WHEN DURING THE HOLY MASS FATHER ARIEL Smashed A GUITAR ON THE COLUMN OF THE NAVE OF A PARISH CHURCH

When he goes to places he doesn't know, he prefers to have a policeman nearby who can possibly block him, "privilege" this granted of motu proprio a me, poor wretch that I am! Simple reason: holding a Bengal tiger is easier and less dangerous than holding him.

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I'm 12 year old that I live and work closely with him, are therefore a living archive of the deeds of Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo. Naturally, when you are meek, one does not narrate one's most beautiful deeds, for matters of meekness. I fear that one day I will have to give an account to God for having prevented the performance of various not beautiful feats, but beautiful. And who knows what punishment I will have to suffer for this, when I stand before the judgment of God, having prevented the realization of certain strokes of genius.

 

Characteristic of Father Ariel is to surprise you with things you would never expect. Because of this, when he begins with certain performance, always and strictly sudden and unexpected, people can't even react in the moment, because they need to get into the order of ideas that what happened is true, which just really happened.

 

May 2010, a brother of Father Ariel, Colombian, while he was doing his doctorate in sacred liturgy in a pontifical university in Rome he carried out the ministry of second assistant pastor in a parish that I won't name, in a suburbicarian diocese of Rome which I will not name. Having decided to make a pilgrimage to Fatima and stay in Portugal for a few days, calls Father Ariel and asks him if he can replace him for the evening Mass on Saturday and for that of Sunday morning. He accepts right away, also for the deep fraternal and emotional bond he nurtures towards that priest, who was master of ceremonies at his priestly ordination.

 

As it usually does, he asks me if I can accompany him and carry out the service of acolyte, not being able to admit that when he goes to places he doesn't know, he prefers to have a policeman nearby who can possibly block him, "privilege" this granted of motu proprio a me, poor wretch that I am! Simple reason: holding a Bengal tiger is easier and less dangerous than holding him.

 

Against guitars Father Ariel has nothing, why the guitar, if played well, by professionals and musicians, it can be a splendid liturgical instrument. Time and again we have heard guitarists play arias by J.S. Bach, on other occasions even accompany Gregorian chants in the background. An authentic marvel.

But when he hears about sixty-year-old post-sixty-eight-year-olds play the guitars they can't play, if anything on the melody of When the Saints Go Marching In, Father Ariel might even make you regret not meeting Jack the Ripper instead, with which all in all could go better.

 

I admit: Sunday morning that coretto hit rock bottom. During Communion they began to sing a song taken from the famous opera Jesus Christ Superstar. And here it must be stated: Father Ariel greatly appreciates both that work and the ballet of Martha Graham Dance Company, which he considers one of his greatest works rock in the twentieth century. But, at the same time, he is a presbyter and a theologian of solid doctrine and knows that that work and the lyrics of his songs strongly deny the divinity of Christ. That's when the chorus begins to sing on the words translated into Italian of the Magdalene in love with Christ: "… it's a man, he's just a man". Father Ariel ceases to distribute Communion, goes up to the altar, he places the pyx on it, he kneels reverently, descends under the presbytery, he takes the guitar from the guitarist's hand and smashes it on the column of a nave. He leaves the guitar in pieces on the floor and says: “At the end of real concerts rock that's how it's done".

 

A grave silence fell in the church. And as if nothing happened, composed and frozen like a piece of ice, the Eucharistic celebration continued and ended.

 

The pastor didn't dare say anything, I assume fearing ending up with a bronze candlestick stamped on my back. But the next day he was the first to support the protest of those choristers to the Bishop, saying he didn't know that priest and blaming the second assistant pastor who had called him to replace him. Obviously Father Ariel had already taken care to call his Bishop, who at the time was Msgr. Luigi Negri, and tell him the story.

 

No later than Monday afternoon the Bishop of that Diocese calls Mons. Luigi Negri, which basically was perhaps even more indisposed of the Father Ariel himself in the face of certain liturgical antics, and that so calms him down: «I reassure you and please also reassure the guitarist that all in all it went really well for him, rather thank God, because for the type that is, I'm amazed that he smashed the guitar on the column and not on his head».

 

Spent a year, while the Colombian priest was about to leave Rome at the end of his studies and return to his diocese, a few days before taking the plane he confided to Father Ariel that he had invited him on purpose to replace him, imagining that in the face of similar things he would have reacted, after he had had to put up with that choir and that ignorant parish priest for two years in matters of doctrine and faith, that he didn't even realize the heresies that those people sang during Mass.

 

But I repeat: being Father Ariel meek, deeply tame, avoid narrating some of his finest deeds, certainly for a speech of profound humility.

 

the Island of Patmos, 9 January 2023

 

 

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COMMUNION BY GIORGIA MELONI AND THAT CLERICAL IDEOLOGISM ON COMMUNION IN HANDS EVEN IN HIGH RISK SITUATIONS WHICH EXCEEDS THE VERY VALUE OF PROTECTING THE BODY OF CHRIST

It is necessary in certain great pontifical celebrations and beyond, Holy Communion is administered to thousands of people, more on the hands, where exercising control is impossible and where real sacrileges can occur, which punctually occurred and continue to occur?

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Among many, during the funeral celebration of Benedict XVI, the photo of our Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni receiving Holy Communion from the hands of a priest did not go unnoticed. Someone maliciously pointed out that political sympathies risk overshadowing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, but we, up here The Island of Patmos we have no political sympathies because we care about people and their souls and we know that for God there are no serial souls “a” or serial “b”, much less souls of the right or of the left but all are called to salvation in Jesus Christ, because this is why God called the Church and a priest should be concerned daily and primarily with the salvation and health of the souls entrusted to him, not of "other", and it is better to spread a pitiful veil and not add anything else on the nature and modality of this "other".

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Given the public case of Communion at Meloni, there would be so much to say and to object from the point of view of the doctrine and teaching of the Catholic Church but I believe that the point now is not this, if not to ignite sterile controversies that are completely useless and to be avoided. In my personal opinion it would certainly be appropriate to give a nice tug of the ear to the national Giorgia - a pastorally dutiful thing for the good of her soul and for the protection of many Christians who voted for her in the last elections - who did not have the slightest hesitation to receive the Eucharist although not being able to do it because still today linked through a cohabitation with Andrea Giambruno. Let us remember that coexistence is an emotional bond not recognized by the Church for two baptized persons, whose only valid bond of union is the sacramental one of marriage, in which Christ Himself unites spouses into one. Unfortunately, a significant aggravating circumstance is added to the specific case of our Prime Minister: either, her and her partner, are totally free from previous constraints. None of them has previously contracted a marriage which would constitute an impediment to their union. Therefore there is precisely the manifest will not to marry and to live in a state of coexistence. A situation that deserves all due respect for the free and unquestionable choices of others, but which however has nothing to do with those of the many people animated by deep Christian sentiments, divorced and later married civilly, that although they want to experience a regular situation they are not able to do it, unless there are elements such as to allow the ecclesiastical court to declare it invalid, therefore null, their previous marriage.

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I hope some brother priest, maybe a friend of Meloni, made her understand the responsibility for her public act, not so much as a civil and lay representative of the Italian State present there to pay homage to a deceased Pontiff, but above all as a person who defines himself as a Catholic Christian and who on more than one occasion has wanted to present himself as a guardian of the traditional values ​​of the faith. Except for giving repeated guarantees during the electoral campaign that no one would touch the abortion law in any way, something further guaranteed by the Catholic Elisabetta Gardini to various television programs in the pre-election period [cf.. See WHO, WHO]

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In the recent past, we have had other politicians who have brandished rosaries and sacred images for propaganda purposes and we have always ended up with farce, with great detriment to the faith of the simple and the unprepared. This is not because a politician is prohibited from testifying his faith and religious affiliation in public, but because when one does so one must keep one's own role as an official of a secular State which has certain obligations as well as that of a person of faith which has others and perhaps more burdensome and binding because they are addressed to God and to the Church which are not they are certainly voters.

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So here is the crux of the matter: but is it ever possible that in the organization of the celebrations of the Holy See there is no provision for limiting these abuses and these outbursts of sentimental transport, especially in the section reserved for politicians and public authorities whose living condition is easy to trace and know their public thinking so as to evaluate whether or not these people should have access to the Sacraments? If this is possible to do it in smaller and less organized contexts, we should perhaps think that the organizational and diplomatic arm of the Holy See has become so short-sighted as to be short-sighted and not see certain situations? We do not want and cannot believe it.

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The most striking reality it is that of a fallacious and dissipated organization of ceremonial. If a reprimand is necessary, it must be done to His Holiness' master of ceremonies and to the other masters of ceremonies in charge of the order and decorum of the celebration, who have not organized themselves to prevent certain offenses that, although they are not to be used to make a derogatory or hurtful judgment about the person, must be absolutely and by all means avoided by virtue of their sacredness which can easily lead to scandal - in the sense of stumbling to the faith - and to the mortification of the mysteries celebrated.

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I remember very well than at the funeral of John Paul II, at the time of Communion, the notice was clearly given - due given the influx of people of different origins from all parts of the world - that the Eucharist was approached only by those who were in the conditions required by the Church to be able to receive it, so as to avoid the equivalence that the Body of the Lord has the same value and importance as a comforting embrace, of a gesture of solidarity in times of need or worse of a sentimental-passionate transport in which I "feel like taking Communion" for an unspecified reason.

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The problem has always been discussed it is also another: it is necessary that in certain great pontifical celebrations and beyond, Holy Communion is administered to thousands of people, more on the hands, where exercising control is impossible and where real sacrileges can occur, which punctually occurred and continue to occur? At certain large and crowded celebrations, would it not be better to select a small group of faithful who receive Holy Communion, for example by the Supreme Pontiff or the Bishop, while thousands more of the faithful join them in spiritual communion? Or do we want to forget when in the 2005, shortly after the death of John Paul II, was auctioned off EBay a Host received by a non-Catholic participant in a Holy Mass celebrated by him in 1988? The problem was solved by the US Diocese of Sioux City who managed to withdraw it. But there is much worse: the so-called Spanish “artist” Abel Azcona subtracted 242 Hosts presenting themselves to receive Holy Communion, obviously given on the hands, then using them to compose the word «pederastia» which in Spanish means paedophilia on the ground. Yet not even cases of this kind have ever dissuaded the clerical ideologues of Communion in hand at all costs, in any situation even at high risk. For intimate knowledge of the subject in question I add: it is reasonable to blame our confrere Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo who has always refused to give communion on the hands to anyone, after running into an attempted abduction during the celebration of his first Holy Mass? There is a video documenting it in which Father Ariel is seen chasing after a woman with the pyx in his hand and taking the Host away from the bag in which he had placed it. Does anyone have an idea of ​​the indelible trauma that it entails for a priest to have given the Eucharist to a person who has tried to take it away, moreover during the celebration of his first Holy Mass? We want to give Communion on the hands? Good, but that at least it imposes itself to check with extreme attention. It is not possible for many priests to place the Most Holy Eucharist in the hands of unknown people without exercising any control. How many people, instead of consuming it before the priest as it should, they turn their backs or leave in the total carelessness of the celebrant, or they consume it while walking through the church without anyone calling them back? These are ordinary scenes. However, it is known how much clerical ideology far exceeds the very value of the Body of Christ and the maximum protection that it should require.

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If these things don't remediate at the source, downstream there will hardly be someone who will keep and appreciate the value so as to enforce them. And between the political fevers that are waiting to catch the foot of the wrong adversary and the assaulting Puritan traditionalists who cry out to sin and threaten hell, there will always be in between the runaway from home which seraphically will remind us: "Who am I to judge?». Maybe we are nobody, but as priests and keepers of the mysteries of God entrusted to us with the laying on of hands, we want with all of ourselves to avoid that holy things are given to dogs, as well as pearls before swine [See. Mt 7,6]. It is not a question of spiritual racism but of pastoral charity which primarily wishes to protect those who still have to grow in the knowledge of God and in the proclamation of salvation within a gradual and mature journey of ecclesial faith. We cannot afford to waste the graces of God, and this also applies to those who are not yet able to appreciate them in order to grow in the right knowledge of Him and not to increase their own narcissistic and pathological religious sense. Perhaps we are wasting time but it is useful to recall the first letter to the Corinthians of the Blessed Apostle Paul [See. 1Color 11,17-34] in which the correct modality with which the faithful are called to approach the Body of the Lord is underlined, not only understood in its sacramental but ecclesial component, because it is the Eucharist that makes the Church, Body of the Lord. In a few lines «Paul educates us to have this look of responsibility on both of these "Bodies" by communicating to the rite established by Christ, ecclesial communion is also given shape and cohesion" [See. B. Standard, Letters of St. Paul, introduction, translation and commentary, St. Paul, 2021].

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We don't expect that in the Vatican understand this Pauline theological concept but at least it would not hurt to have a little respectful decency towards all those brothers who due to their irregular condition cannot yet fully receive Holy Communion and who respectfully observe fasting towards the sacred species of the Lord thus manifesting a heroic testimony of love for the Church, the Body of Christ.

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These Communions not made, more so than any done through deceit or the occasional sentimental carried away, today more than ever they are like a finger pointed at us priests who have long since abdicated the role of fathers in the faith to become friends who allow everything, they apologize and concede. We priests too, that we communicate at every Holy Mass, someone should make us think, know if we are truly in a state of grace to be able to receive that sacramental body that we consecrate daily when perhaps we are still totally unable to keep, to grow and defend that ecclesial body which is equally a sign of Christ in the world and communion with him.

Laconi, 8 January 2023

 

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WHEN IN 2017 I WROTE SIX YEARS IN ADVANCE ABOUT THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI

I don't consider myself a prophet at all, although in my writing of the 2017 I use this word with quotation marks. I think I am simply endowed with that sufficient common sense which I exercise through that critical and analytical spirit which in the Church of large openings and large inclusions is judged today as smoke in the eyes.

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The 31 December of the year 2022 just concluded I was touched by the death of the renouncing Supreme Pontiff, on the other hand I laughed when a So-and-so made yet another raid on my writings and books, on which he carries out robberies since 2015, repurposing my concepts as his original ideas, all after having made upheavals. These days he has used the contents of the second part of my article of 2017 which I propose to you today, in which I speak of the future death and funeral of Benedict XVI. I fly over the poor fellow in question with an understandable touch of aristocratic snobbery, who after years of robbing my works finds nothing better to do than point me out as a usurper of the title of theologian and as gnawed by jealousy and envy towards him (!?). It's not the time to rage, from life and from the Church he has already had everything he deserved in severe punishments.

I don't consider myself a prophet at all, although in my writing of the 2017 I use this word with quotation marks. I think I am simply endowed with that sufficient common sense which I exercise through that critical and analytical spirit which in the Church of large openings and large inclusions is judged today as smoke in the eyes, especially from the army of mediocre people who pose as stars of the firmament inside.

the Island of Patmos, 4 January 2023

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ME REQUIRES THE TREAT THE TRUTH: "THE PETITION IN FAVOR OF THE JOY OF LOVE IS VERY WORST CORRECTION filiales PROSECUTION OF HERESY THAT THE POPE ". AND APPENDIX: A SMALL PROPHECY IN DEATH OF BENEDICT XVI

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Day after day, the Supreme Pontiff Francis is showing himself to be a parent at the height of his own irresponsibility, but not for that never cease to be, For better or for worse, our rightful parent. Therefore, son grieved, It can also tell: "I wish we had a different parent ', but always animated by the full knowledge that his parent is. And as such it must also accept it and respect it, up to accept, with great suffering, the fact that correcting and training the parent has never been the task of the children, while helping the parent yes, this is a real duty of children.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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“In the visible Church you are now the surviving priests of a militant and saving Church which no longer exists, why can you call the paleo-presbyteri, congiungervi waiting for the triumphant Church in the heavenly Jerusalem "

Jorge Facio Lynx, private Talks with Ariel S.. Levi di Gualdo

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New cover for the next edition of Les Miserables, Victor Hugo. In the picture: His Holiness Francis I interviewed the Paduan priest Marco Pozza, worthy son of … Friar Cipolla [cf. item WHO]

The ambiguity of the Holy Father, your refusal a respond and clarify, perhaps due to a cage in which he was locked up or in which he unwittingly let himself be locked up [cf.. response to a reader, WHO], equivalent to a plane without a parachute launch. And before similar launch, you can't talk about predictable end, but only of certain end.

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Just imagine one of those large families made up of two parents and five children aged between five and fifteen, in which the father and mother did not give precise indications and directives on what to do and what not to do, about what you should do and what you should not do, on what is allowed and what is prohibited. And suppose that these parents, if anything even implying or stating what not to do and what is forbidden to do, do not indicate in any way what would be the proper punishment given to those who transgress their command. Well: what would happen?

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To this question I can answer through an image eloquently, sad and humiliating in its squalor for the Church of Christ and for this pontificate. This is the picture that accompanies this article, in which the priest Marco Pozza recovered, chaplain of the Padua prison, He sat before the Pope dressed as a casual young man in sneakers [cf.. WHO].

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To clarify the example chosen through which we will then talk about something else, We must remember that the Code of Canon Law states today:

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"Clerics are to wear a decent ecclesiastical dress according to the norms issued by the Episcopal Conference and according to legitimate local customs [can. 284]. Clerics are to refrain completely from what is unbecoming to their state, accordance with the provisions of particular law [can. 285 § 1]. Avoid those things that, although not unbecoming, is alien to the clerical state" [can. 285 §2].

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Quoted canon, But we also know the answer of certain subjects, which it is more or less this: "But please, let's not formalize ourselves! What only matters is peace, the love, mercy, the welcome. Not fossilizziamoci on hard and dry law, roba of Pharisaic legalisms! What matters it is to stay close to the sheep, take the smell, stinking sheep like them ».

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And just before answers of this kind it is necessary to remember that in addition to this "arid" canon 284, definitely no peace, love, mercy, welcome and stench of sheep, There are forty-eight years of papal teaching in the exercise of such, three predecessors of the reigning Pontiff, one of which canonized and the other beatified - perhaps mistaken in the name of the arid law that is not merciful or pecoreccia ―, based on this "barren" canon have made repeated appeals to the members of the secular and regular clergy, reiterating in every way that clerical garb, It is not a simple totally unnecessary accessory. He appeals to that effect made them the Blessed Pope Paul VI to Catechesis in the Hearing general the 17 September 1969 [cf.. WHO], to follow with the Address to Clergy 1st March 1973. Following the circular letter To meet the Congregation for Bishops to all pontifical representatives 27 January 1976. To follow with the Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Giovanni Paolo II, new incipient, the 7 April 1979, addressed to Priests for Holy Thursday. Always under the pontificate of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II - canonized but not heard and much less followed - follows the Circular of the Congregation for Catholic Education the 6 January 1980, and below that of the Congregation for the Clergy in Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests, paragraph 66, The obligation of the ecclesiastical, the 31 January 1994. It's still: September 8 1982 the Holy Father Giovanni Paolo II wrote a letter to the Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome, published on The Osservatore Romano the 18-19 October 1982 - at the time when the official organ of the Holy See does not yet talked to San Martin Lutero and his “reform” —, reaffirming the obligation of ecclesiastical dress and establishing that in his diocese he wanted priests to wear the cassock [Then read the text WHO]. On this subject back finally even the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI with his expression turned to the plenary meeting of the Congregation for the Clergy on 16 March 2009 [cf.. WHO].

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Assuming that we flee any spirit of pure and dry formalism, every good Catholic evaluates for himself the indignant significance of the public image of a pretino fashion in clothes casual, that with gym shoes bets on the floor interview the Roman Pontiff, predecessor of all those who recommended and reaffirmed the use of ecclesiastical dress to the clergy. From the same pose of the priest in fact anyone can infer that in his long years of Blessed seminar, surely already tense ever since then social-pecoreccio which today makes such trend, perhaps he never even learned the rudiments of good manners, which is not formalism, because education is part of a style of ecclesial life and ecclesiastical linked to the deeper elements of the priesthood and the sacred pastoral ministry spirituality [I refer to my article on pretini trendy: "I seriously pigliateli, take them for the ass " WHO].

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While we roped critical assaulting sometimes disrespectfully and even violent, the Supreme Pontiff for his every breath, on the other we'd like, its staunchest defenders, often no less deranged, They entered the order of ideas that the Holy Father is not perfect and that, precisely for the best protection and preservation of its role, must also necessary to highlight its flaws, which they are not few, and often also produce damage [cf.. My previous article WHO]. Otherwise it falls in total imbalance on either side, harming, in one and in the other case, the Church of Christ, the reigning Pontiff and the institution of the papacy.

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A few days ago, with firm severity, I criticized the authors of the correction filial [cf.. text, WHO] who accused the reigning Pontiff seven heresies expressed in a more or less direct [cf.. previous article WHO]. In those few lines, in flush with tones in some passages about the "cruelty", I strongly attacked one of the signatories, Antonio Love [cf.. previous article WHO]. And I attacked because first of all the love you very much, I venerate him as an elderly priest and I consider him the last great exponent of the glorious Roman School on a philosophical and theological level.

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The deference to truth and intellectual honesty, Today I require all the more reason to say that the correction filial It is really nothing, compared to a defense text of the Holy Father which completely distorts the text of The joy of love, taking for granted and impersonating public opinion of the Catholic openings ever written and ever permissioni dates [see text, WHO]. The correction filial, on which stands for the joy of the noisy pro-Lefebvre Catholics the untimely signing of the schismatic Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, We remember that it is not in communion with Rome, despite the improvident and unilateral concessions made to them by the Supreme Pontiff Francis, there's really nothing, a comparison of the signatures that appear at the end of the text of this effusive Defense: those of many overt heretics. Included among them two excommunicated: Martha Heizer, President of the so-called Basic Association We are church [We are Church], to which has been imposed in 2014 excommunication, not by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, but by the reigning Pontiff. Excommunication extended to her husband Ehemann Gert [cf.. WHO, WHO]. And if these are some of the signatories of the defense, There is something to be feel challenged [cf.. WHO].

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Precisely because of the severity used a few days ago, the evolution of the facts compels me to say that while prosecutors yesterday are mistaken Catholics, today's defenders are mostly manifest heretics, gangrene in its own subjective view of the Catholic Church, not corresponding to the Church of Christ, with the excuse of The joy of love and specious defense of the Supreme Pontiff, instead they try to defend and carry on only their perilous heresies of all time.

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I used the Ecclesiastical Paradigm and painful picture of casual pretino fashion before the Supreme Pontiff in indignified conditions to reiterate that Francis is the emblem of the harmful parent. It is the parent paradigm, Once a decision is made, before the demands of the child explanation, instead of answering, says to him: "Go and ask the neighbor, because he is an experienced parent, he'll give you to the correct interpretation of what I wanted to say '. Just as the Supreme Pontiff said when spurred by questions from journalists invited them to seek guidance to Cardinale Christoph von Schönborn. And you know well that, if there was no cry, it would be funny.

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If a parent does not respond to his son, or fails to identify his son, together with the directive or command given, also the eventual punishment in which incur, He is likely to end up with a teenager who returns home drunk and drugged at three am, aware that the other side is not a merciful father, welcoming and inclusive, but a perfect irresponsible unable to assume their responsibilities. Even worse: even able, if necessary, of blaming the other teenage son who, aware of his age and the risks they can run, He leads a sober life and not going to be of joints around the slums with high-risk persons. E, said this, Please use the specialists of turn of the Holy Gospel and its worst adulteration, not daring to bring up the Parable of the prodigal son [cf.. LC 15, 11-32], because it teaches not to take blows to the loyal son and to raise the dissolute son as a model, all sorry and unwilling to correct himself. On the contrary, having run out of money and wondered data earlier by his father, the profligate back to him to ask for more money, and then return to dilapidarli with prostitutes. Because these are the models that often, in Contemporary Church, are made to pass the Prodigal Son, in defiance up to Christ the Lord and his holy gospel they teach anything.

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Day after day, the Supreme Pontiff Francis is showing himself to be a parent at the height of his own irresponsibility, but not for that never cease to be, For better or for worse, our rightful parent. Therefore, son grieved, It can also tell: "I wish we had a different parent ', but always animated by the full knowledge that his parent is. And as such it must also accept it and respect it, up to accepting with no small amount of suffering that correcting and training the parent has never been the task of the children, while helping the parent, this is a real duty of children.

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Finally, I offer a small “prophecy” at the end of this comment, entitled: In the death of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI. Which might sound like a far-fetched fall style, if not properly explained. And my little “prophecy” it's this one: the Holy Father Benedict XVI, albeit bruised for understandable issues of age, although always perfectly polished, ninety years played is moving towards the natural end of his life, which could happen any day now. If indeed all, from birth, including infants, children and youth, They can be caught at any time from death, more so it is a nonagenarian.

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Given that our churches are increasingly empty, that the cameramen the Vatican Television Center and of Sat2000 they do not know from what angle to frame an increasingly deserted Piazza San Pietro, trying to make it appear more or less full of faithful … well, That said, I say to: the day that will be celebrated the funeral obsequies of Pope Benedict XVI, predecessor of the reigning Pope, God's people will give the last square packed the history of the universal Church. And that square packed, as ever the more you will see in the future, it will be the sign and at the same time the judgment given by the People of God on the pontificate of a Supreme Pontiff who has received and bestowed smiles and words on everyone, even to a son of Lucifer like Marco Pannella, to an indomitable and unrepentant abortionist like Emma Bonino, to a wolf now disguised as a lamb like Eugenio Scalfari [cf.. Giovanni Cavalcoli, WHO]. He received in hearing and embraced the worst dictators dell’America Latina, who with great fall in style treated him to pats on the back and hugs around his waist; then using these images in their own countries to make the Bolivian people or the Venezuelan people believe that the Supreme Pontiff was on their side, What obviously false, totally false! But unfortunately, certain images, in the media have devastating impacts, with all due respect guru communications as Father Antonio Spadaro and Mons. Dario Edoardo Viganò, prudence of which is probably comparable to that of those who chose them and elected to certain offices delicate.

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For all, the Supreme Pontiff Francis had smiles and answers, except for his brothers in the episcopate devotees, as the four cardinals in a very respectful tone demanded an answer, through the ecclesial form of so-called Dubia.

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This is what will happen to the death of Pope Benedict XVI. Unless certain clerical luciferin, sensing also that the square you can not control and that a narrow square crowded around the coffin of 265 ° Successor of Peter, It would be a visible resounding judgment on this pontificate featuring interviews to secular newspapers of great tradition anticlerical, but at the same time it characterized by increasingly empty squares and churches, “Parino the image damage” imposing the celebration of the funeral obsequies privately. If anything inventing - because as such does not beat them to be liars anyone -, that the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI had left her hand that his funeral obsequies were celebrated in private.

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They are spilled rivers of ink on the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI who has renounced the Petrine ministry retiring to private life, but no one has rated her yet “terrible danger” the dead, before a packed square as ever, with an army of Polish Catholics are able to reach Rome - as among others have repeatedly -, even walking and hitchhiking, to be present at the final burial of Pope St. Giovanni Paolo II, canonized, but not heard and not later. And that square crowded as ever, It would be a judgment on the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, He hated by the worst intelligentsia theological captive-Lutheran, but he loved by Catholics. But, that square packed, It would also be a terrible judgment on the reign of his successor, which on one side has bestowed smiles to Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino, interviews with Eugenio Scalfari and hugs to arcivescove Lutheran lesbian clad in priestly insignia, and at the same time ushering in the era of a pontificate with increasingly empty churches in Rome and the increasingly deserted Piazza San Pietro, while two of his cardinal devotees died after devotedly served the church all my life and have confirmed devotion in every way the August Pontiff, but he - the merciful -, It not deigned to receive them and to answer. Perhaps he not received them and did not answer because he was too busy to greet the arrival of hordes giovanottoni in perfect physical health, anything but fled famine and wars, all in the age group far below the Thirty Years', to absolute majority Muslims, which they are launched in the colonization of Europe by now dying dechristianized foraggiati funds from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, But even in spite they called foolish and reckless with anything but name: refugees. All this after having demonstrated the ability to read and to be able to articulate well two Latin words: soli juice …

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And who will live, will see, the day we bury his Venerable Predecessor Benedict XVI, if they do decide to avoid the big problem giving him a silent funeral, shut up …

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From the island of Patmos, 19 October 2017

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Here's another priest who unfortunately did not understand that young people in a very special way, Priests of Christ do not want them so tanned, a fare i divetti low alloy jeans before the altar, as demonstrated by the churches in which they speak, where in the audience, more than young people, There are now just old seventies sessantottino, the con artrite reumatoide, remained with them little guitars in hand to sing God is dead Francesco Guccini, increasingly paralyzed in “forbidden to forbid” and sweet icon “Christ-Che Guevara“. But their sloppiness, give him rope and credit the Supreme Pontiff and miserable television of the Italian Episcopal Conference, that we'd least expected …

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THAT DISASTER OF THE "CITIZENSHIP INCOME" SEEN AND EXPERIENCED BY US PRIESTS IN DAILY CONTACT WITH THE REAL WORLD

It is conceivable and sustainable that a productive part of the country maintains a clearly parasitic part with its own contributions and tax revenues which, faced with forms of exaggerated welfare for the pure purpose of electoral reservoir, he doesn't even say thank you, because he acts and reacts as if it were his due, except complain that everything is never enough?

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Italy it is populated by a large number of cowards ready to applaud the powerful at the pinnacle of power, then to attack his corpse. And the Italian psychology of Piazzale LoretO, corner of Milan where the crowd attacked the body of Benito Mussolini, Clara Petacci, Nicola Bombacci, Alexander Pavolini. In front of that mess Sandro Pertini, socialist partisan and future President of the Republic declared: «With that gesture the insurrection dishonored itself» [cf.. WHO].

I fly over Carl Gustav Jung which defined the structure of the collective unconscious, because the discussion would be complex and I will limit myself to mentioning the obvious: each population is conditioned and animated by its own peculiar social psychology which derives from its history and experience. It is in this sense that we can speak of "social character" or "collective socio-psychology".

The Italian character has been depicted in a plastic and realistic way in the world of journalism and in that of cinematography by two great figures of the Italian twentieth century: the journalist Indro Montanelli and the actor Alberto Sordi that the vices of Italian translated them into cinematography. Among his works remains memorable Stardust, with the extraordinary Monica Vitti.

While everything was silent and no one dared to sigh before the powerful majority in power, for my part I did not hesitate to affirm, In the 2019 It is in the 2020, that the basic income was the most scandalous vote-buying ever in the history of the Italian Republic [see my article WHO]. It is a historical fact: all the old parties of the so-called first Republic took illicit loans from industries for years and years, companies and large enterprises. The old Italian Communist Party took even worse illicit loans, because the money came to him from the Soviet Union, which was an enemy country of the Atlantic Pact. No Party was immune from this funding. Yet none of them ever dreamed of buying their votes using public taxpayers' money, as did instead that movement of great moralizers known as the Five Stars, who immediately never spoke to the intelligence of the Italians, or what little is left of it, but to their emotionality and their belly. Votes clearly acquired with the citizen's income, as evidenced by the electoral preferences that have touched authentic Bulgarian majorities in those electoral districts of Southern Italy where the most numerous subsidies have been disbursed. Only two regions, Campania and Sicily, hold the 48% of citizenship incomes among those disbursed throughout Italy. The consequence was that in some constituencies the Five Star Movement exceeded the 70% of electoral preferences. They are not inferences, but statistical data that say so, although it is true that elections are won with majority numbers, or not? And the numbers speak.

I wrote all this years ago, in full power cinquestellino, unlike many, indeed of the too many who saw this reality only when the great moralizers of the country fell into a farcical re-edition of Animal Farm George Orwell. And this after having given us everything and more: from the scooters from which today we risk being overwhelmed on the sidewalks, to follow with wheelchairs that only a scientist of Lucia Azzolina's caliber could invent. On Luigi Di Maio, Minister for Foreign Affairs, let us instead directly spread a pitiful veil.

Let's clarify right away for the avoidance of any doubt: a country that is truly civil has a political duty, social and moral to support all those citizens who are unable to work or who cannot find work. As always, we try to clarify everything with some concrete examples: a worker who has carried out a strenuous job for twenty or thirty years, for example a bricklayer or a labourer, if at the age of fifty he finds himself out of work and moreover with some health problems, where does he find another job? If a worker of a similar age, but also a forty-year-old who was a truck driver for almost twenty years, can no longer sit for ten hours a day driving a truck due to physical problems that prevent him from doing so, but which at the same time cannot be considered invalid, because it isn't, another job where he finds it? For one and for the other, as for many others, finding a new job may also be possible, but it is certainly not easy and least of all they will be able to find it on the spot. It is obvious that supporting these people is a duty of civility. But the basic income, we are sure that it went to this kind of people and to all those who find themselves out of work for reasons completely beyond their control?

Given that we are talking about the Italians, not of the Germans or the French who, like it or not, they are peoples with a deep sense of nationhood and national identity, the citizen's income marked first of all, in the nefarious Italian psychology, an immediate rush to defraud the State and the entire national community of public taxpayers. Only dreamlike politicians like the Cinquestelle could cross the mind, in a country like ours, to disburse this subsidy basing everything on the truthfulness and good faith of the self-certification, without any kind of strict control, avoiding that everything ended up for the benefit of those smart ones of which Italy is the mother in constant labor. And the crafty crooks, according to the investigations that were made with enormous delay by the administrative and judicial bodies in charge, it wasn't "a few cases" at all, but tens and tens of thousands, many of which are truly sensational. Because as soon as they started doing the checks, they quickly discovered the incredible and the improbable. Unfortunately, the controls, they were triggered only when the government changed and after the previous government had been able to gain votes on income both in the general elections and in the administrative elections.

I talked for a long time and with numerous recipients of this devastating income, which is certainly not such as such but for the way in which it was designed. From their mouths I could only hear the word «I have the right to… I have the right to… I have the right to…». Faced with the question of whether they ever asked themselves the problem that receiving a subsidy implies that on the other side there are public taxpayers who pay them, the answer given ― and not once, but almost standard practice - it was nothing short of bleak: "Ah, but it is the state that pays for it...". Further clarification to follow: «…because the State must…». Every comment, faced with such beliefs, it would be superfluous to say the least.

An entrepreneur friend some time ago he told me that he had paid to the state, in his personal contributions to INPS, beyond 400.000 euro in 40 years of work, getting in return, once you reach retirement, a pension of 650 € monthly. Having said this, he declared himself scandalized - and I would like to see how to blame him - at the idea that twenty year olds physically able to work did not even bother to look for work and that they collected 780 monthly euros of basic income. While others collected income on the one hand and worked illegally on the other, putting in your pocket 1.500 / 1.600 € per month. Because these are the people who pay income to an army of do-nothings who would have no right to it and who, I repeat, they are by no means sporadic and isolated cases, always according to what emerged from the checks carried out after the stables had been opened and the oxen escaped into the wild.

The famous Italian journalist Bruno Vespa recently gave this testimony to a Mediaset television programme:

«I have a farm in Puglia. I found a girl who worked illegally in a club. Brava, motivated, he wanted to grow up: I offered her 1.300 euros to be a waitress. The young woman accepted but then returned home and her partner told her: "you're crazy, by adding undeclared work to your income, you are much freer and do what you want”. There is an infinite number of these situations in Italy» [cf.. WHO].

Soon said: we are faced with a large and disturbing number of ignorant selfish people who do not even have the faintest idea of ​​what a state is. But it gets worse: in a more or less plaintive or arrogant way, they always and only prefix the word "I have the right to ... I have the right to ... I have the right to ...", without ever being even remotely touched that the rights due or acquired are necessarily based on duties. Like this, every time I have reminded these subjects - many of whom unfortunately are socially unrecoverable in their way of thinking - that a State is based on the relationship between citizens' duties and rights and that the State benefits to the extent that the State is given, in response I heard: "Ah, but the salary of politicians …». And this is the other devastating element of Italian psychology: "the other is worse and does much worse than me". Or: "… Yes, I evade taxes and I do well to evade it because the director of the Bank of Italy takes 40.000 euros per month salary. Only the worst of the worst can arise from reasoning of this kind. Also in this case let's say it with examples: here then is the Neapolitan mother who in front of her son caught in the act while he was robbing a tobacconist, he takes it out on the judge who condemns him by stating: «There are politicians and industrialists who steal but do nothing to them». To follow with the mother of the two criminals that the 6 September 2020 they brutally killed the young man in Colleferro Willy Monteiro Duarte, Incidentally, they are also recipients of citizenship income granted upon self-certification, who reacted by mocking the poor young man killed and affirming: «They put it on the front page not even if the queen had died» [cf.. WHO].

The sad truth is that in Italy we have raised and raised generations of lazy spineless people over the last half century, for the most part spoiled only children of mum and dad, truly convinced that everything is due to them and that the word "right" is completely devoid of the suffix "duty". And then let's overlook the psychology that marks the even worst generation of only children born to mothers over forty, because there we are truly in tragedy …

For the kind of ministry I carry out I have daily contacts with confreres who live scattered throughout the dioceses of all of Italy, in contact day after day with human material. In particular those who live in Campania, Calabria and Sicily have told me episodes and situations of scams and robberies done brazenly in the public light of day. Several Neapolitan presbyters told me that they did not know a single recipient of basic income who did not work illegally. Some Sicilian presbyters told me that it was the employees of the various public administration offices themselves who suggested how to change residence or create fictitious residences in order to receive more citizenship income within the same family, after that, a few days after, Advertisements for Five Star candidates in that constituency reached them on WhatsApp.

More pastors of these regions I have been told of cases in which young people have gone to ask if they could get married in church without however having the documents sent to the Municipality because in this case they would have formed a family nucleus and lost their two respective citizenship incomes which would have been reduced to a single income per household. As they were individual income earners, they intended to continue to receive each his own income and to work quietly in the open in the dark. To my question addressed to these confreres: «They are sporadic cases?». I was answered both from Campania and from Sicily: “Sporadic? It is the widespread practice, but it gets worse: everything takes place in the light of the sun and under the eyes of the same administrators who not only avoid vigilance, but who favor precisely this system for their electoral interests. Everyone sees and knows, but for the political elections first and the administrative ones afterwards, no one would have thought of going against this appetizing electoral pool of income earners, behind which there are not only individual recipients, because behind it is the "due gratitude" of entire families and numerous friends».

But there is even worse: confreres who live in daily contact with social unease have repeatedly complained to me that they touch the reality of income distributed in rain to an army of clever people who had no right to it every day, while several really needy people had failed to get this subsidy. They told me, but I myself saw craftsmen with my own eyes, plumbers, electricians, aerialist, bricklayers who cash in on average 3.000/4.000 euros per month in total black money to which they added the perception of the citizen's income without any modesty or shame. And these are not sporadic isolated cases, because in certain areas of our country they appear to be the practice instead. The whole, I repeat, in public sunlight.

It is thinkable and sustainable that a productive part of the country maintains with its contribution and its own tax revenue a clearly parasitic part which, in the face of exaggerated forms of welfare for the pure purpose of electoral reservoir, he doesn't even say thank you, because he acts and reacts as if it were his due, except complain that everything is never enough? You can think, especially in the current geopolitical and economic situation, to be able to continue to keep this large portfolio of votes good and dear at the expense of the working country, produces and pays taxes? It is absolutely not true that certain things happen throughout Italy, fake! In various areas of Southern Italy I have seen people working illegally in bars and restaurants, where even the police forces go for coffee or dinner, the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza, labor inspectors. And when I pointed out to the latter that in no other part of Italy is it possible to see an average of eight out of ten people working illegally in certain places, in response they gave a melancholy half smile and said to me: "Better undeclared work than unemployment". To those who are not clear, I repeat: response given by inspectors of the Labor Office, I don't know if you know what I mean.

To some Palermo recipients of income, jobs were offered in other areas of the country, where there are labor shortages in many sectors. The best justifications given to the various talk show television did not wait: "I can't leave the family ... with the salary they would give me, half would go to pay the rent ...". Finally the most splendid pearl of the receiver that for more evenings, give one talk show television to the other he said: «Because entrepreneurs from the North don't come here to Palermo to create jobs?». And of talk show in talk show everyone was silent. Too bad among the guests in those parterre I wasn't there too, because I would instantly remind him that in the past, complete with incentives from the state and the European Union, more companies tried it and how, to go and create jobs. The problem was that as soon as they tried to establish companies, they ended up with three different realities: with appalling bureaucracy, with corrupt administrators who, if they didn't demand bribes in cash, demanded the hiring of their protégés, lastly and not least with the mafiosi who demanded protection money. Why in cities like Palermo and Catania, the lace, even those who sell panelle and bruscolini at the market pay it. But maybe, to this earner invited to talk nonsense by a talk show television to another, the possibility was given to present the complex and delicate reality of Palermo ― without any penalty of ridicule ― as if the capital of Sicily were a canton of the Swiss Confederation, inhabited, as is well known, by zealous and precise subjects like the Swiss. Or ignore maybe, this subject and especially those who invited him to pontificate, that when in Agrigento they finally decided to demolish some illegal villas built inside the Valley of the Temples for demonstration purposes, the demolitions were carried out by companies in the Triveneto controlled and escorted by the State Police, Army and Carabinieri? Who knows why none of the local companies showed up at the auctions that went deserted several times ... but who knows why?

The statistics confirm than with the citizen's income, unemployment, from the 2019 at the end of 2022 has increased and companies and small businesses, especially those operating in the Italian tourism sector, they had enormous difficulty finding staff. Friends who run hotels, restaurants and bathing establishments have reported to me and shown that in full season they have paid between 1.800 until 2.200 euros per month for Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan workers because they couldn't find any crying unemployed Italian willing to do the dishwasher. Especially from young people, the aspiration of many of which ranges between the desire to become influence full of followers to that of being able to enter a reality show. Why these, it's the generations of misfits we've created, granting them also the basic income, it was the icing put on the cream on top of the cake.

Then we want to talk about mothers, species of the hypertrophic-protective southern ones, that they really don't want, that their children do certain jobs, even if some of them would be willing to do them? I heard them say with my own ears: «… my son a dishwasher … my son a tomato picker …? No, my son doesn't have to!».

When I was ten years old ― so we're talking about five decades ago now ― I saw young twenty-year-olds work, mostly university students, in the tourist facilities of my maternal family members. In the following decades they became freelancers, senior officials in the state administration, specialist doctors, some became entrepreneurs themselves after learning the art of entrepreneurship from my uncles. One of these, later became a specialist doctor, he was particularly close to my father during his illness which led to his death at the age of just one 56 year old. During the course of his university studies in medicine, d’estate, throughout the season, he worked as a waiter to pay for his studies, because his family could not afford to support him much in studying away from home.

My friend Paolo Del Debbio, al talk show conducted by him he cut off a Tizio saying: "Look ..., that you are talking to a former waiter. Because when I was studying I supported myself by being a waiter». But if we give our young people a sofa, a playstation and a basic income, if anything, also making him believe that it can last for a lifetime and that the unspecified abstract entity called the State pays for it, we won't be able to get a specialist doctor or Paolo Del Debbio out of it, nor a good and ordinary citizen of the Italian Republic. All this while reaffirming that a truly democratic country, liberal and civil, it has the duty to help and support all the people who have no job or who have lost their job. But not those who don't want to find work or who work illegally to get a double salary, while those who have worked for a lifetime and contributed their income to our welfare state, today takes 680 euros per month of pension e, in addition to mockery, he must also hear quite a few people, that they have no desire to work and even less to find work, to click: «… I have the right to… I have the right to… I have the right to…».

From the island of Patmos, 18 December 2022

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