The "lost fagots" by Paolo Poli, the "faggotness" of the Holy Father Francis and the new generation fag-bishops

THE «LOST FAGS» BY PAOLO POLI, THE «FRACY» OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS AND CERTAIN NEW GENERATION BISHOPS-FAGS

The Holy Father Francis was not wrong in saying that fagotism in seminaries is not acceptable, because it isn't, nor can it ever be. However, he was wrong to promote several to the episcopate gay friendly, if not worse, some well-made and refined fags who under his august pontificate ended up with a miter on their heads and a crosier in their hands. And today, one or some of these have betrayed him, reporting to the outside a private speech expressed freely as when speaking in an intimate and confidential way between brothers.

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After the expression about "faggotness", news began to circulate about social media that journalists were present at the Plenary Assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference and that the Supreme Pontiff Francis himself prevented the award from being givenout of all. After that, in their presence, he would have spoken freely, with the premeditated aim of creating a media case (!?).

The news is false: no journalists, not even those of Future and of Sat2000, not even those from the Vatican media were present.

Widespread news some Bishops, among the over two hundred Italian prelates present in the assembly, without violating any confidentiality they specified to us that at the end of that strictly confidential conversation between the Bishop of Rome and the Bishops of Italy, the President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, S. AND. Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna, he spoke, specifying that what had been said had to remain strictly confidential and not leave that room, where no stranger was present, least of all journalists.

But let's get back to the "faggot", topic to which we have already dedicated two articles: one of Father Ariel S.. Levi di Gualdo and one of Father Ivano Liguori, before intervening again with this editorial of ours by the Fathers of The Island of Patmos.

Sui social media crazy about everything, even those who shout I can't keep quiet! Phrase inspired by Saint Augustine which explains the passage of the two blind men narrated in the Holy Gospel (cf.. Mt 20, 30-34) who, seeing Jesus pass, began to scream:

«For I fear Jesus passing and remaining, and therefore I cannot be silent» (St. Augustine, Sermon n. 88).

Consider yourself certain promoter dell'omosessualismo inside the church, perhaps it would be better to move from Augustinian to Dante, starting to bang on the motto: «A beautiful silence was never written». Well-known Italian proverb which means to what precious extent the beauty of knowing how to remain silent at the right moment has never been praised enough. Expression attributed to Dante and then reworked in the 17th century by the Venetian poet Iacopo Badoer.

When the Zan bill was being debated, which, behind the pretext of so-called homotransphobia, actually aimed to prosecute the crime of opinion, our authors Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo and Ivano Liguori published a book entitled From Prozan to Prozac, dedicated to the memory of the great Italian theater actor Paolo Poli, who was a dear and affectionate friend of Father Ariel. On the cover of that book there is a scene photo of Paolo Poli and on the fourth (the back cover is called the fourth), This apparently scurrilous phrase of his is reported, but incisive and truthful:

«I see a lot of homologation, a flattening of one's individuality;, even in appearing: all dressed alike in a pseudo-masculine stereotype, logically straight. Gays may have the chance; to express their own uniqueness; and diversity; in the strongest sense; true of the term. But no, they want to play husband and wife and have the Pope's permission to fuck each other! Come on! Never mind" (Paolo Poli, 17 December 2003).

The great Paolo Poli who said of himself «I am homosexual in my DNA», he didn't use the term "gay" but that of fagots, if not worse than "destroyed fagots" or "languid lost fagots", had already identified twenty years ago the problem of certain sexually confused Catholics today who "want to play husband and wife and have the Pope's permission to be able to screw each other". We add between these lines of ours: not only, they also claim the right to become priests and unleash fagotism in our seminaries. While, how many cannot remain silent, they don't even realize that they are sinking into the most grotesque ridiculousness, when hiding behind words like "training" and "education in affectivity", they go so far as to state that sexual tendencies cannot influence the evaluation of priests or candidates for the priesthood, because these are things that concern their private lives (!?).

But this is precisely the dilemma: a priest can perhaps claim to have a private life in which he manifests in private the exact opposite of what he does to a minister in sacred is required? Even magistrates have their own private life, but they cannot convict a drug trafficker in the morning and then in the evening, in their intimacy, sniffer cocaine, justifying everything with the fact that they throw coke in their house, not on the bench of the criminal court between one public hearing and another. Even the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza have their own private life, but they cannot fine traders who fail to produce tax receipts and then dedicate themselves to tax evasion in their private lives. Undoubtedly, priests also have their own private life, but they can't preach Christian virtues in public and then take it up the ass in their private lives. These are such truisms, these, before which it is appropriate to say that … We cannot be silent.

A priest cannot be affected by fagotism, because in itself it is worse, on a moral and spiritual level, of the active practice of homosexuality. In fact, the Supreme Pontiff Francis took it out on that psychological and behavioral foolishness which represents an attitude and lifestyle incompatible with the priesthood., religious life and the ecclesiastical structures themselves. The Holy Father didn't blame fags, much less with individual fags, towards whom he has always shown - like all of us - concern and welcome. Catholic doctrine imposes this on us (cf.. Catechism NN. 2357-2359) which invites us to welcome, certainly not to discriminate in any way against homosexuals; doctrine that precedes the Zan Bill by more than thirty years, with which there was no aim to ensure that fags were respected, but that the most politicized and ideological could have a legal instrument to pursue the free and completely legitimate opinions of anyone who dares not to think like them. To follow with the confused-Catholic fagots who behind pretexts of education in affectivity and the protection of private life, in concrete facts "they would like to have the Pope's permission to be able to screw themselves", always to paraphrase Paolo Poli who, had he been alive today, would have publicly applauded the Holy Father Francis. Precisely because, he was an all-out homosexual, he never tolerated fagotism.

Some Bishops have betrayed the Holy Father with the aim of embarrassing him, creating a media case and exposing it to harsh criticism and attacks. The single Bishop, or the clubbino of the Bishops who did this, it is made up of those caricatured androgynous Smurfettes who make fun of LGBT associations in their dioceses. They are those - as Father Ariel wrote in his book at the time And Satan became triune published in 2011 ―, who «yesterday led the pious gay brotherhood inside the seminaries, today we find them Bishops".

The Holy Father Francis was not wrong to say that fagotism in seminars is not acceptable, because it isn't, nor can it ever be. However, he was wrong to promote several to the episcopate gay friendly, if not worse, some well-made and refined fags who under his august pontificate ended up with a miter on their heads and a crosier in their hands. And today, one or some of these have betrayed him, reporting to the outside a private speech expressed freely as when speaking in an intimate and confidential way between brothers. This is why it is not good to admit fags in seminaries, because they then spread the worst of fagotism within the Church and its ecclesiastical and religious structures. And today, not a few fagots who foment fagotism, we find them bishops. The Supreme Pontiff Francis therefore poses, faced with this serious problem, some serious questions.

 

the Island of Patmos, 30 May 2024

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In this article we have made use of, deliberately and knowingly, not just the terms usually used by Paolo Poli, but of all those terms such as "faggots", «froce», «fennels», «fennels» … etc … which are routinely used in gay circles and circles, including LGBT clubs, including that term "faggot" which has so scandalized certain activists, who, however, have always used it in a derogatory way towards other gays or gay associations, something that the Supreme Pontiff Francis did not do, neither on this nor on any other occasion during his ten years of pontificate. Both clear.

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The most manipulated phrase of this pontificate: «Who am I to judge a gay man?»

THE MOST MANIPULATED PHRASE OF THIS PONTIFICATE: «WHO AM I TO JUDGE A GAY?»

Years later, starting from certain poisoned pseudo-Catholics, we must continue to read these scandalized assertions: «… the Pope stated: who am I to judge a gay?». To then subsequently accuse him of having cleared what remains a moral disorder for Catholic morality. In fact, it is precisely the Catechism to which the Holy Father referred that in n. 2357 clarifies: «Acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered».

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The «who am I to judge a gay man» it is a sentence that has a premise followed by a clarification, then an expression in line with Catholic doctrine and a further final clarification with reference to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Even if we have the Internet available and everyone can go and look for and read the official speeches almost always accompanied by video documents, available and accessible on website of the Holy See, the army of functional or digital illiterates limits itself with obstinate obstinacy to relying on hearsay and half-sentences reported from blog to blog.

Aware that it will be of little value to clarify it, I do it anyway: the Holy Father began: «… the lobby, all, they are not good". And as a premise it is not a trivial matter, because he is referring to the powerful and ideological LGBT lobbies, even if he doesn't name them, but he makes it clear.

After this introduction moves on to an unequivocal clarification: «… if one is gay and seeks the Lord...". There's no talking, so, of an elusive gay as such, but of a gay «…who seeks the Lord…». After the introduction and clarification, a further clarification «… and has good will…». At this point the Holy Father makes a statement that is obvious from the point of view of the doctrine of the Catholic faith: «… who am I to judge?».

I say obvious because only God can read and judge the conscience of a man, none of us can, because even if he wanted to he wouldn't be able to do it. Having expressed everything, the Holy Father concludes: «The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this so beautifully, but he says: “These people must not be marginalized for this reason, they must be integrated into society".

Now let's read the whole sentence with which the 28 July 2013 the Holy Father responded to the Brazilian journalist Ilze Scamparini, correspondent from Italy and the Vatican for Rede Globo, unleashing the LGBT fans and making those obtuse Catholics cry foul for whom not understanding seemed to be more convenient than ever:

«[…] You were talking about the gay lobby. MAh! Much is written about the gay lobby. I still haven't found anyone to give me an identity card in the Vatican with "gay". They say there are some. I believe that when you find yourself with a person like that, must distinguish the fact of being a gay person, from lobbying, because the lobbies, all are not good. That's bad. If a person is gay and seeking the Lord and goodwill, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this so beautifully, but he says: “These people must not be marginalized for this reason, must be integrated into society" […]». (Official text, QUI).

The n. 2358 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, to which the Holy Father refers, recital:

«A non-negligible number of men and women have deeply rooted homosexual tendencies. This inclination, objectively disordered, constitutes a test for most of them. Therefore they must be welcomed with respect, compassion, delicacy. In their regard, any sign of unfair discrimination will be avoided. Such people are called to carry out God's will in their life, e, if they are Christian, to unite the difficulties they may encounter as a result of their condition to the sacrifice of the Lord's cross ".

Years later, starting from certain poisoned pseudo-Catholics, we must continue to read these scandalized assertions: «… the Pope stated: who am I to judge a gay?». To then subsequently accuse him of having cleared what remains a moral disorder for Catholic morality. In fact, it is precisely the Catechism to which the Holy Father referred that in n. 2357 clarifies: «Acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered». What this implies, in the whole context of the numbers 2357-2358, a clear distinction between sin, to be rejected always and in any case, and the sinner, to be welcomed always and in any case.

It should always be avoided to take at face value the things reported from blog to blog. but yet, those who are careful not to go and read official speeches and documents, almost always with movie attachments, available and within everyone's reach, they constitute a painful and pitiful army that is increasingly dense, with whom often, we priests and theologians, we must experience the great failure of impotence, in front of whom, stubbornly, he doesn't want to listen to reasons, Why … “my sui social I read that …".

 

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Holiness, and from 2011 what a testimony and lament that «a universal cloudburst has broken out in the Church». If today you have decided to use my styles and phrasebooks, at least pay me the royalties

HOLINESS, AND FROM 2011 WHAT A TESTIMONY AND COMPLAINT THAT «A UNIVERSAL NUBIFROOM HAS Erupted IN THE CHURCH». IF TODAY YOU HAVE DECIDED TO USE MY STYLES AND PHRASE BOOKS, AT LEAST PAY ME THE COPYRIGHTS

To all the bishops that yesterday, not being able to deny the obvious problem I raised about poisoning lobby gay inside the church, they clung to the form to the point of calling me blasphemous, Today I have a very serious question to ask, this: the Roman Pontiff who speaks of "faggotness" is blasphemous or else, much more simply, it was finally discovered after a decade that his ghost-writer it's me?

 

 

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In my book of 2011, titled And Satan became triune, still distributed today by our Edizioni L'Isola di Patmos, in paragraph V of Chapter Two I deal with this delicate topic:

«Gay priests and careerists punished and expelled? nope: they lobby and are warmed like snakes in the bosom giving life to pornocracy clerical».

In the narrative of this chapter I made use of an expression about which some bishops with particularly sensitive uteruses - and therefore easy to be attacked by itching - complained to my then Bishop, the late Luigi Negri of blessed memory, that I needed to be corrected and rebuked for having resorted to blasphemy. In fact, it happened that this good Prelate of mine at the time, just arrived at the plenary of the Italian Episcopal Conference of 2012, during the first available break he was assailed by the jeremiads of several of his brother Bishops, those who incidentally, much to be understood, of the "nubifrossing» were directly responsible, as well as guilty before God and before men. The sentence judged blasphemous was the following:

«In this new, highly de-virilized ecclesial dimension, it seems that something has really broken out in the Church nubifrossing universal"

Thirteen years later the Supreme Pontiff Francis, during the plenary assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference this May 2024, speaking behind closed doors with the Bishops, perfectly aware that the matter would be reported to journalists within a few hours - certainly by some prelate who had felt stung to the core - he complained that "There is too much fagotism in the seminaries". Inviting the Bishops not to admit into our disastrous seminaries - which for years and years I have complained are real branches of the Gay village - people with homosexual tendencies. Pointing out and clarifying in another closed-door speech made to the same Bishops in May of 2018:

«If there is a doubt about homosexuality, it is better not to let anyone enter the seminary» (cf.. WHO).

To all the bishops that yesterday, not being able to deny the obvious problem I raised about poisoning lobby gay inside the church, they clung to the form to the point of calling me blasphemous, Today I have a very serious question to ask, this: the Roman Pontiff who speaks of "faggotness", is he blasphemous or, much more simply, it was finally discovered after a decade that his ghost-writer it's me?

Below is the excerpt of that fifth paragraph taken from Chapter Two of my work And Satan became triune, a book written between 2008 and the 2010, published at the suggestion of my then Bishop only at the end of 2011.

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GAY PRIESTS AND CAREER PEOPLE PUNISHED AND EXPOSED? NOTHING: THEY LOBBY AND ARE HEATED LIKE SNAKES IN THEIR BOMBS, GIVING LIFE TO CLERICAL PORNOCRACY

(And Satan became triune, Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Rome, 2011, Cap. II by. V)

A dirty body that gives off a strong odor of sweat should be stripped and washed thoroughly with soap and water, at the end of the wash it can be sprinkled with perfume; but if perfume is sprinkled on a dirty body that gives off a strong odor of sweat, the effect will be that the perfume mixed with sweat will end up making it stink more.

Involved in topics related to painful facts that afflict and humiliate the Church, at the end the prelate admonished me:

«The problem is not telling the truth but how it is said».

I replied:

«Jesus Christ did not die for the truths that the political and religious authorities wanted to hear, but for those truths that they were not willing to tolerate being merely sighed".

When the substance cannot be demolished, a last desperate defense is attempted by quibbling over the futile form, to best defend the right to spiritual blindness. When in fact it was not possible to rebuke Jesus for having healed a blind man by restoring his sight, he reproached himself with harsh criticism for having performed a miracle on the Sabbath, on a day when work is not permitted (cf.. GV 5, 2-16).

Or maybe we are, we modern Christians, so different from the Pharisees of ancient Judea? When we talk about Pharisees we tend to do so in the past tense, as if they were only one of the many Jewish sects present in Judea at the time; while the Pharisee is a being without time and religious connotation, it is a lifestyle that can take root anywhere, in every time and religious culture.

The desire for career, far from being a modern quirk, according to the words of Saint Paul it also existed in the apostolic era; even then there were those who aspired to the episcopate, so much so that the Apostle exhorts:

«What I tell you is worthy of belief: if one aspires episcopate, wants an excellent task, but the bishop must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, prudent, decent, hospitable and capable of teaching, not addicted to wine, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not attached to money" (The Tm 3, 1-3).

Today the difference lies in the erotic-psychological approach. The careerists of the past were manfully driven by motivations that in the councils of the first centuries generated heated doctrinal battles, in subsequent political and religious struggles; social animals who believed in something beyond themselves and their lust for career.

For men of the past, making a career in the ecclesiastical world was a means of winning a battle, to impose their doctrine, their social or economic policy.

Today's is a careerism that comes to the surface in a world of little men e somewhere retreat into the hedonism of a social psychology that has reached the peak of collective narcissism. To the virility of the males who yesterday fought for the investitures and who were willing to risk their lives and the health of their souls to be able to impose what they believed in, the androgynous softness has been replaced by an aesthetic vision of social being and appearance, even through a privileged place like the Church, a set of international coverage which can bring bishops and priests into the limelight of the mass media, or in close contact with the world of politics, of culture and the public and private economy.

In this new highly devirilized ecclesial dimension, it seems that something has really broken out in the Church nubifrossing universal, led by a fierce army of monsignorini in career, friends of friends of friends... who have not yet been kicked out of the Roman Curia and who proliferate within it through the good offices of friends of friends of friends, often removing or keeping away everything pure that could enter it. But having to please and please to achieve the goal of pleasing and pleasing oneself, by intrinsic nature aesthetic careerists are not inclined to make decisions, this would imply the psycho-physical possession and use of those masculine attributes necessary to take on responsibilities, which in every society entail the high risk of pleasing two men and remaining unwelcome to two thousand, from time to time to be celebrated twenty years after their departure as far-sighted spirits by twenty million men against the negative opinion of only two obstinate fools.

The media ended up distorting the episcopal figure and in the collective imagination the bishop was transformed into a sort of Queen Elizabeth, representative icon for stamps, punts and Buckingham Palace parades. They speak of the bishop as a religious subject responsible for "representing his Church", starting from the first of the bishops, the Supreme Pontiff, which “represents the Catholic Church”. Which is true but also ambiguous, if the hand is pressed on those concepts of "representation" which have erased from the collective memory that the fact that the bishop is called to govern his Church, before being its religious "representative" and merely managing director, or worse, bankruptcy trustee [1].

Today the pastoral and spiritual figure of the apostolic father who governs the family has been lost, guaranteeing the protection and education of children and also making the bite of authority and discipline felt when necessary.

Bishops govern the particular Churches entrusted to them as vicars and legates of Christ, with advice, persuasion, the example, but also with authority and sacred power, which, however, they do not use except to edify their flock in truth and holiness, remembering that whoever is bigger must do like the smaller one, and who is the boss, come chi serve (cf.. LC 22, 26-27).

This power, which they personally exercise in the name of Christ, it is its own, ordinary and immediate, although its exercise is ultimately subject to the supreme authority of the Church and, within certain limits, with a view to the usefulness of the Church or the faithful, can be restricted.

«By virtue of this power bishops have the sacred right and before God the duty to give laws to their subjects, to judge and regulate everything that pertains to worship and the apostolate […][2] Under this, the Bishops govern the particular Churches entrusted to them, as vicars and delegates of Christ, with advice, persuasion, the example, but also with authority and sacred power, which, however, they do not use except to edify their flock in truth and holiness" […][3].

Lose all this, it means losing the spiritual and pastoral sense of the episcopate in the Church.

In his most important liturgical actions the bishop is called to proceed with the rod, the pastoral staff, which is a sign of his spiritual government and his Christian and psychological virility.

Even more so today it makes you blush with embarrassment, when certain aesthetic masters of ceremonies cover the poor bishops with cascades of lace and lace, which are more reminiscent of the bewitching female underwear rather than the vestments of the male Fathers of the Church.

Modern aesthetic and media careerism is based on a singular element: he is not virile but ephebic, feminine; asexual at best, at worst it leads to real sexual disorder due to obvious consequences of character.

In the unbalanced relationship with the ecclesiastical career, There are tremendously high numbers of individuals influenced by the typical instinct of the homosexual narcissist. And for the Church machine there is no worse engulfment than the devious personalities of repressed gays, ended up in considerable numbers like foxes in the henhouse in delicate roles where they end up "not to serve but to serve themselves"[4], not to please God, but to please others and please oneself, instead of exercising the power to decide according to charity and justice what that episcopal chair or that office of curia requires for the good of the Church and its faithful.

Hiding the truth does no one any good, especially to those who have to announce it to the world.

If we really want to seriously address this very dramatic problem, we must start from a sad fact of life: today, within the secular and religious clergy men, the number of homosexuals is alarmingly high, and is divided between gay gay practitioners and repressed; the most active seconds of the first exercise of their exhausting psychological homosexuality. Homosexuals for repressed psychic character in the body, They are far worse than those who practice homosexuality physical, causing always within the Church of sometimes enormous damage sometimes irreparable, always aiming to place itself in the highest positions and key government roles, the better to strengthen a powerful and united lobby inside, straight on pornocratici criteria.

what the pornocrazi to[5] is a drama that wounds the Church striking with deadly sinking. recent term of French origin, pornocrazi to It indicates a form of government characterized by the pernicious influence of fops and prostitutes on the men in charge of the exercise of power. Literally meaning "of prostitutes government", or government based in large part on the typical mechanisms of prostitution.

The hallmark of the pornocrazi to, It is not so much bartering for sexual favors with privileged positions, as in the usual relations between powerful and prostitute, because these power relations have not always been sexual connotations, species within certain pockets decaying, that they have formed in the past and present horrible ballast for the Church, where often the mechanism, far from being the completely natural one of heterosexual sexuality, It is based on asexuality, or of pure homosexuals mechanisms, often more psychological than physical.

In pornocrazi to clerical, homosexuality practiced at the physical level is just the tip of mental homosexuality radicalized and went often to power.

With the exercise of its influence on man power prostitute, or gay-prostitute, not so much they can indirectly exercise their personal power, because similar role mechanisms have been repeatedly applied in a quasi-institutional of the legitimate spouses of kings, or their various buddies-gay.

What is particularly stressful in the Church, more than in the secular civil power, is the prostitute ability to create their own personal power at times almost absolute, which often replaces the authority of the powerful, which often survives the same powerful.

Consider for example the young and adolescent secretary from whose lips hung the powerful, and that after an impact on the exercise of the power of the prelate - who was appointed to serve, not to drive by hitting it with the arrows of Cupid -, when he is about to retire from office for new arrivals age limit, he is promoted bishop, taking the place - in rank and sacramental dignity - of his platonically in love master[6].

The use of the term prostitute rather than prostitute, in a male society like the ecclesiastical one it is not accidental, whereas in the Church the pornocrazi to it tends to have eminently male subjects as driving characters.

The latter is the dramatic case of the powerful gay lobby, which within the Church has been able to impact and influence the driving force of the whole for some decades Orb Cattolica: the promotion of priests to the episcopate.

Predating by many centuries the classification of men placed by Leonardo Sciascia on the lips of the character of his novel, St. Bernard of Clairvaux[7] who is not a fictional character but an extraordinary saint and doctor of the Church, In the 1145 he wrote to his disciple Bernardo dei Paganelli, became Supreme Pontiff with the name of Eugene III, greeting his election to the See of Peter with a Treaty good for every Pope, carefully tailored for him. In this writing Bernardo does not fail to point out that certain mellifluous pages and young men with hair following bishops and cardinals are not happy at all around the Holy Father..

Wise exhortation addressed to a newly elected Pontiff nine centuries ago by a future saint and doctor of the Church.

Today some can say that we were not warned well in advance, regarding the damage that can be caused by certain smooth pages and young haired men to whom Saint Bernard of Clairvaux refers?[8] O, if to the medieval language of this Doctor of the Church, we prefer Sciascia's literary one from the 20th century: «take me e somewhere»?[9]

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[1] On the governing power of the bishop and his ministry: Christ the Lord, n. 8 e n. 11, Apostolic Exhortation Herdsmen, n. 42, n. 54, n. 55 and the following.

[2] Dogmatic Constitution on the Church The light, n. 27.

[3] Apostolic Exhortation Shepherds of the flocks, n. 43.

[4] Meditation of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the IX Station ofthe Way of the cross, Colosseum in Rome, 25 March 2005. Benedict XVI: Way of the cross 2005, Libreria Editrice Vaticana Publishing House.

[5] Italian term coined on the film by Catherine Breillat whose original title is Anatomy of Hell. Prod. France, 2004.

[6] N.d.A. edition of 2019 - Made of record as reported by the press: «In the summer of 2017 the Vatican Gendarmerie arrests Mons. Louis Capozzi, of fifty years, Secretary of Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio and officer second class at the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, chaired by the cardinal. The fact: in his apartment located in the Vatican in the Holy Office building, Monsignor organized revels gay-based drugs, so much so that he was admitted to the Roman Pio XI clinic for detoxification therapies", cf.. Franca Giansoldati, The messenger, 29 June 2017; Francesco Antonio Grana, The Daily, 5 July 2017; Editorial, Free, 7 July 2017; Dominic Gramazio, The City of SalernO, 2 July 2017; Emanuele Barbieri, Correspondence Romana, 22 November 2017; Richard Cascioli, The New Compass Daily, 4 December 2017, etc..]. Referring to news they received from the inside of the Holy See, newspapers state that Monsignor "had already been proposed by the Cardinal to be raised to the episcopal dignity ', Francesco Antonio Grana, Daily fact, 28 June 2017. More than a year after the fact, journalists Maike Hickson and John Henry Westen LifeSiteNews they launch a piece of news later reported by the Vatican expert Marco Tosatti, pencil Court 11 October 2018 and Giuseppe Aloisi, The Journale, 11 October 2018 and various organs of Print: «Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio […] was present at party homosexual drug-based affair which the Vatican police raided in the summer of 2017 and he was arrested his secretary, Mons. Luigi Capozzi». At this news the same evening responds with a Tweet Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, at the time of the incident Substitute of the Secretariat of State: «The news is baseless. I was the one to inform arrest of the priest Cardinal. Coccopalmerio end of the day, I did not find, for a mistake, the morning. The priest was not arrested during a phantom party, but in the courtyard of the house". Let's clarify everything: for over a year Cardinal Angelo Becciu allowed the newspapers to smear a priest by writing without ever being contradicted that «the arrest took place inside the apartment during a party gay a base drug», then, spent sixteen months - when at stake was pulled a cardinal - the former deputy to the Secretary of State, with timing diligent and sudden love for the truth, reports a Tweet that the arrest did not take place «during a phantom party» but «in the backyard» (!?) … «Il 29 August 2018 the roof of the Roman church of San Giuseppe ai Falegnami collapses", The Republic, 30 August 2018, whose title is held by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio. After having shown this faithful history not subject to denial, perhaps it would be good to keep close tabs, in order to avoid further sharp drops, the Etruscan necropolis of Roselle Maremma, of which Cardinal Angelo Becciu is titular Archbishop, so the roof of the Roman church of San Lino, of which he holds the title of Cardinals.

[7] Monk and then Abbot of the Cistercian Order (Fontaine les Dijon 1090 – City under Ferté 1153). He founded Clairvaux Abbey and other monasteries, including Chiaravalle Abbey in Italy. Canonized in 1174, he was declared Doctor of the Church in 1830. In 1953 the Supreme Pontiff Pius XII wanted to dedicate the Encyclical to him: Doctor Mellifluus.

[8] N.d.A. edition of 2019 – When in 2009 As I was writing these lines, the following reflection escaped me: perhaps, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, indicating «mellifluous pages and young men with hair», that is to say the gays present in certain ecclesiastical courts of the time, it could have been based on the Free Gomorrhianus written a few decades earlier by San Pier Damiani (Ravenna 1007 – Faenza 1072), work in which he begs the Roman Pontiff to dismiss those guilty of the foul sins of homosexuality from the priestly and episcopal ministry, ephebophilia and pedophilia. However, a powerful force already existed at the time lobby gay, and the Supreme Pontiff replied that these desired severe measures would be taken only in the event of a repeat offense.

[9] Leonardo Sciascia: The Day of the Owl. Torino, 1960, Einaudi publishing house.

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The disastrous episcopal appointments of a Church that despises and destroys talent to make ideology prevail

THE DISASTROUS EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENTS OF A CHURCH THAT DESPISES AND DESTROYS TALENT TO MAKE IDEOLOGY PREVAIL

Nhe 1960, while in the United States there was racial segregation between blacks and whites, abolished only 4 years later from Civil Rights Act, in Rome, the Tanzanian Laurean Rugambwa, newly elected cardinal, dressed in purple with ermine and cappa magna, he received a kiss on the knee from members of the most ancient pontifical nobility. Does the Holy Father Francis know these edifying pearls of history linked to a Roman curia kissing the hand of a black cardinal while in the United States blacks were not even allowed to ride public transport?

 

 

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Take parish priests with consolidated experience and promoting them to the episcopate would not in itself be wrong, because what they vitally need the many small, but also in medium-sized Italian dioceses there is the figure of a bishop with pastoral experience, who knows how to deal with his priests and welcome and guide the portion of the flock of the People of God entrusted to him. But being a parish priest, or have been, It's not a guarantee at all, because the bishop is required to have a particular thoroughness that few parish priests have, especially those who, in order to reach the episcopate, managed to sew on themselves the “fortunato” curriculum of "frontier priest" or "periphery", essential and decisive under this pontificate. The Bishop must first of all know how to govern his priests with authority and authority, confirming them day after day in faith (cf.. LC 22, 31-34) then drive in a decisive and credible God's People.

Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, archive photo, Vatican CITY,1960

Bishops must avoid the attitudes of the spineless who, in order to please everyone and not displease anyone, create situations of self-destructive paralysis, because in fact they do not govern their particular Church and let arrogance govern it, quarrels and priests arbitrarities divided among themselves, where light is only the arrogance of the strongest in the time that you are placed in the right places after collecting the worst weapons of blackmail. Priests in some dioceses, although representing a small number of three or four elements, they put three or four bishops in check and silenced one after the other, after making them understand that they had in hand instruments of blackmail both on the moral side both on the economic side to blow up an entire diocese, with all the implications of a criminal nature in the event that certain information reached the competent civil and criminal judicial authorities. And not a few Italian bishops, in such situations, They remained with their beautiful pastoral in his hand used solely as Liturgical trinket to do done anything, or rather yes, to only be extras on the theater scene.

The bishop must be a master of doctrine. And here note that I did not say an excellent theologian, but a master of doctrine, able to teach and if necessary enforce compliance with the Magisterium of the Church which the supreme guardian in his particular Church deposit of credit. However, considering the recorded homilies that were pronounced both for their installation in the chair and during the first acts of episcopal ministry by several of these bishops coming from parishes-existential-devices, the doctrine of several of them is not all that exciting; and when you don't know well and thoroughly the deposit of credit, safeguard it is not easy, although of course no limits to the grace of the Holy Spirit, which however is best not to challenge to the levels of certain unfortunate appointments.

The bishop must also be a connoisseur of law and have a strong natural sense of justice. And here you notice: I did not say that it should be a supremely doctor in canon law, but a person with the sense of entitlement, because if it is not, easily slip in free agency, factory all the worst injustices. Even in this case, many of the new recruits, They also leave a lot to be desired in this sense, despite having been parish priests Peripheral-existential for many years and presented themselves as champions of the poor Church for the poor which looks out for refugees and Roma.

The bishop is the supreme liturgist and celebrating the Eucharist depends on the validity of all the Masses celebrated in his own particular Church. And even in this case it is good to gloss over the sloppy manner and approximate with which certain bishops from parishes-existential-devices, true or presumed, They have been taken for years and years by many cameramen while celebrating liturgies that you may want to draw a veil.

Run the mode, both conformism, lead by different routes but both parallel to the same disaster. Indeed, before the conformist fashion of peripheral-existential bishops-parish priests, we experienced both the fashion of curial bishops with John Paul II and the fashion of professor bishops with Benedict XVI. these seconds, mostly linked to the last part of the pontificate of John Paul II and the subsequent pontificate of Benedict XVI, that realizing how inside the Church of the ferment of heresy or doctrinal errors had pushed up huge panettone, to remedy, instead of closing the factories of panettone, instead of stripping certain pontifical universities and pontifical universities of the title "pontifical", we begin to have more or less illustrious professors of theology appointed as bishops, often coming from these same factories of heresy, inside which were themselves the first and most pernicious speakers. Unfortunately these professors, some of them true theologians, others pure puffballs, over time they have sown so much damage around the dioceses that in many cases it will take decades before it can be remedied, especially when such serious damage are related to the priestly ordinations of many wrong subjects as such should never have become priests.

Problems are not solved by moving from one fashion to another, He has already done politics. Or perhaps the Church wants to repeat the mistakes of politicians? Does anyone remember the times when before the political fall to historic lows of credibility, Italian political parties attempted to entice voters by nominating actors, singers and players on the electoral roll? To tell the truth, a famous person was also nominated and elected pornstars. We want to repeat these same mistakes in the Church, pornstars included?

The problem is only to become bishops it is necessary to have been a parish priest, or professors of theology, or who work in the Curia duties. It is not in fact the role that makes holy man, but the man who sanctifies the role that has been appointed to. A good bishop can emerge from a suburban parish priest as from a luminary of theology, by an employee of the diplomatic service or by a priest who has served the Church in a hospital specialized in the care of terminally ill patients, from a missionary who spent many years of his life in the poorest villages of the Congo as well as from a researcher who spent much of his life inside historical archives and libraries, because it is the man who makes the good bishop, not the specific position he held. Otherwise we risk reasoning and assigning episcopates on the basis of ideological stereotypes, with the bleak results that end up shining in the sunlight today.

Talking about the drama of the self-candidates and the clerical mafia that promotes them, in a book of mine published at the beginning of 2011[1], speaking of the episcopate and of our natural vocation to holiness, written in the water of our baptism, It said that it is up to the Church to establish how consecrated in the sacrament of Holy Order should play and pay their grateful and valuable services; the assumption that what is at the basis of the nature of the sacrament of Holy Orders. It is unacceptable that the priests are proposed as candidates for the episcopate, or bishops propose to major metropolitan locations, office of the Roman Curia or the honorary title of Cardinals. Anyone, in direct or indirect way it did, the penalty should be excluded from any possibility of promotion. No one is in fact promoted and consecrated bishop for his personal prestige but to be a faithful servant and devoted to the particular Church entrusted to him, always bearing in mind that God became incarnate in Jesus not to be served but to serve (cf.. Mt 20,28). Therefore we should work towards a day to an important result: a Catholic clergy formed by secular and religious priests are well aware that being bishop of a large and important diocese or be pastor of a small country parish is equally dignified and important for the Church, within which the Bishop of the largest diocese and the parish priest of the small country church offer both an essential service, united by their very nature of servants.

In the Church there is precious inspiring figure and the high example of the Holy Bishop Carlo Borromeo, but there is just as valuable inspirational figure of no less high and example: John Mary Vianney, elected patron saint of priests not by chance. No wise mind would have ever sent Carlo Borromeo as parish priest to Ars e John Mary Vianney as bishop in Milan; but it is precisely the Church that is the only one, the only one to establish who should become bishop of Milan and who should become curate of Ars, to better develop its natural vocation to holiness and to preserve and save the faith of the People of God.

However, when common sense takes over from fashions or market strategies played on real advertising slogans, the risk we run is to put Giovanni Maria Vianney as the Bishop of Milan and Carlo Borromeo as the curate of Ars, with a sad consequent results: neither will become saints. The first, will not become holy because be an inappropriate subject as not up to the Bishop of Milan; The second one, will not become holy because it is an inappropriate subject as not up to the priest at Ars, and both sow damage to no end.

In the state in which we find ourselves, it is useless to look small, futile and clerical strategies, today targeted the baked professors and curial, tomorrow in the parish priests who have taken upon themselves in some way - or really clever joke - the smell of the poor and of those existential suburbs that seem to go out of fashion today. Each of these choices are only palliatives that lead to total failure. What in fact does not seem to enter into the ever smaller heads of certain ecclesiastical, is that to arrive at being truly perfect in unity (cf.. GV 17, 23) We must proceed if necessary with dramatic divisions, mindful that Christ the Lord also came to bring a sword and war, not just peace understood in the manner of dreamlike ideological pacifists (cf.. Mt 10,34), Mindful that sooner or later, at the right moment, wheat will be separated from the chaff, when it is certain that not even an ear of wheat will be sacrificed to tear out the weeds. That doesn't mean that: ups weeds that choke the good grain permanently, as we are doing these days (cf.. Mt 13, 24-30).

Today's fashions prevent golden eagles to access ecclesiastical offices where they could render excellent services to the Church. Because trends are always harmful, of whatever kind they are, including the current research of parish priests with past real or imagined between Caritas, the slums and Roma camps, because that means that in the present, a man of God of extraordinary human completeness, morale, theological, juridical and pastoral as Rafael Merry del Val, not only it would never became cardinal, but not even bishop and perhaps not even priest, because just the sound of his surname would turn up many noses who pretend to only want to smell the smell of sheep to take on themselves, without having at all understood what the Holy Father Francis wanted to say and convey to shepherds caring for souls by claiming to be shepherds with the smell of sheep on them (cf.. WHO). Nor ever he would have done any road a man like Giovanni Battista Montini, guilty of coming from a family of the old and rich Lombard bourgeoisie[2]. Let us not dwell on the unfortunate fates of the Church trendy today they would have fallen to someone like Eugenio Pacelli, which is better to ignore and move directly to Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, but to the real, not to Santino from popular iconography. Today as today, the future St John XXIII, at the peak of the diplomatic career as apostolic nuncio in Paris, It would never become Patriarch of Venice - most ultra seventy -, after spending his entire life in the diplomatic service of the Holy See? Of course not, because if the logic had been applied fashionistas Today would have been tried definitely a pastor of some Veneto province that between 1945 and the 1950 he had enriched his CV after having dedicated himself to refugees and war orphans or for having served meals to the homeless left homeless after the Allied bombings of Italy.

If at certain bishoprics Bishops who have already gained pastoral experience in other dioceses where they have given good evidence of governance are usually sent., there is a reason, or not? If some Italian archbishop's offices have for centuries also cardinals locations, it is because there are ancient traditions linked to history and the past kingdoms and principalities of the Italian peninsula; this has established a tradition that is said to be maintained. Rules and habits can be changed and in fact, to do it, Peter does not have to ask anyone's permission. Limit it, if he wants, or if it has the necessary humility to do it, can ask people who are certain historical and ecclesial mechanisms may know them even better than him; but he alone, remains equipped with a full tank power to act as considers most appropriate. So that the current Patriarch of Venice was not created cardinal, perhaps to the person concerned does not affect anything, but the Venetians who have been accustomed to having a patriarch also awarded the honorary title of cardinal for centuries are very interested, so much so that they experienced this lack of a red hat as a humiliation, some even as a personal affront.

I understand that the Holy Father declared himself to be from "the other side of the world", However, this does not mean attempting other-worldly extravagances, because it is common ground that the Italian Church, its bishops and clergy, soprattutto alla sua storia bimillenaria, at least the same respect is due that the Holy Father shows he has for real or presumed refugees who disembark for an average of sometimes 700/800 per day in a country - ours - unable to contain and assist such a flood of people, because we are talking about 400.000/ 500.000 people per year who arrive in a territory - the Italian one - which is certainly not as large as Argentina.

To the Italian Church and its history at least the same respect that the Holy Father has for the inhabitants of the Roma camps is due, whose workers in the begging industry blaspheme Christ and all the saints along Via della Conciliazione, in front of the Papal Archbasilica of St. Peter, behind those who dare not give him money. It is not beautiful nor good, even for a Roman Pontiff, albeit surrounded by a "liberal" aura that only those who don't enter churches even for Christmas and Easter believe in, let it be understood: "I am and I do what I want". For us there is no doubt that you are Pietro, for your Lutheran or Pentecostal friends I don't know, but for us yes, you are Peter. Therefore, first establish precise rules, you have full authority to do so. Before Abolish customs and practices, then you should appoint a cardinal who you want and when you want, preventing a slice of your faithful, who for centuries they have been at the head of their diocese a bishop always created cardinal practices, they must ask themselves what they have done wrong to the Church and to the Holy Father to receive such a slap from him.

The Church needs its own strength and its own stability, which they contribute to some extent the traditions and customs of all accidental and quotas as such are changing and may be abolished at any time by the Supreme Shepherd. But I think that the least likely candidate to make the dangerous game to destabilization without first having established rules, is the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, also because sooner or later, the People of God, that has never been a fool in the whole course of the history of salvation, You might begin to wonder: in which pro 'all this, but especially, at what price must we pay for the eccentric deeds of this subject who seems to be suffering from a great thirst for originality? And at least according to our increasingly empty churches, more than in front of faithful who ask themselves certain questions, we are faced with an increasingly numerous army of faithful who are so disaffected that they do not consider it useful to even ask questions, they prefer to desert or abandon the churches directly.

The Church cannot give up being mother and teacher beyond the time, of fashions and ideologies, because the greatness of the Church has always been that of being a mother and teacher. And a good teacher, which it is also mother, primarily educates. This is the reason why this extraordinary mother who is a body whose head is Christ (cf.. With the 1, 18) He never made the class distinction, race and nation. We know all the flaws of our Church, holy and sinful according to the old definition ambrosiana. Historical defects that the undersigned know enough to have stigmatized several times in compliance with the wise warning of the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIII who stated:

"The Church historian will more strongly emphasize its divine origin as has been loyal in no way conceal the evidence that the sins of her children and sometimes of his own ministers did suffer this bride of Christ" (Speech to the academics of France, 8 September 1899).

This mother and teacher, at the same time saint and sinner, even in its most controversial eras and you contrasted saw up to their so-called leaders many men from very simple and modest families. Even in his most controversial and conflicted eras he managed to spot talent, rather: I was looking right. Who today says, with a spirit that is both Romanophobic and anti-historical, which until not so long ago, to become bishops and cardinals had to be called Borghese, Orsini, Column, Odescalchi, Chigi, Doctors, Sforza ... wrong and mind, or rather he doesn't know the history of the Church at all. The chronologies of the bishops who have succeeded one another in our numerous Italian dioceses, They include many names of men from poor families, they entered the seminaries with the outfits given to them by a poor country parish priest who had collected donations from equally poor faithful.

Do not forget that to succeed Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, who had a blood concentration of the oldest noble families of Europe, it was the Cardinal Peter Gasparri, who was secretary of state under Pope Benedict XV and Pius XI, as well as a signatory of the Lateran Pacts which put an end to the long Roman Question that began with the capture of Rome 20 September 1870 lasted 59 long years until 1929. Peter Gasparri, born in the Marche in a village of the province, He came from a family of farmers pastoralists. In the Roman curia, where not even the Supreme Pontiffs have ever been exempt from the attribution of a nickname, he was nicknamed, not by chance, he shepherd. Pietro Gasparri was a canonist of rare refinement and his contribution to the drafting of the Code of Canon Law of 1917. From modest family came the Holy Pontiff Pius X, who also he wanted beside him in the role of Secretary of State, Cardinal Merry del Val. The Cardinal was born into a poor family Alfredo Ottaviani, in the Trastevere, where his father worked as a laborer at a baker. The Cardinal Giuseppe Siri he was the son of a janitor and a concierge. We stop at these few examples because the list of men whose names are today included in the history of the Church would be long, not at all marked by the surnames of the most powerful European princely families.

What can we say then that nohe 1960, while in the United States of America there was racial segregation between whites and blacks, abolished only 4 years later from Civil Rights Act, in Rome, the Tanzanian Laurean Rugambwa, newly elected cardinal, dressed in purple with ermine and cappa magna, he received a kiss on the knee from members of the most ancient pontifical nobility. Does the Holy Father Francis know these edifying pearls of history linked to a Roman curia kissing the hand of a black cardinal while in the United States blacks were not even allowed to ride public transport? He is informed, the Holy Father Francis, that his Supreme Predecessor Benedict XIV, nee Prospero Lambertini, In the 1741 he did not hesitate to challenge - despite all the risks involved - the major European powers, condemning without appeal slavery and declaring illegal, under penalty of immediate excommunication, the sale and the reduction of the Indians to slavery? Condemns, however, already delivered earlier by his predecessors Supreme Eugene IV (1435), Paul III (1537), urban VIII (1639), none of whom came from the "existential periphery" nor had they ever carried out any apostolate in the villas miseries.

I fear that for some decades delicate and ancient balances have been shattered and that today we have reached the apotheosis. man ever, in the past, a Rafael Merry del Val prevented a priest of recognized talent with him to sit in the pews of the College of Cardinals, as guilty of coming from humble beginnings. However, what should be feared today is that numerous Pietro Gasparri and Alfredo Ottaviani are totally devoid of the great talent and great piety that characterized these men of God, but filled with ambitions in return for which they never could aspire in the civilized world, can prevent a Merry del Val to become bishop and cardinal, because it "does not correspond to what are the criteria and pastoral styles today" - from villas miseries - "The Holy Father Francesco", with all the immense damage that would result and that has already occurred to the Church which has been deprived of this faith for years now, talent and rare intelligence.

Today the Church is no longer capable of educating and valorizing precious talents given by God to certain of his children. I don't know if anyone will reflect on all this, in a Church no longer capable of grasping talent, to educate and as a logical consequence to grasp the talent and transform the Gasparri and Ottaviani into authentic principles, making them the principles for nothing less principles of a prince of birth as Merry del Val. I fear that in these sad times, where many men of the Church seem addicted to the immediate and to living day after day without thinking about the future and building for the future, few will make similar reflections. When in fact the one hand they make a coup and the other one gives in to fashions, first of all, the freedom of the children of God is lost and we try with the worst coercions and the worst arbitrariness to force others to also lose this precious gift of grace. A church that no longer free teetering between bankruptcy and fashions equally unsuccessful experiments is bound to collapse, from his heart: the College of the Apostles, in which to recruit a mediocre after another into effect the coup of mediocrity in power. Never as today is in fact echoed the false and misleading warning which Judas:

«[…] then Mary, took a pound of ointment of true nard, very precious, He anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. Then Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who would betray, he said: “Because this perfumed oil was not sold for three hundred denarii and then given to the poor?”. He said this not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and, He had the bag, to take what was put therein. Then Jesus said: “Let her do it, let her keep it for the day of my burial. For the poor you have always with you, but you don't always have me"" (GV 12, 3-8).

Together with the excuse of the poor we risk also having an army of Judah, thieves and traitors, as well as pimps, ready to use the poor as false and measure as a new pretext for their personal gain, always moved by those irrepressible ambitions originating from the queen mother of all deadly sins: the Superbia, which always blinds, preventing to correctly perceive the present and the future to build a holy manner to the praise and glory of God.

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[1] See. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, And Satan became triune, Iª ed. Rome 2011, reprint, Rome 2019, Editions The island of Patmos.

[2] See. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Digressions of a liberal priest, about the true curriculum of Giovanni Battista Montini, pag 61 e ss.. Rome 2023, Editions The island of Patmos.

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"Something is changed". From Jack Nicholson to Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi honorary degree from the University of Catania

"SOMETHING IS CHANGED". FROM JACK NICHOLSON TO CARDINAL MATTEO MARIA ZUPPI GRADUATION HONORARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA

«[…] If different opinions are not also welcomed, and maybe even words of dissent, there will be no real change. Today the CEI assembly is a moratorium because there are no longer any significant figures; you could share the positions of Siri or Martini or not, but their interventions were important points of reference. Today only pimps speak, those who want to be seen […]» (from an interview with the Archbishop emeritus of Pisa Alessandro Plotti, former vice president of the CEI)

 

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Inside the Church today it can happen to feel a bit like on set cinematic of the film, Something is changed, main protagonist Jack Nicholson together with a lovable little dog. For those who haven't seen it, let's summarize briefly: Melvin Udall, played by Jack Nicholson, is a famous writer of romance novels, misanthrope and suffering from obsessive-compulsive neurosis who, through a hilarious tangle of events in which he ends up involved together with the waitress of a restaurant, to a gay painter who is his neighbor and his little Brussels Griffon dog, comes to an unexpected and incredible transformation that leads him to become even a tender and lovable person.

Faced with some facts, say that today Something is changed it's reductive, because we are faced with reversals so radical that they are difficult to interpret. Like when the 12 April the University of Catania awarded the master's degree Honorary in Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations to His Eminence Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

I think it's irrelevant focus on the relationships that have been going on since before 17 February 1861 - the date that marked the fall of the Bourbon Kingdom - link this university to the historic lodges of the city's Freemasonry, as a figure from the names of many illustrious academics who were members of Freemasonry over two centuries. Unless the numerous funeral posters with their name and the initials A:.G:.(D):.G:.A:.(D):.U:. (acronym indicating: To the Glory of the Great Architect of the Universe) hanging in the city of Etna over the last few decades, they weren't just pranks by the Catania printers or the editorial staff of Sicily it's from The Sicilian newspaper who wanted to play around on the page of their obituaries published for a fee to commemorate the deceased.

Being a Freemason is not unbecoming, nor even a crime, membership of a historical association is lawful and legitimate; unless it is a deviant Lodge like P2, which comes to life from Freemasonry but is not an expression of it at all, but only detour. That affiliation with the Lodges is incompatible with belonging to the Catholic Church, this is yet another matter, linked to that partly Gnostic and partly esoteric system which makes Freemasonry incompatible and irreconcilable with Catholicism.

Without even dwelling on anticlericalism which winds through historical tradition in the University of Catania, our interests being completely different, However, some clarifications are required. Let us therefore start from a truly striking example now fixed in historical chronicles: when in November of 2007 he was invited by the Rector Magnificus to inaugurate the academic year at La Sapienza University of Rome, the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI gave up holding one keynote inaugural following protests by groups of students and teachers who rose up shouting «the university is secular!», while those of many Italian universities supported and supported the protest, including the Catania one.

Before it started today's youth season the bishop of Pecorecci - quite a few of whom would have failed an exam in fundamental theology until a few decades ago -, in Italy we had several bishops who were great scholars and men of profound culture, distributed in all those different areas than in improper journalistic language, because it is foreign in itself to the very structure of the Church, they are referred to as traditionalists, Conservatives, Progressives. Or to put it in the words of the Archbishop of Pisa Alessandro Plotti, who was vice-president of the Italian Episcopal Conference:

«If different opinions are not also welcomed, and maybe even words of dissent, there will be no real change. Today the CEI assembly is a moratorium because there are no longer any significant figures; you could share the positions of Siri or Martini or not, but their interventions were important points of reference. Today only pimps speak, those who want to be seen; the pastoral theme is thrown away with the study groups, which actually last half an hour, and then we only talk about Otto per Mille and money, which could very well be done by correspondence. And to say that, eg, regarding the family there are really big problems to face and everyone is trying to understand what direction the Church will take" (cf.. interview published in Jesus the 10 February 2014, text WHO).

Several of these bishops several times, over the past 30 year old, including Alessandro Plotti himself who belonged to the so-called progressive area, they had to give up invitations to academic structures and universities because the inevitable student agitators, instigated behind the scenes by former 1968 professors, they raised hell (cf.. WHO). The then President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, was challenged and booed in Siena on 24 September 2005 (cf.. WHO) because «it is the symbol of conservatism, of the attack on the secularity of the State and the denial of homosexual rights", as the representative of the Young Communist League of Siena reported in the press conference (cf.. WHO).

Yet we are not faced with different people, because those who yesterday barred the doors to the successor of those Roman Pontiffs who founded La Sapienza University, making it a universal center of culture, science and research over the centuries, they are the same ones who award degrees today Honorary to the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, no longer booed and criticized like his predecessor accused of being a violator of the secularity of the State, but welcomed with pats on the back and called in a friendly way "Don Matteo".

More than wondering Something is changed, we should ask ourselves: who was exploited and why? And it would certainly also be necessary to ask ourselves: who is such a "pimp" - to quote Alessandro Plotti - that he doesn't even understand, due to its own inevitable and invincible limitation, of being exploited?

Let's try to go behind the scenes of the little theater, because doing so isn't that difficult: the trial against the then Minister for Internal Affairs Matteo Salvini was opened in Catania, accused of having prevented at the end of July 2019 the landing of 116 illegal immigrants from the Gregoretti ship, stop in the port of the city of Augusta in the province of Syracuse (cf.. WHO). That under this pontificate, that of migrants, is an element that ranges between obsessive neurosis and ideology, it is a completely incontrovertible fact. As is the imprudent involvement - partly verified and partly yet to be verified - that some bishops had with a communist militant like Luca Casarini, which should be treated with extreme caution and above all with the utmost prudence, certainly not invited to the Synod of Bishops.

Translating from English to Italian graduation Honorary conferred is in Global politics e Euro-Mediterranean relations. Incredible! The doors of the universities were barred to the Pontiffs and Bishops of yesterday, or they shouted at each other when they approached state institutions or foundations, because regardless of their tendencies, whether conservative or progressive, they still said what the world didn't want to hear, by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Genoa Cardinal Giuseppe Siri to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan Carlo Maria Martini, otherwise, but both worried about the secularist drift that European society was taking, especially in his at times even hateful and violent rejection of Christianity. Today, who instead decided to whore with the world, through many new bishops who were variously "ruffian" and sheepish, here the Presidents of the Italian Episcopal Conferences are clapping their hands on the shoulders, they are called "Don Matteo" and they are awarded degrees Honorary precisely on political and Euro-Mediterranean issues regarding which the award winners themselves claimed the head of a Minister of the Italian Republic with a more bloodthirsty manner than that of Robespierre.

Even if in fact nothing has changed, in any case we are not idiots nor do we intend to be treated as such by a world that shows it loves us to the extent that we are willing to be ashamed of Christ, you forget that it is written:

"For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels " (MC 8,38).

Embarrassing and dangerous as few as the Blessed Apostle Paul will be today more than ever:

"Indeed, It is perhaps the favor of men that I intend to earn, or rather that of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, do not be a servant of Christ! I therefore declare to you, siblings, that the Gospel announced by me is not modeled on man; for I neither received it nor learned it from men, but by revelation of Jesus Christ" (Gal 1,10 e ss.).

From this company which, following the model and example of France, wants to establish the "great universal right to abortion" in the Charter of Europe, We Catholics should not expect applause or honors. If they applaud us or reward us, it is because we are the first to reassure the children of the Prince of this World that ultimately "the Gospel is not a distillation of truth", as the President of the Italian Episcopal Conference recently stated while responding to an interviewer from The Corriere della Sera (cf.. WHO, WHO). If I wanted, I could suggest to His Most Reverend Eminence, for friends Don Matteo, also another effective expression, by pronouncing which he would soon end up being the second Italian appointed academician of France after Maurizio Serra, but I prefer to remain silent and avoid making suggestions.

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The Devil among crime news, itching and reality in the 2024

THE DEVIL AMONG CRIME, ITCH AND REALITY IN 2024

«Human beings are amphibians – half spirit, half animal […]. Come spiriti essi appartengono al mondo dell’eternità, ma come animali sono abitatori del tempo»

 

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Nel febbraio di quest’anno i mezzi di comunicazione di massa hanno annunciato la terribile notizia di un omicidio familiare a sfondo religioso. Il tutto si è consumato, con particolare ed efferata crudeltà, ad Altavilla Milicia, in provincia di Palermo. Con l’ormai consolidato spirito di puro prurito i talk show nazional-popolari ne hanno parlato per alcune settimane, mettendo a discutere nei salotti televisivi persone completamente prive di basilare conoscenza su certe tematiche.

Secondo le fonti giornalistiche un uomo avrebbe ucciso la sua famiglia, a eccezione della figlia diciassettenne. Successivamente avrebbe poi chiamato le forze dell’ordine per costituirsi. Il movente dell’omicidio, sempre secondo le fonti, sarebbe la presenza demoniaca in casa.

Di fronte a una tragedia del genere, che inizialmente mi ha molto scosso, ho ritenuto scelta migliore quella di tacere e di pregare. Se di fronte a questo raccapricciante episodio condanniamo fortemente questo omicidio e la chiamata in causa del Demonio da parte di persone esaltate, al contempo non ha senso mettersi a giudicarle per il loro status religioso e la loro fede, che Dio solo conosce. As a priest, frate domenicano e teologo penso sia però necessario chiarire qual è la vera natura del Demonio, e distinguere fra la responsabilità dell’Angelo decaduto e quella dell’uomo.

Per quanto un testo sul demonio attiri sempre, è per me importante scriverlo per risvegliare anche la coscienza e responsabilità personale nell’esercizio della virtù. Quante battaglie ci sono state nella storia d’Italia? Pensate alle guerre puniche e a Scipione, senza il quale non avremmo avuto la civiltà romana ma quella cartaginese. Pensate alla seconda guerra mondiale, quando gli alleati sono arrivati per liberare la nostra nazione dai nazisti. Ma questa battaglia ci coinvolge in quanto figli di Dio: tutti quanto siamo responsabili sia di noi stessi, in quanto persone, sia del Bene Comune nostro e degli altri. Uno degli esempi di applicazione del Bene Comune fu quando durante il Lockdown ci impegnammo a rimanere in casa, permettendo la pratica di quel Bene Comune che secondo l’insegnamento della Chiesa è «l’insieme di quelle condizioni della vita sociale che permettono sia alle collettività sia ai singoli membri, to reach one's perfection more fully and more quickly » (Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa, 346). Now, una delle condizioni che tutti col nostro sforzo virtuoso abbiamo raggiunto in quel momento fu finire al più presto la fase pandemica affinché tutti gli italiani possano perfezionarsi. Ma noi che siamo chiamati alla vita di fede, anche noi affrontiamo una battaglia speciale. Di questo ce ne parla San Paolo:

«La nostra battaglia, indeed, non è contro creature fatte di sangue e di carne, ma contro i Principati e le Potestà, contro i dominatori di questo mondo di tenebra, contro gli spiriti del male che abitano nelle regioni celesti» (Ef 6, 12).

Questa battaglia contro queste realtà spirituali, i demoni chiamandoli col loro nome, non è una battaglia a suon di colpi di spade, bacchetta magica o stregonerie. È una battaglia interiore, spirituale appunto, in cui il demonio cerca di deviarci dalla strada descritta da Dio per noi. Proviamo allora a fare una piccola descrizione del demonio, che vediamo innanzitutto agire contro Adamo ed Eva, innanzitutto in Genesi 3.

«Il serpente era la più astuta di tutte le bestie selvatiche fatte dal Signore Dio. Egli disse alla donna: “È vero che Dio ha detto: Non dovete mangiare di nessun albero del giardino?”. Rispose la donna al serpente: “Dei frutti degli alberi del giardino noi possiamo mangiare, ma del frutto dell’albero che sta in mezzo al giardino Dio ha detto: Non ne dovete mangiare e non lo dovete toccare, altrimenti morirete”. Ma il serpente disse alla donna: “Non morirete affatto! On the contrary, Dio sa che quando voi ne mangiaste, si aprirebbero i vostri occhi e diventereste come Dio, conoscendo il bene e il male”. Allora la donna vide che l’albero era buono da mangiare, gradito agli occhi e desiderabile per acquistare saggezza; prese del suo frutto e ne mangiò, poi ne diede anche al marito, che era con lei, e anch’egli ne mangiò».

Il testo biblico ci dice qualcosa di importantissimo. Quello che sappiamo legandolo insieme al Nuovo Testamento ― e che la Dottrina cattolica ha assunto ― è che Satana e gli angeli ribelli hanno disobbedito a Dio. Ce lo spiega San Pietro:

«Dio infatti non risparmiò gli angeli che avevano peccato, ma li precipitò in abissi tenebrosi, tenendoli prigionieri per il giudizio» (2PT 2,4).

La teologia angelica e demoniaca offre un approfondimento al testo biblico. Il demonio è innanzitutto un angelo, un angelo che ha disobbedito a Dio ed è decaduto. So, ha le stesse caratteristiche naturali degli angeli, ma con delle differenze che vedremo adesso. Innanzitutto il demonio, essere spirituale privo di corpo, come tutte le creature è stato creato da Dio. In gergo tecnico si dice che è pura forma sostanziale senza materia.

Come allora spiegare apparizioni di angeli e demoni? Una domanda che è normale porsi, se la sono posta i teologi che poi hanno offerto diverse risposte. Secondo San Tommaso D’Aquino il Demonio, quando appare in un certo modo, è perché combina gli elementi naturali e materiali: dunque diremo ad esempio che crea dei giochi di luce, delle voci terribili e delle immagini inquietanti (QUESTION, I, q. 41, a2, ad3). Non perché le abbia nella sua natura, ma perché è in grado di interagire sul mondo esterno e sull’uomo.

Secondo Padre Serge Thomas Bonino il Demonio si è macchiato di peccato d’orgoglio: indeed, essendo un ente spirituale voleva un bene spirituale. Il bene spirituale maggiore è ovviamente quello di essere come Dio. Ma il Demonio non voleva essere come Dio per un dono di grazia, spiega San Tommaso: pretendeva proprio di diventare Dio. In short, davanti a Dio reclamava il diritto di essere chiamato alla partecipazione divina (S. Bonino, Les anges et les demons, Parole et Silence, 2007, 246 – 264). Questo non è mai un diritto, It is a gift of grace, che viene offerta dal Signore a chi si affida a Lui. Il demonio, secondo San Tommaso fu orgoglioso e non volle affidarsi a Dio, e pretendeva allora di farsi Dio da solo. Per questi motivi fu scagliato nella Geenna, e da lì prova a tirarsi sempre più dentro di essa e nell’Inferno. Il Demonio agisce sugli uomini proprio per tirarli tutti lontano da Dio e condursi verso l’inferno, dimensione e “luogo” tutt’altro che metaforico, ma reale e soprattutto eterno.

Pur essendo campioni di orgoglio e di egoismo, tutti i demoni si sono coalizzati, in un patto di soggezione a Satana, capo dei demoni, col fine di togliere credenti a Dio. United, nel loro essere superbi, sanno di essere forti. Ma noi non siamo soli. Dio è con noi e basta conoscere in che modo essi agiscono: la tentazione. L’azione ordinaria con cui il Demonio ci ostacola e combatte è chiamata tradizionalmente tentazione. Questo però non implica che il Demonio compia azioni al posto nostro o costringendoci a compierle.

La tentazione è la dimensione della sollecitazione e dell’istigazione al peccato, anche più terribile. A noi non rimane che combattere e resistere a questo invito al male facendo uso della nostra libertà e del nostro libero arbitrio, attraverso i quali si può sia cadere nelle tentazioni diaboliche sia resistere e respingerle. È una battaglia impari ma noi non siamo soli. La grazia del Signore ci aiuta. Il demonio lo sa bene e per questo cerca di allontanarci da lui.

Clive Staples Lewis ha saputo dare voce in modo ottimo a questa certezza del Demonio, quando nella sua splendida opera Screwtape Letters fa dire al diavolo Berlicche:

«Human beings are amphibians – half spirit, half animal […]. Come spiriti essi appartengono al mondo dell’eternità, ma come animali sono abitatori del tempo» (Le lettere di Berlicche, chapter 8).

Rimaniamo sempre forti nella sua grazia, che attingiamo specialmente nei sacramenti e nell’intimità della preghiera. Con questi strumenti non dobbiamo temere nulla e diventare sempre più uomini e donne della virtù.

Concludiamo con l’aspetto: Demonio e prurito. I nostri Padri redattori Ariel Levi di Gualdo e Ivano Liguori, che a loro tempo fecero la formazione per gli esorcisti, hanno sempre ripetuto: «Del Demonio, nei contesti televisivi e sulla stampa, meno se ne parla, better '. Chiariamo cosa intendono dire: quando sentono affrontare in modo pruriginoso i delicati aspetti della demonologia ai vari talk show televisions, dove semmai qualche improvvido sacerdote o religioso accetta di parlare in un parterre popolato di soubrette attempate messe nel ruolo di improbabili opinioniste e di laicisti più o meno aggressivi e irridenti, entrambi finiscono con l’essere assaliti da orticaria, ed è cosa del tutto comprensibile. Nessuno di noi dovrebbe prestarsi a fomentare, anche e solo involontariamente, certi giochi di prurito. Salvo essere zittito, se non aggredito dopo nemmeno mezzo minuto che tenta inutilmente di spiegare ciò che in quei contesti televisivi non interessa proprio, perché l’unica e sola cosa a cui si mira è il prurito, lo spettacolo, non di rado il trash. Per questo certi sacerdoti dovrebbero evitare di accettare inviti in quei salotti televisivi dove spiegare certi delicati temi e offrire su di essi chiarimenti è proprio impedito. È in questo senso che i nostri due confratelli affermano: «Del Demonio, meno se ne parla, better '. Which is to say,: evitino, certi sacerdoti, di prestarsi a far ridere il Demonio mentre certi suoi fedeli accoliti non perdono occasione per mettere il prete o l’esorcista in difficoltà per poi esporlo nel ridicolo. For which reason this, l’Associazione Italiana degli Esorcisti, ha più volte esortato sacerdoti ed esorcisti a non accettare inviti a programmi televisivi evitando di andare a parlare su certi temi dove è impossibile trattarli. Non tutti però ascoltano, come infatti dice Al Pacino a conclusione dello splendido film L’avvocato del Diavolo: «Vanità … tra tutti i peccati resta sempre il mio preferito».

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We inform the Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto that the excommunicated priest Alessandro Minutella books in religious structures of his Diocese to celebrate the rites of Holy Week and then continue at the Grand Hotel in Assisi

WE INFORM THE ARCHBISHOP OF CHIETI-VASTO THAT THE EXCOMMUNICATED PRIEST ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA BOOKS IN RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES OF HIS DIOCESE TO CELEBRATE THE RITES OF HOLY WEEK AND THEN CONTINUE TO THE GRAND HOTEL OF ASSISI

When we called the Casa del Pilgrino in Manoppello, institute founded at the time by the Capuchin Friars Minor, to ask if they were aware of who they would host, those responsible literally fell from the clouds by answering that for hours 20 at 24 they had made a reservation with a "basketball fans" group (!?)

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Mr. Alessandro Minutella he incurred excommunication automatic for schism and heresy (see decree WHO), subsequently, by his obstinate obstinacy, he was dismissed from the clerical state by decree of the Supreme Pontiff Francis (see decree WHO), therefore it is no longer part of the Church and the Catholic clergy by sentence given by the Supreme Ecclesiastical Authority.

For years travels around Italy and Europe collecting lost and vulnerable people, bringing to the world the "good news" that the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI would never have made an act of renunciation and that the Supreme Pontiff Francis is nothing more than a "satanic usurper emissary of the Anti-Christ".

As he was excommunicated and dismissed from the clerical state Mr.. Alessandro Minutella cannot access places of worship or use ecclesiastical structures in any way, he cannot qualify as a Catholic priest and cannot wear the ecclesiastical dress of the clergy.

In a clear sign of challenge and provocation decided to celebrate during the Easter Triduum in Manoppello, in a religious structure next to the Sanctuary of the Holy Face. But let's get to the deception: when we called the House of the Pilgrim of Manoppello, institute founded at the time by the Capuchin Friars Minor, to ask if they were aware of who they would host, those responsible literally fell from the clouds by answering that for hours 20 at 24 had made a reservation for a group of “fans basket”. It is clear that Mr. Alessandro Minutella sent his so-called contacts forward to make a provocative booking through deception, certainly not in his name nor that of his exotic association of schismatic heretics, but even in the name of a … “fans basket” (!?) However, the Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto will know what to do and how to do it.

The next day Mr. Alessandro Minutella and his followers will be al Grand Hotel in Assisi, which is not a religious structure, but despite not being such, it is a structure that thanks to religiosity works and carries out its hotel business, enough to prevent a person expelled from the Church from causing serious outrage to Catholic sentiment, with all his fanatics in tow, directly in one of the greatest symbolic places in the world of Christian religiosity.

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Abortion, the new dogma of our time with the cry of freedom, Egalitarian, fraternity …

ABORTION, THE NEW DOGMA OF OUR TIME CRYING OUT FREEDOM, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY…

For the Catholic morality that descends from the Gospel and the living tradition of the Church, as well as by rational reflection, abortion is an evil and a sin, a serious crime against life worse than the murder of a man or femicide. A man or woman whose lives are being attacked, in some way they could also defend themselves and escape death, or flee from the murderer's attack, but a child in the mother's womb is not, he cannot defend himself in any way or escape.

 

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Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa of Calcutta he repeated a phrase: «The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion». The lapidary expression contains a challenge to those drifts of modern thought that often choose the logic of death rather than life. Among these is a certain culture of freedom that has imposed the possibility of choosing abortion, to the point of making it a contemporary "dogma"., rooted in the deepest beliefs of people and naturally of politicians who vote in parliaments and enact laws that favor the voluntary termination of pregnancy. In the last Italian electoral campaign even some Catholic-inspired politicians reassured their voters talk show television affirming: "abortion remains an intangible right" (!?).

 

About that I would like to refer to political events that occurred in two mature democracies, what are the American and the French ones, in which we can recognize the weakness of a culture of freedom on one side which is to the detriment of another weaker one, having almost no rights: that of the unborn child who aspires to his own existence.

In November 2022 in the State of Montana (USA) a referendum took place in which the following question was posed to voters:

«Medical care must be provided to children who need it, if they have survived an attempted abortion?».

The "no" vote won, with a percentage equal to 52% of voters. In the opinion of 231.345 voters of that American state should not be given treatment to a child who is dying because the first attempt to end his life failed: a woman's "freedom" comes before her right to live. According to the supporters of the "no" vote, healthcare personnel have every right to let a child die, as long as the woman sees her choice and her body "respected".. They are aberrations that escape a moral conscience; it is in fact very difficult to understand how the event occurred, let's take a look, of a little girl who survived a failed attempted abortion, can be defined as violence against the body of that woman who did not want it and therefore should be left to die, preventing her from being given life-saving care.

Soon said: precisely today when the so-called good society is pining for cases of feminicide, at the same time we must take note that it is not considered femicide if a girl is born alive following a botched abortion, is left to die. In fact, it is only feminicide if a man kills a woman in the grip of a criminal impulse, but not if a gynecologist kills a little girl, because in this second case we are faced with the exercise of a legally protected right, exercised by the mother who is recognized as having the power of life and death and carried out by the gynecologist who uses medical art to help the woman benefit from this indisputable right. On the contrary, more than indisputable, dogmatic!

Much more significant than the referendum in Montana was the recent definitive approval of the amendment to the Constitution by the French Parliament, the Congress of Parliament, than in assembled chambers, Monday 4 March of this year, wanted to include the "right" to abortion in the Constitutional Charter. France is now the leading country not only in Europe, but also in the world, to include the right to abortion in its fundamental charter. This right in France was governed by the Simone Veil law of 1975. The vote of the French Parliament e triumphalistic tones of the comments that exalted him, in France as well as in the international press, they seem to transform a tragedy to be indignant about and to fight against, in a supreme affirmation of the dignity and freedom of women. Abortion becomes a symbol of emancipation, prophecy of a new way of understanding femininity. Once again overshadowing the urgency of investing more resources to give to women, rather than the license to eliminate one's children, the possibility of not doing so. The now approved amendment to the Constitution, strongly supported by President Emmanuel Macron to mark a difference in approach with respect to a previous ruling of the United States Supreme Court (see WHO), poses several problems for example to those French who, following a religious confession that repudiates abortion, they now find it as a right enshrined in the constitution. No Americans, in the case provided for by the above-mentioned Sentence which postponed the decision on abortion to the federal States, he was put in the position to choose between his being a citizen and his conscience. In the French case, however, yes.

Abortion has always been a painful necessity for many women, of which they themselves were the first victims. Killing the child you carry in your womb has always been and is, for a normal mother, a drama, made more terrible by the fact that a chauvinistic society, today again, he doesn't do what he can to avoid it, often leaving her alone to experience first-hand the many problems that make motherhood problematic. For this reason, relying on the logical recognition of women's freedom to motivate such a political stance poses several problems from a philosophical point of view., moral and biological. For biology, eg, there are no "leaps" between pre-natal life and post-birth life and a caesura between one and the other would be arbitrary: the unborn are biologically human individuals, like those born. Everything then depends on the philosophical and ethical justifications that can be given to justify abortion and many scholars, even non-religious ones, have highlighted that Christian ethics has placed at least a barrier to what could be the consequences of similar rights sanctioned constitutionally and deriving from personal freedoms. In this way who will be able to decide in the future who is a self-conscious subject and who is not among a fetus, an infant, a mentally ill person or in a coma, a person suffering from total dementia incapable of understanding and wanting?

The two political cases reported above they make us think back to that Spartan tradition linked to Mount Taygetos. On that mountain the children unwanted because they were not fit for military life or "defective" were thrown from there and made to die. «The throwaway culture», as the Holy Father Francis called it back in 2023. Because, as we know, for Catholic morality that derives from the Gospel and the living tradition of the Church, as well as by rational reflection, abortion is an evil and a sin, a serious crime against life worse than the murder of a man or femicide. A man or woman whose lives are being attacked, in some way they could also defend themselves and escape death, or flee from the murderer's attack, but a child in the mother's womb is not, he cannot defend himself in any way or escape.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church remind believers: «Human life is sacred because, since its inception, it involves the creative action of God and remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, its sole purpose. Only God is the Lord of life from its beginning to its end: None, under any circumstances, can claim the right to directly destroy an innocent human being " (Nr 2258). And the number 2302 recalls - an echo of Mother Teresa's words reported at the beginning - that among the enemies of peace we find first and foremost murder.

The Pontiffs affected by this issue of abortion they all took a clear and contrary position. The Holy Father Francis, with the colorful attitude that often distinguishes him, he has repeatedly stated that this spiral of hatred is clear in abortion because when you have an abortion it is like paying a hitman to carry out a murder (cf.. WHO). The Holy Father Benedict XVI a few years ago recalled the terrible wound opened by the abortion laws, stating: "They have created a mentality of progressive debasement of the value of life" (cf.. WHO). The Magisterium of Saint John Paul II was very clear in this regard: «Everything seems to happen with the strongest respect for legality, at least when the laws that allow abortion or euthanasia are voted according to so-called democratic rules. In truth, we are only faced with a tragic semblance of legality and the democratic ideal, which is truly such when it recognizes and protects the dignity of every human person, it is betrayed in its very foundations: «How is it possible to still talk about the dignity of every human person, when the weakest and most innocent are allowed to be killed? In the name of what justice is the most unjust discrimination carried out among people?, declaring some worthy of defense, while others are denied this dignity?». When these conditions occur, those dynamisms that lead to the dissolution of authentic human coexistence and the disintegration of the state reality itself have already been triggered. Claim the right to abortion, to infanticide, to euthanasia and recognize it legally, is equivalent to attributing a perverse and unfair meaning to human freedom: that of absolute power over others and against others. But this is the death of true freedom: "In truth, truly I tell you: whoever commits sin is a slave to sin (GV 8, 34)» (cf.. Gospel of Life, n. 20).

The drama of abortion, because it remains so, it therefore does not seem exactly liberal, since taking someone's life, it was said at the beginning, peace undergoes a wound; and that inner peace also disappears, of the soul, in someone who makes such a violent gesture. Eventually, with it, beyond freedom and peace, even hope dies. First of all that of the fetus, because the future is closed to him, his human history among his peers. But also that of the woman who, despite all the health and psychological help, she will find herself alone in taking that terrible step. It may console you at that moment to know that abortion has been included among your constitutional rights? Or he will think back to all the help he would have needed - not just moral and spiritual, but also economical, social and political - so that he would not have to make a similar choice, she and all the women in the world who have taken the lives of their children?

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A good priest is such if he waits for the end of his mandate to praise his Bishop: Andrea Turazzi, from today Bishop emeritus of the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro

A GOOD PRIEST IS SUCH IF TO PRAISE HIS BISHOP HE WAITS FOR THE END OF HIS EPISCOPAL MANDATE: ANDREA TURAZZI, FROM TODAY BISHOP EMERITUS OF THE DIOCESE OF SAN MARINO-MONTEFELTRO

«Venerable Bishop, I want you to know that during your episcopate you gave me the ten best years of my priesthood, this is something for which I will always be deeply grateful to you"

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From today H.E. Mons. Andrea Turazzi he is Bishop emeritus of San Marino-Montefeltro, my Diocese of belonging.

My Bishop for a year, after meeting me he told me in that distant May 2015: «You were born to be a hunter and I was born to be a veterinarian». He smiled at me fondly and continued: «Both hunters and veterinarians are needed in the Church, just please don't shoot with heavy buckshot, if anything use smaller pellets".

For a priest, not loving a Bishop who presents himself in this way is impossible. And I loved my Bishop, even though I have never said it publicly, because it would not have been appropriate and prudent.

Last year, while a controversy was raging into which I had directly dived with my cassock on without even undressing and putting on my bathing suit, mi said: «I don't question your reasons, impeccable on a doctrinal and theological level, I just ask you to try to be a little more moderate". After extending this invitation to me he added: "Sure, no one can say that you lack courage, maybe you even have too much of it. For this I don't feel like addressing you in any way, for this is your nature and the character God has given you, no one can ask you to be different than you are, I only ask you for a little moderation in the legitimate controversy, nothing more".

As always I listened to him. And a few days later I sent him a private message in which I thanked him in these terms: «Venerable Bishop, I want you to know that during your episcopate you gave me the ten best years of my priesthood, this is something for which I will always be deeply grateful to you".

If to use these words of affection he's someone like me, that I did not hesitate to publicly call a powerful Cardinal a criminal, stating that I would have preferred to deal with those of the Banda della Magliana rather than with him and his henchmen (cf.. WHO), this means that I had the grace of having as Bishop an authentic man of God and a true model of a Pastor in the care of souls, something that is increasingly rare in these sad times that the universal Church is experiencing. In his life and in his episcopal government my Bishop was an elevated model and living realization of the teaching of the Fathers of the Church who exhort:

«All the priests, in union with the bishops, they participate in the same and unique priesthood and ministry of Christ, in such a way that the same unity of consecration and mission requires the hierarchical communion of presbyters with the order of bishops […] The bishops therefore, thanks to the gift of the Holy Spirit which is granted to priests in sacred ordination, they have in them the necessary collaborators and advisors in the ministry and in the function of instructing, sanctify and govern the people of God […] For this common participation in the same priesthood and ministry, bishops should therefore consider priests as brothers and friends, and take care of them, in everything they can, their material and above all spiritual well-being" (See. By decree of the Presbyters of the Order, n. 7).

Only now who no longer has the power of pastoral governance over the Diocese and over me, I can publicly say how much I revered it, appreciated and loved my Bishop. And how difficult it wasn't for me at all, with a Bishop like that, put into practice this exhortation of the Fathers of the Church:

«I presbiteri, for their part, keeping in mind the fullness of the sacrament of orders enjoyed by bishops, let them venerate in them the authority of Christ the supreme shepherd. Let them therefore be united to their bishop with sincere charity and obedience. This priestly obedience, pervaded by the spirit of collaboration, it is based on the same participation of the episcopal ministry, conferred on priests through the sacrament of orders and the canonical mission" (See. By decree of the Presbyters of the Order, n. 7).

To the bishop It is due filial respect and devout obedience by the presbyter, We solemnly promise this on the day we receive priestly consecration. And I respected and obeyed my Bishop, because it was due to him. Then I also respected and loved him, but not because it was due to him, because neither esteem nor love is due to any Bishop as such; if I poured them on him, it's because he deeply deserved them.

Sorry for the Brother Priests and it hurts believers of Christ of this Diocese of Feretra that the mandate of the Bishop has not been extended. One would almost scream "wasteful".!” in front of a man of 75 years in perfect physical health, equipped with all the necessary human and spiritual strengths, of knowledge and wisdom. But on the other hand, the Rome of the "field hospital Church" and of the "existential suburbs" seems accustomed to it, today even more than yesterday, to decide on the dry cards, especially when it comes to the much vaunted "suburbs".

I have no idea who his successor is because I don't know him, I only know that his name is Domenico Beneventi, 49 year old, priest of the Diocese of Acerenza, a Diocese particularly dear to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, very active and industrious in recent times in presenting new suitable candidates for the episcopate. From now on I wish the new elected Bishop not only to be respected and obeyed, as due to him by sacramental bond; I also wish him to be loved and esteemed as his predecessor was. But the love and esteem of the clergy and the faithful must be earned at a high price, often even at the cost of tears and blood, precisely because they are not necessary things. This is the hardest work for any Bishop, which always translates into success only in authentic men of God, ready to conform to the mystery of the Cross of Christ the Lord.

 

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Charity washes and makes even dirty money clean, The great Saints of Charity teach us this in the history of the Church

CHARITY WASHES AND MAKES EVEN DIRTY MONEY CLEAN, CE LO INSEGNANO NELLA STORIA DELLA CHIESA PROPRIO I GRANDI SANTI DELLA CARITÀ

Certi vescovi di Migrantopoli e Pauperopoli sembra che vogliano presentarsi oggi più puri e immacolati della Beata Vergine Maria, pur di piacere al mondo e compiacerlo. Sino a non capire che la carità «tutto copre» e «tutto trasforma», cosa che però non possono cogliere e capire, se come loro Presidente si ritrovano un soggetto che afferma: «il Vangelo non è un distillato di verità».

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Quando il Beato Apostolo Paolo compose la lode alla carità parlò anche ai giorni nostri. Questa è la caratteristica della Parola di Dio: un linguaggio eterno che comunica agli uomini di tutti i tempi e che nel corso dei secoli svela messaggi nuovi racchiusi in quelle stesse parole.

Le Sacre Scritture hanno uno stile e un linguaggio apocalittico nel senso etimologico del termine. Benché nel linguaggio corrente parlato il termine apocalisse, the greek revelation, sia erroneamente usato per indicare un evento catastrofico o la fine del mondo, il suo vero significato è “disvelare”, “togliere il velo che copre”, quindi scoprire. Tra il termine apocalisse e il termine epifania, derivante dal greco ἐπιφαίνω, che significa “mi rendo manifesto”, c’è uno stretto legame. L’epifania intesa come manifestazione della divinità è un continuo “disvelare” dei contenuti racchiusi sulle righe, dentro le righe e oltre le righe stesse delle Sacre Scritture che racchiudono la Parola di Dio.

Nel brano in questione, also known as Hymn to Charity, il Beato Apostolo Paolo esprime:

«La carità è paziente, love is kind; It is not envious, It does not brag, not puffed up, no disrespect, does not seek its own interests, don't get angry, ignores the evil received, does not rejoice, but rejoices with the truth. It bears, Love believes, It hopes all things, It endures all things. The charity will never end. […] And now these three remain: faith, hope and charity; but the greatest of these is love!» (The Cor 1, 1-13)

Confrontiamo questo brano paolino, facile e comprensibile solo all’apparenza, con un recente fatto di cronaca ecclesiale:

«”L’Ospedale pediatrico Bambino Gesù di Roma ha fatto bene a rifiutare la ricca donazione della società Leonardo” perché “è denaro sporco, sporco di armi, sporco di sangue, sporco di guerra”. Mons. Giovanni Ricchiuti presidente nazionale di Pax Christi e vescovo di Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti, prende una posizione più che netta dopo che The Republic ha scritto che sarebbe stato rifiutato un milione e mezzo di euro. “Finalmente” dice “Siamo in linea con una Chiesa che veramente si libera di questi condizionamenti, di queste elargizioni che vengono, come nel caso, da una industria che produce armi. Ha fatto bene il Vaticano a rifiutare questa offerta. Lo dico come vescovo: è una Chiesa che ama la verità”» (cf.. WHO e WHO).

First a question. Dopo che il Presidente di Peace of Christ ha annunciato che la nostra attuale «è una Chiesa che ama la verità», si renderebbe necessario chiarire due cose fondamentali. The first: earlier, the church, per duemila anni quale verità amava, ammesso che la amasse? The second: what is the truth?

Recently, il Presidente dei Vescovi d’Italia, nel totale silenzio del nostro episcopato nazionale ha affermato che «il Vangelo non è un distillato di verità» (cf.. WHO). At least, Pontius Pilate, a suo tempo non fece una affermazione come quella del Presidente dei Vescovi d’Italia, in modo molto più elegante rivolse al Cristo una domanda: «What is truth?», Cos’è la verità (cf.. GV 18,38).

Non è facile parlare di verità nella odierna Chiesa emozionale di Migrantopoli e Pauperopoli. Proviamo allora a rifarci a quel San Tommaso d’Aquino che nei salotti dei sempre più ignoranti clericali radical chic è variamente indicato come «vecchio» e «superato». For the Angelic Doctor O Doctor Common La verità è Dio stesso ipsa summa et prima veritas (Summa Theologica, I q. 16 a. 5 (c)). La verità non si disvela mai pienamente, per questo motivo «verità ed opinione errata, verità e menzogna nel mondo sono continuamente mescolate in modo quasi inestricabile […] diventa riconoscibile, se Dio diventa riconoscibile. Egli diventa riconoscibile in Gesù Cristo. In lui Dio è entrato nel mondo, ed ha innalzato il criterio della verità in mezzo alla storia» (Joseph Ratzinger, in Jesus of Nazareth, la domanda di Pilato, pp. 216-218).

Per volontà del suo divino fondatore la Chiesa di Cristo non è nata per piacere al mondo e compiacerlo, ma per combatterlo:

"If the world hates you, know that it hated me before. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you from the world, that's why the world hates you " (GV 15, 18-19).

Se alla verità si sovrappongono opinioni errate che prendono vita da elementi emozionali soggettivi o collettivi, essa rimane completamente occultata nella emotiva Chiesa di Migrantopoli e Pauperopoli, dove non si esita ad affermare che «il Vangelo non è un distillato di verità», il tutto nel silenzio dell’intero l’episcopato italiano.

Rifiutando quella donazione si è cercato ancóra una volta di compiacere il mondo, in particolare quello composto da persone che lungi dall’andare alla Santa Messa per Pasqua e per Natale, non sanno farsi neppure il segno della croce. Questo il mondo al quale questa nostra Chiesa visibile dal sapore sempre più esotico desidera piacere a tutti i costi, dimenticando la propria storia, a partire da quella dei grandi Santi della carità.

Partiamo dai Gesuiti, ai quali nel momento storico presente è giusto conferire un meritato diritto di priorità: gli istituti faraonici costruiti in giro per il mondo, rasenti non di rado la megalomania, assieme alle chiese adiacenti i loro collegi, che in molte occasioni hanno fatto tanto irritare i vescovi diocesani, perché costruite volutamente più grandi, ricche e solenni delle loro chiese cattedrali, con i soldi e i contributi di chi furono costruiti? Perché gli spagnoli e i portoghesi che offrirono loro ampi finanziamenti erano gli stessi che gestivano il mercato della tratta degli schiavi o che all’occorrenza amministravano la giustizia in modo disinvolto, that means: prima ti tagliavano la testa o t’impiccavano, poi eventualmente valutavano se avevi fatto veramente qualche cosa di sbagliato. I gesuiti odierni, che di Migrantopoli e Pauperopoli sono il motore ideologico propulsore, un minimo di memoria storia non ce l’hanno proprio?

Ai grandi Santi della Carità e ai grandi pedagoghi ai quali dobbiamo la fondazione di preziosi istituti assistenziali per orfani, anziani abbandonati, per l’istruzione dei fanciulli poveri e per l’accoglienza e la cura dei disabili, it gives San Filippo Neri sino a San Giovanni Bosco, passando per San Vincenzo de 'Paoli e giungendo ai più recenti St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo, San Giovanni Calabria e San Luigi Orione, chi fornì i necessari fondi di danaro per la realizzazione delle loro opere? when in 1980 fu beatificato Luigi Orione, poco dopo si levarono varie proteste da parte di circoli di persone che non conoscevano neppure le prime sei parole del Our father, inclusa la patetica protesta dell’ANPI (National Association of Italian Partisans) che lo accusò di essere stato un sostenitore del regime fascista grazie al quale ebbe fondi per la realizzazione delle sue opere; protesta che fu poi ripetuta nel 2004, quando il Beato Luigi Orione fu canonizzato.

Le grandi opere di questi Santi della carità sono tutt’oggi attive, alcune delle quali costituiscono centri clinici e di assistenza considerati di vera eccellenza a livello europeo: l’opera torinese di San Giovanni Benedetto Cottolengo, le enormi opere assistenziali di Genova di San Luigi Orione, l’Ospedale Sacro Cuore di Verona di San Giovanni Calabria … qualcuno, si è mai domandato da dove e da chi provenissero i soldi? Più che altro viene da chiedersi se oggi, specie a fronte di certe assurde proteste, la Chiesa visibile avrebbe avuto il coraggio di beatificarli e canonizzarli, o se invece avrebbe ceduto a gruppi di persone che non conoscono neppure le prime sei parole del Our father ma che pretendono pur malgrado di dettarci legge, con le nostre Autorità Ecclesiastiche che piegano il capo e cedono a capricci politici e ideologici da parte di ambienti non cattolici e non cristiani. A tal proposito rimando alle mie opere Herbs Amare e Pius XII and the Shoah nelle quali spiego le influenze esterne esercitate da certi agguerriti gruppi che tentarono con ogni mezzo sleale, sino a ricorrere alla fabbricazione di veri e proprio falsi storici, di bloccare la causa di beatificazione di Pio XII e la cerimonia della beatificazione di Padre Leon Dehon per la quale era già stata fissata la data al 24 April 2005 in St. Peter's Square, ma che fu annullata per improbabili accuse di antisemitismo a lui mosse da alcuni circoli ebraici. Posto che mai e in alcun caso la Chiesa può prendere ordini dal moderno Gran Sinedrio e accettare le sue proteste, la domanda da porsi era la seguente: ammesso che il Padre Leon Dehon abbia scritto alcune frasi critiche sugli imprenditori ebrei — che andavano di rigore lette e contestualizzate storicamente nell’ambito della Rivoluzione industriale —, posto che il suo processo di beatificazione durò quasi mezzo secolo, perché certi circoli ebraici attesero pazienti fino a cerimonia di beatificazione fissata per dare vita a quella pubblica polemica sulla stampa mondiale? Simple: anche se quegli scritti li conoscevano da sempre, dovevano dimostrare, con una vera e propria prova di forza, che loro erano in grado di dare ordini alla Chiesa e indurla a retrocedere non solo da una decisione presa, ma addirittura da una cerimonia di beatificazione ormai già ufficializzata e fissata. Questo era il vero scopo, che fu ampiamente ottenuto per la prepotenza loro e la debolezza nostra. Il problema non era la beatificazione in sé e di per sé di Padre Leon Dehon, la Chiesa può beatificare chi vuole e non deve mai accettare a tal fine proteste, dato che gli ebrei non hanno alcun genere di obbligo a venerare i nostri Beati e Santi nelle loro sinagoghe, proprio come certe frange del sionismo politico, nato e sviluppatosi dal seno dell’Ebraismo, non accettano critiche rivolte all’Esercito Israeliano quando rade al suolo interi centri abitati sulla Striscia di Gaza, salvo gridare come prefiche all’antisemita verso chiunque osi dissentire verso azioni che non costituiscono legittima difesa ma veri e propri crimini contro humanity.

Questi grandi Santi della Carità non hanno esitato ad accettare soldi provenienti dai patrimoni di soggetti noti e conosciuti per la loro immoralità e per il modo alquanto disinvolto col quale portavano avanti i propri affari senza farsi troppi scrupoli. Li boni gesuiti che furono, la cui rigida morale era ben nota e che per lungo tempo hanno tentato di trasformare gli adolescenti in preda a crisi ormonali in un casto esercito di San Luigi Gonzaga, non si sono mai fatti particolari scrupoli nell’accettare cospicui donativi da parte dei più grandi puttanieri e fedifraghi delle corti spagnole. Puri e casti dovevano essere solo gli adolescenti, ai quali si imponeva nei loro collegi, sino a tempi tutt’altro che remoti, di dormire con le mani fuori dalle lenzuola del letto onde evitare il rischio di commettereabominevoli atti impuri”, while at the same time, sotto le lenzuola di coloro ai quali dovevano grandi elargizioni di danaro per la costruzione delle loro strutture faraoniche, si poteva fare invece di tutto e di più, in atti impuri veramente abominevoli.

Il grande problema ― posto che «il Vangelo non è un distillato di verità» ― è dato dalla incapacità di leggere le parole del Beato Apostolo Paolo sulla carità, per esempio l’affermazione che essa «tutto copre». Se le sue parole fossero lette e comprese nella loro profondità, si giungerebbe a comprendere che per la realizzazione di opere di carità si dovrebbe accettare non solo il danaro delle aziende che fabbricano armi, ma persino i soldi donati dai narcotrafficanti messicani. Perché se quei soldi sporchi sono interamente usati per opere di carità a favore di poveri, weak, oppressi, disabili e ammalati, diverranno comunque puliti, perché la carità «tutto copre», or if we prefer: «tutto trasforma», perché solo la divina carità, which is Christ, può mutare il male in bene, quindi i soldi sporchi in soldi puliti. In caso contrario potrebbe subentrare un problema teologico di non poco conto: negare che la grazia di Dio possa mutare il male in bene. As is well known, however,, una delle cose che di questi tempi va meno di moda nella Chiesa dell’emozionale e del politicamente corretto è proprio la teologia.

Certi vescovi di Migrantopoli e Pauperopoli sembra che vogliano presentarsi oggi più puri e immacolati della Beata Vergine Maria, pur di piacere al mondo e compiacerlo. Sino a non capire che la carità «tutto copre» e «tutto trasforma», cosa che però non possono cogliere e capire, se come loro Presidente si ritrovano un soggetto che afferma: «il Vangelo non è un distillato di verità».

the Island of Patmos, 23 January 2024

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