Covid prevented us from putting water in the fonts but the clerically correct us “allows” to bless gay couples after their civil union in the city hall

COVID PREVENTED US FROM PUTTING WATER IN THE STOUP BUT THE CLERICALLY CORRECT US “ALLOWS” TO BLESS GAY COUPLES AFTER THEIR CIVIL UNION IN THE TOWN HALL

 

The presbyter who staged and presided over everything was quick to justify that only two people were blessed. E, if after Eucharistic Communion the two "loving newlyweds" went up to the altar to receive an apron, symbol of the service they provided to this group of LGBT Catholics on the move, this "was not a liturgical gesture", It stated, even if everything happened within the sacred liturgy and not in the smoking room of the bar not far from the parish church, because when certain types of priests think they can make fun of others by believing they are more cunning in practice, they end up losing both the sense of the ridiculous and that of human decency.

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It is neither paradox nor oxymoron but simple reality: by order of the Italian Episcopal Conference, it was forbidden for two years to put lustral water inside the holy water fonts of churches to avoid spreading and contagion from Covid-19, only in recent days has its use been reinstated. A wise and prudent choice already adopted in past centuries during the great plagues. Similar caution was not applied to other cases linked to more serious epidemics. And so, directly in the diocese governed by the President of the Assembly of Italian Bishops, two proudly practicing homosexuals who shortly before sealed their "civil union" in the nearby municipal building of Budrio in the province of Bologna were welcomed into the church and blessed.

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

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

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Let's summarize the news and then move on to comment on a word and a concept that has now become taboo: sin. On 11 June it happened that two young men made their "civil union" official in the Municipality of Budrio in the province of Bologna. The time to cross the square to reach the parish church of San Lorenzo, where they were awaited by a cheering crowd and by 14 concelebrating priests, probably everyone clerical gay friendly. Presiding over the sacred liturgy was Gabriele Davalli, Diocesan manager - unbelievable, hear! - from the pastoral care of the family and archpriest of one neighboring parish, who had followed the two "loving newlyweds" during their journey in the LGBT Catholic group.

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Some brothers of that presbytery they contacted our editorial staff with clarification:

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«In case the person responsible for the drama wanted to correct the situation once the damage had already been done, saying he only blessed two people, know that all the annexes and connected typical of wedding ceremonies were present, give flowers to the photographer to shoot the two in the front row under the presbytery " [cf.. WHO].

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And as they predicted it went just like that: the presbyter who staged and presided over everything was quick to justify that only two people were blessed. E, if after Eucharistic Communion the two "loving newlyweds" went up to the altar to receive an apron, symbol of the service they provided to this group of LGBT Catholics on the move, this "was not a liturgical gesture", It stated, even if everything happened within the sacred liturgy and not in the smoking room of the bar not far from the parish church, because when certain types of priests think they can make fun of others by believing they are more cunning in practice, they end up losing both the sense of the ridiculous and that of human decency. What else to add: every comment to such a lot of hypocrisy clerical chic it would be superfluous, so we conclude with a question destined to remain unanswered, and then move on to more serious things. I don't know who formed the presbyter Gabriele Davalli in fundamental theology and Catholic morality. But, since it was definitely me who was badly formed, that among my precious formators I also had the Cardinal Carlo Caffara, in a calm way, indeed in a timid way, with the blush that burns my cheeks, because as you know I'm a shy country boy, in a subdued way I dare to ask: Gabriele Davalli, after having admitted to Eucharistic Communion two gays declared fresh "newlyweds" and after having given them the apron, symbol of the service provided before the end of the Holy Mass, were you aware or not that in the evening, the two, they will surely have celebrated by hugging each other, with a lot of ceremony and blessing received in the morning during the Holy Mass? Or do you think maybe, dear gabriele davalli, that in the evening they went to bed reciting the Holy Rosary to the Blessed Virgin Mary asking for her intercession to have the support and strength necessary not to fall into shameful sin? This, it would be what I would ask Gabriele Davalli if I were his bishop, which obviously, by his grace and by my grace, are not.

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

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

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2357 «Homosexuality refers to relationships between men or women who experience sexual attraction, exclusive or predominant, towards people of the same sex. It manifests itself in very varied forms over the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychic genesis remains largely unexplained. Relying on the Holy Scripture, which presents homosexual relationships as serious depravities (cf.. GN 19,1-29; RM 1,24-27; 1 Color 6,9-10; 1 TM 1,10) Tradition has always declared that "acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered" (cf.. Human person, n. 8). They are against natural law. They preclude the gift of life from the sexual act. They are not the fruit of true emotional and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.".

2358 «A non-negligible number of men and women have deeply rooted homosexual tendencies. This inclination, objectively disordered, constitutes a test for most of them. Therefore they must be welcomed with respect, compassion, delicacy. In their regard, any sign of unfair discrimination will be avoided. Such people are called to carry out God's will in their life, e, if they are Christian, to unite the difficulties they may encounter as a result of their condition to the sacrifice of the Lord's cross ".

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

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

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

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The underlying problem is that an army of sixty-eight presbyters and sixty-eight grandchildren raised by them and raised to an overdose of unspecified peace, joy and love, they no longer know the difference between sin and sinner, which is a fundamental and substantial difference. Useless as it may be, because nothing that is structurally ideological can be scratched, Let us now try to understand well the mortal danger posed by the terrifying sin propagated by LGBT lobbyists, which I talked about at length in my long private conversations with Cardinal Carlo Caffarra. This danger - which I repeat is deadly and terrifying - is given by the fact that groups made up of self-described Catholics “LGBT Catholics” they are making their way within the Church and parish communities, by making a fool of bishops in a grandiose way, foolish priests and nuns. And they are making their way not to be followed and cared for spiritually, not to heal their fragility and wounds, not to try to heal their souls from the epidemic virus of sin, but to be legitimized and confirmed in mortal sin. This is a trap in which an army of bishops, foolish priests and nuns are falling like fish into the net. For a decade now the LGBT lobby has entered the Church like a Trojan horse to claim and demonstrate that the first to make a mistake was first and foremost God in creating us male and female. They are not at fault, always cloaked in victimhood and pain, it is the Church that with its “retrive” e “cup” morality dares to prevent two gays or two lesbians from loving each other, thus denying - in their opinion - the very essence of the Holy Gospel, which is love and only love. Of course, that the Holy Gospel is love, However, it would be enough to ask ourselves and understand what true love spreads, because the love he announces ends up bleeding on the cross with four nails planted in his flesh and with a crown of thorns on his head, something completely different with porcine and desecrating riots the various gay pride, who also recently gave us the sadomasochistic Madonna and Christ on stilettos. Or perhaps the Holy Gospel, in the name of an unspecified "love", it allows us to bless the union of two men, to celebrate them in church and to admit them to Eucharistic Communion, so that they can return to their bedroom in the evening, “blessed” and “sanctified”, to sodomize each other in the name of love? Perhaps this is the love announced by the Holy Gospel?

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It was for this reason than in 2009, that wise man of God Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, despite being covered in all the worst insults, criticized and insulted throughout the press gay friendly of the left radical chic, he forbade a choir composed of 25 declared homosexuals to gather in the premises of the Bolognese parish of San Bartolomeo della Beverara. Because it is one thing to welcome the single homosexual, which must be accepted, respected, loved and cared for spiritually, always. Another thing is to allow groups of unspecified Catholic homosexuals to be established directly within ecclesiastical and ecclesiastical structures., which, as experience teaches us and as usual, has almost always happened, they first of all question the doctrine and morality of the Catholic Church. Because it is the Church, who must bend to the whim of their sin, welcome and legitimize it, finally bless him. This is something the Church will never be able to do.

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Every now and then some bishop accuses me of using strong tones, others, much more numerous, instead they ask me to give public voice to what they cannot always say in strong tones. And how could I not use strong tones, in the face of an increasingly dense army of priests who are no longer able to distinguish even the sin from the sinner? But the problem isn't them, I'm the one who's tough. And in the visible Church imbued with an unspecified love, harshness is not permitted, because we are no longer "the salt of the earth" [Mt 5, 13] but the sugar of the earth. As a result, bless in the church during the liturgical action two homosexuals who return to play leapfrog in the evening, this is a truly good and right thing, at least for all those who have decided to become sugar of the earth.

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Every historical season has its characters, but in circumstances of this kind we certainly miss the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II. Because in more or less similar cases, which have now occurred in numerous dioceses around the world, he would not have hesitated to call the respective bishops before him. And in a spirit of authentic Christian charity the room attendants, before their entry into the hearing, they would have recommended: "Excellence, before going to the Supreme Pontiff, pass by the Vatican Pharmacy, purchase and wear the diaper, because it would definitely be embarrassing, for her as for anyone, piss oneself in front of the Holy Father". Today things have changed, we have the Paduan presbyter Marco Pozza, for friends Don Spritz, that in jeans and untied sneakers goes to interview the Holy Father and having nothing better to do post a greeting message for a couple of his gay friends on the occasion of their wedding, only to correct the post shortly after by changing the word “marriage” with “civil union”. However, what only matters is not to appear before the Holy Father with a Roman cassock on and a respectful ferraiolo on the shoulders, because in that case you can run the risk of being electrocuted with a glance. But it would all end with a lightning glance, because to make someone piss on one would need the strength that the Holy Pontiff John Paul II knew he had when necessary, but above all his holiness would be necessary, because only the Saints, when the case requires it, they even manage to make you piss on yourself for the salvation of your soul.

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My beloved and venerated Carlo Caffarra, I feel holy envy for you, that you were called in September 2017 to the Father's House, where I would like to be too, thus sparing myself the abomination of desolation that awaits us, why now, certain of our fearful and improvident bishops, loving towards sin but angry towards those of their priests who always dare to condemn sin, for some time they have been making us truly aspire to the great grace of death.

the Island of Patmos, 16 June 2022

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Family tree healing? Between karma and shamanic rites. Some theological and pastoral guidelines for discernment

HEALING OF THE FAMILY TREE? BETWEEN KARMA And shamanic rites. SOME THEOLOGICAL AND PASTORal LINES TO MAKE DISCERNMENT

Praying for the healing of the past sins of ancestors in function of the liberation of their descendants is not only useless but is also unchristian as it is contrary to Revelation and the teaching of Jesus. Having said that, let's ask ourselves a question now: why we should insistently ask the Lord to free us from the sins of our ancestors, from their bad choices, from their vitiated acts in the use of free will if by doing so we actually affirm a moralistic relationship sick with cause-effect so apparently obvious, so merciless as to convey a destructive determinism that Jesus rejects?

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It is a sad and true fact that when man no longer believes in anything, he always ends up believing everything, when he ceases to believe in God he ends up believing in the gods and reading the tarot. There are also obscure characters who distort the elements of Catholicism, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, which ends up being false and disfigured in the worst way, in part to create attraction, In part to set up real profitable markets.

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For several years now we assist, Within some movements related to the Catholic Church, especially to those closest to the extremist area of charismatic, to a spiritual practice known by the name of Healing prayer of the genealogical tree O Intergenerational healing prayer. What exactly is this prayer? Is useful? But most of all, it is Catholic and in line with Revelation to pray in this way?

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With this article I wish to give only a few lines of theological and pastoral interpretation to help the faithful to operate a just and healthy discernment, given that confusion can often prevail over people who find themselves having to face situations of illness and suffering that prevent them from maintaining the right clarity of faith in the time of trial. And when we are hit by that pain that often makes us fragile and vulnerable, around the corner there are always those looking to make a personal profit, which can range from raising money to the perverse joy of exercising the power of control over consciences.

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I am well aware of the delicacy and complexity of the subject which would need other tools and spaces to be treated in a completely exhaustive way. Much time should be spent unraveling the delicate theological and psychological issues underlying the need for healing and care., together with personal and community responsibility in the face of the mystery of evil and sin that tire the daily journey of man and society. The most appropriate thing to do would be to write a book on the subject in order to be truly certain to deal with every little aspect and question that the theme of family tree healing highlights. Waiting for someone to complete such a job that currently does not exist - so much has been written about this type of healing prayer but always in a very partial way, biased and fragmentary - it is good to immediately relate this prayer to the Magisterium of the Church, especially in reference to the person of Christ as the winner of sin and suffering in all its forms. Jesus is "the one who frees from all evil" [Sap 16,8], and continues to be the mighty Savior who gives salvation and health to his people, always ready to intervene for the good of those who turn to him as the Good Samaritan.

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First of all it is necessary to place this prayer within a clear definition that can circumscribe its borders. In summary, we can say that the Healing prayer of the genealogical tree it is that prayer that asks God to eliminate the causes and consequences of those evils that have affected a particular person in the past whose consequences still persist in the present, falling on his descendants. Here's an example: if my great grandfather has committed a sin, an evil or was the bearer of a certain tendency or flaw that marked its existence in an incisive way, this sin (male, trend, tara) It can still manifest itself in the future life of the grandchildren even after several generations by carrying the inevitable consequences of suffering. Therefore objective evils such as violence, alcoholism, The practice of occultism, the tendency to suicide or abortion, Some psychological diseases, Some moral corruptions, They can recur in the life of a person who pays to the present and undergoes in a completely innocent way what has been experienced by one of his ancestors in the past.

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I wanted to take as an example the case of a distant grandfather in relation to a great -grandpose, But the same could be said to be more immediate between a father and a son or between a mother and a son, therefore between generations also very close to each other. In the field of oncological clinical sciences it is known and scientifically ascertained that certain forms of tumors can be hereditary, For this reason, specialists advise children and grandchildren to carry out periodic checks. In the field of psychiatric clinical sciences it is equally known that certain diseases or mental disorders are hereditary, For example schizophrenia.

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Let's try to clarify everything with another example: The Code of Canon Law the 1917 to the canons 983-991 indicated a whole series of impediments to receive the sacred priestly order. The previous canonical laws following the Council of Trento established that the children of the butchers could not receive sacred orders. A rule that, if not explained, Today it could even arouse hilarity, Yet he had his own logic. In some historical eras that of the butchers was a particularly bloody profession and almost always the slaughter of animals took place in a very violent way. All this ended up affecting not only on psychology and the behavioral aspect of those who exercised this profession, but also in the members of his family, of his children and his grandchildren born and raised in that kind of family context, social and working.

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In many particular cases The poor person who suffers these evils is nothing more than a ring of a long chain of individuals burdened by continuous disorders and repeated physical-spiritual ailments that will continue until the ties are interrupted with those roots that represent the objective cause of these disorders. Healing takes place through a series of specific and meticulous prayers that review all the physical and spiritual evils existing in the world.

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For the exemplification of readers I report below some excerpts of one Healing prayer of the genealogical tree composed of a character Sui generis and that it is possible to find on the Web. More or less similar texts you can also find them elsewhere or read them in several books that deal with the topic:

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"Jesus, You revealed that from the sin committed by man at the origin of the world, all evil has come and that even the sin of each one has a negative influence on others, Especially the sin of parents on children and descendants. Through the generation the same physical and mental characters are transmitted, The good fruits of the virtues and the sad consequences of the vices, Health and diseases, good and evil. For the good that parents and ancestors have transmitted us, We thank them and thank you, because with your grace they acted well. For the evil they transmitted to us, We forgive them and entrust them to your mercy, asking for your forgiveness for them and suffraving. Jesus, Now we pray for our past and present generations, both paternal and maternal branch. Please heal our family tree, of which we are a fruit. For their good and our good, truncates any negative influence they have transmitted to us. Your precious blood goes down to purify, restore, to free, because today our generation is healthy and holy, united and happy so that it can only convey positive things, be channel only of health and holiness. Jesus, You heal our family tree ".

"Jesus, healics from all the diseases that have come to us through past generations. Healics from physical diseases: heart, blood, of the circulatory system; mouth, nose, ears, throat, bronchi, lungs; of the esophagus, stomach, liver, of the gallbladder, del pancreas, intestine; of the kidneys, of the urinary tract; brain, of the spinal cord and the nervous system; of the bones and the spine; skin; of our five senses; healics from tumors and every strange disease; from frigidity and sterility, from impotence and from venereal diseases. Healics from all cases of mental diseases that have been in our family history: forms of paranoia, schizophrenia, psychosis, depressive and self -destructive behaviors. Healics from all psychic diseases: anxieties, seal, depressions, insecurities, fears, complex, sadness, Suicide thoughts, tedium of life, imbalances, panic attacks. Interrupt the transmission of all these diseases. Remove these hereditary tare. Make that in our generation there are always physical health, mental integrity, emotional balance, healthy relationships, goodness, love; To transmit these gifts to subsequent generations. Jesus, healics from all hereditary diseases "

"Jesus, free us from all the evils caused in us by the ancestors who participated in occultism, to spiritism, witchcraft, to magic, to satanic seven, freemasonry. Truncates the power of the evil one that, their fault, still weighs on our generations. Breaks the chain of curses, evil (invoices, ties, signatures, Riti Voodoo), Satanic works that weigh on our family. Free us from satanic pacts, consecrations to Satan and mental ties with the followers of Satan. Keep us far from spiritual meetings and every activity with which Satan can continue to have domain on us. Take any area that has been delivered to Satan by our ancestors under your power. The bad spirit forever moves, repair every damage, save us from all his new pitfalls. Only from you can we all have life, freedom, the pace. Jesus, Free us from all the evils caused by the evil one "

"Jesus, Free us from all the bad habits present in our family tree: from the game, from the squander, from drinking, from drugs, from the snoring, from theft. Put an end to our every bad habit. Free us from all the capital defects: from acidic, from avarice, from the throat, with anger, from envy, from lust, from pride. Free us from the bad legacy that have left us our ancestors dedicated to these vices. Free us from all the idols who have loved our previous generations: money, power, my pleasure, home, the land, the jewels, i titles. Cut the constraints that bind us to these cases of idolatry. Free us from all corruption and violence, by the anger and the malignancy of our ancestors who have been exploiters, blackmail, criminals. I break in us all the ties to these behaviors. Free us from all the evil made by our ancestors driven by hatred: I hate to others, towards themselves, towards God, racial hatred, Religious fanaticism ».

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As is evident from the text of the above prayer, these invocations are very long and detailed in listing all the evils and areas from which you want to be healed. The flaw of this prayer is not so much that of asking for healing from evil or the evil one - something that Jesus teaches us to do as an explicit request in the Our father - but in the theology underlying this form of prayer which is what the ancient Jews knew with the name of theology of retribution O salary theory. We can also find this theological thought within some Eastern religious philosophies as a reference to the Law of Karma or the belief in Reincarnation.

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Let's proceed in order: The most immediate origin of this Healing prayer of the genealogical tree we owe it to the work and doctrine of the British psychiatrist Kenneth McAll (1910-2001). He was a fervent and passionate Protestant missionary, who was able to initiate this therapeutic practice, enough to transform it into a real spiritual school. For those wishing to deepen the life and work of this charismatic doctor, I recommend reading his two most famous books: Up to the roots. Family tree healing, Editions again, Guide to healing the genealogical tree, Sign editions. Among the pages of these texts, the reader will find the entire manifesto and scaffolding of all this psycho-theological-therapy theory.

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When we deal with the theme of physical and spiritual suffering we must be especially careful not to exasperate or deceive the people involved. In the face of human suffering, especially that suffering of an innocent kind, we cannot afford the luxury of making mistakes or being easy-going by playing with people's lives or their frailties, above all, avoiding nurturing and instilling false hopes. Nor can we think of packaging low-cost and high-emotional impact solutions that aim to please the sufferer by giving him a sense of immediate relief but which in fact do not solve the problem and can even lead to bitter disappointments..

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Divine Revelation attests to us that the problem of suffering is inextricably linked to the mystery of iniquity that Christ destroyed with his passion, death and resurrection and which he himself paid freely through his most august person. From that first sin of disobedience, described in Genesis 3, the rebellion against God has generated a tragic consequence within the created world which has the face of death, of suffering, of disorder and the loss of communion. From righteous Abel to innocent Isaac, from wise Job to Christ the Lord, man has always debated and questioned why there is suffering and evil in the world. But above all he has always questioned why he suffers unjustly. but yet, To be honest a real answer is proper is not there, Or rather, there is not that answer that we would like to hear and that is able to explain everything.

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There is no winning card of an "ancestral sin" which becomes the ace of the pil to justify any distortion of existence, so it is possible to de-manage and delegate everything outside the man, while instead it would be necessary to start from inside the man from his heart. When we refer to original sin we operate a substantial difference with ancestral sin. The first admits a personal responsibility as a result of a bad freedom used, The second is the result of a blind determinism for which you can only take note of the adverse situation and to be suffered. To discern these issues, the divine revelation that gives not an answer but orientates to a meaning to explain to explain suffering. There is the impairment of a God who embodies and who assumes the condition and fragility of man on himself, destroying all evil in the sacrifice of the cross. Christ's victory is not only the victory over evil, but on every evil. First of all, the victory on the origin and the ultimate cause of evil in its essence that is Satan is, as solemnly states in the baptismal liturgy: «Give up in Satan, Origin and cause of all sin?», i.e. of all evil.

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By Christians, in front of the suffering especially if unjust, We know how to do much more than he commanded the philosopher Socrates to his disciples. We do not offer a rooster to the god of Esculapio medicine, We Christians in the face of suffering know how to offer the venerable body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ who continually offers himself and immense himself for every man of all time. The Christian response to evil and suffering is therefore not of a philosophical but theological nature, It is an answer that exceeds man, It is elevated to mystery and it is understood only starting from the faith in the one who won the suffering.

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In order to understand this speech On the mystery of evil and suffering I want to focus mainly on what Jesus has left us in this regard. I want to start first of all from the healing of the blind blind man who we find described in the Gospel of John [9,1–41] To then end with the song of the evangelist Luca [13,1–5]. John's Gospel tells that the disciples of Jesus seeing a blind man born on the road asked this question to the Lord:

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"" Rabaiji, who sinned, he or his parents, he was born blind?”. Jesus answered: “Neither he sinned nor his parents, But it is because the works of God are manifested in him "".

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The disciples they do nothing but re -propose a theological thought, who was in tune with the remuneration theory of the time. To put it with brevity of word, The remuneration theory stated that there is no suffering without guilt, that if something happened to you bad in life it is because you looked for it and if you were not the direct manager, it was someone else who is close to you, as next or ancestors.

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Although already the book by Job had put this remuneration theory in crisis with his annexed theology sponsored by the three inappropriate friends, In the Jewish religious thought of the time of Jesus this conception still remains strong as we will see in the case of the social disorders described by the song of the evangelist Luca [Lc 13,1–5]. What is enough for us to know, With reference to our speech on Healing prayer of the genealogical tree theorized by the DR. Kenneth McAll, It is that it is not possible to say that the sins of the fathers affect the present life of the children, According to what the prophet Ezekiel already affirmed on behalf of God:

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«I was addressed this word of the Lord: "Because you go by repeating this proverb on the village of Israel: The fathers eaten the unripe grapes and the teeth of the children have attached themselves?”» [This 18, 2].

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Then pray for the healing of the past faults of the ancestors according to the liberation of their descendants is not only useless but it is also not Christian in that is against the revelation and teaching of Jesus. Having said that, let's ask ourselves a question now: why we should insistently ask the Lord to free us from the sins of our ancestors, from their bad choices, from their vitiated acts in the use of free will if by doing so we actually affirm a moralistic relationship sick with cause-effect so apparently obvious, so merciless as to convey a destructive determinism that Jesus rejects? Christ says no to this theological conception, By stating forcefully that the blindness of that man has as the sole purpose is the glory of God, that is, the epiphany of the kingdom of the son and the announcement of the Gospel in the world. The proximity of God is touched here who in Jesus joins man to free and heal him. The first beneficiary of this glory will be the blind man who will recover the sight, Then his parents who will be relieved of a frustrating social and moral responsibility and finally the doctors of the law that will have a good opportunity to be able to approach that presence of that God who preach so much but who are still struggling to recognize in the midst of them.

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It is symptomatic to note in the fourth Gospel The game of opposites that often occurs precisely starting from the epiphanic signs that Jesus performs: He who is blind is the only one to recognize and see the Savior, while those who say they see remain blind and trapped in rigid determinisms. In this regard, the Mother Church through a document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith He reiterates the thought of his Savior making even more clarity through the magisterium of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II:

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"However, the disease also affects the righteous and man wonders why. In Giobbe's book this question raises many of its pages. «If it is true that suffering makes sense as punishment, when it is linked to guilt, it's not true, instead, that any suffering is a consequence of guilt and has a punishment character. The figure of the right Job is a special proof in the Old Testament. (…) And if the Lord agrees to try Job with suffering, It does so to show justice. Suffering has a test character " [See. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Saving pain, n. 11].

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In the face of the suffering of any nature And origin we ask God to be freed, Healing takes place by the work of Jesus Christ and the book of Syracide urges us to insist with renovation with a branch attitude: "Son, Don't disheartened in the disease, but pray to the Lord and he will heal you " [Sir 38,9]. Fundamental elements of a good healing prayer are the submission to the will of God the Father, the abandonment confident to the Son Jesus Christ and the use of the theological virtue of hope that, illuminated by the Holy Spirit, It allows us to see the work of God through the ordinary means of healing such as medical staff, the terapie is in Farmac, health interventions and a healthy community. All other extraordinary healing means belong to God only that chooses their own times and ways to act at the right moment.

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To live the disease with faith and obtaining the aforementioned healing we have to pork inside an action of grace that is always undeserved but that can never be separated from the conversion of the heart. This speech leads us to examine the song of the evangelist Luca [13,1–5] who takes inspiration from a fact of black news that happened at the time of Jesus. This time evil has a social and corporate character and the theology of salary leads us to expand the relationship between the individual and society. The man is able to enter into relationships with other people, So the consequences of certain collective actions are the cause of suffering and evil for the entire community. Says the evangelist Luca:

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«In that same time some showed up to report the fact of those Galilei, whose pilate blood had brought together with that of their sacrifices. Taking the floor, Jesus said to them,: Believing that those Galilei were more sinners than all the Galilei, for having suffered this fate? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish equally. Or those eighteen people, on which the Torre di Sìloe collapsed and killed them, You believe that they were worse offenders than all the inhabitants of Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, all perish in the same way ».

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Also this time Jesus unloads the theology of remuneration, does not accept the mechanistic link between suffering and guilt. With other words he seems to say:

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«You are convinced that those Galilei were more sinners than all the Galilei because they did that end? Well you are wrong, they were sinners as much as and like you. The point is that they had not yet converted, that is, they had not understood that man's happiness passes through the total entrusting of his life to God. You who are still in time!».

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It is not by chance, To this discourse on conversion, The subsequent parable of the unsuccessful Fico is flanked. We must be honest, Very often in our relationship with God and with the others we are more likely to make fried air than not conversion. If we look at each other with authenticity we are often trees with only leaves but no fruits. Here is the reason for our non -healing. Conversion is a precious suggestion to be able to open a pastoral road to healing and renovation. Converting to the Lord means starting from a life that is rooted in him and that abandons evil through small daily choices. Also J.R.R.Tolkien ne Lo Hobbit This evangelical concept in the dialogue between Gandalf and Galadriel reiterates in other words:

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“I found out they are the little things […] The daily actions of the ordinary people who keep darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love ".

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Conversion means resorting to humility to the grace of the sacraments to be able to keep himself in continuous communion with God, Knowing that without it is impossible to stay up. Conversion means maintaining a constant dialogue with the Lord and asking for mercy towards those who have injured us as we see Abraham who asked God for the healing of the emppi starting from the Vicaries of the Righteous:

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"You will really exterminate the right with the Empio? […] As for them, I will forgive all that place " [GN 18, 1-33].

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For this reason it is good to clarify who are not the others who are responsible for my unrealized happiness, of my physical and spiritual infirmity, much less my ancestors. Not even the devil becomes the first manager of my failures. All these things allow us only to de -responsibility by downloading on others what belongs to us and that we do not want to do. For this reason it would be more appropriate to ask the Lord not so much the healing of our genealogical tree but the healing of our heart and the liberation from all those rigidity that prevent us once from converting us to him.

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In conclusion I only want to mention the presence of those social and family conditionings that can be an opportunity to commit evil or to facilitate a certain moral corruption of customs in society. These conditioning are defined by the social doctrine of the Church as "structures of sin". Within these structures all those social situations or institutions that are contrary to the divine law are falling but which always remain the expression and the effect of personal sins. Therefore the structures of sin if not steaming and restored can become the cause of corruption and perdition for man but they are always the result of a human freedom that runs from conversion to God, of a heart that does not listen and that does not obey, of a responsibility that agrees to go against God regardless of the consequences. In all this there is no determinism, It is always possible to reversal and a salvation and we must not bother the responsibility of the ancestors to find an acceptable alibi that can relieve us from the embarrassment of saying: It was my fault.

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I prefer to fly completely On those self-electrisis paladins of an unspecified "authentic Catholic tradition", who, while launching himself in invective bombastives against the 16th century Lutheran heresy, in playing in fact in a certain way, Including certain impropers "healing rites", At best, they show that they are completely unconscious radical Pentecostals of being it. And in this regard, I remember that radical Pentecostalism is the heresy of an heresy of an heresy, that is, a third generation heresy. Or, without bothering that very serious thing that is heresy, Almost always the prerogative of very cultured and refined minds, more simply the acting of certain dark characters follows in all respects of the low alloy supporters.

 

Laconi, 15 June 2022

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The unforgivable sins of priests in the face of the holy virtues of illiterate Catholics in the faith

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Notes

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

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

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

[4 From the sacred rite of presbyteral ordination.

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The question of "Una cum". In communion with those who celebrate the Holy Mass Benedict XVI? Among the many witnesses to this is a cardinal and a presbyter: "A cum famulo your Pope our Francisco"

THE QUESTION OF "A CUM». IN COMMUNION WITH THOSE WHO CELEBRATE THE HOLY MASS BENEDICT XVI? THERE IS WITNESS THIS AMONG THE MANY A CARDINAL AND A PRIEST: «A CUM FAMOUS YOUR POPE OUR FRANCISCO»

 

Simone Pifizzi presbyter of the Archdiocese of Florence, he informed us that he concelebrated with Benedict XVI and Cardinal Ernst Simoni on 11 February 2017. During the sacred celebration, made with the Roman Missal of Saint Paul VI, arrived at the point in the canon where the Supreme Pontiff is mentioned, Benedict XVI spoke these clear and precise words: una cum fámulo your Pope our Francisco …».

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Vatican CITY 11 February 2017, Monastero Mother of the Church: iThe Holy Father Benedict XVI with Cardinal Ernst Simoni and the Florentine presbyter Simone Pifizzi in the sacristy before Holy Mass.

February 11 2013 the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, 265° Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter, with a formal act formalizes its own declaration of renunciation of the government of the Church. The canon 331 §2 of the Code of Canon Law states:

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«In the event that the Roman Pontiff renounces his office, it is required for validity that the renunciation be made freely and duly manifested, instead it is not required that someone accept it " [cf.. WHO].

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Throughout history the resignation of the Roman Pontiff of the Church occurred very rarely, to be precise solo 9 times in two millennia of history. It is a very personal act that concerns the most intimate and unquestionable conscience of the renouncer. Also for this reason the canon specifies: "It is not believed that anyone accepts it".

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It would be an alteration of the real data omitting to say that Benedict XVI has chosen to make his own free, unquestionable and valid waiver by adopting methods that have left the most distinguished canonists bewildered - S. AND. Mons. Giuseppe Sciacca, the Jesuit Gianfranco Ghirlanda, the Dominican Bruno Esposito ―, we priests and theologians, to follow up with the Catholic faithful. Giving up he would have to go back to his status preceding the election to the sacred throne, farewell il Vescovo Joseph Luigi Ratzinger. Not even a cardinal, the cardinalate being a pure honorary title that the Roman Pontiff loses when he is elected, while the episcopate, which is a sacrament by which the fullness of the apostolic priesthood is transmitted to the consecrated person, it remains indelible for eternity.

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Benedict XVI, or who for him, has created confusion by adopting a method that we could technically define "extravagant", as the most expert canonists have politely defined it, but also a scholar of the Cardinal's caliber Walter Brandmuller, considered the greatest ecclesiologist and historian of the Church at the present time. In fact, when the name "pope emeritus" came out, we were all blown away. Then, that this gimmick of which at the moment it is not known who was the real creator, was deemed unhappy, there is no proof that nine years later it never crossed anyone's mind to establish the institution of the "pope emeritus" in the body of ecclesiastical laws and to insert it with a special canon in the Code of Canon Law. All this proves this monster he is destined to die with Benedict XVI and never to be exhumed again, especially considering what has caused confusion in many fragile faithful, not to mention the off-balance subjects plunged into the most vulgar conspiracy.

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the Holy Father Benedict XVI with the Florentine presbyter Simone Pifizzi who exhibits him a volume of art

To better understood we will give as an example two extreme cases that fall within those that some psychiatrist friends of the Biomedical Campus of Rome have indicated and classified as serious psychosis due to the total alteration of the cognitive abilities of characters not adhering to reality, afflicted with severe schizophrenia and hypertrophic narcissism of a violent and destructive type.

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The first of these two subjects is a Sicilian presbyter who has been supporting ridiculous and absurd fictional theological theses for some years and for this reason it is right not to take seriously: "Benedict XVI was forced by violence to make an act of renunciation and his successor is a heretical and apostate antipope". the “irrefutable evidence” brought by this subject evidently suffering from cerebral disconnection syndrome are the following: "The renouncing pontiff continued to wear white", "To sign with the pontifical initials", but above all because «in the Latin text of his declaration there are several Latin syntax errors that would make the waiver completely invalid ". When I decided to publicly deny it, or to mock him, as it is right to do with those who affirm nonsense to which it is not possible to give any seriousness, i used my page Facebook, avoiding advertising on the de columns The Island of Patmos, magazine visited by millions of readers, considering that our average is approximately 1.800.000 / 2.000.000 visits per month for a total of over twenty million visits per year.

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Not being able to argue on the merits of the questions raised with scientific theological and juridical rigor as a solemn denial of his foolishness, this gentleman reacted like a squawking duck, accusing me of being jealous of his extraordinary charisma, of which, according to him, I would be lacking, enough to be a candidate - I add - for liver cancer because of the envy that gnaws at me. And so, convinced like all compulsive narcissists that others are mortally wounded if their qualities are questioned by those with intellectual qualities, logical and speculative are lacking, he pointed to me as an ignorant subject in the theological sciences who abuses the title of theologian without being one. Next he pointed to me as a guy picked up on the street by a bishop, made a priest by mistake and today a wandering cleric ... and other amenities that made me laugh, my Bishop - without whose approval I have never moved a step - and all those who know me in both the ecclesiastical and civil fields.

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Purely rhetorical question: one who shoots lies in bursts, may think of destroying the interlocutor or hurting his "intellectual pride", after this subject has been judged by the Holy Church to such an extent lacking in balance and credibility as to end up first excommunicated then discharged from the clerical state? Let's also admit that I am the worst presbyter in Italy and that in addition to not being a theologian I am half illiterate in the context of Catholic doctrine. Let's take it all for real. But then we must ask ourselves: the church, who suspended a divine? Who declared excommunicated for schism and heresy? In the end, with a measure as rare as it is serious, who is it who has resigned from the clerical state? Me, or this sublime doctor who accuses me of being a wandering cleric who abuses the title of theologian? Because I am in communion with the Bishop who gave me and never revoked the mandate to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice of the Holy Mass, to preach and administer confessions, ie to exercise i three gifts priestly: the task of sanctifying (the power to sanctify), the task of teaching (the power to teach), governing office O governor (the power to rule / governing the People of God). Indeed, the the priestly power, they are not acquired with the useless academic papers obtained and today pulled after anyone in decadent and expired ecclesiastical universities, but with priestly consecration. And in the Catholic Church there is no title superior to that deriving from priestly consecration, least of all the title of doctor of sacred theology, through which the gifts of grace of the Holy Spirit have never been conferred and i three gifts.

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Having clarified these foundations of sacramental dogmatics, fanatics following this brain disconnected should ask themselves: but to this Lord, who has conferred a similar mandate to exercise i three gifts priestly, recognizing him at the same time as an eminent theologian for high merits of heresy and schism? This one, with those who are in communion, who gave him the mandate to exercise the sacred ministry? Because I - pointed out as a wandering cleric -, I am in communion and in obedience to my Bishop. His, with those in communion of obedience? One thing is beyond doubt: to this Lord, the church, the mandate has totally revoked it after having suspended it a divine In the 2017, having notified him of the excommunication automatic for heresy and schism in 2018, until you hit it in the 2022 with the most extreme measure: dismissal from the clerical state. So what is obvious: an excommunicated for heresy and schism to which the Church has revoked the faculty to exercise the sacred priestly ministry and who finally has discharged and expelled from the Catholic clergy, which despite, from the height of his dismissal from the clerical state, dispenses to priests in communion and in obedience to the Church licenses of theologians or non-theologians, is equivalent to the most hilarious and hilarious theater of the burlesque. Or to put it with a realistic example: it is equivalent to the owner of a brothel in Amsterdam who starts to review the chaste virtues of the Poor Clares of the strict observance of the Monastery of Santa Chiara in Assisi.

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the Holy Father Benedict XVI during the celebration of the Holy Mass in the chapel of the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery

This priest resigned from the clerical state for years he has been addressing the Supreme Pontiff Francis and us priests, guilty, according to him, of being "in communion with the false pope usurper and apostate acolyte of the antichrist", with such ferocious violence and hatred as to make the most antipapist Luther pale. The hysterical duck has come to give birth to such absurdities in front of which we priests and we theologians would laugh for days, if he had not gathered around him a small following of unfortunates - in the etymological sense of the term: outside the grace of God - who in turn have become serial haters active in spreading hatred towards the Supreme Pontiff and "the false anthichristic church", going crazy on social media where they repeat like trained parrots the identical nonsense of their poor disconnected deranged.

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In support of the "invalid resignation of Benedict XVI" the hysterical duck brings reasons worthy of a comic film of the various grotesque series of the seventies. Given therefore that the resignation of Benedict XVI would be, according to him, invalid, consequently the Successor would be an antipope, with the aggravating circumstance of being an "apostate heretic" who "as a perfect acolyte of the Arian heresy does not believe in the divinity of Christ", as well as guilty of having "demolished the Marian dogmas" and "replaced the cult of the Virgin Mary with that of Pachamama", which moreover he is neither an idol nor a pagan deity, just to clarify. From this it would follow that all of us priests who "celebrate Masses in communion with the false heretical and apostate pope", to say of this sublime theologian we celebrate "Invalid Masses" and administer to the faithful "Invalid Sacraments". Get ready this video you can hear this subject's delusions of hatred with your ears, evaluating what, but above all who we are talking about.

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In its time several theologians intervened who produced and disseminated videos of denial for the sake of the health of souls. He did it with one of his videos the excellent Dominican theologian Francesco Maria Marino, I did it with my video and other theologians have done so with various writings and articles. He did it with one of his videos disclosure Dorotea Lancellotti, a woman of profound Catholic faith and a talented catechist for four decades. As usual, far from entering into the merits of the theological and juridical issues with which we have blatantly wronged him, the hysterical duck has always reacted with direct attacks on people, uttering colossal lies, giving false news about their lives, on their priesthood and mocking their theological formation. If, therefore, the undersigned has accused me of being a "wandering cleric" who "abuses the title of theologian", to the Dominican Francesco Maria Marino, who, as a learned Thomist theologian, denied it by explaining how seriously he abused the absurd of Aquinas theology, showing not to understand it and to manipulate its texts, instead of replying on the merits, he replied teasingly that when he spoke "he opened and rolled his eyes too much".

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Following the hysterical duck then a journalist joined us to whom we have already dedicated a solemn denial, that to try to "go down in history" has come to give life to the saga pontifex-fantasy. Here then is Benedict XVI, in addition to having "invalidly renounced under the constraint of strong powers and international Freemasonry", he would even start talking in code. Obviously, the discoverer and translator of the so-called "Benedict Code", he is the scientist in question.

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These are the levels to which such characters arrive without the pain of human ridicule: if the elderly Benedict XVI blinks his eyelids three times, it is not a natural movement of the face as many might believe, but of a Morse code with which he is speaking while he finds himself a prisoner of those who today govern "the false church of the heretical and apostate antipope". In association with the hysterical duck, this journalist who discovered and interpreter of the cryptic "Benedict Code" also claims the "invalidity of the Holy Masses and of the Sacraments celebrated by us in communion with the false pope". In short: a pair of scientists capable of recalling George & Mildred, famous television series of the eighties.

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the concelebrants at the Holy Mass with the Holy Father Benedict XVI, on the right Cardinal Ernst Simone, on the left the Florentine presbyter Simone Pifizzi

For reasons of ministry and publishing activity, the editorial confreres and I are in contact with many priests, bishops, members of the Roman Curia. Our brother Simone Pifizzi presbyter of the Archdiocese of Florence, who met Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as a seminarian and was able to spend several days with him when as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith he was a guest at their seminary, he informed us that he had concelebrated with Benedict XVI and the Cardinal Ernest Simon 11 February 2017. During the sacred celebration, made with the Roman Missal of Saint Paul VI, arrived at the point in the canon where the Supreme Pontiff is mentioned, Benedict XVI spoke these clear and precise words:

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«[…] in the first place, what we offer for your holy Catholic Church: how to make peace, to keep, to unite and govern the whole world: una cum fámulo your Pope our Francisco …»

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With all the irony more shrewd typical of the Florentines, the confrere assured us that at that point of the Holy Mass there were not two henchmen placed on the side to the right and to the left with their respective revolvers aimed at the temples of Benedict XVI, nor was a drone flying into the chapel above the altar, ready to trigger the deadly command by the strong powers who, after the act of renunciation, have inserted a microchip subcutaneous to the Venerable Pontiff to cause him a cardiac arrest on command as soon as it became excessively uncomfortable. During the Holy Mass, Benedict XVI was calm, free, serene and taken by the sacredness of the Eucharistic celebration.

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the Holy Father Benedict XVI at the end of the Holy Mass, to his left, Cardinal Ernst Simoni, on the right the Florentine presbyter Simone Pifizzi who takes his leave with a kiss in his hand

Perhaps it all could have been avoided wearing a black cassock, maintaining the indelible episcopal character and returning to being Bishop Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger. Because for the birth of certain monsters, from the heretical and schismatic priest resigned from the clerical state to the journalist who has been producing stories for two years pontifex-fantasy, we must also thank Benedict XVI, without detracting from his theology, to his teaching and holiness of life. On the other hand, it is he himself who clarifies:

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«[…] the Twelve Apostles were not perfect men, chosen for their moral and religious irreproachability. They were believers, Yes, full of enthusiasm and zeal, but at the same time marked by their human limitations, sometimes even serious. So, Jesus did not call them because they were already saints, complete, perfect, but in order for it to become, that they might be transformed to turn so the story. Everything as for us " [Brindisi, 15 June 2008, full text].

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And if we think about it, the Apostles made many and even more serious errors, starting with Peter who combined enough and from which the succession of Roman Pontiffs takes life, the last of which, by legitimate line of succession, is the reigning Pontiff Francis.

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From the island of Patmos, 24 May 2022

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The Fathers editors de The Island of Patmos they thank Cardinal Ernst Simoni and their dear and esteemed brother Simone Pifizzi, presbyter of the Archdiocese of Florence for their testimony, aware that since 2013 following are numerous cardinals, bishops and priests who can attest to the same after having participated or concelebrated with the Holy Father Benedict XVI in the chapel of his private residence in the Vatican. Among the numerous of these testimonies, we limited ourselves to taking one as an example among many similar ones.

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And now I'll explain why journalists' onanist narcissism is causing more victims than the war in Ukraine to the point of generating greater destruction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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«War and ideological propaganda» is the new explosive book dedicated by Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict

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"WAR AND IDEOLOGICAL PROPAGANDA" IS THE NEW EXPLOSIVE BOOK DEDICATED BY THE FATHER ARIEL S. LEVI di GUALDO TO THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONFLICT

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It is acceptable that on our television networks it was granted from evening to evening, to exponents of the Ukrainian people, to urge the Italians to make sacrifices for their unlikely victory over the invading Russian? We realize that this is equivalent to asking a father of a family, however, also in an imperious and arrogant way, to sacrifice his children for the sake of the children of others? And all these people were able to express similar nonsense with the television presenters who let them rant while remaining in religious silence and without any possibility of a realistic and dutiful dispute..

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In this new book Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo drew on his past legal and geopolitical training, combined with his successor as a theologian and a profound connoisseur of historical subjects. A book that we could define “politically incorrect” as true. Because today, simply talk about what is true and real, it is not the norm but it represents one of the worst attacks on the political correctness of the narrative mainstream.

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During the Russian-Ukrainian conflict the news broadcasts partial and partial news to the point of recalling the Bulgarian regime information of the 1950s to the memory of the less young. Most followed talk show of the Rai television networks, Mediaset, La7 and Sky have come to assume such unique propaganda tones as to arouse the envy of those who were the news of TeleKabul. All this always reaffirming: "In our country there is total freedom of opinion and information". In truth, this conflict is a war of civilization between a very identitarian post-communist regime that has put itself on the defensive and decadent liberal-democracies which have now collapsed and failed ".

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In its pages the Author immediately lets it be perceived that the important thing is not to be for or against someone, especially in an unusually delicate area such as a war conflict, but to think. Only through lucid reasoning and serious in-depth analysis, you can come to give birth to an opinion for or against, or abstain from judgment, when you do not yet have all the necessary elements to formulate one.

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This book is a challenge to reason and at the same time a solemn reprimand of our information increasingly drugged by ideology, as the Author makes clear from the beginning in the presentation of the work that you can read WHO.

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The Russian-Ukrainian conflict. A people can be deluded by an influencer and ask Europe to participate in a suicide?

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

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

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The ongoing war and the torment of Calvary. Jesus crucified in the contemporary drama with Mary and John the Apostle

THE WAR IN PROGRESS AND THE STRENGTH OF CALVARY. JESUS ​​CRUCIFIED IN CONTEMPORARY DRAMA WITH MARY AND JOHN THE APOSTLE

While on social, on TV, in living rooms and even in cafés, more or less bizarre and bizarre debates took place between people expressing their opinion on what happened, thus two factions were formed: the pro-Russian and the pro-Ukrainian. Given that the right to express one's opinion remains absolutely free and legitimate, here the two different partisanships continue to contrast each other with clicks, post, shouts and above all insults of various kinds. On the contrary, I decided to appeal to the right to remain silent.

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The 24 February Russia's invasion of Ukraine has begun. We all know this from the news that have started bombarding us with images, sounds, testimonies of the new conflict that exploded while Covid19 was weakening and therefore changing from a state of pandemic emergency into a state of almost ordinary life.

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Through the general house of the Order of Friars Preachers we have contact with our Dominican brothers residing in Kiev, for humanitarian and spiritual aid. Every now and again, if circumstances permit, we exchange messages on WhatsApp and others social media. Not too often, Furthermore …

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... who knows me, You will have noticed that in this period I have never spoken in public, nor in this magazine of ours, born sui social, nor on my blog. I have spoken very little even in private about what is happening internationally. And this not only for the beautiful and long apostolic labors that occupied me for a long time in the period from the end of February to the beginning of April.; not only because I have finally concluded the defense of my doctoral thesis in sacred theology, which led me to have great inner peace and serenity, as a definitive confirmation of the mission of brother priest and theologian to which I believe the Lord directs me. All these were certainly co-essential reasons for what I will now try to explain.

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While on social, on TV, in living rooms and even in cafés, more or less bizarre and bizarre debates took place between people expressing their opinion on what happened, thus two factions were formed: the pro-Russian and the pro-Ukrainian. Given that the right to express one's opinion remains absolutely free and legitimate, here the two different partisanships continue to contrast each other with clicks, post, shouts and above all insults of various kinds. On the contrary, I decided to appeal to the right to remain silent, recognized legally in several places, according to various legal and jurisprudential nuances, just think of the well-known phrase - which represents a fact and a legal right - "I make use of the right not to respond". So I decided to remain silent, because it would be a clumsy attempt to pose a socio-political analysis of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. I believe that this act is based on the virtue of prudence; prudence is therefore that virtue - a little’ intellectual and a bit’ practice at the same time – that is driver's virtues, guide of all the others, because she is the one who predisposes the right reason to the actions to be taken, according to the lesson of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Prudence is therefore the capacity that man has, with the help of grace, to rationally choose which action to implement and omit in a given circumstance. In this very delicate circumstance I believe it is prudent for me not to express judgements: in fact, not being an expert in international law or Eastern European history, I have no skills or basis to be able to give a well-founded opinion. Add to this that at the moment, even the most qualified experts, they do not have the necessary elements to be able to make judgements, because only one in the present is the fact, which is the same for this as for all wars: of the innocent, especially civilians, they are dying. By itself, don't take a stand, it is said to already take one. In this case, the position that concerns me, and for which I am praying and meditating a lot, it goes towards all those people, Ukrainians, Russian or resident in those territories, who are suffering because of the war. Because war is always a drama that has atrocious and terrible effects. These reflections go to the people who suffer death and suffering due to war and are dedicated to them. All those who suffer are in fact intimately united with the suffering Christ, also to Mary, our Most Holy Celestial Mother who suffers in seeing and experiencing all this. They are united in death, suffering, pain, loneliness and separation from loved ones. But let's see why. Jesus on the cross suddenly said an important phrase, that we all have engraved in our hearts: “Father forgive them, because they don't know what they're doing." [LC 23, 34]. This is one of Jesus' last sentences. Let us reflect on the first of the words he spoke on the cross in that terribly strong and true sentence. According to the American theologian Stanley Hauerwas, in that moment the intense relationship of love between Father and Son comes into focus first and foremost. This is the foundation of forgiveness bestowed upon man. From this unique and unrepeatable relationship comes forgiveness for each of us. Therefore God who is in himself, in the Immanent Trinity he decides to offer the gift of the Son and forgiveness and pardon for the benefit of humanity. It thus comes to meet man and in technical jargon it is said that it becomes the Economic Trinity: it brings man into the Economy of Salvation.

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And here I would like to pause with an aside to clarify: the use of Trinitarian theology that I draw from the notions of the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner, don't scandalize some of our most astute readers Patmos Island. My theological foundation is rooted clearly and unavoidably in the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas, to follow also in the study of theological works Hans Urs von Balthasar, which I consider fruitful for my education and that of every contemporary theologian. Having said this, I clarify that in the context of Trinitarian dogmatics the concept of distinction is Rahnerian: Immanent Trinity / economical, it appears objectively more solid than that of von Balthasar. As for everything else, or the theological approach itself in and of itself, I have no doubts about who to choose and who to continue to draw from. In short, I have not become an “anonymous Rahnerian”, on the contrary: in the wake of the Dominican theological tradition in which I grew up, I think I am able to sift through evil to be able to discern and grasp even that little truth that there is in a totally disastrous and dangerous theological work like that of the theologian Karl Rahner, who however remains an undoubted and great speculative mind in the twentieth century. I close this aside by remembering that our Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, with the apparent sugar-free hardness that sometimes characterizes it, in one of his articles written on the occasion of his death did not hesitate to recognize all the great speculative abilities of Hans Küng. This brother of ours highlighted how nature endowed him with brilliant abilities, therefore of superior qualities to those of the young theologian his contemporary Joseph Ratzinger. With the difference that Küng slipped into heresy by setting out to deconstruct the dogmatic system of the deposit of faith, while Ratzinger became a guardian of the doctrine of faith to whom we owe so much, starting from the great teaching of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II.

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After this necessary clarification we can then focus and meditate on Jesus. Starting from free choice, not due. In the love of the Holy Spirit, in union with the Father, Christ decides to love us until the end [cf.. GV 13, 1 ss]. In the years of public preaching, Jesus therefore takes a path of welcoming the cross, because he knows that this instrument of death can be turned upside down and become an instrument of forgiveness and grace. The consequences are truly very strong: Christ torn apart on the cross is the second Trinitarian person, which offers itself to integrate situations of death within oneself and within man, suffering, pain, loneliness from those we love. Jesus is therefore close to each of us in these situations.

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So also in the existential night longer, all those who suffer from war, in prayer they can feel embraced by Jesus in his passion. A prayerful embrace that breaks loneliness, knowing that in prayer we find inner peace even when we are far away. Jesus also breaks loneliness in his real Eucharistic presence, where he becomes intimate and close to everyone in his body, blood, soul and divinity. Precisely He who was without sin, he gave himself for us sinners to eliminate the yoke of sin. He did not consider his equality with God a divine treasure, Saint Paul tells us in one of his beautiful hymns, but he decided to strip himself - while remaining God - so that we could all participate in the divine nature [cf.. Fil 2, 6-11]. This is the final effect of so much pain.

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The glory of Christ, winner of suffering and death, then it will be our glory. We will not have suffered and cried in vain. But until then, let us not cease to be united to the Mystical Body and to the Holy Mother of Jesus. It is Jesus himself who requests it in one of his last words: «Woman, here is your son. Son, here is your mother" [GV 19,25-27]. Jesus turns first to Mary. She too is suffering, desperate. An enormous suffering, that of seeing a son condemned and killed in this terrible and unjust way. Maria is close to all mothers who are losing children in war for the same reason. Every time we pray a rosary, a dozen or even just one Ave Maria, we can turn to the Holy Virgin Mother to intercede with God for these suffering mothers. Maria, with his "yes" in the Annunciation, but also in welcoming the terrible pains of the Son, she is also our mother. I can't imagine how much fortitude the Handmaid of Nazareth had to use, how much courage in walking to Golgotha, without exploding into screams of anger and desperation. A reaction that perhaps would have been completely human and legitimate. Instead Maria, in his torment, trusts in God, living the drama of the Son and accompanying him. That Son, not only his, he now definitively gives to the Eternal Father and the Holy Spirit. We in Saint John the Apostle, we are all his children. Only in this way is she a cooperator in the redemption, giving us Jesus, and accompanying him in the Passion. Even in these dark times we remain united with her. Because all of us, in John the apostle, we are called children of Mary and therefore united as children also in the other Virgin Mother: the church. And in the Church understood as The church assembled we can all cooperate for the common good, to international solidarity and help suffering populations with humanitarian aid and spiritual closeness. First of all though, if we are assembling the church, we must all learn to be a little Saint John the Apostle. Therefore, learn to reread all the events of the time we live in with a view from above. With an eagle gaze. And in addition to doing it ourselves, testify at the same time that another horizon of meaning exists, another perspective that is within us and that at the same time surpasses us. It is the contemplative gaze of all things. In this Mary is an example to us in virtues and great maternal love. Giovanni, figure of the whole Church, it is an example of the Church that welcomes and brings together all peoples, indicating to them the paths of eternity and meaning that integrate the present time. On this Good Friday let's remember it, if we truly and intimately participate in the liturgical action of the Passion of the Lord.

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Aristophanes, this great unknown. The Russian-Ukrainian war and the cartoonist Vauro accused of anti-Semitism between politically correct and limitations on the right to satire

ARISTOFANE, THIS BIG UNKNOWN. THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR AND THE CARTOONIST VAURO ACCUSED OF ANTI-SEMITISM BETWEEN POLITICAL CORRECT AND LIMITATIONS ON THE RIGHT OF SATIRE

Mrs. Fiamma Nirenstein, also a former candidate in the center right, after a youthful past as a militant communist, like his companion Gad Lerner, who passed casually from Lotta Continua's truncheon to the direction of the capitalist newspaper of Casa Agnelli… well, I believe that these people - who incidentally are to religious Judaism and Jewish tradition like Cicciolina can stand to the healthy mores of Christian life - in front of Vauro and his satirical hooked noses have only to learn the great and increasingly rare virtue of consistency, of which in its own way it is an example, perhaps even teacher.

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Russian-Ukrainian conflict: "Why do not you talk?». In wars, lies and manipulation are apart from nuclear weapons

RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONFLICT: "WHY DO NOT YOU TALK?». IN WARS LIES AND MASS MANIPULATION ARE THE SAME AS ATOMIC WEAPONS

Example of aberration from talk show: I know Toni Capuozzo is invited to a television program, expert champion among our war correspondents, or if a highly competent historian such as Franco Cardini is invited to try to explain in a rational and impartial way the reason for the origins of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, What is the use of interspersing their analyzes with the tears of Ukrainian women invited to the studio for the sole purpose of striking the masses with that emotionality that will inevitably end up making listeners deaf and blind to any analysis, as soon as the crying woman pronounces the “magica” phrase: "They killed women and children"?

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