SOCIAL MEDIA And ignorance. If the story is written by the winners, Of the vile assassin terrorists become martyrs of freedom

Terrorists can be such if the ideology followed by them loses and ends up defeat, as in the case of the red brigades, but they can become heroes and martyrs of freedom if the ideology they followed wins and imposes itself as a power of government. In fact, if radical Islamism had won and subjugated the United States of America, Today in New York the demolition of the two twin towers would be celebrated in the same way that the grip of the Bastille is celebrated in France and the reversal of the government of Louis XVII.

— History and current affairs —

.

PDF print format article

.

.

The lower the average IQ in society becomes, the more it is necessary to explain even the obvious things. The error that we scholars often make in the theological field as in the spheres of all the most disparate sciences, from medicine to astrophysics, It is to take for granted things that we consider obvious and that in fact are as well, being the most rudimentary elements of the various sciences or simple and basic human common sense. Unfortunately, It is necessary to take into account that today we are more likely to follow the influence illiterates and i tiktoker, Including certain priests who launched themselves in these demented games (cf.. WHO).

As always, let's explain with an example: numerous influence convinced that "a dwarf has his heart too close to his asshole" because they didn't understand the ironic hyperbole of the song A judge by Fabrizio de André (text WHO), they use the word Middle Ages in a derogatory sense, ignoring that the art baggage, science and technology that we have today we owe it all to the Middle Ages. Not only, because if today we know the classical authors; be the culture, Greek and Roman literature and philosophy have been handed down to us only thanks to the Middle Ages, including the most lustful poems of Valerius Gaius Catullus, which not only the Church was careful not to censor or destroy, because if we know them today it is thanks to it and to the scribe monks who transcribed them and handed them down over the centuries.

If in those areas of Etruria which was the territory of the Papal States until September of 1870, The church had not saved and preserved wall frescoes and pottery that depicts phallic scenes, orgies and homosexual relationships between men, Those Etruscan and Roman assets would have been lost. Just as it happened elsewhere, where the Church was not governing, But the "enlightened" liberal governments that judged certain representations scandalous and immoral and for this reason they destroyed them.

The system of modern law we owe it to the great Bolognese glossators who lived between the 11th and 12th centuries and we owe the fundamental element of legal civilization of the protection and legitimate defense of the accused precisely to that inquisitorial process on which unaware and ignorant people about the fact that being condemned by the Tribunals of the Holy Inquisition was very difficult. And it was precisely the courts of the inquisition that sanctioned another element that today is part of the criminal jurisprudence of all the so-called civilized countries of the world: the penalty aimed at recovery, not to the punishment dictated by instincts of revenge, because through the sentence the condemned should not be punished but recovered. The reply of the ignorant is ready: «Death sentences were given!». And here it must be reiterated that death sentences were not rare but very rare, specifying that they must be placed and read in historical contexts to which today's judgment criteria are not applicable, It would be enough to explain that even the death sentence was an extreme act aimed at recovering the convicted. For this the condemned were dressed in white, sign of purity, because with death they paid their debt and extinguished their guilt by reacquiring what in Christian language is called "baptismal purity". And their bodies, after death, they had to be treated with respect and buried with consideration.

To the historical explanations he reiterates the ignorant: Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake, other than killed and buried with respect!». Of course. And according to what was social logic, policy, juridical and religious of the time they did well to burn it at the stake. It was he who made a mistake with rare obstinacy. He was subjected to two processes, One in Venice and one in Rome. With the second Roman trial it was given again ex new to the entire procedural process that lasted in total eight years, During which two cancellations intervened for laughable defects of form, In order to give Bruno as much time as possible to be able to repent. For years he was attempted to induce him to repentance, which he stubbornly refused. Needless to say and explain to certain people who feed on and drink of black legends that cannot be evaluated and judging the Bruno case with the judgment criteria of our social present, politico, legal and also religious. It would be like condemning with a scream of scandal, through the application of contemporary thought, certain practices of the men of prehistory considered in our opinion inhuman and criminals.

There are many historical facts manipulated since the 16th century By the work of Protestant authors and from the end of the eighteenth century XIX by liberal-antique in the following period the French Revolution in the following period. The ardua remains today, If not almost impossible to deny certain black legends now absurd to truths impressed even on school texts of history. As in the case of the story that saw protagonists in the pontifical Rome of 1867 Gaetano Tognetti, 23 year old, Giuseppe Monti, 33 year old, Today celebrated as undisputed heroes and patriots of the Risorgimento. The two self -styled heroes, in the evening of 22 October 1867 They placed and exploded a powerful explosive charge that almost completely destroyed the Serristori barracks, located in a crossbar of the current via della Conciliation, A few tens of meters from the papal archbasilical of San Pietro. In this barracks a company of pontifical Zuavi housed. The explosion caused the death of twenty -five military and two civilians. If shortly before, a large company had not come out of the building, The number of deaths would have been much greater. The inspirer of this attack was mainly Francesco Cucchi, Deputy to the Parliament of Florence, that with other associates used the work of the two attacks, then ended up discovered, arrested, tried and sentenced to death.

Two years after their execution, to Unification of Italy that took place and with Rome which has become its capital, The two attacks were celebrated as heroes and made history as "martyrs of freedom" went down. In 1977 The Italian director Luigi Magni wrote and directed a film of a becera anticlerical matrix by enhancing these two figures and totally falsifying the historical picture of the last gash of life of the Papal States, now reduced to the territory of Rome only and part of the current Lazio region.

Gaetano Tognetti and Giuseppe Monti were not the heroic patriots but of the vile terrorists who killed in an attack by young people in the age group between the 18 e i 25 year old, all mostly components the musical band. Many more than twenty -seven in total could have been the victims, If an entire company had not suddenly left the stable one.

None of the European rulers, starting from the Savoy, He offered Diplomatic Help to Pius IX, asking for the grace of the condemned and the switching of the sentence to the capital penalty in prison, While knowing that at that moment the Roman Pontiff had to deal with the parents of the young victims and the Roman population wounded and angry for their death, including that of a five -year -old girl, Rosa, He died instantly with his father Francesco Ferri, while the mother, Younnse blind, he saved himself falling on the ground stunned. Once the senses resumed he went crazy completely, So much so that it was necessary to intern it in the asylum of Santa Maria della Pietà, where he later died.

This Randal narrative of the facts It has never passed through the legendary stories of the glorious Italian Risorgimento, how pseudo-storichical books feel, novels and even cinematographic productions of anti -clerical directors.

By virtue of what was the real historical story, We would have had to look at these two terrorists in legendary heroes by changing by rear by the work of liberal-antique propaganda, complete with roads, neighborhoods and monuments dedicated to them. This would be equivalent to erecting today in Rome, in via Fani, where he was kidnapped in 1978 Prime Minister Aldo Moro and killed his escort agents, A celebratory monument in honor of the heroic and patriotic Red Brigades. By imprinting to follow on the history books that the red brigades did not constitute a dangerous terrorist movement that stubbornly stained with murders and attacks during the seventies of the twentieth century, But a heroic group of liberators, titled to the name of each terrorist roads and squares.

Terrorists and attacks they can become heroes and be celebrated as such depending on those who win the war and follow the chronicles, By changing ideologies and legends in false historians presented to posterity as history-pastry, complete with great diffusion films, The purpose of which it is to instill in the increasingly glued masses contempt and hatred towards the Catholic Church and the Papacy, in the total contempt of historical truths. Terrorists can be such if the ideology followed by them loses and ends up defeat, as in the case of the red brigades, but they can become heroes and martyrs of freedom if the ideology they followed wins and imposes itself as a power of government. If in fact, radical Islam had won and, always for example, subjugated the United States of America, Today in New York the demolition of the two twin towers would be celebrated in the same way that the grip of the Bastille is celebrated in France and the reversal of the government of Louis XVII, Without nod to the summary executions or to the farsque processes entirely based on false delations that then gave life to a huge blood bath on the guillotine.

The Dutch historian Pieter Geyl (1887-1966) He said that "the story is always written by the winners". Many centuries earlier, The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote in his political work: "The lies of the winners become history while those of the losers are discovered".

Phrase that is anything but easy to interpret, that of Aristotle, that the Italian philosopher and politician Rocco Buttiglione clarified in a lapidary way, interning precisely on the pages of the social media:

"There is historical science that has its rules: control of sources, the verification of the logical consistency of the statements, the obligation to complete information. Historical science wants to ascertain "What actually happened” (What really happened). This does not eliminate but places a limit to partisan. There is the war propaganda of the winners who try to establish itself as an official truth. There is also the war propaganda of the losers, which is periodically rediscovered and opposed to the official versions of the events. However, there is also the serious historical research that evaluates all available data. Often the phrase "History is written by the winners" is used by the losers to rehabilitate its war propaganda. It is good to keep it in mind to distinguish between serious historical revisionism and what is not serious " (cf.. WHO).

Today, From Russia to Ukraine to the Middle East, The story is repeating itself, with the worst overbearing already at work to manufacture the next false heroes of the homeland to be celebrated.

From the island of Patmos 12 July 2025

.

______________________

Dear Readers, this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our Bank account in the name of:

Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome – Vatican

Iban code: IT74R0503403259000000301118

For international bank transfers:

Codice SWIFT: BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff,

the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message: isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

 

From Francesco Le Lion Xiv. What the future will reserve for us?

We wish the very beat Father Leone XIV to be himself, no longer Robert Prevost but Pietro, A wounded healer, to reconstitute the figure of the sweet Christ on earth healthy and to know how to heal the Church that lives in a traumatized situation. You have to at least try us, even without succeeding, but try. This will already constitute a merit of grace and salvation, Through that logic of the Christological failure that shines the world in the glory of the cross and wins the world.

- Church news -

.

Author
Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Cap.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

Just two weeks after the election of the Roman Pontiff Leone XIV We cannot fail to notice in the Church an atmosphere of generalized euphoria combined with that feeling of relief similar to the one who at the end of the day dismisses the narrow shoes to get comfortably in slippers. It is enough to retrace the images of the pontificate beginning Holy Mass to notice a San Pietro square very crowded until the entire Via della Conciliation, which has not happened for at least a decade now.

Many were present. Not only did ordinary people want to be present at the event of the beginning of the Ministry of the new Roman Pontiff but also several prominent personalities from all over the world have made their tribute, nourishing in their hearts the secret hope that the new head of the Church could constitute a valid political and social ally in the current geopolitical chessboard.

The election of a pope is something extraordinary, Without a doubt it is a unique event in the world, which with easy irony takes place precisely “at every death of Pope”. but yet, This election in particular was loaded with numerous hopes and expectations precisely for the singularity of the pontificate of Pope Francis and of that objective eccentricity of the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio of which, if necessary, We talked with regret and sometimes embarrassment on our magazine, always with respect but above all to "Pope Vivo", unlike the "heroes" who only today, to "Dead Pope", they raise perplexity, criticism and even irony. Hence the realistic comment of our canonist editor Padre Teodoro Pjudged:

«To us who, in the face of certain undeniable extravagances, If necessary, we criticized the Holy Father Francesco with a face open, with grace and respect, Now it will be the task of defending him from dead from those who have enhanced him alive, up to sink into forms of real papolatria, Obviously far from disinterested, having then obtained what is hoped for benefits, Ecclesiastical appointments and charges ".

We pay attention, After each papal election there is from many commentators and journalists the immoderate use of that female noun which is "continuity", term that means and indicates the resumption of that line of government - made of tradition, idea, guidelines and styles - that the deceased pontiff had in his government of the Church and that the new should continue almost as a testamentary legacy. Confirming the fact, Most of the latest predictions about possible papabili all focused on profiles similar to of which, Just as that Latin phrase teaches: Similar with similar. But the history of the papacy and the conclaves always reserves surprises and unexpected events.

I remember how in the 2005, Upon the death of John Paul II, Benedict XVI's election was greeted as a sign of great continuity with the predecessor. Time then highlighted how the two pontificates proved to be different both for personal history, Both for styles and temperaments and that the only continuity found was the one present in the command of the Risen Lord to Pietro: "Pasci my sheep" (GV 21,17). These two Pontiff's Romans have been united by the desire to lead the spacecraft of the Church and to feed the Holy People of God with fortress and not without the painful calvaries.

This is to say that regimenting a pontificate Within personal expectations and previous inheritance leads to disappointments and that the continuity that counts for a pope is that with Jesus Christ and not with his predecessor, It was also a canonized saint. This was also the thought that many cardinals shared during the latest general congregations in view of the conclave and is the one that in a not so veiled way was also able to express Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re during the Holy Mass before entering the conclave.

Such scattered reflections are positive Because they help us mature in the knowledge that a pope should be loved both in his ministry and as a figure but at the same time we are equally convinced that the Pope, whatever it is, In his fragile and bankruptcy humanity it is not a outsider and therefore it needs all the support and the advice possible, Because we are all passable of that failure that our director Father Ariel has masterfully expressed in one of his recent article (you see WHO).

The advice is a gift from the Holy Spirit and not a human compromise, It is that gift that the psalm 16 it describes this: «The Lord gave me advice, Even at night my heart instructs me " (Shall 16, 7). The task of advising and instructing the Supreme Pontiff belongs primarily to God through the Son but also through the suggestion, The wisdom and mediation of the Sacred College to which it is responsible for generously exercising the gift of the Council towards the person of the Supreme Pontiff.

May 8th, from the loggia of the blessings of the Basilica of San Pietro, We were able to see a pontiff overlooking with visible emotion and awareness of his role, The television images could not hide the emotion of the eyes and the nervousness that crashed the lips. He presented himself to the world as a pontiff, with the appearance of a pontiff, For those who wanted to see a pontiff and nothing else. That gift of the Council will have worked effectively in the heart of the cardinals in view of the election? We hope so, But we wish to hope that you continue to work in the years to come both in the Cardinal College and inside the Apostolic Palace. The conditions would seem good - the conditional is a must - from the moment in which Leo XIV overlooked the balcony of the loggia of the Basilica we were able to perceive its intentionality of recovering the Church on the person of the Risen Christ and accompanying all men within a path of Easter awareness.

We want to cultivate the theological virtue of hope and feed a realistic trust, without falling into easy conspiracy "amphibologies" or in the trap of seeing in the mozzetta, in the pontifical stole and on the golden cross of the golden or controversial signs. The presence of these signs is not an expression of a carnival farce or a Renaissance legacy, they represent the elements of a pope and help to outline his clear figure, which respects canons that are not fashionable or political but that take root into a specific language and that mean precise realities. To all those people like in the world you like, it will benefit that it is true that the dress does not make the monk, however the monk has the dress, which must wear and bring with dignity, as a visible sign of the office to which it is called to fulfill.

The world of people who like, dependent on the various look e outfit He lashed out against Leone XIV because of his appearance by blatantly like a pope. Sui social Among the various comments, the most flattering, under the various news of the election, was: "I don't like", And that's why? Simple, For some time the figure of the Pope and the Papacy has been unstructured and mortified and this does not want to be an attack on the predecessor of Pope Leo XVI but only an objective reading. With Pope Francis we saw the successor of the blessed apostle Pietro present himself at the terminus of his earthly existence in a wheelchair, with a poncho sdrucite, with approximate trousers (Perhaps even with the bladder catheter) as well as one of the many elderly people of the worst assisted health residence. What did this way of appearing to that world made of the people like this? Nothing, simply nothing, There were no shields because the goal appeared very clear from the start, Desructuring the soul of the papacy, normalize it and perhaps bring it to the minimum terms and Francesco was in this the right man at the right time, unaware pawn (perhaps?) but also a fragile man who has not had the ability to be protected, guide and defend.

I think none of us would like to carry around his elderly parent in conditions of transading and fragility. I who have served for several years as a hospital chaplain I know well the reality of health and welfare environments and I can guarantee that the sick person, even if attached or terminal, He is not happy to show his physical fragility to strangers, often also with some family members, but always try to keep one's dignity; but yet, The exact opposite happened with Francesco and we must excuse ourselves of this.

Another peculiarity of Leone XIV It was present to the world with the words of the Risen Christ: "Peace is with all of you", It is the word of Christ who wins the world and the Pope can only lean on the Risen One and leave the supremacy to him. This greeting would be enough to be able to identify a possible pastoral journey for the new pontificate of Leone XIV. A pontificate of lift that must touch several fronts: From the most immediate Roman Curia together with the presbytery of Rome - widely mistreated - up to the international relations between the peoples in which the Holy See with its boss can only demonstrate that moral and maternal authority to bring man back to reasonableness.

A necessary reconciliation, I said, that can only start from the recognition of those wounds that are also present within the image of the current papacy. The rest, The Blessed Apostle Pietro himself began his ministry with obvious injuries and a personal past to be repeated, This is good to remember it to escape the mania of the papolatria always lurking.

We wish the Beatissima Father Leone XIV to be himself, no longer Robert Prevost but Pietro, A wounded healer, to reconstitute the figure of the sweet Christ on earth healthy and to know how to heal the Church that lives in a traumatized situation. You have to at least try us, even without succeeding, but try. This will already constitute a merit of grace and salvation, Through that logic of the Christological failure that shines the world in the glory of the cross and wins the world. Who knows that the figure of the Church as a field hospital does not take fullness in the current pontificate. There are those who want to see the new pontiff as the one who will bring back to tradition, There are those who want to see him as a continuer of Francesco's work, who a conservative in the form but a new Bergoglio in substance.

For the moment we want to exercise the doubt understood as an exercise of prudence and suspend the judgment within the frame of a healthy realism. Sure it would like to relive what in the apocryphal book of Acts of Peter It is known as the tradition of quo Vadis. Jesus teaches Pietro that in Rome a pope can be alone and only if he leaves himself crucify. And with this awareness we want to bend our knees since now and pray for the Holy Father. Long live the Pope!

Sanluri, 27 May 2025

 

.

The books of Ivano Liguori, to access the book shop click on the cover

.

.

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

 

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome – Vatican
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

 

.

What do you want to do ?

New mailCopy

(English text after the Italian)

The beginning of the Petrine Ministry of Leone XIV and the disenchantment of an old priest who hopes but does not illumulate

God bless the Roman Pontiff, Since in this condition of disaster it could do little or nothing. But, before a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding, will already constitute merit of grace and salvation, Through the glory of Christological failure, Because the future and the slow and painful rebirth of the Church will be played all about the search for the unit. So: good failure, Blessed Padre Leone 14.

- Church news -

.

PDF print format article – PDF article print format

.

 

In front of a Roman pontiff who is dignified, to a decent pontifical liturgy as they had not been seen for a decade, to a square San Pietro Gremita, After years of triumphs of squares and increasingly empty churches, Among the riot of jubilations of the Laicists of the international claims who praised the "revolutionary pope", When he hearing a Roman Pontiff who speaks by carefully measuring words through speeches elaborated on doctrinal and theological content, at least, should lead me to rejoice with enthusiasm. Yup, I can also rejoice, but I can't rejoice, nor to be enthusiastic.

The Holy Father Leo XIV inherits the incancrenity situation of a church that stagnates in an irreversible condition of decline and that has long overcome the threshold of no return, I go by saying and writing from 15 year old (cf.. WHO e WHO). Of course, more than little, My words count for nothing. Imagine, We have lost the habit of listening to the Word of God, After doing what we wanted, between manipulations and surreal exegesis of convenience, What will ever count the thought of a Mr. Nothing and a Mr. none like me? All the more I feel like saying: If the Holy Father manages to do only something, this will not be much, but very much.

A man alone cannot change things, Not even Francesco d'Assisi succeeded in it, Also for this reason, on the end of life, he was hiding from Verna. And shortly after, Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Eliminate the previous chronicles and biographies drawn up by Tommaso da Celano, provides to invent an golden legend for ecclesial use, political and social, so complicated was the figure of the true Francis, the real one (cf.. I refer to this article WHO). This tries again that we do not want the saints, which are almost always complex figures, not easy to read, often provocative and even irritating; We want the candela santini for the use of the dense army of the faithful beotes, Those all hearts that we priests have always looked at us from educating as it would be convenient by virtue of the mission entrusted to us by Christ. In fact, if we had educated and formed the faithful, These would have finished seeing our defects above all, our serious contradictions, By understanding that we priests are the updated and worse version of the ancient Pharisees before which Christ urged the devoted believers to do what they taught, Not what they did in their daily experience (cf.. Mt 23, 1-10), reproaching them to load on the shoulders of the people of the unbearable weights that they would never have touched even with a finger (cf.. LC 11,46).

The church car hasn't been working for decades, The engine is worn. The vipers will remain in place, they have already recycled up jumping within a few days on the chariot of the new winner. Touch or remove in a short time of prelates who changed the Roman Curia in a clerical association with mafia -style criminal, It would be imprudent and dangerous. Any change requires careful reflection, prudence and time, especially today that the Holy Father cannot rely on elements of value with which to work. His predecessor placed in all the key places of the Roman Curia Ruffiani and Delatori, In the best mediocre subjects hypothesis, almost always burdened by moral problems, so much that it is therefore blackmailed and controllable in a perverse system and pervertor, therefore manageable and if necessary usable to hurt others and spread the metastases of evil throughout the ecclesial body.

The level of the formation of priests He has lowered himself in recent years to horrible levels, In the seminars we have grown generations of priests weaned with the milk powder of the emotions of the hearts, then feeding them with the homogens of sociologisms. Infimal, doctrinal levels, Theological and pastoral. Now it is almost practical to hear priests who during the homilies manage to cross three deadly heresies over the first minutes, without even realizing it.

I try to exercise the theological virtue of hope (The Cor 13.13), But looking at me by confusing it with the illusion. On the thresholds of 62 years of age I am an old disillusioned priest, More and more withdrawn and distant from all the laps and ecclesial and ecclesiastical circles that over the years have gone the worst evil with diabolical malice. Several times I had to defend myself from false accusations linked to the facts that have never happened, A deeds never completed, to things never said and never thought. I will follow to defend myself until I want to want and strength, Above all as long as it will be worth it, because sometimes he does not even deserve to defend himself from the false.

I'm totally disillusioned, while following hoping, because I have faith. It is in fact with the faith and hope that the virtue of charity can be exercised. I don't know if I am realistic in an objective way or if my pains and the many humiliations suffered during the entire priestly life make my analysis spoiled on what is also real and incontrovertible, This will tell the time. Disillusionment is the most serious disease that is encountered in the season of old age, It is such a serious disease that it is called chronic as a disorder, therefore incurable. We must serenely accept everything by taking from old age, Among the various beautiful elements that can give us, The acceptance of those personal limits of ours that sometimes life puts us in front of our failures.

The throbbing emotional hearts would be envied with their "faith" made of stars, by Ephebian Christ and Fotoshoppati and of Languid Madonnine who wander the world for the world to distribute Tremebondi messages and secrets to the various self -styled seers. Instead, I who lived 38 years in the secular world before starting training to the priesthood and become a priest a 46 year old, Despite having traveled and met men and women of the most different cultures and societies, I have no memory of having known bad subjects in anywhere, cruel and evil as those I met in the church inside the Catholic clergy. May, in my secular life, I met humans who were bad, cowards, liars and traitors like certain priests, that are not a few at all, like some scandalized soul pia would havetened to reply by accusing me to linger in tremendous generalizations. And the more you go up to the hierarchical scale the more badness, the cowardice, The lie and betrayal increase in level when you reach bishops and cardinals.

Leone XIV is not Mago Merlin, In hand he holds the ferula if necessary, or pastoral stick, not the magic wand. Will try to do and, surely, Farà, but it will not be able to do much in this church no longer reduced even in a whore, To use the expression of the Holy Bishop and doctor of the Church Ambrogio who called it "chaste whore», that is, "holy and whore". Today the church is reduced to a grotesque circle of Checche acid, bad and incact to maximum power, drugs of power and placed in all control rooms, Starting from the Roman Curia located in the nation with the highest percentage of gays around the world: the Vatican City State.

Before the mystery of Christ and human suffering We must ask ourselves thoroughly in what eternal life would consist, except in the recovery of everything we have forgotten, considered useless or lost in our earthly life according to the principle of recapitulation:

«[…] that is, the design of recapitulating all things in Christ, those in heaven and things on earth " (Ef 1, 1-10).

In a few pages I wrote the manifesto of my failure consumed as a man and as a priest, feeling in this associated with that of Christ not accepted (cf.. GV 1,11) betrayed (cf.. LC 22,48) and abandoned (cf.. Mt 26,56). And such would remain the Christ: A sensational bankruptcy, If his resurrection had not intervened, to which all of us Christological failed we have been made participants. It is in fact the resurrection of Christ and our resurrection in Christ that changes the perspective of failure and change it in a step of passage, In a great moment of grace, In an access door to eternal life.

God bless the Roman Pontiff, Since in this condition of disaster it could do little or nothing. But, before a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding, will already constitute merit of grace and salvation, Through the glory of Christological failure, Because the slow and painful rebirth of the church will be played on the search for the unit (cf.. WHO). So: good failure, Blessed Padre Leone 14.

From the island of Patmos, 18 May 2025

.

______________________________________

THE BEGINNING OF THE PETRINE MINISTRY OF LEO XIV AND THE DISENCHANTMENT OF AN OLD PRIEST WHO HOPES BUT IS NOT DELUDED

God bless the Roman Pontiff, since in this condition of disaster he could do little or nothing. However, in the face of a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding will already constitute a merit of grace and salvation, through the glory of Christological failure, because the slow and painful rebirth of the Church will be played out entirely on the search for unity. Therefore: happy failure, Most Blessed Father Leo XIV.

- Church news -

.

Before a Roman Pontiff who presents himself with dignity, before a decorous pontifical liturgy like we haven’t seen in a decade, before a crowded St. Peter’s Square, after years of triumphs of increasingly empty squares and churches, amid the jubilation of the secularists of the international left who praised the “revolutionary pope,” hearing a Roman Pontiff who speaks carefully measuring his words through speeches elaborated on doctrinal and theological content, at the very least, should induce me to rejoice with enthusiasm. Yes, I can also rejoice, but I cannot rejoice, nor be enthusiastic.

The Holy Father Leo XIV inherits the cancerous situation of a Church that is stagnant in a condition of irreversible decadence that has long since passed the threshold of no return, I have been saying and writing for 15 years (see HERE and HERE). Of course, more than a little, my words count for nothing. Imagine, we have lost the habit of listening to the word of God, after having done what we wanted with it, between manipulations and surreal exegeses of convenience, what could the thought of a Mr. Nothing and a Mr. Nobody like me count for? All the more reason I feel like saying: if the Holy Father manages to do just a little, it will not be much, but a lot.

One man alone cannot change things, not even Francis of Assisi succeeded, which is also why he hid at the end of his life at La Verna. And shortly after, Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, having eliminated the previous chronicles and biographies written by Tommaso da Celano, proceeded to invent a golden legend for ecclesiastical, political and social use, so complicated was the figure of the true Francis, the real one. This proves the fact that we do not want Saints, who are almost always complex figures, not easy to read, often provocative and even irritating; we want candle holy cards for the dense army of the faithful childish, that we priests have always been careful not to educate as would be appropriate by virtue of the mission entrusted to us by Christ. If in fact we had educated and trained the faithful, they would have ended up seeing first of all our defects, our serious contradictions, understanding that we priests are the updated and worsened version of the ancient Pharisees before whom Christ exhorted devout believers to do what they taught, not what they did in their daily lives (see Mt 23:1-10), reproaching them for placing unbearable burdens on people’s shoulders that they would never have touched even with a finger (see Page 11:46).

The Church machine has not worked for decades, the engine is worn out. The vipers will remain in place, they have already recycled themselves by jumping on the bandwagon of the new winner in a matter of days. Touching or removing in a short time armies of prelates who have transformed the Roman Curia into a mafia-style clerical criminal association would be imprudent and dangerous. Any change requires careful reflection, prudence and time, especially today when the Holy Father cannot rely on valuable elements with which to work. His Predecessor has placed in all the key positions of the Roman Curia sycophants and informers, in the best case mediocre subjects, almost always burdened by moral problems, so much so that they are therefore blackmailable and controllable in a system that is now perverse and perverting, therefore manageable and, if necessary, usable to harm others and spread the metastases of evil throughout the ecclesial body.

The level of priestly training has dropped to horrible levels in recent years, in seminaries we have raised generations of priests weaned on the powdered milk of the emotions of little hearts, then nourished with the homogenized baby food of sociologisms. The doctrinal, theological and pastoral levels are very low. It is now almost common practice to hear priests who during homilies manage to enunciate three heresies in the space of the first few minutes, without even realizing it.

I try to exercise the theological virtue of hope (The Cor 13.13), but I am careful not to confuse it with illusion. On the threshold of 62 years of age I am an old disillusioned priest, increasingly withdrawn and distant from all the ecclesiastical and ecclesiastical circles and circles that over the years have brought me the worst harm with diabolical malice. I have had to defend myself several times from false accusations related to facts that never happened, to deeds never done, to things never said or even thought. I will continue to defend myself as long as I have the will and strength, especially as long as it is worth it, because sometimes it is not even worth defending oneself from falsehood.

I am totally disillusioned, even though I continue to hope, because I have faith. It is in fact with faith and hope that one can exercise the virtue of charity. I do not know if I am objectively realistic or if my pains and the many humiliations suffered throughout my entire priestly life make my analysis of what is real and incontrovertible flawed, time will tell. Disillusionment is the most serious illness encountered in old age, it is such a serious disease that it is defined as chronic disorder, therefore incurable. We must serenely accept everything, taking from old age, among the various beautiful elements that it can give us, the acceptance of our personal limits that life sometimes puts before us together with our failures.

One would envy the emotional hearts and their “faith” made of little stars, of ephebic androgynous photoshopped Christs and of languid Madonnas who wander chattering around the world distributing messages and secrets to the various self-styled seers. Instead, I who lived 38 years in the secular world before beginning my training for the priesthood and becoming a priest at 46, despite having traveled and met men and women from the most diverse cultures and societies, I have no memory of having met anywhere such bad, cruel and wicked individuals as those I have met in the Church within the Catholic clergy. Never, in my secular life, have I met human beings who were bad, cowardly, liars and traitors like certain priests, who are not at all few, as some scandalized pious soul would hasten to retort accusing me of indulging in terrible generalizations. And the higher you go up the hierarchical ladder, the more wickedness, cowardice, lies and betrayal increase when you reach bishops and cardinals.

Leo XIV is not Merlin Magician, in his hand he holds the “cane”, or pastoral staff, not the magic wand. He will try to do and, certainly, he will do, but he will not be able to do much in this Church no longer even reduced to a whore, to use the expression of the Holy Bishop and Doctor of the Church Ambrose who defined it as “chaste whore”, or “holy and whore”. Today the Church is reduced to a gay circle grotesque; an army of evil and vengeful gays to the maximum power, drugged with power and placed in all the rooms of command, starting from the Roman Curia located in the nation with the highest percentage of gays in the world: the Vatican City State.

Faced with the mystery of Christ and human suffering, we must ask ourselves what eternal life would consist of, if not in the recovery of everything we have forgotten, considered useless or lost in our earthly life according to the principle of recapitulation:

«to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ» (Eph 1, 1-10).

In a few words I have written the manifesto of my failure as a man and as a priest, feeling associated in this with that of Christ who was not welcomed (see Jh 1:11), betrayed (see Page 22:48) and abandoned (see Mt 26:56). And Christ would have remained such: a resounding failure, if his resurrection had not intervened, in which all of us Christological failures, have been made participants. It is in fact the resurrection of Christ and our resurrection in Christ that changes the perspective of failure and transforms it into a stage of transition, into a great moment of grace, into a door of access to eternal life.

God bless the Roman Pontiff, since in this condition of disaster he could do little or nothing. However, in the face of a desperate situation like ours, having tried even without succeeding will already constitute a merit of grace and salvation, through the glory of Christological failure, because the slow and painful rebirth of the Church will be played out entirely on the search for unity. Therefore: happy failure, Most Blessed Father Leo XIV.

From the Isle of Patmos, May 18, 2025

.

______________________

Dear Readers, this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our Bank account in the name of:

Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome – Vatican

Iban code: IT74R0503403259000000301118

For international bank transfers:

Codice SWIFT: BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff,

the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message: isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

 

THE FUNDAMENTAL GAME OF THE FUTURE AND THE NEW POPE IS PLAYED ON THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH

Significantly, the historian Lucetta Scaraffia notes the impossibility, after 12 years of pontificate, to grasp a legacy of Pope Francis, that is not that of mere confusion.

— The guest authors of The Island of Patmos —

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

The info-entertainment of mass-media, after the predictions of the entire papal nomination, now focuses on determining the characteristics of the winning personality: Leone XIV.

He will continue the reforms of his predecessor? He will confirm his openings? How the synodal path will be completed? It's moderate? It's progressive? It's a bit of one and a bit of the other? He is merciful to migrants? He will get along well with Donald Trump? Such questions are mostly followed by statements that sound like slogans, functional to mark a sense of belonging rather than a substantial vision, spiritually significant.

In particular, you lose sight of it, in my opinion, the fundamental match who presents himself to the Pope: the unity of the Church. The exact question is: which unit? That is to say, how this unity should be conceived? How it should be interpreted? How it should be declined?

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, in the homily of Mass for the election of the Roman Pontiff the 7 May, he had declared:

«The unity of the Church is wanted by Christ; a unity that does not mean uniformity, but firm and profound communion in diversity, as long as we remain in full fidelity to the Gospel".

Communion in diversity: but when diversity threatens communion? And when, instead, it is an undue uniformity that threatens the richness of legitimate diversity? Re refers to "full fidelity to the Gospel": this is the decisive criterion. Ma, in truth, the question, more than resolved, it seems to move: how to determine, indeed, "full fidelity to the Gospel"?

It's the same theme who had addressed Cardinal Ratzinger in the homily of the Mass for the election of the Roman Pontiff the 18 April 2005. In this homily, which will mark the program of Benedict XVI's pontificate, Ratzinger had precisely determined the criterion of unity: the truth, whose ultimate dimension is the Son of God himself, measure of true humanism. And he had courageously placed the meaning of such a criterion in the ideological context of dominant relativism. Without evasion and pretence. With intellectual honesty.

With the pontificate of Francis, instead, a different paradigm of ecclesial unity has imposed itself: a Jesuit paradigm.

I found a significant illustration of this paradigm in a conversation between journalist Ross Douthat and Jesuit Father James Martin S.J. about the legacy of the recently concluded papacy (see video interview of 26.04.2025 WHO). Douthat highlights how the dramatic character of Francis' pontificate was determined by the drive to change the Church's teaching and practice on a series of difficult and controversial issues, such as the possibility for divorced and remarried Catholics to access Eucharistic communion, the possibility for women to become deacons or even priests, the possibility of blessing same-sex couples. How far has Francis gone on these issues?? Martin, in the first instance, states that this type of "hot" issue had a secondary character for the Pope compared to the proclamation of the Gospel. Secondly, states that Francis "went as far as he could". In this regard he tells how the Pope, in a personal meeting of his 23 October 2024 as delegate of the synod, was concerned about the "unity of the Church" due to the "resistance" coming from sub-Saharan Africa, from Eastern Europe and even the United States. «And he repeated several times that unity is more important than these conflicts. So I think he tried to open the door to discussion about some of these issues without breaking the church.".

Upon closer inspection, this is what characterizes Martin's account what concerns Francis is the particular relationship between ecclesial unity and truth. Apparently in his speech he does not seem to operate a binding concept of truth. But in reality a truth is asserted. A truth that does not seem binding, but which gives direction. An implicit truth, given as a presupposition, which takes a position for an indefinite openness regarding the controversial issues proposed. A critically unthematized truth, theologically emancipated, that is, it lacks a serious comparison with biblical data, reduced at most to a generic reference to mercy. It is a non-binding truth? Not exactly. It is a critically disengaged but politically binding truth, that, not by chance, tackle different positions (and logically incompatible) as «resistances».

In such a dimension there is no room for authentic dialogue, but if anything for mediation, for an accommodation. As if there were forces and interests at play. Ecclesial unity, so, it is not based on truth. It doesn't blend, to quote Ratzinger's words, on the «Son of God, measure of true humanism". Unity is a composition of forces, Lastly, founded on the supreme power of the Pope, whose vicarial role is diluted, to make his personality stand out instead.

In light of this Jesuit paradigm of ecclesial unity the authoritarian and contradictory character of the Jesuit papacy is explained, often detected by the most sensitive observers. In the perspective of a similar conception of ecclesial unity, indeed, contradictions are no problem: they can coexist. Even if the contradictions come from the Pope himself: it is not the truth that creates unity, but his supreme power. The price of this setup was, however, very salty. Significantly, the historian Lucetta Scaraffia notes the impossibility, after 12 years of pontificate, to grasp a legacy of Pope Francis, that is not that of mere confusion. O, at most, the promotion of certain policies, very much, too detailed, on the subject of mass immigration and political economy which, instead, they would have required the recognition of a healthy pluralism of positions.

Definitely, the new course of Leo XIV's papacy it will be determined by how he interprets, in light of the lessons of the latter 12 year old, ecclesial unity and its relationship with the truth. His episcopal motto "In Illo uno unum" and his Augustinian training give rise to hope. May God send her well.

Trieste, 12 May 2025

 

 

 

.

Visit the pages of our book shop WHO and support our editions by purchasing and distributing our books.

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome – Vatican
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

.

.