittorelli was a diocesan ordinary?
The site director I Can't Be Silent, well-known punisher of the Roman Curia, of the prelates of the Holy See, of the Vatican Media, of the Vatican Press Office, of the Pontifical Gendarmerie and so on (see archive of his articles) perhaps believes that when the serious and immoral exploits of a practicing and unrepentant homosexual are involved, everything should be relegated to the spheres of his private life, without this having any impact on the ecclesial and canonical-juridical level?
the tenor of the exchanges that Pietro Vittorelli used to have with escort gay for pay: «I'm going to look for cocks»
Christian piety cannot omit the truth. Therefore, the person responsible for this Site, it confirms itself for what it is: one who «He spoke ill of everyone, except Christ, apologizing to the dir: “I do not know him!» (Epigraph by Paolo Giovio on Pietro l'Aretino).
The great expert on Church matters answer these dubia, but strictly on the merits, or shut up, commending with us the soul of this unfortunate deceased to the infinite mercy of God.
the Island of Patmos 14 October 2023
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POSTHUMOUS NOTE 07.01.2024
The late abbot was acquitted of the charge of having diverted funds from the 8X1000 of the Diocese of Montecassino, today no longer dependent on the Cassinese abbot and united with that of Aquino-Sora-Pontecorvo, not, however, from the responsibility of having appropriated sums of money stolen from the funds of the rich abbey for years, with which he financed the expenses described here for years, including the purchase of drugs, luxury travel and the services of gay prostitutes. The monks of the abbey and the Benedictine Congregation of Cassino preferred to draw a veil of compassion and avoid taking legal action against their abbot.
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Our previous articles (2023-2026):
– 28 June 2026 — SILERE NON POSSUM AND THE RAINBOW AS A TROJAN HORSE. WHEN THE FIGHT AGAINST ABUSE BECOMES THE PRETEXT TO REWRITE CATHOLIC MORALS(To open the article click WHO)
– 22 June 2026 — Press release: THE ISLAND OF PATMOS SUBJECT TO REPEATED UNFOUNDED REPORTS (To open the article click WHO)
– 11 June 2026 — MARCO PERFETTI: TELLING ME THAT I AM A PROBLEMATIC IS AS OBVIOUS AS SAYING THAT MADDALENA WAS A PROSTITUTE (To open the article click WHO)
– 5 May 2026 — ESTONIA, A PROMISED LAND, A DIFFERENT WORLD... AND A DAILY BADNESS OF THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)
– 30 April 2026 — I CAN'T BE SILENT: THE DAY WHEN CRIMINAL LAW DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS BORN IN THE SACRESTY (To open the article click WHO)
– 27 April 2026 —WHY IN THIS CASE "I CAN KEEP SILENT"?(To open the article click WHO)
– 31 March 2026 — THE MALIGNANT NARCISSIST AND THE USE OF BLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE CHURCH AND ITS FAITHFUL SERVANTS(To open the article click WHO)
– 21 March 2026 — THE ABBOT OF SOLESMES AND THE ILLUSION OF LITURGICAL SYNTHESIS: BETWEEN SUBJECTIVISM AND DOCTrinal CONFUSION (To open the article click WHO)
– 28 February 2026 — I CAN'T BE SILENT. AN EXTRAORDINARY MARCO PERFETTI BETWEEN CONFIDENT CANON LAW AND «SCANDAL IN THE SUN»: THE DECEASED AUGUST SAID THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN(To open the article click WHO)
– 16 February 2026 — DONNE, LAW AND THEOLOGY USED AS A SLOGAN BY THE SILERE NON POSSUM BLOG(To open the article click WHO)
– 8 February 2026 — THE ATTORNEYS OF ITACA AND THE EPIC OF THE ENFORCEMENT THAT CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)
– 10 December 2025 — MARCO PERFETTI, I CANNOT SILENCE OTHERS: THE CULTURED CRICKET AND THE MOSQUITO THAT THINKS IT IS A GOLDEN EAGLE (To open the article click WHO)
– 6 September 2025 — THE VERY POWERFUL SILERE NON POSSUM IS MAKING GOOGLE SHAKE (To open the article click WHO)
– 16 August 2025 —I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY" (To open the article click WHO)
– 14 August 2025 — There is a homosexual? AT THAT TIME I CAN'T BE SILENT Also defends the indefensible(To open the article click WHO)
– 29 March 2025 — Always about I CAN'T BE SILENT: DAL “Vertical man"A" Fireculo "and" quadhow "of Leonardo Sciascia (To open the article click WHO)
– 21 March 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And the story of that convinced seamstress that he can give Giorgio Armani high fashion lessons(To open the article click WHO)
– 12 February 2025 — The Opossum is to the knowledge of the Vatican as Henger is in chastity and like his deceased husband Riccardo Schicchi is at work Confessions OF SAINT AUGUSTINE(To open the article click WHO)
– 15 January 2025 — AT THE CLERICAL BORDERS WITH REALITY: THE WOMAN SUFFERS FROM FREUDIAN PENIS ENVY, The Opossum of the envy by Matteo Bruni Director of the Press Room of the Holy See(To open the article click WHO)
– 20 January 2025 — THE OPOSSUM IGNORE THAT A NUN CAN QUIETLY BECOME GOVERNOR OF THE VATICAN CITY STATE, As already was Giulio Sacchetti(To open the article click WHO)
– 22 November 2024 — THE EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT OF RENATO TARANTELLI BACCARI. WHEN YOU ARE AFFECTED BY LIVER CANCER, THEY CHARGE ON THE ATTACK THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT(To open the article click WHO)
– 31 May 2024 — A NOTE FROM FATHER ARIEL ON THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT: «AS ANNOYING AS A SEA URCHIN INSIDE YOUR UNDERPANTS» (To open the article click WHO)
– 8 December 2023 — WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN?(To open the article click WHO)
– 14 October 2023 — THE ARCHABOT EMERITUS OF MONTECASSINO PIETRO VITTORELLI HAS DEAD: CHRISTIAN PIETY CAN ERASE THE SAD TRUTH?(To open the article click WHO)
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WAR OF THE HAMAS TERRORISTS AGAINST ISRAEL: «THE STATEMENTS OF THE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE HOLY SEE ARE HISTORICALLY FALSE AND DEFAMATORY»
For certain political Zionists who have little or nothing to do with the Jewish world and with Judaism, there is no worse humiliation than having to be grateful to those who did good to him and saved his life.
Under certain circumstances words must be measured and limited, especially with the exponents of a young country in which it is difficult, a rough ex-colonist from some kibbutz can be inserted into the diplomatic corps and sent around the world completely lacking the level and class required by the office entrusted to him, but above all of prudence and knowledge.
I was Padre's student Peter Gumpel who together with Father Paolo Molinari directed the General Postulation of the Society of Jesus for half a century (cf.. Federico Lombardi S.J.WHO), they themselves initiated and trained me in the causes of the Saints. The process for the cause of beatification of the Supreme Pontiff Pius XII was entrusted to them, periodically attacked by circles that have nothing to do with the Jewish world, because they are all linked to the fringes of radical political Zionism, which is completely different from Judaism. All with all due respect to those who would like to brand anyone who wishes to profess or be anti-Zionist as an anti-Semite. Be against any nationalist ideology, such is political Zionism, it's legal, provided that it displeases it never leads to forms of violence or damage to the dignity of others.
In democratic countries you are free to be anti-communist, anti-fascists, anti-clerical... they are all freedom of thought and speech protected by the law itself. However, it seems that this is not how it works in what some continue to call "the only democracy in the Middle East"..
In my bookHerbs Amare – The century of Zionismpublished long ago 2006 I also dismantle this legend about the "only democracy" piece by piece, explaining and documenting that certain political forcing aimed at equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism are in and of themselves aberrant. It would be enough to remember that the most severe anti-Zionists have always been the most famous Jews in the world for having been leading exponents of science, of culture and the arts. I will mention just one of many: Sigmund Freud, who always showed strong opposition to the creation of the State of Israel. And when the Zionist Movement asked for his signature, received a firm refusal, by him as by various other Jewish personalities.
Political Zionism was born from characters full of Marxism and inspired by real Socialism, of which Pius XII was an opponent, as were his other Predecessors and Successors. Starting from the end of the 1950s, black legends came to life in Zionist circles about the figure of this Supreme Pontiff who was active and industrious for the salvation of the Jews persecuted and wanted by the Nazis, but to whom certain ideologists decided to serve a terrible cold revenge in the post-war period.
The political Zionists have finally reached the grotesque: the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the direct protagonists who were saved by the massive intervention of the Catholic Church - so much so that after the Second World War they wanted to put up plaques on convents, monasteries and religious institutes where their lives were saved - have begun to deny their grandparents and great-grandparents with "historical" statements which if they were not tragic would border on the comical: «In the immediate post-war period, our grandparents and great-grandparents were not yet clear about what had really happened». That means: approximately six million Jews exterminated throughout Europe, but the direct protagonists who saved their lives were not yet clear about the extent of a huge tragedy unique in its own way in the history of humanity?
In these books of mine, I refer you to reading which, I define everything with this joke:
"Not no, because you believe what you have seen and experienced as a protagonist, instead of believing what your Zionist grandson born in the early 1970s tells you?».
One of these grandchildren he is the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Holy See, who, irritated by the calls for peace from the Bishops of Jerusalem, has once again brought up the Supreme Pontiff Pius XII:
«It is not out of context to remember that today a conference will begin at the Gregorian University 3 days on the documents of the pontificate of Pope Pius XII and their meaning for Jewish-Christian relations. Apparently – concludes the note – a few decades later, there are those who have not yet learned the lessons of the recent dark past" (see WHO).
All this confirms that for certain characters "being grateful to those who saved your life is a humiliation that some cannot bear".
I cannot cover topics in a short article which required years of study and research, but who is interested in history, not to the legends of certain political Zionists, he can read them and ascertain how different reality is from the wickedness constructed around the table with rare political malice by the supporters of a nationalist movement born from a heresy of the most degenerate Marxism. This movement is called Political Zionism and anyone can claim the right to be anti-Zionist without anyone being able to accuse them of being a dangerous anti-Semite, especially those grandchildren and great-grandchildren who, lacking the basic sense of decency, claim to deny their grandparents and great-grandparents who paid devout gratitude to Pius XII through whose work about a million Jews were saved in religious structures throughout Europe, including the Vatican City State and all the buildings of the Holy See which in Rome enjoy the regime of extra-territoriality according to the laws and treaties of international law.
the Island of Patmos, 10 October 2023
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INTERNET AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF AUTHORITY, A COUP DE GRACE INFERRED BY LEGIONS OF IMBECILIALS IN POWER
The destruction of the principle of authority is that element that fundamentally supports the triumph of the fundamentalist dictatorship of non-knowledge, of that crass ignorance, rude and violent which is something completely different from the "not knowing" of the cultured man. And this crass ignorance, rude and violent, it has long since carried out its great and devastating coup through the internet and i social media.
I often remember than when we talk, or when explaining a specific thing, when holding a lesson or conference, when preaching or doing catechesis, it is always of fundamental importance to start by underlining the true meaning of the words, indicating and, if necessary, carefully explaining the true etymological meaning of the terms used.
The wrong accent can start a war, I once said to some people who at the time didn't understand why, while I was talking about topics related to dogmatic theology, incidentally I occasionally explained the meaning of words and terminologies. In fact, there are terms that in philosophy or theology have a totally different meaning from that attributed to them by the current language in which they often, certain words, they have been emptied of their original etymology to be filled with something else and take on an opposite meaning. I explained that not just one word, but even a simple accent can change the meaning of a speech. For instance: the word "peach" can indicate both a fruit and a fisherman with a rod in his hand patiently waiting for the fish to bite the hook, depends on oral pronunciation, or where the accent falls from in a written version. Around you, I love her, it may be the small hook into which the fisherman attaches the fish bait, but it can also be the statement with which a lover declares that he loves another person. The word “anchor” can mean either the weight thrown into the seabed to block the boat and prevent it from continuing to float on the sea currents, but it can also mean repeating a given thing. Even in this case it depends on oral pronunciation, or where the accent falls from in a written version.
An audience of listeners who are not particularly cultured, in which however, precisely the most uncultured, they considered themselves true masters of knowledge, little by little they understood my lexical explanations when I illustrated that the word "punishment", in theological and doctrinal language, has a different meaning from that given to it in the current lexicon. First of all, the etymology of punishment derives from Latin chaste(pure) e act(make/give/give back). The true etymological meaning of this word is therefore "to purify", or “to make pure” or “to restore the lost purity”. A completely different meaning from that of current spoken language. Soon said: if a theologian will speak to an audience about God's punishments, listeners may understand the exact opposite of what he is trying to convey, if anything, giving rise to misunderstandings that do not depend on the way in which the scholar expressed himself or even on the listeners, but consequent to the fact that both give this term a dissimilar meaning, thus ending up speaking two different languages using the same words. In theological language, punishment is a purifying action of the grace and mercy of God who "punishes and shows mercy" (Tb 13,2) because «The Lord is merciful and merciful, slow to anger and rich in goodness" (Shall 103). Therefore, divine punishment, in the economy of salvation it is a true act of love by the Creator towards his creatures. And here I point out in passing that the term "economy" just used has, similarly to that of "punishment", a meaning that is also completely different from that of the current spoken lexicon. This Greek-derived lemma ― oἰκονομικά ― appears in a work attributed to Aristotle who uses it to indicate the management of oἰκος, that is, of the family and what belongs to it. For the Greeks the economy was not a factor, as we understand it today, an autonomous reality that operates equally autonomously. And precisely because of this word I used with reference to the "economy of salvation", someone present - obviously the most cultured and refined of all the listeners - started laughing and then showed evidence of crass ignorance by asking me publicly:
"But she, talking about the economy of salvation, he always stuck to the sale of indulgences?».
A very widespread characteristic in today's society non è il sapiente e saggio "I know that I don't know" (xéro óti den xéro, I know I do not know), according to the wise maxim of Socrates reported later by Plato in the Apology of Socrates. Today, the sovereign principle in our increasingly uncultured and arrogant masses is the exact opposite: know what you don't know, then discuss, contest and often even attack through various channels social media those who know and who for this very reason try in vain to provide clarifications, according to the psychopathological style of who, despite not knowing, However, he presumes to know more than ever.
In people of true culture knowledge is founded and moves on the basis of Socratic wisdom "I know that I don't know". Because no matter how much one may have dedicated their entire existence to study and research, all of us, even the most cultured, we remain basically ignorant in the etymological sense of the term ignorant of his predecessors hence the term ignorance, its turn derived from the Greek verb γνωρίζειν (gnorízein), which literally means "lack of knowledge". Or any of us, including long-time scholars, he would perhaps be able to say: “I know everything”? When Rita Levi Montalcini became Senator for life, distinguished neurobiologist scientist, shortly after the Nobel Prize was awarded in 1986, for having discovered the Nerve Growth Factor(the growth element of the nerve fiber), during a public event she was told that she was among the few people in the world who knew the human brain. In response she replied:
«Of the human brain, in my life, I learned something, but just something, because many of its resources remain unknown and today, we scientists, we can say we know about the 5% of its potential".
Let's now try to move from neuroscience to theology and specifically to patristics or patrology. There is a patrologist in the world capable of claiming to know in depth the works of all the great Fathers and doctors of the Church, from major to minor ones, or to have even simply read them all? I know patrologists in their eighties who have dedicated their entire lives to studying the Cappadocian Fathers, also known as the Wise Men of Cappadocia, which are three: the Saints Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus also known as Nazianzen. Of all the others they have a summary knowledge, many others still have never examined and studied them, not even read. The true man of culture is aware, precisely because it is so, of one's ignorance, precisely because true knowledge necessarily comes from the awareness of not knowing: «… of the human brain, in my life, I learned something, but only something".
The destruction of the principle of authority it is that element that fundamentally supports the triumph of the fundamentalist dictatorship of non-knowledge, of that crass ignorance, rude and violent which is something completely different from the "not knowing" of the cultured man. And this crass ignorance, rude and violent, it has long since carried out its great and devastating coup through the internet and i social media. The cancellation of cultural roles, social, political and religious develops at its worst through these channels which constitute the destructive element of every principle of authority. This is a problem that requires us to take a historical-social leap backwards to be understood, to be precise, the inglorious seventies of the twentieth century, with all its devastating and emotional "do not forbid", «imagination in power» and so on. In that season a real process of subversion took place, reversal and finally a real elimination of roles. Today the teacher is no longer someone sitting on a desk in a higher position, which not by chance had a pedagogical and symbolic platform that raised it in height above the desks where the students sat, from which he dispensed his teaching to subjects who had to remain silent, listen and learn, responding only when questioned, or, when granted, ask questions about what the teacher had explained but which had not been well understood. Many lower or high school teachers, or university professors, at the end of their lessons they used to ask: «I was clear... I explained myself well? You have some clarifying questions to ask?». I honestly have no memory of ever hearing any of my schoolmates or university colleagues speak up: «I don't agree with what he said because in my opinion… I think that…». This could have meant finding yourself later in the exam in front of an examiner who could have made you repent of your past sins in an impeccable manner and in full compliance with the law and academic rules., present and even future. And I will tell: it would have done well too, because arrogance must be punished, precisely for the sake of the arrogant, which needs to be corrected, not indulged, less than ever tolerated. Arrogance is in itself intolerable.
The post-1968 teacher he has become the one with whom we dialogue and compare ourselves, no longer in a vertical role position, that is, from above (teacher) downward (students), but in a horizontal relationship. If then, in this kind of sick relationship relationship - which could not and never should be, first of all for the good of those who have to learn - one starts challenging the teacher with "I don't agree", because I think that... because in my opinion...", here is that subject, today, he will even be judged as a particularly brilliant student. Then, if he insults the teacher, at that point he will become the favorite of all his companions and his comradesthey will send him little hearts for WhatsApp, or directly their half-naked images on Instagram. Nobody thinks that today's parent, learning of his son's feat, you feel a sense of human shame for having a child who is rude to that level, because the answer will be more or less this: «He insulted him, you can see he deserved it". Or maybe it can, today's parent, feeling ashamed and then admitting that he was a total educational failure? Of course not, therefore it is the insulted teacher who is wrong and the child who is right.
The exams I took at the time first in high school and then at university ― me like everyone else ― were not based on a dialogue between peers, but on a completely unequal relationship where a person is vested with authority, the professor, he asked me questions to which I, student, in a subordinate position I had to answer precisely, especially in the strict merit of what had been requested of me, showing that I had acquired and developed the knowledge that had been transmitted to me. Having done this the authority, that is, the high school teacher or the ordinary university professor, he expressed a judgment on me in the form of a vote, with a rating given in numbers between 0 e 10 or between 18 e 30. I got to have teachers who were talented, knowledgeable people, as well as educational qualities, as I have had others that were mediocre, equipped with little science and, if anything, also lacking in teaching skills. However, it was not our job as students to evaluate teachers, that could be judged, for their merits or demerits, only by their superiors, or at least by their peers, certainly not from the students who were acquiring knowledge and who had not yet acquired and matured. This made them lack the necessary judgment skills - including contestation - to be able to express positive or negative judgments on the qualities and abilities of the teachers..
Cases have been multiplying for years in which the disastrous parents of certain students, worthy children or grandchildren of the less than glorious Sixty-eight and the Seventies that followed, they do not even limit themselves to appealing to the Regional Administrative Courts for a failure they consider unjust, because they clog them up with appeals even for a vote since, in their opinion, it was not adequate. If the parent, more or less the son or grandson of 1968 or the 1970s, he is unable to pass on to his child the healthy and healthy principle of authority and respect that is due to authority, society is inevitably doomed to colossal failure after descending into the absolute worst and most destructive form of anarchy: the anarchy of emotions, or if we prefer "forbidden to forbid" and "imagination in power".
These are the results that are before our eyes today: the parent ceases to be a parent and becomes a friend or a "criminal" accomplice of the child; the teacher is a subject with whom one compares oneself, contesting it and giving vent to one's egocentrism with "I don't agree... because I think that... because in my opinion..."; the doctor is no longer the one who treats you but a person who can be interrupted while he is giving you a diagnosis by expressing the fateful phrase «Ah, I do not agree, because I read on the internet that..."; state offices, from the carabiniere to the policeman up to the Senator for life of the Italian Republic who became such due to special merits, they are figures who are often mocked and debased by people who do not even know the first fundamental article of the Constitution of the Italian Republic and who are completely ignorant of the republican system in which they live; priests and theologians are people now relegated to the most useless and marginal roles of civil society to whom young people suffering from functional or digital illiteracy turn face to face with the "you" telling them how and why the Church makes mistakes, or putting their foot down because they have to act as godparents at baptism, however, they had not been confirmed, here, after having made a profession of not believing the truths announced by the Church, they tell you, if anything even with a bad face "I have the right to do Confirmation because I need it", ignoring that the Sacraments are not a right but an action of divine grace … In short, a society in which, together with the principle of authority, all the rules have disappeared, with a mass of arrogant ignorant people who every half sentence pronounce «I have the right to… I have the right to…» but in an egocentric and anarchic way they don't even accept the vague idea itself that alongside rights there are duties and vice versa, since a society made only of rights cannot exist, just as one made only of duties cannot exist.
I have quoted Umberto Eco several times in various of my writings that touched on the problem of the internet and social media, because with four brushstrokes he depicted, more than a problem, a real social disaster:
«I social mediathey give the right to speak to legions of idiots who previously only spoke at the bar after a glass of wine, without damaging the community. They were immediately silenced, while now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It is the invasion of imbeciles!» (cf.. WHO).
Before the semiologist Umberto Eco, when still i social mediathey had not taken the field, a famous Italian mathematician, George Israel, he expressed himself this way about the internet:
«It is true - as someone noted - that I have decided to put an end to this type of “dialogue”. It highlighted two of the worst aspects of the internet, a means which I will not give up anyway, but not to give in to the evil temptations it leads to. I am alluding to the loss of inhibitions whereby one believes one can treat people with whom one would not dare to do so hastily and even rudely. de visu; and the tendency to pass judgment on crucial issues that are perhaps the subject of secular reflection, even calling anyone who doesn't comply an idiot" (cf.. Article from May 2008 taken from Giorgio Israel's website).
Forgive me if I use myself as an example, but I believe that transmitting one's personal experience is important, especially by a presbyter and a theologian who has just reached the threshold of sixty years of age. This means - or at least it is assumed - to have acquired and developed a certain life experience and, through methodical research studies continued over time, a certain knowledge, always and rigorously based on the awareness of "I know that I don't know". As always we exemplify: once, the classic frigid hysteric who was reactively affected by obsessive neuroses of a pseudo-religious nature, after causing problems, friction, arguments and confusion of various kinds in the parish, or perhaps even before it could generate similar things, she was taken aside by some of the parish priests who were, made new from head to toe and then chased away. Today the classic frigid hysteric reactively affected by obsessive neuroses of a pseudo-religious nature dives into the sea of social media, goes hunting for the priests' pages and with a quarrelsome and aggressive spirit begins to challenge them in an insulting and provocative tone, especially if the priest has written a clear and precise post in which he deals in a simple way with serious matters in terms of doctrine and faith, making them understandable to the general public, but to which she responds with absurd nonsense. This is one of the main pitfalls of social media, for us presbyters and theologians as for any scholar or for any person who in society has what he should be, but above all it should be felt and respected as a role of authority.
In internet, but above all in social media, as Giorgio Israel pointed out many years ago, there is a total loss "of inhibitions that allow people to be treated hastily and even rudely with people they wouldn't dare to do so with." de visu». Which adds a worse element: «the tendency to pass judgment on crucial issues that are perhaps the subject of secular reflection, even calling anyone who doesn't comply an idiot". We have had recent experience of this, moreover linked to an affair that brought civil societies to their knees for two years, governments and the economy: the Covid-19 pandemic. Who among us does not remember armies of shampoo girls and bar intellectuals with a lower secondary school diploma from evening schools who, between one ungrammatical message and another, denied the most expert virologists and infectious disease specialists because they had read on blogs managed by equally arrogant ignorant people that …? I tried to respond in this way to many of these people at the time:
«Science is not perfect and has always been fallible and defeasible. Vaccine yes, vaccine no? Personally I have decided to trust science, that he can make mistakes and has often made mistakes. However, I intend to make an act of faith towards science, because if anyone must be wrong about me, I prefer that the mistake is made by a specialist in an attempt to save me rather than by a naturopath-esotericist hunting for idiots who makes people believe he can cure them with homeopathic pills and colored magnetic stones. Also because, while science asks for trust when necessary, these charlatans and those who decide to follow them ask and demand instead real acts of blind faith regarding what is absurd and anti-scientific they say and support".
At that delicate juncture as in other different but similar ones, public and private television stations have burdened themselves with enormous responsibilities that a true civil society and truly enlightened politics should not have hesitated to make pay dearly out of a sense of justice and for the protection of the population. In fact, we remember that while people were locked in their homes at the height of lockdown, for five days a week, three or four hours every evening, in all the most followed talk showquarrels and brawls were encouraged and fomented between clinical specialists and ignorant emeritus people taken from the street who contested and denied them. All passed off as the right to information and the right to freedom of speech. Request: of when, the imbeciles, they have the right to express themselves in prime time on public and private television, even more so to challenge and refute scholars with absurd and irrational theories, even more than anti-scientific? The television networks were really interested in giving everyone a voice? And since when, this passionate love for truth on the part of mass media that they usually hide the truth, manipulate and distort it, when it suits the bosses who keep them tight and tied to their payrolls? No, the truth was completely different: the editorial staff of television programmes, with a cynicism that it would have been good to make him pay dearly for, they had a single purpose, much higher than Covid-19 and the pandemic danger itself: audience ratings. More brawls broke out in the television studios, the more the audience ratings went up. But let's go back to Umberto Eco again:
«Television had promoted the village idiot compared to whom the viewer felt superior. The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the bearer of truth" (cf.. WHO).
Call yourselves an "old-fashioned" priest, if you prefer demodé, but I remain aware that the Church, through the so-called three gifts, he sent me to teach, to sanctify and guide the People of God, this after having trained me, educated and specialized in theological sciences, therefore giving me a mandate. This is my job, both for those who believe in it and for those who, even if you don't believe it, he would still be required to respect it, especially in this world in which respect and maximum political correctness are de rigueur even for the last of the illegal immigrants landed on our shores and for transsexuals balancing on stiletto heels, who certainly do not have a human dignity superior to that of a human being called a priest. As a result, the task of ours believers of Christit remains today to accept our teaching, allow yourself to be sanctified through the Sacraments of grace administered by us and be guided on the path of Christian life, or if you prefer to be governed by pastors within the Church, where you are free to enter and from which, to be understood, you are free to leave, but no one has the right and the recognized freedom to insolent the shepherds.
Soon said: come minister in sacred I am not a person with whom any person who proclaims himself Catholic or believer can deal face to face, because the relationship is theologically and hierarchically bottom-up (loyal) upward (presbyter). It is not the believer or worse the presumed one who can wag his finger and give me lessons on how a priest should be a priest or on how he should transmit the truths of the faith, or worse, which truths can be good and which "must" be changed instead. All expressed by subjects who have never even looked at the Catechism of the Catholic Church and who therefore ignore that the truths of faith are immutable and certainly not mutable at will, with lots oflikeon social, because "I think that... in my opinion...".
In front of this kind of people I act and interact in two ways: or I reprimand them with a severe and, if necessary, authoritarian attitude, making it clear to them that I am not their companion, much less a person with whom they can think of confronting one-on-one, or, as in the case of social media in which relationships are perversely horizontal, I react with a sneer, with the colorful word, sometimes even using some completely random trivial phrase, less than ever instinctive or emotional, but precisely scientifically studied and desired in order to shake up certain subjects, whose reaction is as evident as it is obvious: «Shame of a priest... vulgar priest... but you really are a priest?». Yup, I'm a priest, with the aggravating circumstance of also being a theologian to whom you, young girl or do-nothing woman, after having spent the day browsing the internet in search of gossip and titillating news, you thought you could explain what the Catholic faith really is. Because the most disrespectful and most violent of all are de rigueur: give it, how they feel social media. Or it could happen that I don't respond and that I respond to some of these angry comments by posting on my page socialthe photography of Only Rose in spray version used by women for vaginal itching, if anything accompanying the photo with the phrase: "they say it works...".
Imbeciles always take things seriously and they desperately need to be taken seriously, because the social authorities are felt, scientific, policies, moral and religious which they absolutely are not, this thing that, for a sort of strange and complex unconscious envy, it leads them to insult those who truly and legitimately hold these roles of authority. What is not serious, never be caught and treated as if he were. A quel point, clever mockery is the only antidote. It's about cunning and subtle pedagogy: mocking one happens that he, together with others 100, they post hundreds of insulting comments to you, but it almost always happens that at least two or three, in front of your answers, they understand, giving you and recognizing the social role and authority that you deserve and are owed, because certain relationships are not, nor can they ever be equal, nor based on the principle of «… in my opinion… I think that…».
As a presbyter I can ask my Bishop opinion and advice, expose a problem and ask for suggestions for its solution, I can also raise doubts about certain choices or pastoral directives, with all the deepest courtesy of the case I can also offer some advice, because every priest is a close collaborator of the Bishop. However, I cannot dispute him and reject what he has established, thus placing me above him, because I am the one who depends on his authority, to whom I promised filial respect and devout obedience with a solemn sacramental act. It is the Bishop who granted me the mandate and the related faculty to celebrate the Holy Mass, to preach the Holy Gospel, to absolve from sins and to care for and safeguard the People of God, all in a relationship of subordination, because I am subjected in a subordinate way to the apostolic authority of the Bishop, who has the power, wanting or deeming it appropriate, to revoke this mandate as well, partially or totally, if he deemed me inadequate or unworthy. So, even if I had a hundred reasons in and of itself, if I dared to place myself above his apostolic authority, those reasons would turn into a thousand serious wrongs which would make me a terrible priest and which would cause scandal and disorientation to the believers of Christ. This, it is the principle of authority in the Church, entirely based on the theological virtues of faith, of hope and charity (cf.. The Cor 1.13). And make it clear to the Catholics of «in my opinion … I do not agree ..", it's not easy.
At times, to recover people and bring others to reason, a photo of a pharmacological product against vaginal itching may be more useful rather than a useless dissertation on certain key principles enunciated by the Holy Father and Doctor of the Church Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, who also had good knowledge of vaginas, when he was always Aurelius of Tagaste. And someone, after laughing about Only Rosewhich relieves vaginal itching, it may be that he understands and then opens up. Only at that point will it be possible to talk about the Gospel and the precious thoughts of Saint Augustine, producing good fruit, all thanks to a teasing joke that started with a product that relieves vaginal itching.
Who is in authority, faced with this total crisis of every principle of authority today there are two solutions: or he starts fighting in vain against windmills by speaking a language that the masses are ignorant of, arrogant and quarrelsome people who swarm the social mediaI am not even able to understand and understand, or he makes fun of imbeciles while maintaining the respect that is due to him and that is due to him. Recovering some from time to time, which is no small thing these days:
«Who among you has a hundred sheep and loses one, he does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and goes after the lost one, until he finds her again? Find it again, he puts it on his shoulder all happy, go home, call friends and neighbors saying: “Rejoice with me, because I found my lost sheep". Like this, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven for a converted sinner, that for ninety-nine righteous people who do not need conversion" (LC 15, 4-7).
I social media I am an ocean where sardines think they are sharks and where cod have the killer whale complex, but yet, occasionally, it is possible to recover some sea bass, aware first of all that he is a bass.
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