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He DIED CARDINAL GODFRIED DANNEELS, A LOSS unbridgeable. THE BLESSED CAT OF CARDINAL CARLO MARIA MARTINI APPEARED TO THE MYSTICAL CAT OF THE BARBAGIA SARDA MAKING A REVELATION: "The EMINENT DECEASED IS ALREADY IN THE GLORY OF THE ANGELS AND SAINTS"

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… This cardinal loved so much the Holy Church of Christ, which he tried to dissuade a young manager from reporting the sexual abuse for years in his own hurt. Indeed, author and abuser was S.It is. Mons. Roger Vangheluwe, Bishop of Bruges, whose nephew was abused. Animated by a deep spirit of compassion, Gotfried Cardinal Danneels asked the victim to wait to report violence, given that his uncle the bishop he would resign from office the following year due to age limits …

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FROM THE SODOM SPINELLO UP TO RETREAT TO THE ROMAN CURIA, WHILE NO ONE IN THE WORLD IS unreal MAKES STATEMENT THAT LIFE MONASTIC IS DEAD AND THAT THAT REMAINS IS A PARODY: "You call them IF YOU WANT, EMOTIONS "

The preacher Abbot will speak to the Roman Curia about the dreamer Giorgio La Pira and the poet Mario Luzi, as if it was a dream spirituality and theology poetry, as if the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, loudly proclaimed a saint had never written the encyclical Faith and Reason, the base of which there is the thought of a great Benedictine Abbot, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, who did not live the relationship with faith in dreams and poetry, but explaining that faith seeking understanding [faith requires reason] and in need: «I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust» [I think to understand, I understand to believe]. Unfortunately the famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti has been dead for years, otherwise, for the next retreat, perhaps Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi would have proposed the thoughtful lyrics of his famous song Emotions …

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Next the Council of Trent who attempted to curb the drifts of the clergy, Many abbeys poured in disastrous moral conditions. Recently he's talked in an essay dedicated to religious life [cf. WHO]. The state of men's abbeys, towards the end of the fifteenth century it was not unlike that of many female monasteries bleak, especially in those with rich heritages.

The Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, 14th century, erected in the Crete Senesi area

One example among many: in the architecture of many historic abbeys we can observe the standing buildings, detached from the monastery at least a hundred meters. If we ask the monks who continue to live in those abbeys and monasteries - because many of these facilities are no longer abbeys and monasteries, others are not inhabited by monks -, the answers that we shall receive will be varied, and equally disparate will not be the real answer, because often the truth burns, especially it can be really unedifying.

the ancient bachelor pad abbots more or less renaissance

Since we will speak of the frescoes of the cloister Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, erected in the fourteenth century in the countryside of the Crete Senesi, as an example we will take one of these stable detached from the monastery and today referred to as entrance door. Nothing to say that architectural styles change in the course of the centuries, but that function had a detached tower of the abbey and not visible from the abbey, which it is spread over four levels and incorporates a structure that, starting from the ground floor is dominated by two upper levels, all on an area of ​​over one thousand square meters? Do we have to believe that this gift of God architecture was really created only as a gateway to the abbey, or perhaps as a fortress? But a fort that would be if there were solid and high walls, that in that property, however, never existed, so?

So the structure was the residence of some revelers abbots, become such good offices of powerful families or for questions related to specific political arrangements, that being accustomed to lead monastic lifestyle at all, in those places they had their own small courts, They were devoted to hunting, at parties and so on. Then sometimes down in the monastery, necessary to fulfill their offices.

the ancient garçonnière of the more or less Renaissance abbots

The era the late fifteenth century He marked a doctrinal crisis, morality and customs preceded about three centuries earlier by an equally unfortunate epoch, when in the thirteenth century, Pope Eugenius III called for the Fourth Lateran Council that enacted strict rules against the immorality of the clergy and religious. It was in this jolly Renaissance that comes from Vercelli at the rich and powerful Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore a gay character: Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom [1477-1549].

About Sodom, subsequent historiography penned by religious pious attempt to clarify how mischievous connect the nickname by which the famous artist went to art history with those who would be his homosexual tastes. He even tried to resort to a pathetic sophistry arguing that the nickname Sodom It had nothing to do with the practice of sodomy but was linked to an expression that the artist in his local dialect used to say 'his, 'nduma», meaning "to go". Unlike what later tried to say critics pious to save the honor of not Bazzi, but that of the monastic structures that this bugger if contending with each other, the famous painter and architect Giorgio Vasari from Arezzo [1511-1574], who was his contemporary and connoisseur of his deeds, states that the source of such a nickname derived from his own homosexuality. The precise than that of Vasari Sodom It was also a hidden homosexuality at all, quite the opposite: He was performed in ostentatious and brazen way.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma: Christ bound to the column for the scourging

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom he married in his youth, but very soon he separated from his wife. Who knows if even in this regard some pious art critic - convinced that no one knows canon law and the discipline of the sacraments -, It can say that this separation was due to pure temperamental incompatibility. As if the end of the fifteenth separation from his wife and cut and run what would be more obvious could happen?

The Gay search for beauty which in this artist transcends nell'omoerotico, It is a feature of the painting Sodom, suffice to analyze the really striking figure of Christ tied to the column located in a corner of the central cloister Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore before the internal entrance door to the Abbey cathedral. Picture this sufficient to assess whether Christ bound to the column can look so sexy boy by winking. But for divine charity, you look carefully air and shameless position of the Christ at the Column portrait Sodom: there may remember certain images of the famous film Midnight Cowboy, with the then young Jon Voight in the provincial role Texan who arrived in New York full of dreams he ends up leaning against a street pole to hustle?

the historic poster of the famous film The Man on the Sidewalk, with the young Jon Voight leaning against the pole in the role of the hustler

Sodom, in that place of apparent quiet, as well as even more apparent religiosity, Perhaps the sign left him not only in the frescoes, but also in the air, and through the centuries! Indeed, the beautiful nature that surrounds equally stunning that abbey with all the architectural and artistic works of art, including homoerotic paintings, suppliscono for centuries the poor lack of religiosity; this thing that I do not say, because to prove it is the story. It would be enough just ask yourself this question: from the 1313 to date, how many monks of the Benedictine Congregation Olivetan that in the following seven hundred years of life we ​​have been beatified and canonized? Note that this Congregation, albeit reached between the end of the fifteenth and the end of the seventeenth century to count up to 1200 Monks distributed in several tens of Italian monasteries, seven centuries of existence has given the Church a unique blessed, its founder Maria Bernardo Tolomei [Siena 1272 — †Siena 1348], beatified three centuries after his death. Then, elapsed 661 year old, Blessed Bernardo Tolomei Maria was eventually canonized 20 August 2009.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said

Concerning the canonization of Maria Bernardo Tolomei would be interesting to see how the distinguished biographer Belgian Benedictine Dom Réginald Grégoire [1935 — †2013], postulator of the cause, has finally retrieved documents to carry on this historical cause at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, if it considers that for centuries has been complained precisely the impossibility of proceeding with a process of canonization for the lack of necessary historical documentation, which it seems to have finally compensated for the hagiography (!?). However, since this congregation with a rich heritage and being counted among the great Tuscan companies that possess the largest land plots, it may be that he had the means to finally find the historiography which for centuries did not exist?

particularly large fresco

Di Maria Bernardo Tolomei There were perhaps handed memorable sermons and wonderful spiritual lessons to its monks or as many of his lyrics lofty theological stature? To be honest, the collection of his letters [cf. WHO] more than the spiritual have the flavor of the writings of an administrator who organizes, directs, issuing directives and requires a papal legates and bishops concessions and privileges to their monasteries. As for the texts on his life, from one of the oldest [cf. WHO], they are an obvious jumble of ordinary gold legends with whom they were infiorettate the middle of the seventeenth century the lives of Saints or the candidates for canonization, all through precise and repetitive styles, thanks to writers who often gathered together episodes, visions and tests virtue that emerged as such in the lives of dozens of other saints or candidates for canonization. And even working in hagiography hagiography but apografia in apografia, the distinguished Belgian Benedictine biographer has finally changed over the centuries in a stratified apografie Position on life, virtues and reputation of holiness. So today, narrate the holy deeds of Bernardo Maria Tolomei, of which there are no written and original works but only posthumous biographies, It is like telling the struggle of St George and the dragon, canonizing finally biographers and hagiographers. That said it is good to clarify, to those to whom it was not clear if necessary, that the speeches have just made they do not rely on more or less stringent opinions or even ungenerous, but strictly on scientific data and not easy to disprove.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma

By way of historical inquiry, we want to check how many blesseds and saints were instead donated, including also some Doctors of the Church, from other religious congregations, in a life span far below the Congregation of Benedictine monks Olivetani? Can a monastic congregation not donate to the Church and Blessed Saints in seven hundred years? Yup, it's possible, As a gay character like Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom He does not just leave their mark only of ancient frescoes, but also in the air that permeates the walls, from the entrance building that was the bachelor pad connoisseurs of Renaissance abbots until the stable monastic populated by several other monks no less revelers. If the saying is true that "the barrel the wine that ', shortages blessed, santi, mystical and spiritual fathers, however, it was compensated with other talents, from that of Dom Francis Ringhieri [1721-1787], devoted to theatrical works in the Baroque era and defined by critics as "More heretical than any other tragedy friar in that century" [can be consulted WHO, WHO, WHO].

Speaking on asset plan: no Abbot of Monte Oliveto Maggiore has never had problems accommodating between those rich spiritual walls of an aesthetic but often empty Anima Christi, a large army of children of Sodom roughly similar to the poor sensual and winking Christ tied to the column. But when the abbot Dom Maurizio Maria Outlines [1986-1992], previously already economer general of the congregation, nell'avallo he was involved in financial transactions which led to the loss of several billion old lire, the children of Sodom They did not hesitate to remove him, because you can defer the morale of flickering monks tied to the column, but on the money deposited with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena can not however compromise. Everything although a Abate remain in office until 75 years of age, though re-elected by the general chapter every six years. A document everything is cronotassi of the abbots of the twentieth century, that until 1970 They remained in office for life, only from the successor of Dom Romualdo Maria Zilianti [1928-1946], with his successor Dom Angelo Maria Sabatini [1970-1986] takes over the practice of giving up the chair at the abbey they are 75 years of age.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma, between the sacred, profane and scenes of Bacchanalian … to the right are depicted the family Abbot era

If today we can call ourselves Christians we owe it to the children of St. Benedict of Norcia through monasticism have first saved, then spread Christianity in the West. The same lemma Europe, of which St. Benedict is the patron, It was born as an idea and concept in the great Benedictine abbeys circuit, because they were the sons of St. Benedict in creating Europe. And if today we can read and study Greek philosophy, Latin classical literature or know the works of the great Fathers of the Church, if we have so many secular works from the contents anything but Christians, Gaius Valerius Catullus, including, we owe it to the Benedictine monks, born children of St. Benedict, and then it is reduced centuries after the children of Sodom.

To those who have always nurtured great veneration historical and theological towards the Benedictine Order, heart-wrenching to see today reduced monasticism in a similar decline. Unfortunately in this world in which even the most scandalous news today are born to die tomorrow and make room for other scandals, I fear that few have realized that to Montecassino, mother of all Western abbeys, gangrenous a homosexual in their unbridled vices has decreed the death of monasticism; and today, what's left, It is an empty shell, fact of historical abbeys - those that today have survived - rich in works of art and beautiful scenery,, but empty of the substance of the faith and of that glorious monasticism from the sixth century faith saved her and then spread. In short: attention to be seduced by the historical frames of the beautiful and the aesthetic that, however, conceals the emptiness of the spirit and of the Christian virtues, because the Devil, in addition to having extraordinary aesthetic sense, wonderfully sung in Gregorian chant and “celebrates pontifical abbey” with great stylish exterior, He is having trained at the monastic life by jumping from a “another particular friendship”. And today, all the “special friends” of yesterday, are abbots in the various abbeys, not to mention the monks that “special friendships” they sealed them with their vow in the monastic chapters and in the general chapter, ie how much it would be enough to pray God's mercy throughout their lives so that it can preserve them from Hellfire.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma.

The funeral march on monasticism, after so many scandals in the abbeys and monasteries of Europe has finally played Dom Pietro Vittorelli, 191Th successor of St. Benedict of Norcia, who delighted to lead a life of luxury around Europe, to stay in expensive hotels and pay a high price the company of young gay with Abbey money [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO, etc …]. To this is then also added the use of drugs, for which has had consequent health problems cost the Abbey of Montecassino very high amounts when for a period of time the Abbot took refuge in a Swiss clinic to detox and to try to cure his cocaine addiction. The most tragic thing though is that he was not subjected to canonical penalties and has not been dismissed from the clerical state, so as to be still in the cronotassi Arciabati of Monte Cassino and in the yearbooks of the Italian Episcopal Conference as "Abbot Emeritus Professor ' [cf. WHO] rather than as "destitute".

the homoerotic figures for nothing hidden in painting “sacred” by Giovanni Bazzi known as Sodoma

(C)On the abbot of Montecassino the funeral march of monasticism has only come to an end, because the execution was carried out previously with moral scandals scattered abbeys spread across Europe. Of course, other cases it was able to treat them with confidentiality, from the Abbey of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Finally, the private status territorial prelature, to follow with the Abbey of Grottaferrata, where he was deposed Abbot Dom Emiliano maker, even in that case this happened especially for the nocturnal comings and goings of the inevitable paid young men who went to amuse some vicious monks, so much so that the Holy See - a rare thing indeed - proceeded to declare invalid certain priestly ordinations of young monks. We could follow with the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum, academic structure of the Benedictine Confederation, to which Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski several times, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education [1999-2015], between 2007 and the 2008 intimated that if not cleaned up their internal college from various pleasantries and numerous fact coppiette, the Holy See would have shut him. To limit ourselves only ever scope Roman: what happened to the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, where he was elected abbot a former Milanese designer, also very gay, He rose from the fashion world to monasticism and become in a few years monaco, a priest and then abbot aesthetic? but yet, near the Aventine Hill, It is the General Curia of the Cistercian Monks, where a decade ago, at the time of certain facts, He lays the Abbot General Dom Mauro Esteva i Alsina [1933 — †2014], the concern of which was to impart obsessive etiquette lessons to young monks and verify that the dining hall was set with forks and knives positioned at the right distance to the right and left of the plate, or that the bows were made according to the proper angle, as if they had depended survival and the historic honor of the Cistercian Order. May today this man rest in peace in the crypt of the Abbey of Poblet Catalan and may the mercy of God forgive him with a mild purgatory all serious and irreparable damage to him went the entire Cistercian Order during its general mandate carried out between 1995 and the 2010.

particular: efebo winking

To retreat at the Roman Curia this year a member of the Congregation of Olivetan Benedictine Monks was chosen by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and presented to the Pope, Dom Bernardo Gianni, Abbot of the Abbey of San Miniato al Monte in Florence. If nell'Archicenobio of Monte Oliveto Maggiore stands Sodom, San Miniato the most valuable frescoes are those of Spinello Aretino. The substance, however, remains the same, while ranging from the art of Sodom to that of the Spinel. And this - the Joint -, It would be particularly appreciated dall'Arciabate Montecassino Dom Pietro Vittorelli, that the drug was a great expert and consumer.

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The abbot of the Abbey of San Miniato in Florence He is one who can speak to this world. He speaks to the world language that appeals to the world. Indeed, the spiritual exercises, They will be marked on dreams and poetry: the dream of political Giorgio La Pira and the poetry of Mario Luzi, whose poetry, Christian speaking, it is certainly not that of the writer and

the homoerotic figures for nothing hidden in painting “sacred” by Giovanni Bazzi known as Sodoma

The abbot preacher, son of the noble Order of St. Benedict which we owe the survival of Christianity and the preservation of historical heritage, philosophical and literary, He will speak to the Roman Curia of a dreamer and a poet, as if it was a dream spirituality and theology poetry, as if the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, loudly proclaimed saint, had never written the Encyclical Faith and Reason, the base of which there is the thought of a great Benedictine Abbot, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, who did not live the relationship with faith in dreams and poetry, but explaining that faith seeking understanding [faith requires reason] and in need: «I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust» [I think to understand, I understand to believe]. Unfortunately the famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti has been dead for years, otherwise, for the next retreat, perhaps Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi would have proposed the thoughtful lyrics of his famous song Emotions :

particular: ephebus winking that shows the rear

“And close your eyes to stop
something that's inside me
but in your mind it is not
You cannot understand
you call them if you want
emotions " [Mogol-Battisti, 1970]

We know that after the tragedy comes the increasingly grotesque farce precisely that ranges between Sodom and Spinello. All the more reason to pray and to cleanse us during this Holy Lent, in the course of which, the largest of the mortifications, It remains the awareness of not being credible in the world, but instead of being laughed at by the world, especially when the world to please try to speak the language of the world, after having emptied of Christ and of the mystery of the Cross, to fill us with dreams and poems … "you call them if you want emotions".

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: Sodom's insistent obsession with depicting the male posterior which “if offer” and in which we read the prophecy about the posthumous decadent monasticism …

One thing is certain: art leaves no sign simply on the walls, especially if certain pictorial images are the most realistic representation of who certain walls inhabits. Obviously, the question as to why seven hundred years of life the monks of the Benedictine Congregation Olivetan have given the Church blessed, santi, mystics, theology, doctors and spirituality fathers, It is a purely rhetorical question, the answer is in fact all contained in homoerotic images that stand in the frescoes realized by Sodom in the cloister; and the cloister is reached after entering the abbey territory passing through the building once used as bachelor pad abbots Renaissance revelers. In Paradise, instead, it comes only after converting, repented and cleansed of sins, no one comes or with Giorgio La Pira dreams, nor with poems by Mario Luzi. Lent begins with the imposition of ashes followed by the admonition "converted and believe in the Gospel", it does not begin with an invitation to believe in dreams and live poems …

the Island of Patmos, 08 March 2019

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DECLINE&SURROUNDING: "US ARMY (CLERICAL) THE selfies' AMONG MIGRANTS AND SPILLINE …

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The 16 February on the site of Future appears the following news: "Migrants. The selfie Pope with the pin "We open ports!”». Faced with this announcement and to those images someone has rightly pointed out that today, among many things to open, the gospel has priority, especially in certain curie, convents, monasteries and seminaries …

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As a priest I always find it difficult to apply a passage from the Gospel of Matthew:

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"Be careful not to practice your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, otherwise there is no reward for you with your Father who is in heaven. So, When you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, they may be praised by people. Verily I say unto you: They have already received their reward. Instead, while you give alms, do not let your left hand know what thy right hand doeth, so that your alms in secret remains; and your Father, who sees in secret, It will reward you " [Mt 6,1-3].

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And to: man is vainglorious and as such is always very difficult to work for free. And the priest remains, until the contrary is proved not easy, a man with all his faults. Doing something good there is always the temptation of personal gain, even when there is no monetary reward, the gain you can always make money in fame, in prestige, in visibility and, naturally, in like.

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Can we waste so much good things? Of course not. So today, we priests, we do not seek more souls to save it like to collect. Soon said: We performed an action of charity? Here is the photo ready Instagram! A politician who hate issued an opinion? Do not delay to punish going down hard Twitter! Individual photos of a priest in the planet and handpiece? Here is ready contemptuous and sarcastic comments of Facebook or on duty Blog!

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Rome, 25 January 2019: Ivano Liguori and Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, images where the priests feel quite natural ease …

Examples could be multiplied, but the bottom substance always remains the same: We are delighted to have been practicing our righteousness, the one you like so much in the world. And as I grieve to say, by acting in this way we priests are no longer fishers of men, as the Blessed Apostle Peter [cf. Mt 4, 19], but fishermen of followers. We are saturated with Internet users priests seeking visibility: James Martin - known apostle of the rainbow world and the outgoing Church - Alex Zanotelli, Giorgio De Capitani, Mauro Leonardi and others that climb the ascent of fame, if anything, to achieve the fame of real star: Antonio Mazzi and Luigi Ciotti.

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Far from the envious or resent these confreres, that arouse in me only dejection, having chosen to walk one priestly style does not conform but very common nowadays; a style that Jesus does not share absolutely, because the blatant does not fall between the characteristics of the disciple. Indeed, the talk about himself, It is never a wise choice [cf. LC 6,26]. The priest, must be exercised in a transparent behind which must manifest Christ; and this kind of way of perfection, It requires a lifetime.

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The old anthologies of holiness which they were read during meals in convents of Lent, guarding a beautiful expression: "Also insensitive to praise and scorn". Because this is the man enlightened by God, which it proves transparent and insensitive to what can be a merit or demerit. This does not mean to despise the gifts or personal gifts, indeed, it is more than ever necessary to recognize that what I possess does not belong to me but is God's grace, so I can not brag; everything is written and explained in the famous parable of the talents [cf. Mt 25, 14-30]. The same criticisms are not the final word of God on my life, then they are irrelevant.

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I share the thoughts of Cardinal. Robert Sarah when he says:

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"The more we are clothed with glory and honor, most are raised in dignity, the more we are entrusted with public responsibilities, of prestige and positions in the world, how to lay, priests or bishops, and we must move forward in humility and carefully cultivate the sacred dimension of our inner life constantly trying to see the face of God in prayer, oration, in contemplation and asceticism. It can happen that a good and pious priest, a high time to episcopal dignity, rapidly falling into mediocrity and concern to succeed in world affairs. […] Manifesta in his being and in his works a desire for promotion, a desire for prestige and spiritual degradation. He ends up harming himself and the flock of which the Holy Spirit established him guardian to feed the church of God, which it was purchased with the blood of his own Son. We all run the risk of being monopolized by business and the cares of the world if we neglect the inner life, prayer, the prayer, I feel every day face to face with God, asceticism required every contemplative and to every person who wants to see the Lord and live with Him " [cf. Robert Sarah, The power of silence, Cantagalli, 2017, pp. 35-36].

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Rome, 25 January 2019: Ivano Liguori and Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, images where the priests feel quite natural ease …

The 16 February on the site of Future appears this news: "Migrants. The selfie Pope with the pin "We open ports!”» [see WHO]. Ad images before which someone has rightly pointed out that today, among many things to open, the gospel has priority, especially in certain curie, convents, monasteries and seminaries …

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The news, however, is a Clickbait very successful, the web goes crazy for certain things and chef executive officer It is king, in conclusion: coup Avvenire! Aside from the title to great effect, The following news reports that Don Nandino Capovilla has approached the Supreme Pontiff during the meeting on Migration in Sacrofano and, including greetings and kisses, the Holy Father noted the pin «Let's open the doors!"In the hands of the priest and, liking it, It has lent itself to make a selfie with him [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO].

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I apologize to all: I'm afraid I have definitely needs a lot of conversion, perhaps even a good eye drops for the eyes, because I just can not catch a gospel message in everything. Or better: the message is, and it is evident that there is, But it is the political and social. The beginning of human justice that you want to accomplish through the logic of the world.

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The priest commented on selfie on his profile Facebook:

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We climb on the roofs! Bravely Pope Francis never fails, cut short with discounted exhortations. It gives a picture that raises quell'apriamo ports that is uniting citizens from the north to the south of the country and that evangelical Christians is required to be free from fear. From the title of the national meeting of the Italian Church Francesco she started to denounce and relaunch: “Fear is the source of all bondage and every dictatorship. The fear of the people growing violence of dictators. We renounce the encounter with each other to erect barriers: this is not human. Who has had the power to overcome the fear today is invited to climb on the roofs and invite others to do the same”.

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It's true: you have to climb on the roofs, I'm with you don Nandino, but on the rooftops I will go up to preach the Gospel, God's Word. And having said that, I can inform you that I have not seen many pins in the hospital where I am chaplain with the words "no abortion!», "Long live the conscientious objection!». Even I saw in parishes pins praising the traditional family, marital fidelity, fidelity to the priestly celibacy, the defense of prostitutes, the protection of the terminally ill and bedridden elderly and so on … but the list goes on. And when such events happen, They are always at the hands of lay people who are immediately accused of traditionalism, fascism and bigotry. Perhaps, unlike us priests, they still have something open … the heart.

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Rome, 25 January 2019: Ivano Liguori and Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, images where the priests feel quite natural ease

We priests we need more of selfie and find the courage to act, because now the Gospel we no longer nags and is a dead letter. If by mistake we quote, it often happens that it is just the second edition revised interpretation of The Manifesto Marx and Engels or the summary of Thesis at Martin Lutero.

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Caro don Nandino, I am sure that you carry in your community a commendable service, but next time avoids selfie and advertising, because they are not needed. Your priesthood is already so compelling, without these things, because it is based on exousia [authority, authority] of Christ. You then remember that when San Giuseppe Cafasso passed among the masons, prisoners, sentenced to death and poor people of his time, I doubt I researched it visibility, the less he let yourself be intoxicated by the sacred fire of enthusiasm that can burn badly.

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Your priestly service is valuable, It should be done thus proclaiming Christ, if you do find that people will seek you out because you are not a fair according to the thinking of the world, but because they have met a minister of God who welcomes, reconciles, feeds with the Eucharist, He teaches to pray and to bend the knees in front of an upper Majesty to that of social network: the Blessed Sacrament.

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Cagliari, 18 February 2019

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"ARE DISTURBED YOUR HEART" [Teacher 14,1]. Proclamations ON “CHURCH IN OUTPUT” THE POSTER OF PROCLAMATION OF FAITH OF CARDINAL GERHARD LUDWIG MULLER

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Many now wonder why the Church still exists if the bishops themselves prefer to act as a political rather than as teachers of the faith to proclaim the Gospel. The look is not to dwell on side issues, but it is more than ever necessary for the Church to assume its own responsibility. Every human being has an immortal soul, that his death separates from the body, But the hope of the resurrection of the dead. Death ultimately makes man's decision for or against God. Everyone has to deal with the personal judgment immediately after death.

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… the distant future or very close?

More than a "Church in output", at times our Holy Mother seems like a "Church in liquidation" at the end of the season.

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The Fathers de The Island of Patmos, sharing the highest consideration that all have towards the Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, They were primarily affected by an expression which for them is a lament traded for some time and with increasing frequency among members who carry the sacred priesthood, fulfillment of which they have repeatedly regretted exchanging precisely the phrase that stands out in the first lines of the text written by the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: "Today, many Christians no longer know even the basics of the faith".

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Those who the so-called "field hospital Church" live there, often carrying emergency services to the emergency room where they arrived all the different cases and often more severe, They must face each other every day with a growing number of faithful who no longer know the fundamentals of the Catholic faith, who have no right perception of the sacraments of grace, who for years they do not confess and who can not confess, who do not know the prayers. But most of all, Every day, You are faced with the faithful in terribly high number speak and live the worst language of this world with total ease. abortion: "Well, a girl of sixteen who has a hiccup, You may perhaps become a mother at that age?». Life and health: "Why not give a gentle and dignified death to a person who suffers from an incurable disease, It serves perhaps something to make her suffer needlessly?». affective Life: "We were the parents, the first to recommend to our children, before getting married, going to live with for a few years, sperimentassero so if they really go well together, or maybe the marriage must be a leap in the dark?».

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These, as many of the faithful who reason well on the different moral and spiritual aspects, are people who generally do not confess, because first of all say they have no sins to confess, But they go to receive Holy Communion, without the knowledge and clear perception of what is really and truly the Most Holy Eucharist.

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Only these few introductory words They are sufficient to clarify what the Fathers de The Island of Patmos have welcomed and much appreciated this essay containing the words which have long you are repeating each other with great sorrow and regret: Today you must start at one side with the missions for a new evangelization of our populations, the other with the fundamentals of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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il Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller

Faced with an increasingly widespread confusion in teaching of faith, many bishops, priests, religious and laity of the Catholic Church invited me to give public witness to the truth of revelation. It is the responsibility of its pastors to lead men entrusted to them the way of salvation, and this can only happen if such pathway is known and if their first pass through it. About he warned the Apostle:

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"In fact, I sent you, first of all, what I also received " (1 Color 15,3).

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Today many Christians no longer know even the basics of the faith, with a growing danger of not finding the path that leads to eternal life. However, proper task of the Church is to lead people to Jesus Christ, light of the nations [see LG 1]. In this situation, one wonders how to find the right orientation. According to John Paul II, The Catechism of the Catholic Church is "a sure norm for teaching the faith" [A deposit of faith IV]. It was written for the purpose of strengthening our brothers and sisters in faith, Mass faith severely tested by the "dictatorship of relativism".

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Triune God, REVEALED IN JESUS ​​CHRIST

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The epitome of faith of all Christians It lies in the confession of the Holy Trinity. We have become disciples of Jesus, children and friends of God, through baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The difference of the three divine persons in the unit [254] It marks a fundamental difference in their faith in God and in the image of man over other religions. Recognized Jesus Christ, the ghosts disappear. He is true God and true man, born of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. The Word made flesh, the Son of God is the only Savior of the world [679] and the only mediator between God and men [846]. Because of this, the first letter of John refers to one who denies his divinity as the antichrist [1 GV 2, 22], since Jesus Christ, Son of God, eternity is a unique being with God, his father [663]. It is with clear determination to addressing the reappearance of ancient heresies that in Jesus Christ saw only a good person, a brother and a friend, a prophet and an example of moral life. He is first of all the Word that was with God and is God, Son of the Father, who took our human nature to redeem us and who is to judge the living and the dead. Him alone we worship in unity with the Father and the Holy Spirit as the one true God [691].

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THE CHURCH

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Jesus Christ founded the Church as a visible sign and instrument of salvation, which subsists in the Catholic Church [816]. He gave to His Church, who "it was born from the pierced heart of Christ who died on the cross"[766], a sacramental structure that will remain until the Kingdom is fully achieved [765]. Christ, chief, and believers as members of the body have a mystical person [795], for this reason the church is holy, since Christ, one mediator, It has established on earth as a visible organization and continually sustains [771]. Through it the redemptive work of Christ becomes present in time and space with the celebration of the Blessed Sacrament, especially in the Eucharistic Sacrifice, The holy Mass [1330]. The Church transmits with the authority of Christ's divine revelation, 'Which extends to all the elements of doctrine, including morals, without which the saving truths of the faith can not be preserved, explained, or observed ' [2035].

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ORDER SACRAMENTAL

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The Church is in Jesus Christ, the universal sacrament of salvation [776]. It does not reflect itself but the light of Christ, shining on his face, and this can only happen when the reference point is not the opinion of the majority nor the spirit of the times, but rather the Truth revealed in Jesus Christ, who entrusted to the Catholic Church the fullness of grace and truth [819]: He himself is present in the sacraments of the Church.

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The Church is not an association created by man, whose structure can be changed by its members at will: it is of divine origin. "Christ is himself the source of ministry in the Church. He instituted, It gave her authority and mission, orientation and goal " [874]. Even the Apostle's admonition is valid now that cursed is everyone who proclaim another gospel, "Even ourselves, or an angel from heaven " [Gal 1,8]. The mediation of the faith is inextricably linked to human credibility of its announcers: they, in some cases, They have abandoned those who had been entrusted to them, turbandoli and severely damaging their faith. For them it realizes the word of Scripture: "Do not endure sound doctrine, ma, to hear something, It will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own whims " [2 Tim 4,3-4].

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The task of the Magisterium of the Church with regard to the people of God is that of "]safeguard it from deviations and failures "so that it can" profess no mistake the true faith " [890]. This is especially true of the seven sacraments. The Holy Eucharist is "the source and summit of all Christian life" [1324]. The Eucharistic Sacrifice, in which Christ draws us into his sacrifice on the cross, It is aimed at the most intimate union with Him [1382]. For this reason the Holy Scripture warns about conditions for receiving Holy Communion: "Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, It shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord " [1Color 11, 27], So "anyone conscious of a grave sin, must receive the sacrament of Reconciliation before entering Communion " [1385]. From the internal logic of the sacrament it is understood that the divorced and remarried civilly, whose sacramental marriage before God is still valid, as well as all those Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic faith and also all those who are not properly prepared, do not receive the Holy Eucharist fruitfully [1457], because in this way it does not lead them to salvation. Put it in evidence it corresponds to a work of spiritual mercy.

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The recognition of sins in the holy confession at least once a year is one of the precepts of the Church [2042]. When believers do not confess their sins more receiving absolution, it makes vain the salvation brought by Christ, In fact, he became man to redeem us from our sins. The power of forgiveness, that the Risen Christ gave the Apostles and their successors in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood, take away grave and venial sins committed after Baptism. The current practice of confession shows that the conscience of believers is not sufficiently formed today. The mercy of God is given to us, in order to fulfill his commandments to conformaci to his holy will and not to avoid the call to conversion [1458].

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"It is the priest who continues the work of redemption on earth" [1589]. The order, which gives the priest a "sacred power" [1592], is irreplaceable because through it Jesus becomes sacramentally present in his saving action. The priests voluntarily choose celibacy as a "sign of such a life" [1579]. It is the gift of himself to the service of Christ and His coming Kingdom. In order to validly conferring ordination in the three degrees of this sacrament, The Church recognizes herself as bound to the choice made by the Lord himself, "For this reason the ordination of women is not possible" [1577]. In this respect, talk about a discrimination against women clearly demonstrates a misunderstanding of this sacrament, it does not affect an earthly power but the representation of Christ, the Bridegroom of the Church.

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THE MORAL LAW

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Faith and life are inseparable, because faith without works carried out in the Lord died [1815]. The moral law is the work of divine wisdom and leads man to the promised beatitude [1950]. As a result, the "divine and natural law shows man the way forward to do good and attain his end" [1955]. Its observance is necessary for all people of good will to attain eternal salvation. In fact, he who dies in mortal sin without repentance will remain forever separated from God [1033]. This has practical consequences in the lives of Christians, between which it is appropriate to recall those most frequently neglected today: [cf. 2270-2283; 2350-2381]. The moral law is not a burden, but part of that liberating truth [cf. Jn 8,32] through which the Christian along the way of salvation and should not be relativised.

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ETERNAL LIFE

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Many now wonder why the Church still exists if the bishops themselves prefer to act as a political rather than as teachers of the faith to proclaim the Gospel. The look is not to dwell on side issues, but it is more than ever necessary for the Church to assume its own responsibility. Every human being has an immortal soul, that his death separates from the body, But the hope of the resurrection of the dead [366]. Death ultimately makes man's decision for or against God. Everyone has to deal with the personal judgment immediately after death [1021]: or you will still require a purification, or the man will go directly to the heavenly bliss and will be allowed to see God face to face. But there is also the terrible possibility that a person, until the end, remains in contradiction with God: finally rejecting His love, it "shall immediately damned forever" [1022]. "It gave, who created us without us, He did not choose to save us without us' [1847]. The eternity of the punishment of hell is a terrible reality, which - according to the testimony of Holy Scripture - concerns all those who "die in a state of mortal sin" [1035]. The Christian crosses the narrow gate, "Because the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter " [Mt 7,13].

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To keep silent about these and other truths of faith, or teach otherwise It is the worst deception against which the Catechism admonishes vigorously. This is the ultimate test of the Church, or 'a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems, the price of apostasy of the truth " [675]. It is the Antichrist's deception, that is, "with all the seductions of iniquity, to the detriment of those who perish because they received not the love of the truth and be saved " [2Ts 2,10].

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APPEAL

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As workers in the vineyard of the Lord, we all have a fundamental responsibility to remember these truths holding on to what we have received the same. We want to give courage to walk the path of Jesus Christ with determination, so as to obtain eternal life by following His commandments [2075].

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We ask the Lord to let us know how great is the gift of the Catholic faith, through which opens the door to eternal life. "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]. Therefore we are committed to strengthening the faith confessing the truth that is Jesus Christ himself.

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The warning that Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ, by his collaborator and successor Timothy is addressed in particular to us, bishops and priests. He wrote:

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«I adjure you before God and Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: proclaims the Word, insist upon and out of season, do warn, reproaches, exhorts with all magnanimity and teaching. The day will come, indeed, when they will not endure sound doctrine;, ma, to hear something, men's masters according to surround their whims, refusing to listen to the truth to get lost behind the Fables. But you shall carefully, endure the sufferings, do your work of Gospel announcer, fulfill your ministry " [2 TM 4,1-5].

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may Mary, Mother of God, implorarci the grace to hold fast to the confession of the truth of Jesus Christ without wavering. United in faith and prayer,

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+Gerhard Müller Cardinale
Prefect of the Congregation

for the Doctrine of the Faith

from the 2012 al 2017

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«You will know the truth and the truth will set you free» [GV 8,32],
but bring, spread and defend the truth not only of
risks but also the costs. Help us supporting this Island
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