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

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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

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«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".

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Andrea Turazzi
Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro

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Heart to Heart talks (the heart speaks to the heart), phrase taken from the letters of Saint Francis de Sales, Episcopal coat of arms of H.E. Mons. Andrea Turazzi, Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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Pennabilli, 23 September 2021

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edition of 23 September 2021

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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 (!?).

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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.

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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.

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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?».

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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«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)

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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.

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Going further, the picture of the arguments becomes complicated:

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“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 "?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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].

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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.

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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?

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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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:

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"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 ".

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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!

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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:

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«[…] 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 ».

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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 '.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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].

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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.

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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].

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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.

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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].

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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].

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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.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 "].

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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!

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Milan, 6 September 2021

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 "].

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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!

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Milan, 6 September 2021

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The Bishop has the moral obligation to respond to the unfortunate position of the Mayor of Bergamo to sign in favor of the abrogative referendum on legal euthanasia

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THE BISHOP HAS THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO RESPOND TO THE WASTE POSITION OF THE MAYOR OF BERGAMO TO SIGN IN FAVOR OF THE ABROGATIVE REFERENDUM ON LEGAL EUTHANASIA

The Mayor of Bergamo on euthanasia: “Over the last few weeks, I have reflected for a long time on this signature which I have affixed with conviction and as a believer. I don't think that the signature and the religious belief are in contradiction "

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Marco Cappato (of the Luca Coscioni Association) with the Mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori at the signing banquet for the referendum on euthanasia [picture from The Corriere di Bergamo, edition of 2 September 2021]

When a politician he professes himself a believer and proudly defends the manifestation of sin in all its forms, not only can he not consider himself a believer, but not even maintaining within that Catholic ecclesial communion so often boasted in newspapers and television to impress unwary Christian voters.

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The recent story of the Mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori appears sensational, not so much for its political position, very clear and evident to all, but for his alleged position as a believer, that cries out for vengeance in the sight of God and in Catholic common sense. The mayor told reporters with some pride and with clear words:

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“Over the last few weeks, I have reflected for a long time on this signature which I have affixed with conviction and as a believer. I don't think that the signature and the religious belief are in contradiction " [see: WHO, WHO].

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Some from the so-called silent ecclesiastical high spheres, because, as it seems, capable only of tearing up their clothes for the poor illegal immigrants who die in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea - for which we all regret with Christian pain -, should reply without further delay to this improvised "believer". Indeed, applying its own logic one could similarly affirm: as a believer I cannot prevent those with a different perception of life from having an abortion. I can't stop a woman from prostituting herself, nor to those who acquire its sexual services to favor prostitution in this way, including that of minors. And why stop taking drugs? As a believer, I am in favor of free drugs. Or is it not free, whoever, to take drugs as and when he wants? To these statements which are intended to be entirely logical, then the justifications follow. However, these are justifications that do not stand on a logical level, to be exact these: legalized abortion prevents clandestine abortion. Legalizing prostitution will take away the business of the underworld. Similarly, legalizing drugs, a large turnover of business will be taken away from the mafias. I find it really strange that no one has yet launched the workhorse: legalizing euthanasia will prevent the various Dj Fabo from having to go to a Swiss clinic and pay a large sum of money for their "end of life".

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But, if a quiet citizen who is in his cottage sleeping with his wife and children, finding himself in the middle of the night with thieves in the house and having a regular firearms license, he opens the fire and leaves one dead on the ground in the living room, in that case the voices are raised in unison of the politically correct which praises the "poor thief!». It does not matter, what could have happened to that father of a family and his children, he didn't have to just shoot, because you don't kill a thief inside the house, or better: only in certain ideological cases is life sacred, namely that of the thief, not, however, that of the aborted child. To a thief who committed crime in an incorrigible and dangerous way for the life and safety of others, one can only tell, with a smile, the phrase used in the Ash Wednesday liturgy: "Get converted and believe in the Gospel". But if he decides not to convert, without hesitation he will stun the father of the family and his son with beating, to then rape his wife with his other accomplices. Things that have happened several times and are narrated by the news and by judicial documents [see WHO]. These are cases before which the unanimous chorus "Do not kill" always rises, the same choir which, however, does not rise in front of the counseling centers where chain abortions are practiced.

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The Blindness of Modern Moderate Totalitarianism we can read in all its destructive wickedness in these words of the mayor of Bergamo who shows off a confused and unhealthy faith to endorse the abrogative referendum on legal euthanasia which is in contrast with both divine Revelation and the Magisterium of the Church. Blindness of a person who considers himself to be a "believer" but whose creed is certainly not that of the Lord of Life. Blindness of a "believer" whose faith more resembles Auguste Comte's liberalism with the abusive Enlightenment claim of giving man divine prerogatives, or of the socialism of Henri de Saint-Simon who sees in the positivist faith a secular salvation that has got rid of God.

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Because of this, we Fathers de The Island of Patmos, in our capacity as priests and theologians we ask H.E.. Rev. Monsignor Francesco Beschi: can a believer who does not listen to Sacred Scripture and the voice of the Magisterium [which is expressed in the Apostolic Letter Good Samaritan and in the Encyclical Gospel of Life] still be said to be such, so much so as to represent a scandal for the faith of many weak and confused Christian brothers? It's possible, in the face of so much proud and persistent manifestation of sin, do not intervene forcefully, perhaps even with a canonical disciplinary action that sees excommunication as the just medicinal penalty for the offender who favors and supports the killing of a human person, thus violating their dignity and respect due to the living God and Creator? [See. Catechism of the Catholic Church NN. 2276-2279].

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At this moment it would be right and right ask this public figure to account and reason for this, who impudently supports the culture of death and proclaims himself a believer. Just as it would be consoling to hear from the Pastor of the Church who is in Bergamo a word of strong condemnation and dissociation from the words of a faithful who, on the one hand it proclaims itself as such, on the other hand, it incurs the grave error and crime that exposes many to sin.

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Who knows how many Bergamo Catholics, because of these words spoken by their Mayor, "Believer" and "Catholic", they will be encouraged to sign in front of market stalls or in the offices of their respective municipalities by endorsing this law? Who knows how many, on this Sunday, they will come to make Holy Communion receiving that Christ who in the sick person forced to euthanasia will still stretch his arms on the cross and torn by man's sin will offer himself as a victim to the Father to save us from the satanic deception that wants to do without God? The first, among these sacrilegious communions, it could be that of the Mayor of Bergamo himself, "Believer" and "Catholic" in favor of euthanasia?

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The Bishop of Bergamo should think about it, especially considering that the Blessed martyr Saint Alexander, patron of his diocese, he did not remove the pains of witness in martyrdom for Christ. Therefore the Bishop does not withhold the pastor's testimony and save his Church from ravenous wolves, that it is not only the smugglers who transport illegal immigrants, several of which unfortunately destined to die in our waters. The ravenous wolves are also certain First Citizens who pride themselves on signing up for the culture of death and who after doing so proclaim themselves believers.. At least, the smugglers, they do not proclaim themselves believers and do not declare that their activity is not in contradiction with religious belief.

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«You want to leave too?». Between euthanasia and influencers, thoughts scattered around the charis, to the theology of poverty and to the obedience of the faith that builds the Church

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«YOU WANT TO GO TOO?». BETWEEN EUTHANASIA AND INFLUENCE, THOUGHTS SPREAD AROUND THE CHARIS, TO THE THEOLOGY OF POVERTY AND THE OBEDIENCE OF THE FAITH THAT BUILDS THE CHURCH

It is evident that if I distribute only earthly food, maybe I'll be able to fill the poor man's stomach, but I will leave his heart and soul empty. If I think only of the horizontal dimension neglecting the vertical one, risk of creating dangerous artificial havens that find in some social ideas - we think of citizenship income - the demagogic claim to solve all problems well and to please everyone.

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On the Sunday just passed I commented on a beautiful passage from the Holy Gospel in my homily [cf.. GV 6, 60-69]. As I normally do at every Sunday celebration, I frame the Gospel passage not only from an exegetical point of view but above all from an ecclesiological and pastoral point of view, letting the cursive reading of the Sunday Gospel speak to the faithful with the strength and incisiveness of the sword [See. EB 4, 12], at the same time avoiding an overly technical reading of the text that only a very few would be able to understand.

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The Gospel of John of the Sunday just passed appears as the conclusion of the long discourse on the Bread of Life in which Christ clearly and definitively shows the truth about himself. It is in fact a great one theophany in a Eucharistic key, in which, starting from the sign of the shared bread, Jesus presents himself as the true heavenly manna that is incarnated from heaven into human existence. He was born in Bethlehem, in that place which means House of Bread, it feeds mortal man in his search for God concealed, making himself bread.

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A revealing moment of Christ's identity, that, as I said, it is preceded by the necessary sign of multiplication (sharing) of loaves [See. GV 6, 1-15]. This sign is fundamental to understand that Jesus is really the true Lord who feeds his people on the earthly pilgrimage and not one of the many powerful on earth who seeks a personal gain of glory. [See. GV 6, 15]. He guides the new people of the Covenant no longer from Egypt to the Promised Land but from sin to the new covenant in his blood which is realized through the Easter events.

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This is why the Eucharistic sign of shared bread it becomes essential to understand divine pedagogy and the way in which God works salvation. Jesus, although he is the Lord and the Master [See. GV 13, 14], she never deprives herself of the collaboration of man by constantly questioning him within a salvific dialogue in which the creature offers to the Creator her own littleness fruit of her work so that this in God may multiply and become a paschal sign of salvation for other brothers within a logic of charitable service.

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Reason why the diaconate of the Charis in the Church it is mainly a Trinitarian mystery that allows us to contemplate the Lover, the one who is Beloved and Love to use the words of St.. Augustine refer to the mystery of God the Trinity. But at the same time it is a soteriological mystery, as the Charis it is the divine plan which took its form in Jesus Christ the Savior and which finds its genesis in the Trinity as an eternal story of love for man (See. M. Rinaldi, From the welfare state to the welfare society. Social theology and pastoral action of Italian Caritas, Effatà, 2006, p.70].

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From these necessary theological prerogatives, we understand how the exercise of Charis, it absolutely cannot be configured as a humanitarian service or sentimental philanthropism. Even when it is man who operates the Charis towards a similar one we can also see Amante's tripartite Augustinian relationship, Beloved and Love. The lover is the one who acts pushed by the Father towards the beloved in whom the Son identifies himself, within the loving dynamic of the Holy Spirit.

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The Charis Christian is necessary because it is there ratio with which from the man's body one reaches his soul so that soul and body together are saved in that harmonious anthropological unity that we see professed every Sunday in the Creed when we say: "I await the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come". That is, I await the resurrection of man in his totality, not just a part of him. What we already see realized in the Blessed Virgin Mary assumed into heaven in body and soul.

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For this reason, if it is true that the poor need to be fed on earth, such a requirement cannot make the believer fall into the pretext utopia that claims to defeat poverty once and for all; equalize the scandalous social disparities; eradicate the relentless diseases; pacify the peoples with an indiscriminate welcome; averting the ignorance of the little ones with partial truths. little ones with partial truths.

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Although today we are used to populist slogans such as "no one will be left behind" that we find abundantly on the lips of politicians as well as prelates. We must have the courage to affirm that all this is just a mirage of self-constructed salvation whose cultural and social consequences are well known and evident to all., especially in a period like the one we are going through burdened by the pandemic.

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About this it would be enough to recall the words of Jesus who admonishes us: «You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me " [Mt 26, 11] an expression that certainly points towards a preferential option for the poor but, much more, defines a very clear hierarchy of values ​​that leads us to understand that without him, true God and true man, we are too poor to help the poor and unable to offer definitive salvation. And this truth today appears rather annoying and poorly digested by the human narcissism that wants to operate without God, even when it claims to do good.

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This discourse allows us to formulate a correct theological approach to poverty which has nothing to do with the revolutionary pauperism so dear to a certain leftist thought or comparable to the popular social demands of the South American liberation regimes, nor to that pretext pauperism of which Judas Iscariot himself spoke, about which we refer to our video lesson: The gold of the Magi and the false love for the poor of Judas Iscariot.

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Much less can we approach it with blunders social the various influence who harangue the people of followers maintaining a standard of living that is light years away from evangelical sobriety and that does not come close to that dignified poverty of the average Italian worker or pensioner.

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If we want to be honest, this theological approach has nothing to do with the various models that impose themselves on public opinion and see, in the various saviors of the people, put well in the foreground by mainstream, the beginning of a new renaissance and secular humanism. Because it remains evident, in all this theological reasoning, the graft with the purest Christology in which the kenosis of the Word constitutes the visible and most eloquent self-denial through which we can find "that God who made himself poor for us, to enrich ourselves through his poverty " [See. 2Color 8, 9; Benedict XVI, Speech at the inaugural session of the 5th General Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Bishops, 13 May 2007, 3: AAS 99 (2007), 450]. If Christ strips himself of his equality with God to save me, to accept this salvation I can only do the same, just as Francis of Assisi did before the bishop [See. Franciscan Sources n ° 1043].

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To any poor person and in the face of any poverty, more than the food that perishes, food that does not perish but lasts for eternal life must be guaranteed [See. GV 6, 22-29]. This does not mean giving side to easy integralist proselytism, quite the opposite, it is a missionary proclamation of salvation that calls every man of good will to action, be it secular or consecrated, to announce all that Christ has told and commanded us [See. Mt 28, 20]. Preaching Christ is not a boast, not even a duty but an urgent necessity [See. 1Color 9, 16].

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It is evident that if I distribute only earthly food, maybe I'll be able to fill the poor man's stomach, but I will leave his heart and soul empty. If I think only of the horizontal dimension neglecting the vertical one, risk of creating dangerous artificial havens that find in some social ideas - we think of citizenship income - the demagogic claim to solve all problems well and to please everyone.

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"Get busy" [cf.. GV 6, 27] says Jesus, but to do so it is necessary to go out on a mission with his authority, following the example of those seventy-two disciples who, invested with all power, they returned home full of joy [cf.. LC 10, 17] having noted firsthand that when the revelation of Christ reaches the poorest and the least [cf.. LC 10, 21] the Kingdom of Heaven is established with power. «Get busy» Jesus says again, but only after having made a decisive and privileged choice that gives Christ the primacy over our life. Jesus is the breaking point between the truth of God and the illusion of the truth of the world and whoever does not know and recognize this truth is doomed to scandal, to confusion, to escape even within the communities of believers in which one can be alone and only following the demands that Christ dictates.

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This is why it appears urgent and necessary to reflect as a Church on that question that Christ poses to his disciples and to operate a serene discernment. «You want to leave too?» [See. GV 6, 67], question that sounds like a warning to the obedience of the faith that cannot find substitutes or surrogates in other people or ideals.

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How many baptized Christians today have the thought of Christ and the Church and profess filial obedience? Few, indeed very few. Syndicalist priests are in fashion, psychologists and social workers. I cardinals electricians and LGBT friendly, lay people intent on social claims, ecclesial groups with party cards, those who fight on social networks for free and tolerant love, for the most humane and liberating euthanasia. Those who still, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, orphans of Sol of the future, they returned to the Catholic home through the window and are now being pointed out as adult Christians and teachers. In the end, there are those who in the name of tradition, strong of the Mass of all time and of the of the Latins, adorned with veils of lace, lace and lace would also be ready to dismiss a Pope in the name of their fidelity to the Church. In short, a difficult to manage situation that many parish priests know but that they are unable to contrast and reclaim because the Vaffa-day it is not just the prerogative of grilline squares but also of those Catholics who on the first occasion send the priest to that country, guilty of having tried to announce the harsh word of Christ which refuses compromises and imposes a choice.

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Sad to say, this kind of Catholic will never give way to Christ and his Church because they were unable to profess the words of the blessed apostle Peter «Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life and we believe and know that you are the Holy One of God " [See. GV 6, 68-69]. Much better it would be for them to recognize the beating of the heart and go there, where this leads them, leaving the Church and the Gospel in good order in favor of those who really wish to know and believe in Jesus but who are prevented from doing so by these sad figures.

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Indeed, if as Christians the principle for discernment is not Christ but the parliamentary principle of the majority will never establish the Kingdom of Heaven. If the demands of the world are more attractive than those of the Gospel, the value of obedience and faith will never be understood. It's still, if the word of the Magisterium is decidedly less influential than that of the various Ferragnez, Saviano, Fazio, Zan and the various gurus who appear before us every day is vain the hope of expecting a serious laity who knows how to enter the folds of the world by announcing the newness of the Word..

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THE whisper of the vilified virgins who dodge the gnat and swallow the camel. Israeli rabbi Rasson Arousi accuses the Supreme Pontiff of having uttered derogatory phrases about the Torah

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THE WHISPER OF THE VILIPESE VIRGINS WHO SCAN THE MOSCERINO AND SWALLOW THE CAMEL. THE ISRAELI RABBY RASSON AROUSI ACCUSES THE GREAT PONTIFF OF HAVING SAID DISPREGIOUS PHRASES ON THE TORAH

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This polite note of protest by Rabbi Rasson Arousi takes us back to the times and situations in which Christ God thundered: "Blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel!» (Mt 23, 24). While on the Talmudic texts the “sacred” right to outrage Jesus Christ in the worst ways, the Virgin Mary and Christianity.

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On certain issues I wrote a full-bodied essay in 2006 which involved me for five years of meticulous and in-depth research. I refer to my book Herbs Amare - The century of Zionism, published in reprint from Editions The island of Patmos In the 2021.

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We come to the actuality: some Jewish religious authorities of the divine and heavenly state of Israel complained that the Supreme Pontiff, in meditation during the audience on 11 August, he would have expressed an invitation to override the Jewish law by considering it obsolete. It is a bold interpretation of the vilified virgins that almost has the flavor of the trial of intentions.

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The Jewish virginal committee wrote to Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity and head of the Commission for Religious Relations with Judaism. In his letter, Rabbi Rasson Arousi, President of the Commission of the Grand Rabbinate of Israel for Dialogue with the Catholic Commission in charge of dialogue with Judaism, expresses concern for the words of the Supreme Pontiff, which, according to him, would have presented the Christian faith as an overcoming of Torah, claiming that the latter "no longer gives life, and this implies that Jewish religious practice in the current era is obsolete ".

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What the Supreme Pontiff really expressed? In fact it would be “guilty” to have commented in these terms the Letter to the Galatians of the Blessed Apostle Paul:

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«[…] the Apostle explains to the Galatians that, in reality, the Covenant with God and the Mosaic Law are not indissolubly linked and the Law is not the basis of the Covenant because it came later, it was necessary and right but first there was the promise, the Alliance. Those who claim that the Mosaic Law is a constitutive part of the Covenant are out of the question. No, the Alliance is first, it is the call to Abraham. The Torah, The law in effect, it is not included in the promise made to Abraham. However, it should not be thought that Saint Paul was contrary to the Mosaic Law. No, he watched her. Repeatedly, in his Letters, he defends its divine origin and argues that it has a very specific role in the history of salvation. The Law, however, does not give life, it does not offer the fulfillment of the promise, because it is not in a position to be able to do it. It is a path that takes you forward towards an encounter " [Full text of the catechesis].

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If on the words of this flawless exegesis the virgins felt violated, it is only because they do not know the Holy Gospels and do not intend to know and study them, just use them in theirs yeshivot orthodox (rabbinical schools) to address all kinds of insolence to Christianity and that great one bastard (mamazer, bastard) of Jesus of Nazareth, born to a prostitute who had a good time with a Roman soldier. Because this is what the vilified virgins teach in the rabbinic schools of rigid orthodoxy, in particular in those of the communities of Kassidim (cf.. Kallah, 1b-18b, Sanhedrin 67a, Chagigah 4b, Beth Jacobh, fol 127, Sanhedrin 103a, Sanhedrin 107b.).

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As I explain in my essay, Judaism, come l’Islam, they are not unitary phenomena but extremely fragmented, made up of communities and schools of thought in constant struggle with each other. Suffice it to say that some Orthodox communities do not consume the declared foods kosher (kasher, allowed, puri) by Orthodox rabbis of other communities, or the meat of animals slaughtered in accordance with slaughter (Shecḥitah) the slaughter of animals whose meat is permitted.

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When certain romantic solons of the Holy See they told me "we talked with Judaism". In response, I have always asked: «With which of the many Judaisms in the world do you think you have had a dialogue? Because they range from the Orthodox divided into sects to the ultra-Orthodox still more divided within them; from conservative to reformed communities, by the Jews liberal to the Jews ultra-liberal who have lesbian rabbis who marry gay couples. So, with which Judaism do you think you have talked?». Because that's the point: some Catholics, above all ecclesiastics and honorary biblicists, now drunk with unspecified dialogues, ready to dialogue with anything but what is Catholic, they have always forgotten that Judaism does not have a central authority and a univocal interpretation of Torah he was born in Talmud.

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Having clarified everything, it is soon said: the newspapers that today headline that the Jewish world has raised a protest, maybe they think the Jewish papacy based in the divine and heavenly state of Israel has made its voice heard? In truth, only the voice of a rabbi who represents his own sect has been raised, part of the variegated galaxy of the fragmented and contentious Jewish world. You want proof of all of this, linked precisely to the divine and heavenly State of Israel? Soon said: there are Jewish sects mostly linked to the most rigid orthodoxy that this state does not recognize, but they consider its foundation to be genuine blasphemy. Among several of these Cassidic groups known as haredim, the most avid are the Neturei Karta (Neturei Map), that while living within it and benefiting from all the prebends that the legislation of that country recognizes for religious, including exemption from compulsory military service, they do not in any way recognize its legitimacy and existence.

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Let's hope Cardinal Kurt Koch don't come out, in response, with an apology message, because if he did it would offend Catholics, therefore we presbyters and scholars who have dedicated our existence to study in order to instruct, to form and enlighten the People of God increasingly in disarray.

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The polite note of protest by Rabbi Rasson Arousi takes us back to the times and situations in which Christ God thundered:

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"Blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel!» (Mt 23, 24).

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Now let's try to mention some camels, Why, apart from Jesus Christ presented in the libellus of the Toledot Yeshu like a bastard born from the impure act of a prostitute, the figure of our Divine Redeemer is variously vilified in various passages of the Babylonian Talmud, with the vilified virgins that certain pages teach her in the Orthodox Rabbinical Schools in contempt of Christianity. But there's more: after that in the past centuries the Talmud it was set on fire several times for some of its blasphemous contents, the Rabbis purged certain expressions in subsequent editions, making them vague and postponing detailed explanations to the teaching given verbally. Shortly after the birth of the divine and heavenly state of Israel, those blasphemous expressions were all restored to their original form and are still today a source of teaching and transmission by the main schools of Jewish orthodoxy. About that, Rabbi Rasson Arousi has nothing to say and explain to us, while he is intent on moaning for the outrage of virginity?

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The Roman vilified virgins - to switch to another camel, all ours, nostrano - who between the end of the nineties and the beginning of the 2000s directed the Hebrew monthly Kshlom of the Jewish Community of Rome, they methodically massacred and continued over time the figure of the Supreme Pontiff Pius XII (cf.. Herbs Amare - The century of Zionism, cit. pag. 279-365), publishing and disseminating false historians so grotesque that several Jewish historians of clear fame and scientific reputation intervened from various parts of the world, to distance ourselves from certain news born of pure and humoral invention, or better: by blatant hatred of Christianity. In Italy, among the various Jews who intervened to defend the figure of Pius XII, it is enough to mention Paolo Mieli, who without hesitation declared: "I don't count my dead to an innocent person" (cf.. «In defense of Pius XII – The reasons for the story ", The Osservatore Romano, edition of 14 June 2009).

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Let's move on to another camel given birth and then swallowed by the vilified virgins: In the 2007, S. AND. Mons. Antonio Franco, Apostolic Nuncio in the State of Israel, he announced in an official statement that "he would not be attending a celebration on the Shoah at the Museum Yad Vashem where there is a photo of Pius XII with a caption that places him among the main racist heads of state " (See. Herbs Amare - The century of Zionism, cit. pag. 359).

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In conclusion, I affirm, in science and consciousness, that Rabbi Rasson Arousi is simply ignorant in the etymological sense of the term, that means: ignore and, perhaps, it also intends to ignore the entire evangelical literature, he seems so busy filtering the gnat and swallowing the camel. The answer to his laughable protests is in fact contained in the passage of the Holy Gospel where Christ God affirms:

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"You do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill " (Mt 5, 17).

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This is exactly what the Supreme Pontiff recalled doing the exegesis of a Pauline epistle.

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Just an arrogant ignoramus can write notes of protest considering us guilty of believing by faith that Christ is the Word of God incarnate in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, died and rose on the third day, ascended into heaven and seated today at the right hand of the Father, let it be our fulfillment, may be the beginning for us, the center and the ultimate eschatological goal of our entire humanism. Our faith in Christ cannot be an insult to touchy Jews, especially for those who in their literature and teachings desecrate Christianity in every way and in every form.

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To anyone who wants to learn more this complex discourse I refer to my work Herbs Amare - The century of Zionism.

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From Gino Strada to Karl Rahner's insidious and nebulous road about the theory of “anonymous Christians”

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FROM GINO STRADA TO THE INSIDIOUS AND NEBULOUS ROAD OF KARL RAHNER ABOUT THE THEORY OF "ANONYMOUS CHRISTIANS"

the concept of "anonymous Christians" is bankrupt and can serve as an alibi, ie as a warm blanket, but nothing more. I would rather review, as worthy of theological study the concept of San Giustino del Sperm logos, the seeds of truth that can also be found in other religions and cultures but which always have their reason for being in Christ and prepare for a journey of knowledge of him in faith.

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captain come back that our own readers inspire us articles through their questions. This happened recently through the question posted by a Reader to the article I dedicated to the death of Doctor Gino Strada.

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While admitting that he does not fully know the events and history of Gino Strada, I wanted to ask: he could not be included in that group of "anonymous Christians" theorized by Karl Rahner? Said in other terms, the famous Gospel passage of «I was hungry, and you fed me ". It assumes who is feeding, to drink, etc. must necessarily have faith in Christ? I understand that it is a complex and controversial issue, however, in my humble opinion, Rahner's intuition about anonymous Christians is not entirely to be rejected. Otherwise it should be concluded that doing good, do good, is the exclusive prerogative of believers, but we all know that's not the case. I know believers (at least, so they define themselves) all rosaries and Holy Masses, but totally devoid of fraternal charity. To quote the Gospel: "Not who says: man! man! He will enter the Kingdom of Heaven ".

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This question it offers me the opportunity to clarify the matter even better. First of all, "anonymous Christianity" is Karl Rahner's theorization of a concept of grace that is dangerously close to relativism. It is a belief that can make you believe in any spiritual experience, every jolt of emotionality, any philanthropic action, every religious experience hides a mark of Christianity and salvation. In the pastoral experience that we priests see every day, this concept can be translated as follows:

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«Even if I don't go to Mass, I don't confess, I don't pray, it is enough to do some good work and not hate anyone to be okay ".

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Or, for those openly atheists, unbelievers or simply confused the question sounds like this:

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«I do more good than many Christians who judge […] it is not necessary to be a Christian to love one's neighbor and do good […] I respect everyone, I tolerate everyone, I am out of love for everyone and I am more Christian than those who eat wafers ".

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At the heart of this way of thinking there is an intimate concept of faith, who loves but without compromising, believes but without taking sides, it acts but without taking a position. In the Holy Gospel, instead, we find these words:

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"God's work is this: believe in him whom he sent " [See. GV 6, 29].

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This is a position very different that leads you to give Christ the primacy over your entire existence and recognize him as the only Savior [See. Dichiarazione Lord Jesus], as a start, center and goal of our entire humanism, certainly not one among the many placed in the showcase of the gods of the various beliefs, because Christ is the whole, the only way, Truth and the Life [See. GV 14, 6]. Believing and accepting Christ also means acting as he acted as we see in love for the enemy up to the total gift of his own person. The Blessed Apostle Paul says in the Letter to the Romans that:

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«[…] while we were still sinners, Christ died for the wicked " [See. RM 5,8].

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Words that are equivalent to saying: Christ loved me when I was still, not lovable but ungodly, separated from God. The test bed, this is it, it is love for the enemy that leads me to sacrifice my life. And it is clear, this is something that can only be done under the grace of the Holy Spirit and with a free and disinterested heart.

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In my opinion, the concept of "anonymous Christians" is a failure and can serve as an alibi, ie as a warm blanket, but nothing more. I would rather review, as worthy of theological study the concept of San Giustino del Sperm logos, the seeds of truth that can also be found in other religions and cultures but which always have their reason for being in Christ and prepare for a journey of knowledge of him in faith.

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Very clear on this issue the pastoral constitution of the Second Vatican Council:

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«[…] the saving action of Jesus Christ, and with His Spirit, if estende, beyond the visible boundaries of the Church, to all mankind. Parlando of mistero pasquale, in which Christ even now associates himself living manner in the Spirit the believer and gives him the hope of the resurrection, the Council states: "This applies not only to Christians but also to all people of good will, in whose hearts grace is active invisibly. For since Christ died for all, and since the ultimate vocation of man is in fact one, the divine one, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of coming into contact, in the way that God knows, paschal mystery " [See. The joy and hope, n. 22].

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The statement Our life?, about non-Christian religions he says:

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«The Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions. It considers those ways of acting and living with sincere respect, those precepts and those doctrines that, although in many points they differ from what it believes and proposes, nevertheless they not infrequently reflect a ray of that truth which enlightens all men. However it announces, and is required to announce, the Christ who is “away, truth and life " [GV 14,6], in which men must find the fullness of religious life and in which God has reconciled all things with himself [See. 2 Color 5,18-19].

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Although this text is clear, Unfortunately, within the Catholic world there are some fringes that accuse the Council itself of having "open to relativism" (!?). To these custodians of an unspecified "tradition", it would be enough to remember what he wrote, a century ahead, a Supreme Pontiff above any possible suspicion, to be exact, Blessed Pius IX:

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"To you it is well known that those who invincible ignorance do not know our religion, but they know the natural law and its precepts from God engraved in the hearts of all and are willing to obey God and lead an honest life, these with the help of light and divine grace may attain eternal life; because God, which sees, scrutinizes and knows the minds, tempers, thoughts, the provisions of all, by reason of his supreme goodness and clemency can not possibly allow it to be punished with eternal punishment anyone who is not guilty of a voluntary fault " [Encyclical How much grief conficiamur, 10 August 1863].

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There is much more to add, but on this subject he wrote in detail and in depth Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo in one of his November article 2014, where it first clarifies the concept of ordinary means e extraordinary means of salvation, precisely to dispel certain Rahnerian nebulosity. It deserves to read it.

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As for the famous Eschatological Discourse which we find in Matthew chapter 25, it consists of three parables that must be read together to understand them otherwise there is a risk of making the sacred text say what it does not mean. The famous passage of judgment [See. Mt 25,31-46] in which those who do not know God are rewarded; but yet, they do works of mercy. In this case the reference is to the pagans, to those to whom the Revelation has not yet been presented, to those who follow a natural morality without asking the problem of God or who ignore him in an innocent way, because they have not received the announcement, therefore they do not know it and therefore do not reject it. Cases like these were numerous in the days of the early Church. Today, this discourse can no longer be posed, as for everyone, Christ was announced and everyone had the opportunity to accept or reject him. If I accept it, I will put to good use the talents received which are of God and which serve so that I know him more and enjoy him fully [See. Mt 25,14-30]; if I refuse it, I do like foolish virgins [See. Mt 25, 1-13] who let their faith sleep and die not recognizing the time when the Bridegroom presented himself to them.

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These three parables historically refer to three categories of people: the ancient Jews, Christians and pagans. To conclude, good or love is not for believers but heroic love that gives life, yes, otherwise, if this were not the case, the example of St. Maximilian Kolbe would not make sense. He who sacrificed himself for a father of a family who in that Auschwitz concentration camp must have certainly been surrounded by several "anonymous Christians" and good people, but none of them showed up to save him, except one Franciscan friar, who acted for Christ, with Christ and in Christ. And this speaks volumes about the difference between philanthropy and the great charism of charity.

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Laconi, 19 August 2021

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