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Poverty is to recognize and keep what was received: Leone XIV's small steps for a Christian thought on poverty

7 June 2025/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

Poverty is to recognize and keep what was received: THE SMALL STEPS OF LEO XIV FOR A CHRISTIAN THOUGHT ON POVERTY

We would like to see other concrete steps on the path to an interesting theological and pastoral poverty, eg, the dignity of worship and churches, something that the Seraphic Father Saint Francis cared a lot about and did not disdain to take something away from his own table to honor the house and the altar of the Lord by giving the right dignity.

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Indro Montanelli joked: «The Left loves the poor so much that every time it comes to power it increases their number», thus he wrote, referring to an ideological concept of poverty belonging to some political currents.

(The aphorisms of Indro Montanelli)

This great master of Italian journalism he knew people's lives and the history of Italy well and had noticed how some social champions do not protect and accompany poverty and the poor but use them, often creating protected reserves in which the terms "poor" and "poverty" are raised like a screen to cover one's own distortions of thought or illicit acts.

This danger of misrepresentation it does not belong only to the world of politics and society but is also present within faith, in which a condition such as that of poverty lends itself well to transmuting into something alienating from God and man. The history of Franciscanism, eg, he knows well the risk of an ideological use of poverty, in the name of which reforms were called for, revisions of lifestyles were called for, new foundations were dreamed of until the imposition of that violent and aggressive poverty which resulted in heresy. Alas, none of this brought the hoped-for results, if not those of dispersion and further division. The beauty of the purest Franciscanism - close not so much to the idea of the founder but to that which Christ gave us - lies in freely choosing with joy the poverty of the Son of God without imposing it. Without dreaming of an ideological "poor Church for the poor" but enriching the Church and men with that essentiality of the only necessary that, despite being rich, he became poor for us to enrich us, precisely by virtue of his being the Eternal Present.

Then regarding the tendency to transmute the meaning of a value and its corresponding word in order to strike one's enemies, today this use is quite frequent. We can do the same thing with other words like love, rights, inclusion and synodality. It is not just a semantic or demagogic question but first of all that entirely human and pagan sin of pride of those who have the certain claim and certainty of being able to eliminate an objective evil regardless of God's intervention using the will united with agreements and compromises.. How not to remember, about that, that alleged Italian political movement that came from below which claimed to have finally abolished poverty by positioning itself as the paradigm of novelty in the political sphere. well, we all know the epilogue well, the movement was recycled and the poverty that was said to have been abolished magically reappeared.

We must have no illusions about poverty, we know this well from Jesus (cf.. MC 14,7), this is one of the many endemic stains of our sinful creatureliness that will accompany us on the earthly pilgrimage until the recapitulation of this world of ours, until He who is to come appears glorious and has put all enemies under his feet (cf.. Mt 11,2; 1 Color 15,21). The rest, Jesus himself during his public ministry did not eliminate material poverty and misery but taught how to help it and intervene in the face of the countless types of human poverty: of food, of health, of sense, of relationships, good, of God. His disciples, over the following centuries, despite sanctifying themselves within the different contexts of poverty, they have never managed to abolish it completely. And this must mean something, so that it does not appear as a victory of man but of God who subjugates everything in the Son. Jesus didn't just tell us that the poor are there and will always be there, he told us primarily that He exists and that we must necessarily start from this concrete presence of the Risen One in order to be able to carry forward a theological and pastoral thought that can also be opposed to poverty and that realizes today that already and not yet eschatological in which poverty, the suffering, sin and death will be definitively defeated.

Small steps that start from the Risen One and lead to meeting the Risen One, not ideological and revolutionary movements of human pride but strategies of hope. I believe we can all agree in this sense by seeing how Pope Leo.

The decision to return to live at the Apostolic Palace (you see WHO, WHO). This decision follows a concrete path of poverty and valorization of that residence which has traditionally been reserved for the Pontiff since 1870 until the 2013. It is certainly not only a concrete location within the Vatican City State but a continuing story and the certainty of a presence that faithful from all over the world have learned to know and love by observing that window open on Sunday morning and illuminated in the evening.: polar star that gives security and hope to the many sailors in the sea of faith. A consoling presence that of the papal apartment, that back in 2005 caused all the Christian faithful to have their hearts sink on that evening 2 April when the light in the Pope's room went out, a sign of the completed East of Pope John Paul II.

The choice of Leo XIV to resume appearing on the balcony of the Apostolic Palace redesigns the life of the new Pontiff and ensures greater protection and intimacy, in accordance with its role as leader political and spiritual but above all because that habit of residing in Domus Sanctae Martha it was now becoming too cumbersome also in terms of costs. Inside a recently concluded pontificate which has based a good part of its media visibility on poverty and the "other" use of money, how to reconcile i 200 thousand euros per month necessary for the security of the Pontiff? As the Vatican correspondent de points out Time in one of his contributions on Sunday 25 May, the famous fifty square meters have expanded to occupy the entire second floor of the Domus (you see WHO). This with a huge structural adjustment that required costs in monetary terms that were perhaps not essential if the historic papal apartment had been maintained which will now necessarily have to be renovated after twelve years of non-use and with consequent additional expenses. To be respectful of the late Pontiff and his entourage management we cannot fail to notice a clear short circuit in all this or rather a regurgitation of that old Promethean temptation of those who want to abolish poverty only to end up falling into the opposite excess. Unfortunately, these things come at a double cost: first of all in a monetary sense and then as accusations ready to be hurled at the Church and its Vicar.

In addition to the large monthly sum of money to guarantee the necessary security for the person of the Pope, if you think about it carefully, there is more. The Domus overlooks Via Gregorio VII, in front of several buildings in Italian territory which could be potential locations from which to launch a terrorist offensive against the Holy Father. It is not specious to think that the Italian Government has long ago hurried - from 2013 to date — to thwart this not remote possibility, thinking about a well-structured security plan, perhaps by evacuating the affected buildings and placing specialized departments around the most sensitive areas with further waste of money? And all this in the name of what, perhaps poverty? As a Franciscan and as a parish priest who had to administer and continues to administer assets that were not his, I am sure that true poverty lies in the intelligent management of the things and structures that we already have. Knowing how to safeguard and keep things efficient, do not add unnecessary expenses but strengthen and improve existing ones: in short, start from the minimum necessary rather than the maximum allowed.

Another small step towards a path of poverty concrete was what we can define as the Conclave Bonus, that is, the sum of 500 euro given to Vatican employees which was suspended in 2013 on the occasion of Benedict XVI's act of renunciation and the election of Francis. An award that rewards the work of all employees of the Vatican City State for their further efforts in view of the Conclave and the election of the new Roman Pontiff. Five hundred euros isn't much, but they can make the difference within a family that can afford to face the following month with more serenity; but more than anything, what matters and is appreciated, it is the sensitive gesture in itself towards employees. Also in this case the poverty exercised consists in recognizing and rewarding those who work for the Pope and for the Church and who deserve to have a fair and dignified salary, because the food, medicines and various household utilities cannot be paid with i Our father.

In conclusion, we would like to see other concrete steps on the path to interesting theological and pastoral poverty, eg, the dignity of worship and churches, something that the Seraphic Father Saint Francis cared a lot about and did not disdain to take something away from his own table to honor the house and the altar of the Lord by giving the right dignity. We would like to witness an authentic caress of poverty towards the underprivileged who live around the colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica which, their goodness, they are still not able to use the toilets made available to them and make Via della Conciliazione with the immediate vicinity of real open-air Vespasians. Many things could actually be done, but we have the secret hope that the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV already knows them, because the problem of ideological and shouted poverty consists in realizing the inevitable disasters that someone else will have to repair.

Sanluri, 7 June 2025

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

27 May 2025/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sanluri, 27 May 2025

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Leone XIV. A roaring start between mass media, Communication and peace

22 May 2025/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Gabriele

LEONE XIV. A ROARING START BETWEEN MASS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND PEACE

We have heard prophetic words, who are not only addressed to information professionals, But to each of us. Because everyone, today, we communicate. We do it in the family, at work, sui social, in communities. And every word, each image, every silence... is a fragment of culture, it is a choice of peace or conflict. The Pope told us that «peace begins with how we look, let's listen, let's talk about others".

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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It seems like, at least initially, the Catholic world has welcomed the words of the new Roman Pontiff with attention and hope, Leone XIV, especially in his early speeches.

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For example, addressing the journalists gathered in Rome for the Conclave, the Holy Father launched a message of profound simplicity and extraordinary relevance: a pressing invitation to embrace "disarmed communication", authentic and constructive, capable of building bridges of peace in an era marked by divisions and conflicts. This appeal is not only aimed at information professionals, but to every man and woman, called to reflect on the transformative power of words and their impact in creating a more peaceful future for all humanity. I would like some’ talk about some ideas that the Holy Father has initiated in my personal theological reflection and share them with all of you.

«Blessed are the Peacemakers»: The Theological Foundation. Pope Leo XIV's appeal to communicate peace has its roots in the heart of the Gospel. His speech opened with a powerful quotation of bliss: «Blessed are the peacemakers» (Mt 5,9). This is not a simple exhortation, but a promise of happiness and a definition of those who are truly children of God. The Successor of Peter made it clear that the peace of Christ is not an absence of conflict or the result of oppression, but a "gift that looks at people and reactivates their life". It is a peace made of reconciliation, forgiveness and the courage to start again.

In this light, unarmed communication proves to be an essential tool for actively building this dynamic and transformative peace. Our words have the power to heal wounds, to rebuild broken relationships and instill hope in those who have lost it. To be “peacemakers” in our daily communication it therefore means responding to a divine call, actively contributing to the realization of the Kingdom of God on earth.

A Special Appeal to Journalists: Guardians of the Truth and Sowers of Peace. The Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV paid particular attention to journalists, to mass media operators, recognizing their crucial role in shaping public opinion and describing the complexity of our time. He thanked them for their service to the truth, especially in delicate moments like the Conclave. However, This recognition is accompanied by a clear exhortation to responsibility. He asked journalists to embrace a "communication of peace", eschewing aggressive language and the logic of the "war of words and images". A particularly poignant moment of the speech was the memory of journalists imprisoned for seeking and reporting the truth. Pope Leo XIV expressed the Church's solidarity and asked for their release, underlining how only an informed people can make free and informed choices. In this way, the Pontiff not only recognizes the fundamental role of the media, but it invests them with an ethical mission of primary importance in building a more just and peaceful society.

Artificial Intelligence: immense potential that requires discernment. In his attentive look at the challenges of the contemporary world, Pope Leo XIV placed particular and initial attention on the topic of artificial intelligence. He recognized its "immense potential", capable of transforming communication and offering benefits to humanity. However, he also underlined the need for "discernment" and shared "responsibility" in its use, so that this instrument remains at the service of the common good and does not become "inhuman".

This reminder highlights the Church's awareness of rapid technological evolutions and its willingness to guide these transformations with wisdom and attention to the fundamental values of human dignity. The technology, so, it is not seen as a threat, but as a new "space to evangelize with intelligence and love".

Technology aimed at charity escapes algocracy: to the power of algorithms to process data to control minds and men. An AI is a working machine for man who seeks love in God. There is no logic of control and domination, but service.

«We Are the Times»: Saint Augustine's Exhortation to Personal Responsibility. At the conclusion of his speech, Pope Leo XIV quoted a very profound phrase from Saint Augustine: “We live well, and times will be good. We are the times". This statement reminds us that we are not simply spectators of our time, but active protagonists in its construction. The quality of time we experience is directly connected to the way we live, to our choices, to our words.

This call for individual responsibility it is particularly significant in the context of the call for peace communication. Every time we choose to communicate truthfully, love and respect, Let's help make times "good". We must not passively wait for a better future, but to commit ourselves to the present to build it through our actions and our way of relating to others.

Communication as Creation of Culture and Act of Charity. Pope Leo XIV's vision of communication goes beyond the simple transmission of information. He considers it a powerful tool for creating a culture of dialogue, of meeting and peace.¹ The Pontiff stated that «communication, indeed, it's not just information transmission, but it is the creation of a culture, of human and digital environments that become spaces for dialogue and discussion". In this perspective, the act of communicating almost becomes a "mission", a "form of charity".

This echoes the thinking of his predecessor, Pope francesco, who has repeatedly underlined the importance of "disarming communication" and building a "culture of encounter", invites us to consider communication not as a neutral activity, but as a moral and spiritual commitment that has the power to build bridges of brotherhood and spread the values of the Gospel in the world.

A Journey Together Towards Peace. A path towards the peace of Christ teaches us that speaking is also a mission, it is a form of charity. So what, as the Pope says: let's disarm communication... and build peace. This is just the beginning of a journey that Pope Leo XIV invites us to travel together: that of unarmed communication, Evangelica, vera.

We have heard prophetic words, who are not only addressed to information professionals, But to each of us. Because everyone, today, we communicate. We do it in the family, at work, sui social, in communities. And every word, each image, every silence... is a fragment of culture, it is a choice of peace or conflict. The Pope told us that «peace begins with how we look, let's listen, let's talk about others". This is a spiritual revolution. A change of outlook that can transform our relationships, our parishes, our working environments. It's not about being "do-gooders", but to be "good according to the Gospel", capable of a style that doesn't scream, does not attack, but it sows confidence.

So what, what communication do we want to build? A communication that defends the truth with love, which is neither ideological nor superficial, but deep and free. A communication "that never separates truth from charity", as Saint Paul says. A communication that knows how to become a voice for those who have no voice, who does not allow himself to be seduced by power, but he chooses the weakness of the Cross as the language of salvation.

The Holy Father Leo XIV also speaks to us about "technology", and in particular artificial intelligence, which he defines as an "immense instrument". Also here, it's not about being afraid, but to exercise "discernment". Evangelization also passes through these new spaces: but he must do it wisely, safeguarding the dignity of the person. And then… that final step, so Augustinian: «We are the times». We don't have to wait for better times. «We make them so», every time we choose the truth, forgiveness, hope.

So let's ask ourselves, really, with sincerity: «what times do we want to build in the world today?» A time of fear or trust? A sterile or generative time? The Pope asks us to be "witnesses of a new culture", of a Church that does not close itself but dialogues, who does not fight but accompanies, which does not impose but illuminates. A Church that communicates peace because it lives in peace. And so do we, we want to walk in this direction: offer content that nourishes faith, that they build a thinking and praying community, capable of inhabiting the world with the style of the Gospel.

Let us always remember this: «to go to Heaven, we need to start building it together, here and now". Let's do it together with Pope Leo.

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The beginning of the Petrine Ministry of Leone XIV and the disenchantment of an old priest who hopes but does not delude himself - The Beginning of the petrine ministry of Leo XIV and the Disenchantment of an old priest Who hopes but not deluded

18 May 2025/2 Comments/in Actuality/by father ariel

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

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

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the island of Patmos, 18 May 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the Isle of Patmos, May 18, 2025

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More than "good evening" and "good lunch" we needed a lion who reminded us to "accept Christ without condition"

12 May 2025/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

MORE THAN «GOOD EVENING» AND «ENJOYABLE LUNCH» WE NEEDED A LION TO REMIND US TO «ACCEPT CHRIST WITHOUT CONDITIONS»

Pope Leo in his first homily has already reminded us that we must accept Christ unconditionally, although this truth is considered absurd by the world and the powerful, it remains the only way to walk as Christians and to correspond to the Petrine ministry which from Peter reaches us today.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Cap.

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The Sacred College of Cardinals a few days ago he gave the Church a new Pontiff: Leone XIV. From Catholics and consecrated people, we want and hope that this burdensome choice was - if not exactly guided - at least inspired by the Holy Spirit in that mysterious way with which God is capable of directing the world and events, even those who blatantly seem to deny his action and presence.

In a recent article of mine (cf.. WHO) I have already had the opportunity to explain the role of the Holy Spirit within the great rite of the Conclave, certainly the action of the Spirit of God remains mysterious to man most of the time and therefore it is difficult to want to claim control and fathom all the subtleties that the Holy Spirit weaves into the lives of us men, including that permission to error and even to sin which for man becomes the opportunity to rediscover divine grace.

How not to remember, about this, the apostle Peter himself at the moment of his denial, a moment of great tragedy and infidelity, in the face of all those experiences of faith that Peter had the opportunity to see while being with Jesus in the three years of public life. How Peter knows how to repay the Master after having perjured his love and faithfulness? With those words heavy as lead: "I don't know him". And if Peter tries to deny Christ, However, Christ knows Peter and his heart well and for this reason he prays for him and invites him in advance on the road of return:

«Simone, Simone, there: Satan sought you to sift you like wheat; but I prayed for you, so that your faith does not fail. And you, once converted, confirm your brothers " (LC 22,31-32).

Of these two verses from the Gospel of Luke the invitation to conversion and the return of the apostle is fundamental. Jesus almost seems to say to Peter that his task as a guide in the faith and as head of the apostolic college and of the Church cannot ignore the capacity for continuous conversion and a return to himself in which Christ himself is waiting for him. How can we not see in this that penetrating look of Christ towards Peter after his denial. That look full of mercy that penetrates the soul, «in the inner man», where Peter finally recognizes the truth in the Truth. And the truth is that Peter is only such when he knows how to be «Kephas» which in its original meaning that our Eastern Christian brothers know how to give - more than what we Westerners are used to interpreting - means unstable and shaky stone. You Peter are an unstable stone until you find stability in Christ who is the cornerstone, until you trust his command to cast the nets when it is broad daylight and to feed his sheep, until you remember that Christ asks you to love him and you can only offer him your poor good.

Having faith before your eyes the person of the Blessed Apostle Peter, we can legitimately ask ourselves who Pope Leo XIV will be? Personally, I want nothing more than for him to be a herald of the risen Christ and to re-propose the Easter faith to the world every day.. This is the most urgent thing today in the Church and in the world. The problems are there, reforms are necessary, peace is a cry to always invoke, the dialogue, hospitality and political and international relations are good things but without the solidity of Christ as the cornerstone none of this saves and restores hope to man. In this dance of human freedom, the man Robert Francis Prevost will have to disappear, to finally make way for Pope Leo XIV, who with effort and suffering will have to make himself transparent so that Christ may manifest himself in him.

From faithful Christians we are called to abandon the colorful fans immediately papolatrics the “I like it”, “I do not like” which equate the Holy Father to a leader politician or to a influence with their own ideologies and their own entourage Power. All these things cannot stand the test of the faith of the apostle Peter who confesses:

"Man, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; we have believed and known that you are the Holy One of God" (GV 6,68-69).

Pope Leo in his first homily (cf.. our article WHO) he has already reminded us that we must accept Christ unconditionally, although this truth is considered absurd by the world and the powerful, it remains the only way to walk as Christians and to correspond to the Petrine ministry which from Peter reaches us today.

Another thing to avoid and not hope for is to make Pope Leo XIV an emulator of previous pontificates, he is not a Francis, a Benedict, a John Paul II: he is Leo. Living on nostalgia, with your head turned to the past, to the point of giving a stiff neck does not belong to Christians. Nostalgia is the fertile ground in which the divisive factions of traditionalists are born, of progressives, of the sedevacantists and other pathological ways of being and feeling that oppose and suffocate the true Easter faith.

Witnessing in recent days the various attempts to drag the Pope by the mozzetta to bring him to one's side - ecclesial and political - is an unbecoming and childish spectacle. Time will be able to give us the pulse of this new pontificate in which the Holy Spirit - as well as that friendly family of seagulls who made their nest near the chimney of the Sistine Chapel - will be on the lookout to ensure that the boat of the Church is not definitively sunk by the seas.

Sanluri, 12 May 2025

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The fundamental match of the future and the new papacy is played on the unity of the Church

12 May 2025/in Actuality/by Antonio Caragliu - jurist

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

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

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

the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV on a pastoral visit to the region of the Peruvian Andes at the time he was Bishop of Chiclayo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trieste, 12 May 2025

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Leone XIV's first homily was a harmonious continuity with the tradition of the Church

11 May 2025/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Theodore

Leone XIV's first homily was a harmonious continuity with the tradition of the Church

The mission is urgent, because the lack of faith often brings with it dramas such as the loss of the meaning of life, The oblivion of mercy, the violation of the dignity of the person in its most dramatic forms, the family crisis and many other wounds of which our society suffers and not a little. This is the world that is entrusted to us […]

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Teodoro Beccia

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It may appear presumptuous Stop the homily of the Supreme Pontiff Leone XIV, pronounced in its first real public appearance, The Holy Mass pro ecclesia celebrated with the cardinals who participated in the conclave of its election.

The Supreme Pontiff Leone XIV at his first view to the central loggia of the Papal Arcibasilica of San Pietro

Or it could simply be beautiful enhance this first act of the new bishop of Rome, imagining, without going too far from the truth, that these words that he pronounced to comment on the Gospel actually sorted by his heart, are his own, meditated in the short space of time obtained between the impact of the election, the emotion of the presentation to the public and the world and this first public commitment. To be, as we'll see, they seem like a program for the Church that started to preside, The figure within which he will want to move and even in what way he feels that he is involved.

Referring to a personal reading of the beautiful papal homily (WHO), I just want to underline three aspects.

The first and most important is the reference to Christ. It might seem redundant to underline it: of whom a pontiff should speak if not of Jesus? But the fact that he immediately mentioned, At the first appearing from the central loggia of the Basilica of San Pietro and now here in his first homily, it is significant. He said that Pietro's words remember in the Gospel «You are the Christ, the Son of the living God " (Mt 16,16) they express "in summary the heritage that for two thousand years the Church, through the apostolic succession, keep, deepens and transmits. Jesus is Christ, the Son of the living God, that is, the only savior and the detector of the father's face ". Leo XIV is placed, like this, in continuity with the tradition of the Church, Just as his recent predecessors did. John Paul II with his: "Open, indeed, open the door and to Christ "; Professor in his first homily. Pope Benedetto who has scaled the mystery of the Lord with his intelligence and taught the Church to recognize him and Pope Francis who helped us to see his face in all, especially the poorest. And of Christ Pope Leone traces the identikit:

«To make yourself close and accessible to men, He revealed himself to us in the confident eyes of a child, in the lively mind of a young man, in the mature features of a man (The joy and hope, 22), until it appears to his, After the resurrection, with his glorious body. Thus showed us a model of holy humanity that we can all imitate, together with the promise of an eternal fate that instead exceeds every limit and capacity ".

The second aspect that I want to underline the papal homily is precisely the reference to holiness. He sees it as a gift, but also as a path of personal and community transformation. Holiness that exceeds merits and limits because it anticipates our birth (cf.. Gives 1,5) And thanks to the baptismal rebirth he leads us and makes us participate in the mission of Christ. A task that involves the Pope firsthand and then the whole Church: «City placed on the mountain (cf. AP 21,10), ark of salvation that navigates through the waves of history, Lighthouse that illuminates the nights of the world. And this not so much thanks to the magnificence of its structures or for the grandeur of its buildings ..., as for the holiness of its members, of that "people that God has purchased because they proclaim me the admirable works of him, who called you from the darkness to its wonderful light " (1PT 2,9).

In the end, A third reason I like to pin from the homily of the Holy Father: the comparison with the world, including the ecclesial one of believers. The Pope says:

“It's not a trivial question, indeed it concerns an important aspect of our ministry: the reality in which we live, with its limits and potentiality, his questions and his beliefs ".

As happened in the days of the Lord The answers to his question, «People, Who says he is the son of man?», they appeared incomplete and sticks, So even today the world often misunderstands the Christian message due to excess of sufficiency or overhanging. but yet, The Pope says:

«Precisely for this ... the mission is urgent, because the lack of faith often brings with it dramas such as the loss of the meaning of life, The oblivion of mercy, the violation of the dignity of the person in its most dramatic forms, the family crisis and many other wounds of which our society suffers and not a little. This is the world that is entrusted to us, in which, as Pope Francis taught us many times, We are called to witness the joyful faith in Jesus Salvatore. Therefore, for us, too, It is essential to repeat: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God " (Mt 16,16).

As we have read, he recalls the theme of the mission, Which he had done the night before, overlooking the main loggia of the Vatican Basilica (WHO).

But the mission also turns to believers, since they can run the risk of adapting the Gospel and the image of Christ to their personal visions. These are the words of the pontiff: «Even today there is no shortage of the contexts in which Jesus, although appreciated as a man, it is reduced only to a kind of charismatic leader or superman, and this not only among non -believers, but also among many baptized, who end up living thus, at this level, In factual atheism ".

In the last lines of the homily The Holy Father recalls the importance of the personal relationship with Christ, In the commitment of a daily path of conversion and recalls the whole Church to live the belonging to the Lord bringing everyone to everyone's good news.

Finally, the Holy Father speaks of himself. It does so by citing the letter to the Romans of the apostolic father Ignazio of Antiochia, To define his task and role of bishop of the Church who is in Rome, called to preside over the universal Church in charity. And always reporting the words of Sant’Ignazio:

«Then I will really be a disciple of Jesus Christ, When the world does not see my body " (Letter to the Romans, IV, 1).

Concludes his homiletic intervention like this:

"It referred to being devoured by the belves in the circus - and so it happened -, But his words recall in a more general sense an indispensable commitment for anyone in the Church exercises a ministry of authority: disappear because Christ remains, get small for him to be known and glorified (cf. GV 3,30), spend all the way because nobody is missing the opportunity to know and love him. God gives me this grace, today and forever, With the help of the tender intercession of Mary Mother of the Church ".

The homily ends as it started, with reference to Christ. It is worth remembering the citations used by Pope Leo in this liturgical intervention. The letter of Sant’Ignazio of Antioch to the Romans, above, nine references to songs from the New Testament and only one of the old man. Then there are two quotes from the Council, taken from the two documents that speak of the Church: LA LAMP OF GENTIAL AND HOPE AND HOPE.

An intervention, it was said at the beginning, which would seem programmatic, therefore leaving to hope for a continuation that could be profitable for the Church. I believe that the pope does not only expect the wait, but also the support of prayer and the effective collaboration of believers.

Velletri of Rome, 11 May 2025

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«We in the Vatican, here in the Vatican…». The Silerian donkeys in the chair and the anal fissures

11 May 2025/in Actuality/by father ariel

«NOI IN VATICANO, QUA IN VATICANO…». The Silerian donkeys in the chair and the anal fissures

Mister I cannot be silent she's like a teacher with a wand in her hand hunting for the slightest mistake in others, che si siede su vaso e, sebbene seduta, sbaglia mira e la fa fuori, only to then call others ignorant and incompetent […]

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More annoying than lacerations to the anal mucosa caused by fissures, Mister I cannot be silent and his anonymous bloggers, alias «we in the Vatican, here in the Vatican...", in recent weeks they have given their best in distributing licenses to "incompetents"., ignorant, illiterates, salary thieves..." and so on [cf.. WHO].

Privileged targets of their incessant attacks I'm Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for communications, Andrea Tornielli, director of the Vatican media, Matteo Bruni, Director of the press room of the Holy See.

It's not the first time that the teacher has dispensed insults he then sits on the toilet, he misses his aim and takes it all out, as in this case:

«Robert Francis Prevost, Now Pope Leo XIV, he made a gesture that expresses his devotion to the holy Bishop of Hippo, Augustine, founder of the order al which he had consecrated himself" [cf.. WHO].

St. Augustine, born Aurelius of Tagaste, lived between 354 and the 430, as bishop he promoted fraternity and forms of common life among members of the clergy as servants of God, but he never founded any religious order. At the beginning of the year 1000, three rules attributed to Saint Augustine had already been circulating for some time: the Consensus regulation, the Regula above all dear brothers, the Advertisement adheses Deals, none of which have been recognized as authentic, rather drawn from various writings and sermons of Hipponate. These “ancient rules” they are therefore as authentic as the works of the pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite o la Constantinian donation. The Augustinians, named as such because they were inspired by Augustinian spirituality and theology and certainly not because Saint Augustine founded an order, are born canonically in 1244, eight centuries after the death of the Holy Bishop and Doctor of the Church, following the union into a single one fraternitas of Hermits scattered throughout Tuscia; union promoted by the Cardinal Riccardo Annibaldi della Molara, with the approval of the Supreme Pontiff Innocent IV sanctioned with the bull It is up to us the 16 December 1243. Only then will we begin to talk about the Augustinian Order, In the 1244.

The pious legend - but it is indeed a pious legend - which traces the origins of the Order to Saint Augustine, it is therefore as reliable as the peregrine thesis of the supporters of decadent neo-scholasticism who, to justify the philosophy of Aristotle placed by Saint Thomas Aquinas at the speculative basis of his thought, they came to invent that the philosopher of Stagira was not as pagan as they thought, because he had perceived and intuited Christ four centuries earlier, the incarnation of the Word of God (!?).

To my long-time friend Andrea Tornielli, to Paolo Ruffini and Matteo Bruni, I asked a very personal question: how you urinate? They replied to do it standing in front of the toilet. In this position it may be that, despite the best attention, a few small drops come out unintentionally, when you manage a complex international media machine which at a frenetic pace publishes news in dozens of languages that follow each other quickly, sometimes making human error inevitable, the oversight, or the news itself that, once given, may require to be integrated or corrected. Instead, a teacher with wand in hand hunting for the slightest mistake of others, who sits on the toilet and, sebbene seduta, sbaglia mira e la fa fuori, only to then call others ignorant, of the incompetent and even of the subjects who abuse the title of theologians without, according to him, being one, it is hardly justifiable; she is not and the poisoned people who insult on her blog without putting their face and name are not, hidden, like all cowards, behind anonymity.

From the island of Patmos, 10 May 2025

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If someone itchies, that scratches and accurate, Instead of making itchy gossip on the conclave - If Anyone Itches, let him scratch himself and keep quiet, rather than gossip about the Conclave

6 May 2025/in Actuality/by father ariel

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If someone itchies, That scratches and accurate, Instead of doing itchy gossip on the conclave

The church, disoriented and lost, lives in an irreversible state of decline, We have long overcome the threshold of non-revival. Today's church is no longer in Gethsemani, Not even on the cross on the Calvary, is experiencing the moment in its most dramatic way: that silence that seems almost a total absence of God.

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Several readers have written to our editorial staff To ask why we haven't written anything about the vacant office and on the conclave now at the gates.

The church, disoriented and lost, lives in an irreversible state of decline, We have long overcome the threshold of non-revival. Today's church is no longer in Gethsemani, Not even on the cross on the Calvary, is experiencing the moment in its most dramatic way: that silence that seems almost a total absence of God. A space of time ranging from the sunset on the Holy Friday to the Sunday of Resurrection. Between the closure of the sepulcher and the empty sepulcher of the Risen One, a sort of divine empty is experienced, before which the only appropriate thing is that silence that cannot be understood and lived except through faith, hope and charity.

Everyone knows how to talk, Species in turn, Few keep silent and live that great silence that leads us to the resurrection. There are those who cannot keep silent and play to the gossip of the Toto-Papa in a whole world dimension, who instead includes the importance of silent, In a dimension all mystagogical.

I can therefore only re -propose, following, what has already been written in the second part of my article published in 2 March, while the deceased Augustus Pope was hospitalized at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome between life and death: «And if the Simonia were back in vogue to the next conclave?» (cf.. WHO).

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Everyone has their own style, single or collective. In the first, as in the second case, It can be spontaneous, or studied at the table. The Fathers of the Island of Patmos, During their ten years of publicity activity, Starting from October 2014, several times for opportunities, Others for virtue of prudence, have given up on dealing with certain emerging issues related to the Church and the Papacy, Being first of all presbyters; editors and publicists to follow, But forward at all presbyters. Certain themes may require not to be silent, or worse hidden, but treated when you have more cognitive elements that can lead to a truthful, fair judgment.

When the doors of the Sistine Chapel will close, The church will have to deal with the various problems left inheritance by this pontificate, which remains judged overall only by history, perhaps even in many years. The Supreme Pontiff Francesco was elected after an act of renunciation by his predecessor, Rare event result for all of us traumatic, especially for the unhappy ways chosen at the time by Benedict XVI, complete with an extravagant invention of the "Emeritus Papacy", or of sviant terms as "extended papacy", "Active papacy and contemplative papacy" ...

That of the Holy Father Francis It is a pontificate that is placed in a social and geopolitical context of great decadence on a planetary level, With a sceristianization of Europe that has already reached irreversible levels for twenty years. Elsewhere, an bleeding of faithful was consumed in what were once the two lungs with which Catholicism breathed: Latin America and Africa. Francesco's was a pontificate full of problematicities, made of ambiguity and lack of clarity, There are no lack of forms of despotism put in place in the total contempt of ecclesiastical laws and rules. Deny that this pontiff will leave a confused church, divided and quarrelsome due to open processes on all fronts, based on the unusual principle that "the important thing is to open the processes" without however concluding and bringing them to full fulfillment, It means denying the most clear evidence of the facts. But, Those who tell us that in several years will not have to be made thanks to Francesco's pontificate for having preserved and saved the Church by problems and damage that without his action, not understandable on the spot, they would have been greater, or even irreparable? Francesco is a complicated man who fits as such in a very complicated historical moment, any judgment given to the present on him and his pontificate could be completely wrong tomorrow. Certain expressions or decisions judged as eccentric - and in fact they are -, how completely different could appear tomorrow? It wouldn't be the first time that certain men, not included at the moment in their action, they were subsequently celebrated as a personality that were on decades compared to the present time in which they lived. That's why sometimes, just when you are perplexed, disoriented and suffering for certain ambiguous attitudes and not easy even to decipher, while exercising the legitimate critical sense it deserves prudentially suspend the judgment.

One of the serious problems that this pontificate will leave to the next conclave it is given by the fact that the cardinal voters do not know each other among them. The last secret consistory took place in 2015. Let's clarify: The Consistor is the assembly of the cardinals convened by the Roman Pontiff and can be secret, public, semi-public (see WHO). The one in which only the cardinals gathered to discuss in private form are called "secret", i.e. secret, with the Supreme Pontiff, Regarding the various problems of the Church and its government. Today, to the serious problem of cardinals who do not know each other among them, Another unknown to the secularists of the international left who magnify the poor church for the poor adds it, so much poverty excites them in the houses and on the skin of others, praising this pontificate that would have appointed dozens of cardinals "from the suburbs of the world" and "from the poorest countries". We fly over the scarce doctrinal and theological formation by several of these sant'Uomini from those privileged situations for which today a cardinal purple can be deserved: "The suburbs" ... "poor countries"… Several of these cardinals are bishops of countries where the presence of Catholics cannot be called even a small minority: on the island of Tonga, whose bishop Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi is, The baptized Catholics are about 10.000. Cardinal was created in the 2020, at the age of just 46 year old, Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Vicar of Mongolia, where Catholics count 1.200 baptized on 3.300.000 inhabitants. These cardinal voters, Emblem of the "poor church for the poor" of the various "existential suburbs", they govern local churches that can survive and live in contexts of great discomfort and authentic poverty thanks to the donations that come to them as rich local churches, or by large foundations dependent or related to them. To be understood: A single Austrian parish, German, Australian, Canoeing About, North American … It can maintain an entire diocese alone in certain poor countries of Latin America, of Asia and Africa, where the relationship between the euro and the dollar and their national currency is totally disproportionate in purchase value.

Tomorrow, in the Sistine Chapel, a group of cardinals from these countries, rigorously chosen among the exponents of the so -called more advanced progressiveness, With delicate ease they will make people understand that the cords of the bag hold them, leaving dozens of "poor-peripheral-existential" cardinals the obligatory choice played on the survival of local churches that can live only thanks to external aid. Of course, once this was called simonia, Today it is called instead "poor church for the poor".

At present, the poor so exalted in this pontificate they were left hostage of the whims of the rich as never before, After giving life to a college of cardinal voters who do not represent the various items, The most diverse opinions and positions that have always enriched the church inside, but an univocal voice, monocorde e, not last: ruffiana. And among the various damage perpetrated, This will perhaps be the worst, because weighs as a heavy mortgage like lead on the next conclave. This with all due respect to the poor Church, that inside the Sistine chapel will beat the poor with the cords of the bag of the most progressive and more ideologized rich. And someone even called it "poor church for the poor".

From the island of Patmos, 5 May 2025

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IF ANYONE ITCHES, LET HIM SCRATCH HIMSELF AND KEEP QUIET, RATHER THAN GOSSIP ABOUT THE CONCLAVE

The Church, disoriented and lost, lives in a state of irreversible decadence, we have long since passed the threshold of no return. The Church of today is no longer in Gethsemane, not even on the cross on Calvary, it is living the most dramatic moment in its way: that silence that seems almost a total absence of God.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Several Readers have written to our editorial staff asking why we have not written anything about the Sede Vacante and the Conclave now upon us.

The Church, disoriented and lost, lives in a state of irreversible decadence, we have long since passed the threshold of no return. The Church of today is no longer in Gethsemane, not even on the cross on Calvary, it is living the most dramatic moment in its way: that silence that seems almost a total absence of God. A space of time that goes from sunset on Good Friday to Easter Sunday. Between the closing of the tomb and the empty tomb of the Risen One, a sort of divine emptiness is experienced, before which the only appropriate thing is that silence that cannot be understood and lived except through faith, hope and charity.

Everyone knows how to speak, especially inappropriately, few know how to keep quiet and live that great silence that leads us to the resurrection. There are those who cannot remain silent and gossip by playing predictions about the future pope, in a completely worldly dimension, and those who understand the importance of remaining silent, in a completely mystagogical dimension.

I can therefore only repeat, below, what I have already written in the second part of an article of mine published on March 2, while the deceased August Pontiff was hospitalized at the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli in Rome between life and death: «And if simony were to come back into fashion at the next conclave?» (See HERE)

Everyone has their own style, individual or collective. In the first, as in the second case, it can be spontaneous, or studied on the table. The Fathers of this magazine The Island of Patmos , during ten years of journalistic activity, starting from October 2014, several times due to opportunity, other times due to the virtue of prudence, have renounced dealing with emerging themes linked to the Church and the Papacy, being first and foremost presbyters ; editors and publicists to follow, but presbyters ahead of everything. Certain topics may require to be dealt with when there is greater knowledge that can lead to a truthful, fair and balanced judgement.

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When the doors of the Sistine Chapel close, the Church will have to deal with the various problems left as a legacy by this pontificate, which remains judgeable, overall, only by history, perhaps even many years from now. The Supreme Pontiff Francis was elected after an act of renunciation by his predecessor, a rare event and a traumatic for all of us, especially due to the unfortunate methods chosen at the time by Benedict XVI, complete with the extravagant invention of the «emeritus papacy», or misleading terms such as «enlarged papacy», «active papacy and contemplative papacy» (!?)…

That of the Holy Father Francis is a pontificate that takes place in a social and geopolitical context of great decadence on a global level, with a de-Christianization of Europe that has already reached irreversible levels for twenty years. Elsewhere a hemorrhage of faithful has taken place in what were once the two lungs with which Catholicism breathed: Latin America and Africa.

Francis’ pontificate was full of problems, ambiguities and lack of clarity, there were also forms of despotism in total contempt of ecclesiastical laws and rules. To deny that this Pontiff will leave a confused, divided and quarrelsome Church due to trials open on all fronts, based on the unusual principle that «the important thing is to open the trials», without however concluding them and bringing them to full completion, is to deny the clearest evidence of the facts. However, who tells us that in several years we will not have to thank the pontificate of Francis for having preserved and saved the Church from problems and damage which without his actions, not understandable at the time, would have been greater, or even irreparable? Francis is a complicated man who fits into a very complicated historical moment, any judgment given in the present about him and his pontificate, could be completely wrong tomorrow.

It would not be the first time that certain men, not understood at the time in their actions, were later celebrated as extraordinary personalities who were decades ahead of the present time in which they lived. This is why sometimes, precisely when one is perplexed, disoriented and grieve for certain ambiguous attitudes and not even easy to decipher, despite exercising legitimate critical sense, is necessary and prudently suspending judgement..

One of the serious problems this pontificate will leave for the next conclave is this: tthe cardinal electors do not know each other. The last secret consistory took place in 2015. Let’s clarify: the consistory is the assembly of cardinals convened by the Roman Pontiff and can be secret, public, semi-public. What is called “secret” is that in which only the cardinals gathered to discuss in a private, i.e. secret, form with the Supreme Pontiff participate, regarding the various problems of the Church and its government. Today, to the serious problem of the cardinals who do not know each other, there is another one unknown to the secularists of the international left who glorify «the poor Church for the poor», so much does poverty in the homes and on the lives of others excites them, praising this pontificate which has appointed dozens of cardinals «coming from the peripheries of the world» and «from the poorest countries».

Let us not dwell the poor doctrinal and theological training of several of these holy men coming from those privileged situations for which today they can deserve a cardinal’s purple: «the suburbs» … «the poor countries». Several of these cardinals are bishops of countries where the presence of Catholics cannot be defined as even a small minority: on the island of Tonga, of which Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi is bishop, there are around 10,000 baptized Catholics. Giorgio Marengo, apostolic vicar of Mongolia, where Catholics number 1,200 baptized out of 3,300,000 inhabitants, was created cardinal in 2020, at the age of just 46. These cardinal electors, emblem of the «poor Church for the poor» of the various «existential peripheries», govern local churches that can survive and live in contexts of great hardship and authentic poverty thanks to the donations that come to them from rich local churches, or from large foundations on linked to them. To be clear: a single Austrian, German, Australian, Canadian or North American parish can maintain an entire diocese in certain poor countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa, where the relationship between the Euro and the Dollar and their national currency is totally disproportionate in terms of purchase value.

Tomorrow, in the Sistine Chapel, a group of cardinals from these countries, rigorously chosen by Holy Father among the exponents of the so-called most advanced progressivism, will with delicate ease make it clear that they hold the purse strings, leaving dozens of “poor-peripheral-existential” cardinals the forced choice based on the survival of their local churches that can only live thanks to external aid. Of course, once this was called simony, today it is instead called «poor church for the poor».

At present the poor so exalted in this pontificate have been left hostage to the whims of the rich as they had never been before, after having given life to a College of cardinal electors who do not represent the various and noumerous voices, opinions and positions that have always enriched the Church internally, but a single, monotonous voice. And among the various damages perpetrated, this will perhaps be the worst, because it weighs like a lead-heavy mortgage on the next conclave. With all due respect to the poor Church, which inside the Sistine Chapel will strangle the poor, with the purse strings by rich most progressive and ideologicalized.

From The Island of Patmos, May 5, 2025

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The Holy Spirit, The conclave and the election of the Roman Pontiff bishop of Rome – The Holy Spirit, the conclave and the election of the Roman Pontiff Bishop of Rome

1 May 2025/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

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The Holy Spirit, The conclave and the election of the Roman Pontiff bishop of Rome

A soma animal cannot aspire to become a racing horse. Grace perfects the nature that exists in man, but it can't distort it, because it does not go beyond nature that is not there, So teaches the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Cap.

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In time of vacancies, The fever of the conclave infects everyone: Both believers and non -believers are careful not to follow the prudent protocol of a "vigilant expectation" and everyone launches into predictions that mostly reflect their personal desires to outline the profile of the next vicar of Christ.

Among the various fans how not to include romantics, those who insist on arguing that the new pope will be elected by the Holy Spirit in person. that way, This concept means little or nothing, If not for a certain trusty coloring. but yet, If we go deeper than the thought of these simple souls we will discover that this idea sounds like a sort of insurance policy that should make cardinal voters and the people of God safe from unfortunate or embarrassing situations. For charity, A legitimate position which, however, does not take into account the dynamics with which the Holy Spirit actually acts in the history of man really, Just as he acted in the life of the Lord Jesus and the Church in his two thousand years.

Example: If we take the genealogy of the Gospels, We can perhaps say that within that story of those names made of specific events the action of the Holy Spirit has always been present? My old professor of fundamental morality - Jesuit shrewd of the old company of Jesus - would have replied: "Yes and no". Would have said Yes for the fact that the result of genealogy and the person of Jesus born from Mary, no for the fact that among those cited people who have built the historical scaffolding, Relational and family that has allowed the embodiment of the verb we must detect numerous and abundant fragility and resistance to grace that are not at all new in the history of man.

Someone could objectively object, "Well, Oh well, The important thing is the final result ", This is true as long as we talk about Christ and as long as we take him as a last reference, But when there is man this is still true? To go even deeper, After the ascension of the Lord, The ground time of the Risen One ends and the time of the Church begins, in which they are men, Apostles and disciples of Christ, to carry on a deposit that was entrusted to him by the Master. The book of the acts of the apostles shows us several times that the trend of the Church has not always been peaceful and without problems, Even after Pentecost and the gift of the Holy Spirit. And over time, The situation has not changed much. We must be honest in considering the Holy Spirit not as a severe tutor that leads obtorto neck his disciple by force of slap but like an wise and prudent pedagogue that leaves a lot of space and freedom to his disciple always staying a few steps from him, Also allowing the healthy and inevitable falls.

This means in a nutshell? It means that - as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in 1997 - The Holy Spirit does not intervene with his finger of fire in the Sistine chapel indicating the candidate for which he should vote, But intervenes in the mind of the cardinals with a fair human and historical discernment oriented to choose the candidate who debates between the banks of the "worst" and the "slightly less worse". Beyond the joke, The history of the Church teaches that among the various vicars of Christ not all of them were the champions and the pious, rather. Some have done a lot of damage - it is undeniable - but at the same time they have also been able to give the Church something good in the times when they lived and exercised the Petrine Ministry, In this we can certainly see the action of the Holy Spirit, In that little good that has not been completely ruined by bulky personalities and social and political interference together with sympathies and human alliances.

This is precisely the elasticity that the Holy Spirit exercises in the Church without depriving the man of his freedom and without coating him to the good. Next to the Holy Spirit-let's face it once-there is also the anti-Spriter that makes many cantonate take and resides in the stubbornness of the man who wants to make his own head relegating the Holy Spirit to the only time of the song of the I came Creator.

Attribute to the Holy Spirit everything that happens inside a conclave or during a celebration of a synod or a chapter it would be pure superstition and naivety. We have to dare and be sufficiently sorted in recognizing that the anti-Spite works months earlier to guide the fate of an event, It matters little if it is a conclave or a condominium meeting.

The hope that we all nourish it is that the Holy Spirit can speak to the heart of the cardinals making the truth shine and together by instilling the courage of a change or the beginning of a new move. A high -speed train cannot be stopped in a bang, It needs time and maneuvering space. So it is in the Church, There is always a need for a reversal of course and a conversion but nothing can happen suddenly or after a conclave. Often, It is the story that tells us, The damage done by some popes needed years to be repaired, Other times decades, sometimes, to remedy, It was necessary to convene an ecumenical council. Or perhaps we want to forget that both the Lateran Council is the Council of Trento, They were also the consequence of several not particularly recommended popes that have followed between poorly built political events, Power struggles, financial intrallazzi and simonia?

The 7 May the conclave will begin, The human matter within which the next vicar of Christ will be chosen is represented by the Cardinal College made, as in the case of genealogy, of men who know little about each other, fragile and sometimes refractory to grace. This must not be a reason for discouragement, but only of healthy realism. A soma animal cannot aspire to become a racing horse. Grace perfects the nature that exists in man, but it can't distort it, because it does not go beyond nature that is not there, So teaches the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas: «Grace does not preclude nature but it perfects» (QUESTION, I, I, 8 ad 2). The Holy Spirit is not the magic wand that automatically and unquestionably dictates the right choices but is the attentive observer of man's dialogue with God, It is there to support this dialogue for the good of the Church and for the salvation of man. But when the man explodes from his accompaniment here we experience all the inconvenience of destabilizing and divisive choices. In this case - as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said - the only security that the Holy Spirit offers is that between the various falls and stubborn of man and the Church, everything does not come totally and irreparably ruined.

In short, The Holy Spirit has yet to put us na 'pezza, We trust in this with the wisdom of the Roman people, with which we agree when he says that "a pope died always another". This is encouraging, This we want and together we hope that the next Roman Pontiff bishop of Rome will be given by God, not tolerated for human agreements, nor inflicted as the result of the Entes.

Sanluri, 30 April 2025

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THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE CONCLAVE AND THE ELECTION OF THE ROMAN PONTIFF BISHOP OF ROME

A pack animal cannot aspire to become a racehorse. Grace perfects the nature that exists in man, but cannot denature it, because it does not go beyond the nature that does not exist, as the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas teaches.

— Ecclesial actuality —

Author
Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Cap.

In times of vacant see, the fever of the Conclave infects everyone: both believers and non-believers are careful not to follow the prudent protocol of “watchful waiting” and everyone launches into predictions that mostly reflect their own personal desires to outline the profile of the next Vicar of Christ.

Among the various fans, how can we not include the romantics, those who insist on maintaining that the new Pope will be elected by the Holy Spirit himself. Said in this way, this concept means little or nothing, if not for a certain fideistic coloration. Yet, if we delve deeper into the thinking of these simple souls, we will discover that this idea sounds like a sort of insurance policy that should protect the cardinal electors and the People of God from unpleasant or embarrassing situations. A legitimate position that however does not take into account the dynamics with which the Holy Spirit actually acts in the history of man, just as he acted in the life of the Lord Jesus and of the Church in its two thousand years.

Example: if we take the Genealogy of the Gospels, can we perhaps say that within that history of those names made up of specific events the action of the Holy Spirit has always been present? My old professor of fundamental morality — a shrewd Jesuit of the old school by Company of Jesus — would have answered: “Yes and no”. He would have said yes because the result of the Genealogy is the person of Jesus born of Mary, no because among those people cited who built the historical, relational and family scaffolding that allowed the incarnation of the Word we must note numerous and abundant fragilities and resistances to grace that are not at all new in the history of man.

Someone might hastily object, «Well, okay, the important thing is the final result», this is true as long as we talk about Christ and as long as we take him as the final reference, but when there is man is this still true? To go even deeper, after the Ascension of the Lord, the earthly time of the Risen One ends and the time of the Church begins, in which it is men, apostles and disciples of Christ, who carry forward a deposit that was entrusted to them by the Master. The book of the Acts of the Apostles shows us several times that the progress of the Church has not always been peaceful and free of problems, even after Pentecost and the gift of the Holy Spirit. And over time, the situation has not changed much. We must be honest in considering the Holy Spirit not as a severe tutor who reluctantly leads his disciple by force of slaps but as a wise and prudent pedagogue who leaves a lot of space and freedom to his disciple by always remaining a few steps away from him, even allowing for healthy and inevitable falls.

What does this mean in a nutshell? It means that — as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in 1997 — the Holy Spirit does not intervene with his fiery finger in the Sistine Chapel indicating the candidate for whom one should vote, but intervenes in the minds of the cardinals with a discreet human and historical discernment aimed at choosing the candidate who is torn between the shores of “worse” and “slightly less worse”. Beyond the bad joke, the history of the Church teaches that among the various Vicars of Christ not all have been champions and pious, on the contrary. Some have done a lot of damage — it is undeniable — but at the same time they have also been able to give the Church something good in the times in which they lived and exercised the Petrine ministry, in this we can certainly see the action of the Holy Spirit, in that little bit of good that has not been completely ruined by cumbersome personalities and by social and political interference together with human sympathies and alliances.

This is the elasticity that the Holy Spirit exercises in the Church without depriving man of his freedom and without forcing him to do good. Alongside the Holy Spirit there is also the anti-spirit that causes so many blunders and resides in the stubbornness of man who wants to do things his own way, relegating the Holy Spirit to the sole moment of singing the I came Creator.

To attribute to the Holy Spirit everything that happens inside a Conclave or during a celebration of a Synod or a Chapter would be pure superstition and naivety. We must dare and be sufficiently shrewd to recognize that the anti-spirit works months in advance to direct the fate of an event, it matters little whether it is a Conclave or a condominium meeting.

The hope we all have is that the Holy Spirit can speak to the hearts of the cardinals, making the Truth shine and at the same time instilling the courage to change or begin a new step. A high-speed train cannot be stopped suddenly, it needs time and room to maneuver. So it is in the Church, there is always a need for a change of direction and a conversion but nothing can happen suddenly or after a Conclave. Often, history tells us, the damage done by some Popes has taken years to repair, other times decades, sometimes, to remedy it, it has been necessary to convene an ecumenical council. Or perhaps we want to forget that both the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent were also the consequence of several not particularly recommendable Pontiffs who followed one another amidst less than edifying political events, power struggles, financial intrigues and simony?

The Conclave will begin on May 7th. The human matter within which the next Vicar of Christ will be chosen is represented by the College of Cardinals made up, as in the case of the Genealogy, of men who know little about each other, fragile and sometimes refractory to grace. This should not be a reason for discouragement, but only for healthy realism. A pack animal cannot aspire to become a racehorse. Grace perfects the nature that exists in man, but cannot denature it, because it does not go beyond the nature that does not exist, as the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas teaches: "Grace does not preclude nature but it perfects" (QUESTION, I, I, 8 ad 2). The Holy Spirit is not the magic wand that automatically and unquestionably dictates the right choices but is the attentive observer of the dialogue of man with God, he is there to support this dialogue for the good of the Church and for the salvation of man. But when man separates himself from his accompaniment, we experience all the discomforts of destabilizing and divisive choices. In this case — as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said — the only security that the Holy Spirit offers is that among the various falls and stubbornness of man and the Church, everything will not be totally and irreparably ruined.

The Holy Spirit still has to patch us up, we trust in this with the wisdom of the Roman people, with whom we agree when they say that «when a Pope dies, another is always made». This is encouraging, this is what we desire and together we hope that the next Roman Pontiff Bishop of Rome will be given by God, not tolerated by human agreements, nor inflicted as the result of the anti-spirit.

Sanluri, April 30, 2025

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