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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Dear Readers,

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.
2. A work of fiction by Emilio Biagini: The New Earth.
3. A work of fiction by Maria Antonietta Novara: Grandma didn't tell fairy tales.
4. A work of fiction by Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo: The path of the three keys.
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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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 unknowingly–duck, 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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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 ".

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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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[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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THE EXCELLENT PRIEST ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA IS NOT A DISHONEST BUT A SICK AND HIS DISEASE IS CALLED "ACUTE SCHIZOPHRENIA"

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None of us, The Island of Patmos like the agency Correspondence Romana and various other priests and theologians who have paid attention to this serious clinical case to protect the health of the souls he harms, he wishes and is pleased to deal with this subject. However, we all have two moral obligations: the correct Catholic information and above all the health of those souls that this schizophrenic is guiding towards a precipice. For this I repeat, to those who listen and follow him, to go and see the official speeches and videos in which the words of the Supreme Pontiff are recorded, because anyone will be able to ascertain in what serious way, mischievous but above all sick, Alessandro Minutella imputes to the Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter what he has never said.

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the psychiatrist Paolo Pancheri [Milan 1938 – Rome 2007], full professor of psychiatry at the La Sapienza University of Rome and Italian father of biological psychiatry

Take care of the Alessandro Minutella case it bothers me enormously, for this I would not do it. But if I do it, it is because in these days I have been reached by the messages of numerous people asking for light from the Fathers de The Island of Patmos on the latest shots of this psychiatric case report, especially about his video titled: «If Francis is the Pope, Jesus has deceived us» [see video, WHO].

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A friend in particular it was a great help in analyzing the case: an Italian-Swiss psychiatrist who before becoming director of a Swiss psychiatric clinic that deals with patients with severe schizophrenia, for several years he was assistant to Prof. Paolo Pancheri [Milan 1938 - Rome 2007], that I myself knew in my youth, because friend of two of my Roman aunts.

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Paolo Pancheri, neuropsychiatrist, he was the Italian father of biological psychiatry, branch that studies the biological elements of human behavior. His research studies on psycho-pharmacology aimed at cure were innovative, but more than anything else to the containment of subjects suffering from serious disorders for which any form of psychotherapy was completely useless.

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This Swiss specialist, student of Paolo Pancheri at the University Wisdom From Rome, where the distinguished clinician was ordinary at the chair of psychiatry, he followed in his footsteps and carried out various researches, especially in the psycho-pharmacological field, collaborating with several pharmaceutical research laboratories on the latest generation of psychiatric drugs for subjects suffering from severe schizophrenia.

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From what it is deduced that Alessandro Minutella is suffering from acute schizophrenia? This distinguished Swiss specialist who has viewed several of his videos explained it with scientific rigor, detailing how, schizophrenia, in severe cases create an alteration of cognitive and perceptual behavioral functions. The severe schizophrenic is subject to delusions and hallucinations that lead him to live in a state of alteration and dissociation from reality. For the schizophrenic, what is born of his subjective reality is "true" and "real", up to the clear denial of the fact. On a clinical-scientific level, the most serious cases of schizophrenia were always those of subjects who externalize their psychopathologies through the religious element, by virtue of which their ailments end up having a sort of supernatural "consecration"; and anyone who contradicts them, it is an enemy of divine power, an emissary of the devil and so on.

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Schizophrenic can be very dangerous when he manages to identify and catch some particular discontent that pervade the masses and that are the result of social and political situations of crisis, or, as in our case, of a state of grave decline in the ecclesial and ecclesiastical world. A quel point, the schizophrenic, takes as its starting point real objective data and then manipulates them, until it turns into a dangerous mass driver, or small masses made up of discontented personalities, burdened by psychological frailties and difficulties in relating to the objective data, to the extent of lacking an adequate reactive spirit towards real problems.

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Alessandro Minutella has always complained - last in serial order he did it with my friend Roberto de Mattei due to an article that appeared on the Agency Correspondence Romana on May 11 2020 [see WHO], previously also with my brother priest Francesco Maria Marino, of the Order of Preaching Friars and various others … well, he has always complained: «Nobody agrees to confront me on the merits». Lie, pure and simple lie. In fact, the exact opposite is true: we would all be happy to be able to say and demonstrate in the face, in front of an audience, that what he calls "merit" are falsehoods constructed through manipulation and that his theological preparation is, to say the least, incomplete and embarrassing. So he lies in a shameless way stating that everyone escapes the confrontation with this excellent theologian. Indeed, to the proven proof of the facts, I myself dedicated to him an almost hour-long video conference entitled "From Friar Cipolla to Alessandro Minutella, that is: when the satire of Boccaccio's high literature changes instead into a grotesque comedy and the ruin of souls " [see WHO], where with surgical precision and impeccable Aristotelian logic and good philosophy of common sense I indicated mystifications, the lies and alterations of the reality of Alessandro Minutella, that he never replied. Afterwards, in several of his neuro-video-delusions, he tried to belittle my person, for example stating that I was not a theologian, that I was not a scholar, that I had no academic qualifications, reaffirming that he had two doctorates instead, repeating obsessively-compulsively: «… two doctorates ... I have two doctorates ... ", then adding that "this priest" or the undersigned "has no title to speak with me that I have two doctorates, I have two doctorates ... ".

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Obviously I never fell into his provocation, also because I don't have to justify to a schizophrenic what my training was and what they were, above all, my teachers, three of which in particular made history in the field of theological speculation in the Catholic Church of the twentieth century. In that detailed video of mine I limited myself to asking the schizophrenic and his Pecore Belanti: of when, wisdom and science, they depend on the academic papers, or from doctorates? However, that place, for thirty years now, in Roman pontifical universities, doctoral degrees in sacred theology are pulled behind even armies of people who have serious gaps not on theology, but precisely on the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Reason why, several authentic and talented theologians who have obtained degrees in these institutions, they never mention these universities or their qualifications, Why, evaluating their current state, they are ashamed of having studied you and of having obtained unnecessary academic papers. All unlike this schizophrenic who claims to be a great expert on the thought of the famous theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, in which, however, he seems to ignore that the eminent Swiss theologian never obtained a theological doctorate, because he graduated in German Studies and Philosophy from a secular state university. E, before being consecrated priest in the Society of Jesus, from which he later resigned to join the secular clergy of the Diocese of Chur, he only did the basic theological studies necessary for sacred priestly ordination.

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Having then several times, the schizophrenic, the Venerable Father Divo Barsotti is also named - whom I have known as proven and documented, so I know who he was and especially how he was - he was asked if this other great personality had a title to speak with a bi-doctor like him, given that the Father, not only did he never obtain any specialization degree and least of all a theological doctorate, but he had never even taken the paper of the basic title of primary theological studies, that he had done in a provincial seminary, exactly as most of the priests of the time did. To all this series of disputes based on historical facts and evidence, the schizophrenic has always and rigorously postponed and, although sensationally and publicly denied, he never replied, continuing to be the victim by stating: «... nobody wants to confront me .... nobody wants to talk to me ... I have two doctorates ... I have two doctorates ... ».

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In his latest neuro-video-delusion, the schizophrenic returns to impute things of an unprecedented gravity to the reigning Pontiff. And these are unheard of things to the extent that they are totally false, but presented as true by this serious clinical case. And so, for the umpteenth time, he accuses the Roman Pontiff of heresy and apostasy by faith by accusing him of having defined "silly stuff», that is nonsense, Marian dogmas, to have denied the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the divinity of Christ the Incarnate Word of God.

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Well: we all formally challenge how much uselessly this seriously ill patient - who as such is not responsible for his words and affirmations, as the result of his illness defined by psychiatry as acute schizophrenia -, to demonstrate where and when, the Supreme Pontiff, he denied the Marian dogmas and the divinity of the incarnate Word of God. Let us decide once and for all to publicly present the text of the official speech, or the movie in which the Roman Pontiff, which is always and in practice recorded in his official speeches, clearly and precisely asserts similar and serious heresies, to the point of denying the Marian dogmas and defining them "nonsense".

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The truth is that this schizophrenic takes fragments of speeches, he manipulates them and then attributes to the Supreme Pontiff what he has never said. E, to put it all together, he serves himself, as well as manipulation, also of the actual process of intentions, for example accusing the Supreme Pontiff of not believing in the real presence of Christ the living and true God in the Most Holy Eucharistic Species.

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None of us, The Island of Patmos like the agency Correspondence Romana and various other priests and theologians who have paid attention to this serious clinical case to protect the health of the souls he harms, he wishes and is pleased to deal with this subject. However, we all have two moral obligations: the correct Catholic information and above all the health of those souls that this schizophrenic is guiding towards the precipice. For this I repeat, to those who listen and follow him, to go and see the official speeches and videos in which the words of the Supreme Pontiff are recorded, because anyone will be able to ascertain in what serious way, mischievous but above all sick, Alessandro Minutella imputes to the Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter what he has never said. And anyone who has no serious problems with reality and perception of reality, can only say: Alessandro Minutella extrapolates words totally out of context, it falsifies them, so mind e, telling the fake, imputed to the Supreme Pontiff, with ferocious hatred, insulting and aggressive, what he never said, what never left even vaguely understood between the lines with double meanings or ambiguities.

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Alessandro Minutella should therefore be transferred as soon as possible, for his greatest good, from her Little Nazareth to one Little Neuro, where it can be treated with adequate drug therapies, the only ones able to sort, in his serious and unfortunately irreversible case, some possible beneficial effect, that means: the administration of powerful latest generation neuroleptics produced by neuropsychiatric research laboratories.

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the Island of Patmos, 1July 2020

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