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"The coup of the politically correct" an unmissable book by Francesco Mangiacapra that also analyzes the hair of the politically correct naked king

4 November 2021/in Actuality, Books and Reviews/by Jorge Facio Lynx

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"THE GOLPE OF THE POLITICALLY CORRECT" AN UNMISSABLE BOOK BY FRANCESCO MANGIACAPRA WHICH ALSO ANALYZES THE HAIR OF THE NAKED KING POLITICALLY CORRECT

“When democracy is corroded by the cancer of the politically correct, it turns into a dictatorship of minorities, an anti-democratic regime whose integralism is constituted by the denial of objective reality to favor a fanatical extreme sense of respect towards all, in which, in order not to run into a potential offense to the detriment of certain categories of people, and discriminates, the freedom of thought and expression of majorities is denied and abjured.

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A homosexual who does not identify with the powerful gay lobby he ends up ostracized and receives the applause of that sovereign and Christian public they so abhorred: this is what happened to the former gigolo Francesco Mangiacapra, known for having presented to the Vatican a dossier on fifty gay priests of his former clients.

"The gigolo and the priest friend" is the preface written for the book by Francesco Mangiacapra by Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, founder of the Editions The island of Patmos. And this is already a program [click here to open the PDF with the back cover]

The lead hood of "politically correct" it weighs on a society indifferent to real violence, but ready to exhibit at the Pillory, for a joke or a harmless satire, who dares to oppose the single thought. Despising freedom of thought, it has come to propose a law that punishes not so much words, works and omissions but the thoughts of the non-aligned. In The coup of the politically correct Mangiacapra analyzes some significant themes of modern civilization, ranging from the dynamics relating to immigration policies, to the dysfunction of the canonical organisms towards a large slice of the population to favor a minority; analyzes the rampant hypocrisy of the “politically correct” and the ease with which this is spread, blurring the less attentive minds that demean themselves, embracing philosophies of thought that often lead to limiting the faculty of judgment and expression of those who get involved in this vortex of fake respectability.

"When democracy is corroded by the cancer of politically correct" says Mangiacapra: «It is transformed into a dictatorship of minorities, an anti-democratic regime whose integralism is constituted by the denial of objective reality to favor a fanatical extreme sense of respect towards all, in which, in order not to run into a potential offense to the detriment of certain categories of people, and discriminates, the freedom of thought and expression of majorities is denied and abjured. A tyranny that claims to de-legitimize civil society from the faculty of opinion on any social minority group, political or religious because they have all become undeniably sacred and untouchable ".

Mangiacapra's essay has the merit, first of all, not to be a product dictated by emotionality, but rather a long-considered research and therefore rich in articulated objective analyzes. An illuminating critique of an elite emerges - whose Modus Operandi has now risen to a system - which requires to regulate everything according to the assumed superior ability of its members to read and interpret the psycho-physical, ethical and health problems of today's society and consequently to apply the solutions - they say - evolved, more suitable and effective in the interest of certain, particular minorities, of which they present themselves as philanthropic benefactors. The mentality underlying the rule ends up establishing the dictatorship of the small minority, favoring "the most intolerant", in the face of an inattentive majority, flexible, subtly circumvented and then harassed. They act according to a very precise and sophisticated socio-political strategy through which the ideological fanaticism of a few – who pass off a series of secular dogmas as ethical imperatives – it actually introduces a creeping totalitarianism into people's heads, managing to cloud common sense and the collective interest of the majority. They are recognized as advocates of the politically correct and for this alleged merit they are supported by advertising and pseudo-information campaigns well orchestrated by the media through newspapers, magazines, cultural programs, investigation and in-depth analysis, TV series, film, talk show where some of their members are regular guests, very active on social networks and followed by hosts of followers.

On a superficial reading it could be concluded that Mangiacapra proposes a misanthropic vision, misogynist and racist of life, but in reality the object of criticism is not the single individual or the single issue but the exploitation that a certain political and intellectual band makes about the most controversial issues of our time: the Author does not hate women but disputes vulgar feminism, he does not hate animals, but he disputes exacerbated animalism, he does not hate foreigners but disputes reckless policies on foreigners. Clear is the purpose of conducting arguments that have the aim of dismantling the national-popular propaganda that a certain intelligentsia he wants to feed us through the media.

A politically incorrect essay in a regime where the right of criticism has become “an inversion of the burden of proof”, and the do-gooders imposed by law rise to the official doctrine of liberal-democratic totalitarianism. Topics for which, for years, the gay activist for sexual self-determination and civil rights, it is censored on social networks and ostracized by the lobby of the LGBT associations themselves.

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From Pro-Zan to Pro-Zac. We Catholics are the true liberals and Senator Tommaso Cerno a silent voice because he wanted a balanced law that would also have the support of the Catholic Church and Italian Catholics

30 October 2021/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

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DAL PRO-ZAN PRO-ZAC. WE CATHOLICS ARE THE TRUE LIBERALS AND SENATOR TOMMASO CERNO A SILENCED VOICE BECAUSE HE WANTED A BALANCED LAW THAT WOULD HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITALIAN CATHOLICS

We must take note, to the proven proof of the facts, that the true liberals who respect democratic rules are us Catholics, not the radical ideologues of the LGBT movements who sue you for every slightest sigh of dissent, having money and special law firms to apply an old and dangerous entirely fascist logic: «Punish one to educate a hundred». But the Senate of the Italian Republic was not involved in this game, especially today when the most violent of all risk being the fascists of anti-fascism. This is why the Zan Bill was scuttled.

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A friend died who leads me to reflect on the indifference of the media towards life and death, when they are not itchy show

21 October 2021/1 Comment/in Actuality/by father ariel

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A FRIEND IS DEAD THAT CAUSES ME TO REFLECT ON THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE MEDIA OF COMMUNICATION TOWARDS LIFE AND DEATH, WHEN THEY ARE NOT PRURIGINOUS SHOW

“We are surrounded by ignorance, bad faith, lie, and what is serious is that they know it and do not waver. Just like a Nazi or Communist official must have been "

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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Luigi Amicone (Milan, 4 October 1956 – Monza, 19 October 2021)

Thursday 21 October Luigi Amicone's funeral took place in the cathedral church of Monza, died just 65 year old. In front of him he could have another twenty years of life to live, according to today's statistics on the average life span of the Italian man, which are not few. His death was announced to me early in the morning, Tuesday 19, by a confrere of the Diocese of Milan, raised in the ranks of Communion and Liberation, the Movement founded by the Ambrosian presbyter Luigi Giussani.

Luigi was not a longtime friend, but a sincere friend with whom it was a pleasure to talk. several times we met between the 2019 and the 2021 to various television programs on the Mediaset networks, once we even got into a fight on the subject of Our Lady of Medjugorje, known as Madam, on which I have always had deep reservations. Then, the debate ended and the live cameras closed, he told me:

«Ariel, I respect you as a man of faith. And men of faith I recognize them, they are necessarily tough like you, I think I can say this because I was a pupil of Luigi Giussani, which was not a waffle at all ".

After having received the announcement of his death, shortly after, I turned the phone over in my hands, I opened the what–sapp on contact Luigi Amicone and for a few minutes I retraced various memories that have remained etched in the archive memory:

«Luigi, you were wonderful on the program Fifth Title su Rai3, a warm greeting and a warm wish " (23.03.2021)»

«Thanks Ariel, I almost want to ask one of your intelligence: do journalism! We are surrounded by ignorance, bad faith, lie, and what is serious is that they know it and do not waver. Just like a Nazi or Communist official must have been " (23.03.2021)

I remember then, with love and fun, an interview last summer, while Luigi was in his holiday home in Sardinia, in the Sassari area, I, on the other hand, on the other island, in my holiday home in the Ortigia of Syracuse. Commenting on some pages of my book And Satan became triune, in the part where I analyze the problem of lobby gay ecclesiastical, mi said:

"Knowing the environment, I guess what they did to you in retaliation, after you have written these pages ".

Continuing on that delicate speech I burst out saying that Vatican City State is the country with the highest percentage of gay population in the world. He laughed and replied:

«You don't care about this sentence, at the first opportunity that presents itself to me, I will sell it back immediately ".

Soon said, the opportunity presented itself a few days later, when in external connection from his home near Sassari he participated in a program on the Mediaset networks, where during his speech he began by saying:

«Let alone if we Catholics can be surprised by the Zan bill, when the Vatican City State is the country with the highest percentage of gay population in the world ".

I call him having fun on the phone the morning of the next day, first I make fun of him for how he was tanned, wondering if the Sardinian sun had taken it all as he did, then I begin:

"Ah, how happy I am to have done the gray eminence behind you!».

He replies:

“But don't bullshit, "behind"? You have been spitting them in everyone's face for a lifetime, for this you will never become a Most Reverend Eminence ".

Luigi made me think, not so much about death, mystery on which I am used to meditating every day, aware that my heart, like that of anyone, it could stop beating at any moment, suddenly. I also wrote a book on death, dealing with the hindmost in the form of a narrative, which will soon be printed.

With his sudden disappearance Luigi led me to reflect on the relationship of contemporary society to death. This is what I intend to reflect on now, including the report, or rather the non-relationship or the denied relationship of the mass media with death, where death is not a spectacle through which Gianluigi Nuzzi, efficient Network gravedigger 4, transforms crimes and deaths into spectacles, in fiction which does not stimulate at all to reflect on man, or on the psychological violence that leads certain subjects to the most violent heinous crimes, but which only stimulates morbid itching.

As a professional Luigi was not a journalist for a local newspaper that narrates the facts and events of a provincial town, of those who on death are usually remembered in their locality by colleagues and fellow citizens who have read their articles for years. Luigi was a reporter for the national press, founder of one of the main Italian Catholic magazines, the monthly Times. Was, as I told a little earlier, a so-called television face representative of the Italian Catholic culture, with acceptable or unacceptable positions within the Catholic world itself, but who has made great contributions in many years of profession. This is why he has been a guest for years in the television debate rooms of all the main Mediaset and Rai programs, because he had opinions to express and he knew how to express them, shareable or not by the other opinion leaders present, because it is precisely on this that the debate is based.

I would have expected, I don't mean prime time or opening hours, but if anything at the end of the various journalistic or so-called in-depth programs talk show, that only one of those who have called him and often had in theirs parterre as a columnist over the years, before the final theme he said: «My colleague Luigi Amicone passed away on Tuesday, our editorial team joins its family members in condolence ". A message of this kind would have occupied a space of approx 7 from 8 seconds to close a program in which if anything, Giorgia Meloni or Matteo Salvini had made a monologue by 30 minutes without any commercial break, which is only valid - in an unavoidable way - when other guests and opinion leaders speak. On the other hand, no one has dedicated a few seconds of memory to a colleague who is anything but unknown, in a world of communication in which cynicism and indifference reign supreme, where what is presented as a sensitive human interest is not such, but something wanted and studied on the cold basis of audience ratings. Or does someone seriously believe that that bubbly conductor really cares about something poor and modest people who find themselves with their houses occupied by swindlers that no one can hunt and who do not pay rents.? And note: it is not, this mine, a process of intentions, which would also be a serious contradiction in terms with my theological training and with my previous and now distant juridical training. It is simply a fact, you just need to know the televisions, the editorial offices of newspapers and especially those who work within them.

No, naive souls, certain themes do not arise from the desire to defend the rights of the weak, everything arises only from pure and cold criteria dictated by the ratings. Because if that dedicated block in that talk show to the squatters of houses did not raise the ratings of commercial television, which stands as obvious as it is legitimate on advertising and audience ratings, you can rest assured that this thoughtful champion of justice and defense of the weak would not hesitate to talk about the depth of the whale's ass in the next installment, if the whaling colonoscopy did more plays.

The indifferent cannot be sensitive, he cannot love justice and truth by making himself champion of the weak, because wild utilitarianism or hypertrophic narcissism support the mental and social system of indifference, that end up making the world of information a world of deformation and often of manipulation, all for political purposes, economic and subliminal address on the masses.

Turning to various television programs I met two people who I consider friends and who are respectively: one, a trans, Vlady Guadagno, in art Vladmir Luxuria, another is a homosexual, balanced activist LGBT and liberal in the round, it is the famous and excellent scientific popularizer Alessandro Cecchi Paone, who has a vision of life and of mankind that is different from mine, for example with regard to abortion or euthanasia, but who I immediately esteemed as a loyal and sensitive man who knows what friendship and respect for friends are, especially for those who don't think like him. This makes Alessandro Cecchi Paone a genuine liberal, with whom I could speak with serenity about everything that divides us in the different human feeling, but to which I am united by something which unites even men with the most diverse thoughts: respect for the freedom of the other, which for him is the cornerstone of Liberalism, for me it is the very suffix of the creation of man, created by God free and endowed with free will.

Only now that the mortal remains of Luigi Amicone they have been returned to the earth, I understand his message that I reported at the beginning, certainly not because he called me "intelligent", but because in that message it defines the situation and state of the world of information:

Rest in peace in the grace and mercy of God, I'll miss you, my dear Buddy.

the Island of Patmos, 21 October 2021

Conversation with Andrea Turazzi Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro: "In the ancient Republic where the referendum on abortion won with the 77,28% of votes, Mount Titano will become like Mount Taygetos?

7 October 2021/6 Comments/in Actuality/by Bishop Andrea Turazzi

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INTERVIEW WITH ANDREA TURAZZI BISHOP OF SAN MARINO-MONTEFELTRO: «IN THE ANCIENT REPUBLIC WHERE THE REFERENDUM ON ABORTION WON WITH THE 77,28% OF VOTES, MONTE TITANO WILL BECOME LIKE MONTE TAIGETO?

«I don't think it's relevant nor do I think it's right to compare the San Marino people to the Spartans. It is necessary not to identify that 77% Of “Yes” to abortion with the extremely aggressive and ideological attitude of some groups. The Referendum in San Marino was celebrated as a proactive referendum to ask for decriminalisation. However, the request also raises the possibility of an abortion without limitations. In fact, it only takes into account the woman's point of view. The rights of the unborn child are not adequately considered.".

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INTRODUCTORY HISTORICAL NOTE: THE ANCIENT SERENISSIMA REPUBLIC

(C)capital of the Republic of San Marino: the fortress, also called yelp, on the top of Mount Titano

In the Republic of San Marino this the most serene, 33.860 inhabitants, after a heated referendum campaign, those entitled to vote went to the polls where the 77,28% of voters voted in favor of abortion. A result that brings to mind certain oceanic majorities and that leads us to reflect also animated by understandable anxiety.

The theme of ours The interview that follows deserves a historical and hagiographic introduction. The Republic was born on 3 September 301. Its founder was Marino, a stonecutter native to the island of Rab who fled Dalmatia during the persecutions of Christians initiated by Diocletian. With a small Christian community he settled on Mount Titano, the highest of the seven hills where the capital stands today. The owner of that land was a certain Felicissima, rich noblewoman from the city of Rimini who donated that property to the community of Marino, who will later title it in his name. Together with Marino, the figure of another stonemason stands out, Leo or Leo. This second, after also arriving on Monte Titano it moved to Monte Feliciano, known today as Montefeltro, continuing to work on the extraction and processing of stones. On that hill Leo will build a church, in an area now called San Leo, co-cathedral of the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro, which has its own cathedral and bishopric in Pennabilli, town of approx 1.000 inhabitants. Marino and Leo, according to the ancient deacon tradition, they are the patron saints of the Diocese. The community of San Marino became independent in the 8th century when it fell of the Byzantine army of Ravenna, metropolitan archiepiscopal seat of which the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro is a suffragan. The bond between the ancient Republic - which was born from deep Christian roots - and the Church of Rome has always been very close and solid. In 1291 the Supreme Pontiff Nicholas IV recognized San Marino as a Christian republic.

Even today the Serenissima Republic it has diplomatic relations with the Holy See and the apostolic nunciature is located on its territory. The office of apostolic nuncio is held by the Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, who carries out his diplomatic office with double accreditation: to the Government of the Italian Republic and to the Government of the Republic of San Marino. This is why the diplomatic headquarters of the Holy See in Italy is called Apostolic Nunciature in Italy and in the Republic of San Marino. The penultimate Apostolic Nuncio in serial order, S. AND. Mons. Adriano Bernardini (2011-2017), he was a particular and appreciated expert on the history of that country. Even though he was trained at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary and ordained priest for the Diocese of Rome, he was a native of Montefeltro (Piandimeleto, hamlet of Monastero). Another distinguished diplomat of the Holy See was also originally from Montefeltro, S. AND. Mons. Pietro Sambi, who was apostolic nuncio to the United States of America. The current Apostolic Nuncio is Swiss S. AND. Mons. Emil Paul Tscherrig. From the 2014 Bishop of the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro is S. AND. Mons. Andrea Turazzi.

The Bishops of San Marino, although holders of the episcopal seat and having a residence in the territory of the ancient Republic, they do not reside there permanently, this is for political reasons linked to the particular nature of the government of that country, where the two Heads of State are elected on a short periodic basis, called Captains Regent. Their Most Serene Excellencies in fact they remain in office for only six months. In such a small country and with such a system of government, the Bishop, who can remain on his episcopal chair for up to twenty or thirty years, could take on a role of greater authority than that of the periodic Heads of State, especially if he had a strong personality.

The people of San Marino are deeply proud of their ancient Republic and they have never liked the jokes of certain Italians from the surrounding neighboring Romagna. Diplomatic incidents with Italy over time are far from rare, for example when on the occasion of Armed Forces Day a satirical magazine from Romagna alluded to the San Marino air force made up of four remote-controlled helicopters and to its naval fleet made up of ten small boats made to spin in the water of a tank. Perhaps unaware, the ironic geographers, that the Republic has no access to the sea and that San Marino could have a naval fleet on a par with Switzerland or the Principality of Liechtenstein, but also of European countries with a much larger territorial extension about which no one makes fun due to the lack of naval fleets: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia … Or when the San Marino Armed Forces went on maximum alert - which happened more than once - due to military vehicles of the Italian Army who crossed its territory. An episode understandably experienced as an invasion, until arousing the vibrant protests of H.E. Antonella Mularoni minister of foreign affairs. Because with all due respect to the laughing and joyous people of Romagna surrounding and neighboring, the San Marino people are proud of their country and their Republic, the oldest in the world. For this reason they deserve profound respect, above all profound historical respect.

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREA TURAZZI BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF SAN MARINO-MONTEFELTRO

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

S. AND. Mons. Andrea Turazzi, Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro

(D). Excellency, you were born in Stellata di Bondeno (Ferrara) ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio (27.05.1972). He was esteemed by the then Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio Carlo Caffarra (1995-2003). For four decades he lived in contact with the People of God, exercising his sacred priestly ministry as a parish priest, dedicating himself in the meantime to the training of future priests as spiritual director of the seminary and teacher of pastoral theology. He was elected to the episcopal seat of San Marino-Montefeltro by the Supreme Pontiff Francis (30.11.2013) and consecrated bishop by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra (24.01.2014), Archbishop of Bologna (2003-2015). We can begin by asking you for your personal memories of this bishop and theologian who returned to the House of the Father on 6 September 2017, remembered today as one of the greatest experts on marriage issues, of the family and human procreation?

R. I was lucky enough to have the then Don Carlo Caffarra as a professor. I remember perfectly the clarity and depth of his lessons. Extremely rigorous, but extraordinarily welcoming. The Ferrara episcopate of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra left an imprint on each of us priests, but I think it had a profound impact on him too: he added, to the robustness of the thoroughbred theologian, the delicacy of the shepherd (strongly and sweetly). I have many personal memories, which I jealously guard; I share two: his tears during a coffee break, at the Regional Episcopal Conference, due to the decline in vocations; his joy in telling me about the "spiritual" experience he lived in the Conclave that elected Pope Francis. I had no "doubt" about Cardinal Carlo Caffarra's attachment to the person of the Holy Father - Pope Francis - and not only to the "papacy". This is demonstrated by the fact that when some attempted to place Cardinal Caffarra in conflict with the Holy Father on family issues, he didn't hesitate to answer:

«I would have been more pleased if it were said that the Archbishop of Bologna has a lover, rather than it being said that he has a mind contrary to that of the Pope. Because if a bishop has a thought contrary to that of the Pope he must go, but just you have to go by the diocese, because it would lead the faithful on a path that is no longer that of Jesus Christ. He would therefore lose himself eternally and risk the loss of the faithful. It is something that deeply saddened me because it is slanderous, because not only has the Pope never spoken about this, but when he spoke he asked for a debate. And the debate is real if all voices can speak. I was born a papist, I lived as a papist and a papist I want to die" [N.d.R. see video of the interview].

(D). As Bishop of the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro he found himself faced with a referendum campaign for the legalization of abortion within a country that is the smallest and oldest republic in the world. She immediately made it clear that for the particular Church she governed, what was at stake was not a political issue but an issue that touched a very sensitive chord in our faith.: human life, considered as such by us Catholics from the moment of conception. Of course, everything was played out on the political terrain, that of the referendum, through the free expression of popular will. He believes that those in favor of the legalization of abortion understood that for the Bishop it was not a purely political question but a delicate question of conscience?

R. I intervened as a pastor. As far as I know, the people of San Marino have never contested my positions expressed in my speech to the San Marino Vicariate, in two homilies in the Basilica under solemn circumstances (The body of the Lord and Solemnity of San Marino), finally two press releases close to the referendum, appreciated by many for their clarity and tone. Diverse vleisure of “sign yes” have taken on evident ideological tones, with typical slogans: «Nor God, nor Church, but women decide for themselves...". The “no” it was essentially supported by two formations: a secular one, with rational reasons, of science and anthropology; the other constituted by the Council of Ecclesial Aggregations (about ten). Officially the parties have appealed for freedom of conscience. But different parties (some of the government of the Republic) have given full support to the campaign for “Yes”.

(D). According to the official statistics of 2019, on a population of 33.860 inhabitants the San Marino Catholics constitute the 97,2% of the population, made up of baptized people. Whereas the 77,28% of voters voted in favor of legalizing abortion, perhaps the result of this referendum is not a paradigm of the feelings of contemporary society? Faced with this quorum, How many Catholics could there be who, after having voted in favor of the law on abortion, then went to Holy Mass on Sunday after leaving the polls?, feeling with a conscience in perfect order? If so, does not believe that we would be faced with a split between being Catholic and putting into practice what our faith considers a good that is never and under any circumstances available, human life?

R. Frankly, I didn't expect such a sensationally unbalanced outcome. It is evident that even in San Marino the conditioning of the dominant culture weighs heavily, secularization and the split between faith and life: many are Christians without ever having decided to be! Perhaps this referendum could have been avoided with mediation between the political forces. However, regardless of the outcome, it was the occasion of a leap of awareness and responsibility: for Catholics to be more coherent in bearing witness to the Gospel of life and for everyone to support a culture and politics favorable to the family.

(D). In Monday's edition 27 September the newspaper of the Bishops of Italy, L'Avvenire, talks about many issues to be resolved after the "yes" from the Republic of San Marino. The Bishops' newspaper highlights the failure to indicate a time limit which could lead to the possibility of abortion up to the ninth month, with the risk of creating a free port for free abortion within Italian territory. He thinks this risk could translate into reality?

R. I hope that the law that will be introduced in the Republic of San Marino is formulated in such a way as to take into account the sensitivity in favor of the lives of many San Marino people. At the Great and General Council (Parliament) requests to this effect have already been filed. The low turnout at the polls should be considered a real defeat, but this data also tells the relative value of the referendum outcome. Far from imagining a "Catholic abortion" - abortion is always and in any case a crime - I hope that we arrive at a balanced law, that truly manages to leave no one behind and does not limit itself to adopting the ideology of waste. The first commitment will consist in closely monitoring the evolution of the political debate on the subject, with the aim of preventing the failed Italian experience and the excesses of certain European abortive legislation, and to keep alive the humanitarian and Christian tradition of San Marino. The second commitment is “be close”: save lives, help mothers, support associations pro-life; not last, educational commitment towards young people and adults. Therefore, I have reasons to hope that a free port for free abortion will not be created.

(D). During the referendum campaign the opposing parties also argued heatedly over the so-called "selective abortion" which would allow the killing of children with Down syndrome, or to children suffering from anomalies which are not incompatible with a life worth living. We ask her: the Titan (N.d.R. The hill where the ancient settlement of the Serenissima Republic of San Marino stands is called Monte Titano), it could not run the risk of changing into the ancient Mount Taygetos, the hill from which the Spartans, according to mythological tales, they threw down deformed newborns or those judged too weak to live and grow according to the aesthetic and physical patterns of Greek culture?

R. I don't think it's relevant nor do I think it's right to compare the San Marino people to the Spartans. It is necessary not to identify that 77% Of “Yes” to abortion with the extremely aggressive and ideological attitude of some groups¹. The Referendum in San Marino was celebrated as a proactive referendum to ask for decriminalisation. However, the request also raises the possibility of an abortion without limitations. In fact, it only takes into account the woman's point of view. The rights of the unborn child are not adequately considered. There is no consideration of community responsibility. There are many possibilities for maternity protection in our time, considered scientific progress, economic resources, increased social sensitivity. It must not happen that a woman voluntarily terminates her pregnancy for economic reasons or due to lack of help and protection. Now the word goes to the legislator. It is hoped that a legislative framework of real help to women will be offered, of protection of life and acceptance of conscientious objection. There will certainly be legislation different from the current one; a freedom will be given that was not previously foreseen. I hope it is not an incentive to abortion, to a carelessness in decisions or - as Pope Francis recently said - "a very bad habit of killing".

(D). The condition of decadence in which we find ourselves at an ecclesial level is evident, the Church being world in the world, as evidenced by the dissociation between being Catholic and living and thinking Catholic which leads to a majority of 77,28% in favor of the abortion law. Allow us to ask a question that is not easy to ask a bishop: as pastors caring for souls and as theologians, how many serious responsibilities we have, in the face of all this? We have recently had cases of Italian priests who have publicly declared themselves in favor of euthanasia with great coverage in the national media. Of course, these are few cases, but the resonance of these few is destined to create scandal and disorientation among the People of God, already too disoriented. It's not that we have lost the perception of the sacredness of The gift of life within the very context of training for the ministerial priesthood? This is why we ask you: where we can start again?

R. I repeat: one cannot be Catholic and deny the very principles of Catholicism, such as the absolute right to life and the human dignity of the conceived, as I had the opportunity to underline on the feast of the Patron Saint and Founder Marino, the 3 last September. There are Catholics involved on the social front, on human rights and on the major issues of ecology. Some others accentuate the attention to the protection of non-negotiable ethical values; sometimes it seems that a gap emerges between the two perspectives. I felt the duty to reiterate to both of them the Gospel of God's love for man, the Gospel of the dignity of the person and the Gospel of life are one single and indivisible Gospel. I also offer another consideration to be interpreted in the right direction. We are paying close attention, spending resources and effort, to human promotion. We can only appreciate the work, eg, of the diocesan Caritas, the testimony of volunteering, Pastoral programs in favor of the emergencies and needs of the people. However, I would like just as much impetus for evangelization. I would like to highlight the primacy of the announcement of Jesus Christ more: be hope in a wounded world! In the next few days we will draw up a sort of "roadmap" in our Diocese:

– support for our faithful in the experience of a faith capable of interacting with the world and raising hopes;

– accompaniment of people in difficulty, spiritual guidance and appropriate catechesis;

– convergent work of the pastoral offices on the theme of life;

– sustainability of a family counseling center;

– celebration of the Vigil for emerging Life e, like in Italy, of the Day for Life.

(D). Rod Dreher wrote the book The Benedict option, to be understood as the escape of Benedict from Norcia who dares to separate from the Empire now corrupt and devastated by the barbarian invaders in order to rediscover his own origins, one's roots and the Christian identity which today in the world sounds like an unpronounceable blasphemy". Think about us Catholics, without ceasing to be world within the world, but also adverse to certain logics of this world, from abortion to euthanasia and for this reason hated by the world when necessary (cf.. GV 15, 18-21), we will end up arriving at a new "Benedict option" suitable for our contemporary society?

R. I know Rod Dreher's book The Benedict option. We also talked about it for a long time. We were able to appreciate interesting and certainly positive results. I wouldn't want the vocation of "yeast in dough" to be weakened, the will to take on and "inhabit" this time of ours. We cannot give in to the syndrome of feeling besieged. Also a "Catholic" agricultural cooperative, or a “Catholic” school, more than commendable initiatives, they must engage in dialogue and offer inspiration to everyone.

(D). We asked one of its presbyters to paint their Bishop for us, he responded like this: «My Bishop is a believer of solid faith and a true pastor. He is always ready to go out of his way for his priests, which he would never abandon in the solitude and discouragement of the dark night. It is always present, and he is very jealous of his priests, knowing full well how jealous God is of all of us". What effect does it have on you to know that one of your priests responded to us like this??

R. (The Bishop responds with a smile)

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¹ N.d.R. The San Marino voters were only 14.558 equal to 41,11 of those entitled (circa 35.400). The favorable ones were around 11.250 equal to 77,28% of voters while those against approximately 3.308 equal to 22,72%. That impressive 77,28% represents only the 31,78% of voters, yet another proof that a fierce minority - in this case less than one San Marino in three - imposes its choices on the absent or inert majority out of laziness, little sense of responsibility, disinterest.

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Interview with Andrea Turazzi Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro: Sunday 26 September the voters of the smallest and oldest republic in the world will decide whether to legalize abortion

22 September 2021/6 Comments/in Actuality/by Bishop Andrea Turazzi

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INTERVIEW WITH ANDREA TURAZZI, BISHOP OF SAN MARINO-MONTEFELTRO: SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER THE VOTERS OF THE SMALLEST AND ANCIENT REPUBLIC IN THE WORLD WILL DECIDE WHETHER TO LEGALIZE ABORTION

«So one cannot consider himself a Catholic and then, for instance, fail to recognize that human life is sacred from conception. A believer must contemplate God's creative action. The conceived is always within a relationship, a special covenant with the Creator, he has an immortal soul".

Andrea Turazzi
Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro

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ASunday's referendum 26 September voters will decide whether the Republic of San Marino must liberalize abortion, conforming to the dominant mentality in many Western countries and indeed risking overcoming them for extremism (you see here the analysis of the jurist Giacomo Rocchi), or if, on the other hand, it must continue to be an example in the protection of the unborn, the generations of tomorrow. As already told by the psychotherapist Adolfo Morganti in an interview with the Compass, the campaign for the no to the referendum question saw the strong mobilization of the Catholic laity. But the local Church is also doing its part, encouraging citizens both to defend the baby in the womb and to help mothers in difficulty. The New Compass Daily interviewed the bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, S. AND. Mons. Andrea Turazzi.

Monsignor Andrea Turazzi, her in a recent homily, about the abortion debate, he called the Republic of San Marino to question its founding values and its project for the future. Can you tell us about these values?

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First of all, we must look at the creature that has just begun its adventure. Every man has the right to live. This is the right that precedes all others. So, defending the unborn child is much more than defending an abstract principle, because it is welcoming of a person. Alongside that of the child there is the perspective of the mother, both the one radiant for the arrival of a new creature and the worried one, anxious because of difficulties: we must ensure all possible accompaniment to her. It must not be left to itself, but its difficulties must be taken to heart. Who comes to abortion, often, he does it because there is no help, also economical; we must ensure that never again, in a society like ours, a life is not born for similar circumstances.

In Declaration of citizens' rights and the fundamental principles of the San Marino legal system it is read: "Every mother has the right to community assistance and protection". It finds only the referendum question, essentially, sever the ties between women and the community that could really protect them?

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Of course. The referendum campaign, especially in the last few days, it is taking on rather lively tones but it should be an opportunity for a leap of awareness, of responsibility, a favorable moment of reflection for the whole community. There is a child who has to be born, mom to help, and this means that we need a company that takes a stand. I am happy that the firm no to abortion is increasingly accompanied by words and gestures of attention towards women. And this is not only the task of individuals but also what the state must do. Moreover, in San Marino there is a demographic winter that is even more noticeable than elsewhere, because we are a small company. The people need clarity and the constructive dimension must prevail in the debate, beauty and the gift of life. But I think there is this in many, and I hope that those of other convictions will also ask questions.

In addition to mothers with difficult pregnancies, we need to help mothers who have aborted to embark on a path of reconciliation with God. Accompanying groups are active with you in this regard?

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To San Marino, in addition to the Pope John XXIII Community and Caritas, The Welcome to Life Service has been operating for a couple of years, offering beautiful testimonies that collect life experiences of girls and boys from our communities. In a few days we will know the result of this referendum, we hope for a good outcome, but in any case, woe to throw in the towel of the commitment to the life of the unborn, for the proximity to mothers in difficulty, etc.. We will have to work even harder, whatever the outcome. This battle is affecting Italy and all of Europe, therefore this small state challenges the conscience of millions of people.

Also because he is one of the few who resist in the field of the defense of the unborn. It should be referred to as an example of civilization, instead the progressive press paints it as "backward".

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Look, I was encouraged by the Pope's intervention on the plane returning from his trip to Slovakia, in which the Holy Father again pronounced clear words against abortion. And this must also make all Catholics reflect.

What do you mean?

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Here too there are Catholics committed to social issues, on human rights, on the custody of the common home. And on the other hand, there are Catholics who are more attentive to the safeguarding of ethical principles, non-negotiable. The 'furrow' between these two souls, da November, sometimes it's not that deep; however, I felt the duty to say to both of them that the Gospel of God's love for man, the Gospel of the dignity of the person and the Gospel of life are one and indivisible Gospel. So one cannot consider himself a Catholic and then, for instance, fail to recognize that human life is sacred from conception. A believer must contemplate God's creative action. The conceived is always within a relationship, a special covenant with the Creator, has an immortal soul.

In San Marino there is a strong mobilization of the Catholic laity in defense of life from conception. It seems that the wish of St. John Henry Newman is fulfilled, asking for a strong laity ...

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In the Republic of San Marino, in this campaign, we favorably witnessed the birth of two secular realities. The Council of lay aggregations, which brings together a dozen ecclesial groups; and the opposing committee, the One of Us Committee, which expresses no to abortion based on anthropology and the sciences. Indeed, it doesn't have to be a battle between Catholics and non-Catholics, but the occasion for the awakening of civic conscience, that is, values founded on a correct anthropology and which are recognizable as good by anyone.

This question, as the Law already 194, cut off the father. What do you think?

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The woman, clearly, carries the burden and fatigue of pregnancy, but dad can't be pushed aside.

It is also an attack on God's creative Wisdom?

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A phrase from Sacred Scripture comes to mind, in the book of the prophet Jeremiah: «The word of the Lord was addressed to me: “Before forming yourself in the womb, I knew you, before you came out into the light, I had consecrated you; […]”» (Gives 1, 4-5). These verses are testimony of God's love. So my invitation is to be present, to participate in this campaign in defense of nascent life and to do so with the spirit of the gift, as an act of friendship. I wish there was no verbal brawl. And on our part, we need to give answers that transmit Catholic teaching in its entirety. Promote the protection of the mother, help for the family, a policy more attentive to family realities ... The development index of a company is not evaluated only with the economy, but above all it is measured with respect for the true rights of the other, starting with the frail and the unborn child.

The referendum will take place on 26 September, liturgical memory of the medical saints Cosma and Damiano. Perhaps…

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Look, he is telling me a beautiful thing, I didn't think about it. We have a parish dedicated to Saints Cosma and Damiano, which are called "anargiri”, because they didn't want money. They certainly call everyone to safeguard life and, in particular, the doctors, who take the Hippocratic Oath. Sunday morning I will celebrate in that parish, but before…

Tell us.

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Wednesday 22 September [today, ed] we will make a Rosary, which will be broadcast on YouTube starting from 17, promoted by the Pope John XXIII Association. I will sing the Rosary for the nascent life. Who can, join in prayer.

Pennabilli, 23 September 2021

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Berlicche's letters and the praise of madness over euthanasia, catholicity e “lay believers”

21 September 2021/4 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Gabriele

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THE LETTERS OF BERLICCHE AND THE EULOGY OF MADNESS ABOUT EUTHANASIA, CATHOLICITY AND "LAY BELIEVERS"

An atheist can also feel right and right euthanasia and express the reasons at any location. I do not dispute the freedom of thought and expression, both sacrosanct and guaranteed for all. But how well these ideas can be considered firmly grounded in Christian roots and in the Enlightenment or in modernity?

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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Michel pacher [1435-1498]. Munich, Old Pinakothek, from the monastery of Novacella: «Agostino, the Devil and the Book of Vices " (1480)

in this period of uncertainty and social confusion due to the covid19 pandemic, it seems strange and out of place to propose a referendum on euthanasia, almost as if it were a topic to be resolved quickly, like the pandemic.

I don't want to go into it in long legal discussions, of which I am not an expert, I just want to become a careful observer of the surrounding reality. I don't even like to end up in controversy, as already explained in the past in our book dedicated to super saucepans of cybernetic theologians, however, I feel I have to say something about the effects that the collection of signatures for the referendum is having on the Catholic faithful. Especially after having endured the antics of a priest who "as a priest" said "yes to Euthanasia" and to whom Father Ivano Liguori dedicated precise and severe words.

We are obviously talking - again on the subject of supercazzole of supercazzolari - of the team of adult Catholics that, based on acute and in-depth research on Wikipedia which confirm their outlandish theories, they agree to sign easily for the referendum. Then, if anything, they head to Mass without batting an eye, to receive communion, convinced that they have done their utmost; convinced that religion is one thing and politics one thing (!?).

Leafing through days ago The Corriere della Sera, among the letters sent to Aldo Grasso I came across the undefined category of the "lay believer", in fact, he called himself a reader. I won't go into judging the person who wrote the letter, of which I have no knowledge and desire to express my judgments. I repeat: I do not know him, apart from the name that I will gladly omit, and I don't even know his education level. Actually though, from the content of the topics offered, I seem to notice that between the lines there is an evident confusion in the contents: confusion maybe a little’ sought and a little’ spontaneous.

In this text it seems to re-read an argument that recalls the interlocutory writing of the character Berlicche, in the best known Letters of Berlicche of C. S. Lewis. In this book the little devil Berlicche, while retiring, teaches the youngest Malacoda, which will replace it, to insinuate non-existent but apparently well-founded doubts and thus lead man to sin. The argumentative mode seems very similar to me. The author of that letter is not comparable to the devil, but his writing and arguing recall the idea as described by Lewis.

The central reason I would like to focus on lies in the fact that it appears to contain a small summary of what the mainstream cultural holds as sacred truths regarding euthanasia. Above all it is a summary of what the mainstream he believes he is unquestionably aware of the relationship between Catholic morality and euthanasia. Writes the Author: «[…] as a lay believer I ask the uncompromising believers ". The letter begins with the words "lay believer", which does not clarify anything of the writer's knowledge of faith and morals. Even assuming that by layman we mean Greek laos (people), one perceives immediately and intuitively that the writer has not been ordained bosomes, nor is he the son of some religious institute and subsequently ordained a priest. Therefore, logically, it is evident that the Author is not a presbyter. Baptized or not, the writer therefore presents himself as a non-priest who says he believes in something. Subsequently it seems to read one of his contrasting with the so-called "uncompromising believers". Therefore, if there is a conflict, it means that the Author believes he is more understanding, reasonable and open compared to "closed-minded" hardliners. What kind of believers will they be, if he defines himself as a lay believer and by contrast, uncompromising? From here it does not seem to be able to give a certain answer, although at the moment we have not had any clarifications about the content of the author's beliefs. Continuing the reading, however, we have some clarification: «[…] it is permissible for man to extend life for months / years by delegating all vital functions to a machine?».

The first question shows a picture of ideas that the Author offers with a series of suggestive questions. Here the rhetorical question technique is used: that is, within questions that are asked as conscientious and scrupulous questions, suggests answers that seem self-evident and that can be deduced from the same questions. So, admitted and not granted that they are, the Author begins with a topic of a medical scientific nature (vital functions / machine). The argument expressed, however, seems a bit’ mistaken. Which means prolonging life and being attached to a car? We would have expected at least a series of explanations with concrete examples and scientific arguments with which it is shown that the existing therapies would have done nothing but delegate all the vital functions to a machine.. All this is instead absent.

It takes a little effort’ to understand, whereas there is indeed an objective condition in which a person can delegate all vital functions to a machine that, without any medical intervention, nurses and operators, can by itself take care of its vital functions completely. The indefinite machinery, it may perhaps completely replace the heartbeat, the pulmonary exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide and also the production of secretions of the internal organs? The person who needs this machine, more reasonably it will need an auxiliary technology but never a completely replacement one. In fact, as is known from the concept of the machine itself, it can never and in no way completely replace the integrity of a man's functions, it can only help him live a difficult but still satisfying life, until its natural fulfillment. This person, even if atheist, it can enhance moments of suffering, of pain and addiction as moments in which it expresses all its uniqueness and beauty, where auxiliary technology can make him discover hidden talents and resilience abilities that not even he knew he possessed.

There is to remain quite perplexed faced with the question posed, almost as if euthanasia were the only and authentic solution to a lifestyle in which the support of another person or technology is requested. But if so, also the person who lives with prosthetic legs or arms, he may feel he is living an unworthy life and ask to unplug the car and be killed. A quel point, any subjective interpretation of "life worth living" would have free rein and should be taken seriously without even discussing it, replacing the value of the person understood as a moral and legal subject.

So far I have not cited any text of the Catholic confessional tradition. Just think only of the Aristotelian ethics of virtues, whereby man experiences harmony in the right virtuous means that helps him to live the tragic moments of life without falling into despair; but also going to philosophers close to the Enlightenment, regarding the centrality of the person I think back to the Kantian lesson of the second categorical imperative, inserted inside the Foundation of the Metaphysics of Costumes:

«Act in a way that you treat humanity, both in your own person and in that of each other, always also as an end and never simply as a means. " (I. Side, Foundation of the metaphysics of morals, BA 67-68)

Therefore keep a person alive it means recognizing its centrality, uniqueness and purpose: each person is a propulsive center of ideas, values, creativity, actions that must be accompanied at any moment of one's life and not murdered by an arbitrary and ideological act.

Going further, the picture of the arguments becomes complicated:

“We should not consider creating an artificial life as a 'mortal sin', contrary to the will of God who had set the time for a natural death? Pulling the “plug” will not mean placing the destiny of one of his creatures back into the hands of God? The two thieves crucified on Golgotha had their legs broken to hasten their death, as the beginning of Passover is imminent. To the crucified Christ, as per prophecies, they were not broken because his Father gathered him to himself in spirit before this extreme torture. It would have been euthanasia "?

The Author of the letter immediately it moves from a more or less medical-scientific analysis to a more or less theological one, dwelling on the terms of sin, vita, will of God, predestination. E, in two lines, it claims to propose its own schematic synthesis of the Christological mystery of the Cross and of the Redemption. Needless to say: the two floors, the medical scientific and the theological one, they are assimilated and placed in a rather confusing way. I suspect that the anonymous writer has no notion of the biblical terms and of the Trinitarian mission. He is in fact convinced that he has invincible arguments to support his thesis, that, If I'm not mistaken, it seems to me now that I can say euthanasia in nature. That said, it is clear that the answer is no to all the questions asked. But to answer, we “uncompromising believers” - that we are so insane as to believe in Tradition, to Scripture and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church - we must draw precisely on the content of the deposit of faith that constitutes us precisely as "uncompromising believers", according to the Author's meaning. So the answer is no, because giving health to a person who is suffering is not creating artificial life. The man, indeed, it cannot create anything, but only build, manipulate, reworking an existing subject. In Genesis and the second Book of Maccabees [cf.. 2 Mac 7, 28] all this is clear, even to a simple textual analysis: God creates from nothing (in Hebrew only), man builds, produce. Furthermore, God does not first predict what will happen next, that is, definitively the precise date on which a man will die. God indeed, according to Catholic theology, it lives in a state of simultaneous eternal present. He lives in a timeless state in which there is neither before nor after. Therefore he cannot prefix something before or after Him.

Unplugging is the act of killing a person wrongfully in need of support and therapy; I don't understand how this can be called a typical act of God's plan. In the logic of the anonymous Author, Jesus, to stay in God's plan he would have to kill the paralytic whom the four friends lowered from the roof onto his little bed [cf.. MC 2, 1-12], the blind people of Jericho who asked him to listen to him [cf.. Mt 20, 29-34], or even murder the centurion's servant, suffering and paralyzed on the bed. Maybe, perhaps the Evangelists did not really understand what Jesus meant. But our anonymous Author understood it better, about two thousand years later, donating "pearls of faith" not uncompromising on the de readers page The Corriere della Sera.

I think it is clear that unplug is to disobey God's creative plan, which gives man life and freedom. Only He can call these gifts to himself, because he is its original Giver. It is up to us men only to guard these gifts of God. It should also be noted that the two thieves are broken their legs and Jesus Christ is not, because according to the interpretation of our Author he should have been spared the torture of the cross. To the crucified Christ, as per prophecies, they were not broken because his Father gathered him to himself in spirit before this extreme torture. And this would have been euthanasia?

I had a hard time not smiling in the face of this evident fallacy of a theological nature: in fact the Father sends his Son precisely to give his life on the Cross. This is the ultimate goal of the Trinitarian mission of the Incarnation. The Son is sent to generate an effect of grace and redemption in all humanity, through the torture and death of the cross. May the Roman soldiers not break his legs, it is absolutely accidental compared to the terrible sufferings already received and to the death of Jesus which was in fact imminent. The Father does not protect the Son from any pain, indeed Jesus himself is aware of this, of the arrival of his dramatic moment, when he decides to love to the end [cf.. GV, 13-1].

The argument does not even work from a logical point of view: if a person is on the cross and is called to himself in spirit, it means that he is already suffering and simply, as is normal, suddenly dies. In fact, the cross was a terrible punishment that was inflicted in ancient times precisely because it generated atrocious suffering and an identifying stigma on the condemned person.. Being crucified meant having previously suffered a large number of slaps, beatings, whipping, spitting and personal insults, after walking a long journey carrying a heavy wooden cross on his shoulders over a body already heavily wounded by a thousand pains. Then ended the journey to the point of raising the cross, the condemned man was nailed hands and feet with long spikes beaten with large hammers directly into the flesh. Eventually hoisted high, exposed to bad weather and atmospheric agents, till death, that given the set of violence suffered was imminent.

In the logic of the anonymous Author all this would not be thought of as a torture, I believe and hypothesize, but as a kind of cruise on a luxurious Costa ship, with lots of cocktail e happy hour. It is evident that speaking of taking away the torture of Christ suffering in the Passion exclusively because the Father does not allow the soldiers to break his legs, it shows that the story is unknown, nor the sanctioning institutions of Roman law of the time and least of all the basic notions of faith and Catholic theology. Why then do we launch ourselves into such a curious and imaginative analysis of the Passion of Christ? To the dear reader "lay believer", perhaps it will annoy him to hear that he is wrong about his Christological convictions, based on arguments of the Catholic faith? It would therefore not have been more prudent for him not to express himself on topics that he does not know in depth?

Perhaps the most comical part of this exchange correspondence to the reserve itself answer by Aldo Grasso, that by replying to the writer, he testifies that Umberto Veronesi himself - a well-known supporter of euthanasia - had had multiple testimonies from the sick, none of which «in the many years spent at the bedside of terminally ill patients, he explained, no one had ever asked him to die. Everyone had always asked him to heal; even against all evidence, even when it was clearly no longer possible ". What to say: honor the principle of non-contradiction!

All this long discussion of a public letter, readable by all and analyzed in a national newspaper, it is therefore destined to show the incredible mentality that underlies the culture of death, so defined by the Holy Pontiff John Paul II. A mentality that has its own dogmas and beliefs, ready to invent and modify ex new also concepts, objective ideas and notions in the biblical context, theological, doctor, juridical, ethical, moral in order to be considered absolutely unassailable.

Mind you: an atheist can also feel right and right euthanasia and express the reasons at any location. I do not dispute the freedom of thought and expression, both sacrosanct and guaranteed for all. But how well these ideas can be considered firmly grounded in Christian roots and in the Enlightenment or in modernity? These bizarre arguments are instead only the result of a total ideological reinterpretation that undermines the very freedom of thought and expression on which it presumes to be based. Indeed, a euthanasic mentality will tend to inculcate his ideas in an ideological and propagandistic way, proposing those that contradict it as “bigoted, uncompromising, medieval, confessional "without leaving the freedom to build a critical space in the conscience of man. Which is an intangible shrine and the original source of any freedom.

I conclude by greeting the unknown Author with affection clarifying that I am not angry with him, but publicly admitting that certain topics made me smile, right where there would be tears of blood to cry.

Rome, 20 September 2021

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"Repetita iuvant" - Because the Virgin Mary did not ask for the euthanasia of Jesus Christ on the cross?

19 September 2021/9 Comments/in Actuality/by father ariel

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The famous Latin motto needing help it means: repeated things help. For this reason we propose again after two years an article published by Father Ariel il 26 September 2019. Article in front of which no one denies that the Author knows how to be very hard and severe, combining harshness with sarcasm and irony to accentuate certain very delicate themes or, as in this case, dramatic. His references, in this article from two years ago, they are aimed at a government that no longer exists and at figures who have now resigned from their office, starting with the President of the Council of Ministers Giuseppe Conte. The substance however remains the same e, perhaps, today we understand when Father Ariel's harshness was anything but exaggerated or unjustified, always the proof of facts not subject to easy refutation …

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«REPEATED HELP"- WHY THE VIRGIN MARY DID NOT ASK FOR THE EUTHANASIA OF JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS, AS IT WILL ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT OF GIUSEPPE CONTE, CHILD PRODIGY OF VILLA NAZARETH? BUT FOR THE VATICAN SECRETARIAT OF STATE AND THE ITALIAN BISHOPS, THE REAL PROBLEM WAS THE POPULIST MATTEO SALVINI SHOWING THE ROSARY IN THE PIAZZA

While in Italy he won the satanic culture of death, seguitino also ran after the Supreme modern dogma of the migrant, Cardinals Pietro Parolin and Gualtiero Bassetti, now flirting with the world, Now with the prodigy children of Villa Nazareth head-modernist late Cardinal Achille Silvestrini. But we are there, kneeling in the best place, under the cross of Christ, from which it does not drip death, but the blood that has redeemed us. And all these people, Red political color or red cardinal, We do not really scared, the shadow of the cross of Christ God.

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The Supreme Pontiff and the Head of the Italian Giuseppe Conte Government, private meeting after the funeral of Cardinal Achille Silvestrini

Today the Constitutional Court He said the article illegitimate 580 of the Criminal Code [cf. WHO] who punishes the instigation or assisted suicide, and for which they provided penalties between 5 e i 12 years in prison. The Supreme Court was asked to rule on the issue by the Assize Court of Milan as part of the process in which the defendant a famous Trojan Horse: the leader of the Radical Party, Marco Cappato, involved in assisted suicide Fabiano Antoniani, known to the public as Dj Fabo [cf. WHO]. In this way the Supreme Court has opened a door to the possibility of helping a person to die, declaring lawful the entrance of the Trojan Horse, and decreeing that a rule that punishes assisted suicide but that does not take into account the situation of those suffering from unsustainably, is to be considered unconstitutional. So, starting today, the Supreme Court ruled in its judgment the "right to die" by stating at the same time:

"Whoever facilitates the execution of the intention to commit suicide is not punishable, independently and freely formed of a patient kept alive by life-sustaining treatments and suffering from a fatal disease, source of physical and psychological suffering that he considers intolerable, but fully able to make free and informed decisions ".

At this point the legislature will have to intervene with a special law, namely that very government headed by Professor Giuseppe Conte as supported by the Holy See and the Italian Episcopal Conference. In this, as in other cases, he put his mind at rest good Catholics faithful, because both from the Holy See and from the Italian Episcopal Conference you will not hear the dignified and humble lament: "Pardon, we were wrong". Because the logic of the worst pride, which it is the clerical arrogance, work on the basis of this principle that in itself obviously has the blasphemy: the Divine Father and the Divine Son, they can also make mistakes in advancing the Divine Holy Spirit, but the Holy See and the Episcopal Conference Italian no, They can not go wrong assessment and judgment, May!

While a Government also formed by members of the most furious radical left It is preparing to toast the passing of the law on euthanasia masked by "extreme case", The Supreme Constitutional Court has opened all the tracks by subjecting the non-punishment:

«[…] to compliance with the procedures prescribed by law on informed consent, on palliative care and continuous deep sedation (articles 1 e 2 of the law 219/2017) and to verify whether the required conditions of the Implementing Rules by a public structure of the National Health Service, After consulting the competent local ethics committee […] the identification of these specific conditions and procedural arrangements, taken from existing standards law, It was necessary to prevent risk of abuse against people especially vulnerable, as he had already pointed out in its previous order 207 the 2018. Compared to pipelines already realized, the judge will evaluate the existence of conditions substantially equivalent to those indicated ».

At the hearing It was attended by Marco Cappato and Dj Fabo companion, with them even Mina, the widow of Piergiorgio Welby, d. 2006 after his request had been disconnected the respirator that kept him alive. All have publicly exulted, as if death were a victory. From your hand Marco Cappato reiterated by appealing to nothing less than a moral duty: "I helped Fabiano because I considered it my moral duty" [cf. WHO]. To follow to rejoice with Twitter: "Victory of civil disobedience; now all more free, even those who disagreed '.

These words sound like blasphemies the ears of any Christian spirit during the Easter memory relives the mystery of Christ, who conquered death by his resurrection, to which we are made partakers. Today instead, from a worthy product of that Mephistophelian party known as the Radical Party, we have to hear that the achievement is rather death, with a lot of reference to "moral duties". These comments of jubilation were followed by those of the Senator of the Democratic Party Monica Cirinnà, on which we fly over, because in the words of Marco Cappato we said just about everything. Only one thing we can add: before our eyes apathetic and powerless Catholic citizens, all of them equipped with ballot, but most of all beneficiaries of the constitutional rights of freedom of thought, speech and expression, that no one can certainly revocarci as Catholics, we witnessed the painful rendition of an Italian Church now fossilized in sclerotic obsessively only on migrants, while in our country we have now entered the Trojan Horse of the culture of death: assisted suicide.

Equally important would be the perfect note repetition what has already occurred at the time in 1978 the referendum on the legalization of abortion: the supporters of certain laws, aiming variously to touch the life of the heart - as if it were a disposable good in the hands of voters, Lawmakers and doctors - their struggles unleashed the increasingly relying on borderline cases, indeed on very rare occasions. Playing on them before they go to hit the collective emotion, then perform a subversion of the fundamental laws by reversing the same legal logic: transform the exception - often rare but extremely rare - as a general rule. Let me be clear: The law takes into account always the existence and possible rare exception livelihood, but at the moment in which it, subject to manipulation, It ends up transformed into a general rule, at that point we are before the actual legal and legislative aberration.

If anything, many do not realized it, it should be clear that we are only at the beginning of the process of radical evil and dehumanizing. The Trojan Horse was in fact just introduced, soldiers still have not come from her womb, but soon they will manifest out. Then, in a future far at all, thanks to the exponents of those present parties shouting at each trifle the fascist e to the Nazi, we will find ourselves in a society in this free and democratic point to embarrass the Third Reich Nazi, but especially Dr. Josef Mengele. And tomorrow, the most exquisite accordance with the law and without any consent from interested parties or their family members, perhaps seriously ill people will be killed if they remain alive without any possibility of cure and healing, young or old alike, will not burden the state budget and the National Health Service. Also because our population, growing old and birth rates to below zero for four decades, will soon find out that the much-welcomed and unwanted migrants, They will not be at all in our country for us to change diapers, nor bid us emptying bedpans and parrots, nor to hold and pay with their work, with their taxes and their contributions to our pension system for the future collapse together with the National Health Service.

If we did not live obsessed by political correctness, we should know that the majority of young Africans who emigrate to our country, mostly come from countries where the males have never shined neither desire nor ability to work. This for a purely anthropological and cultural discourse: in the company of some African countries to work are women, not men. For their part, our law enforcement agencies and the judicial files that overflow for certain specific crimes in our courts, show that when these anthropologically and culturally idle males are put to work, often they create companies of this kind: take wives and daughters and bring them into prostitution in our streets. How many, but above all how numerous are the husbands and fathers originally from Nigeria who have been repeatedly arrested for exploitation of prostitution, in particular of that child? Yet in his time, that "great scientist" Senator Laura Boldrini, had the audacity to say that if we had not welcomed migrants, tomorrow we would not have had anyone from old diapers he changed us (!?). Soon said: or this senator has traded young Nigerian Muslim-nothing, with a proven propensity for violence and crime, for the hardworking Filipino Catholics, notoriously hard-working and very respectful to the elderly and sick, or was he acting on their own set of a science fiction movie, as for years they tend to make the leaders of the Democratic Party. But there is also a third possibility: perhaps the Senator does not know its uses, customs and habits of some populations of the African continent, however, those that produce the highest migration flows and at the same time the highest number of crimes committed, once you arrive in Europe. That said it noted: to say such things, I'm not after having played the role of so-called racist, Fascist and Nazi, but they are the facts and legal documents. It would be enough to tour in various European countries to find out instantly that even the diligent, disciplined and rigorous police of the Federal Republic of Germany, He manages to hold off certain gangs of violent criminals, mostly from Nigeria.

As we said poc'anzi it is no mystery that the current government was brazenly supported by the Holy See and the Italian Episcopal Conference which entered the electoral campaign for the European elections of the 26 May 2019. And this government is the Prime Minister Professor Giuseppe Conte, a child prodigy grew up at Villa Nazareth in Rome, among her skirts at all mourned Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, Modernist in the round and prominent member of the so-called cardinal Mafia St. Gallen. For ecclesial modesty and love of country many of us have chosen to be silent, but those who know certain characters and the way they act, It included instantly, in the days of the government crisis that began in mid-August, the famous speech aimed primarily to the attack Interior Minister, Senator Matteo Salvini, Professor Giuseppe Conte [cf. WHO], It was written mostly between the Secretariat of State and Villa Nazareth, located in Rome Via della Pineta Sacchetti, pleasant place where, however, it is much easier to meet and spend time conversing in a completely confidential to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness.

Great fear was shown for the populist Matteo Salvini, while the Catholic press "of" regime discoursed on inappropriate performance by the rosary and its references to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, almost as if they were authentic blasphemies. We are taking apart then on Tweet and inappropriate jokes in which he has experimented Father Antonio Spadaro, now that ranges between The master's voice e the voice of unconsciousness. Now, these same people, They will gather to collect the fruits they have sown and soon, their child prodigy of Villa Nazareth will have to open with his own hands the belly of the Trojan Horse introduced into our city. These are the facts and the results of a Holy See and an Italian Episcopal Conference that irritated by the rosary crowns and by the populist references to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, It started flirting with the fringes of the radical Left, of which we know always the various instances: l'euthanasia, the abolition of the objection of conscience for doctors who do not want to perform abortions, marriage between same-sex couples, being granted the adoption of children, lawfulness of the uterus for rent, the imposition of education gender in primary schools and so to follow ... But, we repeat again: the problem was the rosary crowns and the invocations addressed to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary by that populist Senator Matteo Salvini.

I fear however that, unfortunately, the big problem It consists of chameleons professionals as the current President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Gualtieri Bassetti, that some decades ago, Florentine priest who was, climbed the pulpit in pre-election periods and invited to vote for the Christian Democrats, would cost even hold their nose to smell the. Today, walking towards the eightieth, we see him reduced to smiling at a supporter of the culture of death like Senator Emma Bonino, already previously counted among the figures of the great Italian for the august mouth of the happily reigning Pope [cf. WHO, WHO]. What else to say: … Ah, when I would have preferred, instead of Gualtiero Bassetti, the salvation of my soul and Heaven, a cardinal conquered after missing for a lifetime from a cart to another!

I am aware that we priests and theologians not yet sold to the Prince of this world we turn to a secularized and de-Christianized world that no longer understands either our language or the sentiments and evangelical foundations that animate it. Add to this more and worse: we find ourselves even be ostracized and persecuted in the same church where today, including a shot of mercy and a collegial collegiality blow, we are now reduced - as I have often said - to the Cambodian regime of Pol Pot.

To understand the terrible mystery of death, of the disease, of physical decay, of pain and suffering, you must start from far away: the creation of the world and of man. The dead, indicated by many as "natural element" and "inevitable" cycle of life, in addition to being quite natural, It is actually about as unnatural to exist. God did not create mortal man, it created immortal. It gave, giver of perfect and eternal life, the mystery of creation has not conceived neither pain nor suffering, or physical decay or disease. The dead, with all its consequences, enters the world stage when the man, benefiting from the freedom and the free will given to him by God, He decides to rebel against his Creator. It is then that that element enters the world scene completely unnatural that is death, Consequently a sin which has altered the creation itself. This is referred to as Original Sin; a pity that none of us has committed, but that all together we inherited a corrupt nature originally from this same sin.

This is our faith, which starts from the mystery of creation. A faith that gives us believers a completely different perception of death and pain, an element sometimes more unwelcome, and a source of even greater suffering, when it afflicts us, but it strikes through illness of our loved ones and beloved.

In a society that together with Christian principles refuses physical decay, illness and death itself, more than difficult it can sometimes be almost impossible to talk to the men of this world of that great element is education that is saving you the pain. Topic treated by the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II in his memorable Apostolic Letter dedicated to the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering [CF. Saving pain, full text, WHO].

In a society that together with Christian principles refuses physical decay, illness and death itself, more than difficult it can sometimes be almost impossible to talk to the people of this world the mystery of the Cross, which it is primarily unspeakable suffering. Indeed, If a specialist in forensic medicine and a specialist in anatomical pathology is mettessero to explain to the general public who are both pain, both the physical consequences for a death caused by torture of crucifixion - not surprisingly called the Roman Criminal Law An extraordinary penalty, namely the the greatest punishment ―, perhaps many would not stand up to detailed descriptions.

but yet, under the cross ... Mother stood beside the cross weeping, While her Son [was the grieving mother in tears, under the cross, on which hung his Son]. And the Mother of Sorrows, before the suffering child dying, He not pleaded any centurion to end the torment with a "merciful" spear. Because the Blessed Virgin Mary, as stated in the prayer of St Bernard to the Virgin reported by Dante in Canto XXXIII of Paradise, He was "Daughter of your Son, humble and high beyond, Fixed term of the eternal counsel '. Just so: Daughter was the Son of God, she was not a daughter of Satan like that soul of poor Marco Cappato - except for his sincere and profound repentance -, worthy son of politician Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino, the great Italian, which today celebrates the conquest of death, introduced to the world by the Devil, certainly not from God.

While in Italy the satanic culture of death risks overcoming, continue to run after the supreme modern dogma of migrant, some of our High Prelates, now flirting with the world, now with certain child prodigies of the late Cardinal Achille Silvestrini from Villa Nazareth. But we are there, kneeling in the best place, under the cross of Christ, from which it does not drip death, but the blood that has redeemed us. And all these people, Red political color or red cardinal, We do not really scared, the shadow of the cross of Christ God, it is they who must fear, even more than tomorrow, the eternal that awaits them.

the Island of Patmos, 26 September 2019

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"If this is a priest". The bizarre and embarrassing case of Don Ettore Cannavera and his a-catholic and a-theological belief

10 September 2021/10 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

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"IF THIS IS A PRIEST". The bizarre and embarrassing case of Don Ettore Cannavera and his a-catholic and a-theological belief

"There is no contrast between being a priest and the sweet death». Unfortunately we can already predict that no one will take adequate measures against this unmanageable priest. Nor his bishop, nor the Congregation for the Clergy, nor will the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith move a muscle. And that's because, priests like him, sometimes a corrupt and consequently corrupting system is very useful. Or as San Bonaventura da Bagnoregio said: "Rome corrupts the cardinals who corrupt the bishops who corrupt the priests who corrupt the people".

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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The confreres of the presbytery of Cagliari they know very well who we are talking about, indeed, perhaps some of them would prefer to forget even the name of the brave Don Ettore Cannavera who is certainly not comparable to the homonymous pious and virtuous Homeric hero of the Iliad. Outside the Cagliari district, the character in question is not known, but in recent days he has had attention and space in the newspapers of the radical left and the left radical chic, it gives The Manifesto a The Republic.

Lately he has been getting noticed for having affixed - as well as the mayor Giorgio Gori in Bergamo [you see WHO] - his prestigious signature in favor of the abrogative referendum on legal euthanasia [you see QUI], arguing that there is no contrast between being a priest and being in favor of sweet death (sic!). The newspaper where the interview signed by Patrizio Gonnella is reported is the poster and the body of the article is quite interesting for understanding personality, the mentality and the "theology" of this presbyter.

Maybe for someone Don Ettore Cannavera he could also appear as a present-day Sardinian Don Andrea Gallo, perhaps to be honest he is only the product of that vulgar and unhealthy social 1968 that has brought nothing good in the world, for Italy and much less within the Catholic Church which now pays the price for those clerics who at the time confused the Good Shepherd with Fidel Castro and the singing of’Rejoice with Bella Ciao. And if for Don Andrea Gallo we could at least hope for the good influence and pastoral example of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri - who could be accused of everything except for not having loved Christ, the church, the people of God and the Magisterium - for Don Ettore Cannavera we know of what influence he is a disciple, just listen to his proud opening at the 41st Congress of the Italian Radical Party [you see WHO]. Of these ideas, Don Ettore Cannavera has been an advocate and interpreter since his youth, which made him support the divorce law as a new priest and then share abortion as well, euthanasia and free drugs [you see WHO; WHO; WHO], all the workhorses that we recognize are present in the historical secular preaching of the two Italian pride Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino.

Empirical evidence shows, this would be enough to be able to raise well-founded doubts on his vocational choice and on the reasons relating to presbyteral consecration which is certainly not aimed at this type of social battles, which, moreover, a priest should refrain from doing in these terms. Unless you think that San Giuseppe Cafasso, San Leonardo Murialdo, St. John Bosco and St. John the Baptist Piamarta were less social priests and less attentive than he to poverty and hospitality, while at the same time remaining profoundly priests, faithful and obedient to the Church and bulwarks of integrity to the Magisterium.

It is clear that anthropology that guides the mind and action of Don Ettore Cannavera is certainly not the theological one linked to the idea of man who has his authoritative model in Christ [See. GV 19,5]. There is no Catholic feeling in this Modus Operandi completely devoid of that idea of a new man [See. Ef 4] who becomes son in the Son and brother of Jesus Christ [Cfr Rm 8,15.23; 9,4; Gal 4,5]. The idea of a man who conceives himself as an obedient son of the Church because he is generated as such by the blood of Christ on the cross is totally missing. In short, in all this cultural anthropological model there is nothing that refers to even a minimal revealed truth that makes it possible for man to be immersed in that grace of Christ which represents the only evangelical-moral imperative within which it is possible to find peace for the whole. of man. And they will certainly not be the artificial paradises anti-human rights to represent an anesthetizing joint to make the fatigue of living more bearable.

For Don Ettore Cannavera, it's obvious, humanism is that of the Enlightenment, man is the demiurge of reason alone who creates happiness and success by himself, regardless of God at the beginning of life, as well as in its natural course, until the moment of death, in a very personal and highly questionable biblical vision that does not skimp on Roussian selfishness and egocentrism.

That's why it makes sense to say that it could be done unless a bishop pronounced the consecratory formula on him and anointed him with sacred chrism, to do these things it is enough to be a politician not too superfine. But, what do you want, a political priest keeps his own sex appeal indispensable that cannot escape the newspapers and cameras, something that nourishes the pathogenic narcissism of these subjects more genuflected to parties than to tabernacles with sweet ambrosia.

And of course we have armies of adult Catholics who praise these priestly subjects as the vanguard of the purest Church, humiliating and denigrating the few who still remained priests for the sanctification of the people entrusted to them, through prayer, the sacraments and charity in truth [See. Roman Ritual of Priestly Ordination].

If this were not already enough matter I would add that perhaps the validity of Don Ettore Cannavera's priestly ordination should be reviewed, if he had really come to the priesthood moved by certain convictions that constitute decisive contempt for the pillars of faith and its dogmatic system. Indeed, our brave, there is no problem in affirming perniciously grave errors for a presbyter: "There is no hell. Giovanni Papini already said this in the 1950s. I don't believe in hell " [you see WHO]. He quotes Papini, with the substantial difference that we know of an authentic conversion of Papini, No word has yet reached Don Ettore, but surely when this happens you can read it on The Manifesto, his The Republic or knows, maybe to the next meeting of the Italian Radicals.

Very delicate theme that of the validity of sacred priestly ordinations, on which they debated in 2016, at the sacramental level, the theological and juridical the two founding fathers de The Island of Patmos, the pontifical academician Giovanni Cavalcoli and the dogmatic and historical theologian of dogma Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo. We refer to their scientific articles, but readable and understandable by anyone who wants to deepen the topic [See. G. Horses WHO, A.S. Levi di Gualdo, WHO, WHO].

It would be enough to use a minimum sense of reality to see that here unfortunately we are not faced with the case of a sinful priest who has lost his way, something that can happen to all of us because we are not immune from error and sin, but it is a priest who has fallen into the Luciferian blindness that leads to exchanging evil for good and then defending it proudly enough to normalize it in the exercise of sin.

But all this today seems to matter nothing, because it is enough to operate a generic philanthropic good to be in good conscience before the world without the slightest need for any conversion (as it was in the case of Gino Strada you see WHO, WHO) and let oneself be elevated and sanctified, not by the Holy Spirit, but from the secular spirit that springs from the hyperuranium of untouchable civil rights in which public recognition as commander of merit of the Italian Republic for acts of heroism flows with abundance, for the commitment to solidarity, in the rescue, for activities in favor of social inclusion, in the promotion of culture, of legality and for the fight against violence [you see WHO].

But let's be serious? What heroism is there in defending and justifying the attempt on nascent life, what heroism in the throwaway culture, what heroism in making himself the arbiter of another man's life and dignity, what heroism in allowing divorce and the nullification of the natural family? No One, no heroism, only cowardice and timidity, only the mark of the monkey of God who promises man divine equality in the sign of disobedience [See. GN 3,5].

It would be wise to use the method of the Belgian Cardinal Joseph-Léon Cardijn in these cases and of the Croatian father Tomislav Kolakovic, that method that allows us to see, judge and act in an evangelical way in the face of moderate totalitarianisms disguised as the Gospel of the poor in an attempt to formally correct the error and subsequently to recover the offender (even if he is a priest) fallen from grace because of the apology for a sin and a crime.

Unfortunately, we can already predict, without particular qualities of clairvoyance, that no one will take adequate measures against this unmanageable priest who in the past also taught in the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sardinia. Nor his bishop, nor the Congregation for the Clergy, nor will the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith move a muscle. And that's because, priests like him, totally ingestible, sometimes a corrupt and consequently corrupting system is very useful. Or as San Bonaventura da Bagnoregio said: "Rome corrupts the cardinals who corrupt the bishops who corrupt the priests who corrupt the people".

Allow me a cinematic digression taking Jack Nicholson as an example in the movie 1992 Honor code. Nicholson plays the role of a cynical Colonel who does not care about the truth and who does not hesitate to sacrifice the life of one of his soldiers under the illusion of respecting honor in this way, the austerity of military life and the country’s national security.

Don Ettore Cannavera is like that, reminds me of Jack Nicholson's Colonel Jessep. It is placed there but not for the truth of the Gospel but to carry forward the demands of a secular world that deludes itself to protect man with essential civil rights but that for good reason does not blink at the procured death of a fetus in the womb. maternal, to the procured death of a terminally ill patient, to the dissolution of human dignity that is cloaked in a warm and soft blanket of empathy in a world without Christ or Church anymore.

Perhaps at the end of his life, Don Ettore Cannavera, he will write his own memoirs which will be the training manual for the priests of the future. Maybe at his funeral, as it happened for Don Andrea Gallo, the cardinal on duty will be there to pay him homage and the support of the Church for his work, that although uncomfortable and heterodox, in fact it was allowed by a corrupt and corrupting system that corrupts the cardinals who corrupt the bishops who corrupt the priests who corrupt the people.

Laconi, 10 September 2021

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One “vaccine” of trust and hope to the school in the presence for a renewed experience of normality

6 September 2021/in Actuality/by Straight Anna Monia

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A "VACCINE" OF TRUST AND HOPE AT THE SCHOOL IN PRESENCE FOR A RENEWED EXPERIENCE OF NORMALITY

In these times of restart, That passage from the Gospel in which Jesus invites the weary disciples often comes to mind, after the troubles of an unsuccessful fishing, to cast the nets again.

Anna Monia Alfieri, I.M.

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“We struggled all night and didn't catch anything; but at your word I will cast the nets " [LC 5,5]

The school restarts. It's a fact. No more nostalgia for the holidays: it's time to leave and commit. And great! In the lasts 19 months of lockdown many took to the field for our young people. In the last months, even more briskly, we all worked, why the slogan school in attendance not only remain such but become a reality.

We adults we have renewed the awareness that school is the place of knowledge, the place where students develop the ability to reflect. Notions are learned at school, but we learn to argue, to live in a necessary relational dimension.

Here then we go back to pointing the alarm clock, to prepare the backpack, books, to check the subjects of the day, the emotion of an interrogation returns, a demanding verification. It returns to normal.

I think of our dear young people and I would like them to experience the excitement of the beginning of a new school year, with all the expectations that each of us carries in our hearts. To each and every one: have a good year, in the joy of learning firm contents, in the desire to weave healthy relationships. This is the heart of education ... In a good public school, state or equal.

A wish extended to all teachers who are struggling with meetings, the colleges, the departments: not sterile bureaucracy, but you meet people united by the desire to think, to design, to devise learning paths for young people who will be entrusted to them in the classes, in an inter-generational exchange of culture and values.

A thought goes to the parents, in the awareness that educational responsibility, to be exercised, it needs freedom. But it is always responsibility: therefore an adult question with a formed and solid will.

How much do we need of truly adults! I hope that the restart of the school will be an appeal for everyone for a fairer and more equitable school: this will depend on our ability to ask for the completion of the “autonomy, equality and freedom of educational choice ". Citizens are thus rediscovered freer, because a value is rediscovered: the civic sense, at the service of the good of all. A value, that of civic sense, that only face-to-face school can help make it a reality every day.

In these times of restart, That passage from the Gospel often comes to mind [cf.. LC. 5, 5] in which Jesus invites the weary disciples, after the troubles of an unsuccessful fishing, to cast the nets again. Pietro, in whose humanity each of us can reflect, although he too is at the end of his strength, he replies to the Master: «[…] We worked hard all night and took nothing; But at your word I will let down the nets» [“We struggled all night and didn't catch anything; but at your word I will cast the nets "].

there, we all struggled for a long time: now is the time to cast the nets into the sea and collect abundant fishing made of culture, commitment, good will, desire to be useful to society. Best wishes, so, of happy school year!

Milan, 6 September 2021

One “vaccine” of trust and hope to the school in the presence for a renewed experience of normality

6 September 2021/in Actuality/by Straight Anna Monia

- School and society -

A "VACCINE" OF TRUST AND HOPE AT THE SCHOOL IN PRESENCE FOR A RENEWED EXPERIENCE OF NORMALITY

In these times of restart, That passage from the Gospel in which Jesus invites the weary disciples often comes to mind, after the troubles of an unsuccessful fishing, to cast the nets again.

Anna Monia Alfieri, I.M.

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“We struggled all night and didn't catch anything; but at your word I will cast the nets " [LC 5,5]

Milan, 6 September 2021

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