"The Holy Spirit and us". There are no longer the bishops and Catholics of the past

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"THE HOLY SPIRIT AND US". THERE ARE NO MORE BISHOPS AND CATHOLICS ONCE

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[…] the time has also come for the faithful to choose what is necessary, crossing the burning coals of modernity and absolute rights assumed to fanaticism against the Church. These rights, even in times of pandemics, they never constitute a remedy for evil, they self-destruct immediately and become secularized and legalized, becoming positive rights that affect the flesh of the weakest and most defenseless and attack that sacramental and liturgical component which has in the Eucharist its apex of necessary faith, celebrated daily.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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Note from the director in charge of The Island of Patmos published at hours 19.45

the article by Father Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp. which follows was published at hours 17,45 the 4 November. A couple of hours after the drafting of Avvenire.it he deleted the piece to which our editor referred. That article now it is no longer visible. Traces of it remain in the newspaper of the Diocese of Senigallia which I have reported almost entirely [see WHO] Good, all in all, one less amenity on those columns. I regret the fall of the Soviet Union, because if it remained standing, today the director in charge of Future could be loudly claimed by the Duma as director of the Truth.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

 

 

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gift from one of our Neapolitan confreres: «make ammuna!»

A newspaper that calls itself Catholic, what it should do is first of all to support and accompany the faith of Christians in daily life, preserving the simple ones from stumbling.

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Without many frills and the inevitable sacristy bigotry, use a charismatic journalistic style capable of instilling trust, so as to read the world in a prophetic way, according to that Kingdom of God which is already present among us (cf.. LC 17,20) and which a believer should recognize from afar.

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In all probability I am wrong, i am as usual too vintage and too naive for this century, in which being an adult Christian means reforming the unreformable and proposing an alternative God wisely glittering that overlaps the God of Jesus Christ. However, a cost of being repetitive and obnoxious I have to insist on a fact: I always find an evident lack of that beautiful cardinal virtue which is prudence. Virtue that must be asked of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis and that is required not only for a consecrated person in the episcopate and in the priesthood but also for a simple baptized faithful who plays a role within the Church, especially if that role involves information and training.

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Why do I say this? I come straight to the point. I learn from Avvenire [cf.. articles WHO] of an investigation conducted by the Institute IPSOS according to which two thirds of believers would have deemed it necessary to suspend the celebrations with people during the lockdown national between March and May. Apparently, 88% of Christians in our communities have promoted anti-Covid measures in the church.

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Possible? It would seem so! So according to these data and according to the reading given by Future, the Scream: «Give us back to S. Mass ”is the work of a certain vulgate of kissing fanatics. The stop of the "open door" celebrations sees the full promotion of Popolo of the Parishes. I don't know about you, but I, to read certain things, i'm really bad. In fact, if the solution seemed successful the first time, it will also be in the case of a second lockdown Christmas, as well as rumors rumored these days.

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And I say this with the deepest concern Why, after almost a year of living with Covid, this position can no longer be justified by emotion or surprise. It is clear that it assumes the connotations of a real reasoned choice of field, a precise decision between faith and necessity as I wrote in these columns a few months ago, a choice supported by an interpreted “do-good” right that sees in public safety the suprema lex.

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To all Catholics who are passionate about law and Cicero, I remember the first for a Catholic Christian suprema lex And, and will always remain, Jesus Christ, foundation and way to reach the salvation of souls. In this regard, I quote and share what Cardinal Sarah thinks:

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"Earthly existence is important, but much more important is life everlasting: sharing the same life with God for eternity is our goal, our vocation " (cf.. Letter to the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences on the celebration of the liturgy during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, Let us return with joy to the Eucharist!).

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For this reason this survey appeared in the newspaper of the bishops, it pains me in the double role of priest and Christian, revealing a very specific flaw among Italian Catholic believers that should be cured rather than sponsored.

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I can only identify myself as a parish priest in the care of souls to the numerous brother priests who have not yet finished explaining to their Pastoral Councils the splendid letter from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments which invites us to resume Christian life by starting from the Eucharist celebrated as a community in Dies Domini.

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How priests will be able to educate their faithful to feed on Jesus the Eucharist and to transmit the truths of the Catholic faith in Sunday ecclesial communion, if these faithful prefer a Creed Smart Working, easily lived from home?

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How to justify to catechists and families of children and of the boys on a journey of faith that a new one lockdown liturgical / catechetical is not only good and just but it is even desirable, when the National Catechetical Office issued clear guidelines for catechesis in Italy at the time of Covid? Responsible guidelines, prudent and sure but who cannot repudiate and undermine the dutiful kerygmatic announcement that he has in the Gospel of St. Matthew [cf.. Mt 28,19-20] the binding seal of the Savior to the Apostolic College.

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You will understand well that we are facing a crossroads and between the two, one is true and the other false. Or the Catholics in Italy have conquered in 2020 the Nietzsche trophy and have come to the death of God seen as an unbearable burden in times of pandemic, and then it is good that they officially communicate it to their bishops, beautiful souls of hospitality, so that they take note. Or, if not, bishops should prevent such positions from circulating in their newspaper, which have no other consequence than increasing the consternation and unease of 12% of Catholics who still consider the Holy Mass indispensable.

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Because the Holy Mass belongs to Christ, not of any "Franceschiello" who with his edict galvanizes sailors to the cry of "Make Ammuina» (get confused).

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And of ammuina - confusion - in this historical period there is too much of it, inside and outside the Church so much that it needed prudent and wise pastors like the good Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Giovanni D'Ercole [cf.. My previous article, WHO] who had the audacity to affirm that "The Church is not the place of contagion", thus demonstrating a rare balance between pastoral prudence and love of neighbor, all combined with that primacy of obedience to Christ before Caesar.

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They tell us to obey? Well we will do it and with joy, as reported by the Blessed Evangelist Luke in the book of the Acts of the Apostles. Obey by listening to that apostolic voice that tells us in our days:

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"We decided, the Holy Spirit and us, not to impose any obligations on you other than these necessary things ... " (At. 15,28)

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This is what we want to hear, dear fathers bishops. Impose the yoke of necessity on us, we will gladly turn our necks and our backs to the sweet yoke of the Eucharist celebrated as a community on the Lord's day, the only Lord necessary in a Church of fake indispensable.

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In the same way, the time has also come for the faithful to choose the necessary, crossing the burning coals of modernity and absolute rights, taken to fanaticism against the Church. These rights, even in times of pandemics, they never constitute a remedy for evil, they self-destruct immediately and become secularized and legalized, becoming positive rights that affect the flesh of the weakest and most defenseless and attack that sacramental and liturgical component which has in the Eucharist its apex of necessary faith, celebrated daily.

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Laconi, 4 November 2020

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NEW - THE CHURCH AND THE CORONAVIRUS. Between supercazzole and tests of faith. The apostolate of the Fathers of the Island of Patmos in a time of pandemic

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NEW - THE CHURCH AND THE CORONAVIRUS. BETWEEN SUPERCZZOLES AND TESTS OF FAITH. THE APOSTOLATE OF THE FATHERS DE THE ISLAND OF PATMOS IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC

I social media they are a savannah where supercazzolari attack like hyenas. Those who believe they can solve the problem by ignoring them, wrong. The French Revolution teaches that it is dangerous to lock yourself up in the palace of Versailles while in Paris the square is filled with hatred. When in fact the square exploded, the heads of those who ignored the problem were cut off by the angry people.

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on the cover: The guillotine of social mediaa – cartoon by the Roman painter Anna Boschini Vitarte Studio

The period of the lockdown how it was experienced by the priests? Who was prepared for such an emergency? The world of politics was not, health care, of science, of public education, of work, of trade, of entrepreneurship, of finance, of information, of the show. What was the difficult relationship between priests and faithful during the months of suspension of the sacred liturgies? Above all: what happened in the Piazza dei social media, about which Umberto Eco said:

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«I social media they give the right to speak to legions of idiots who previously only spoke at the bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. They were immediately silenced, while now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It is the invasion of imbeciles ".

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I social media they are a savannah where supercazzolari attack like hyenas. Those who believe they can solve the problem by ignoring them, wrong. The French Revolution teaches that it is dangerous to lock yourself up in the palace of Versailles while in Paris the square is filled with hatred. When in fact the square exploded, the heads of those who ignored the problem were cut off by the angry people. During the lockdown for Covid-19 the Fathers de The Island of Patmos they had to clash with the supercazzole of false Catholics and theologians do it yourself popped up on the internet like wildflowers after the rain. Their experience as priests and theologians has been collected in these pages, together with the analysis of a danger not to be underestimated with snobbery, because on the piazza dei social media irrational emotionality is rampant, while the guillotines have already been in operation for some time.

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A book, that of our Fathers, which will take you into the heart of a problem that has created debates for months, frictions and rivers of nonsense published on social media by Catholic supercazzolari or presumed to be so.

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From the island of Patmos, 3 November 2020

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The Bishop of Ascoli Piceno Giovanni D'Ercole has a choice “the Benedict option”, the same one that many of us will follow shortly, together with those who have already undertaken it for some years

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THE BISHOP OF ASCOLI PICENO GIOVANNI D'ERCOLE HAS A CHOICE THE BENEDICT OPTION, THE SAME THAT SOON MANY OF US WILL FOLLOW, TOGETHER WITH THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY UNDERTAKEN IT FOR A FEW YEARS

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One could say that it is an escape, but not as the world of gods can understand it adult Catholics who see God as a militant and the Gospel as a political manifesto to strike in the face of those who do not think like them. The escape of Giovanni D'Ercole is the same escape of Pope Benedict XVI, to be understood and read first of all as the flight of Benedict from Nursia who dares to separate from the Empire now corrupt and upset by the invading barbarians in order to rediscover his origins, their roots and the Christian identity that today in the world sounds like an unpronounceable blasphemy.

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S. AND. Mons. Giovanni D'Ercole, Bishop emeritus of Ascoli Piceno

The Bishop of Ascoli Piceno S.E. Mons. Giovanni D'Ercole, Orionine religious, at the threshold of 73 years of age - two years ahead of the expected withdrawal of the bishops from the episcopal chair a 75 years - he decided to present to the Supreme Pontiff the letter of resignation from the pastoral care of his diocese and to enter the monastery to live a life of silence and prayer.

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Thus he motivated his decision:

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“Loving the Church also means having the courage to make difficult choices, suffered, always having in front of the good of the Church and not oneself ".

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Words that recall those of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI and which weigh like boulders in this historical moment of disorder and loss of leadership inside and outside the Church. The situation, we understand it well, it includes the responsibility of many, not just a single.

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Among the battlefields bloodied by the sacrifice of the martyrs, there is a strong fight for the safeguarding of doctrine, of the morality and freedom of the Church. Let's ask ourselves: in this scenario, perhaps a bishop flees?

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One could say that it is an escape, but not as the world of gods can understand it adult Catholics who see God as a militant and the Gospel as a political manifesto to strike in the face of those who do not think like them. The escape of Giovanni D'Ercole is the same escape of Pope Benedict XVI, to be understood and read first of all as the flight of Benedict from Nursia who dares to separate from the Empire now corrupt and upset by the invading barbarians in order to rediscover his origins, their roots and the Christian identity that today in the world sounds like an unpronounceable blasphemy.

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Yet, we men of the Church, we did not understand that to convert others it is necessary to convert ourselves first, the goodness of the Gospel and of the person of Jesus Christ is not embraced by hybridizing politics [cf.. WHO] which by its nature is secular and the century is the historical space and time of man fallen and punished because he rebelled against God. Like this, as the Gospel is not the pauperistic ideal of those who claim to remove poverty with a sort of Roussian optimism, who sees the perfect watch in man, the demiurge who has denied God and creates order in disorder and salvation in despair.

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Being a Church without compromise is possible if Christ is the privileged option of believers and pastors, option that Giovanni D'Ercole has reiterated in these months of health emergency, reminding the top of the government the truths of the faith and diverting the People of God from that safe anesthetized blanket that shakes off all responsibility and involvement with God in the name of an unidentified common good that kills all hope.

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The world now does not understand the choice of the bishop emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, but he will understand it when he realizes that the cisterns are now dry and the granaries empty and full of rats.

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Maybe some bishop, priest or simple faithful will consider this decision hasty, because a bishop who enters monastic cloister looks so much like a Ferrari hidden in the garage, all alone, parked there to rust.

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But no, my dear! In that silent solitude the granaries are being prepared, the grain of Christ's Word is piling up, the good seed that feeds and that will be sown in the future is being preserved. Before long we will all be hungry, the cry of Jeremiah according to which

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"The prophet and the priest wander around the country and don't know what" [Gives 14,18],

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of this impotence we are more than witnesses in many realities. But not all the prophets of our time and priests are unaware and indecisive, some, like Giovanni D'Ercole, as well as Benedict XVI in front of the spiritual desert, they choose the desert of the cloister. They do

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«[…] what the farmer does when the river overwhelms the banks and invades the fields: the seed must be saved. When the river has returned to its bed, the earth will re-emerge and the sun will dry it. If the farmer will have saved the seed, he will be able to throw it on the earth made even more fertile by the silt of the river, and the seed will bear fruit, and the turgid and golden ears will give men bread, life and hope. The seed must be saved: faith […] we must help those who still have the faith and keep it intact. The spiritual desert stretches every day, every day new souls wither because they are abandoned by faith " [1].

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All this will pass and pass for everyone, hungry and starving. The way out is to immediately look for whoever keeps the good seed in the barn, even with difficult and painful choices that involve one's own person.

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Giovanni D'Ercole, presbyter and bishop, did this, and it is a duty and, above all Christian, express a blessing thank you to God for giving it to us. Which I express not only in a personal capacity, but also in the name of all the Fathers de The Island of Patmos.

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Laconi, 30 October 2020

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[1] See. Giovannino Guareschi, Don Camillo and Don Chichì, in all Don Camillo. Small world, (II), BUR, Milan, 2008, pp. 3114-3115.

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In praise of madness. Heads beheaded by Islamists in Europe? Don't be afraid: "Islam is a religion of peace and love"

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PRAISE OF MADNESS. HEADS BEHEADED BY ISLAMISTS IN EUROPE? DO NOT FEAR: "ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE AND LOVE"

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No thinking and rational mind can argue that all Muslims are potential terrorists, such a statement would be truly aberrant. However, we must ask ourselves: Why, right from Islam, violent extremist streams have been generated, which do not constitute minority phenomena or groups of so-called mavericks? Those of the Islamist terrorists are numerous and organized associations that benefit from enormous economic resources, not a few of which come under the table from rich Arab oil countries. The same countries that at every terrorist attack offer condolences to the West for the dead killed by the hands of those Islamist terrorists that they themselves have financed.

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The first week of November the book by Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo who analyzes the roots of violence contained in Islam

The work of Erasmus of Rotterdam it is not what those who do not know it believe and who use its title to effect. Dedicated to his friend Thomas Moore, today venerated by the Holy Martyr Church, In praise of madness is a work based on the principles of scholasticism and classical metaphysics which through the use of satire speaks of the divine origin of madness. In periods of irreversible forfeiture, irony combined with the wisdom of faith of the fools of God, it is the most effective reactive tool to pave the way to salvation.

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In France, the 16 October, an Islamist beheads a teacher, then posting on social media the image of the victim's head [See. The Republic, WHO]. Today, 29 October, another Islamist breaks into the Nice Cathedral, kills three people and beheads a woman with a knife [cf.. Avvenire.it, WHO].

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A book of mine will be out in a few days titled Aspirin moderate Islam, reflecting on which I wonder: with the times that run today and the worst ones that will come tomorrow, I can take risks, after explaining that Mohammed is a false prophet from which an Islam comes to life that to define in reassuring tones "religion of peace and love" sounds like an insult to human intelligence, to history and to the many victims who have fallen under its fatal blows over the centuries?

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The risks I cannot foresee, but the reactions of oneiric do-gooders who dialogue at all costs and whatever costs, especially with all that is not Christian and Catholic and that caress the dangerous enemy that we have long dragged into the house, those yes, I can anticipate and predict them with ease. If as happened to the poor French professor, an eighteen year old would come and kill me and cut off my head, posting on social media the images of my beheaded body, it will happen that the loving and merciful Catholic teachers of dialogue at all costs and whatever it costs, they would hasten to ask Islam for forgiveness for the book I wrote. And if the members of the police forces of our country shot down my killer, as happened in Paris, for having brandished a weapon against them and not having stopped at the blocking order, after killing and beheading a person, would end up under investigation for murder, because this is how the magistrates of the Democratic Magistracy in Italy would arrange, reassuring banner that conceals today's post-communist and post-1968 Left, the newspapers of which they would explain that "it is only a legal act due", to investigate the police who fired. Meantime, idle daddy children from social centers would spark controversy, giving rise to hate campaigns towards the "fascist police", guilty of violating the rule of law, which for them is equivalent to the right to the protection of crime and criminals.

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This is actually what happens in a European society conditioned by poisons philosophy by Jean Jacques Rousseau, now rendered unable to say "poor murdered victim", but "poor killer", no longer "poor robbed", but "poor thief", no more "poor aborted child", but "poor woman who had an abortion"…

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… before proceeding further it is worth clarifying who Jean Jacques Rousseau is, born in Geneva in 1712 and died in Ermenonville in 1778. Above all, what damage your thinking has done to European society. Incorrectly counted among the philosophers, Jean Jacques Rousseau to the test of the facts is a sociologist who is not free from points of surrealism and illogicality. In the post-Enlightenment period, his theories influenced politics and modern legal systems through the so-called "good savage" theory, according to which man is considered fundamentally good, if he then becomes a violent or a criminal, the causes are not to be sought in him, but in the society that led astray him and which is the real culprit for his violence and crimes. Needless to say, what these assimilated theories applied to politics and jurisprudence have produced in Western societies.

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After the attack on the Bataclan nightclub in Paris consumed on 13 November 2015 by a team of Islamists who killed 113 people, the next day an open letter to the terrorists written by Chaimaa Fatihi was released in the press. An authentic monument to the emotionality and manipulation of reality, thanks to a dreamy adolescent spirit which reached its peak through the announcement of the wonderful link between Islam and peace; a magnificent bond that many insist on denying and recognizing. The letter soon became a workhorse in the Left press radical chic and some Catholic press even more to the left of the Left radical chic.

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“Damn terrorists, sono Chaimaa Fatihi, ho ho 22 year old, I am Italian Muslim and European. I am writing to you so that you may understand that you will never have us, that you will not make Islam what it is not, you will not make Europe a place of massacres and your project of terror will not be effective. I am writing to you as a Muslim to tell you that my faith is Islam, a religion that preaches peace, which teaches fundamental values ​​and principles, like kindness, the education, freedom and justice. You are what Islam has opposed for centuries, you are enemies, you are the ones who shed the blood of innocents, of young people, Senior citizens, men and women, children and babies. I'm not afraid of your Kalashnikovs, of your knives and weapons, because as a Muslim I disown you, I fight you with the word, with information, with the voice of those who live their faith every day, giving an example of his teachings ".

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In the book by Chaimaa Fatihi published a little less than a year later by the Rizzoli Publisher in 2016, this biography is reported: «She was born in 1993 in Morocco, where he lived until the age of six. She has since moved to Italy. After attending primary and secondary schools in the province of Mantua, in Castiglione delle Stiviere, now studies law. With this book he won in 2016 the 18th Casato Prime Donne di Montalcino Award, awarded to women who symbolize female courage and talent ".

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There are many examples to give, about the catto-sinister radical chic who have changed this letter to Santa Claus in a kind of Fourth Gospel. I choose one of the many signed by Daniela Rocchetti, delegate for the Christian life of the ACLI (Catholic Association of Italian Workers), far from knowing the texts of Islam, reports three striking phrases that have been reported to her by some Muslim scholars, clumsily extrapolated from the Koranic texts and presented as irrefutable proof that Islam repudiates violence [see, WHO]. This course of action is intellectually dishonest, but not moved by bad faith, but from gross ignorance and superficiality, typical assumptions of those who do not even understand the extreme complexity of the topics they presume to be able to deal with.

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First of all let's clarify: for the Islamic faith the Koran is not a collection of metaphors to be interpreted, it is the word of Allah. Mohammed is none other than the faithful editor of a sacred book that must be applied to the letter, not interpreted. The Koran is a complex and very confusing text, inside, everything is affirmed, then its exact opposite. If in one sura non-violent behavior is invited, in another hundred it is detailed how violence is to be exercised on the infidels in a holy way. And if we read carefully certain invitations to non-violence, we will discover that in them the children of Islam are exhorted not to exercise violence against the other children of Islam, as his brothers. However, infidels are not brothers, The detailed explanations on how to deal with this prove it, assaulted and subdued by all coercive means available. The Quran even teaches how infidels are to be deceived: first by gaining their trust, then, once they have relaxed and become friends, attacked and submitted. A real exaltation of the "holy" betrayal. So not only that, the "sacred text" of Islam legitimizes violence, but it explains in the smallest details how and with what severity it should be exercised. Obviously, these much more numerous texts, are not subject to exegesis by Prof.. Adnane Mokrani, Tunisian Muslim theologian who only members of the modern Company of the Indies what was in the past the Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola -, they could invite to the chair at the Pontifical Gregorian University, to show how open we are and how communicative we are. Especially when we are no longer Catholics, at least in those parts, where Jesuitism has supplanted Catholicism.

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These texts of the Koran called a "religion of peace" in the tender letter to Santa Claus, but we know them. They are to be exact 123 those who explain how to fight and kill infidels for the cause of Allah. I will take only some excerpts below, those dedicated to the infidels, that is, all those who do not submit to Islam and whom the Koran invites to "arrest them, besiege them and prepare ambushes everywhere " (Sura 9:95). Muslims must also “surround them and put them to death wherever you find them, kill them wherever you find them, seek the enemies of Islam relentlessly " (Sura 4:90). To follow with a peremptory order: "Fight them until Islam reigns supreme" (Sura 2:193). Means are also indicated, as it were, effective: "Cut off their hands and the tips of their fingers" (Sura 8:12). And for those who have any doubts it is promptly clarified: "Muslims must make war on the infidels who live around them" (Sura 9:123). But if the whole was not yet clear, in this case it should be borne in mind that Muslims must be "brutal with infidels" (Sura 48:29). Again as further proof that Islam is a religion of peace, suffice it to add that a Muslim "must rejoice in the good things he has earned by fighting" (Sura 8:69). Numerous other exhortations to peace follow, more or less of this kind: anyone who fights against Allah or renounces Islam to embrace another religion, that he is "put to death or crucified or hands and feet amputated on opposite sides" (Sura 5:34). It's still: «Assassinate idolaters wherever you find them, take them prisoner and besiege them and wait for them in every ambush " (Sura 9:5). Who wonders why the Islamists slaughter and behead the so-called infidels, however, without finding an answer to this question, could draw illumination from this exhortation: “I will instill terror in the hearts of non-believers, hit on their neck and cut off the tips of all their fingers " (Sura 8:12). To further confirm that Islam is a religion of peace, it is enough to add: «When you meet the infidels, kill them with great bloodshed and tighten the prisoners' chains ". (Sura 47:4). To conclude with a touch of poetic mysticism that never hurts: "Know that Heaven lies under the shadow of swords" (Sahlih al-Bukhari Vol 4 p55).

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I hope I have clarified why I feel genuine Erasmian tenderness for this young woman made the object of the worst exploitation of a certain blind ideology, to which the doors of the great publishing industry were instantly opened, rather than intelligent and realistic books, decided to sell morphine to relieve pain from a tumor with widespread metastases, reassuring at the same time that, the death, does not exist.

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No thinking and rational mind can argue that all Muslims are potential terrorists, such a statement would be truly aberrant. However, we must ask ourselves: Why, right from Islam, violent extremist streams have been generated, which do not constitute minority phenomena or groups of so-called mavericks? Those of the Islamist terrorists are numerous and organized associations that benefit from enormous economic resources, not a few of which come under the table from rich Arab oil countries. The same countries that at every terrorist attack offer condolences to the West for the dead killed by the hands of those Islamist terrorists that they themselves have financed. And someone perhaps intends to take offense, when one dares to speak of that duplicity and hypocrisy that characterizes certain Arab cultures?

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In the book that is about to be distributed I tried to explain with scientific rigor that defining Islam as a "religion of peace and love" is an insult to common sense and human intelligence, a real shop of hallucinogenic acids. Islam comes to life precisely from the violence and war with which it has imposed itself since the time that its founder Mohammed was always alive.

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La tenera Chaimaa Fatihi is simply one of those figures that our problematic Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner would have counted among the army of those "anonymous Christians" who, without knowing it, are in fact Christians. Tender girl all peace and love who in concrete facts turns out to be a confused Muslim, unknowingly assimilated to the Christian roots of European culture. Enough to generate such confusion in her as to push her to attribute to Islam what are the founding characteristics of Christianity: a religion of peace and love.

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Similar figures of surreal Muslims they are the nothing intended to reassure the Godless European secularists, that for the cross of Christ they have replaced the rainbows and the marches of Gay Pride, who punctually desecrate all the most precious symbols of Christianity on the streets of the capitals of Europe. And no longer knowing who they are and where they come from, here dense armies of Europeans without memory and roots finally draw illusory reassurance from the words of a confused young woman like the "anonymous Christian" Chaimaa Fatihi, who does not know what Islam is, but which makes up for this lack of knowledge with a completely false emotional reassurance: "Islam is a religion of peace". A mantra that goes from bombing to bombing, from beheading to beheading we hear repeated in total disregard for history and logic, as if the refusal of reality could save us.

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"We need to dialogue with moderate Islam", recites another mantra that has been around for thirty years now. But even the latter is an illogical assertion split from reality, because it is equivalent to saying: "You have to enter a brothel and try to talk to virgin prostitutes". E qSome believe it is really possible to find a virgin prostitute inside a brothel? A question which Europe sick with destructive hatred of its Christian roots should answer.

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This letter in which Europe heard what it wanted to hear about the corpses of the dead killed by the Islamists at the Bataclan in Paris and all the others that followed, it is first and foremost a mess of illogical content, even before fake, destined to injure human intelligence. Contents denied by fifteen centuries of past and present history, it would be enough just to ask the girlish author: women and children locked up in Nigerian churches and burned alive, Christians persecuted and killed in Pakistan, Christian women raped and Christian men mutilated in Afghanistan, Christians who in almost all Arab countries and those governed by Islamic religious theocracies are deprived of civil rights and freedom of worship, they are perhaps the victims of a small Islamist minority culture, while the totality of Islam lives on the universal sign of peace and love? The sad reality is that these Christians, persecuted everywhere Muslims hold the power of government, they are victims of the violence inherent in that Islam that a Muslim assimilates to European culture, as well as "anonymous Christian", he painted us as a "religion of peace" on the corpses of the slain dead.

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In the capital of Italy, (c)hand historically it is also the world capital of Christianity, the largest mosque in Europe was built. Paid by King Faisal, Sovereign of Saudi Arabia since 1964 al 1975, built on a project by the famous architect Paolo Portoghesi and cost at the time - so they say - about 200 billions of old lire. The then reigning Pontiff Paul VI, Bishop of Rome, he raised no protest, nor any reservations, indeed he sent his best wishes to the Islamic Community present on the Italian territory.

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In Arabia Saudita, where is the "holy city" of Mecca, there is not even a twenty square meter chapel. Preserving a Gospel or Christian religious symbols is considered by the Islamic criminal law of that, as of other countries, a serious crime punishable severely. The only two Catholic liturgies that take place in that area for Christmas and Easter are celebrated in the extra territorial spaces of the embassies of Italy and France. Said this, perhaps more needs to be added?

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La tenera Chaimaa Fatihi, whose book was crowned by the Casato Prime Donne di Montalcino Award, awarded to women, symbol of female courage and talent, in addition to the mantra that "his" dream Islam "is a religion of peace", he has nothing to say to us, about that? Because as far as I'm concerned, I will have a lot to say instead, strictly based on the world of reality, certainly not about the imaginative world of the surreal adolescent dreams of an "anonymous Christian" Muslim.

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Per summarize the spirit and attitude of this tender surreal young woman dedicated to the sale of morphine, I would like to use a phrase extrapolated from the XXXIII Canto del Paradiso by Dante Alighieri: "The high imagination was missing here". Phrase that sounds in today's Italian: "The greatest imagination lacked the capacity". That means: we are just beyond the capabilities of human imagination itself.

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In fact, the difference between Christianity and Islam is abysmal, though the morphine dealers don't intend to catch it: if in the name of Christianity someone gave birth to forms of violence, would betray the essence of his message and his actions would be denied and condemned by the contents of our Sacred Scriptures. If in the name of the false prophet Muhammad, groups that are anything but minority, instead they give rise to forms of dangerous violence, in doing so they fulfill what is contained and enclosed in the Koran, who commands to attack, to subdue and subdue the infidels, even indicating how to kill those who refuse to undergo forced conversion. Violent practice that has always been practiced by Islam "religion of peace", which in a very urban and liberal way leaves you two choices if necessary: either you get converted or I'll kill you.

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La tenera Chaimaa Fatihi, which Quran he read? And if he read it, he thinks he has understood? Or more simply: he really thinks he can easily make fun of Christians, without taking into account that we, behind, we don't have a shrewd camel driver born in the Arabian peninsula who became a great prophet, but the Word of God made man? To this must then be added twenty centuries of history and culture, in addition to how we treasured, also preserved and developed the heritage of Jewish wisdom, Greek and Roman.

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Santa Claus, alla tenera Chaimaa Fatihi, he has already brought another decapitated head as a gift, this time inside the sacred spaces of the Basilica of Notre Dame of Nice, on which he can return to reassure us that Islam "is a religion of peace", while for my part I wish good morphine to Europe affected by widespread metastases and relentless hatred and rejection of its Christian roots.

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Homosexuals and that cardinal virtue of prudence that the Supreme Pontiff should exercise, being on earth the Successor of the Apostle Peter, not the Successor of Christ

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HOMOSEXUALS AND THE CARDINAL VIRTUE OF PRUDENCE THAT THE GREAT PONTIFF SHOULD EXERCISE, BEING ON EARTH THE SUCCESSOR OF THE APOSTLE PETER, NOT THE SUCCESSOR OF CHRIST

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The Roman Pontiff is indeed the Vicar of Christ, but it is not Christ, he is his vicar on earth, not his Successor on earth. The Supreme Pontiff is the Successor of Peter, not the Successor of Christ. Therefore it cannot be more "open" and "good" than Christ himself. Nor can it abolish what Christ established also through the creation of man and woman, created through him and for him (cf.. With the 1,16).

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"Children don't buy themselves" – If the bill against homotrasophobia will be converted into state law, for an image like this one will risk prison.

For days I have been listeningO troubled Christian faithful from the recent statements by the Roman Pontiff on civil unions between people with homosexual tendencies. I add to them several priest confreres who found themselves confused and embarrassed by these private utterances of the Pope. We priests, faithful to every Successor of Peter, we know, how certain affirmations produce precedents in the common feeling which then make pastoral practice problematic and difficult, sacramental and moral. As happened in the past with the post-synodal apostolic exhortation love joy. Qhis due to an intrinsic formative weakness of people who are no longer able to distinguish between a magisterial pronouncement of the Church and ecclesial gossip. Said in other terms: for the men of today - including many Christians - there is no difference between an off-the-cuff interview of the Pope with Eugenio Scalfari or with Antonio Spadaro, an encyclical and a own motion Popes.

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For this I do not intend to dwell on purpose on the analysis of the ambiguous words present in that documentary by Evgeny Afineevsky shown at the Rome Film Fest a few days ago. The work of the Russian director, it has been defined by many as «a good product, able to outline the profile of a Pontiff who is reaching out to the suburbs, in listening to the whole community, especially to the last and the distant " [cf.. WHO].

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A bold assessment, this, which could also have a merit for the purposes of cinematographic art, but which appears totally detrimental to the authority and dignity of the Pope who cannot be compared and subjected to any man by virtue of his spiritual and moral role that he plays for all of catholicity. In the documentary film project the Pope would have affirmed inclusiveness:

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«Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or made unhappy about it. What we need to create is a law on civil unions. This way they are legally covered. I fought for this " [cf.. WHO].

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Faced with this statement, we can include the testimony of the Chilean activist Juan Carlos Cruz, also present at the Rome film event, which he stated:

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“When I met Pope Francis he told me how sorry he was for what had happened. Juan, it's God who made you gay and still loves you. God loves you and the Pope loves you too ".

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Combining the documentary of the Russian director the testimony of the Chilean activist thus creates a very precise intentionality with which to read the figure of the Pontiff, reducing him to a faction leader. Unfortunately, such an attempt is useless, because the figure of the Pope does not stand on the strength of subjective reviews or evaluations, on the contrary, the figure of the Pope is authentic on the basis of what Christ himself established for him, constituting him his vicar and representative on earth. This is why it is not necessary to analyze the interview with the Pope and try to reconstruct a complex exegesis with the sole purpose of exonerating or blaming the Roman Pontiff. Much less need an interpretation in a good part of certain theologians who have the sole purpose of saving what can be saved and making the Pope say what perhaps he never thought, said or simply hypothesized. Because we must also deal with this other type of subject: those who for seven years have now specialized in making the Supreme Pontiff say what he did not say, finding in his words what is not there.

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The Pope's voice is that of the Church, which is expressed through official organs and channels of the Holy See and through a solid magisterium, precise and punctual, not through improvised and inappropriate private chatter. His, like it or not like it, it must be a clear and scrupulously protected voice, it cannot be used in documentaries, off-the-cuff interviews o live your Facebook or your Instagram. The Pope doesn't have to be influence him of God.

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The Pope's voice should not give rise to official denials as it is guarantee of that cardinal virtue of prudence which is indispensable for every pastor of the Church. A voice that should be heard wisely, avoiding those disputes of speech with the world that the Seraphic Father Francis advised against to his friars.

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That's why I consider these scoop so sensational, harmful to the figure of the Supreme Pontiff and not binding for the Catholic faithful who have no obligation to assent of faith. We know well how today every statement can be wisely manipulated and used properly. The print, i social media e i media I'm able to sew a makeover to any statement when, extrapolating the original context, it is turned over so many times that it assumes a contradictory value, with the result of changing into white what is black and into good what is evil.

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Such ploy are obvious to all, but some turn out to be more useful than others when they facilitate, eg, very specific and very specific purposes. And the purpose in this case coincides with the law against homotransphobia and LGBT rights that is being approved in Italy. If we think about it, this interview with the Pope had the merit of perfect timing, in fact which better sponsor of the Pontiff to present the open-minded requests of the rainbow community in the Italian media and social context that has always been Catholic?

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He is sure in the face of such utterances, everyone will feel compelled to say naively: «If the Pope says so, it's a good thing, it's an urgent and just law ", so you have to let it pass. Caution, Examples such as this lead very quickly to the consequence of the supremacy of juridical positivism over natural law and natural morality. With the consequence that a law becomes right only because it was implemented and approved by a human legislator or because the human legislator considers this law to be just by virtue of its very existence. We know well that this is not the case, indeed, many laws that claim the title of just and civil have proved to be the most deleterious and dangerous.

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For St. Thomas Aquinas, human right proceeds from natural law, therefore a law that conflicts with natural law can not only be harmful but also morally inhuman and unseemly as it opposes God as the supreme good and legislator. Clarified this, let us return to papal outbursts and contingent problems.

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It must be clear to everyone that any Pope it cannot go against the deposit of the Catholic faith and the perennial doctrine of the Church. The Church has already been clear enough about people with homosexual tendencies, both through scriptural revelation, both through magisterial pronouncements, and in the pastoral practice of directors of souls. The Pope can only reiterate and confirm what is already in the teaching of the Church and in case he wants to further clarify his thoughts on particular issues, he can do so without however leaving the bed of the two thousand year old magisterium.

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Hence the Pope, as such, will never tell that it is necessary for same-sex couples to marry, having children and equating their marriage to the natural one between a man and a woman. This will never happen, but this should not necessarily be seen as a hateful stance, indeed, it is necessary to clearly reiterate that in the Church any person predisposed to homosexuality will never be mocked or condemned but if anything accompanied with concern towards a path of truth that cannot, however, deny itself.

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My analysis appears correct and makes sense if we compare it with the evidence of the facts and with the reactions that arose after the release of the documentary on the Pope. In Italy, the Honorable Zan, main signatory of the law against homotransphobia, writes on Twitter:

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"The words of @Pontifex_it on #UnioniCivili recognize the right of #lgbt people to family life and help fight hatred and discrimination. It is the duty of the legislator to combat these violent phenomena: now let's speed up the law against #omotransphobia " [cf.. WHO].

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Public answers like these they have multiplied throughout the international political world and in all circles that support LGBT lobbies, so much so as to raise a victory song and bring the Pope in triumph as the one who finally put an end to Catholic obscurantism of medieval origin, racist, fascist and male chauvinist.

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It is clear that these gentlemen are profoundly ignorant of what the Roman Pontiff is and what its role is within the Catholic Church. Yes, he is the Vicar of Christ but he is not Christ, he is precisely his vicar on earth, certainly not his Successor on earth. The Supreme Pontiff, to further clarify, It is the successor of Peter, he is not the Successor of Christ. Nor can he be more "open" and "good" than Christ himself. With this it is easy to say that it cannot abolish what Christ established also through the creation of man and woman, created through him and for him (cf.. With the 1,16). So the man and the woman, male and female, unique and complementary, they are part of a natural purpose that is achieved not only through a physiologically correct act but also by respecting the purpose for which this act intrinsically aims, that is, to live a unitive and procreative sexuality oriented and redeemed by the one and highest good that is God.

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And the awareness of being a Servant of the servants of God it constitutes precisely the way of redemption of the Blessed Apostle Peter. He in Cesarèa di Filippo, although constituted by Christ as a stone on which to build the Church (cf.. Mt 16,18), he had to be converted through a new following. After having scandalized the Master with an alternative salvation proposal to the cross and obedience to the Father (cf.. Mt 16,21-23), he understood that Christ is the only path that man can take. Pietro, therefore every Pontiff of all times, he realizes that his office is in the hands of Christ and produces salvation only and only when Christ is allowed to save the world through the sacrifice of the cross and obedience to God (cf.. GV 21,15-19).

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As we well know, today speaking of the cross and obedience means being taken for fanatics, these are realities not liked by the world. For this reason it is better to seek realities of salvation alien to Christ, showing a substitute in the Vicar of Christ, through which to show more exciting new ways, or better to say, obviously proceeding by absurd paradox: “If Christ remained behind, his Vicar on earth can update, or rather, revolutionize everything ".

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This is the real demonic cunning which rages in our contemporaneity and which still tries to use the figure of the head of Christianity to confuse men and disunite the Church. Pietro, which in the past was sifted as good wheat by Satan (LC 22,31-34), still suffers from the attacks of God's monkey, than from inside and outside the Church, subjects the successors of the apostle to a continuous temptation that can only be resisted through the prayer of Christ and to a continuous and humble repentance after the error: «Simone, Simon behold satan has sought you to sift you like wheat; but I prayed for you, that thy faith fail not:; and you, turned again, confirm your brothers " (LC 22,31-32).

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Laconi, 24 October 2020

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The Fathers of the Island of Patmos are working for you, meanwhile Thursday 8 October Father Ariel returns to Mediaset to the Dritto e Rovescio su Rete program 4

FATHERS DE THE ISLAND OF PATMOS THEY ARE WORKING FOR YOU, MEANWHILE THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER FATHER ARIEL RETURNS TO MEDIASET TO THE PROGRAM STRAIGHT AND REVERSE ON THE NET 4

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, television season 2019-2020

Over the past two weeks we have reduced the publication of articles because we are in hyperactivity. We are in the process of publishing and distributing five books:

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  1. a non-fiction work signed by Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo - Ivano Liguori - Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci: The Church and the coronavirus - Between supercazzole and tests of faith. The apostolate of the Fathers of the Island of Patmos in a time of pandemic.
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  5. A non-fiction work by Ester Maria Ledda: Acts and misdeeds of apostates.

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Meanwhile Father Ariel come back Thursday 8 October in Mediaset to the program Straight and Reverse conducted to Paolo Del Debbio on the Net 4, where he was a guest at 12 bet in the season 2019/2020.

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With the truth and our apostolate we will always protect the People of the faithful whom Jesus Christ has entrusted to us from snipers

WITH THE TRUTH AND OUR APOSTOLATE WE WILL ALWAYS PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF THE FAITHFUL THAT JESUS ​​CHRIST HAS ENTRUSTED TO US FROM SNIPERS

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he coronavirus, the virus of ignorance and the failure of dementocratic democracy: we will vote in a popular referendum based on demagogy and social envy?

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HE CORONAVIRUS, THE VIRUS OF IGNORANCE AND THE BANKRUPTCY OF DEEMOCRATIC DEMOCRACY: WE WILL VOTE A POPULAR REFERENDUM BASED ON DEMAGOGY E ON ENVY SOCIAL?

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For those who are not clear, I give an example: In the 1497 the young Michelangelo Buonarroti sculpted just 22 years "La Pietà", which still represents the masterpieces of Italian art in the world. Five centuries later, In the 2019, just 33 years the young Luigi Di Maio is appointed foreign minister. Nobody makes strange conjectures, type: from Buonarroti della Pietà to Di Maio who makes pity. Indeed we clarify: it's me, than being stupid and limited, I am unable to grasp the five star genius of this young minister who today represents the history and dignity of our country in international relations with other states.

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Luigi Di Maio and “the peasant tan”

What does "democracy" mean? As I have often explained, it is necessary to clarify the meaning of the words to avoid the risk of incommunicability, as happens when words are used for what they mean, but addressing those who use them for what they do not mean.

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This lemma of Greek derivation is composed of δῆμος (demos), what does "popolo" mean? (krazìa) derivative of the state (short) which means "power". Democracy literally means "power of the people" and indicates a form of government in which the people exercise their sovereignty through elected representatives.

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The first hints on the notion of democracy we find them in the philosophy of Plato [Athens 348 about - Athens 428 circa a.C.] which illustrates the four government regimes in descending order: aristocracy, timocracy, monarchy, democracy.

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The Greek scholars, of democracy, they had the great esteem that many authors of legal texts tell today? No, starting with Plato who warns how democracy can lead to tyranny by demagogues.

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It is the same Plato which he defines in his works [State (Politico), drafted between 360-390 a.C. Laws (Read), work remained unfinished and completed by disciple Filippo di Opunte] the term demagogy, which derives from the terms δῆμος (demos) "People" and ἄγω (ago), “I drag”. The demagogue is therefore the politician who relies on the more or less irrational moods of the people, he tries to win their favor in order to establish and maintain his power.

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No less critical Aristotle [Stagira 384 - Chalcis 322 a.C.] which indicates the three forms of government that are highly prone to corruption: the government of the individual, namely the monarchy; the government of elites, namely the aristocracy; the government of the classes of those entitled to it, namely the timocracy. All forms that could degenerate into oligarchic despotism. Again we clarify: oligarchy, which derives from ὀλίγοι, (oligoi) few, ed ἀρχή (arches) command, indicates a form of government run by a few. Among the various forms of government Aristotle considered democracy one of the worst, as a privileged tool for those who, in order to have the favor of the masses, played on the emotionality of the people through demagogy to win their favors.

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So that the ignorant do not feel offended during this exhibition, I clarify that the word "ignorant" comes from the Latin unknowinglyduck, present participle of ignore "ignore", what does it mean: the one who does not know a certain subject. For example, I am ignorant of subjects like mathematics, physics, astronomy and many others, as I ignore them, that is, I don't know them. However, not being an arrogant ignoramus like the army of those who populate the social media, I would never dare to argue with a physicist, to a mathematician to an astronomer, precisely because I am totally ignorant. Throughout this exposition the term "ignorant" will be used for what it really means, not for what it doesn't mean.

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Those in ancient Greece they aimed to establish a system based on criteria that today we will define as freedom, they did not use the term "democracy", they made use of other words, for instance “isonomically”, which indicates the concept of equality of laws for all citizens; or "isegorìa", which indicates the concept of equality with the attached right of citizens to speak in the assembly, all based on the principle of eleutherìa and parresìa, which indicate, respectively, the concept of freedom in general and the concept of free speech.

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The great thinkers of that season, they never conceived the possibility that arrogant ignoramuses could speak in the assembly. Historical sources offer as an example the speech given by the Blessed Apostle Paul at the Athens areopag [Acts of the Apostles: 17, 22-34], because this was the level of those who were allowed to speak. In the same way, in ancient Greece, always the real one, it would not have been conceivable that the ignorant could benefit from what is now called "right to vote". In that case it would have fallen into democracy, i.e. in the dictatorship of the people driven by small groups of politicians who needed the need of the ignorant to establish their own personal power.

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The ancient Greek scholars had understood everything, it is we who have not understood, to the point of making the Greeks think what they never thought and making them say what they never said.

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POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT BECAUSE THE PEOPLE IS CORRUPT. THE CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY HAS LEADED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE FRAGILITY OF OUR SYSTEM ALSO BASED ON MALAFFA AND CORRUPTION

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Democracy, understood in the modern sense, it is the most fragile form of government and requires a great deal of maturity on the part of the populations to sustain itself. Otherwise there is the risk of giving life to the most degenerate form of democracy: Democracy without freedom, as we will see below.

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To understand this risk, we must start by analyzing three elements: democracy, demagogy and ignorance. The most fragile and risky element on which democracies are based is the right to vote extended to all. The various democratic constitutions built on criteria of direct democracy, they state the principle of the sovereignty of the people: all citizens participate in government decisions by voting in which they grant or revoke the mandate to politicians chosen as representatives and administrators.

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As you understand, this is a very high form of government, before which we should ask ourselves: what can happen, in a democratic system, if an army of arrogant ignoramuses yields to the manipulations of the demagogues? I will try to explain this by taking our country as an example in which this dissociation has crystallized: a people periodically rushes to the polls to vote for even the worst corrupt, to then gain from them "rights" to illegality, except to complain about the corruption of politics and politicians, which, however, does not arise from itself, but it is generated by the people. Obviously the people are also made up of excellent people, whereas, however, the elections are won by whoever gets the most votes, It is obvious: if a person known to all for being close to the 'Ndrangheta is elected as representative in parliament or local administrator, it is evident that the majority of Calabrians with the right to vote have expressed what they think, what they want and what the people are in their majority. I'm not saying that, the votes given on the ballot papers say so.

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It is known that part of our country is in the hands of three mafia associations: the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra. What if someone denies it, I think he should first of all give an account to the relatives of the dead killed under the blows of these mafias, starting with numerous servants of the state.

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On what these mafias are based we have always known this: on the exchange vote. If in fact these mafias are sharks, democracy is the ocean water in which they thrive. And in some areas no one gets a majority without the votes driven by the mafias. So is obvious, the corrupt politician is not an autonomous mushroom, it is the fruit generated by the corruption of the people who then obtain many things in exchange for the vote: eyes closed on tax evasion, on illegal work, on building abuses, procurement concessions, public money squandered, bogus disability pensions, grants for the most unlikely projects provided through fraud against the state and so on ...

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It is possible to bring certain powerful mafias to their knees and defeat? And, we have always known the way: suspend political and administrative elections for ten years in about half of our country, entrusting the management of administrations to government commissioners. But this is impossible to do, because the democratic system changed into a dementocratic regime would never allow it, even if the mafias use a collapsed democracy to impose their control over entire territories of the country.

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Today that due to the Coronavirus emergency we find ourselves in a serious economic crisis, perhaps we pretend that Europe rains rains of money on us? Let's be serious: if we know the games of interest and the selfishness of the various countries of the European Union, who are not angels, at the head of all Germany, France and Holland, they know us just as well and they know what ingenuity we are capable of putting in when there is money to be wasted. In case I wasn't clear then I'll be clearer: During the years, Calabria and Sicily have returned tens of millions of euros to Europe that have not been used to enhance the territories, tourism, local crafts and small businesses. Come May? But because Europe wants concrete projects, reports and works performed, it does not intend to finance either the 'Ndrangheta or the Cosa Nostra. A quel point, not being able to scam, the funds were not used, then returned. Because this is the mafia logic: if I can't steal the money, then I don't want them.

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THE BIGGEST VOTE PURCHASE MADE WITH THE MONEY OF PUBLIC CONTRIBUTORS: THE CITIZENSHIP INCOME. IT IS POSSIBLE TO DEFEAT THE MAFIES? AND, WE ALWAYS KNOW HOW TO DO IT

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One of the largest purchases of votes made with public money in the history of our country has been the citizenship income, with which votes were reaped throughout the South of Italy, with the consequent intrigues that from time to time jump to the headlines. All thanks to the work of a handful of improvised young politicians who emerged from the demagogic protests of a schizophrenic comedian who incited the people by playing on the moods of the masses. All this confirms the wisdom of the Greek theater, in which it is known how, after the tragedy, we passed to the grotesque farce and then to satire.

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The law provides that this "electoral income", is withdrawn if the beneficiary rejects a suitable job offer twice. I ask: how many jobs are there for which Southern Italian companies and artisans are obliged to make use of foreign labor? And if I go back to call me back to the South, it is not for anti-southernism, but because it has the highest number of unemployed and illegal workers who then take unemployment checks and various benefits. Someone, to these benefited from "electoral income", has ever offered jobs in the agricultural sector, while fruit and vegetables rotted in the fields for lack of foreign labor, prevented from arriving in Italy due to the Coronavirus emergency which had closed the borders? Someone has offered jobs on construction sites, restaurants or hotels, where on the work scaffolding, inside the kitchens and as room cleaners, they provide almost exclusively African workers, or workers from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka? I can testify to you that during this summer I have been to several coastal locations, not for vacation, but to bring various people together. These are the scenes that presented themselves to my eyes in a coastal area, in one of those corners of our country where the ritual crying over unemployment has almost the flavor of a ritual: inside restaurants, bar, hotels, the service personnel were almost entirely North Africans, Oriental and Latin Americans, while on the promenade they walked for the well-deserved move beneficiaries of citizenship income. If the beneficiaries of this “electoral income” were offered the jobs carried out by willing foreign citizens, upon withdrawal of income after the second refusal, in the next elections, they would vote again for the dream children of the schizophrenic comedian, that repeat: the votes were bought at the expense of the public taxpayers of the Italian Republic through the citizenship income?

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THE STATE INTENDED AS AN ABSTRACT ENTITY THAT "MUST". THE CITIZEN INSTEAD, THE STATE DOES NOT HAVE TO NOTHING? WHO EVENTS THE TAX ROBS THE ENTIRE NATIONAL COLLECTIVITY

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As we saw on the occasion of the Coronavirus emergency, from the mouths of the "spotless victims" who make up the body of the sovereign people, the cry went up: “The state must!”. Yup, why to over 150 years since the unification of Italy, It has not yet been understood that the state is not an abstract entity, the state is all of us. Even more so, to the army of tax evaders, of illegal workers and various traffickers, it should have been answered… yes, "The state must", but you, At the state, which I repeat are all of us, in duties, you don't owe anything? In short: it is not that for many, this abstract entity of the state, risks being a cash cow, but at the same time to be defrauded when one has to fulfill the duty to pay taxes? Obviously, the thief or the scammer will never admit to being such, indeed it will look for plausible justifications, for example by stating that he does not pay taxes because he is horrified at the idea that with his money salaries and reimbursements are paid to the parasitic class of those politicians who among other things, the evader, voted and elected. Thieves and scammers always try to justify themselves, ignoring that in the state budget, the expenses for the payment of salaries and reimbursements of politicians, they are completely derisory. On the other hand, a lot is the money needed to guarantee free education for all, health care, assistance for the elderly and disabled, the public security system to protect the community and individual citizens, for scientific research centers and so on … And whoever evades the taxman does not cheat an unspecified abstract entity called the State, but it robs the entire national community.

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Add to all this that tax evaders are the main culprits for the increase in the tax burden. Let's clarify the extent of everything in figures: In the 2019, the ministry of finance, has calculated that in our country tax evasion is around one hundred billion euros per year [Report drawn up in 2019 by the Ministry of Economy and Finance]. I can trust you that, being ignorant in mathematics and beyond, I am not able to write this figure, because I don't even know how many zeros it must be composed of?

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To avoid unnecessary controversy I omit the name of the city, limiting myself to saying that in the official statistics in 2019 by the ministry of finance, this province of our South was among the last in terms of per capita income and tax revenue, with an estimated youth unemployment at 32%. But, at the same time, this province was among the first nationally for the registration of large cars and the consumption of luxury goods. To this was added another data: the second owned houses were superior in number to those of the richer provinces of Lombardy.

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How come in the face of such evidence the army of tax evaders at all difficult to identify was not sanctioned? Simple: certain politicians, they would never run the risk of compromising their precious electoral reservoir? And with this it is reiterated that bad politics and corrupt politicians are not mushrooms that arise spontaneously, but the product of the corruption of the people who live in the underworld and who declare themselves immaculate, then blaming the abstract entity of the state and the politicians they elected themselves.

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The Coronavirus epidemic was unexpected which highlighted how dangerous our economy is based also on tax evasion and illegal work. Some years ago, in times of economic crisis, thousands of small businesses unsubscribed from the records, while opposition politicians roamed the televisions complaining about this situation. However, it appears that many companies have complained, after having unsubscribed from the registers, they had continued to work illegally without paying taxes, thus favoring the undeclared and illegal work? No, who have not complained, because this other great electoral reservoir, no one could touch him.

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POLITICIANS AND JOURNALISTS WITH NO COMMON SENSE OF THE RIDICLE COMPARE THE ITALIAN SYSTEM AND ITS CITIZENS TO THAT OF GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND AND TO ITS CITIZENS. ITALIANS, THEY REALLY ARE A GREAT PEOPLE?

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Following the Coronavirus emergency which had serious repercussions on consumption, on the economy and the labor market, many of those who give life to this submerged found themselves in enormous difficulties. And often, precisely these, they complained about the "absence of the state" which they say "must ... must and only must".

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And the demagogic speeches of certain politicians joined by those of several journalists who tried absurd comparisons, up to affirming that: … In Italy they have promised subsidies for people and companies in difficulty that have not yet reached the great part, while in Germany and Switzerland, in a few days they deposited the money in the citizens' accounts.

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I remain with a doubt: the politicians who use the tool of demagogy and the journalists who support them, they are excusable for lack of intellect, or they are in bad faith? Because comparing Germany or Switzerland to Italy is worthy of the most hilarious comedy. It would be enough just to wonder: how many in Germany pay taxes and how many, the same taxes, they pay them in Italy? As regards Switzerland, I would like to remind you that when a referendum was held to abolish the television license, the Swiss voted against the majority, because they thought it right to pay for this public service performed by state television. Having said this reminder to the forgetful: in Italy, to be able to charge the television license, they had to include it in their electricity bills, because in certain regions of our country the payments processed reached a percentage of 70% about of users.

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Always in those moments of great Coronavirus emergency, day after day, politicians and commentators followed one another who reaffirmed how much we are a great people ... I'm sorry, but it is not true: we are a people with a low sense of national and collective dignity that cannot compare to a people with a sense of belonging, of nation and civic responsibility as the French are. We are a people who possess historical riches, artistic and environmental unique in the world, but we don't know how to exploit them, enhance and change in rich economy. From Naples down, to the extreme tip of Sicily, we have an open-air industry that does not produce toxic fumes and pollution and which is called climate, sea ​​and extraordinary landscape beauties. And despite the most frightening building horrors practiced, the devastated historical centers and the ruined coasts with mostly illegal pouring of concrete, beauty manages to predominate over the ugliness created by our incivility. Unfortunately, this slice of our country which is the most beautiful and rich in resources of all, it is not managed by the state, but by three powerful mafia associations that are convenient for large pockets of politics and for this reason they are not beheaded, thus making every speech on the revival of the splendid and potentially very rich South of Italy pure rhetoric.

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I would also like to dismantle another false myth: we are not even a people of genius people, because we got used to living in intrigue, it doesn't make us geniuses, but skilled traffickers. And we are not even the people of intellectuals that we play and sing on ourselves, quite the opposite: we are a people of narrow ignorant people. The proof regarding such harsh words? Just take an Italian high school or university student and compare them to a German or French student. The result will be more tragic if we compare the Italian teachers with the French and German ones, because nobody like us, starting from post sixty-eight, he managed to give birth to a class of teachers with an embarrassing ignorance.

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We are truly a people rich in excellence in the various fields of science and knowledge? Imagine! We have excellence, but all are the product of their natural gifts, of their intellect and the often immense pain with which they managed to move forward and finally emerge after long years of struggles against academic systems, scientific and professional corrupt and corrupt in the hands of politics, to the great academic barons and to the Masonic lodges that tangle with politics and with the barons.

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We are not a great people, nor a people of geniuses, nor a people of excellence, we are shrewd selfish individualists specializing in the art of fooling others. And if we want to talk about genius, it consists in the fact that between gimmicks and intrigues we have always managed to stay afloat in the great ocean of our underworld. It is in this, that we are a brilliant people.

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It is useless to make the crocodile cry on the flight of the most beautiful heads from Italy, because the real problem is that the worst turnip heads remain in our country and different, after the last elections, we found them in parliament.

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For those who are not clear, I give an example: In the 1497 the young Michelangelo Buonarroti sculpted just 22 years "La Pietà", which still represents the masterpieces of Italian art in the world. Five centuries later, In the 2019, just 33 years the young Luigi Di Maio is appointed foreign minister. Nobody makes strange conjectures, type: from Buonarroti della Pietà to Di Maio who makes pity. Indeed we clarify: it's me, than being stupid and limited, I am unable to grasp the five star genius of this young minister who today represents the history and dignity of our country in international relations with other states.

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IGNORANCE AND EGOISM MAKE DEMOCRACY DEEMOCRATIC, WHILE WHAT ONLY MATTERS SEEMS TO BE THE FEAR OF DICTATURES THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK

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We come now to the relationship between democracy, ignorance and selfishness, because ignorance and selfishness make democracy dementocratic. Request: it is right that everyone can benefit from the right to vote? Let me explain with two examples: under certain conditions dictated by law, it is possible to have a firearm license and a firearm supplied. Let's ask ourselves: How come, the electoral certificate, it is granted to all, including the mentally ill and overt idiots, while the gun license is not? It can do more harm to a madman with a firearm in hand, or 10.000 freaks who go to the polls to vote?

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To get a driving license, it is necessary to pass tests. I ask: Why, to similar suitability test, people are not submitted before receiving the electoral certificate? A reckless madman driving a car can cause more damage to the national community, or 10.000 deranged fools who go to the polls to vote?

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They have the right to vote people without the elementary awareness of what the Italian republican system is, from what the Constitution was born, what are the functions of Parliament and the prerogatives and powers of the President of the Republic. People who say that to fix our country we must abolish parliament and send home deputies and senators have the electoral certificate; and they don't say it as a joke, but with conviction.

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A corrupt and immature people who has in his hands the sovereignty that he delegates to the rulers, it can only generate a corrupt system and corrupt politicians. Then lacking in these subjects the sense of responsibility and the basic civic sense, at that point they will react by declaring themselves victims of corrupt politics, their own, the people who are the creator and supporter of corruption!

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We now come to the word taboo: "dictatorship". It is right to categorically state that dictatorship is always absolute evil and democracy always absolute good, even if history shows that some dictatorships have partly avoided worse dictatorships, partly civil wars that could have jeopardized the security of the world? Here are two different examples, I took one from the right and one from the left: if after the civil war of 1937, in Spain the de regime had not been established the Generalissimo Francisco Franco, what regime would be established? What would have been the assets of Europe today, if the Iberian Peninsula had become a satellite regime of Stalin's Soviet Union? I can ask this question, without running the risk of being accused of being a pro-fascist?

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View from the left instead: if the communist regime of the People's Republic of China collapsed as in 1991 the former Soviet Union fell suddenly, what a disaster for China and the whole world? China is not the unified country that many believe, to keep it united is a communist dictatorship. Inside China live hundreds of different ethnic groups who hate each other from ancient times. If this regime collapsed, the possibility of an internal civil war would be a huge risk, considered the power of China in terms of numbers of inhabitants, economically, at the level of war potential. I can ask this question, without running the risk of being accused of being a pro-communist?

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Another element that deserves to be analyzed these are the fate reserved for all those countries that have woken up as democrats overnight, after being subjugated for centuries, first to absolute monarchies, then to dictatorships set up by communist regimes. We want to assess at what disturbing levels, in these countries, powerful mafias have developed, high numbers of poor people, forms of savage capitalism devoid of any ethical glimmer? but yet, in those same countries previously ruled by communist dictatorships, two families lived in three rooms with a shared bathroom for the apartments on the whole floor, but they all had a roof over their heads and what to eat. Education and health care were guaranteed for all. Today, in the same countries, happen to see elderly people living in shacks under the bridges, people who cannot afford health care, young people who cannot support themselves in their studies. At the same time there are groups of people who live in opulent wealth. What to say: they had democracy. Yup, but in the face of this reality, some supporters of democracy at all costs, he feels like saying “… even democracy has its own taxes to pay!”?

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For fear of dictatorships that will never return, we have fallen into the worst dictatorship: on the one hand politicians who promise dreams in the election campaign, on the other, ignorant voters who put a blank check in their hands.

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Let me be clear, I have never been a fan of dictatorships, no more for family history: my great grandfather ended up in exile in France in 1927 and my grandfather left Rome in the late thirties because it too was not liked by the regime.

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THE LORD DEMENTOCRATIC DOESN'T KNOW THAT THE SALARY OF PARLIAMENTARIES IS BORN TO PROTECT FULL DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATION

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In the nineteenth century, with the birth of the liberal state, we had a half democracy based on a Statute promulgated by King Carlo Alberto in 1848. With this Statute which remained in force until the Republican Constitution came into force on January 1st 1948, the members of the aristocracy were running the country, the large landowners and the new industrial bourgeoisie. Only certain social classes could rise to political office and be elected to the Royal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, serving the interests of their social strata and power groups. Simply said,: today's ignorant pentastellato who rants about social media on the salary of parliamentarians, calling for its abolition, he does not know the history of his country. At the time that certain political positions were not remunerated and the parliamentarians did not even benefit from the reimbursement of travel expenses to go to Rome for the sessions of the chamber or the senate, who could bear the expenses that involved rising to certain positions? If an expense reimbursement was established first, then an adequate salary for parliamentarians, this was done to ensure democratic representation, because having the means of sustenance, even a peasant or a worker could have applied, be voted on and end up in parliament to protect the interests of peasants and workers, something that the parliamentarians exponents of the great families of industrialists and landowners could not have done.

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The ignorant dementocrats - those that the schizophrenic comedian called together as "the great people of the network" - who claimed on social media that parliamentarians would have to go to work and support themselves and then carry out their office for free, they basically said a surgeon, if he wants to pursue his profession, to go to work, support and then be a surgeon, because that of the doctor - the ignorant dementocrat always maintains - must not be a profession but a mission. I repeat: subjects so ignorant of the basic rudiments of our republican system, it is right to have an electoral certificate, while to have a firearms permit or a driving license you must have the eligibility requirements?

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After the Fascist period and the tragedy of the Second World War, we have become a democratic republic, without taking care, in the space of one hundred and fifty years, from the unity of Italy to follow, to create a people. And today, like yesterday, the Italian is the one who elbowed, trying to get ahead of the other in the row, who drops the garbage on the street because he is convinced that that space belongs to nobody, while in reality it is the most precious space, that is everyone's space. The Italian is the one who always gets along, between one expedient and another. The Italian is the one who feels sympathy towards the subject who manages to score a colossal scam, not infrequently even envy, provided the scammer does not strike him in his personal interests, because in this case he would be able to invoke the sentence of life imprisonment, if the scammer has only stolen fifty euros from his precious wallet.

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AS A PRIEST I DO NOT DO POLITICS BUT SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH, REMEMBERING THAT THE TRUE CHRISTIAN MUST GIVE CAESAR WHAT IS CAESAR AND TO GOD WHAT. IT IS OF GOD

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We are a people in the sun unable to exploit the wealth of the sun. We believe we live in a democracy, instead we live in a state of controlled anarchy, without realizing that for some time an occult Big Brother has been working on us who lives on our stupidity and our selfishness that he forages in a scientific way. And after unexpected crises or emergencies, we find that the rich have become richer and the poor poorer.

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To experience a true democracy a spirit of deep respect for the other is needed, treating the nothing public, the public thing, better than how we would treat our private property. Otherwise you end up living in a democracy without freedom, satisfied by the spirit of anarchy granted to us by Big Brother, but not for our benefit, but only his and those behind him.

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in September 1870 Rome was taken, last missing territory. Since then, Italy was united in its geographical order, but no one has bothered to form Italians as a people, passed through the centuries from one ruler to another. Today they think they are free, the Italians are in the hands of the worst tyrant, other than the specter of the old dictatorships that will never return! If indeed in the past, to keep the masses sedated, at the time that we were a great empire, the emperors of Rome gave the people bread and circus, today, a master as much worse as it is occult, he sedated the people with bread and anarchy. And mind you: a selfish anarchy strictly under control, run by a democracy without freedom, in which the great puppeteer allows us to be anarchoids, but it does not allow us to be free.

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In the sixth century BC. Pittàco, considered one of the seven great Greek scholars, he taught: "Don't do to your neighbor what would offend you if it were done by him to you" [Pittàco, Fragment: 10.3]. Ancient biblical wisdom so urges us: "Desire for your neighbor what you desire for yourself" [Book of Leviticus: 19, 18]. Several decades before the incarnation of the Word of God, Great Rabbi Hillel taught the disciples in this way: “Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you: this is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary " [Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 31.a]. In Christian wisdom, the concept of "desire" and "respect" is translated into the Christological imperative: "... love one another as I have loved you" [The Gospel of St. John: 15, 12]. And when Christ God was asked by the Pharisees if it was right to pay taxes to Caesar, he got a coin, pointed to the effigy of Caesar on it and answered: "Give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor and God what belongs to God" [Gospel of St. Matthew: 22, 17-21]. Christ himself paid the tax collectors for the Temple, commanding Peter to give them a silver coin "for you and for me" [Gospel of St. Matthew: 17,27].

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Give in to forms of dangerous demagogy and vote for the decrease in the number of parliamentarians of the Italian Republic, driven not least by intimate social envy, in my free and humble opinion it could amount to further impoverishing and limiting a fragile democracy that in many ways has already failed and collapsed.

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I hope no one dares to accuse me of being political, first because I am a citizen of the Italian Republic and even if I had done so I have all the rights recognized. Second, because I have not done politics, I only did the social doctrine of the Church.

God bless Italy and its people.

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the Island of Patmos, 17 September 2020

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Faith and tattoos: possible combination? It is permissible for a believer to tattoo his body? But most of all: it is appropriate to scream “to satanism!” in front of a tattoo on the body?

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FAITH AND TATTOOS: POSSIBLE COMBINATION? IT IS LAWFUL FOR A BELIEVER TO TATTOO THE BODY? BUT MOST OF ALL: JUST THE CASE OF SCREAMING “TO SATANISM!” FOR A BODY TATTOO?

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Catholic Christianity knows a very clear theology of corporeality that does not find parallels in other religions or faiths. Marked by the baptismal seal, the physical body is immersed in the mystery of passion, death and resurrection of Jesus which is true the symbol that grace impresses on the soul. However, I want to recognize satanic elements in the tattoo, not only is it likely to be an exaggeration, but to reduce the question to a minimum, or perhaps worse in terms of closed banality, until you see evil everywhere, except not seeing it where it really is.

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For some time to the Fathers de The Island of Patmos they came both from young people and from parents, questions about tattoos imprinted on the body. Our Capuchin columnist took care to answer, Father Ivano Liguori, who is working on a short essay on this subject that will be published and distributed in our own shortly Editions The island of Patmos. Meanwhile, we offer you some advances.

 

 

 

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“Don't be afraid of tattoos. The Eritreans, already many years ago, they made the cross on their foreheads ".

Francis I.

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image of the Supreme Pontiff Francis tattooed on his arm

These are the words of the Holy Father [1] in response to a question from a young seminarian from Lviv, Yulian Vendzilovych, which posed the problem of the current pastoral challenges of the Church within the universe and the world of youth.

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One of the issues addressed, in that interview it's the tattoo, now become the status symbol more common than young people Post-Millennials [2] who thus emulate their favorites from the world of sport and music, far more than was the case with the generation of their fathers.

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tattoo on arm: crucifixion on Calvary surmounted by two hands holding a rosary crown

It is certainly not a trivial question the one submitted by the seminarian to the Pope, much less does the argument appear superficial as it might be considered at first sight. On the contrary, such a provocation can certainly favor a sincere and enlightening dialogue on the status of the problem of the boundless world of tattooing and tattooing.

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It's not just the youth world who wants to get tattooed, according to a certain estimate they would be about 20 millions of people around the world want to have a tattoo [3]. Among the Italians - according to data from the National Institute of Health [ISS [4]] updated to 17 October 2019 and disseminated by the Epicentro site - il 12,8% of the population has at least one tattoo, percentage that rises to 13,2% if we also consider the ex-tattooed.

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The people of the tattooed includes all age groups: teenagers, young people and adults of both sexes and belonging to the most disparate social and religious contexts.

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Saint Pio of Pietrelcina tattooed on a shoulder

Although this topic seems in some ways niche - so much so as not to interest the hottest fashion or costume tabloids - relegating the entire field to specialized magazines, the story is not without its charm, disputes and prejudices, together with those hasty analyzes that suffer from simplistic and often misplaced generalizations. All things from a Christian faith point of view, they demand a clear explanation, adequate and satisfactory to avoid the risk of becoming an impediment to a free and liberating faith.

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The tattoo issue, placed in such terms, may allow us to reformulate the seminarian's question to the Pope so as to recall an echo in that ethical question that the rich young man addressed to Jesus [cf. MC 10,17]: “Perhaps we future priests may not even be interested in tattoos. But since our peers who attend the church, who are baptized as we show it off, a clarification is required: it is good for a Christian to have them?”.

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Santa Rosalia patroness of Palermo tattooed on a calf

The question, as I took the liberty of rephrasing, it is obviously of a moral nature and the answer must be sought in that eternal good that is also hidden within areas of shadow and human frailty. Intimate and daring places where only God can work and where a good spiritual director can put his hand to it. Let's clear the field of any misunderstanding: it is not the tattoo as an entity in itself that is the subject of dispute but the fundamental option that pushes these body decorations to be made within a discourse of human physicality that is already perfectly harmonious because it reflects the work of God the creator.

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Indeed, if Isaiah can speak for the Lord testifying how Yahweh knows man so intimately that he uses the image "I drew you on the palms of my hands" [Is 49,16], that goal seems to be accomplished that identifies the body as a place of writing in which "the skin is a surface on which it is possible to write one's own story" [5], also the one with God and that others can read.

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tattoo of the Cross of St. Benedict of Nursia with the dove depicting the Holy Spirit

As happened in the story of the illness of the young Ségolène affected by sclerosis started on the left arm:

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"Man needs symbols, I needed a symbol, of a physical sign, visible, of Christ near me. When my arm isn't working properly, this cross gives me the hope and strength to move forward in life, despite everything " [6].

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I challenge anyone to judge a sick young woman for his hopeful choice that, acceptable or not, it challenges us precisely in that field which is witness and martyrdom in which so many men and women find themselves living, Christians of our time.

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That's why the questions about the tattoo made on a Christian question the baptismal choice which is also totalizing of an already redeemed human physicality. So these are the unspoken doubts to the question put by the seminarian to the Pope: the tattoo brings me closer or away from Christ? It brings me closer or distances me from the ecclesial community? These are the questions to be resolved, without being afraid to go looking for the answers.

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image of the passion of Christ crowned with thorns tattooed on a back

We already know from history than Orthodox Christians, Armenia, baked [7], Eritreans practiced the tattoo as a sign of testimony of faith, of participation in the sufferings of Christ and as certification of a pilgrimage [8] happened in the holy places.

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Who claims that the tattoo theme is just a legacy of stereotypes of past civilizations, of criminal environments bordering on legality or of a religious world whose guidelines are represented by the simple dualism allowed / forbidden or innocence / sin, would make an embezzlement in the area of ​​intellectual honesty. The tattoo can also be all of this, but it certainly is much more. This world is very vast, so much so that we cannot expect an immediately univocal reading of the problem. It is necessary to define the areas of study, create links, chasing temporal connections, understand the symbols, the archetypes and the subculture of the ancient world that determined the birthplace of tattooing and its practice.

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On one thing, however, it is better to agree with Pope Francis: the Christian must not fear anything, much less the tattoo. Because it is Christ who commanded his disciples not to fear [cf. Mt 10,31; 10,28; 14,27; MC 4, 40 GV 6, 20 To 18, 9] and the Church never generates fearful and fearful children from her womb.

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Archangel Michael tattoo on one arm

The following study seeks to dwell on history and tattoo culture as well as necessary introductory argument, then going to analyze some aspects concerning the moral and religious legitimacy of the pictorial mark on the skin in the light of the Magisterium of the Church. Some particular themes will conclude the study, like the relationship between faith and tattoos and the debate, still open, among exorcist priests about a certain demonic influence of the tattoo and its spiritual effects. The conclusions of the study will seek to combine theological perspectives with pastoral guidelines. In this sense, I tend to clarify any possible perplexities right away. These pages cannot and should not be taken as a kind of Christian apology for tattooing. Expenses, after reading them, wanted to support such a thesis would be manifestly in bad faith and misleading.

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As a Catholic priest and theologian, But, I have a duty to investigate on the theological level even those questions that are found over the line, in those no-man's lands where it is easy to get lost or chase mirages, however tempting, only inconsistent evidence remains.

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chest tattoo with Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary

Catholic Christianity he knows a very clear theology of corporeality that does not find parallels in other religions or faiths. Marked by the baptismal seal, the physical body, he is immersed in the mystery of passion, death and resurrection of Jesus which is true the symbol that grace impresses on the soul. An indelible identity seal - sfraghis - who as belonging to God identifies us in the Holy Spirit as beloved children (cf. MC 1,11). Understand this, already from its first developments and implications, it helps the discernment of the person who also comes to give up the charm of having a tattooed sign that, however beautiful and artistically valid, it always remains transitory and the work of human hands. However, I want to recognize satanic elements in the tattoo, not only is it likely to be an exaggeration, but to reduce the question to a minimum, or perhaps worse in terms of closed banality, until you see evil everywhere, except not seeing it where it really is.

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Laconi, 15 September 2020

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NOTE

[1] CF. HTTPS://www.agensir.it/quotidiano/2018/3/19/papa-francesco-ai-giovani-non-spaventarsi-dei-tatuaggi/

[2] With this label we refer to that generation of young people born after that of the Millennials (1980-1995), therefore from 1996 on.

[3] CF. Francesco Bungaro, Piercings and tattoos: the body readjusted. In Studia Bioethica - vol. 3 (2010) n ° 3 pp. 39-49.

[4] CF. HTTPS://www.epicentro.iss.it/tatuaggi/aggiornamenti

[5] CF. B. Andrieu - C. Children, "The Decorated Body" in Mind and Brain, 37 (January 2008).

[6] HTTPS://it.aleteia.org/2019/02/28/tatuaggi-copti-wassim-razzouk/

[7] CF. HTTPS://it.aleteia.org/2019/02/28/tatuaggi-copti-wassim-razzouk/

[8] CF. https://www.tatuaggistyle.it/razzouk/8752

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