THE PRIEST AND THEOLOGIST HANS KÜNG IS DEAD. THIS ABYSS RUN BETWEEN HIM AND THE COETANEOUS JOSEPH RATZINGER: KÜNG WAS BRILLIANT, RATZINGER ABSOLUTELY NO!

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Hans Küng has always been a person of rare pleasantness, also naturally gifted with a physical appearance that made him look like an actor Hollywood, especially in the age group between fifty and sixty years, when natural beauty also combined the typical charm of mature men who have begun their journey towards old age in the best form. A beautiful figure therefore, masculine and charming, that had nothing to do with the figures of those priests and those theologians who in their physical appearance often appear as specks hovering between the androgynous, the asexual and the feminine.

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Hans Küng, presbyter and theologian (Sursee, 19 March 1928 - † Tubinga, 6 April 2021). Photo taken on the occasion of his 80th birthday

In journalistic jargon it is called “crocodile” the piece already written and placed in the drawer awaiting the death of the famous character. The archives of journalists are feet of crocodiles. Write a short piece, if anything, about a complex and controversial character, it is not easy. Having said this, I state that none of the Fathers de The Island of Patmos had a ready crocodile for the Swiss-German presbyter and theologian Hans Küng.

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I have often made references to Hans Küng, recently also in a book of mine dedicated to two famous heretics of very small size: Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernandez, the initiators of the Neocatechumenal Way, a veritable concentrate of returning heresies. All with a formal and substantial difference: heretics have always been superior and very brilliant minds, just think of an Arius or a Pelagius. Contrary to the two bohemians Spaniards who made even heresy expire, always the prerogative of the most sublime minds. And right in this book of mine called The sect Neocatechumenal. Heresy became Kiko and dwelt among us, I go back to using this famous theologian as a paradigm.

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Giving a heretic to those who fall and remain in substantial and formal heresy it is not an insult, but a simple factual observation linked to the sphere of the doctrine of the faith. Or better understood: I know full-blown heretics who on the human level are people of rare amiability; and the same, on the ethical and moral level, they are people of impeccable conduct. Instead, I know just as many people, endowed with the purest and most orthodox doctrine, impeccable zealous theologians, with whom I try to avoid being in company for only ten minutes, so much do I consider them humanly unpleasant and sometimes even repellent.

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Over the years, disserting on various theological themes I have frequently pointed out the Reverend Professor Hans Küng as a dangerous heretic, accusing him on several occasions of having carried out works of devastating demolition through the methodical de-structuring of some of the fundamental dogmas of the Catholic faith.

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I have perhaps never stated and written that Hans Küng was a bad guy, a bad person or a mediocre unpleasant subject? Of course not! Hans Küng has always been a person of rare pleasantness, also naturally gifted with a physical appearance that made him look like an actor Hollywood, especially in the age group between fifty and sixty years, when natural beauty also combined the typical charm of mature men who have begun their journey towards old age in the best form. A beautiful figure therefore, masculine and charming, that had nothing to do with the figures of those priests and those theologians who in their physical appearance often appear as specks hovering between the androgynous, the asexual and the feminine.

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Hans Küng was a true rising star of theology, with natural intellectual and speculative gifts and oratory and communicative qualities that other theologians did not have, among these his distinguished contemporary Joseph Ratzinger. Both were perished in the assembly of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and the 1965, both in their early thirties, but with this difference: when Josef Ratzinger spoke, the listeners said to each other "this is a very good theologian", when instead Hans Küng spoke, listeners, in being deeply fascinated by his figure, from his oratory and his profound competence, they said to each other "this will reach who knows what levels in a few years".

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The result of both is universally known: Hans Küng has become a speaker of heresies, Joseph Ratzinger became Metropolitan Archbishop of München, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and later 265th successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter.

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That I am on the ecclesial and doctrinal side of Joseph Ratzinger and not by Hans Küng, it cannot in any way induce me, for emotional irrational affection, to deny the evidence of the facts: Hans Küng, intellectually and speculatively he had natural qualities greater than those of Joseph Ratzinger very high. If in fact the first was by nature a genius, the second was an intelligent person gifted for theological studies. And the difference between a genius and an intelligent and gifted subject is truly remarkable. Then, with the passage of time, it happened that the first became a dangerous heretic and the second Supreme Pontiff [excerpt from from the cited work, pag. 43-44, I ed. Rome 2019, Editions The island of Patmos].

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The damage that Hans Küng produced were remarkable, starting from a brilliant intelligence with all the higher abilities connected to it, used to damage the Church and the theological world. This is why the priests, those who still believe in God's judgment, to eternal life, to Paradise, in Hell and Purgatory - which is not at all obvious these days - they would do well to offer Holy Masses of suffrage for the soul of this brother of ours, who will surely need it very much.

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GOOD FRIDAY. THE DRAMATIC DIALOGUE BETWEEN PONTIUS PILATE AND JESUS

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The answer to Pilate's question "What is truth?Would really be the simplest: "The truth is the man you have in front of you, the Word of God. He is the truth”. On this Good Friday, let us adore the cross to commemorate all this, because it is on the cross that the truth is found, which is the answer to Pilate's question and to our question.

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The 2 April of 2020 the presbyter Antonio Livi returned to the Father's House, last exponent of the Roman School and co-founder of the magazine The Island of Patmos whose Fathers remember him in prayer on this Good Friday

As a starting point for this reflection let's take the Gospel of the Passion of St. John the Evangelist (18,1 – 19,42)

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«Pilate then reentered the praetorium, he called Jesus and told him: “You are the king of the Jews?”. Jesus replied: “You say this for yourself, or have others told you about me?”. Pilate said: “Maybe I am a Jew? Your people and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?”. Jesus answered: “My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews; but my kingdom is not from here ". Then Pilate said to him: “So you are king?”. Jesus answered: “You say it: I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world: to bear witness to the truth. Whoever it belongs to the truth, listen to my voice ". Pilate tells him: "What is the truth?”».

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There are so many memories that emerge from every Good Friday. A special day from a spiritual point of view, liturgical and, not at least, from a purely human point of view. I have memories of when as a child, in a country of Sabina where I always spent my holidays, one Good Friday I left the house alone and walked along the paths that led to the town's parish. You could go it alone, without any danger. It was three o'clock and like every Good Friday the old parish priest, always in his impeccable cassock, in his steady but sweet gaze he initiated the celebration of the Lord's Passion, wearing a gorgeous and dramatic red planet. With the lay brotherhood of the Good Death who attended and many faithful who filled the church and helped in the liturgy. It had to be the 1992. Not many years ago. I remember how that liturgy was filled with something different, of sacred, of what years later in theological studies I would have known with the name of Sacred and Totally Other.

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I thank God for that Good Friday of 1992, when in silence I left the house and entered the church for that Liturgical Action. Because perhaps it was the first time that I realized on the skin of the great gift of love of Jesus. But beyond the memory of the first living and authentic encounter of the Christ suffering, today, which is no longer the 1992 and that I am a priest, albeit recently, that sense of Totally Other, to enter the drama of Jesus is even more vivid.

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On this Good Friday I wish to dwell on the dialogue between Pilate and Jesus. This is due to a number of reasons. I believe that in the figure and in the words of the Roman administrator, there are a number of facets and themes that concern all of us believers of the Catholic Church. Clerics, religious and laity. Because Pilate somewhat embodies the man of today. All of us today can see something of ourselves in Pilate. Huge civil responsibilities, administrative, social. And above all a discernment on the moral choices to be made. In both cases there is always little, very little time to decide. Making a discernment always and in any case full of voices that follow one another, of false witnesses and half-truths. We are a little’ all Pilate that we try to find out something about Jesus. But let's see his words and the Lord's answers.

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Pilate re-entered the praetorium, he called Jesus and told him: «You are the king of the Jews?». Jesus replied: "You say this to you, or have others told you about me?». The first word is a question for Jesus. To the letter it is a request for clarification of jurisdiction, to assess whether the man in front of him was actually taking the place of the Emperor. Pilate is aware of this. And he wants to go to the bottom. In this sense, he also wonders about the true nature of Jesus. The Roman administrator does not have the means to understand the mystery of Christ. He cannot understand neither the teachings nor the actions of that man who is accused. But he wants to understand what Jesus' true responsibility is. Pilate wants to understand what the place of Jesus is in his life. If you have to accept him as a man, as king or as someone else who still does not grasp.

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Pilate is above all the figure of the seeker of God. By it I mean a person who is growing in faith, who questioned his own atheism; he has an attitude of one who often asks Jesus “Who are you?? You are the king?”. The seeker of God also wonders what Jesus wants from his life. If his teaching is a philosophy, an ideology or an authoritarian Word. This is why Jesus replies to Pilate and to every seeker of God “You say this on your own or you have been told about me?”. It is a continuous reminder that Jesus offers us. To abandon the personal mental patterns or our dominant culture. We seek God first of all with an open heart. In a lively and authentic and life changing Encounter.

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Pilate said: «Maybe I am a Jew? Your people and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?». Jesus answered: «My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews; but my kingdom is not from here ". The second word is a dry reply from Pilate. Seems a bit’ one of those things that are said just to mumble something in front of an unexpected phrase. But there is also a need to reflect on the fact that Pilate remembers that Jesus was handed over to him. As if the Roman administrator suddenly found himself in front of an unknown person of whom he knew nothing. Here is the difficult discernment to do. And this is a characteristic experience of the seeker of God. For him, as for all of us, Jesus is delivered and passed on by others. We rarely know him alone and never deepen his knowledge alone. There is always someone who talks to us about Jesus: culture, the family, friends… The seeker of God lives this search of his as a community. For believers, in the Church.

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Finally Jesus replies that this is not his kingdom. It is neither of this world nor of here below. Another completely unexpected answer for anyone. So much so that now, Pilate, he has well understood that Christ is not playing hide and seek by leaving evasive words. He says something that escapes him. There is another kingdom, even stronger, more robust and solid even than the Roman Empire. There is a kingdom misunderstood by the members of the Sanhedrin who led Jesus to the authorities and the Romans. There is another kingdom, even stronger, more robust and solid even than the Roman Empire, intent on worshiping Augustus and the pagan Pantheon. Thus Jesus also today shakes the seeker of God. He tells him there is something that goes beyond immanence, political domination and money. There is a kingdom of Trinitarian light, that escapes human logic. Even the most believing and devoted of Catholics, undertakes to enter into this perspective of light. But this is really difficult for anyone, so much so that Pilate, he is now without words, he replies. At that point she told him: "So you are a king?». Jesus answered: "You say: I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world: to bear witness to the truth. Whoever it belongs to the truth, hears my voice ". Yes finally here is the revelation: Jesus is the king, but it is true of truth and charity. For this, to be a witness, martyr of truth was incarnated. This is how Christmas is also fulfilled, celebrated in the middle of winter. In the spring of the world, the spring of man begins. In Jesus Christ: listening to his voice it is possible to make the soul and the human spirit flourish. I'm not Augusto, Socrates or the philosophical schools to renew and give power to man: only the search for the Truth and the Power of Love of Charity, in welcoming Jesus who suffers from the Passion, they offer the definitive answer to the seeker of God.

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The closing of this passage from the Holy Gospel of John it is truly emblematic for our time: Pilate tells him: "What is truth?». This is the question of all of us. A question that, despite the constant prayer, continuous meditation, the continuous dialogue with God, always comes back. St. Augustine, commenting on this passage, however, he was able to tell us what Jesus' silent response is. In Latin: What is truth? It can be anagram as an answer: It is the man who is present. Yet the answer to the question "What is truth?Would really be the simplest: "The truth is the man you have in front of you”.

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This is the final goal. The seeker of God finally finds a solution. Real, authentic concrete. That man who suffers out of love for all humanity. His, it's the truth. On this Good Friday, let us adore the cross to commemorate all this, because it is on the cross that the truth is found, which is the answer to Pilate's question and to our question.

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THE CRITICISM AND THE FLAG: OFFENSES OF OPINION, FREE SCIENCE FICTION OR INSULTS TO THE GAY COMMUNITY? WE USE COMMON SENSE IN THE CASE OF SILVANA DE MARI AND HER BOOK COLLECTED FROM AMAZON DISTRIBUTION

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[…] clinical experts consulted following the statements of Doctor Silvana De Mari, they replied that a certain number of women also practiced - sometimes also for socio-cultural reasons - anal sex, something found by several gynecologists and obstetricians, to the point that clinical statistical data are also possessed in this sense. However, it does not appear that the practice of anal sex by women is connected to the pathologies indicated by this specialist regarding homosexual relationships.

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Mesopotamian terracotta plaque depicting anal intercourse and dating back to the first second millennium BC. and preserved in the Archaeological Museum of the State of Israel

I appreciate Silvana De Mari, specialist in general surgery and endoscopy, of which I read the articles on The truth, even if I don't always agree with his analyzes. In fact, I believe that personal appreciation must never turn into a-critical veneration. When we esteem a person, it is a must to maintain clarity in the face of his positions, without losing the critical and analytical sense. This without disdaining the sacred fire of passion in a personality, positive element if wisely channeled, because excesses of passion can produce more problems than good.

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Some positions of the thought of Doctor Silvana De Mari which concern questions of sexual morality, as is the case with homosexuality and its physical expression, they need a surplus of prudence not only in the medical field but also in that multidisciplinarity that makes medicine dialogue with Catholic morality and pastoral. And I say this not so much in reference to the subjects directly concerned - people with homoaffective orientations and attitudes - but in reference to the sexual practices and lifestyles that homosexuality carries with it.

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Leaving with excessive passion in dealing with such delicate issues, as any young newspaper columnist would do, more than professionally risky, it is also ethically risky if the speaker is a doctor, therefore a man of science who, through observation and clinical studies, should provide documented data, also underlining the possible dark sides of the issue and the deadlocks. The latest storm that affected Silvana De Mari concerns her book Let's not get gagged, recently censored by Amazon in the distribution network online. The publishing house Faith&Culture with whom this author published her book, expressed solidarity with this stance through a press release from the publisher Giovanni Zenone:

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«On Friday we received an email from Amazon saying that our book was written by Silvana De Mari, Let's not get gagged, was removed from sale in both ebook and print as it violates Amazon's guidelines (essentially because it tells the truth about the medical consequences of sodomitic practice)» [cf.. WHO].

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This Publisher who today complains about censorship and martyrdom perhaps at the gates, should think of our Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, than in the public domain, national editorial and television is not all that unknown. As a priest and theologian he has addressed issues related to homosexuality and the LGBT world several times, I also speak to more live broadcasts with some well-known exponents of this world, using, where necessary, a lot of severity and decision in supporting the foundations and Catholic moral doctrine, certainly not his personal opinions. In the episode of Straight and Reverse of 8 October 2020 the Honorable Alessandro Zan contested regarding the bill on transomophobia. Days ago, in one of his articles published in our magazine on 17 March [cf.. WHO], referring to his friend Paolo Poli - to whom it is clear from the lines how fond he was -, using a language that is not spicy or foul but literary and theatrical, made various ironic references to "fags", term now listed - rightly - in that sequence of insults for which any gay can take legal action, asking for and obtaining the almost certain condemnation of those who have publicly insulted him as a natural person, or the entire gay community. But it is precisely here that something does not add up: Father Ariel has always criticized LGBT lobbies, is opposed to the media riots of homosexualism, to the Gay Pride that parade in Rome in front of the most ancient symbolic places of Christianity and has always been opposed to all attempts at forced imposition of the theory of gender. He also wrote all this in his books published by our Editions, which are not only distributed by Amazon, they are also printed in the two European printing works located in Poland and England. So we "depend" on the excellent Amazon service, to which we are affiliated as editions, not just for sale online, but also for printing and distribution. For this the Publisher of Faith&Culture who complains about censorship on the one hand is perhaps a martyrdom at the gates on the other, he should be wondering: why Father Ariel's books have never had any problems? Above all, because he has never been sued by LGBT associations, despite having even made his debut on a live television, the 31 October 2019, affirming in front of several cases of truly extreme homosexuality: “Tonight it seems to be at the little queer theater!». Clearly humorous hyperbolic expression with which even the exponents of the same LGBT world laughed. Because, exponents of the LGBT world, in this priest and theologian they see a "rival" who expresses the thought of Catholic doctrine and morals and carries forward the ideas based on them, while in the specialist doctor Silvana De Mari they see a person who has insulted the whole of their community? This would be the question to ask and to answer, whereas the criminal judge of the Court of Turin Melania Eugenia Cafiero clarifies in the reasoning of the sentence that the accused was sentenced for the following sentence written on her blog: "The LGBT movement wants to annihilate freedom of opinion and is spreading pedophilia more and more", while the other statements regarding the LGBT community are not punishable because "the right to express one's thoughts is a constitutionally guaranteed right […] Therefore, it is not the thought that is tried but its offensiveness to the juridical property protected in a criminal context ", that is, having associated pedophilia with an identifiable collective subject, the LGBT community.

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From the Publisher's press release Of Faith&Culture this author's book is presented as politically incorrect and dangerous, therefore deserving of being boycotted and withdrawn from the publishing market, because it states that homoaffective sexual practice from a medical point of view is highly harmful. What's wrong? What falsehoods are asserted? What scientific and medical data have been altered? What truths omitted? Specifically, the summary of the speech carried out by Doctor Silvana De Mari specialist in general surgery and endoscopy on the issue reported in her book is based on a simple observation: homoaffective relationships insist on an anatomically incompatible and risky sexual style in which the active partner exposes the passive to organic stress in the final part of the intestine. Indeed, trauma and a myriad of microlacerations would occur in the delicate walls of the rectum and anal canal due to the passage of the penis not anatomically compatible as it does in the vagina. This would lead to extremely painful conditions and the risk of facilitating the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases [cf.. WHO].

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There is apparently nothing wrong with that in the medical opinion of this specialist, but what I would like to point out is a generalization of the problem only to the homoaffective sexual sphere and to the only clinical-experiential practice that she has had the opportunity to encounter in her years of activity as a doctor. So if there is a mistake, it consists of an extreme generalization of the problem and a univocity of the experience relating to the cases treated only.

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I wish to remind the Readers that unnatural behaviors in sexual matters are not the exclusive prerogative of homosexuals but also of heterosexuals. When the Church speaks of sexual relations "in the human way" she is not only referring to a natural complementarity, physiological and anatomical but also functional and relational. All the alternative variants on the theme distort human sexuality which is unique and ordained by God for a specific purpose, leaving out the implications omo and heterodirect, of which a psychological component must also and above all be kept in mind. If for this reason this is the discourse we want to make, we must broaden the range of the discussion, not reduce it, if anything, by analyzing specific cases, as such and not as absolute. The good doctor-specialist should try to imagine how many priests in the exercise of their ministry are faced with women harassed by constant requests for sexual practices alternative from husbands, companions and boyfriends who could sometimes make the most unscrupulous porn actors blush. And all this in silence and general indifference, that justifies and includes everything in the normality of the duties of women towards men. For these poor girls of all ages, the only consolation and outlet in front of these proposals consists in fraternal and frank dialogue with the confessor or with the spiritual father, in order to find a solution to the anguish felt and the feeling of disorder aroused in the soul.

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However, we must not forget at the same time the existence of a case study that sees the fair sex as the applicant for alternative sexual services from their partners, who, if anything, are very impressed by these requests, because they do not consider sodomy at all as the achievement of an erotic practice but as a serious lack of respect towards the woman. And today we priests find ourselves having to deal with this too: women, especially young people, who ask for certain services and men who refuse them, often being very touched by certain requests.

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For these and other reasons I believe that the digressions on the use dell’ano multitasking are not subject to scientific investigation in the books of Doctor Silvana De Mari, nor by the censorship of Amazon and the Rainbow people. In fact, these are sexual practices that can concern and deepen in life situations much more common and serious, medically more critical and morally more compromising. In a society like ours that believes it has freed itself from sexual taboos, there is nothing more moralistic than a silence that is silent on the silence of so many poor people who live a daily martyrdom originating from a sexuality not yet understood as liberating and friend of ' man.

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For the few priests that like us three Fathers de The Island of Patmos they had the precious pleasure of attending the course at their own time audiendas in preparation for the exercise of the Sacrament of Reconciliation at the Apostolic Penitentiary, he will not be able to escape the example and recommendations of the moralist saint Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori. At the time of the holy bishop of Pagani, the last section of the intestine was postponed, in the widespread ignorance of the people rough, to the intercourse between man and animal and vice versa. But for us evolved men, ethero or LGBT, l’ano multitasking he studied in depth that philosophy of hedonistic pleasure that knows extremely "courageous" practices and to the limit that involve the introduction of objects of various kinds up to the hand, to the fist, to the foot in that extreme practice known as fisting. Why not address all these alternative sexual realities and their medical and moral implications in an all-encompassing scientific discourse.? Why focus only on the homosexual sphere and not also deal with the heterosexual one? In fact, we would like to know from this woman of science in which clinical cases she treated, among the homosexual population, more and clearly self-evident clinical evidence was observed regarding the pathological events described compared to those present among heterosexuals? Otherwise you risk falling into humor and resorting to hilarious explanations such as those given in an ironic and joking tone by a cultured and intelligent gay friend of us Fathers of The Island of Patmos, who once discussing the practice of anal sex began by saying: “Women are not allowed, never! For them it is against nature ".

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Not all specialists in internal medicine and gastroenterology and urology, including several Catholics, they agree with colleague Silvana De Mari. Affirm as a member of the medical profession that homosexuals, for their lifestyle, they represent a category exposed and more subject to certain diseases and even to certain cancers, including colorectal cancer, all without bringing any scientific evidence and least of all documented statistics, it's really risky and risky, other than censorship and gags.

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In this regard the clinical experts experts consulted during this procedure following the statements made by Doctor Silvana De Mari and the complaints that ensued, they replied that a certain number of women also practiced - sometimes also for socio-cultural reasons - anal sex, something found by several gynecologists and obstetricians, to the point that clinical statistical data are also possessed in this sense, even linked to this practice in relation to the different geographical regions of Italy. However, it does not appear that the practice of anal sex by women is linked to the pathologies indicated by this specialist, if anything, there may be cases of infection by both women and men in the absence of adequate prophylaxis and prevention. Therefore, in fact, what he claimed in his publication has not yet been demonstrated with sufficient scientific and statistical clarity. And these mistakes, in civil and criminal matters, inevitably they are paid, if the party affected is the gay lobby on the susceptibility of which we can not even discuss, rather, give it as an established fact, but at the same time we must avoid that the same is pointed out and hit without motivations and without scientific supports.

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I personally see the danger to make gay people even more ghettoized, a protected category for pathology, favoring that corporate gap that justifies a victimization that is the generator of reckless laws such as those that are proposed in parliament, I am obviously referring to the Zan-Scalfarotto bill which can seriously risk going to strike the crimes of opinion. Just as Father Ariel said to the Honorable Alessandro Zan at that program of Straight and Reverse of 8 October 2020, certainly not bringing his personal opinions but pointing out that the Italian bishops had raised many perplexities, knowing the consequences produced by similar laws passed in other countries of the world in application of which we have already had more bishops and priests condemned by the courts simply for having said that marriage is such only between a man and a woman and that a child can only be born from a father and a mother.

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To this speech add the concrete possibility of reading such related pathologies as a divine punishment for a sinful lifestyle. If masturbation once made adolescents go blind, today colon or rectal cancer would perhaps be the consequence of inadequate use of one's intestines.? We realize the extent of such utterances and the laughable consequences that would relegate us Catholics to irrecoverable bigots or sexophobics.?

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If it is necessary to do criticism and resistance then you have to start from a long and meticulous job, rigorous and with numerous tests on different disciplinary fields, as well as associations ProLife they did to dismantle the lawfulness of abortion. If this approach does not exist or exists in part - because it is I who say it -, the game is facilitated by LGBT organizations that will sue and attack all people with lawsuits such as Doctor Silvana De Mari, with the sole result of endorsing the accusations of homophobia which then in the criminal sphere will find acceptance in sentences that do not affect the faculty of expressing one's thought as a constitutional right but as an offensive intentionality underlying a thought conveyed. This is why I gave the example of Father Ariel and the line adopted by us Fathers of The Island of Patmos in our magazine of ecclesial theology and pastoral updating: our task as priests, theologians and pastors in the care of souls is to condemn sin in a decisive way, but always welcoming the sinner, especially the worst sinners. Then, if with the excuse of welcoming the sinner someone should instead claim the right to sin by passing evil into good, without hesitation we will always answer that sin is not a right and that it can never be accepted.

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Maybe someone will turn up their nose at these words, but today we must be shrewd and protected in all possible ways. Being martyrs for the Gospel and for the teaching of the Church is a commendable thing, being so for one's own imprudence or passion is a little less so. And I say this by saving all the good intentions that are not immediately knowable. Because of this, to me and my brothers, I am very sorry for Doctor Silvana De Mari, woman who lives on passion but also on undeniable stubbornness, which similarly to other Christian brothers can provoke, with all the good intentions of the case, damage to the weak, the simple and confused of our time.

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THE SOLEMN NO OF THE CHURCH TO THE BLESSING OF GAY "WEDDINGS". I HAVE BEEN TELLING TO THE ARCOBALENISTS GAI FOR YEARS: DON'T INVENT A JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO MAN WHO HAS NEVER EXISTED, BECAUSE YOU WILL BE DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED.

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The sensationality of this statement is equivalent to announcing as an extraordinary discovery the news - also extremely "sensational" - that Margherita da Cortona, then proclaimed a saint and who knows why patroness of repentant prostitutes, he was not a virgin.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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Paolo Poli (Florence 1929 – Rome 2016)

Yesterday he camped "sensational" news on all the media:

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"The Church does not have the power to give blessings to same-sex couples".

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Sensationality of this news is tantamount to announcing as an extraordinary discovery the news - also extremely "sensational" - that Margherita of Cortona, then proclaimed a saint and who knows why patroness of repentant prostitutes, he was not a virgin.

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Comes from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and signed by the prefect of the dicastery, Cardinal Francisco Luis Ladaria Ferrer and by the Archbishop secretary Giacomo Morandi, this explanatory note it ends with the final closing which he recites:

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«The Supreme Pontiff Francis, during an audience granted to the undersigned Secretary of this Congregation, was informed and gave his consent to the publication of the aforementioned The answer to the problem, with annex Explanatory note».

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With all the ironic disenchantment of the presbyter and theologian by now experienced, I confess that this explanatory note made me die of laughter. As in their time, two other documents made me laugh, different but similar. The first was the Declaration Lord Jesus which ends with this closure:

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«The Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, in the audience granted on the day 16 June 2000 to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with certain knowledge and with his apostolic authority he ratified and confirmed this Declaration, decided in the Plenary Session, and ordered its publication ".

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The second document that made me laugh for a long time was the Instruction Sacramentum which ends with this closure:

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«This Instruction, drafted, by order of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in agreement with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was approved by the Pontiff himself on 19 March 2004, on the solemnity of St. Joseph, who ordered its publication and immediate compliance by all those responsible ".

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I understand that good readers they may be wondering what makes me laugh at these two important and necessary documents. For this I do not delay any further and I run to their rescue clarifying: if after a few decades from the Second Vatican Council the Church found itself forced to remember in the Lord Jesus the basic foundations of Christology and above all of Christological dogmas; if after a great liturgical reform preceded by decades of detailed and in-depth studies by the Liturgical Movement, she found herself having to remind bishops and priests of the basic foundations of the Most Holy Eucharist, it means that in the whole turbulent post-council season many things did not go the right way. And if today the Church is forced to remind its bishops, presbyters, theologians and laity - alas increasingly ignorant of the very foundations of the Catechism -, those which are the basis of the doctrine and deposit of the Catholic faith, this shows that after the post-council revelry staged by the interpreters who gave life to their staff Council egomenico, many things did not go the right way. And today we are facing a devastating crisis that arises from a crisis of faith that has generated a crisis of doctrine that has produced an unprecedented moral crisis within the clergy. And all this, good to remember, I wrote it over ten years ago in my book And Satan became triune.

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When it sinks into that irreversible decay I've been talking about for a decade, once the threshold of no return has been passed, back is not possible to go back. This is why I have used the hyperbole of launching from an airplane without a parachute in various of my writings. Because as long as the paratrooper is hovering over the plane's hatch he can retreat, put on a parachute and jump. But, if he decides to launch without, it will not be able to stop in the air, back on the plane, put on parachute again and then jump again. And to those who, faced with this evidence, have tried to escape reality by affirming that "the Church of Christ is governed by the Holy Spirit and that therefore he will take care of it", I have always reiterated that the Holy Spirit is not Merlin the Wizard and cannot subvert the laws of physics to go against the free will of those who have launched without a parachute, because God has never been against the freedom of man in the entire history of humanity, starting from the commission of original sin.

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Soon said: the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with this new document she has once again reminded us for the umpteenth time that our Holy Faith is founded and is based on the incarnation of the Word of God, his redemptive sacrifice on the cross, his resurrection and ascension to heaven, exactly as it did with the Lord Jesus. I ask you: it is right to issue a document to remember these foundations of faith, only because many bishops and presbyters may not know them, until it is necessary to instruct them to do so? I add: and why, under this august pontificate, the most doctrinal and moral priests, we have been seeing them become bishops one after the other for eight years now? And so, at this rate, we should expect the release of other more or less similar documents, where it is declared that the Blessed Virgin Mary was born without stain of original sin and that that of Christ God was a virgin birth; or documents in which it is declared that in the Most Holy Eucharist, God is really present in a substantial way in soul, body and divinity, just like they did with the Sacramentum almost four decades after the great liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. Other documents could then follow, all resulting from the launch from the aircraft hatch without a parachute. This is why I laugh and invite true believers to laugh, because to the point where we have now reached only the wise irony of faith will save us. Or to put it in other words: Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer and Archbishop Secretary Giacomo Morandi, with the seal of approval of the Supreme Pontiff Francis I, they revealed extraordinary news to the world, destined as such to remain written in history in fire characters, this: Santa Margherita da Cortona was not a virgin.

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The cold shower of this We can not to the blessing of the gay rainbow couples, comes from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith after years of fires set by the happily reigning Pontiff on the pines of the Mediterranean Macchia, where he enjoyed walking with a petrol can in one hand and a box of matches in the other, in conclusion: professional arsonist stuff. And with his saying and not saying and with his playing on the ambiguous, the Supreme Pontiff hinted at what was not true, but above all what he would not believe and never accept, above all what is not possible for the Church, not being able to exercise powers that Christ has not given us nor being able to change the Holy Gospel to meet the whims of man's rainbows, who is not obliged to be a Christian or to follow the teachings of Catholic doctrine and morals.

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The International Left, the mass media and powerful LGBT associations have invented a Jorge Mario Bergoglio who never existed and who never can exist, especially as a Roman Pontiff. First, so-called “epochal” openings were invented for the divorced and remarried, then the clearance of homosexualism, the one carried out today by the German Catholic Lutherans headed by Cardinal Reinhard Marx and other figures from the Northern European area, including the confused Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, of which we understand the inner drama: to have suffered from the divorce of their parents and to have had a twin brother known to be homosexual. But these personal events cannot influence him or take away from him reasoning and logical spirit in his delicate role as theologian and bishop., if in him, former member of the Order of Preachers, there remains something of the scholastic formation, logic and metaphysics received from his old Dominican masters.

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Finally, here we are at the gates with stones: the Church cannot bless «the couples of fags»To whom« we just lacked to give that great fool of the fagot wedding», as my late friend said with theatrical sarcasm Paolo Poli, to which the paternity of the quotation mark reported above belongs. And this last great star of our theater, that he was homosexual even in the spinal cord, making these jokes he was not afraid of being accused of homophobia, because all his life he delighted in making them.

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This line of reply does not end the discussion, because there is another one open, I've been talking about it for years, Unfortunately in vain. And I don't tell you the faces, or worse, the silent scenes of all the bishops to whom I raised the question. A show, see the faces with their embarrassed eyes turning in the void. A show worthy of a two-hour monologue by Paolo Poli in the satirical work Caterina de 'Medici.

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My wise friend, that never in his public life as in the theater did he use the word "homosexual" and much less "gay", he used to say:

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“Fags have so much trouble accepting themselves, who first pour this non-acceptance complex onto others and then invent enemies. Unfortunately, fags can't live without enemies, that's why they are the greatest makers of imaginary enemies ".

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Interview with Paolo Poli in a café in Piazza Navona a couple of years before his death, I indelibly remember this sentence of his which froze me and which I would like to reproduce in its entirety, without censorship and without those ellipsis that I know so much of North American Calvinist hypocrisy. In fact, I'm Italian, catholic and priest, if therefore an intellectual tells me "fuck" and I have to report his speech in full, I would feel ridiculous and even more hypocritical to write "c ... o". The interlocutor said "fuck", did not say "c" three dots and final "o". So here is what my dear friend told me verbatim:

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"Darling dear, believe me: to the absolute majority of queer lobbyists, he doesn't care a damn emeritus of the Church and Catholicism. They want to bring the Church to its knees on all fours, like a poor whore, with your ass in the air and the hole in plain sight ready for use ".

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Perhaps not even Pietro l'Aretino, before which Giovanni Boccaccio was little more than a schoolgirl, he could have expressed himself in a more incisive way than Paolo Poli, but he was sacrosanct right. With all due respect to our bishops committed to writing "c" three dots "o" at the end, so much do they consider it inconvenient to express and accept a literary "fuck", while another, much material and worse is about to approach behind our mother thrown to the ground on all fours ...

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In expressing a paradigm with that phrase of such tremendous realism Paolo Poli was prophetic. And now it's my turn, priest and theologian, explain to you that dramatic meaning that our bishops do not want to understand, being too busy writing in the company of Quakers and Puritans: "C" three dots "o" final, in order to avoid the realism of a literary "cock" and the Church on its knees on all fours with the ass in the air and the hole in plain sight ready for use ". To force them into a terrifying bath of realism, soon they will be the lesbian couples who have given birth to a toy baby after having had an abortion once or twice, just ascertained from the amniocentesis that the fetus was a boy, because not only had they decided to have a child, but to have a little girl to be assigned to the wonders of the lesbian world. Our bishops will be literally drowned in realism by the couples of those whom my friend Paolo Poli called with irony rich&ricchioni, that after buying a baby from a rented womb they will show up at the baptismal font more brazen than Satan who tempted the man Jesus in the desert. Perhaps because they are interested in freeing the creature from the stain of original sin? No, because always as the late Paolo Poli told me years ago in that cafeteria, they are interested in putting the Church "[…] kneeling on all fours, like a poor whore, with your ass in the air and the hole in plain sight ready for use ", making sacrilegious use of the Sacrament for this purpose, to turn those baptisms into LGBT lobby dramas, with all the elite of the gay and lesbian world gathered in church together with transsexuals balanced on stilettos. And all of them will come out of the Church together with the unhappy creature declaring: «The Church approves us ... the Church approves us!». This interests him, not Baptism. And with this I described the other problem that the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will soon have to face..

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I ask the bishops: how should we their priests behave, when such couples bring these unhappy innocent creatures to baptismal fonts, for the sole purpose of "folding on all fours with our asses in the air and the hole ready for use in plain sight"? How should we get a lesbian or gay couple to issue baptismal promises? Because if I remember correctly, the form is the following: «You renounce Satan ... and all his works ... and all his seductions?». Let me understand, Esteemed Bishops: perhaps we need to ask Satan to renounce himself? Because it was Satan, at the height of his worst seductions and works, to induce two men to come to the real abomination: commission a baby from a rented uterus and then take it to the baptismal font in order to have it won at all costs and wreak havoc on the Sacrament through a public perjury on the foundations of faith, or not? It's still, always if I remember correctly it seems to me that parents are committed to raising and educating their child according to the teachings of the Holy Roman Church. For charity, no pair of parents is perfect, just as we priests are not in our priestly paternity. However, the imperfection of all of us is not at stake, but more: some really believe that two gays or two lesbians can make such a promise during a solemn sacramental action?

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Since our heroic bishops do not answer these questions, as far as I am concerned, I can answer by following the dictates and imperatives of my Christian and priestly conscience: such couples in church, I wouldn't even let them in, if not to go on his knees in front of the confessional and stand up after having confessed his sins and made a solemn resolution to change his life. At this point some might say: would you perhaps dare to deny baptism to a creature and then feel at peace with your conscience? Of course yes, because my faith teaches me that there are two different means of salvation: ordinary ones, which are the sacraments of grace, which I remember are not available goods, it is no coincidence that the Holy Church is its guardian and dispenser, no mistress. To follow with the extraordinary means of salvation, that God alone knows and can exercise. In fact, it is we who need the sacraments of grace for our salvation, but God no, because to save us he does not need the Sacraments. Therefore I would deny Baptism to that creature in a clear conscience than in the future, reached the age of reason, he could choose a completely different life and ask to be admitted to Holy Baptism and to the Christian community.

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The bishop could force me to baptize the selfish toy-boy of two gays and two lesbians? My bishop certainly not, because he is a Catholic and a believer. But let us assume that I am under the jurisdiction of another kind of bishop, not at all Catholic and not at all believers, there are quite a few in circulation these days. In addition to refusing, I would not hesitate to invite him to administer baptism, with me assisting in a corner, to see in what tone of voice and with what facial expression, to two men who bought a baby from a rented womb, the bishop will ask: «Renounce Satan ... and all his works ... and all his seductions?». It's still: «… Promise to raise him according to the teachings of the Holy Roman Church?».

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Using some scurrilous phrase books, however, I was imbued with that elegant theatrical and lexical art of my late friend Paolo Poli, capable of making any swear word not vulgar to the point of transforming it into art and literature, I have come to meet certain new generation bishops, giving them a great anchor of salvation, this: I could not answer on the merits, as is often their style, they will be able to attach themselves to language, to form, to the ... little word, evading the whole question that I have raised. The Pharisees already did this in the time of Our Lord Jesus Christ. They too, like many members of our worldly and secularized episcopate today, they were stuffed with the worst clericalism produced by the post-council of the time. But the Pharisees were serious and above all cultured, Suffice it to say that Shaul of Tarsus came out of their school, later became Paolo, the great Apostle of the Gentiles. Instead, some of our worldly and secularized bishops of the new generation, risk being caricatured, making us caricatures too, their presbyters.

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To the point where we have now come, only the wise irony of faith will save us, cheat a reason, an authentic man of faith tells you this, who is not at all afraid of denying access to the church to whom, soon, he will try to make sacrilegious destruction of the Sacraments and public perjury, just to bow to the prince of this world, to which no one can ever command us to bend the knee.

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“Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but they have no power to kill the soul; rather fear him who has the power to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna " (Mt 10, 28).

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And now who is it who will have all the necessary and ecclesial manly attributes to explain to the rainbow world that Hell really exists and that it is not a metaphor, that the Devil is a real person and not an allegory?

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From the island of Patmos, 16 March 2021

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