Hypatia Roman cat talking to the raven Enzo Bianchi, now participating in the Synod to show young people the path, the truth and the life …

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IPAZIA ROMAN CAT IN CONVERSATION WITH THE CROW OF ENZO BIANCHI, TODAY AT THE SYNOD PARTICIPANT TO INDICATE THE WAY TO YOUTH, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE ...

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[…] I have a crow, as I believe that in fact it is Enzo Bianchi, despite not having the pens. Our sound is similar, he croaks like me when he speaks. Either we turn to the world in search of some pearl or jewel to steal. I try and steal the jewels and pearls materials, He steals but those souls who listen to him after having already stolen pearls and jewels of Christianity and the Catholic Church.

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The Synod Youth: Enzo Bianchi and original sin in the context of a dissolution

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THE SYNOD OF YOUTH: ENZO WHITE AND THE ORIGINAL SIN IN THE CONTEXT OF A DISSOLUTION

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Who today wants to speak to young people in a credible way, but especially those who intend to protect them from the work of the devil that in the twentieth century and the new millennium seems to have triggered in all areas and at all levels, It should first invite them to flee the inside of sin, certainly not to insert the acronym LBGT nell’Instrument of Work of the Synod, to see how to fix certain new “edifying” trends.

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Enzo Bianchi visit by Pope Francis I

He could miss the Bose Prior Emeritus, His Beatitude Enzo Bianchi, the Synod Youth? The time to stop the preaching of the spiritual exercises to the clergy at Ars [cf. item WHO], and here he is coming to give relief precious pearls as a participant in the Synod. And since we are in the era of so-called "epochal revolution", He first explained to reporters that in this Synod "There is a great freedom of action than in previous synods I have experienced" [cf. WHO]. Obviously HB fails to point out that this “freedom” very recalls period of terror Robespierre during the French Revolution, since all those who have raised objections in various capacities free, or they have been dismissed from their offices of the curia, or discharged without cause, or left in place but totally ousted from the exercise of their duties, or died of a broken heart, as the late Cardinal Carlo Caffara [cf. our articles, WHO, WHO].

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Perhaps, His Beatitude, ignores that in the world, the crimes and the worst injustices, paradoxically, they were made in the name of freedom of pretexts. The noblewoman Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière remains the emblem, that climbing the stairs to the guillotine said: «Oh Freedom, what crimes are committed in thy name!» [Oh, freedom, how many crimes are committed in thy name!].

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Who today wants to speak to young people in a credible way, but especially those who intend to protect them from the work of the devil that in the twentieth century and the new millennium seems to have triggered in all areas and at all levels, It should first invite them to flee the inside of sin, certainly not to insert the acronym LBGT nell’IThe Labor nstrumentum of the Synod, to see how to fix certain new ones “edifying” trends [cf. our article WHO]. Obviously, none of this can be accomplished, When talking to young people is precisely invited His Beatitude, who is not only qualified to gloss over sin, because going deeper still and starting from the root, Enzo Bianchi ends up denying, through its smoky interpretations, the same original sin. A quel point, everything becomes more or less lawful beyond good and evil. And then he asks to speak to young people? Why the young should not be offered nor washy Gospel, nor an easy way, at least according to what he said Jesus Christ:

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"Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:; how narrow is the door and how narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find!» [Mt 7, 13-14].

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Let's see what is the concept of original sin This person invited to the Synod after having just finished preaching to priests …

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The whole meaning of Christianity It rests on the doctrine of original sin. If this doctrine is distorted, the whole of Christianity crumbles. Indeed, Christianity, It is the original sin divine power of salvation and its consequences and return humanity to the happy condition precedent to sin, with the addition of a superior condition, that of the "children of God", "Spiritual men", the image of the Son Jesus Christ.

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The redemptive work of Christ It is essentially to free mankind from original sin and its consequences: in healing the wounds, remove the condemnation of sin, covetousness, the suffering, death and bondage to Satan, giving satisfaction with the sacrifice of the cross to the Father for our sins, reconciling with each other and with the Father and by obtaining for his mercy and his forgiveness, and giving the law and the grace of the Holy Spirit, that makes us children of God, heirs of eternal life.

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It is clear then that is impossible understand and appreciate the greatness of the Father's mercy, for mercy sends us his innocent Son to die on the cross For us and for our health, for us sinners, insolvent debtors, If you do not understand the immense gravity and pervasiveness of original sin, origin of all our sins and misery, in which, for righteous judgment of the Father, it threw the whole of humanity.

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Christ is the divine Physician, who knows our ills, can interpret our disorders, shows us the causes and consequences and teaches us how guardarcene, as well as the way and the means to reach the healing. Jesus came on purpose to teach us and show us, through the Church, better and beyond any philosophy, what is the source of evil that afflicts all humanity from time immemorial, evil which alone not only can not free, but which can not even fully understand the nature and to make the diagnosis.

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It is thus quite false what he says Bianchi, that the Church does not know what is the origin of evil and why, Why, if so, It would not have a way to eliminate it, which is absolutely false, it would be to frustrate the work of redemption and would make the whole Christian zero, or at most would make a philanthropism at the level of the masonry or of Gnosticism, where Jesus Christ is nothing more than a prophet or a great benefactor of humanity, a Nobel Prize, that, to support the cause of justice and the oppressed, It stands firm against opponents to death.

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The greatest manifestation of divine mercy It is certainly the free forgiveness of sins, ma, according to the Father's plan, explained by the dogma of the Church [1], This plan provides that we collaborate with our suffering, penance and good works in grace, priestly work [2] and cultic repairing and atoning work of Jesus Christ crucified, gift precisely the Father's mercy through which espiamo our sins, and bringing satisfaction to the Father, offended by sin, reconciling us with God in Christ and the Church through the sacraments. So salvation is not only a gift of grace, but also our conquest and reward thanks to merit [3] supernatural good works. By denying the value of the merits, White falls into the same heresy of Luther.

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White does not understand that the doctrine, taught by the Council of Trent [Denz. 1511, 1522, 1529], for which the Father, outraged and offended by the sin of man, requires reparation, and to that end sends the Son to offer himself in sacrifice on the cross to redeem us from our sins, it is far from a false interpretation, now outdated, the work of the Father and of the Son, as if it were a cruel Father and Son from under the thumb of a domineering father, but it is an immutable dogma of faith [4]. Instead it is biblical and dogmatic doctrine, that makes us understand the immense mercy and admirable justice of the Father, who gives us his Son for the salvation of us sinners, glorifying the Son with us, which in turn, in the Holy Spirit, We glorify the Father in Christ [GV 17]. And in this sacred and divine circularity of mutual glorification it is recapitulated the whole mystery of the Christian liturgy, source and summit of the Christian life, mystery dissolves into the design of Bianchi.

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The doctrine of original sin, like all the truths revealed, it is not easy to understand and offers great difficulties to our reason. It also emerges only by a skilful connection of passages of Scripture, ranging from the famous story of Genesis, the Book of Job, a San Paolo, to the Apocalypse, between them very distant, whose link is not immediately visible. Moreover, this doctrine, because fundamental, stand and fall of Christianity, branches and has connections with all the other moral truths of divine revelation, Financo with those theoretical, so that one who wanted to expose this doctrine in all its relations with the other truths of faith, should consider the whole set of I believe cristiano. Indeed, the perception and contemplation of a truth so purely speculative as is the dogma of the Trinity, It is made possible, after all, by the fact that we are there freed from original sin, welcoming the grace of redemption offered to us by Christ.

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This doctrine is not a simple biblical exegesis, but it has slowly gained in history and has been clarified and specified over the centuries with the help of the Fathers, the Doctors and the Saints, under the guidance of the Magisterium of the Church, especially in the Council of Orange 529 [Denz. 371-372], and the great Councils Fourth Lateran and Trent, where he assumed a form definitive dogmatic, which since then has not been further investigated, even by Vatican II, which is limited to assume the traditional doctrine. This doctrine is now entrusted to Catechism of the Catholic Church [NN. 396-406]. At the same time the data revealed that it expresses urges theologians to always new explanations and information and urges them to ask new questions, leading to an ever increasing knowledge of God's Word.

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Progress historical-critical exegesis, especially since the nineteenth century, They have been of great help to the Church to correct certain popular naivete, clarify the literary genre of the Genesis story, the history of its drafting, the dell'agiografo relationships with extra-biblical contemporary cultures, per separate the historical and theological core by coating symbolic and mythological, to overcome a cosmological vision evidently overtaken by modern scientific progress, especially in relation to the data of the theory of evolution. They helped the understanding of the dogma of original sin even the philosophical and theological progress made since the nineteenth century, especially with the Thomistic revival promoted by Pope Leo XIII, the progress of metaphysics concerning the nature of good and evil, of natural theology regarding the creation of the world, the progress of anthropology about the nature of man and woman, the progress of psychology and moral theology on the nature of free will, accountability, of consciousness, of sin, of guilt and grace.

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The darkness of the biblical data, the apparent naivete of the Genesis story - a pair placed in a garden of delights tempted by a snake eating a forbidden fruit - , its apparent contrast with the data of science on the origin of man [5] and its apparent absurdity, a sin that is transmitted by biological or generation of a good God, but it allows evil, all these difficulties were always opportunity for the doctrine of original sin has been misunderstood, until, Oh, in many different ways falsified rifiutata.

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THE DESIGN OF THE WHITE AND THE THOUGHT OF THE CHURCH

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In this article we look at the position of Enzo Bianchi. He considers himself a "Catholic" and claims to expose the vision that the Church has of original sin, giving to understand that it would not accept more that we find exposed in Catechism of the Catholic Church. We would then ask Enzo Bianchi on which the "Church" speaks, since it is not that of Catechism. Actually Bianchi hardly exposes the doctrine of the true Church, but a false church, which is that of the modernists.

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The original sin Bianchi presents a conception that, as I said, masquerading as a doctrine of the Church, but which in reality, as you can be easily verified by consulting Catechism, It is exactly the opposite of what the Church teaches and is therefore completely false. He begins by mocking the Genesis story like a fairy tale for children:

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"Needless to say, the Bible does not say where he was from evil. I hope none of you remember this little story told we were telling everyone that there would be an angel who has turned to God, God has fallen and this has become the devil, the devil tempts us, the world was beautiful, was gold, he walked from morning to sunset. Indeed the sun never came because there was no darkness. Then those two poor things of Adam and Eve have done that thing and pay us after I do not know how many millions of years "[cf. Enzo Bianchi, WHO].

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"But when you say original sin today the Church, attention to this, It does not mean the sin of the origins and later caused a disaster forever, but sin that is to the origins of each of us, of our existence, our freedom and our right to decide; this is evil "[cf. Enzo Bianchi, WHO].

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"No original sin in the sense of a sin committed at the beginning. That the Catholic Church does not say more. But the original sin that dwells in every man emerges every time we touch, in communication or in connection with the things. In front of a tree symbol of all things, man and woman feel tempted "[cf. Enzo Bianchi, WHO].

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"The Church is no longer on these positions. The Church does not read the original sin in the prehistory of men. This is now nonsense. More no one dares say this. But original sin is read as the sin that is in the fibers of every man who comes into the world "[cf. Enzo Bianchi, WHO].

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On the contrary, the Catechism presents original sin just as sin committed by a human couple really existed, progenitor of the whole human species, created by God in his image and likeness, rebelled against the divine prohibition to take his place in the deciding of good and evil [nn.396-399] [6]. Original sin, so, it is not a sin which is at the origin of our personal lives, as if it were an act our, but it is at the origin of mankind.

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Original sin is not the first sin we make in our personal history, reached the age of reason. The biblical account is not, as also believe Karl Rahner and Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, an 'aetiological myth ", to explain by referring to the past what happens in this. The guilt of original sin, in which we are born, It's not our fault, but a sin that we inherited from our first parents. For how could it be our fault, If at birth we still have not reached the age of reason?

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According to the dogma of the Church, which clarifies the doctrine of St. Paul, the guilt of original sin is not only a personal fault of their ancestors, but it is collective guilt of all humanity, guilt that, when committed by ancestors, It is transmitted to all humanity generation born from Adam, so everyone, except the Blessed Virgin Mary, free of original sin, It is conceived by the mother affection and stained by this original and hereditary guilt, independently of the will of the individual, still incapable of discernment, guilt from which it free Baptism.

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And if it is true that Christ never speaks precisely of the order, and the effect of Baptism reason, except to say that cleanses from sin and grants salvation, and never mentions the original sin, the very fact that orders to baptize every person, It is the implicit admission of the existence in each of us of original sin, guilt that precisely is removed from Baptism.

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The transmission of original sin, involving and infects the whole of humanity, It supposes a corporate conception of human nature, if it were not just a collection of people, but a single person or a single person [7], a “super-person” composed of people, without excluding all the singularity, the autonomy and the responsibility of individuals in.

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This conception of humanity appears clearly in its Pauline thought is sinful humanity as a result of original sin ["In Adam all have sinned"], [RM 5,12] [8] and both in its conception of humanity santa, that the Church as a "mystical body" of the Lord, "Bride of Christ". That is why St. Thomas Aquinas explains that original sin is not so much the sin of that individual, but rather it is a sin of human nature, sin nature, like saying that if a man sin by hand, it is he himself who sins [9]. Like this, with regard to original sin in so and so is the same humanity to sin in them. Or - Thomas makes another comparison - we say that a watercourse is polluted because it is polluted at the source. Of course, it's simple comparisons, that, as do light, They can not remove the darkness of the mystery. The historical fact of original sin is a pure datum of divine Revelation. The reason comes to understand the essence of the evil of guilt and punishment, He understands that this is a consequence of that; He understands that the existence of evil is not necessary, but it is something accidental and contingent.

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Starting from his false assumption, then you understand as Bianchi fails to explain why all of us, though born good, as created by God, and given the power to choose between good and evil, inevitably become bad; and not finding a solution, complains that the Bible a mistake that is his alone.

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Bianchi So here evidently confuses two things. An account is the original sin, parents' sin, that touches our origins and whose fault is spreading throughout humanity. It is one thing to our innate inclination to sin, - lust - which is a consequence of original sin. Bianchi says so that the church would have dropped like a "stupid" and a "lack of intelligence unpardonable", the story of the creation of Adam in paradise, with preternatural gifts, happy, immortal and innocent, in communion with God. Dice:

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"The Church does not read the original sin in the prehistory of men. This is now nonsense. More no one dares say this. But original sin is read as the sin that is in the fibers of every man who comes into the world. If you want quell'incapacità is always doing good. At a certain point, evil enters us " [cf. Enzo Bianchi, WHO].

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But just see what the Catechism He teaches to make sure of the words of falsehood Bianchi. He says the Catechism referring to the sin of our first parents:

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"The man, tempted by the devil, he left off in his heart the trust towards his Creator and, abusing his freedom, He disobeyed God's command. In what was to man's first sin [cf. Rom 5,19]. Afterwards, every sin would be disobedience toward God and lack of trust in his goodness " [n. 397].

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Moreover, because of its denial of the historicity of original sin, Bianchi ends up conceiving the human tendency to evil not as a result of the original Fall, but as intrinsic to human nature itself, with dire consequences for the evil man and man, Why, While this is natural, become well, because good is what is second nature. It follows then a horrible consequence: that the sin becomes good action and good deed becomes sin. No longer it distinguished what is second nature from that which is against nature:. From here probably overindulgence Bianchi against the sodomy.

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He says Bianchi:

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"The tale we all know and that the man and the woman. Humanity in its duality in to relate with things, in living existence. Show to choose evil and do not choose the good. Do not read that story as if it were the origin of our history. It would indeed be an unforgivable lack intelligence. The story of Genesis wants to tell the reality of man, of every man who comes into the world, of every woman who comes into the world. It is located in a world where there is already evil. There is already the snake, before the man. It was already there. There was already bad. And the man in her life and lets you choose evil " [cf. Enzo Bianchi, WHO].

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For Bianchi, as we have already seen, the tendency to sin is not proper to fallen human nature from a primitive state of innocence, but it is inherent in human nature itself. But if evil is naturally in humans, then evil is natural and it is not bad. So, thinking that Christ deliver us from evil is an illusion or a flaw. Bianchi takes the presence of death and hostilities of nature are no consequences or punishment of a sin we have committed to basics, because evil was already there before sin. Dice:

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"With the knowledge of the sciences that we, we know that the first man's evil reign in nature even before: the wolf ate the lamb. Even before, the chain of life went on through the death of some for others to live. There was no harm our introduction. The evil was. And certainly evil preceded us: the snake, Satan, the devil and then the names are many. But evil was " [cf. Enzo Bianchi, WHO].

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We respond by saying that it is true that evil there was already a result of the angel's sin and it is true that the death of the living infra-humans has historically preceded the appearance of man on earth. This second figure is the science, while the first is a matter of Revelation. From Scripture we know that evil originated from the rebellion of some angels to God [AP 12, 7-9]. But what about the death of the living infra-humans, it is natural; in fact it is already present in Eden. It is a consequence of human sin. The infra-human living to serve humanity as nourishment.

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Inalready, regarding our death, Revelation teaches that it is a consequence of original sin, although it too would be natural in itself [10]. Ma, as taught by the Council of Trent [Denz, 1511], Eden possessed a grace of immortality, we have lost through sin. Indeed, the first parents in Eden were immortal. And also, according to Revelation, the death, from which Christ saves us, It draws its origin from the first angel's sin [Sap 2,24] [11] beginning of creation.

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Also of note that Pius XII in the encyclical The human race the 1950 [Denz. 3897] It reiterates that it is necessary to admit the existence historical of a couple, from which all humanity originated, otherwise it would have been impossible to transmit the original sin to all mankind, which is part of the dogma of original sin.

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For as the saying Catechism:

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"Adam has transmitted to us a sin, by which all are born contaminated " [n,403]. "All men are implicated in Adam's sin, as well as all are implicated in Christ's justice " [n.404]. St. Paul makes it clear that, if it were not for Adam with his sin, there would be no Christ, because Christ repair Adam's sin [RM 5, 12-20]. "Adam and Eve committed a personal sin, but this sin affected the human nature, that they transmit in a fallen condition. It is a sin which will be transmitted by propagation to all mankind, that is, with the transmission of a human nature deprived of original holiness and justice. Because of this, original sin is called "sin" in an analog mode: is a contract not a sin and sin, a state and not an act "⦋ibid.⦌. It is not affected by a conscious act of the subject, as if this was responsible, but simply getting the grace of Baptism, allocable even at a baby ' [ibid.].

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White acknowledges that God can not will sin, ie the evil of guilt; it is deficient when it comes to punishment or divine punishment, in which God inflicts a just penalty. In the name of mercy, Bianchi does not want to admit the punitive justice, that seems unworthy cruelty of God's Love. Undoubtedly the punishment of sin is precisely the evil that the sinful pulls him with his sin.

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However, we know as the Bible speaks frankly "God's punishment, without any need to judge the sign of an archaic theology or exceeded, because the severity is also God in Christ. So this can only refer to the logical and necessary consequence of sin, that disturbs the order established by God himself in things, though God, in his goodness has in some cases the possibility to suspend or cancel it.

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THE PROBLEM OF EVIL [12]

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The question of original sin is certainly linked the problem of the nature and origin of evil, because sin is to do evil. And the evil of punishment is the consequence of sin. Bianchi stands several times to the second question, moreover falsely declaring, as we have seen, that the Bible does not give an answer, when in fact there is already an answer, however imperfect, supplied by philosophy, although obviously not up to the answer which comes from Scripture.

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But the major shortcoming of Bianchi is not tell us what is evil, evil of punishment and guilt evil. Indeed we see that he has a wrong notion of evil, when he says that the serpent of Genesis is the "evil". Not at all. The snake, as he should know, It is the symbol of an evil spirit creature, created before man, ie the devil, as clearly he taught the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 ⦋Denz. 800⦌.

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Bianchi, with this serious misunderstanding, thus it proves to hypostatize O substantiate Evil, falling exactly that Manichaeism, he says it will avoid. Thus jointly and it denies that the sin of man draws his chance from the angel's sin, refusing, we saw it, as silly fairy tale this truth of faith, which is also taught by that Council [ibid.], Truth extremely enlightening and useful for our way of salvation, because it teaches our duty to be vigilant and beware of pitfalls, illusions, by attacks, deceptions and temptations from the Devil, without fearing his threats, or leave us confused by his accusations and his reproaches, there insinuate false guilt, and without succumbing to its allurements and seductions, They harden in sin, blind us to arrogance and pride, and without being disturbed by his scare, they want to throw us into despair.

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The most serious question of evil, in order to be taken seriously, with hope of success, without being in the dark, It requires, as already Aristotle teaches us, recourse to metaphysics, because it touches the question of 'being and non-being, of the position and of the negation-deprivation, Specific themes of metaphysics. Now Bianchi unfortunately proves to be made of completely ignorant metaphysical. And therein lies the cause of his serious mistakes on the question of evil.

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Thus the above-mentioned clumsy substantialization or reification evil wrought by Enzo Bianchi, throws it into a very serious difficulties, which it seems not to notice, the same difficulty to say the absurdity of Manichaeism, and that is that, if evil is a substance, there is no remedy to it. In fact it is possible to remedy the evil, precisely because it is not a substance, and there is not necessarily, but it is accidental and precisely a deprivation [13], a lack of good or entities, which can be remedied by affixing the missing well. Of course, a subject or a harmful substance may be destroyed or prevented from harming. The murderess can be executed. But evil, from which then we are freed, It is not the subject as such, ontologically, my he damage made by the subject.

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The bad part of the not be, although it is designed as if it were to be, ad figure being [being of reason]. Which obviously does not mean that evil is nothing or that it does not exist or is only apparent or a subjective fact and has no influence on reality. [14]. Far from it. Tremendous is the deadly and destructive power of evil. But it is precisely the negation, and more precisely as deprivation of being. But if evil, as it seems to believe Bianchi, It is a substance, if it exists or subsists in itself and not in a subject, It is not bad, but good. It must be remembered that the substance itself, ontologicamente, it's good. There are bad substances by essence. As a villain in it can not be that its action, but not its being. A substance may be harmful, but in itself, as body, it's good. And being a good turn, according to the known principle transcendental.

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Already philosophy, physically and morally, confirmed by the Christian Revelation, although much less perfectly of Revelation, He tells you what is evil, which it is the cause and what are the effects. It also tells how to remove it. Christ, on the supernatural level of faith and life of grace, It is the Divine Physician, that, through his Church, We tell us what disease we, how we've taken and what we must do to heal.

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If God had willed, He could create a world free from evil. He could prevent the angel to sin. He could prevent Adam and Eve to sin. If they had sinned, He could forgive quickly, without that evil is extended to all mankind. Why it didn't?

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This is the impenetrable mystery, hidden away infinity of wisdom, of goodness and divine freedom, no mystery “detectable” to us for its transcendence. There is a reason why God wanted to allow the existence of evil, though he is innocent, because He does nothing without reason. But only he knows. Trust us [15]. The great and incomprehensible mystery, therefore, It is not exactly what is evil, Where is he from, it produces and how it takes off - on these points Bianchi shows a deplorable ignorance and contempt for the Divine Revelation -, but it's why God allows evil, When, If she wanted to, He could have created a world without evil. However, evil does not necessarily exist with creation, but there is only the possibility of the existence of evil conditions, which are given by the existence of the creature free will.

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Evil could not possibly exist if there was only God, because evil is related to the existence of creation. In fact, God is absolutely good and therefore can neither effect, nor suffer evil, which supposes instead an agent or patient finished, ie the creature. The finiteness but not bad; only ownership of a property over. However, the finiteness is the condition of the possibility that a spiritual subject does or suffers evil. Indeed evil is the lack of an asset due to a person liable, that, as such, that can not be finished, because only the finite can be deprived of his good or actively, why does evil or passively, because it suffers evil.

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For who suffers evil must be finished, because only the finite can be deprived of his right. But the actor of evil must be finished, because only a finite agent can be bad acting, that is, deprive the patient's own good. Evil can be made or – harm – or suffered - pain.

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The harmful act, that provides the patient bad penalty, It may be voluntary, and then we have sin, evil of guilt; for example a Adultery or a theft; or it can be involuntary - human or animal - and then we have the simple harm; for example the lion that kills the gazelle. However, if the man who does evil, flaw, ie disobeys the moral law, the lion kills the gazelle obeys the law of nature.

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As for the man's death consequence and punishment of his sin, for the lion's death is a consequence of his nature. Evil can only have originated from a creature capable of disobeying God supreme Good, therefore endowed with free. Indeed, all the sub-human creatures do nothing but obey the laws of God, which they are always good.

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If a mosquito bites you, do not complain, because it does nothing but his duty, although no one forbids to kill her. If anything can be said that Eden mosquitoes had respect for man. The hostility of nature against man is indeed not intrinsic to nature itself, as it seems to assume Bianchi, but it is a consequence of original sin [Gen 3,17-18]. God did not create an evil nature, but she has become a mother, "stepmother" in punishment of original sin.

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Evil, then, is not a substance, it is not an absolute, the less a deity, but it is a simple accidental lack of good, which you could be remedied with the contribution of the missing well. Evil exists because there is good, that is made worse by bad. Instead, the good in itself could exist even without the bad. Evil exists because there is a subject in which there is. If the subject is corrupt, even evil disappears. If this one dies of cancer, the cancer disappears, but only because that person is dead. Already philosophical reason then knows that in principle the evil may be taken away and won. Evil is a result of a lawsuit, whereby, removed the cause, you could eliminate evil.

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The reason also knows that God, in his infinite goodness, he cannot have wanted evil and therefore it must have been caused by an original fault of the creature, perhaps man. Plato thought that we are now in darkness and injustice because of a fall occurred in the past as a happy state, in which we contemplated the truth and the good. Of this ancestral guilt we smell, according to Plato, for the fact that now we are born with an inclination to sin irresistible, be subject to suffering. Such a thing is not normal: You should be born good and happy. It must therefore - suggests Plato - have happened, the origin of mankind, a tragedy, for which it has plunged in the current state of blindness, of misery and mischief.

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Divine Revelation takes, It clarifies and corrects the ancient pagan view, showing better the nature and severity of this early fall, and its consequences. But above all - and here lies the most revealing element - Scripture, the interpretation of the Church, gives to humanity in Christ the means and ways to break free from his ancestral misery and tendency to evil, to rediscover the original plan of creation, high from the Christian prospect of divine filiation.

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The suffering, as a consequence of original sin It is transformed by Christ into an instrument of atonement and way of salvation. From repugnant becomes lovable. Not sure lovable itself, but for Christ's sake. From condemnation it becomes a response of love to the love of the One who gave Himself to deliver us from suffering and sin. It is always an evil that must be fought. And yet it should not be rejected by any means, ma, the occasion should be welcomed for the sake of Christ as the way to make us saints. Only sin must be rejected absolutely, since, says a liturgical hymn, "Nails of the Cross, although hard, They are sweet".

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This is what he thinks and announcing His Beatitude Emeritus Prior of Bose Enzo Bianchi, who just finished his preaching to the world the clergy at Ars, He rushed to Rome, to talk to young people, then to attend the first “Synod of freedom”, if it considers that, as he himself says: "There is a great freedom of intervention that I have not experienced in previous synods" [cf. WHO]. But, in this climate of “freedom” why s ’ was seen before, He tells us that they did not order, those who think differently …

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… «Oh Freedom, what crimes are committed in thy name!». Oh, freedom, how many crimes are committed in thy name! [Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere: 1734-1793].

This, It is the end that made!

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Varazze, 19 October 2018

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[1] I illustrate in my book The mystery of the Redemption, Editions ESD, Bologna 2004.

[2] CF. C.V.Heris, The mystery of Christ, Publishing Morcelliana, Brescia 1938.

[3]The doctrine of merit, denied by Bianchi in the wake of Luther, It is dogmatically taught by the Council of Trent [Denz.1545-1550].

[4] CF. Catechism of the Catholic Church [nn.166-172].

[5] M.-J. Nicolas, Evolutionism and Christianity. Of Teilhard de Chardin to S.Tommaso d'Aquino, Publishing Massimo, Milan 1978.

[6] CF. Erlangen Paul II, I believe. Wednesday catechesis by Sandro Beetles, Piemme editions, 1988, vol.IV, nn.4-5.

[7] CF. Heribert Muehlen, A person Mystica, Publishing New Town, Rome 1968.

[8] CF. my book The mystery of redemption, Editions ESD, Bologna 2004, pp.29-56.

[9] Of bad, q.4,a.6; In II Sent., Dist.31, q.1,a,1.

[10] S. Pius V in 1567 condemned Michele Baio, who argued that immortality was due to the state of innocence [Denz. 1921,1926, 1978].

[11] CF. (C). Journet-J,Maritain, Philippe of the Trinity, The angel's sin. Peccabilitas, nature and supernatural, Beauchesne, Paris 1961.

[12] CF. St. Thomas, Evil. disputed Questions, edited by G.Cavalcoli and R.Coggi, vol.VI, Editions ESD, Bologna 2002; C.Journet, Evil. theological Essay, Borla Publisher, Torino 1963.

[13] The steresis, of which Aristotle spoke.

[14] Luigi Pareyson, rightly affirming cha evil exists, It remains trapped in an inadequate conception of existence, it ends by arguing that evil is a reality, he fell in Manichaeism or at least in the Hegelian dialectic of this bad even in God, although Pareyson then try to make up by saying that God has "overcome evil in Himself". However Pareyson least has the merit that he understood that the question of evil is above all a metaphysical question, while the mature catholic '' Bultmannian Enzo Bianchi still alive in the world of fairy tales. Cf book Pareyson, however, nice and deep, Ontology of Freedom. The evil and suffering, Publishing house Einaudi, Torino 2000.

[15] CF. J.Maritain, God and the permission of evil, Paris 1963.

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The Synod of the young. the Church, after the Shoah of the catholic world, will be judged to the new Process of Nuremberg, where cardinals and bishops will reply to the judges: “I only obeyed the higher orders”.

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THE SYNOD OF THE YOUNG. THE CHURCH, AFTER THE SHOAH OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD, WILL BE JUDGED TO THE NEW PROCESS OF NUREMBERG, WHERE CARDINALS AND BISHOPS WILL REPLY TO THE JUDGES: “I ONLY OBEYED THE HIGHER ORDERS”.

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In the most inappropriate historical-ecclesial moment, a Youth Synod is taking place, while the visible Church, after the Holocaust of Catholicism, is about to end up in the Nuremberg court, which will issue a sentence that will remain written in history. In the course of this process, the culprits who brought the Church into the court of justice before the eyes of the world will be judged for committing great crimes against the Church, the mystical body of Christ [cf. With the 1, 12-20]. And as happened seventy years ago with the Nazi leaders, we will hear cardinals and bishops, respond to the judges: “I only obeyed the higher orders”.

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The impression one has is that the synods are probably set up as the Assembly of Deputies of the Soviet Union, or as it is now the Parliament of North Korea. We admit that we can also discuss within the synods, as happened during the Synod on the family. Naturally, that we proceed to discuss, the synods are celebrated precisely for this purpose. What is the purpose of the discussions, however, when in the final document, previously, we have seen the approval of what the Synod Fathers have rejected decisively and with a broad threshold? In fact, if the Court of Miracles, as I call it, or the Magic Circle, as Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller calls it, already has a ready and approved program, what is the usefulness of synods? Perhaps saving the appearance of collegiality in the same way that the young dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong, wants to have a semblance of parliamentary democracy? And what happened to the dissidents of Korea, maybe they ended up tied on the missiles and then launched during the experimental tests?

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We come to the agenda of the Court of Miracles or the Magic Circle : the Youth Synod will have to serve, as already amply demonstrated, to offer some recognition to the LBGT lobby. And although the youth representatives have never used or mentioned this acronym in their programmatic documents, the mention was made by His Eminence Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisserri, without neglecting to express himself in an imprecise and contradictory way, which in some way is tantamount to lying [see HERE]

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The use of the acronym LGBT, which means: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual, is first of all a question of form and law, which later could have implications in the doctrine and the magisterium. Let’s try to understand: if in the work Ai organizations Commentary — which has nothing to do with gays, but with the famous jurist Gaius who compiled his comments the year 180 a.C. — the problem of oral sex had been inserted according to the jurisprudence of the principality of Augustus, dating back to 30 b.C., this erotic practice would then have a legal status in the system of Roman law. However, considering that the problem of oral sex does not exist in the law, it can not be inserted as a legal institution, even applying other laws in the most extensive form. And it does not exist because, in the law, there is no such thing as the legal institution of oral coitus. Jurisprudence can not treat or regulate what for the law does not exist. That’s why in any kind of juridical system, both in Roman law and in common law, the use of words and terms is always very delicate, because the law, long before punishment, which is only the final act, aims to recognize , establish and then adjust. And a term inserted into juridical language automatically becomes a juridic term.

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To this must be added, as an example, a fact that few in the visible Church of today can deny: in many Catholic theological institutes, when we speak of the Most Holy Eucharist, the theologies and terminologies drawn from Lutheran lexicon, are increasingly used; for example, the Lutheran terminology of consubstantiation. If in some Roman Pontifical universities one dares to refer to scholasticism and Thomism, then to the theological term of transubstantiation, one risks being derided or indicated as pre-conciliar (!?). And the mockers, whose prerogative is the most stupid ignorance, will continue to ignore that one of the two Supreme Pontiffs of the Second Vatican Council, the one who managed it, has brought forward and then closed, the Blessed Pontiff Paul VI, that soon will also be canonized, he defined as opportune and not replaceable this theological term of transubstantiation [Encyclical The Mystery of the Faith, no. 47, text HERE]. Or perhaps we must deduce that Blessed Pontiff Paul VI was actually a pre-conciliar? As I have written several times: in the visible Church of today the decrees of beatification and canonization of the Roman Pontiffs are signed with one hand, with the other the documents that strike, or in some cases annul, their supreme magisterium.

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Today we live in a visible Church where we can define the term of transubstantiation as scholastic-archaeological, then reject it in the halls of the pontifical universities. However, at the same time, we can insert ecclesiastical lexical terms such as LBGT, with the risk that this acronym luciferian assumed by the vocabulary of the Magisterium of the Church. And all this, cannot disconcert only the Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, with all the coryphaeum of journalists True Pontifical, for which never, as «at the time of this epochal revolution», things had gone so well. The facts show that things, at the height of the Pontifical Russian Revolution, are so good that the churches are increasingly empty, the disappointed faithful, the depressed clergy and the missing vocations. The abandonment of the priesthood has never been as numerous as in the last five years of the history of the Church, even if the Congregation for the Clergy is silent on the statistical, because it is presided over by another friend of the Court of Miracles, or Magic Circle.

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His Eminence Cardinal Charles Joseph Chaput, Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia

Thanks be to God, His Excellency Mons. Charles Chaput, Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia, made his voice heard and recalled the importance of using correct words [cf. chronicle: HERE, HERE], because at the level of Catholic doctrine, substance is linked to words. And this should be known by all those who have studied, even in a non-exhaustive way, the first great dogmatic councils of the Church, where, to define the nature of Christ God, we have resorted to precise terms modulated by terminology of Greeks philosophers, such as concept of ὑπόστασις [Hypostasis or hypostatic nature].

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Someone, to define today — and therefore clarify — the various forms of exercise of human sexuality, since “male and female God created them” [Gen 1, 26-27], perhaps wants to insert into the ecclesial lexicon terms such as LGBT, thus giving life to a new quatripostatic human nature: to the lesbian nature, gay, bisexual and transsexual?

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The Synod on the family has left a divided and disoriented Church, as well as several deaths due to sudden infarcts in the ranks of the Lord’s vineyard. And after the attempt to erase adultery, today the Synod of Youth has opened up, which seems to want to legitimize the various practices of sexual expression, without clarifying — as Archbishop Charles Chaput laments holyly — that LGBT Catholics cannot exist, and the Church cannot legitimize their existence. With another paradoxical example, we can ask: can a subject be defined as Catholic-atheist and claim, as atheist, his full membership in Catholicism? Yes, he can do it exactly to the extent that, a one transsexual proud of his transsexualism, he can call himself a catholic-transsexual and claim full right of citizenship in the body of the Catholic Church and claim full legitimacy of all his demands. Because if the enthusiastic singers of the «epochal revolution» had not noticed it, is completely new figure of Catholicism is born: the Catholic atheists. And these atheistic Catholics have a diabolical prerogative: to persecute the faithful believers fiercely.

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Of the Archbishop by Philadelphia we invite you to read the article «Charity, clarity, and their opposite» [article, HERE]

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We will see how this Synod will end, but above all we will see if, as in the previous one, what will be rejected by the Synodal Fathers will then end in the final document, if anything hidden, once again, in some ambiguous expression or footnote, which is equivalent to saying … “I am intelligent, you are stupids!”. But what counts is listening to everyone, giving the impression of being synodal, collegial and above all democratic, just like the Korean dictator Kim Jong, who first calls the puppet Parliament of North Korea, then does exactly what he wants.

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After this Synod, opened with the insertion of the LGBT quatripostatic dogma, not required by anyone in the Instrument of Work, in 2019 the Amazonic Synod, will also open, for to discuss the granting of the priesthood to married men. Attention, everything only … to experiment. Meanwhile, in the Diocese of Rome, even if the fact has not made any news, the general rehearsals are already underway: a few days ago he was appointed “parish priest” of a metropolitan parish — of course: to experiment — a permanent deacon, arrived in canonical with his wife and four children. And this family nucleus, from the official page of the Deacons of Rome, which is also a filial of the Neocatechumenal Movement, has been indicated as … «diaconal family» (!?) [CF. service: HERE]. Having said this, I would like to know: can the members of my family, who have a presbyter in their family, be called the “presbyteral family”? And my mother and my brother can be called “presbyteral mother” and “presbyteral brother”. Obviously extending the title to my “presbyteral sister-in-law” and to my “presbyteral nephew”? And perhaps we want to forget my cat, which would have the title of “presbyteral cat”? Needless to say that the speech would be really long, because those who do not know the story is condemned to repeat it in a pejorative form. It is worth remembering, even if briefly and rapidly, that the diaconate, now called permanent, fell into disuse as an autonomous order and became a step in the process of presbyteral ordination. In fact, in Rome, between the eighth and tenth centuries, the deacons had acquired a pre-eminent role. The deacons were at the head of the main churches and did not even want to be ordained presbyters, because then, from these prestigious churches, they became directly bishops. The permanent diaconate will thus be restored only after a thousand years, by the Second Vatican Council. And note that not all the dioceses of the world have ordained permanent deacons, who are absent, for example, in most African countries, in order not to generate confusion among Catholic populations; and especially where, for anthropological and cultural reasons, the rules relating to the chastity of celibacy by priests are not always applied. In the heart of Europe, in Poland, the first two permanent deacons were ordained only four decades after the Second Vatican Council, in 2009.

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Married priests have always existed in the Eastern Catholic clergy, but they could exercise their ministry only in the dioceses belonging to their rite; a rite regulated, among other things, also by the Code of Canon Law of the Eastern Churches. However, since great general tests are under way, many of these priests and their families have been received in various Italian dioceses, beginning with the Archdiocese of Perugia, whose archbishop is not a bishop among many, but the president of Episcopal Conference of Italy. Faced with this, I limit myself to asking: in the event of disputes involving a married priest, what right will be applied, the Latin or that of the Eastern Churches? Obviously I know well that the canon law has been replaced by pure free will, which then turns into authentic arrogance that comes to life from the lack of any rule, but the rhetorical question sounds good, and even if it is useless, I do the same. Regarding the possible incardination in the dioceses of the Latin rite, as may happen, the incardination of married priests of the Eastern rite, specifically Latinized, since they are useful for the general tests under way, which aim to please the Head and the circle of his most trusted advisors? All this could be explained by His Eminence Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, who is metropolitan archbishop of Perugia and president of the Italian bishops, and which houses two married priests in his diocese, to anticipate the decisions of the Synod of the Amazon, which we remember: the decisions have already been taken before the opening of the Synod [service HERE].

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Having said this, a question arises: for the region of the Amazon, an experiment is asked to consecrate priests married men, because there is lack of clergy. In Rome, instead, for to entrust a parish to a permanent deacon, what a dramatic lack of clergy there is? Because looking at the diocesan yearbook we find that the metropolitan parishes are 332. The Roman presbytery has 1,256 presbyteries, to which are added 2,929 presbyters of other dioceses residing in Rome. To these secular priests, 5,317 members of the regular clergy (the presbyters of the various religious orders) and 87 other priests belonging to various personal prelatures are added [Official Yearbook of the Diocese of Rome: HERE]. In Rome there are therefore a total of about 9,580 presbyters, among Roman presbyters, presbyters residing in the diocese and presbyters of various religious families. The Diocese of Rome has about 2,350,000 baptized. If we divide the number of Catholic faithful with the number we will have this result: one priest for every 250 faithful. And all this in a Rome with increasingly empty churches. It is also good to specify that the territory of the Diocese of Rome is limited only to the Capital of Italy, because out of the city, in the Municipality of Rome, arise the suffragan dioceses. Question: was it therefore necessary, as an exotic experiment, to entrust a parish to a permanent deacon in the Mother and Mother Church of all the Catholic Churches? Therefore we note that while the Synod of Youth is being celebrated, the general rehearsals for the Amazon, from which the married priests will have to go out, to experiment, are already underway, because everything has already been established. I repeat: only to experiment and after convening the Pontifical Parliament of North Korea, where presumably dissidents end up on the heads of missiles fired during military exercises. Things are worse in Rome than in North Korea, never in the history of the Church has mercy made so many victims! A new term has also been born, not easily translatable: “the misericordiati“. And this term “be merciful” rhymes with “executed“, the sentenceds to death.

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If Cardinal Gerhard L. Müller, in a recent long interview with Raymond Arroyo, has returned to various topics: on the speech of the evil friends who surround the Roman Pontiff, who were sought by him with the lantern of Diogenes; therefore on the argument that His Excellency Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò, did not say anything other than the truth [cf. HERE, HERE], this happened because the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is a true man of God. Add to what the Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, at the anthropological level, contains in himself the strength of the Teutonic barbarian, in the noblest sense of the term. In fact, we remember that when the barbarians descended from northern Europe while the Roman empire was in agony, they found the holders of power, drunk and made up by women, engaged in playing inside the alcoves with young men [cf. my previous article, HERE]. Or, in other words: the Romans, during the decadence of the Empire, lived a LBGT lifestyle that had long absorbed the S.P.Q.R. lifestyle, an acronym that once summarized the concept and foundation of The Roman Senate citizens and later SPQR [Senate of the Roman People]. The difference, as I have often emphasized, was that the barbarians, struck by the virile temperament of the great Fathers of the Church, in that climate of total decadence, they were converted, in mass, to Christianity. In today’s Rome, the new barbarians, from whom should they be conquered to Christianity? Perhaps by four homosexuals clinging like polyps to the throne, to which all in all they are very useful, being the most devoted ruffians, the most interested servants, the most efficient spies, as well as easily managed and manipulated by the sovereign, who knows, one after the other , all the rotten corpses that remain locked up in their graves? And their tombs are very different from those of the ancient Pharisees [cf. Mt 23, 27-32], because the tombs of the Pharisees were at least well painted on the outside.

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I am afraid that no one has analyzed the historical relationship that links the psychology of Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller to the history of his native country, which is Germany. Today the situation of the visible Church is comparable to the defeat of Germany in 1945, with Adolf Hitler locked up in the bunker of Berlin, along with the restricted court of his faithful, while faced with the defeat, the German army continued to fight, up to enlist teenagers of sixteen. To deceive the German people, word spread that the Great Secret Weapon would soon be completed and used. In the same way, today, the main propagandists of Pontifical Truth, not so much defend the indefensible — which can also be understandable and even justifiable on a human and psychological level — but show total insensitivity, while knowing all the details of the lives of many saints priests who have been totally marginalized and ruined, for not having accepted to become accomplices of a diabolical system of corruption, preferring to go to great suffering, without betraying the Church of Christ and coming to terms with evil. And this makes some Italian journalists of True Pontifical, unscrupulous men, real criminals deprived of basic Christian sentiments. So it is good to inform these people that the bridge over the river now overflows with patients spectators who await the passage of their bodies dragged by the current, when with an ease that would scandalize even the lowest level whores, after the next conclave, like chameleons they will change skin color. The is that instead they will not have to change color, they will have to change jobs, because in the face of every sigh, all the writings with which they have sustained the untenable and defended the indefensible, to the detriment of the truth and the innocent affected and injured, will be taken and thrown publicly on their faces. These journalists of Pontifical Truth have not even hesitated to falsify facts and news. They spread false news and concealed the truth to the detriment of the victims and the suffering of many holy priests. They “licked the ass” of the executioners, showing total indifference towards the victims affected and persecuted within the Church, of whom they knew very well the stories and the great sufferings. And all this, it is not simply inhumane, because it is really satanic. And the devil can never be allowed to enter through the window again, having thrown it out the door; and if by chance the Devil asks for forgiveness by pretending to be repentant, one must absolutely not believe him, because he is the Supreme Prince of Lies and deception.

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After Adolf Hitler’s death, Germany was hit by a wave of suicides; whole families committed suicide. The most common phrase that ran between the good Germans which we remember were many — was: «I’m ashamed to be German». I have already heard this kind of phrase in private from bishops and presbyters many times: «Faced with this situation, I am ashamed to belong to this Church», implying that this shame is entirely linked to the ecclesial and ecclesiastical structure of this visible Church, certainly not to the mystery of the Church, which is the mystical Body of Christ.

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As we know, from the Berlin bunker, we then moved on to the Nuremberg trial, where the main Nazi leaders were judged and condemned on the charred body of the Führer, but above all on the ruins of Germany. And many of the Nazi leaders were sentenced to death in that trial. Seventy-three years after the last great world war, the New Church of Mercy has removed the more remote and exceptional hypothesis of the death penalty from the Catechism. Therefore, if tomorrow something similar to the Nuremberg trial were to happen, we will be “merciful” to those responsible for the death of millions and millions of people, and we will entrust them to social services [cf. our previous articles: HERE, HERE, HERE].

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The Nuremberg trial is about to be repeated in the Church. Tomorrow, sooner or later, on the disastrous ruins of destruction, while bishops and priests will tell the world «I am ashamed to belong to this Church», we will see before the judges an army of cardinals and bishops who will try to justify themselves by saying: «I only obeyed higher orders!». While the journalists of the former Pontifical Truth, who can no longer recycle themselves, will say on their side: «We have only written what we have been ordered to write!». Then the judges will ask: «Your Excellency … Your Eminence … Monsignor … but you realize that your obedience to the higher orders has covered the perpetrators of serious crimes and has seriously affected the innocent, subjected to every kind of suffering and anguish?» At that point the answer will be: «But I was bound by the pontifical secret!».

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The death of Christ the Lord, in its substance, is renewed, and over time it is proposed in different ways. Not by chance, his glorious body, after the resurrection, still lives with the signs of passion. So today Christ died again on the cross because bishops and cardinals have «obeyed the higher orders», and when in the day of their judgment, God will ask them: «why did not you act in defense of the Church and of the People of God?». They will answer: «But I was bound by pontifical secrecy!».

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It’s just a matter of little time. We let this monster give the last dangerous and deadly blows, because soon we will be in the great hall of Nuremberg, to listen to those directly responsible for the Holocaust of the Catholic Church that they say: «I have only obeyed the higher orders!». And we, precisely because of profound and authentic mercy, will guarantee them the expiatory grace of the gallows. Because we who today are suffering, anguished and persecuted in our home, we are the salvation and the future of the Church of Christ, of the pilgrim Church on earth. And no one will ever prevent us from fulfilling our mission for Christ, with Christ and in Christ. Because the church is of Christ, it is not of Peter, who is the Vicar of Christ, not his Successor. And the power given to Peter is not at all total and absolute as some would have us believe, indeed: it is a very vincolated power. The power of Peter is strictly vincolated to the deposit of the Catholic faith, of Tradition and of doctrine. Peter is not the absolute master of the Church, on the contrary: he is his first and faithful servant, called to guard the truth and to confirm his brothers in faith [cf. Page 22, 31-34]. Peter’s mission, is not to convene the “democratic” Parliament of North Korea. Peter’s mission is not to confuse the People of God, using ambiguous and unclear words, because Christ teaches us: «But let your statement be, “Yes, yes” or “No, no”; anything beyond these is of Evil» [cf. Mt 5, 37].

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In the Holy Gospels, everything is very clear, no any “sly” has ever inserted ambiguous small footnotes. Having said this, it is still necessary to clarify: it is true, no priest, bishop or cardinal is obliged to be a hero. But for a priest, a bishop or a cardinal, it is certainly not a great human and Christian honor to be a rabbit who, opposite the judgment of history, replies: «I only obeyed the higher orders».

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Rome, 7 October 2018

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I understand the Communist China and its fear of Catholicism, however I do not understand why the agreement Phantom of the Holy See with the Beijing Government

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I UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNIST CHINA AND HIS FEAR TO CATHOLICISM, RATHER NOT UNDERSTAND THE REASONS OF THE PHANTOM OF THE HOLY SEE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF BEIJING

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Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So that, the political power that tried to strengthen itself using Christianity as an element of unity and unification, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived Empire Roman keeping inside traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. This is what frightens the Communist government of China, and they are right, on the political level, to be scared, then to act accordingly. It is the Holy See that maybe did not understand the reason for these fears..

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I have long wanted spender two words on the Chinese question, but I refrained from doing so because many experts are now self-elected than on the Catholic press, to follow along with the plethora of websites and blogs Catholics, give us valuable pearls of wisdom. Most commentators accredited they just published showgirls to their past by some officer of the Secretariat of State, thus giving continuity within the Catholic Church in what was the relationship between the official organ of the Communist Party, the newspaper Truth [in Italian Truth], and the Moscow Soviet. Moreover, in the Russian language, Truth It means Truth. And what makes you smile, like today makes you smile the name of the newspaper of the Italian bishops: Future. Because at this rate, the future of the pilgrim Church on earth, short unfortunately will not be among the most edifying.

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I have known over the years leading scholars, including several missionaries, who despite having studied the Chinese phenomenon for decades and having lived in that great country, when they named China were imbued with a kind of awe, as aware of its historical and social complexity and its ancient and glorious culture. Above all, since my formation for the priesthood, I have known and lived closely in Rome with several Chinese; and I can assure our readers that the "little" that lived by their lives I may have learned, I may have learned something more than velinari from the true Pontificia, to which some monsignorino of the Secretariat of State, who he has never set foot in China, passed some tissue papers to write that the Venerable Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, chinese ancient lineage, eighty-six years old and already the Hong Kong Archbishop, he is just an angry old man prejudiced against the atheist-communist government of that country. Word of velinari, all at the instigation of some curial, that perhaps has got to much better known both far deeper China, if anything, the sifting of the Secretariat of State of His Holiness cards.

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If a venerable man like Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, Instead of always all kinds of failure on the part of the Holy See to the Government of China, He says "They're giving the sheep to the wolves," and that this is an incredible betrayal ", and finally adding: "The signing of an agreement with the Beijing atheist regime undermines the credibility of the Pope» [Reuters, service WHO], someone, He wants to ask for the case at least of the questions? The problem is that the Church of the surface, dell'approssimativo, but most of the emotional, dialogue over everything cost even destroy everything, He has long ceased to listen to the experts; and after having been more or less settled amicably, decided to go ... Follow your little heart Subjective beating.

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We smile so tenderly both on velinari from sacred palace is on those who improvise experts of this ancient and giant complex, This is China, speaking of which humility has always been the prince instrument used by his real and great scholars, that if anything, at the tender age of eighty, after half a century of studies dedicated to it, with typical candor of connoisseurs tell you: "After half a century of in-depth studies, I learned something China, its history and its ancient culture but ..., of course: just something!».

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A LITTLE COFFEE HISTORY THE GREAT CHINA

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Rome, 2010 – Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo with a Chinese confrere

The first written historical records of China have ancient roots in the Shang Dynasty dating back to the years 1.800-1100 a.C. While the Zhou Dynasty, which will occupy the scene for more than twelve centuries of history, between the year 1.500 and year 250 circa a.C. date back to the first writing characters imprinted on oracle bone, pieces of bone or shells of animals on which were engraved the paintings and inscriptions in its present form evolved match Chinese writing characters in use today. To this we might add that, a technical and architectural level, in greater China were the works that is accurate in both size, but in many ways even in perfection and beauty, outweigh the great works of the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans. Just think of the Great Wall of China, whose construction begins in the fifth century B.C.. Moreover, In the 2009 the archeology department of the Chinese government made it known that the Great Wall was not long, as believed, 8.800 kilometres, ma 21.196,18 kilometres. In any case always known that China has built the largest architectural and engineering feat in the history of all humanity. E, said this, who wants to hear …

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The West today is the product of the little that remains of the greek-Roman culture, to follow with Christian culture. The bases on which will develop over the centuries, the law and politics have their fundamental basis in the philosophy of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle; and as a historical era, We are between the fourth and third centuries B.C.. China begins instead to have a philosophical development from the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.. through Confucianism, Moism and so-called legalism, thoughts from which will come to life and a legal structure entirely different policy, compared to that of the West.

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The right cineif it is old 4.000 year old and since ancient times used to encode its own laws written. For the Chinese culture, the law, It is an absolute rule and a rigid pattern of behavior. As for the law and its application, it should first be given that Chinese law has certainly not assimilated what are the principles of Christianity then transfused in post-Constantinian era in Roman law, where it takes shape the concept of punishment still targeted to the recovery of the convicted offender. As today some things are difficult to understand when analyzed with contemporary analysis criteria, through the same penalty of death was given the opportunity to condemned to expiate the guilt of his crime, then to return to a state of purity through a death penalty that was precisely espiativa, applied not for punitive Revenge, but as an act of mercy aimed at the preservation of the soul's eternal salvation of the condemned.

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In Chinese legal culture, certain concepts are alien: the sentence, whatever it is, action is purely punitive and definitely imposed for a crime committed. Only in Maoist era to life, for purely socio-political reasons, element in itself alien to Chinese culture, for example, the public repudiation of the errors and re-education. But this is items that have nothing in common with the Roman-Christian law, but with Marxism modulated for use by the Chinese regime during the Maoist revolution.

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That alone could be enough to outline two cultures that are born, They take shape and develop through the centuries on the foundations quite different; but above all who speak two completely different languages, thereby generating a different feel and a different experience.

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The western-European, It is a decadent society sick of hatred towards themselves and towards their origins. And those of Europe - with all due respect for the large representation of gays and lesbians who clamoring in the Strasbourg Parliament - are eminently Christian origins, non origins LGBT. It is not by chance, the idea of ​​Europe, and its name, It born within the monastic, from the eighth century, after the fall of Roman Empire.

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If Europe is an old continent less and less identity taken to fight with the very negation of their roots, that Chinese is rather a society that lives an ascent marked by a continuous development, but above all is a company deeply rooted in their ancient and noble origins. After saying this is suddenly the first question: a Catholic church daughter dying of a Europe that denies itself, afflicted internally by a moral crisis without historical precedent, with powerful gay and lesbian lobby through the total subversion of natural law claiming the right "sacred" to the destruction of our civilization; a Europe which for half a century has been weakened by a crisis of the internal principle of authority from which he then came to life the destruction of authority itself ... how can, This kind of Europe, think you can talk to and deal with a culture like China? Or someone can imagine a big Gay Pride in Beijing, with the usual masked pranksters, if anything, from Xi Jinping, severe President of the People's Republic of China, depicted in the form of a pink bunny covered with pajettes? Or need to explain that the case for such a thing, in China, He was sentenced to death within a maximum of forty-eight hours after being beaten up in a public square? In China the government considers homosexuality "a clear sign of “Western bourgeois decadence ". Add to this that the Government of China, requiring parents to be able to adopt a Chinese baby, It imposes to be united in strictly heterosexual marriage and prohibits the granting adoption of children to couples LGBT. The PRC law defines marriage as a union only between a man and a woman and does not recognize any legitimacy to homosexual couples [III Session of the Fifth National People's Congress, 10 September 1980]. Very restrictive even legislation on sex change, which by law can not take place before and after twenty accurate medical reports attesting to the absolute necessity. Very rare in China so are the sex change, by surgical interventions and related hormonal treatment. Said this, someone thinks they can tell the Government of China: … who are you, to judge gay and prevent them from realizing the right to their love, and to crown with the adoption of a child, or with his purchase by a surrogate mother?

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The Orientals in general, Chinese in particular, they do not even conceive that authority and the principle of authority can be separated from the authority of the person who exercises the authority. And here lies the second question: i Merlin of the Secretariat of State of His Holiness, with all due respect to showgirls published by the journalists of true Pontificia, just as the ecclesiastical structure is experiencing its deepest crisis at the global level authority, how they plan to deal with those on the authority principle is based rather any kind of social relationship, political and economic?

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The Chinese system shape and raises its summits of champions almost always trained from childhood in a very meticulous and strict, to be able to play certain roles. And the exercise of certain roles, in Chinese culture not the good-natured principle that applies err it is human, but rather the opposite: in a certain role it is impossible to go wrong, especially when a mistake compromise - even if that happens so mild - the image of the authority and the honor of their country. This is to reiterate that talking about the rising China whose socio-philosophical system is the Confucian roots, so decadent Europe whose socio-philosophical approach, albeit from the same despised and denied, It is greek-Roman and Christian roots, we we compare two worlds and two totally antithetical companies, especially with regard to the concept of man, society, and rights. A single example: in European culture, not only Christian, but also in the lay of which is affected by the Christian root that also denies, pardon and clemency are in fact signs of civil superiority; testing is something that almost all the constitutional and legal systems is expected to act of pardon by the Head of State to also convicted of serious crimes against the state itself. Otherwise, the social culture and Chinese politics, forgiveness and mercy can be a sign of weakness that svigorirebbe unheard of in certain special situations the authority and credibility of the entire social system, political and legal, especially for those who are considered crimes against the People and the State. E, said this, does not lead astray the way between the fifties and the seventies of the twentieth century was modulated by the regime of Mao Zedong's public repudiation of errors against the People and the State, so the re-education of those we call "repent". All this was in fact the sole purpose of converting them into more active propagandists of the Communist Regime, reborn from error and so become witnesses of the truth. A striking example in this regard? That last emperor of China Pu Yi, interned in 1950 in a re-education institute for war criminals, from which he was released from prison in 1959. Once re-educated and become faithful and respectful to the Communist Regime, he worked as an officer in the collection and classification of historical material and as a gardener Beijing botanical garden, until his death in 1967 [cf. Pu Yi, I was Emperor, by Francesco Saba Sardi. Milan, Ed. Italian Bompiani, 1987].

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Let's turn to another example exhaustive: think of what was the 28 august of 2008 the inauguration of the Olympics in Beijing. The whole world was stunned by those sets and the synchronized movements of thousands of extras who gave evidence of what is the kind of perfection that does not admit mistakes. But most of all, behind those unique settings and up to now unique to any other people in the world, It is enclosed in a socio-cultural element that is another foundation of that culture: the concepts of people, state and nation are above the individual. In European society is rather the individual above all, while that of China, above all, there is the concept and identity of the people. And here lies the fourth question: reduced the Catholic Church to an old mare who gives birth to little mice, within which quality and talent are penalized with destructive ferocity, where the mediocre people who have come to power for thirty years now impose categories of authentic under-mediocre as their collaborators and then successors - all on the basis of the principle that chickens scratching around in the hen house certainly cannot surround themselves with golden eagles -, how you can think of to deal with the subjects that have been selected, grew up and trained to be rather true champions of high talent? When the Chinese are put into play, but especially, When any title is at stake is the dignity and honor of their country, only they need to excel and rigor; and they always manage to excel in everything, children how to have a culture that never, and in particular in certain positions and roles, no room for error, and least of all forms of mediocrity.

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An example for even better clarify: Once a Chinese priest of the underground Church come from a few days in Rome, after I had tried to speak to him in English greeting, then in French, while I was wondering inside of me which language he spoke in addition to the Chinese, these turned me so: «Venerabilis Frater, Grace and peace be with you. Ego sum sacèrdos Sìnicus. I do not speak Italian language. Tamen, Senex EPISCOPUS sinicus, He speaks Latin language, He taught me Latin» [Venerable Brother, Grace and peace to you. I am a Chinese priest. I do not speak Italian. But, the elderly Chinese bishops who speak the Latin language, I was taught to speak Latin]. That said I do not want to be disrespectful, but I'd be tempted to invite anyone to enter the classroom of the Italian Episcopal Conference, then to turn in Latin to some’ in the case of bishops, especially those of the last generation who pose as intellectuals sopraffini, and then see what happens, but above all to ascertain what they understand …

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Having clarified the concept of non-wandering which applies to certain social and institutional levels in Chinese culture, Finally we can add one more question, aimed at both Merlin Secretary of State of His Holiness both velinari publishing amenities, namely, the following: the Secretary of State of His Holiness, in which they teem with the foolish people who go unpunished if they make mistakes in their seats, or worse, if they make mistakes never admit their error, especially if their hierarchical level is especially high, it cost well punish the innocent in order to defend the perpetrators of serious damage ... Well, how can they think that we can deal with people in certain public and institutional levels do not admit error, up to consider it an unforgivable damage and a huge disgrace, Chinese place in the socio-political culture does not prevail the defense of the individual, but the maximum protection of honor unitary institutional body?

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In the current historic moment, the Church has neither the strength nor the diplomats appropriate to liaise with the Government of China, to converse with whom it would take to ecclesiastical figures in first able to hit them with their great authority and especially with their great authority. And we today, while we wander from one another grotesque scandal, similar characters, where we plan to take them out?

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PUBLIC IMAGE, CONCEPT OF FORM AND SUBSTANCE IN CHINESE CULTURE

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… this is a government of Cape minister of the Catholic Church – because that on the political level is considered a cardinal by any international governmental authority – committed to illustrate the washing machine and a clothes dryer to the Roman Pontiff, all under the watchful shooting of a cameraman, a clear proof, if anything you need it, this skit knew nothing at all to leave the private sphere, but make their own public …

Since we live in the world of images, then we try to give two completely different images, although today many, too many, do not want to accept the idea that the form, in his own way, contributes to making the substance, or at least put it in the right light. deliberately failing to indicate the person and also the year, so even through the date it goes back to the character, I remember, Years ago, an in-depth documentary in which he was shooting a plenary meeting at the United Nations. With dismay I noticed the representative of the Holy See, that at the UN building has a seat as permanent observer. The representative of the Holy See was dressed with a sloppy clergyman that betrayed the shiny torn by television, with ill-combed hair, Visible white dandruff on the shoulders of the shots in the foreground, and an air somewhat clumsy. Shortly after he was framed - I do not know whether by accident or on purpose - the representative of the People's Republic of China, accompanied by two employees. All three with a bearing authentic princes of their oldest historical dynasties, haute couture clothing, comb your hair, shaved and pulled a shiny better and perhaps more than three actors in Hollywood during the big Oscar night. Before the Chinese, for which the form and substance are inseparable and that not even conceive that in the absence of an appropriate form can be any substance, what impression could do, the sloppy person who represented the Holy See at 'O.N.U? Then, We are having said that we point out that at the material time have just narrated, all in all not do badly spent ancòra like today, I think it said everything, or at least he said he was all you had to say. Species considering today, a Chinese delegation he came with his official style in Vatican City, entering or exiting the Leonine walls could cross the Cardinal barista that comes with terms, a plastic bag, his sleeves pulled above the elbows, to bring the evening coffee to the homeless under Bernini's Colonnade.

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… This is instead a Minister of the Government of the Republic of China, S. AND. Wang Yi, charge of the department of foreign affairs from 2013 al 2018, Today the Council of State, apparently descended from the dynasty of the last Emperor of China. Please note whether in an official public occasion, between “a washing machine and a drying room”, It has a single hair out of place …

Without respect for the figure and age, the journalists of the true Pontificia they instilled poison on Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, who in addition to being Chinese, after being Archbishop of Hong Kong, eighty-six years it presumes know China more than certain velinari it's theirs owner-operators. Yet veiled criticism of him we read that they portrayed as a stubborn senile. No one has focused this cardinal who declares himself an enemy of an atheist government, by members of the Communist government is recognized as a genuine authority. Because this is another feature of Chinese social psychology: recognize the profound value of the enemy. And Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun is a respected and deeply honored enemy of that atheist-communist government with which he, uselessly, It reiterated that the Holy See did not treat, or that at least he shouldn't have negotiated hastily and at all costs, because those of the great China are always very slow tempos praxis.

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THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS ALL THE HISTORICAL REASONS TO FEAR THE CATHOLICISM

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Rome 2009 – Ricordi fraierai …

We come to the heart of the problem: we who presume to trattar with the Chinese and to draw up agreements with them, we know neither the Chinese culture nor China, while the Chinese senior government leaders, selected since childhood, grew up and trained to become the golden eagle, no chickens, instead we know; with us familiar Christianity, more than you can imagine.

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First of all, in Catholicism, unlike various other Christian communities belonging to Protestant Movement, which we know is not a unitary phenomenon, the same goes for Islam, the Chinese Communist government sees a force that is dependent on a foreign power; What this unacceptable for a socio-cultural and political system like China. It is from this fear, Now let's try to analyze and understand the fundamental fear that China's government has Christianity, but especially of Catholicism, because if we want to make a serious and impartial analysis, we must admit that it is a fear completely understandable and above all historically established. In history, Christianity, It has created a unifying effect it has produced but later devastates, in many cases absorbent. most striking case of the story is the fall of the Roman Empire. In the dying empire, since the time of Constantine, Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So that, the political power that tried to strengthen itself using Christianity as an element of unity and unification, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived the empire maintaining in-house traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. If we want to go from antiquity to modernity, take for example the case of Poland of years early seventies of the twentieth century, in which the Christianity, at the level of aggregation, It constituted not only a front against the communist regime, but through Domino effect It originated its subsequent crumbling in all countries of the former Soviet bloc.

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When we are speaking of Catholicism in China, They are mentioned immediately, alone and almost always the Jesuits, who came there to the middle of the sixteenth century. Unfortunately, however, a gross historical error, because the first to bring the Gospel in China were around 1246 the Franciscan Friars, two and a half centuries before the birth of the Society of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. So that, when after the 1260 The Polo Brothers came as merchants and were finally received at court by the Great Khan, who was in Beijing today, they heard the sovereign asked for "news of the Roman Pontiff and the conditions of the Roman Church and the customs of the Latins". Figure factor was a few decades after that of the Franciscan Giovanni da Montercorvino, who managed to win the trust of the Great Khan, and to start a genuine evangelization. Thus the Pope Clement V replied to requests for Brother John, who asked to organize the ecclesiastical districts, China sending another group of Franciscan Friars, along with seven bishops. The group of bishops and religious arrived in China around 1310, After several years of traveling. The bishops had received orders from the Pope to proceed to the episcopal ordination of Brother John, who was the first bishop consecrated in China and the first Archbishop of Beijing [cf. AA.VV. The Franciscans in China. 800 years of history. Ed. Porziuncola, 2001, an extract is available WHO]. Well ... with all due respect the blessed memory of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci [Macerata 1552 - Beijing 1610], Jesuits came over two centuries and a half later. And wanting - always to be historically honest - we can say that they came not least also do damage, besides the doubtless well they work. And passing with a jump of centuries to modernity, we can not omit to mention that the main development of Catholicism in China between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, yes it is also due to the Jesuits, but it is noted that the Jesuit missionaries arrived in the wake of the French and all of them, for greater, They were of French nationality. France, in China, She had indeed many consulates for mainly economic reasons; and the communities and activities of the French Jesuits arose around these consulates. Being able to then arrange for its activities of considerable economic resources, In the 1903 They opened the Aurora University, in present-day Shanghai, which he ceased to be a Catholic university in 1953. Later it was opened in 1905 Fudan University and 1926 the prestigious Fu Jen University in Beijing, now based in Taiwan. The purpose of these institutions, especially Peking University, was to train the future ruling classes of China, all in periods in which the Jesuits ancòra did not show any symptoms of wanting "a poor Church for the poor".

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Previously the Jesuits, by Franciscan missionaries and Dominicans they had been accused of laxity, of the power and prestige Search, but above all to encourage idolatry and the so-called Worship of the Ancestors. The Jesuits tried to justify himself by replicating it for them, bids placed before the Tablets Ancestors, they had no religious ritual significance. Not at all persuaded by their justifications, In the 1645 the Pope Innocent X - to say the least unconscious with those who had to do and then what would have produced - these customs condemned as incompatible with Christianity. The Emperor is outraged by such imperious interference in Chinese affairs, as well as to life the "dispute over rites".

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In 1704 the Pope Clement XI he made matters worse by issuing a decree condemning the practice of Confucian rites and the Worship of the Ancestors, sending a legate watched over him so that application. The emperor, already perplexed by the struggles and rivalries between members of various religious orders present on its territory, He felt deeply offended by papal decree and the manner in which the supervision of its implementation had been established, all followed a decade later by the Bull Ex illa The the 1715 in which the missionaries imposed the renunciation oath to the dissemination and practice of certain superstitious rites. The Emperor replied through their ambassadors: "What would the Pope of Rome, if the Emperor of China were allowed to judge and to reform the ceremonies of the Apostolic See?». And in 1717 Empire forbade Christian proselytizing and preaching the Gospel. Simply said,: If on the one hand, among the members of the Society of Jesus missionaries in China, there was a caste of Jesuits who acted like mandarins and also public that covered political and administrative roles, on the other there were the Dominican missionaries, suffering on the other hand by not less severe myopia, indeed perhaps even worse, They thought they could unleash theological disputes and to launch accusations of heresy, just as if they were in some so-called Catholic country of her time. E, very soon, the serious damage was, producing effects not easily repaired until today …

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Having said that we must clarify, always for the historical and political duty, who was following the work of the joints below the French Jesuits, which began to form the idea that Catholicism was the long hand of a foreign power. It must also be remembered that the first to accuse the foreign priests, and in particular precisely the Jesuits, were Chinese priests, not least for the fact that several times, the missionaries of the Society of Jesus who ran numerous apostolic vicariates, They did filibuster in Rome for the appointment of local bishops, then for the canonical erection of dioceses, stating that it was not suitable subjects, while the truth was that they did not want to lose their jurisdiction over these vicariates, as it would have happened if it had been erected a diocese and appointed a bishop, and particularly if the bishop had been a priest of the place. Needless to say, similar situations, in the same years, or a few decades later, always by the Jesuits, They came to life in the territories of evangelization of the Latin American Continent, with as many missionaries Dominicans and Franciscans to an opposite pole of the earth, but at the same identical manner, they accused the Jesuits of mixing the old local rites with Christianity, the so-called religious syncretism.

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When exploded the Great Cultural Revolution which then he brought to power Mao Zedong, the reason to proceed, the best scenarios, the expulsion of all foreign missionaries from China, It was already so beautiful and packed for about two or three centuries: missionaries and foreign priests were the emissaries and servants of bourgeois power, capitalist and imperialist of the West. A quel point, missionaries who had the better, They fled to Hong Kong and the Philippines, others, including especially those who did not intend to abandon the faithful without priests and pastoral and sacramental care, instead they ended up in prisons, where in the space of a few meters they were crammed numerous people, so much so that to be able to get some sleep 'at night it had to take turns and unwind a bit' each. The suffering of these missionaries were terrible, Why, What we know, none of them agreed to be subjected to re-education programs to become faithful devotees of the Maoist Regime. Programs that were accepted instead of several Chinese priests, jailed on charges of having served foreign powers. In this regard it should be noted, however, that the acceptance of rehabilitation programs loyalty towards the regime, Chinese priests were induced not by the desire to save themselves and their lives, but that of their family. Indeed, the members of the secular and regular clergy who were missionaries in China during the upheaval of the Great Cultural Revolution, their families had them in the various countries of the West, while imprisoned Chinese priests, before being killed, they would have had to witness the murder of their parents, siblings, sisters and grandchildren, then would have been finally executed their.

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Under the government of Mao Zedong, It is approved in 1954 the new Constitution of the People's Republic of China where the Communist Party control is established on any kind of organized activity. Anticipating what this would entail, Pope Pius XII issued shortly after the encyclical Nations to China, condemning the creation of a Catholic Church split from Rome. Incidentally: the text of this encyclical, which is an authentic pastoral masterpiece and at the same time of diplomacy, should read, but just read it on your knees, is today velinari from the true Pontificia, both their owner-operators Secretary of State who instruct them in the publication of their pearls of wisdom [see the text of the encyclical, WHO] …

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… the answer was that the following year, one of the largest dioceses in the country, to Shanghai, governed by Archbishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, It was quickly devastated. At the end of 1954 foreign missionaries still in the area, including two bishops, were just sixteen, between them fourteen in prison. In 1957 the last Catholic religious institutions were closed e created by the Communist Regime the church detached from Rome Patriotic totally subservient to the State. Paradigm of this persecution was the tragic fate inflicted on monks of the Carthusian monastery of Our Lady of Consolation, in the district of Beijing, located about 180 kilometers from the capital. The charterhouse was attacked several times by communist gangs in the 1940s and finally set on fire in 1957. The monks were captured, bound hands and feet with wire and forced to make forced marches under winter temperatures. Most of them lost their lives during these forced journeys, while the few survivors, after being subjected to the great farce of so-called Popular Maoists processes, put to death for refusing to recant and be subjected to re-education processes [cf. James T. Myers, Enemies no shotgun – The Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, cit. pp. 31 e ss. readable text WHO].

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It should also be noted that globally, a Catholic Patriotic Church, He came to life only in China; in various other parts of the world, different regimes, They have attempted to carry out similar operations, but without ever succeeding. Because what were permitted in China? This has been possible because of the strong aversion that the Chinese have a socio-cultural level towards foreigners. This does not mean that China is not hospitable, quite the opposite! The Chinese have a very deep sense of hospitality and the welcome of the stranger, and it is also well disposed and happy, to collaborate with foreigners, provided that deeply respects the ancient and noble Chinese culture and dare not groped to insert elements within his society as completely unrelated. Obviously, this created huge problems at once as for evangelization. But some say, more or less triumphant tones, that "to be successful only were the Jesuits'. Always be honest we must reply that if successful the Jesuits, It means the religious syncretism, or Confucian philosophy mixed with the Christian philosophy and vice versa, then, then we are talking about the biggest failure in which it can fall any missionary work of evangelization, always with due respect of the blessed memory of Matteo Ricci.

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CHINESE COMMUNISM NOT ANALYZE WITH THE WESTERN CRITERIA

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Rome, 2009 – fraierai Ricordi …

Communist China can not be understood if we apply to Chinese Communism Western categories. A fundamental element must therefore be clarified: Communism China has something to himself, Communism Chinesized being a part of a culture that is born of greek-Roman-Christian roots but from Confucian roots. That Soviet and the Chinese have a common basis only red communist flags. An example exhaustive: the Catholic Church was severely persecuted in the Soviet Union, always based on the principle that it was owned by a foreign power. Less he was persecuted the Orthodox Church of Russia, albeit also subjected to persecution and restrictions. That said just remember - always to trace the difference which exists between these two different communism -, that shortly after the fall of the Soviet regime was found that, almost all Communist Party members, from those of higher rank, they were baptized, they had their children baptized and had celebrated the religious wedding in secret. And for the baptism of their children, senior Soviet leaders they had not even settled for a Pope, they had been baptized by some Metropolitan, if not directly, at the very highest levels, personally by His Beatitude the Patriarch of Moscow.

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Said this, I think there is more to with regard to the substantial difference that exists between a Communist regime born of the Great October Revolution in Russia Cristiana, and the Communist regime born of the Great Cultural Revolution in the ancient and noble Confucian China.

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In China Communism, although today completely transformed, It stands firm as a system of government; and paradoxical as it may seem, especially if he said by me, we should also auspicarci that this government can stand the system as long as possible, transforming itself in a very slow and gradual. Simple the reason for this hope: in China there are hundreds of different ethnic groups who harbor ancestral forms of hatred towards each other. The Communist regime is a deterrent and especially brake on the struggles of fierce blast and internal wars. A comparison level we could use the former Yugoslavia, in which were present different ethnicities animated by fierce hatred toward each other, but kept at bay by Josif Broz regime, said Marshal Tito. We then saw what happened in the brutal heart of Europe, at sunset of this regime; the tuna fishing in those years were consumed, They were so violent that the international press reported and described the facts, but he avoided to publish photographs depicting deaths in the most violent. Perhaps someone can imagine, or worse to hope, if anything in the name of Western principles of democracy - as if the fetish of decadent Western democracy were always applicable everywhere and to all cultures -, a Yugoslavia case multiplied to the power of a thousand?

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FROM A “GHOST AGREEMENT” TO THE PROBLEM OF THE MARTYRS AND PERSECUTED

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a painting sent to Rome from Beijing by a Chinese priest Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo the day of his priestly ordination

Unlike velinari from the Truth pontifical and sapients raging from the printed paper to the telematic network, I have no answers to give, but only to ask questions. We start from the first: at a time when the Communist government of China has tightened restrictions against Catholics, up to prevent access to the churches to underage [cf. service WHO], and in a time when the Catholic Church, a planetary level, pour in a state of decay and profound crisis of credibility, as we have been able to reach an agreement? Also because until now, This "ghost Agreement", apart from comments and subsequent warranty speeches, But they do not know the contents, they just follow the vague news papers. How then to blame Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun who complains: "The press, long awaited, the Holy See is a creative masterpiece in so many words to say anything "? [cf. service, WHO]. We do not know in fact what do you think the Chinese government of this agreement, nor do we know what do you think the so-called Patriotic Church, let alone what do you think the underground Church has always been loyal to Rome at the price of blood.

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All we know at the moment It is that there was an agreement with the Government of China for which you do not know the contents. In practice, as if in 1929, to end Roman question, They had been signed the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the then Kingdom of Italy, no but no one knew the contents of those pacts, the manner of their application and then all the commitments and the possible consequences for the two parties that had signed them. But most of all: how many were the bishops of the Patriotic Church legitimized after this agreement? How many have been excluded from the legitimacy instead, for example, for serious reasons, from those bishops who have lovers and children? Or maybe, not to irritate the Communist Regime, They will also be entitled them, Myer before other? And those who were excluded from the case legitimation, it will be because, but especially for those who desire to? How it will work, after this "ghost Agreement" the mechanism of appointment of bishops? Does anyone really think that the Government of China, after this "ghost Agreement", will grant freedom to bishops for the exercise of their sacred ministry and equal freedom to the faithful? For case, after this "historic agreement" of "epochal", as we have defined certain velinari from the Pradva Pontifical, It was accidentally revoked by the Government denial of access in the churches to underage, complete with a prohibition and conduct any pastoral work with young people? But most of all: It never happened, in the two thousand year history of the Church, somebody to make arrangements with the persecutors and the persecuted were in progress? It is by chance someone that Pope Marcellinus [296-304], when the Emperor Diocletian unleashed the last great persecution of Christians, He ran to agree with him? Things did not go in this direction, according to the chronicles that narrate the martyrdom Marcellino, occurred on 25 October of the year 304, by beheading, executed on the orders of Emperor Diocletian. His successor, The Pope Marcellus I, He had to address the issue of so-called child, those who during the persecution disowned the faith in Christ and asked to be readmitted to the Church. Marcello's claims for their admission of repentance path, But not everyone accepted, to the point that it was he, in the end, to be condemned to exile, as we learn from the inscription written by Pope Damasus I in his tomb:

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"True Shepherd, because he appeared to the child the requirement that they had to expiate their denial with tears of penitence, It was considered by those miserable as a terrible enemy. Hence the fury, hatred, The discord, sedition and death. Because of the murder of one that even during peace denied Christ, He was deported Marcello, victim of the cruelty of a tyrant ".

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I am not a velinaro let alone a spin doctors, so I have no answers to give, because in lavish answers and explanations of what you do not know, may provide only velinari from the Truth pontifical; but responses based on the fact nothing. God forbid that someone, just to ask a tin medal on the chest in the decadent Rome, has played clumsily with the persecuted faithful and with the bishops who have spent a large part of their lives in prison or forced labor; because they are the martyrs to whom you can say four words of circumstance, while they, for a lifetime, they paid their loyalty to Rome and the Papacy.

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However if we see now on the basis of an agreement made ghost that we do not know the contents, We will try to get out of this mess by saying: what matters is only the unity. But without explaining what this unit very subjective and very little corresponding to the principles of unity contained in the Holy Gospel resulted in price to pay, It considered that the goods purchased is not clear, and it is unknown the price paid for it, but above all to be paid in the near future. God forbid that the price paid for a tin medal has been paid on the skin of the martyrs and the persecuted Catholics in China, to which inter alia, if you do not take seriously irritate the susceptibility of the Communist government and an atheist, you can not even turn to them as "martyrs" and "persecuted", precisely because it would be grossly offensive to the persecutors with whom you made an agreement and persecution are increasingly being.

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the modern era, the Holy See has signed more agreements of understanding and mutual recognition with countries of culture not only, not catholic, but their non-Christian culture. Just go and see how many countries with the Holy See has diplomatic relations. From year 2007 the Holy See has diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates. The Holy See has diplomatic relations with Turkey, Country where he was apostolic nuncio to the future John XXIII; with Iran, l’Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, the Libya, Algeria. The Holy See has diplomatic relations even with Turkmenistan, where they reside just five hundred Catholic. Well, we who are not subtle minds and high diplomacy specialists as it they are the best elements of the Secretary of State of His Holiness, we wonder: place that the Holy See has diplomatic relations even with countries which have imposed as the state law Sharija and where proselytizing by other religions is prohibited and prosecuted by law, how can you talk, but above all to establish agreements of any kind if they are, the first step, is not that of mutual recognition? Because all countries cited earlier, recognize the Holy See as head of the world's Catholic Community, enough to have established diplomatic relations with it.

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In short: I can talk, I did something which has often, with people not only non-Catholic, but with non-Christians, nor related in any way to any Christian cultural roots, as long as, these my interlocutors, first of all recognize the right to my life.

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That being said I wonder and then ask therefore: how can you talk and establish agreements with those upstream does not recognize the right of your existence, or that the limit, acknowledging your existence, It considered a danger to keep the more and how much better under control? Because it is with this kind of people that the Holy See, theme, It has established a "ghost Agreement". But I am sure that velinari from the true Pontificia They will not hesitate to even clarify this no small dilemma, let's give him time only to receive tissue the hallowed halls, and we will have some enlightening pearls of wisdom, it cost well go beyond the boundaries of reality, but especially over the blood shed by the martyrs and persecuted, place in China, the persecution of Catholics faithful to Rome, They are far from finished. And do not even let us ask ourselves the dilemma, entirely rhetorical, rather than, Rome, these persecuted martyrs has proved authentic and faithful mother ...

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In the final footnote I will explain why I cherish deep respect for the Communist government of China, while instead I have no respect for certain Madame populating and devastate the Holy See, those, to be understood, that the velinari from the true Pontificia do not see, as they are insensitive to the persecution of the Church and clergy who really suffer. Well, the Communists of China, not only have an ancient and noble dignity, but they also ennoble the persecuted and the martyrs. So for me it would be a real honor, being persecuted as a priest for the persecutors so highly honorable and noble, end up in their nation's prisons or worse ancòra; and between the two sides, even in ferocity, there would be a mutual respect between persecutor and persecuted. What respect I should rather feed, for those two or three monsignorini fennel protected by some Cardinal sodomite, that feeling before me discovered, They haunt you for life with a real ferocity menstrual hysteria? I hope that some velinaro from the true Pontificia refer all friends of the Secretariat of State - even though I always read carefully - and especially the August of the Tenant Martha House Sancthae, whose sensitivity and high sense of justice, everything seems to run out with the ice creams sent as a gift to the poor and migrants of Rome, including alleged refugees, however, fled on the spot just come to the reception center of the Italian Episcopal Conference in Rocca di Papa [cf. chronicle, WHO, WHO, WHO]. The whole, obviously, complete with ample photographic and journalistic, so that makes a noise charity and news, as well as political provocation against the current Government of the Italian Republic [cf. chronicle, WHO].

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Which holy envy try for the Chinese persecuted because faithful to the Church of Rome, while i, leaving home to go to do shopping, risk of finding myself with a twelve or thirteen brat that seeing a black cassock you go screaming behind two blasphemies against the Virgin Mary! In Beijing provinces do not scream behind you, if anything will stop at two in the morning while sneaking celebrated Mass for a group of faithful. And this is much more dignified, and for those who stop for both arrested. Even so, China is a great power, while Europe, who is now the mother of all is permissible and granted beyond good and evil, it is just a poor continent to total political defeat, social, cultural, moral and religious [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO etc ..].

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God bless Great China and its noble People !

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Letter of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: "I know whom I have believed"

LETTER OF ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ: 'IN SO WHO HAVE BELIEVED "

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Born il Papa, nor any of the cardinals in Rome have denied the facts I have stated in my testimony. The said Who is silent consents it definitely applies in this case, because if they would deny my testimony, They do not have, and provide documents in support of their denial. As it is not possible to conclude that the reason they do not provide the documents because they know that the documents confirm my testimony?

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I know whom I have believed – I know in Whom I have believed [2 Tim. 1, 12]

At the beginning of my writing I would first like to thank and give glory to God the Father for each situation and evidence that has provided and that it will have for me throughout my life. As every baptized, as priest and bishop of the Holy Church, Bride of Christ, They are called to testify to the truth. For the gift of the Spirit who supports me with joy in the street who are called to follow, I intend to make it to the end of my days. Our only Lord also came to me the invitation: "Follow me!», and I intend to follow it with the help of his grace until the end of my days.

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"As long as I live, I sing unto the Lord,

while I have, I will sing praises to God.

To Him be liked my singing;

In Him is my joy ".

[Shall. 103, 33-34]

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It's now been a month since I made my testimony, solely for the good of the Church, of what happened in the audience with Pope Francis 23 June 2013 and about certain issues that I was given to know the assignments that were entrusted to me in the Secretariat of State in Washington, with regard to those who were responsible for covering up the crimes committed by the former Archbishop of the Capital.

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The decision to disclose those facts was for me the most painful and severe that I ever made in my entire life. I took after long reflection and prayer, During months of deep suffering and distress, in a crescendo of continuing reports of horrific events, with thousands of innocent victims destroyed, of vocations and young priestly and religious lives disrupted. The silence of the shepherds that they could remedy, and prevent new victims, He became increasingly untenable, a devastating crime for the Church. Well aware of the enormous consequences that my testimony could have, because what was involved to reveal the successor of Peter, nevertheless I chose to speak to protect the church and declare with a clear conscience before God that my testimony is true. Christ died for the Church, and Peter, Servant of the servants of God, He is the first called to serve the bride of Christ.

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Of course, some of the facts I was going to reveal They were covered by secret Papal I promised to observe and I have faithfully observed since the beginning of my service to the Holy See. But the purpose of the secret, even the papal, It is to protect the Church from its enemies, no cover and become accomplices of crimes committed by some of its members. I had been witness, not by choice, the shocking facts, as it is written in the Catechism of the Catholic Church [by. 2491], the seal of secrecy is not binding when keeping the secret would cause serious harm can be avoided only by divulging the truth. Only the sacramental seal of secrecy would have justified my silence.

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Born il Papa, nor any of the cardinals in Rome have denied the facts I have stated in my testimony. The said Who is silent consents it definitely applies in this case, because if they would deny my testimony, They do not have, and provide documents in support of their denial. As it is not possible to conclude that the reason they do not provide the documents because they know that the documents confirm my testimony?

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The center of my testimony is that at least the 23 June 2013 the Pope has known me as perverse and evil was McCarrick in its intent and in its action, and instead of taking whatever steps against him any good shepherd would take, the Pope made McCarrick of one of its main government agents of the Church, for the United States, the Curia and even for China, as with great dismay and concern for the Church martyr we're seeing these days.

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Now, The Pope's answer to my testimony it was: "I will not say a word!"But then, contradicting himself, comparing his silence to that of Jesus of Nazareth before Pilate and compare me to the great accuser, Satan, who sows scandal and division in the Church, but never say my name. If he had said: "Viganò lied" had challenged my credibility and tried to credit his. In doing so, however, he would increase the demand by the people of God and the world of the documents necessary to determine which of them had told the truth. He instead put in place a thin slander against me, slander by himself so often condemned even with the severity of a murder. For more, he did so repeatedly, in the context of the holiest sacrament celebration, l'Eucharist, you do not run the risk of being challenged as before reporters. When he spoke to reporters, He asked them to practice their profession with maturity and to draw their own conclusions. But how can journalists discover the truth if those who are directly involved refuse to answer any question or to issue any document? The unwillingness of the Pope to answer my accusations and his deafness to the call of the faithful to be responsible is in no way compatible with its demand for transparency and to be builders of bridges and not walls.

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But there's more: having covered McCarrick does not seem to be certainly was an isolated error on the part of the Pope. Many other cases have recently been documented by the press, showing that Pope Francis defended homosexual priests who have committed serious sexual abuse against minors or adults. It included its role in the case of Father Julio Grassi in Buenos Aires Ed, WHO] I have reinstalled the Father Mauro Inzoli [Ed. WHO], after Pope Benedict had removed him from the priestly ministry - until it was put in prison, so at this point Pope Francis has reduced him to the lay state -, and for stopping the investigation for allegations of sexual abuse against Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor.

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Meantime, a delegation of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, led by its President, Cardinal Di Nardo, He went to Rome to ask the Vatican investigation of McCarrick. Cardinal Di Nardo and other prelates are to say to the Church in America and around the world: the Pope has refused to carry out an investigation at the Vatican on McCarrick crimes and those responsible for them covered? The faithful have a right to know.

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I would like to make a special appeal to Cardinal Marc Ouellet, because with him as Nuncio I have always worked on the same wavelength and I always had great respect and affection for him. You remember when, now I finished my mission in Washington, He received me in the evening in his apartment in Rome for a long conversation. At the beginning of pontificate of Pope Francis he had maintained his dignity, as he demonstrated courage when he was Archbishop of Quebec. Then, instead, when his job as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops has virtually been compromised because the presentation for episcopal appointments by two "friends" homosexuals of his department went directly to the Pope, bypassing Cardinal, It sold. A long article on The Osservatore Romano, which it has sided in favor of the more controversial aspects of 'love joy, He has represented his surrender.

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Eminence, before I left for Washington, She spoke to me of Pope Benedict sanctions against McCarrick. She has at its disposal the most important documents that incriminate McCarrick and many in the curia who have covered them. Eminence, I ask you strongly want to testify to the truth!

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In fine, I would encourage you, dear faithful, brothers and sisters in Christ: never discouraged! Make yours the act of faith and complete trust in Jesus Christ, our Savior, St. Paul in his Second Letter to Timothy, I know whom I have believed, I chose as my episcopal motto. This is a time of penance, conversion, of grace, to prepare the Church, bride of the Lamb, to be ready to win with Mary the battle against the infernal dragon.

I know whom I have believed [2 Tim. 1, 12]

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in Te, Jesus, my only Lord, I put all my trust. «That all things work together for good» [Rom. 8, 28].

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As a souvenir for my episcopal ordination, vested in me by St. John Paul II 26 April 1992, I had chosen a prayer card taken from a mosaic of St. Mark's Basilica, to Venice. It reproduces the miracle of the calming of the storm. I was struck by the fact that in Peter's boat, tossed about by water, the figure of Jesus is reproduced twice. Forward Jesus asleep, while Peter behind him trying to wake him: «Maestro, do we not care?». While the apostles, terrified, look at each in a different direction and do not realize how that Jesus is standing upright behind them, blessing, well boat command. "He woke up, He rebuked the wind and said to the sea: remain silent, take it easy […] Then he said to them,: why are you afraid? Have you no faith?» [MC. 4, 38-40].

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The scene is as timely as ever to portray the terrible storm that is going through right now the Church, but with a substantial difference: Peter's successor not only does not see the Lord in the stern that definitely has the full control of the boat, nor it intends to awaken Jesus sleeping in the bow.

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Is Christ become invisible to his vicar? He probably tried to improvise as a substitute for our only Master and Lord? The Lord is firmly in command of the boat!

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Christ, Truth, It can always be light in our path!

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29 September 2018

Feast of St. Michael, Archangel

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The Roman Pontiff It might decide not to answer or disprove directly, It could have reasons to act in this sense; reasons which in this case would remain unquestionable. His Holiness, however, has a Secretary of State and his Third Chamber for staff in the diplomatic service, the Congregation for Bishops and the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Finally a Press Office of the Holy See. No shortage of official bodies might respond: «S.E. Mons. Carlo Maria Viganò mind and lying causes serious affront to reigning Pope and scandal to the People of God ". In this way, with a simple and short sentence, numerous bishops, Priests and devotees Believers in Christ embittered and saddened may finally be soothed.

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the Island of Patmos, 28 September 2018

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Excommunication as heresy remedy

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HOW TO REMEDY THE excommunication TO HERESY

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The belong or not to belong to the Church, the stay or leave the Church are not such simple things. Of course, there may be forms of separation and total, such as loss of faith with apostasy. But usually there are different degrees of separation and therefore of excommunication. We must also see that idea one gets of the Church and of belonging to the Church or ecclesial communion. One can be convinced to fully belong to the Church, and instead is yours only partially, as for example the Protestants or modernists.

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Alinari photo 1950 – the Dominican Friars, during the Fiorita Festival in Florence, lay a tribute to the place where he was hanged and burned Girolamo Savonarola

St. Paul the Apostle warns: "If any man preach a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be anathema!» [Gal 1,9].

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In every community the president has the power and duty to protect with appropriate remedial measures or coercive community members that it causes harm or endanger the good order and peace. This principle of justice also applies to the Church, as stated in the Code of Canon Law: "The Church has an innate and proper right to coerce criminal penalties the faithful who have committed crimes" [can. 1311].

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From the earliest days of the Church the apostles, taking up the tradition of the synagogue, expelling unruly, troublemakers and apostates, exercised judicial power against serious crimes, as evidenced by the story of Ananias and Sapphira [cf. At 5, 1-11]. So St. Paul expels from the incestuous community [cf. The Cor 5,8]. To condemn the erring, he uses a greek word: anàthema, corresponding to Hebrew dear, which means "cursed" and therefore "excommunicated". So he warns: "If any man love not the Lord, is anàthema!» [The Cor 16,22]. E: "If anyone preaches any other gospel, is anàthema» [Gal 1.8]. Jesus himself repeatedly launches curses. And indeed, since the first centuries the Councils declare anàthema, ie excommunicated those who support the errors condemned.

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St. Thomas Aquinas explains l'Origin of the concept of anàthema and then of excommunication. L'says Aquinas: « anàthema It is a Greek word composed of he went, which means 'above' and thesis, which means 'position', so to call 'anatema'' What-you-place-in-high ', because when it was captured prey like something you did not want to use by men, it was suspended in the temple, so far it has become a habit that those things which are separated from common men, They were "anathema" calls, as we see in the Book of Genesis: "Whether this city accursed [1] and is devoted to the Lord all that is in it " [GS 6,17]» [2].

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From here, in Ecumenical Councils, the much used formula let him be, that will appear for the last time in the First Vatican Council, while it is absent in the Second Vatican Council, This clearly does not mean that the Council did not condemn the errors, claiming which it incurs excommunication. Today's excommunication is what the Church once called anatema, that curse: a verdict of an error or an errant, pronounced authority with the imposition of a penalty and the expulsion or removal of the dissident or criminal from the community.

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"Curse" in this biblical context means "to say the least-bad", but not in the sense of slander, but in the sense of declaring in court that someone has spoken ill or hurt and therefore it deserves to be punished, It deserves a bad penalty. In this regard the Bible says that God curses the wicked and Christ at the Last Judgment when away from the reprobate [cf. Mt 25,41]. The curse can strike the evil deed, but it can also affect the person who has done this deed. It is true that both the Gospel [cf. LC 6,28], As St. Paul advised not to curse [cf. RM 12,14]. But these prohibitions affect those who curse the innocent, as it is forbidden to kill the innocent, but not criminal. Otherwise, the Church would not anathematized for centuries and millennia heretics and schismatics. And if today we hear or read the Popes curse the heretics, we can not ignore that only recently the Church has abandoned this language, that the Commission used safely for a long time, but that today, the current climate of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue, indeed there embarrass. Today it seems to us that the curse has aroused hatred. But it is not necessarily so. Understood in the legal sense, it is an act of justice. And if the word has been abandoned by the Magisterium of the Church, It remains the equivalent term of "excommunication". Now, communion, the unit, the pace, mutual love and harmony in the Church born from the common acceptance by all the faithful of the same truths of faith and the same discipline taught by the Magisterium of the Church under the guidance of the Supreme Pontiff. So we understand that the heretic deserves to be excommunicated. The Church is a community united, coordinated and concordant in mutual by the Holy Spirit, who argues the Pope in the task to found the fellowship with God and the truth of God's word all acceptation. However, with God's permission, within the Church on earth, He works the Devil, with his retinue of "children of the devil" [The Gv 3, 10]. This means that the Church arise and spread heresies, that the ecclesiastical authority is obliged to intervene to warn the faithful and stop the error diffusion. So it happened, for instance, with the phenomenon of modernism at the time of St. Pius X and some theologians, as for example Ernesto Buonaiuti, Alfred Loisy, George Tyrrell, Romolo Murri and other.

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Fact, it happens occasionally that the devil persuades and push cunningly and wickedly some brothers imprudent, ambitious and unwary, which can also be shepherds, to distort the concept of the Church and to work to divide, desecrate and destroy, acting so insidious and covered, with vain and specious pretexts of reform or conservation, to avoid being discovered and seduced more easily.

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These false Catholics, seduced by Satan, openly reveal their perverse and subversive plans, for example masonic or atheists, only to those tawny or unfortunate that, after they were told they thoroughly, perhaps with petty man or glittering promises, They know they have become allies or punch in the work undertaken satanic, while they are keeping the secret or know well before the true believers masquerade. In this sense, the Canon Law warns against 'associations which plot against the Church " [can. 1374].

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After having spun their plots, heretics and schismatics suddenly emerge from the darkness and strike by surprise, as the Psalm says: "Whet their tongue like a sword, hurled bitter words like arrows to hit the innocent in secret; hit him by surprise and have no fear. They persist in doing evil; agree to laying snares " [Shall 64 3-6]. "The poor succumbs to the pride of the wicked, and falls into the pitfalls tramate" [Shall 9, 23]. This can be for power and pressure groups hidden within the Church and of the same class of bishops or cardinals, which apparently they seem respectful of papal authority. But the expert eye, as to what the good doctor, Take a few signs or symptoms for a glimpse of the rot that lies beneath the beautiful appearance, how those whited sepulchres of which the Lord speaks. It is the "enemy" [Mt 13, 25-36], of which the Gospel speaks, that hidden in the wheat field has sown the tares. To about, Jesus recommends to let it grow with wheat and weeds, lest, removing this, be taken even that. You must wait, He says, the Lord's Day, when He unveiling the secrets of hearts, He shall judge. Now, it is clear that here Jesus refers to God's judgment at the end of the world, final judgment and unappealable, determining the ultimate destiny of all of us. But that does not stop at all to Jesus to entrust a judicial power to the pastors of the Church, in the first place to Peter, when orders him to tend his sheep. It 'also clear that this power, limited and fallible, It refers only to the outer hole and does not purport to scrutinize the intimate of conscience, only God knows. However, this power, functional to the maintenance of good order of peace in the Church, is assigned by Christ the right and duty to fix all the conditions and the degrees of membership in the Church, why he is not prohibited, in appropriate circumstances and for valid reasons, excluded from ecclesial communion - that's excommunication - those jumping off it unworthy or to their false ideas or for their misconduct.

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THE excommunication EXCLUDED FROM CHURCH COMMUNION

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Excommunication is a decree authority, Pope or Bishop, with which the prelate, in order to correct - medicines penis O censure, title IV, Chapter I - or protect the community - expiatory penalties, Chapter II -, impose penalties in various ways that isolate him excommunicated from the community and limit the possibility of having relations with it or influence it, because such activity is considered to be dangerous or otherwise objectionable. Such penalties may be, mo 'example: or transfer to another residence, the exile, or discharge from an office or prohibition to leave the place of residence or prohibition of journalism or the administration or reception of the sacraments, until the reduction to the lay state for clerics or expulsion from the Institute for religious.

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The schism and heresy in itself are mortal sins. They are punished according to canon law. It is possible that these criminals escape justice of the Church, but they do not escape the judgment of God. Every believer should be able to recognize a schismatic and heretical, without waiting for the judgment of the Church, because he has to defend against these evil temptations. For this Scripture gives several warnings.

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In condemnation for heresy the Church is infallible and no exceptions. Instead excommunicate in the Church can make mistakes or may lift the excommunication. This is because the question of heresy there is a game the truth of faith, that does not change in this field, and the Supreme Pontiff has received express promise by Christ not to err. Instead excommunication can be linked to the conduct of the excommunicated, which can correct itself, for which it can be removed. It remains, however, that the effect of the excommunication, which can also be unjust, illegal or invalid, It does not touch at all the state of one of the excommunicated before God, state that may be of mortal sin - and in itself the schism and heresy are mortal sin -, but it could also be a state of grace, because it is excommunicated unfairly blamed. Because of this, ecclesiastical power, as he said proudly Girolamo Savonarola to his executioner going to the gallows, It may exclude from the earthly Church, but not from the heavenly.

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It must be said that membership in the Church and consequently the ecclesial communion and the exclusion from it - namely the excommunication - is not a simple act of will, with which it can accept or refuse in toto a proposal or an injunction that is done, as it would be to stay in one room, or to get out of it.

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The belong or not to belong to the Church, the stay or leave the Church are not such simple things. Of course, there may be forms of separation and total, such as loss of faith with apostasy. But usually there are different degrees of separation and therefore of excommunication. We must also see that idea one gets of the Church and of belonging to the Church or ecclesial communion. One can be convinced to fully belong to the Church, and instead is yours only partially, as for example the Protestants or modernists. Because of this, usually there are degrees of membership and degrees of exclusion or separation. Because of this, excommunications are not all of the same weight or level. The branch can be periclitante at various levels. It can be separated from certain values, but not by others. Conversely, ecclesial communion is the belonging summit that starts from a minimum degree to climb to the maximum. Here we are aided by the Gospel image of the vine and the branches. A branch can be partially detached from the vine, but still he receives its sap. Thus the separated brethren enjoy a certain communion with the Catholic Church, even though this communion is not full.

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Every believer must know how to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, must be able to judge for themselves if another brother, was theologian, bishop or cardinal, It is or is not in communion with the Church, and consequently attend, if it is in communion; stay away, if it is not in communion. Here then are the directives of the New Testament: "Stay away from every brother who is in idleness" [Ii Ts 3,6]. "If anyone does not obey what we say by letter, take note of him and discontinue relations » [v. 14]. "Stay away heretic [airetikòn]» [Tt 3,10]. "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house nor greet, for he who greets him shares his evil deeds " [II Jn 10-11]. These are obviously cases in which dialogue is impossible or inconvenient or dangerous or useless for the following reasons: or because the heretic does not accept the correction or because he tries to seduce us or because they treat us with contempt.

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In order to preserve and promote the theoretical and moral values on which rests the fabric of the church a, santa, catholic and apostolic, therefore, care must be the sum of all the faithful, but especially pastors and theologians under the supervision and direction of the Pope, take care that the sound doctrine of the Gospel is rightly interpreted by all, accepted, shared, widespread and defense against heresies, which they are precisely the rejection or the deformation of the truth of faith. The prelate, so, in the Church, and first of the Supreme Pontiff, supreme custodian of the unity of the Church and advocate of ecclesial communion, They have the right to expel from the Church, ie scomunicare, those faithful, which, or their attitude schismatic or heretical or scandalous for their ideas, falsify the doctrine, disobey the Supreme Pontiff or create divisions in the Church.

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There are believers who in fact or for their ideas or their conduct, outside the Church and the Church, yet they want to remain there to change it with their errors. It happens in these cases that the naive or complicit prelate excommunicating them, but let them do or even support them, or, Invite them to preach to the faithful in churches. Conversely there are bishops, priests and faithful into full communion with the Church, which may expose evils and scandals, which, however, the fact of opposing pastors or theologians heretics or schismatics, They are treated by them as if they were excommunicated. There is therefore a difference between the official excommunication and be made out of the ecclesiastical apparatus.

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Whatever Christian can be a heretic, schismatic and excommunicated, besides the Pope, who by divine assistance it is the supreme guardian of the truth of the Gospel and ecclesial communion. In fact, it is excommunicated involves breaking with a higher ecclesiastical or with the Pope. But the Pope evidently has no top soil to which he may rebel, except Jesus Christ. And also it should be noted that a Pope can be a bad pastor of the Church, but you can not teach heresy. Because of this, Code has among "crimes against religion and the unity of the Church" [part II, title I], «L'apostasia, heresy and schism " [can. 1364], and the publication and dissemination of "blasphemy, offense to good morals, of insults, excitement hatred or contempt against religion or the Church [can. 1369] and teachings or doctrines condemned by the Roman Pontiff or an ecumenical council " [can. 1371], which is equivalent to the refusal or misrepresentation or falsification of the teachings of the Pope and councils. This is why the offense of heresy deserves excommunication [cann. 1364, 1331].

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The excommunication can be automatic O sententiae penalties. The first is triggered automatically upon the completion by the crime, for example strike the person of the Pope or embrace heresy to what is already provided for excommunication. automatic it means that the judgment has already ruled. sentence rather it means that we need a process, after which the court renders its judgment, for example to determine whether a person is or is not heretical.

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EXAMPLES OF SIGNIFICANT excommunication

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A recent example, It is one of the four bishops Lefebvre, which, At first excommunicated, They were then subsequently released by Benedict XVI. But those who support the Mass the old order - which also it is in itself lawful - but refuses, as did Lefebvre, the Mass new world order charges of pro-Lutheranism, it is excommunicated. The Mass new world order It is in fact the greatest moment of ecclesial communion. Rejecting the Mass means so separate from ecclesial communion, and for this we are struck by excommunication.

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It was the famous mutual lifting of the excommunication of the Blessed Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras. There is, however, question what sense he had the excommunication of the Pope by the Patriarch Michael Cerularius in 1054. The Pope can excommunicate, but it can not be excommunicated, because it has no land no top from which it can be separated. The Pope is in fact the principle of ecclesiastical communion, while the faithful is what comes from this principle. Now the principiato may separate from the principle, but the principle can not separate himself from himself. So the Patriarch of Constantinople, excommunicating the Pope, He has done nothing but separate from the Church. Paul VI made a magnanimous gesture by revoking the excommunication to Athenagoras, but the Patriarch, beyond his friendship with Paul VI, He made a gesture objectively and legally null and void, as nothing had been his excommunication. It should also be noted that the Church can remove the excommunication of heretics who are heretics, as are our Orthodox brothers, because with them it was not yet resolved their dispute over And the son. It is clear then that this reintegration involves a very imperfect communion, given the permanence of doctrinal deficiencies.

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Throughout history there have been excommunications who not only they have not had the desired effect of inducing or stimulating the excommunicated to repentance, but which have had the effect of provoking even more hatred against the Pope and the Church, as happened to Luther with excommunication by Pope Leo X and Pius V against Queen Elizabeth of England. If the excommunicated already he has a big following, he is proud of what he does and strong, that the excommunication it rears up and tightens more. They are the saints, for example, a St. Pio of Pietrelcina, who obey even unjust censure. But heretics, powerful and troublemakers who are excommunicated, easily do worse. Because of this, especially now that the modernists are very powerful, Popes renounce excommunicate.

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In respect of the excommunication to those who profess the doctrine of communism Marxist atheist, imposed by Pius XII, it has never been abolished, although the Church since then she has done more nod. However, such excommunication keeps in fact its value, since it is obviously impossible that an atheist sharers in ecclesial communion.

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How Much to membership freemasonry, a decree of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1984 It warns that those who are affiliated with Freemasonry is in mortal sin and may not receive Communion. Also in this case the reason for the excommunication is evident: Freemasonry does not recognize the dogma of the Communion of Saints.

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As for the excommunication associated with the mafia, it is motivated by the fact that it is conspiracy to theft and extortion to murder with the application and the private vengeance, It is evident that a member of this association may not qualify for the ecclesial communion. The same is true for the modernists, which, They have a concept of the Church incompatible with the right of the Catholic Church.

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THE REASONS AND PURPOSES OF excommunication

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It deserves to be excommunicated those who shed the heresies, turbo, injures, offends or disorganize the community, creates scandal and divisions among the faithful, disobey authority. Unfortunately, however, today macroscopically - except not to see it blocked by fear or human respect or because the chariot of the modernists or because a party or closed because in their own narrow interests or because suffering allocchismo doctrinal [3] - these characters are multiplying, They are honored and go up to high places, while those who are truly in communion with the Church are beaten, humiliated or marginalized. So scomunicabili are not excommunicated, and it happens that those who are in communion is excommunicated or at least is treated as if it were one excommunicated. A beautiful mess and Injustice, where someone who enjoys it is the devil, obscurantism master that leads to destruction.

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On the question of excommunication species, to ask three basic questions: a first question is to distinguish the right from unjust excommunication or lawful or unlawful; a second is to distinguish the valid excommunication from that invalidates or nothing; and third is to distinguish him excommunicated stated or official from the actual or de facto.

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Excommunication is right, when the prelate spoke out of a concern to safeguard the truth of the faith, ecclesial communion and call of the rebel obedience. About the unjust excommunication, instead, St. Thomas Aquinas says that the excommunication can be unjust or by the scomunicante or by the excommunicated. In the first case it has effect, that is, the subject is officially excommunicated by public decree, even though you do not deserve this measure and, if anything, he would have deserved a decree of praise. So the excommunication can be unjust, as motivated not by respect for higher authority, as would be the Magisterium of the Church, or the fear of God or love for the truth or for the Church, but ignorance, hatred or envy for the excommunicated; or it can be unfair because no foundation or legal or doctrinal reason, and indeed it based on false accusations and reasons or pretexts heretical [4]. The first is valid but illicit; the second is null and void.

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The prelate should be very careful to understand and evaluate the reasons that guide the thinking and actions of the supposed dissident or heretic, especially if it has a large following, not to confuse a prophet with a rebel, as happened with Savonarola or vice versa as not to confuse a rebel with a reformer, as happened to some German bishops against Luther, which, instead of condemning the so-called "Reformer", They went over to Luther. The prelate is not hasty in judging, do not let yourself influenced by the passionate and partisan climate that usually creates around these events, be cautious assess allegations from the environment to the supposed guilty and prefers to listen and consult directly. If it is the case, establishing a process, to avoid the risk of condemning an innocent or acquit a guilty.

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It can also happen that an unjust excommunication It is imposed by a heretic priest, which can not be officially excommunicated, so it is not substantially and actually in communion with the Church, while the subject officially excommunicated, as Orthodox, in fact it remains in communion with the Church.

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It is clear that a prelate who excommunicate based on a false concept of the Church or of obedience or without him first to be subjected to the major superior or to the Roman Pontiff or the Word of God, excommunication invalidly, for which per se, this excommunication, It is null and should not have effect. However, de facto, the action of an authoritarian prelate, influences, bossy, supported by his peers or by the worldly powers to an honest person but helpless can still produce a damaging social effect, exercising violence on excommunicated and his disciples, defames him in the community and harms the community itself so deceived by the false excommunication.

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St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that in these cases the excommunicated may have recourse to the major superiors. Of course, if it is the Pope who excommunicated unjustly, You must have patience, avoiding taking vengeful or resentful attitudes, that certainly would put him excommunicated, if he was right, the wrong. If then, as was the case with Luther, the rebel is rightly excommunicated, it is clear that any objection by the excommunicated, further aggravate his guilt.

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The fact that an excommunication has no vices form - for example, it is issued by legitimate authority or explicit about - does not necessarily mean that it is right, appropriate, beneficial, lawful. It may be originated by arrogance or gross negligence in the scomunicante, as was the excommunication of Savonarola by Alexander VI. And if the excommunication is also infected by formal defects, for example, be the result of an abuse of authority or, as observed by St. Thomas Aquinas, be "not due or because the sentence is contrary to law" [5], besides being unjust in the content and grounds, it is absolutely nothing.

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Such cases are common today the fact that modernism has spread among the bishops, so not only is it rare that a bishop excommunicating a heretic, it even happens that Orthodox believers are excommunicated by heretical bishops. It is clear that an excommunication motivated by a cause heretical, It is contrary to the rules of faith and law, It is nothing, for which the excommunicated in principle may not be taken into account. However, But, it is possible that in this case the prelate inflicts even more, why the excommunicated should resign. Under this St. Thomas Aquinas point of view it observes that an excommunication can be unjust and yet Sorting the punitive effect [6], to which the excommunicated, in the hypothesis, It has no means of escape or get rid, as he had the good fortune to be able to do St. John of the Cross, fleeing from the monastery prison.

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Excommunication is twofold: first, to be an exemplary punishment and healthy; exemplary, to discourage others to imitate him excommunicated; to greet, ie such as to induce him to excommunicated resipiscence, to repentance and penance, that it may correct itself and to be reintegrated into the ecclesial communion. Because of this, must be neither excessive, nor too mild, but with the size of the damage caused to himself and to the Church from the schismatic or heretic, and the quality and quantity of its moral strength and reputation in the Church, as well as of the Ascendant, of fame and following that he has in it. Not too must isolate it from the community, so it does not worsen his hostility to it and does not have the temptation to leave it entirely, but it is maintained in a certain degree of esteem and consideration. It happens indeed that the dissident is subject to unfair and exaggerated hostility by certain overzealous believers or enemies, malignant or short intellect, that the prelate has to defend and protect the dissident also they.

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Excommunication does not even have to leave the excommunicated too much freedom of action and movement, nor should leave too much part of the community, because that would enable him to continue to spread his heresies and to foment rebellion against the Church. The excommunications too lenient, and purely formal, that does not bother him that much excommunicated, lose their deterrent effect and educational, He is derided by him and his followers and are slow to no effect, if not to create a martyr in the eyes of the followers. This will probably be the excommunication of mobsters and such, Unfortunately, It was the excommunication of the Communists.

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According to the excommunication order It is to shed light in the sense of helping to discern who belongs to the Church and who's out, It is thus to free the Church from a dangerous agent discouraging the faithful from wanting to follow. It may happen that the Church in these interventions is too severe, as it seems to have happened in the cases of Peter Waldo in the twelfth century, Albigensian in the thirteenth century, of Jan Hus in the fifteenth century and Luther. They did not lack any good ideas to propose a reform of the Church, though certainly their heresies were condemned. However, they counted among their ranks also people in good faith, whereby, if he had had more confidence in the dialogue, perhaps it would be avoided painful division that continues after centuries.

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RECONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNION

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Paradigmatic is the parable of the prodigal son [LC 15, 11-32]. The excommunicated is not so much one that is driven, but it is one that goes away. The decree of excommunication is very often nothing more than the taking of sorrowful act and the public sad news that his brother has left us, and we became the enemy. In the excommunication there is so much outrage, but rather the pain and the hope that the lost child is found. It's him that if he wanted to go. And if a brother is hunted, because it is already practically was not in communion and communion disturbed. So what is expected excommunication? The return of his brother, his repentance, his repentance. Why are so rare phenomena of conversion? Perhaps the Church has so far not done enough to recover these brothers, these lost sheep. It is used too severely and too little mercy. So at least he thought St. John XXIII in will and in proclaiming the Second Vatican Council. It wanted to retain the prodigal son with the force, without groped to convince him of what would face leaving the parental home. But, we must also recognize that in many cases frankly honesty and humility of which the prodigal son gives evidence in Luke's parable, noticing the bad business that made leaving the parental home, They have always been rare virtue. Almost always heretics seem to do well in eating the husks the swine, and they have, indorandole of specious tinsel, as if they were a sign of freedom and wisdom, and even invite others to follow and others follow.

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What the Church can do in these cases? With the Second Vatican Council it decided to take a new path, that minimizes the use of severity, and then the excommunication and feared let him be. Some theologians have interpreted the choice to reconcile in the sense that the Council would assume that all men, at least subconsciously, They seek God and have grace; that the proclamation of the Gospel should not be proposed in categorical terms and threatening a aut-aut: as the only way of salvation, refusing which opens the hell chasm: or do you believe or you do not save; but simply as a proclamation of mercy, which already all people of good will are being, perhaps unconsciously, whatever the religion to which they belong. In this visual optimistic, because everyone is saved, everyone is free to follow their religion. The doctrinal differences would not matter. The determining factor would be that all of them are the subject of the divine will of salvation. All so, perhaps unconsciously, belong to the Church, which embraces all religions, no one excluded.

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For the modernists we can not say, so, the Lutheran, Jew or Muslim: you are wrong. In fact, he can always tell us: wrong they are to you, but not in my religion. It can therefore understand how in this relativistic loses visual sense or the excommunication interest. It is clear that a church that does not believe in possession of absolute truth, how to conceive the modernists, It does not distinguish more clearly and definitely the dogma heresy, so the idea of ​​excommunication not for her has no meaning. It is therefore opposed to the Church of the past, said by them pre-conciliar, it now appears taxation and illiberal, disrespectful of pluralism, and freedom of conscience.

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others say: the severity and threat of Hell is not served. But then it will not be that in the end God's mercy reaches all accounts, and all are saved? We respect diversity, we focus on dialogue and on what unites us: the common interests of peace and justice. All right. However, There are some truths that touch God or salvation, They do not like the separated brethren. So we do? Some, my idea is that it is good tacerle and only admit those truths in which we all agree. The other let them optional for individual confessions. But this is not the command of Christ. And in fact, the Council proposes the Gospel to all mankind.

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The Council, But, unlike previous, aware with the irreversible human tendency to sin, proper to fallen nature, therefore mainly dedicated to the fight against the world and the condemnation of errors and vices, with its punishments sentenced to disobedient, It seems animated by the confidence that we can build on this earth the general harmony of mankind around Christ [cf. Pacem in Terris], the confidence to make the cooperation of the Church with the world, We can build a humanity right, united and peaceful, in which the Church and the world get along. The world is seen as essentially available for the Gospel, and the Church seems confident of being able to conquer the world, because the whole world waiting for Christ. So the Council seems to minimize the tendency of men to wickedness and sin - hence the need for coercion and discipline -, following on original sin and believe that education, the testimony and preaching of the Gospel are sufficient to create a humanity finally right down here, happy and harmonious.

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but yet, the Apocalypse, provides that the clash of the Church with the world - the Woman and the Dragon - will last until the Parousia, so the end of the story will not be the symbiosis of the Church with the world and the general unification of humanity in harmony and peace, but rather the victory of Christ over the powers of evil and the final separation of the wheat from the chaff, with the salvation of the elect and the damnation of the reprobate.

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Another thing to note: until Vatican II the Church has always held to clarify its identity and oppose the world. Hence the ease with which it contended with the world, He is condemning the errors of the world, and excommunicated those who yielded to the seductions of the world, especially in the modern world. It had great care for her children, There he was kept protected from the snares of the world and from the mistakes of other religions, including non-Catholic Christians, while it was severe towards the world, in whom he saw almost only dangers and corruption. If it contacted the world, The purpose was to convert to the Gospel, according to the command of Christ.

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The Vatican II addressed the Church greater openness to the world and values ​​of other religions. This led to an enrichment and a costume improved, of theology and Catholic culture, but at the same time it decreased the care to preserve the Church from penetration into it of erroneous or dangerous doctrines. So it happened that, if on the one hand, the Church has taken a more conciliatory attitude toward the world, other conflicts have arisen and corruption inside because of the penetration of errors and bad customs of the world, penetration is not sufficiently prevented by the shepherds, which they have greatly diminished the use of excommunication.

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What now has to be is a greater care in pastors, starting with the Pope, the good education of the faithful and of the pastors themselves, in pacifying the minds bitterly divided by a wretched and embittered opposition between Lefebvre and modernists, you drag from fifty, in defending the Church against the penetration of false ideas or heterodox and then in the moderate recovery of a wise and prudent use of the institute's excommunication, not at all giving up on what the Council has produced in the relationship of the Church with the modern world. It is clear that we need to continue the work of evangelization; but do not be under the illusion that in the distant future or close mankind will gather around the church. Nor it is there to hope for a worldwide peaceful coexistence between religions, as some believe, or hope.

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On Christianity, at the behest of Christ, it world domination. Religions must be submitted to the Catholic Christian religion. Christianity does not fit, by its nature, to be a religion on a par with other, as if it were a political party in a world parliament. We do not confuse civil relations among religions with the United Nations. Are not these things planned apocalyptic eschatology. Christianity will continue to expand, but always fighting against the forces of Satan. Always, in the Church, They will mix the wheat and the tares, always it must be purified from sin and expel from its midst the unworthy, always it will be opposed by enemies and always will be persecuted. Always advance and will be renewed in history, and convert the hearts to Christ, always welcome new children, and generate new saints, until, in a known now only to God, the Church will appear and defeat the great apostasy, expected from Sao Paulo, but it will precede the triumphant return of Christ in glory.

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Varazze 24 September 2018

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[1] "Utterly destroyed" (eb. cherem), Inviting. of the CEI.

[2] Commentary on the Letters of St. Paul, c.9, 3, lect.I, n.739, Marietti editions,Turin-Roma 1953, p.134.

[3] spiritual defect attributable to opportunism, the flattery and cowardice, now spread among bishops, for which they, for crass ignorance or human respect or attachment to the bishop's throne, They do not even notice to be led by the nose by heretics. Not only they flee before the wolf came into the fold, but they do not even notice its presence by entrusting important ecclesiastical offices to people who should be excommunicated.

[4] QUESTION, Suppl., q. 21, a. 4.

[5] Ibid.

[6] QUESTION, Suppl., q. 21, a. 4.

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The performance of the earthly Church: "Do not be discouraged, but let's not delude ourselves!»

The quill of Charlemagne

 

 

 

ON THE TREND OF THE EARTHLY CHURCH: "DO NOT be discouraged, BUT make no mistake!»

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The crisis dramatically sharpens and worsens in the Catholic Church it is not a simple and grotesque comedy of dozens of fennel raptors and predators of adolescents, at worst, and homosexuals ordained to the Holy Service of God and His Holy People, but in their existential dis-order and very little behavioral and even fewer have made meritorious service, in the first place, to their soul, God and the Holy Church […]

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"Do not be discouraged, but let's not delude ourselves!». This was the consolation and encouragement, along the dramatic warning that Agostino, Holy Bishop and Doctor of the Church, He turned in one of his famous sermon to Christians of Hippo: "Do not be discouraged, Result was saved! it illudiamoci, Result was damned!» [The word is 232, 16]. So salvation and damnation! Third party!

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In the fleeting time and opioid "mercy", which appears more and more clearly as a synonym of apostasy from the deposit of faith, which does not rely penitents and confidants infinite Love which alone can the Supreme Love.

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"Re celestial, Comforter, Spirit of truth, everywhere present and that all filled, casket of goods and giver of life ", before which invoke: "I neglect my iniquities, Lord born of a virgin, and cleanse my heart, making it a temple of your body and your pure blood, do not throw me away from before your face, whose mercy you did not measure. How dare, I unworthy, to get closer to you with those who are worthy, my dress betray me, because it is not a suitable dress to a wedding feast, and it will attract a sentence to my soul very sinful. man, purify my soul from its filthiness, and salvami, as the friend of mankind " [Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Tropari 5 e 6 Saturday Night].

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We live in times in which you are confused "Having mercy which properly belongs to God", and you forget that Mercy is the very predicate of God [cf.. Sant'Ireneo, Letter 60]. Times marked by a painful welcomed frailty and sin, that instead of being fought and won, I'm SIC et simpliciter declassified, the new self-proclaimed savior of the world of a presumed new church of the existential peripheries. A "field hospital", where archiater stuttering does not dare in front of loud and harmful scandals, say the name of sin itself, not to disturb the recipe of political correctness, the correct and proper dell'eroticamente religiously. A "field hospital" where, But, the true physician of souls and bodies [cf.. Luca 5, 31-32] was, in reality, kicked, He having the bad habit of diagnosing evil and, even, bold to indicate therapy.

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"Long give me, Satan! You are a scandal to me, because you think is not God, but man!» [Matteo 16, 23]; «Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent, How often I wanted to gather your children, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not! there: Your house wine sarat left desolate! I in fact say that you will not see me again until you say,: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!» [Matteo 23, 37-39].

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not be discouraged, BUT make no mistake !

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The crisis dramatically sharpens and worsens in the Catholic Church it is not a simple and grotesque comedy of dozens of fennel raptors and predators of adolescents, at worst, and homosexuals ordained to the Holy Service of God and His Holy People, but in their existential dis-order and very little behavioral and even fewer have made meritorious service, in first of all, to their soul, God and the Holy Church. If so, suffice to good and holy people of God obtain the brooms, and in severe cases even shovels, or as ever now loudly call upon the many US Catholics hold securely closed purses and empty boxes dell'elemosine.

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Far more serious is the rending of the Holy Church of God present, whose crisis is not measured by the standard of those present even in the churches in the Lord's Day or coll'ammontare bid. The real reasons for the crisis are in a dramatic widespread apostasy, propaganda, passively endured and not fought at all levels for too long; sometimes, even disguised and accepted as a new verb for a new church, but especially in the last five years he has dramatically accelerated and intensified its run, its sinister propaganda, his nefarious audacity and its deadly impact.

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To shameless self-satisfaction and unhealthy masochism There was pleased and blessed the dominant nihilism; He was applauded totalitarianism of weak thought, with its rules of conduct not only to Christians but, even, anti-Christians and, above all, anti-Catholic. He competed in "do not judge", not only the sinner, but also sin; not for compassionate and sincere spiritual attitude, but for pure pleasure of self-realization and worldly to be accepted and loved by the world, forget that:

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

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Among the Servants of God, and right from the Servant of the Servants, She is finally played and you play to ape new rock-star the open society, liquid, afflicted by aimless bulimia, in which everything is relative to the individual conscience and nothing more is perceived as a collective belonging to the Mystery and its essential sharing. A company, as he wrote Zygmunt Bauman, where change is the only permanent thing, and that uncertainty is the only certainty [cf.. Zygmunt Bauman – Leonidas Donskis, Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity, 2003].

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What to do, therefore, a Catholic Church which proclaims: «have faith; I have overcome the world!» [Giovanni 16, 33], if you do not liquidate, once and forever? Better yet if his "liquefaction" will take place by centrifugal motion and solemn blessing of His hierarchy! Even more, by His pastors to play and minimize, even, ridicule two millennia of philosophical and theological reflection, made not reconcilable secrets of cardinals selected, but nourished by prayer and contemplation, and fortified by the millions of martyrs who have sprayed blood from their gallows.

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More than kneeling the One who "has been raised up and given a name above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven, on earth and under the earth " [Filip Breeding 2, 9-10]; it is preferred and is still stubbornly preferring to bow down to political correctness, the religiously correct, correct all'eroticamente, the sociologically correct and even more to all that is irrational, but you can not report it as such to avoid displeasing the true masters of chaos, and enjoy them so their media protection.

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Rather than rejoice because "our names are written in heaven" and therefore those who believe have been given the power 'to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy " [Luca 10, 19-20]; He prefers to be pleased because some Pastore breaks through video, or attended the glitterati glamour the Metropolitan Museum in New York [Ed. WHO] or he gets tired in works of charity or dines with the poor, of course under the watchful and caring eye cameramen and journalists.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer - without considering the merits of a whole theological thought - he was a theologian and pastor That led to the end of a two-pronged fight in the name of Faith. Against the German Protestant Community totally brainwashed and enslaved to that Zeitgeist the dominant political correctness of his time, that nothing else was that National. Even, as now they prove with certainty the German documents de-kept secret of World War II, Nazism against itself and against its supreme Fuhrer, Aldolf Hitler, taking part in the plot of the failed attempt of the 20 July 1944. For this he was hanged naked by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Flossenburg dawn 9 April 1945, and today, universally celebrated as a martyr of the faith and freedom against one of the worst tyrannies of modern Europe.

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In his famous script 1937, Bonhoeffer wrote with prophetic foreknowledge of mortal risks, At that time, ran the German Protestant Community embracing grimly politically and religiously correct of his time. The same words should, today, to serve to bring to mind a Catholic Church over which at present an equal is incumbent Zeitgeist of our era no less infected, fetid, pestiferous, totalitarian and, at last, deadly hovering murky air of the Third Reich.

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"The grace cheap is the mortal enemy of our church. Today we are fighting for the grace dearly. Grace cheap is a proclamation of forgiveness without repentance, it is baptism without community discipline, Dinner is holy without confession of sins, It is absolution without personal confession. cheap grace is grace without you follow Christ, grace without the Cross, grace without the living Christ, incarnated " [Dietrich Bonhoeffer, succession, 2007, p. 24].

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We should then ask ourselves: why bishops and Catholic theologians who like to quote Bonhoeffer, or trying to cite this illustrious Protestant thinker but not a Catholic, always strictly fail to grasp what its acute reflection should, today, give pause to even the Catholic Church?

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We put it in the account since the day of our Holy Baptism: "If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you from the world, that's why the world hates you " [Giovanni 15, 19].

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From the top of their seats, They will always schernirci as "wild dogs" to oppose "silences myths", but apparently viciously humble and Franciscan, Instead exceedingly petty effluvia and belches of anger against those who will not submit "to the kingdom of this world", which always presupposes power and wealth! Power and wealth of this world, which everything sells off while power and possess: bodies, the souls, hearts, the anxieties, hopes, and the same fruits of grace that always the power of truth and single Salvator Mundi arouses in the Holy People of God.

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In their shiny purple, in front of a more and more upright scandal, They will divert us telling us a very different agenda deals with the new pastoral misericordiante: "The Pope has an agenda broader: the preservation dell'ambienti, and migrants, …»? [See. Cardinal Blase Cupich, intervista NBCC Chicago, 28 August 2018]. Perhaps to make us forget, but there we look good, that they too are just among the many grandchildren Uncle Ted: those who were the most benefited generously of power and ownership over the past five years.

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To try to understand what is happening in the Holy Church of God, in his old-time dimension, Once again it will be good to resort to St. Augustine. Commenting on Psalm 55, the Bishop of Hippo wrote:

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"If we were to get into a home, we would observe that the writing is on the pediment to know who he is and by whom it is inhabited. In this way, would avoid entering inappropriately or where we should not have to go back out of shyness when it was necessary to go further ' [St. Augustine, An exposition of Psalm 55, I,1].

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The house referred to by St. Augustine It is nothing but the Holy Church of Christ, whose title He shines on its architrave and dwells inextricably rooted in his own mystical foundations:

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"There is a stone on which the house is solid for its foundations, so do not fear the fury of the storm. Rivers - it says - it overthrew that house, it did not fall for it was founded upon the rock. Well this stone is Christ. And under the name of David is depicted Christ, which was told: He was born of the seed of David according to the flesh» [In the same place, I,3-4].

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not be discouraged, BUT make no mistake !

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If the same Christ is the foundation so why is this Santa House, over and over again in human history and in our days again, It appears shock in its interior and in its ruined pillars? Augustine, pure, It seems to ask yourself this question when adding:

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«Ma, as in another Psalm it is written: Do not tamper with the registration of title, Pilate answered: What I have written, I wrote. As if to say: I will not alter the truth, even if you prefer the false. Well, because the Jews were indignant and insisted in saying perversion: We have no king but Caesar, why they have moved away from the holy: scandal because they found in the title. It is as close to Saints! They join with the saints who recognize Christ as king and want to own it. Let them be, instead, away from those saints, contradicting to the title, they rejected God as king and chose as king a man ' [In the same place, (II), 6-7].

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Eradicating evil, in the Holy Church of God that now no longer "from some crevice" enters as "Satan's smoke into the temple of God" [Paul VI, Homily, 29 June 1972], but doors and windows wide open as servile and reprobate requires porters to this day the same courage of Blessed Antonio Rosmini, who did not disdain to indicate the name and surname Five Wounds of the Holy Church, that perhaps - in the meantime - it has become far more than five.

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not be discouraged, BUT make no mistake !

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First Plague.

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The surrender and subjugation of the ecclesiastical hierarchy to Zeitgeist and neo-totalitarian ideology prevailing. The clergy of the Holy People of God seems to have forgotten that the only title that characterizes the Holy Church of God is Christ, fullness of the revelation of the Triune God, come and that will be a sign of contradiction: "This child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and as a sign of contradiction" [Luca 2, 34].

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The Master of the House It was formed by God himself as semIt'sion Antilegómenon: as the sign and the title One who is antithetical to the current discourse:

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«Do not think that I have come to bring peace on Earth; have not come to bring peace, but a sword. I have come to set a man against his father, daughter against mother, in-law from mother-in-law: and a man's enemies will be those of his household " [Matteo 10, 34-36].

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The Church itself or is semIt'sion antilegómenon or abjure not as herself but Christ and his mystery of Redemption and Salvation!

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Acceptance supine and devious the Zeitgeist contemporary, which - not the Holy People of God - but the Catholic hierarchy nods, which flirts complacent, from which cowardly does not stand out, often shamelessly fondling, whose perfidious recklessly it lies not only welcomes but strives to spread, is the true legomena against which the Holy Church of God, Also today, It is called to be Antilegómenon on the certainty of that Stone discarded and become the cornerstone. "What, then, what it is written: The stone which the builders rejected, It has become the cornerstone? Whosoever shall fall upon that stone will be dashed to pieces, and who shall fall, I crush ' [Luca 20, 17-18]. For the Holy People of God the time has come with the determination to "guard against the leaven" of the contemporary Pharisees and with humble courage to shout from the rooftops because "there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known " [Luca 12, 2].

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How not to remember the words, ever more topical than today, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger on the eve of his election to the Chair of Peter?

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"Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, It is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, ie letting oneself "here and there by every wind of doctrine", It seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as certain and which has as its measure only the self and its desires. We, instead, we have another measure: the Son of God, the real man. He is the measure of true humanism. "Adult" is not a faith that follows the waves of fashion and the latest novelty; adult and mature is a faith profoundly rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion for discerning between true and false, and deceit from truth " [Homily at a Mass for electing the Pope, 18 April 2005].

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not be discouraged, BUT make no mistake !

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Second Plague. The waiver of defending the anthropological truth.

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The Holy Church of God, in every field, tried - following the example of Christ, whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light (cf.. Matteo 11, 30) - to accompany and educate the light of a truth that consecrates the mystery of man and the complexity of the world: «Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world; for them I consecrate myself, they may be consecrated in truth " [Giovanni, 17, 17-19].

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The truth, even before being a principle gnoseologic, it is an ontological. Of this principle in the centuries it has nourished the Christian and Catholic anthropology, in particular. In front of, to spread rabid and disturbing the totalitarian ideologies of the gender, New Nazi-Fascism LGBTQI+, imposture and the neo-Dionysian poly-love, the Holy Church of God for a quiet life given up on being Mother and teacher.

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He did not know and does not want to see that there is a simple heresy at stake here, but the absolute understanding of man created by God! Here a simple schism is not in play, but the beginning of a new pay and criminal Totalitarianism. Here is at stake humanity itself and its future! Other than setting and migrants! There is little to rejoice! Are, even, a philosopher of the New Left Hegelian writes:

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"In any case, the new world order aims to destroy everything that is not akin to the market. Love and family are the first form of resistance than the market and deregulated capitalism. Love seeks to last forever, and because it is altruistic donation and, subtracted from each of the calculation logic and growth » [cf.. Diego Fusaro, The new erotic order. In praise of love and family, 2018, presentation in: Business Italian, 13 September 2018].

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It continues in the report rightly:

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«L’correct erotically come: the erotic and sentimental variant of politically correct. That's all somehow ensures the new erotic order and defaming what is not similar. Politically everything that is not akin to the new world order is vilified as fascist, populist, Stalinist. Yet in the erotic it is vilified as homophobe, reactionary, premoderno. In Newspeak [Ed. WHO], correct erotically is a kind of globalist catechesis imposing a cosmopolitan adaptation to the new erotic order costumes that dissolves the family and the heterosexual model by imposing a sort of gay pride permanent with ridicule of everything that is connected to the proletariat and bourgeois values ​​of ethical family. The gay pride is not aimed at defending the rights, sacrosanct inter alia, homosexuals but to destroy and ridicule the old familiar pattern " [In the same place].

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There escapes, perhaps, that not one of the pastors of the Holy People of God has the audacity to dare brave the truth so as not to be accused of "judgmental"? There escapes, perhaps also, on the contrary, many pastors will enjoy playing with fire on the issues that may involve first the mere anthropological salvation of future generations, well beyond their religious affiliation? There escapes, and perhaps eventually, the warning: "Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits " [Matteo 7,15-16]? And the harvest of the fruit is easily seen in a yield faith stupidario clichés!

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not be discouraged, BUT make no mistake !

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Third Plague. The myth and the Church's rhetoric Poor.

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The declamata so Poor Church, perhaps, Never before has it been so greedy for money and power. The events involving influential cardinals and German bishops and those that, at last, involving the deposed Cardinal Edgar McCarry and its non-deposed but promoted "grandchildren" have a lot to do, complicity to try and immunities granted, with rough vicissitudes of funding sought and coveted, granted or refused. Together, many more are easily explained with a hint of wisdom: Look for money!

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The heralds of this neo-church poverella, not by chance, are two German cardinals: Walter Kasper and Reinhard Marx that the poor have only what remains of the dying German Catholic Church and wealthy, instead, the enormous proceeds of church tax: the nine percent tax that the German Catholics have to pay on the gross income to be even considered as such. A charge that the Catholic Church of Germany, already rich in real estate and company shares of multinational companies, fruit roughly around ten billion euro a year.

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A Monaco and Berlin you can no matter what the rusty paraphernalia of dogma and morality; It may be waived by the same faith to be admitted to the Eucharist. Since no pay; this, then, May! That is why, from the 2012, the poor little German bishops have imposed excommunication yearsæ Sentaæ the exclusion from the sacraments, from Catholic funeral and all other ecclesial activities who does not pay. And all this with misericordiante use of Canon Law.

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Messe LGBTQI+, instead, they are welcome; blessings of homosexual couples as well; Eucharistic communion to Protestants equally. Everything is debatable and debated in the name of hospitality misericordiante; provided that it pays! So after the bedspreads also will lift current accounts, and we discover that certain kinds of sexual activities always have as a counter generous financial donations generously largite and cravenly accepted.

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A day, perhaps, We discover As certain financial flows and are affecting the entire Holy Church of God and the Papacy. It will be a Go Diesæ Dies Illa!

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not be discouraged, BUT make no mistake !

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Fourth Plague. The neo-Church of the Poor.

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Both declamata Church of the Poor And, instead, fall into the trap of a tragic neo-temporalismo which it is replacing the Supreme Law of the Church of Christ: the salvation of souls. For the latter - the souls -, everything is reduced to a matter of personal conscience in judging between good and evil, to a series of worst church moralism. In the order time, instead, proclaim indisputable certainties, inflexible guidelines, real political posters, that if their facts and applied blindly Ibsen cause the misfortune of being singled out in "Enemy of the People", if not at the same Beelzebub.

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"The poor always ye have with you, but you do not always have me " [Giovanni 12, 8]; and this reminder of the Savior not surprisingly had turned to Judas Iscariot, the Traitor, that John is careful to point: "He said this not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and, He had the bag, to take what was put in there " [Giovanni 12, 6]. The poor are, in these years, become almost a advertising brand that, Pastors and Prelates, they use at will as a means of self-promotion, obviously, with evangelical discretion, for the cameras.

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In the Holy Church of God is all a frenzied rush to get poor, immigrants, and every category of human misery to be shown as greeting urges belonging to neo-church and from this, obviously, perquisites or receive honors. It hides the Cross of Christ to exhibit new trophy as the crosses of the world! Well strange that corresponds to the moral laxity political extremism, the neo-Poor and the Church of the Poor, forget that the moral, spiritual, intellectual or even the same ignorance to be so poor as not to know the Word of God is of far more miserable poverty of that material.

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fifth Plague. The neo-papolatria at market research.

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The Holy People of God has always loved and immensely honored its Pastors. He has not, But, never needed SuperPope, SuperCardinal O SuperBishop. The Holy Church of God has always needed to maintain strong faith, noble in its entirety and in his obedient observance. «Where Peter, And there Church», exclaimed Sant'Ambrogio [Exposition on Psalm, 40], which he echoed to that observed Sant'Ireno: «when Christ, And there Church» [Smyrna, 8, 2].

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Baffles observe how the Successor of Peter that, he also nailed to a cross as the Divine Master, love be pop e rock at the same time to fold every text of Scripture to his personal propaganda message; to despise so greatly the Holy People of God and preferring by far a neo-Town mythical; and the salvation of souls opt much for an unlikely salvation of bodies. If someone claims to deflect suspicion and reasons for speaking of "clericalism or elitism" - perhaps confusing it with alcoholism - Today more than ever it is time to denounce a new and even more stubborn form of papolatria praising not so much the Office Petrino, as constituted by Christ and Tradition, but the current occupant of the Office, along with caudatari servile and miserable sycophants she surrounds.

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Sixth Plague. The abuse of ecclesiastical power.

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The legitimate exercise of office of government in the Holy Church of God has never inspired führerprinzip né the Decalogue of Chief Laws. In his History of the Holy Church of God she has developed habits, practice, rules and procedures that, while ensuring the indivisible unity of the deposit of credit, they were able to accommodate sensitivity, want, the most diverse spiritualities and charisms. In the last five years, the law of retaliation has befallen anyone, lay or cleric, not to bend cheering.

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There in the current management of the Holy Church of God such a fear and dread rate, that in most of the Bishops and Clergy of the emulation layer of the big boss, more for fear of retribution for conviction, He has reached levels of real environmental pollution. This alone, perhaps, the great climate disaster that afflicts the Holy Church of God!

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It is now impossible to walk into a church without hearing pastors slavish aping the "Capo", as he is known among his confidants; participate in a liturgy, without having to listen to the liturgical texts - and in particular in the Universal Prayer - real sociological posters; take part in the Holy and Divine Liturgy without suffering the humiliation of sloppiness and platitudes, that the current pontificate has made rule Aurea. Abuse is daily, cheeky, bossy, aggressive and violent, from catechesis to predication, Liturgy from the public statements!

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not be discouraged, BUT make no mistake !

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Seventh Plague. L'attentato al sense of faith in all the faithful.

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He asks for the great Bishop of Hippo and Doctor of the Universal Church:

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"What will you do votes? that votes will fulfill? shall offer, perhaps, those animals that were once offered on the altars? None of this! You have to find yourself the subject of the vote and will keep you pronounce it. From the heart box we offer the incense of praise; the secret of good conscience you offer the sacrifice of faith. What you offer, burn it with the flame of charity. Not lacking in you sacrifices of praise, that you promise and hold to God ' [In the same place, Nineteenth, 52].

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In the overflowing church chatter of our time abound sociological categories and disappeared ones upbringing humble but fervent life of prayer, the sacramental practice of a fervent Liturgy and worthy, of true popular piety, a steady growth of that faith in common sense which it is the true and essential treasure, guarded over the millennia by the Holy People of God. Yet this common feeling of faith has been for centuries the true and only great defense, Also the dark times and tumultuous, in preserving the Faith, in nourishing the Hope and Charity in fueling.

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Now, just that faith in common sense you want to fool, confuse and weaken, without realizing that with it the charity and love of neighbor, that the Holy Church of God has always practiced for centuries and that has always seen forger of wonderful companies for the poor of all poverty, They disappear as a city under the mountain and placed light under a bushel [cf.. Matteo 5, 14-15].

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Although her naked body was hung from the loop a lurid scaffold of the last century totalitarianism, against the advance of the new totalitarianism ideologizing and blatantly anti-Catholic, a Protestant martyr can perhaps take heart and warn:

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"Grace dearly is the treasure hidden in the field, for whose sake the man goes and sells all that he has, with joy; the pearl, for the purchase of which the dealer gives all his possessions; the lordship of Christ, to which man is taken out of the eye that scandalizes, the call of Jesus Christ who leads the disciple to leave his nets and to follow him. dearly grace is the gospel which must constantly renew its search, the gift that you must constantly ask, the port to which it must always again beat. It's a high price because it calls us to follow, it is grace, because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ; you dearly, because man buys at the price of one's life, It is grace because in this way gives life; It is expensive because it condemns sin, is grace because it justifies the sinner. Grace is a high price mainly because it cost a lot to God; God has cost the life of his Son […]. It is above all grace, because God did not consider it too expensive his Son to redeem our lives, but she gave him up for us. dear Grace is the embodiment of God " [Dietrich Bonhoeffer, o.c., p. 25].

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This is the real Bonhoeffer, a Protestant, but Catholic theologians of ecumenism and lovers of Protestantism, or have not read or have deliberately forgotten.

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Conservation and progress

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STORAGE AND PROGRESS

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To resolve the current intra-ecclesial conflict between modernists and Lefebvre have to give each other these two essential factors of the ecclesial dynamism: preservation and progress.

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Giovanni Cavalcoli, o.p.

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Rereading some texts of the morning meditations the Holy Father in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Martha, the 31 October 2017 - as reported the columnist de The Osservatore Romano the 1 next November -, Pope asks, against the other: The Christians' really believe in the Holy Spirit "that is in them? And have the courage to "sow the seeds", to get involved, or take refuge in a "pastoral conservation ', that does not leave that "the Kingdom of God will grow"? And he answers: "So many times we see that you prefer a pastoral preservation" rather than "let the United grow".

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We would like some comments. It must be distinguished from conservation conservatism. Keep diligently and, jealously and the sacred deposit of divine Revelation, no compromises, without adding and without taking [cf Gal 3,15; AP 22,19] and be faithful to the cost of living is the absolute duty of every Catholic, in the first place the bishops and the Pope.

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conservatism, instead, which probably alludes to the Pope, It is a foolish and useless conservation. It is the store that is no longer needed, It is the cling or nearsightedness or laziness or fear or interest in ideas, costumes, mores, habits, traditions outdated or abandoned by the Church, is the exchange just progress for modernism, get stuck on a historic day phase of the Church's journey towards the Kingdom, is close the eye of the fields are already white for harvest " [GV 4,35]; is close ear to the voice of the Spirit, who "renews the face of the earth", that "renew our minds" [RM 12,2] and day by day renews our inner man [cf. II Cor 4,16]. The Holy Spirit urges the Church to ensure progress, but in the sense indicated by these words of the Lord, He serves to remind us [GV 14,26]and then encourage us to make money.

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Granted - I want to believe - the Pope to speak of conservatism and not of legitimate conservation, does not seem to correspond to truth, It seems like Pope Francis wants to insinuate, that there is a wide spread of conservatism, that nevertheless exists in Lefebvrians; but what now afflicts more and disturbs the Church have a much wider spread of modernism or a false progress and or a false interpretation of the renewal promoted by the Council. And these evils the Pope never speaks, all it is taken from exaggerated and biased polemic against traditionalism, which he is likely to make a bundle of all herbs, Also blaming that healthy conservatism that, along with a healthy conservation, are essential factors of the structure and progress of the Church.

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If Francis wants to be a reformer of the Holy See So begin with the ward or false stop those employees who are infected with Modernism and rahnerismo, and take very loyal employees and loyal to the papal Magisterium and enemies not only of lefebvrismo, but also of modernism, both open while the good sides of one and the other.

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However, there is a certain stubborn, short-sighted and presumptuous conservatism that, under the pretext of fidelity to Sacred Tradition, accused the Popes after the Council to disown, and he would like to return to the doctrinal climate and pre-conciliar pastoral, as if Vatican II did not take place, forgetting that, When a council makes a doctrinal progress, as is almost always the case, the church, more enlightened by the Gospel and overcome certain mistakes, On the infallibility of his doctrine, never comes back, while it may happen that a new Council corrects a defective pastoral practice initiated by a preceding Council, or restore or recover certain pastoral practices abandoned by that Council, because of this plan, for the changing historical contingencies or the fallibility of the churchmen themselves, it may mutate or wrong and therefore can be corrected, after experiencing the adverse effects caused by the error.

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Thus the Council, going to meet a need of the time in which it was celebrated, He insists on the pastoral renewal and gives about many directives, that touch all aspects of church life. But after fifty years of application of these directives, many observers and impartial pastors and lovers of the Church we have conducted for years now to make clear the fact that the pastoral reconcile, for some aspects, It needs a course correction, that perhaps only a new council or a great reformer Pope will implement.

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This in no way means that we should go back in toto to the pre-council pastoral, it means keeping the pastoral achievements of the post-council - for example a healthy ecumenism and interreligious dialogue -, purifying them from certain buonistici excesses and too optimistic towards the modern world, so that today, for lack of vigilance of the bishops, we see an impressive return of modernism, much worse and more insidious than that of St. Pius X times, even because, while this had taken root only in the lower clergy and among theologians and exegetes, that infects the same body Bishops especially in Smart thin to form the rahnerismo.

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All good Catholics, faithful and shepherds, You have now realized this enormous scam, except, I wonder why, the same modernist, which either fall from the clouds, or pretend they do not know or are deaf to appeals and warnings or contemptuously ignore the charges against them or reject them or disdained, poor slandered victims, from superfine hypocrites, persecute the courageous few who discover their plots.

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The great pastoral problem today, It is no longer what it was imposed fifty years ago, as he commanded the Council, to abandon a pastoral too conservative, anachronistic, static, repetitive, too defensive, suspicious, fearful, suspicious and aggressive towards the modern world, indeed poorly known and sometimes misunderstood, for a renewed approach to benign modernity, open, fair, healthily critical, certainly prudent as the serpent, but also simple as the dove, knowing that the world reserves pitfalls, but also that the world created by God offers several values ​​to be recognized, to save, and to lead to Christ.

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On the path of renewal, of becoming, of change, the rejuvenation, development and progress has insisted, and it has gone very far in the past fifty years, and certainly true progress never end; but it has not always advanced in the right way, and more than advance, in many cases, You are deflected or one has strayed from the right path and fidelity to the real teachings of the Council; There is not always a moved with the necessary resourcefulness, moderation, caution and wisdom, in obedience to the guide of the Pontiffs or the doctrine of Catechism of the Catholic Church, indeed often falling into modernism Network, which it is a misleading approach to modernity, in which it is necessary to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, and instead the modernists have confused with one another.

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What then today we must above all do to promote healthy, effective and balanced ministry, It suits this need of the hour, different and in some respects opposed to the historical situation, he had to face and solve the council, It is not so reproach conservatism, although then it may still exist, but it is that the Pope decides, finally, with boldness and courage, heedless of any quacking of modernists, to denounce the rampant modernism, far more dangerous and harmful than lefebvrismo or conservatism, considering the extensive damage that modernism has done in recent 50 year old. and he is making, under the pretext of conciliar renewal, in the Church and in society. And here I note that since 1966 Maritain denounced the danger of modernism. It is not that Maritain was precisely a conservative. We should not insist unilaterally on developing leaving quietly preserving the deposit of faith. It is the opposite that needs to be done, after fifty years of progressive rhetoric, who ended up degenerating into partisan polemics against modernism and preservation.

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The real future of the Church and of humanity

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It must plant it once and for all with a relativism and historicism of Hegel's origin, reported several times by Pope Benedict XVI in the wake of the conviction modernist evolutionism made by St. Pius X. Becoming supposed to be. Its only makes sense in relation to the Absolute, and the story has an end only in the Lord report. Instead, we must find the principles and the absolute values ​​of reason and faith, now largely forgotten, neglected, misunderstood, incompression, e skin disprezzat, among the very people who should keep them and insegnarceli, including bishops. Values ​​that instead have always been taught and always will be taught for the salvation of mankind, by sound philosophy, as rational, and from the Church, as values ​​of faith. We must know for sure what these values ​​of reason and of faith, We need to know why are these and not others, It is necessary to distinguish them from the subjective views and deciduous. We must distinguish dogmatism and fundamentalism by the certainty of faith and rational certainty.

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We should be able to distinguish the immutable values, immortal and incorruptible from those that mutate and become corrupt. Necessary to distinguish the immutable truth and supra-temporal and temporal those mutable, what is true today, it is true always and will always be true - philosophical truths, moral theological - what is true today and will be tomorrow under certain conditions or historical or legal institutions or political or ecclesial realities.

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It is with reason and faith that we know what is right and what is faith. At this point we do not underfoot quicksand, but the rock on which to build the house, the firm ground on which to rest and walk. We know what are the values ​​that will never fail. We know what is the meaning of existence and of life. We know who we are, where we come from and where we can, we want and need to go. We know that God exists. We know who to trust. We know why the good and evil. We know that there is no middle way between yes and no. We know our vocation and our duty. We see our eternal destiny and we can pursue it with hope, perseverance and courage, knowing they will not be disappointed. We know that we can do it. We know what are the values ​​and goods, for which it is worth sacrificing our lives, we know what are the values ​​on which we can not give in, even at the cost of living. We know what is martyrdom. We know we can sell everything, negotiate on everything, fiddling around, outside of our soul. So we buy all. We know it is impossible to salvation without these values, so these are the values ​​that guarantee the salvation. If we abandon delivery that was given to us by Christ, considering it outdated or aged or no longer valid or no longer relevant, for future invented by us in the idea that it is the Holy Spirit, we are not innovators, we make no real progress, but we are traitors, deserters and faithless; we are no longer under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Demon ma.

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Instead it is necessary that we always keep before the eyes del'intelletto and heart the values ​​and the absolute property, perennial and unchanging, God's Word does not pass - The word of God remains forever - that illuminates our path, It shows us our duties, us to experience the divine law, inflames the heart, It pushes us to holiness - the love of Christ compels us —, correcting our mistakes, forgives our sins, It leads to real progress, founded on divine truth always known better in the same sense and the same meaning.

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The appeal to "tradition" to know what is faith and what is not, in itself is not enough, and it is even illegal and wicked, if you claim to appeal directly and subjectively to Tradition, to contest or contradict or "fix" the doctrinal teaching of a Pope or a Council, as they often are the guardians and interpreters supreme and definitive Tradition.

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The error then worsens, whether between the content of Tradition does not discern which ones are truly permanent, inviolable and insuperable, and which it is old and outdated content. Tradition is not a matter of time duration, but the intrinsic value of truth, over the time, the content of the Tradition. We must be able to distinguish in the Tradition that is related to time and historical contingencies passing, what belongs essentially the Eternal and the Absolute, ie the institutional will of Christ ("Divine right") - for example the sacraments - which can never be, It never will be changed or abandoned by the Church.

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Thus it is not sufficient in every case to say: "gives 2000 years' - provided that you know for certain - "has always been thought or done so", because instead it is said that we should continue to do so forever. There is a past that is now past dead and buried. It would make sense to remove a corpse from the grave like the restoration of the values ​​of the past. What is rightly passed, it is good that remains of the past, otherwise it would be like trying to bring back those "things past" [II Cor 5,19], of which St. Paul speaks. Better still an ancient truth that a new error.

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There are indeed compared to Tradition firsts, never before existed. If, however, the Church establishes new things unknown to the previous Tradition, such as women's ministries or The new order of Mass, this is not a break with Tradition, but simply it means that those things were contained implicitly in Tradition.

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These are the lines of true "breakthrough prophetic", the real reform we expect of Pope Francis. Of course he should not listen to extollers time acti, and it does well to arguirli, but above all do not listen to flatterers and false friends, but those who really loves, who urges him to join teaching and pastoral, conservation and development, continuity and progress, loyalty and inventiveness, even if the true friend can have the tone of the warning or reprimand. The "revolution" populist, reckless and low-priced to let dittatorelli ambitious, bellied and demagogues Africa and Latin America, without lowering its sacred dignity of Vicar of Christ.

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If the Pope wants to be father of the poor, as it is clear from its intentions, imitate his Lord Jesus Christ and the countless Holy Fathers of the poor and let stand the Don Lorenzo Milani, i Fidel Castro Helder Câmara gli. The oppressed are not only immigrants. We invite the Holy Father to exercise his mercy with the crushed by the modernists, do not have too much confidence with the modernist oppressors.

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It is true that the lefevriani also speak of "modernists", but they distort the meaning of the concept, when they accuse of "modernism" the Papacy post-conciliar and doctrines of the Council, confuse progress with modernism or Maritain with Rahner or confuse Mass new world order Dinner with Lutheran. Continues below the journalist: "Reality, indeed, It is that "wheat" - words of the Pope - "has the power within, the yeast has the power inside ", and also "the power of the Kingdom of God comes from within; the strength comes from within, the growth comes from within ' ".

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There is no doubt about the truth of what the Pope says here. Only the Gospel image of the wheat grain is not the only image that Christ offers to His Word. No doubt it throughout history, always comes better known by the Church in the same sense and the same meaning, as St. Vincent of Lerins, with the development of the Church's dogmatic.

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To clarify the issue of the conservative function of pastoral and avoid the conservatism, necessary to refer to statements or comparisons of Christ, in which emerges the durability, stability, the immutabilità, incorruptibility, eternity of God's Word, like when, for instance, it is compared to a. "treasure" [cf. ], to a "precious pearl" [cf. ], a "drachma" [cf. ] or a "rock" [cf. ]. It is a word that "does not pass" [cf. ]. It is a word of "eternal life" [cf. ]. The precious things are carefully preserved and jealously. It is a principle of good sense, that everyone understands. And how much more so it must be kept intact and undamaged, at any cost, without change, without corrections, without adding and without taking, although with continuous explanations, the divine message of salvation, who assures us and promises us eternal life.

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Of course, the Gospel message is not like a perishable food, which is corrupt, if it is not well guarded and preserved. In fact, it is not afraid of the wear of time or corrosive agents. It is made of corruptible matter, but it is pure immortal spirit. It is a treasure that, though well guarded, "the thief can not steal and moths can not break '. Who can be corrupted is the possessor, who is unfaithful, negligent and neglected in the store and keep it, and then he can lose. Here apostasy. It can conceive evil and can travisarlo. That's heresy. It can hurt administer. Here human respect, sloth and negligence of the pastors.

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He continues the columnist: "Similarly, said Francis, "If we want to preserve for us the grain, It will be only a grain. If we do not mix with life, with flour of life, the yeast, It will remain only the yeast "". Here the Pope touches an aspect of conservatism. He obviously does not deny that needs store grain: otherwise, if you come to donate? We give what we have carefully preserved. Ma, If values ​​are to be donated, and this is precisely the case of God's Word, although it must donate. They are the very words of Jesus: "If the grain of wheat does not die, it remains only; but if it dies, it produces much fruit » [LC 12,24].

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How to tune preservation and progress

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It can advance the living being that has its own stable identity. In fact the real progress is to improve the conditions of the subject. The course assumes that the preservation of the subject. It is true that life is movement, it is becoming, it is changing. But why is life indeed be development or explanation in the right direction of the existing entity. The progress of the movement must be healthy, that is orderly and well-guided and non-pathological, disorganized or incoherent. Even a madman is full of movement, but no one envies his condition.

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The subject that divides or changes by denying their identity namely by ceasing to keep himself, start a movement that does not involve progress, but dissolution or disintegration. It is the process that leads to death. It is true that the dead no longer exercises the vital activities. However, the stiffness of death does not exclude at all in becoming a corpse which is its dissolution. So the sheer becoming, the simple change or mutate is not a good in itself. All becoming has a direction.

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Not to be trusted to a becoming confused and contradictory. To test whether this is progress, not corruption, We have to see where tents. If it tends to better progress; it tends to worse setback. It should be short, it is becoming, the development or enhancement or improvement of a subject who is supposed to be maintained in its own identity. Otherwise, becoming is not life, my dead, it is not progress, but retrogression, not evolution but involution, but no progress relegation, not decay.

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The concern to preserve their healthy alleged identity, It is a very legitimate concern and dutiful, that has nothing to do with conservatism do not know what "closing another". It lacks in masochists subjects and d It corresponds to what in the animal kingdom is self-preservation, without which that animal would soon be destroyed by adverse agents.

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It is necessary that the Pope, which supreme guardian, advocate, guarantor and moderator, concord and peace in the Church, to assume its responsibilities. It must ask yourself in the position it deserves fair trial, centering on the universal principles of the Church, so that both sides conflict - lefevriani and modernists - can recognize themselves as Catholic.

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It should be, secondly, that recognizes the part of truth and justice - mentioned in this article -, present and carried forward by both parties. The two sides, side by side relationship, fit perfectly, as the two halves of a sphere broken, because God created them just because, unite, do one thing, which it is the same reality of the Church.

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The Pope must make every effort so that the two sides meet each other and approached, overcoming old grudges, ODĪ. and mistrust. It must abandon its current propensity for modernists, otherwise it can not be expected to elicit the confidence of Lefebvre and the modernists remain confirmed in their errors and take on an arrogant attitude, which will not lead to any result. The Pope must make sure that Lefebvre feel understood and appreciated in their good reasons, What the Pope has so far not done, indeed falling into contempt and nell'insulto. They, But, from them, They must strive to accommodate confidently all the doctrines of the Council, as he urged them repeatedly Pope Benedict XVI and, consequently, the following papal teaching until Papa Francesco.

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As for the modernists, the Pope must follow the same method applied to Lefebvre: recognize the good sides and correct defects. Good side of the modernists, that has escaped the Lefebvrians, who misunderstood, is the attention to modern thinking and a willingness to modernization and progress of the Church. But if the Church is relatively easy to correct the errors of Lefebvre, after all few in number and fairly compact, a fact of doctrines and morals, gigantic undertaking, and above the forces of the Church it appears the work of correction of errors of the modernists, and because they are scattered throughout the Church, among pastors and the faithful, and because mistakes are very varied and touch on all the dogmas of the faith. Wanting to make a comparison drawn from garbage, cleaning up the Lefebvrian camp is about cleaning up the modernist camp, as well as to clean up in a Swiss city is to treat the Naples garbage.

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However, a point of agreement between the Pope, Lefebvre and the modernists you might find around the problem Rahner. Indeed, while the modernists consider Rahner their greatest theologian, Lefebvre have sharply Rahner identified in the greatest danger for the Church today. At this point the Pope - it's about time - should decide with courage, come what may, to condemn the errors Rahner, giving a just satisfaction to Lefebvre and to all lovers of truth and of the Church. However, things are not so simple, because really Rahner gave a contribution to the doctrines of the Council. It is at this point that Lefebvre pass from the wrong and so must the Pope correct them, because they consider it as a modernist's contribution to the Council rahneriano. From here their rejection of such doctrines regarded as moderniste, which is false, because Lefebvre interpret those doctrines of modernism in the sense rahneriano; and instead there Rahner gave a positive contribution, otherwise it would not have been approved by Council. If the Pope will be able to show to Lefebvre and the modernists the points on which they meet each other and if one more he will accept the papal corrections, Peace will be made.

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The Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sustain the Pope in its leadership in the Church's mission in the truth, in the unit, in holiness, in a healthy pluralism and harmony, in a renewed evangelization, that enlarges the boundaries of the visible Church, vinca forces hostile to it, religions convert to Christ, reacquaint the separated brethren to the Holy Mother Church, showing the world the face of just God vindicates the humble, merciful comforter of the afflicted, liberator of the oppressed, conqueror of sin and death.

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WOMEN FROM CARDINAL OPENING OF THE PROCESS OF BEATIFICATION OF THE SERVANT OF GOD MOANA POZZI. TALKS IN VILLAGE BETWEEN IPAZIA AND THRILLING COSMIC

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At lamented Moana Pozzi we must also assign a patronage, so well as the limited number of participants of persecuted minorities have their saints Protecting. We must now propose the Servant of God Moana Pozzi as co-patron of priests along with St. John Vianney, entrusting it to the patronage of the minority of heterosexual priests.

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In front of a visible Church suffers from a doctrinal and moral decay irreversible, you must open as soon as the sperm bank

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BEFORE A CHURCH VISIBLE FROM A SLICE AND MORAL DECLINE Doctrinal IRREVERSIBLE, YOU MUST OPEN THE FIRST BANK OF SEED

Right now we should treasure of the words of Cardinal Charles Journet [1891-1975] than in his work Church of the Incarnate Word explains: "The axiom “where the Pope there is the Church”, so where the Pope acts as Pope and Head of the Church; if not, neither the Church is in him, neither he is in the Church " .

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Rembrandt, Christ with the Apostles in the boat in a storm

The problem is disastrous, we start diluting the air with a little’ of humor …

… responding to a Cardinal who wanted to cheer him up by reminding him that according to the promise of Jesus Christ Peter's boat would not be prey to the storm and that the end would come in port, Blessed Pope Pius IX answered: "It's true, but the Lord has spoken and given warranties with respect to the boat, not regarding the crew ' [cf. G. Cionchi, The Pius IX hidden, Ed. Kshlom, 2000. WHO]. And with this joke of Blessed Pope Pius IX, who in private it was endowed with a spirit of humor at times hilarious, pass mystagogical aspect is that tragic. It is so true that Christ himself has promised that the Church will survive until his return at the end of time, but the Word of God also gives us a clear question to ponder:

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But the Son of Man, when will, find faith on earth? [cf. LC 18, 8]

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With great clarity the Blessed Apostle Paul wrote to the people of Thessalonica making use of language and dramatic images:

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Please, siblings, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our communion with him not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed neither by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand, so that no man deceive you in any way. Before that day will be the apostate and must be revealed the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship up to sit in the temple of God, ostentandosi as God. Do not remember, while I was still with you, These things were? And now you know what prevents its manifestation that takes place at the time. The mystery of lawlessness is already in place. Meanwhile, those who now holds it holds it, until the middle of bait and then it will be revealed the wicked and the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the light of his coming, because the presence of the wicked will occur in the power of Satan with all sorts of portents, signs and wonders of falsehood and every kind of wicked deception for those who are lost, because they received not the love of the truth and so be saved. Therefore, God will send them a justification of error that they may believe the lie and so are judged all who have not believed the truth, but they consented to the iniquity [2Ts 2,1-3.13-17]

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Then turning to his disciple Timothy, the Blessed Apostle continues to write:

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I charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, do warn, reproaches, exhorts with all magnanimity and doctrine. The day will come, indeed, when they will not endure sound doctrine;, ma, having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales. But you shall carefully, endure suffering, do the work of the gospel proclaimer, fulfil your Ministry [II Tm 4,1-8].

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When the Blessed Apostle John He wrote the text of the Apocalypse on the Island of Patmos, in verse in which he tells ...

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"Fell, fallen is Babylon the great, one that has made all the nations with the wine of her fornication of fury " [AP 13, 8].

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... using an image of the Old Testament It caters to the Roman Empire, then Rome hidden behind "Babylon the Great", all for reasons that anyone can understand. Reasons related in part to security and partly to the spread of the text, in order to prevent their destruction by the Romans at the time about a strong suspicion towards gesuano movement and its spread of his message.

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After two thousand years now, it comes from saying that never as today has that reference to ancient Rome hidden behind the image of Babylon current, place that has long Roma "has made all nations drink of the wrath of her fornication with wine" [refer to the latest articles: WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO].

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I do not mean not even touch the world of private revelations, those recognized by the Church, where it comes from several centuries of the great apostasy. With all due respect to the private revelations approved by the Church, I remember that these are not enclosed in store the Catholic faith, where they are enclosed the Holy Gospels, the Apostolic Letters and the Book of Revelation that speak of the Prince of this world [cf. John John 12, 31; 14, 30; 16, 11], antichrist [The Gv 2, 18; 2, 22; 4,3; AP 1, 13-18] and the great apostasy [cf. Ii Ts 2, 1-12]. In the Old Testament the prophet Zechariah foretells the coming of the foolish shepherd:

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"I will raise up the land a shepherd who will not care for the sheep who perish, will not seek the scattered, will not heal the wounds, nor feed those who stand, but he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their nails even » [Zc 11,16].

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But above all is the Word of God to ask the tragic question: "But the Son of Man, when will, find faith on earth? [cf. LC 18, 8]». This is the reason why for years, although unnecessarily, I keep repeating that the day of his return: "How come again in glory to judge the living and the dead", Christ might even find the shell of a completely emptied Church of the Divine Word and filled with another. And this process of emptying and filling has been ongoing for over half a century, and today is now at an advanced stage, but mostly irreversible.

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The COUNTRY COUSINS

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pop quartet de The Country Cousins

I feel tender affection for all theologians and lay people who set himself to defend the purity of doctrine before this terrible debacle, they continue to battle in vain against Modernism and the theology of Karl Rahner, almost as if doing it for forty years they remained fossilized on this, without realizing that the one, Modernism, the other, the so-called rahnerismo, They are no longer the problem. Sometimes it seems to have to do with the complex pop from The Country Cousins, that even if aged, but always dressed in the same fashion clothes in the early seventies of the twentieth century and with the wedges from twenty centimeters to feet, they continue to sing: "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls' [cf. WHO, WHO]. I am sure that, finally, the sing for the last time in a geriatric department and then inside an oncology center for the terminally ill, because all their lives they sang that reason and until the end of life will step forward to sing the dressing of the late seventies and fashionable dresses with wedges from twenty centimeters to feet; clothing with which they will eventually be deposited in the coffin, while outside it the members of their fan club sing in chorus: "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls'.

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Perhaps, i Countryside cousins some of our theology, think that if one day a Pope ordered the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to disavow new Modernism and declare heterodox theology of Karl Rahner, the problem would be really solved? To think or hope in this is to be not only beyond reason, but just beyond the boundaries of reality. And those who can not perceive reality because fossilized committed to live in the reality that has been created, It does not say hurt the Church, but certainly not helping to solve their problems and make them good.

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With respect to those who followed to waste time both Modernists and with the theology of Karl Rahner - because that made all life and this must continue to make -, what we must instead take note it is that the first and second were the first believers. Just so: Modernists and Karl Rahner were believers as were the great heretics of Arius and Pelagius history. We know how their faith was corrupted by error, but none of them has ever acted to bring harm to the Church, quite the opposite: They were convinced of the good of the Church and especially of being right and therefore felt the duty of conscience to save. Or is someone that the Council of Nicaea to Ario, later St. Augustine debating against Pelagio, They have directed their accusations to be people without faith? Just then cite the case of Joachim of Fiore, whose heretical thought was sentenced in 1215 by the Fourth Lateran Council, but he never doubted either his faith or his personal holiness of life. Joachim of Fiore, who also was a man of deep piety and holiness of life, He was never beatified because speculating on the mystery of the Trinity had fallen - so surely unintended -, in a precise form of heresy that will then take the name of joachimism O millenarianism. But it was another era, In fact today that times have changed, There is instead preparing to beatify the Apulian Bishop Tonino Bello, whose heroic virtues are constituted by the fact that it was a great engaged in social, without taking into account that this effort was built on demagoguery, on populism and pauperism, as well as on a totally uncritical split and sentimental pacifism morality and Catholic doctrine. In truth, the Fair is an authentic heresies receptacle for the most part written, published, filmed and recorded, ie documented; and diffuser of a Christology that begins with Christ to come to himself and focus on man, an ecclesiology that euphemistically could be called daring and Mariology to be confused him with romantic poems. But he spoke of the poor and poverty and was a great involved in social; and perhaps what makes him a true Blessed? And Joachim of Fiore, At that time, when we beatify?

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Wanting there is more and worse: if for the first time in its history the Church proceeded to the beatification and then the next canonization of first bishop heterodox, the great pundits of Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, what ingenious interpretive artifices think of resorting, whereas canonization, unlike a beatification, It implies a verdict of infallible teaching? Why these, Unfortunately, are the questions that for the first time in Church history we are now forced to answer; and find some answers is not easy and not at all easy, from a strictly theological and dogmatic point of view. but yet, sooner or later, you will have to respond to this as to other questions, although I expect that someone will not hesitate to affirm, in the name of that logic able to go beyond all logic, that takes over if a verdict of infallible teaching - I am referring to the hypothetical canonization of Tonino Bello -, This pronouncement will cancel and erase retroactively any overt heresy and shows the canonized, because who has delivered its opinion can not err, foolproof, therefore it enjoys a very special way of the Holy Spirit … perhaps up to be above the order established by God and therefore of God himself?

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The question is therefore logical to say the least: faced with a situation like, what good would it do battle against the errors of Joachim of Fiore, born and lived between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? It would take just as much as today, and can serve to battle against the Modernists and Karl Rahner. Because for certain theologians and thinkers, the underlying problem is not what Karl Rahner was wrong from a doctrinal point of view. The problem, but above all the goal to reach, and more: I am right and they are right to say from a life that Karl Rahner's wrong and wrong. In short: I am right that for forty-four years later to sing in many different ways: "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls'.

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Having said that I continue saying: The older theologians are free to continue to thunder against the Modernists and against Karl Rahner. And as, of certain subjects, I know is stubbornness is the extent to which they ended up falling in love both of their good battles both of their idea of ​​truth, I avoid losing unnecessary time to explain to them that the problem today of the Church are neither heresies of the Modernists or dangerous heterodoxies Karl Rahner, because something else is the problem that they do not want to identify and see.

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Today, inside of the Church live the self-destructive tragedy a disintegration of the deposit of faith and dogma deriving from the swarm of a very large number of bishops and presbyters which are in fact the perfect atheists, of non-believers. Before the objective fact and incontrovertible of this atheism, I would certainly not lose my precious time squirming between modernism and rahnerismo, paralyzed in disputes that today are useless, Whereas the life God gave it to me to use it and not to waste it uncritically and stubborn to the end. Of course, The Stakeholders can say that we came to this thanks to modernism and to rahnerismo. Good, but continue to repeat this, in which realistic and objective logical solution can lead, if not ... "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls' ?

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EXCEEDING THE POINT OF NO RETURN CREATES IRREVERSIBILITY

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in large forfeitures there is always a threshold that marks the point of no return

These wrestlers Against Modernism and Karl Rahner what they want: disavowal of that Modernism already disavowed by the Holy Pontiff Pius X and his two successors, then the repudiation of Karl Rahner, or simply that it recognized the rightness of their theological positions as opposed to those critical of Karl Rahner? Possible that some pundits of logic and metaphysics, lost in their dream world and convinced that they live in it maximum grip with the real human and ecclesial, fail to understand what leads to a gangrenous and irreversible situation like the one we are experiencing? Can not reach to understand that when the decadence that invests regularly the civil and religious company passed the so-called safety limit, no going back, because at that point the irreversible and unstoppable process proceeds regardless of the will more or less good of the people themselves or the little good that remains inside a small church in structure of sin, which it produces an internal sin and who then spreads outside? Someone has never raised the issue of what the Church today can be seen to have lost sanctifying grace because of a diabolical mechanism rejection developed in-house? And do not come to me to tell improperly that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, of which he is head and we are living members [cf. With the 1, 18], because I know. And since I know, I take this opportunity to remind you that the Mystical Body is the union of the faithful, It constituted the cornerstone of which is the Word of God, guided through the centuries by the Roman Pontiff, It remembers the question successor of Blessed Peter the Apostle, not the successor of Christ, of which it is Vicar on earth, no successor on earth. The Mystical Body is not only a moral union formed by the common purpose, as in an earthly society would be what in legal language is referred to as "legal person", it is a collection of souls, joined by a living bond and vital which is the life of God, associate to each of them by means of the Sacraments. So this is not a headless union, or guided by the hierarchy, which are the bishops united to the Roman Pontiff, but a reality that dominates our every human expectation, of which Jesus Christ is the Head of this Body, while the faithful united with Him in the bond of divine grace, are members. This is how a real body, spiritual, which has its basis in Jesus Christ and in sanctifying grace, whose limbs or are already united in the glory of the heavenly Jerusalem, or they are in the certainty of faith of Paradise. However, if the head of this visible body of Christ is excluded and if the visible body is not sanctifying grace, If someone intends to wonder what will become of this visible body? And please, do not tell me that the visible Church can not lose sanctifying grace because of Christ and is assisted by the Holy Spirit, because with all respect I would find myself compelled to reply that I am a priest and a theologian and as such, and as such I can not reason with the illogic of the wizards who read the bottoms of coffee cups. Or is it perhaps the case already happened that Adam and Eve have altered after the creation of the perfect harmony of all creation, after having denied and rejected the action of sanctifying grace of God upon them? [cf. Gen 3, 15]. Said this, anyone thinks for real, in the name of his surreal dogmatic, that the visible Church can not reject and exclude sanctifying grace because being the Church of Christ and being governed by the Holy Spirit, God the Father would never allow? To think, reassure and reassure the people of God transmitting things like that is really abhorrent, in the etymological sense of the term aberration. As we can only speculate that the visible Church would never vacated by God to refuse his sanctifying grace, if Adam and Eve were left free to rebel against the Creator? And if we deny this, then we can easily pass for real from dogmatic theology at the magic of reading coffee cups funds!

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AND NOW THAT IS ANSWERED TO MY PARADIGM OF THE PARATROOPER

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if the aircraft is without a parachute it is physically impossible to stop, back on the plane, wear a parachute and jump again …

Certain subjects they would not hesitate to revolutionize the laws of physics in the name of their subjective truth and their equally subjective logic, but the question that they should ask themselves is very practical and very simple background: for a dreadful error which may also have competition both modernists both rahneriani, or for a negligent to say the least absurd, it happened that a parachutist would have stepped off the plane without having donned the parachute. And this is the current situation of the Church: launch a plane without a parachute. Well, the great masters of Aristotelian logic, the school and metaphysics, at this point should bring the best arguments to explain that this paratrooper, precipitating towards the ground by two thousand meters of height, It can still stop, go back, provide for wear and parachuted launch again. And if these pundits metaphysical answer that he has launched without a parachute because of the Modernists and Karl Rahner, I will say that this, It was also true, now it is irrelevant, because the cause was found and destroyed before he will branch out. If then, even worse, before the paratrooper who rushes without a parachute, those who can never be free of a "logical" answer for everything, They are attacked to say that is the Holy Spirit, at that point, I will say that the Holy Spirit is not Merlin, then invite them to explain how the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, before a free individual or collective act of the will which involves precise consequences, He will cancel its freedom and its free will to bring it back on the plane, let him wear the parachute and then let it run again, after meanwhile he disavowed the modernists and rahneriani, on account of which he has launched without a parachute. Or in other words: it would be as if God the Father had annulled in Adam and Eve freedom and free will to prevent them from rebelling against the Creator and thus committing the original sin. For God did not do it? All in all then it would have avoided trasmettessero to all mankind a corrupt nature due to a sin that their descendants have not committed, but because of them, however, they have contract. What would have cost to God to intervene, suspend for a few minutes their freedom and their agency? Well, ask ourselves why God did not do it, if we really want to be men of faith and logic, men instead of fideism and illogic cloaked behind the highest speculations of scholastic and metaphysics.

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While we know well the problems caused by Modernism and Karl Rahner, beyond which we are now long gone, but also better we understand the shortsightedness of some people who pretend to quickly change a logical answer for everything, up to drown into the glass of water of illogical, it cost as well stick to real shots of magic of the Holy Spirit, thus ignoring the two foundations that are in support of the mystery of man's creation: freedom and free will.

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THE SYPHILIS AND AIDS DISEASE ARE TWO LISTS: UNA NOT AT ALL THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE OTHER

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between syphilis and AIDS there is no connection, diseases are two separate and distinct from one another

Let's go then cautious, Although I myself have partly done, affirming that Modernism and Karl Rahner are the result of the launch of skydiver without a parachute, because the thing is not at all logical and consequential. Or to put it another example: we put that in the United States bursts a real epidemic AIDS. In the event to, while those infected will die without the possibility of cures and effective vaccines against this disease, what would benefit persist in speaking of the Spanish in the sixteenth century prostitutes infected with syphilis sailors of Christopher Columbus, which then spread to the New America among people who never had to know certain diseases before they arrive? But I can guarantee that serves no purpose to explain to these people that the objective problem of modernity is not syphilis but l 'AIDS. Even less will serve to explain to them that between syphilis and l 'AIDS there is no scientific link clinical, there is no connection, because the latter disease is not born as a result of degenerative previous, but it develops in a completely autonomous. Lost time! They will step forward undeterred to cite the cases of Christopher Columbus sailors in the sixteenth century spread syphilis in New Americas, because what they studied, written and explained all my life, so this wish to continue undeterred to write and explain: Syphilis. Or if you prefer better: "My soul, back to your home, I'll be waiting I had to hate these walls'. And if you really must acknowledge that today, the real and serious problem, It is not syphilis but people who die from AIDS, at that point, regardless of falling in scientific illogic, just to continue to talk about their beloved and indispensable theories of syphilis, They affirm without ridiculous sentence that 'AIDS It is the logical consequence of syphilis. But if anyone, before certain expressions laugh behind the illogical, they will feel more than ever confirmed in their ideas and in response replicate: inevitably he laughs, because it is a dangerous syphilitic and as such has been heard out and stung.

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AGAIN TODAY BY LOGIC ARISTOTELIAN, BY EDUCATION AND FROM SAN THOMAS AQUINAS? You think irrationality PURE

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welcome to the world of the irrational …

In a visible Church in which the humoral and emotional have taken the place of the objective and rational, where the law is despised leading to accusations of "self-righteous legalism" addressed to those who call upon the application of the canonical norms, where you ride declaring with urticaria before the rigors of the "old doctrine", where even bishops and priests have taken the habit of using the words "dogma" and "dogmatic" in a negative term for people with these entries closed and obtuse, I do my best wishes to all those who today, before a visible Church in which arrogance was elected to the law in a climate of total anarchy, presume to be able to apply Aristotelian logic and criteria of the old and glorious school. I think these people deserve the best compliments, as anyone who deserves them assume with certainty and serious belief that they can read the original texts in Hebrew from the Book of Genesis and the texts of the Holy Gospels in the original greek to an arrogant illiterate in a government role, that far from being aware of his illiteracy feels the opposite person of high culture and as such entitled to despise the knowledge of others, exercising the worst coercion all the authority of which is covered. But how can you think only a joke to start from Aristotle, by the school and by Aquinas, when to impose their study should be arrogant and contemptuous of illiterates who do not know the Catechism of the Catholic Church and who now occupy all the top key roles in the Church and ecclesiastical power?

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Losing then deliberate and unnecessary time, certain theologians insist on explaining that we must start from the Aristotelian logic and by St. Thomas Aquinas, as recommended certain Popes and certain documents of the magisterium, ignoring the recommendations of those Popes have fallen on deaf ears and that those of magisterial documents have been completely set aside. And to waste time I do not feel, especially considering that the use of the life that was given to me I will have to answer to God, I do not particularly love is the unnecessary loss of time or waste of the talents bestowed by Him [cf. Mt 25, 14-30; LC 19, 12-27]. So I leave willingly discuss these subjects dream of an audience of arrogant illiterate under the ruins of the house that falls apart stating with absolute certainty that we must start from the Aristotelian logic, by the school and by St. Thomas Aquinas, as several Popes lived decades and decades ago they have recommended through various documents giving their teaching. And here I wonder: these wise scholastic and Thomist, They have perhaps realized that to better allocate and destroy these magisterial documents, has even come up with the unusual and original ploy to beatify and canonize the Popes their authors, However, at the same time destroying their teaching? And if this is not evil, I honestly do not really know what it is. To then he had doubts in this regard, just ask to reflect on what remains today of the Encyclical Faith and Reason or of the Apostolic Exhortation Familiar Consortium of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II, who it was canonized just as the other side you were literally in pieces these documents to him especially dear. To follow with the upcoming Holy Pontiff Paul VI, which on one hand will be canonized and the other will be given a short new reading and interpretation of his encyclical Human life, all taking advantage of people like S.It is. Mons. Vincenzo Paglia …

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… anyway, in this climate of irreversible collapse just start from the Aristotelian logic, by the school and by St. Thomas Aquinas, all adding to the Mass celebrated with the Missal of St. Pius V, so that the free fall without a parachute is finally interrupted, the paratrooper who is falling to the ground can be stopped in the air, reported on the plane by the Holy Spirit fell in the role of Merlin, so wear the parachute and then launch again reciting: « introibo altar to the Gods, to God who giveth joy to my youth ». When then after this operation it will finally come safely to earth, First we will offer you a cup of coffee, then, after he drank, we can also switch to a metaphysical reading of the bottom of the cup.

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THAT SUPER COUNCIL VATICAN NATO WITH SYNDROME PROGERIE BUT ON WHICH CAN NOT BE DISCUSSED, IN A CHURCH IN WHICH DISCUSS SOME TIME EVEN ON THE FAITH DOGMAS

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pictured the American teenager Samuel Berns, suffering from the syndrome Progerie [disease of the “born old”], in a photo taken at the age of 17 year old, just before he died [It comes from The Corriere della Sera, WHO]

After a process incubazione which starts from the late nineteenth early twentieth century, in the late fifties of the twentieth century came to life a radical mutation of the Church, initially hidden under pretexts of reform and update. And here lies another problem: the inability of many Catholic scholars distinguish Vatican II from the post-conciliar, which does not mean to deny that certain very optimistic facility documents, cast for more with a whole new language which are affected by the German Romantic style decadent, Then we have favored the confusion that has developed in the post-conciliar [see my previous article, WHO]. If we want to look at those who are certain objective limits of the Second Vatican Council, We can just say that his documents were born suffering from the syndrome Progerie, the so-called disease “born old”. And these are because they do not speak to the future, but the man of a mind that was already dying. Quite different was instead the Council of Trent, It wrote in the sixteenth century, proponent of reforms and not revolutions, who had the ability to speak plain language to men the next five centuries of church history. And who that thinks it can deny, which denies it well, but do it in logical rigor, not subjective-emotional-ideological rigor, in this miserable and devastated church visible in the Tridentine which the term - referring to the Council of Trent - is now commonly used by bishops, Priests and theologians in highly negative sense, mainly to show people retrograde and obtuse.

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Even this last speech is useless to this, because by the time we now quite beyond the same problems of the post-conciliar, how long we are now quite beyond most of the same documents of Vatican Council II, that having been cloaked in ideology touted for ecclesiology, make it impossible for anyone to open serene scientific debates aimed to demonstrate and clarify what now certain documents, written for a man of fifty does that already was dying at the time when they were drawn up, today they are nothing more than the old texts, no topical and poorly effective to speak to the man of the third millennium. And after this council dei council the Church was finally embalmed in subjective ideologies based on the idea of ​​a super council that theological schools, groups of people or individuals, They are finally cut out according to their own interests and pleasures, each giving rise to their staff Council egomenico.

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For case, there was something that did not work? Definitely. And all just starting from the style of the language adopted by the Second Vatican Council, documents which, starting from Holy Council, give guidelines but no clear indications, indicating if anything, even the penalties for offenders, then open the doors to postume interpretations for the implementation of reforms. And although for many all is well and everything went well, if we take instead of the first reforms, which it was the liturgical, the evidence shows this is today's reality: if today we enter one of our churches, to this increasingly empty, we will find ten priests who celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice in ten different ways. To this we also add the lay movements that have created their own liturgies that are teeming with all kinds of liturgical abuses. If then in 2004, forty years on from the great liturgical reform, Asked to have enacted the Education Sacramentum [cf. WHO] in which they remember the foundations of the Holy Eucharist, it is evident that something, or perhaps many things, They did not go so well in the right direction.

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This something that did not work well and the right way, between the various names has one in particular that embodies the serious and devastating problem: hermeneutic of discontinuity or of the break up, which as we know are powerful advocates the theologians of the School of Bologna, Today large piazzatori of bishops and cardinals under this pontificate Augusto, from Europe to the Philippines. And what are the consequences of this discontinuity O break up? Very simple: in a few days an overt heretic, that Enzo Bianchi, World preach a retreat to the clergy at the Sanctuary of Ars, where the remains of the saint patron of priests are preserved, Also present at the big event, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. And when the priests together with the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy flock to hear the pearls of wisdom of a person who sows five decades blatant heresies, there is very little to add, except that the phrase soon resound: "Everything is done" [GV 19, 30].

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CATHOLICS WE PROUD THAT WE WANTED TO LEARN THE LESSONS OF HISTORY

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those signs that we are no longer able to read and interpret: on the day that the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI has made withdrawal from the holy throne, three lightning struck in succession by a cross on the ball dell'Arcibasilica dome of St. Peter, the third of which was photographed and taken in video [click on image to open the video]

The real problem is that of a pyramid structure someone moved the stones of the base, causing the progressive collapse of the pyramid from the base to the tip. And while this collapse is underway, someone is seriously debating the urgent need to declare how false the god Anubis, whose frescoes in honor of his cult are found in one of the inner rooms of the pyramid. In short: We disown the Modernists and Karl Rahner while the whole pyramid is collapsing, why then, with their condemnation, at that point the pyramid is rimonterà from itself from the base up to the tip, because the pyramid is of Christ and is governed by the Holy Spirit, then the Son and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, will provide to this. E, how to understand, before those who think in this way and to whom has the similar approaches with Pneumatology, we really metaphysics transformed into magic.

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With an arrogance that eventually would inevitably be punished, Catholics we refused to learn from the solemn lessons of history. All the great ancient civilizations, from the Sumerians to the Assyrian-Babylonians, by the Egyptians to the Greeks until the fall of the great Roman Empire, They triggered at some point of irreversible decay processes. And as I explained with the parachute paradigm, the decline is irreversible when it exceeds the point of no return, when the aircraft is exited without a parachute; a fact born of an act of more or less free choice before which no one, even the Holy Spirit, It can intervene subverting all the laws of physics to the rescue of man free and endowed with free.

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In a short time, within twenty years at most, the Catholic Church as we have known will not exist. There will small groups around the world who have saved the foundations of the deposit of faith. The great ecclesiastical structures will be converted into stable intended for completely different uses, the glorious and ancient monumental churches are museums, concert halls, Art exhibition centers, or brought into various kinds of secular activities. If the reigning Pontiff will be succeeded another two or three similar or worse setting, at present the Holy See will eventually find natural home, the Union of Christian Spiritual Churches Partner, purpose of which will be to continue social mundane activities, charitable and philanthropic, all with the blessing of the Company of the United Nations. School children will receive some meager news of one Jesus Christ as now receive news about the Egyptian pharaohs or the first king of Rome, with the speech entirely focused on her humanity and not his divinity. But most of all, of what was the Catholic Church, It will be handed down to posterity the best of the worst of black legends that it will resemble one of the largest associations of criminals existed over the last two thousand years of history, as long as she does not cleansed from all its ancient ugliness conforming to the world and following the rules of the world, Church becoming the man for the man who has finally put the man at its center.

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Some might say that today should be a new Gregory or a new Leo the Great. Anyone who thinks this, to use the image of the so-called transfert freudiano, It transfers the image of Merlin which was often reduced the Holy Spirit, with the image of a Supreme Pontiff who is himself a Merlin. Indeed, in a situation of complete and unstoppable decline ecclesial, morale, spiritual and doctrinal, what could ever make a Gregory or Leo the Great revived? Perhaps it could govern the Church with the squalid and immoral characters who swarm a number of priests, among bishops and among the cardinals? Or maybe he could control it and purify it with an army of bishops and priests who by tall disturbing number are practicing homosexuals, as demonstrated irrefutably the facts, hardly the malevolent suppositions? Simply said,: the best scenarios, potential or Leo the Great Gregory would soon end the Pope Celestine V.

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But for holy charity: we want to realize that throughout the entire ecclesiastical structure and hierarchy is now totally infected from the queue until the head?

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We must therefore give a reason to all those who in the wake of the new course excited yell "no going back!». They are right, Unfortunately. I myself I have to agree with them: 'No turning back'. But if, however, a courageous Pope who do not know the hat of magician who could be pulled out, condemned Modernism and Karl Rahner, ripristinasse studies of good schooling, of metaphysics and of Thomism, all it would be resolved by magic spell. Again to return to the parachute paradigm ...

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BANK OF SEED

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those signs that nobody reads and interprets more: Angelus on Saint Peter's Square, His Holiness is launching two children two doves, who moments later they are attacked and killed by a crow and a seagull, as the Holy Father said goodbye and wished the crowd "good lunch" rather than dismiss us with a "Praised be Jesus Christ" [click on image to open the video]

While this is coming true, and before the realization of the disaster there are those who can find nothing better to do than to invoke condemnations of Modernist and Karl Rahner, waiting for the Holy Spirit, not in the form of a dove or tongues of fire, but precisely in the form of Merlin, systems all with a stroke of magic, I think more and more to the island of Norway where the institution that preserves 84.000 samples belonging to more than 60 genres and 600 species of cultivated plants and wild species which are endangered by “genetic erosion” or extinction.

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This is our task: save the seeds of the Gospel Jesus Christ the incarnate Word of God, died, resurrected and ascended to heaven. If in fact the building of a church to take fire, The priest what he must do immediately? Remove the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle and get to safety with the most precious treasure. And if in a library of sacred texts outbreak of a fire and those texts were destined to be lost forever, what is the first text that runs to save: The Holy Gospel, or the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle and the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas? What are we to make of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas without the Holy Gospel?

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The church, even if it reduced to a minimum and a small minority of silent people scattered around the world, lathes to sprout in all its purity, who knows how many centuries between. And maybe then you will, that Christ will return in glory to judge the living and the dead: at the time of rebirth. Instead, if Christ returned in glory to judge the living and the dead in this time of total disintegration and decadent, His judgment would be really terrible, just as he himself told us:

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' Verily I say, the day of judgment the land of Sodom and Gomorrah shall be more tolerable fate of that city ' [Mt 10, 15]. "Guai a te, Chorazin, Guai a te, Bethsaida! For if in Tire and Sidon had been done the miracles done in you, some time would be converted dressing the bag and covering of ash. Thus, in the judgment Tire and Sidon will be treated less severely than you. And you, capernao, Will you be exalted to heaven? No, up you will be precipitated into hell!» [LC 10, 13-15].

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The mercy of God is manifested in this way, and mercy is a different from the mercy of our days, emptied of God and filled with the worst worldly man's whims. Just as the Gospel, to which we all say, just to hide what he says, thanks to a visible Church which now shows the world to be ashamed of the true contents of the Holy Gospel, begging forgiveness in the world for light content, precise and strict contained in the Holy Gospel and the Apostolic Letters. We must therefore point to the sperm bank, for the Church that one day people will, perhaps just before the return of Christ the Lord to the end of time. And if we'll save the seeds of the Holy Gospel, then one day, maybe in a few centuries, also flourish the great literature of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church.

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CAN A Roman Pontiff LEGALLY ELECTED AND LEGITIMATE SUCCESSOR OF BLESSED APOSTLE PETER BE FREE OF STATE OF GRACE ?

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Right now we should treasure of the words of Cardinal Charles Journet [1891-1975] than in his work Church of the Incarnate Word explains: "The axiom “where the Pope there is the Church”, so where the Pope acts as Pope and Head of the Church; if not, or The Church is in him, neither he is in the Church " .

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Even in this case I'm tired of debating unnecessarily with those who decisively and absolutely deny taking only into vague consideration the hypothesis that a Supreme Pontiff can be closed to the actions of grace of the Holy Spirit, poured on him with undoubted abundance, but that in him and through him can operate only if he accepts the gifts of grace and puts them to good use. Here, then, that these subjects scrambles their total rejection, and they react to this problem as confirming and supporting of juke box coin the chant ... 'It, But the Pope can never err when judges in the matter of doctrine and faith, it is dogma, dogma, dogma!».

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Question asked to the great pundits of metaphysics and dogmatic: but it is the grace of God that speaks and acts through him, or it is instead he acts irrespective of grace, since it is magically not defeasible in matters of doctrine and faith, It can speak infallibly although closed to the grace and out of the sanctifying grace of God? Because if we are neither before the metaphysical or before the dogmatic, But before the magic. It is in fact the magic that in itself and in itself is totally irrational, while the dogma and dogma are not irrational, They are built on rational principles, for as sure as that the Word became flesh, It has not done thinking vaporous.

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Faced with these closed forms of reasoning which are the consequence of escape from reality by all those who pretend to always have a strong logical answer for everything, unless retreat into four protective formulas when the answers to be given when there are none, I repeat that we are not within either of metaphysics nor in that of the dogmatic, But part of the magic, if not worse Gnosticism. For how can the Holy Spirit, through its thanksgivings, cancel the will or no will of man, that is, his freedom and his free will, for sdoppiarlo to your liking and make it totally necessary unfailing, if its nature was not freely open to God's grace? Because if that happens, in that case God would be in contradiction with the mystery of creation and thus with himself through the Holy Spirit, and in this case our God is a magical God, a Gnostic god. Everything always to return to the great speculative minds that face problems until a few years previously unimaginable, but unfortunately real today, instead of really they close themselves up mirror in the cage of their four dogmatic formulas reiterating firm and immovable before the tragic evidence of the facts: "... it is unfailing, cannot err, it is dogma, dogma, dogma!». And here it is worth remembering that the dogmas are not cages men claiming at one point the right not to reason, but they are as deeply reasoned heart of the mystery of faith, at least according to a great teacher of school, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, which he states the extent to which "faith requires the intellect and understanding the faith" [Faith seeking understanding. In Prosl., Foreword], and again: "I think to understand, I understand to believe » [I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust]. And these two are the main foundations of scholastic philosophy, which never, at its foundation, He has placed the magic.

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Well, I confess that I am tired of these people. I'm tired of those who before a fire in a library of sacred texts destined to be lost forever, They will rush to save the text Iota Romano Amerio and the Holy Gospel burns. Like the rest are a bit 'tired in general, much to ask with some frequency: deserves continue to speculate, analyze and write, or would it be better to shut themselves up for life I have left in a Carthusian monastery with absolute silence vote, dedicating myself to prayer and penance until death? In August, a few days after the completion of my 55th birthday, as time passes, I proposed more than ever to work to good use throughout the life of this time that separates me from death, I intend to waste it or to defend the indefensible or to save the unsalvageable, least of all to expose my human and priestly dignity to public ridicule just to look in the documents of the Supreme Pontiff Francis I that he has never said and written, pulling out all the costs they have the good that just is not there, through interpretative devices that have indeed pathetic, because you can not put your mouth on the good things he did not say after doing the process to its deepest intentions. Before all'indifendibile solutions are three: reproaches and complaints of St. John the Baptist, which as we know lost his head; the speculative analysis of the situation for what it is, however not for what we would like it; the complete withdrawal from the world and total silence vote for life. There are three different ways, but all effective to operate at its best in this disastrous situation and irreversible. For now I have chosen the first solution, the model Giovanni Battista, but I could also decide to choose the third, with perhaps even more effectively.

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The problem, It is not in fact slight: how can we, we, interpret the one who should be the guardian and authentic interpreter of the faith? Or just hurts a lot to some minds have to accept and admit that the keeper of the "magical infallibility", for five years now he has shown with its deliberate and unintentional ambiguity about nothing, It blew up in the Church, the theological and moral relativism, together with the confusion and division, as never before he had been seen in the visible Church? Is it possible that among the pundits of the great theology, not only there is one that poses a question, if anything, likely to remain unanswered, namely this: there may be a case in which a Pope, closed to the actions of the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit, ends up be deprived of the grace of state that is typical of his high office, if anything, with all the consequences that today we have before, all regardless of his legitimate election and the role he equally legitimately busy?

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And with this it is obvious, loved ones and many readers, that on this question, you might as well play the very survival of The Island of Patmos, place that I will never mock you, because "God has entrusted you to me ', and a father can not and should never make fun of the children who demand comfort, help and support in trial, so as not to face the ghosts of the Demons that there circling around, and that scare us a lot in this dark night.

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Right now our salvation is contained in the theological virtue of hope, on which I wrote abundantly in 2014 [see WHO]. Hope is the great virtue median that binds together faith and charity. And since I have been set up in the service of the People of God and entered the priesthood in the universal fatherhood, this Holy People intend to offer the way of hope, but never the way of illusion, because I am a priest of Christ, not a drug dealer of hallucinogens acids, but mainly because I consider that a Holy People of God, not a people ox which give a pat and aspirin while a terminal cancer corrodes by the time our ecclesial and ecclesiastical body, while the visible Church is already in the antechamber of a morgue reduced for the occasion to a circus of clowns, dancers and dwarfs.

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dal'Isola Patmos, 9 September 2018

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