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JESUS ​​CAME DOWN INTO HELL. THERE REALLY HELL AND PARADISE ?

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"This descent of the soul of Jesus should not be imagined as a geographical journey, locale, from one continent to another. It is a journey of the soul […] This word of the Lord of the descent into Hell mainly means to say that the past is achieved by Jesus, that the effectiveness of the Redemption does not begin in the year zero or thirty, but it also goes to the past, embraces the past, all men of all times " [S.S. Benedict XVI, Questions about Jesus, program In His Image, 22 April 2011]

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Giovanni Cavalcoli, o.p.

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MAURIZIO GASPARA - Hell many do not believe, others argue that it can not be eternal and others that it is empty. The same is true of the Angel fell and sin. For many it is the Catholic Church and still many inventions live as if God did not exist, and Heaven and Hell would be just illusions. To try to explain how can a good God allow such as the Christian revolt of the angels, the spread of evil, the existence of Hell and Paradise, father Giovanni Cavalcoli, of the Dominican Order, he wrote and published the book: Hell exists. The truth denied [cf. WHO]. Father Giovanni Cavalcoli is Metaphysical teacher at the Studio of Bologna Dominican Philosophical and Systematic Theology at the Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna. Official of the Secretariat of State 1982 al 1990, Academic is the Papal 1992. Author of numerous books and essays, It carries out an intense work of formation.

ZENIT, 29 March 2010

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For the secular world and even some believers Hell does not exist. This would be an invention. What is your opinion on it?

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Tintoretto, Descent of Christ into Hell

The secular world has lost faith in the Hereafter, Whether it's heaven or hell it. And a certain measure of secularism unfortunately has crept even among some believers, which, What they say is an afterlife, This is only the Paradise. This is the so-called mentality feel-good, so it is not surprising that, according to these trends, Hell is an invention. In reality, as I have shown in my book, Hell is not an invention, but it is a truth of faith taught by our Lord Jesus Christ, the New Testament, by Sacred Tradition and some councils. So it's a matter of divine revelation, that the Church has the task of guarding and teaching.

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Based on what topics it claims that Hell exists?

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The doctrine of hell is a theological doctrine. Now, the arguments of theology are not empirical, but they are the Words of Jesus Christ, which you can only be accepted on the basis of faith in Jesus Christ and in the Church that we mean the Words of Christ.

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Are there really heaven and hell?

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From this point of view, the topics are many. I will here mention only one [cf. pag. 33 my book about hell], which I think is particularly effective, because it is found in the Second Vatican Council [The light, n. 48] and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church [n. 1034]. This is the step Matteo [cf. 25, 31-46] where Jesus Christ is not merely announces the mere possibility of damnation, but simply it provides for the fact of the existence of the damned.

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Where and when was born Hell?

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To answer this question, we must consider what exactly is Hell. It, regarding men, It consists of irrevocable rejection of the mercy offered to us by the Father through Jesus Christ, Son of God. In this sense, we can say that the infernal damnation came into existence with the coming of Christ. Instead, if we consider the sin of the beginning of creation, angels, Hell exists for them since that time [cf. Mt 25,41; 2 PT 2,4].

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Where was born Hell?

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As for the sinners angels, as they were before in heaven, We can say he was born in heaven, from which were precipitated [AP 12,8]. As for men, Hell is born into this world when Jesus was rejected.

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There afterlife or is present on Earth?

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According to one theory of Christianity secularist-gooder, if one can speak of "Inferno", This only exists on this earth, in the sense that the punishment for the wicked there's only down here, and then there is the paradise for all. There is also another argument, totally pagan, according to which Hell would be that condition of suffering which also affects the innocent oppressed by overbearing. While in this second case the word "hell" is used in an improper way, in the first case there is some truth, as the state of mortal sin is already in a sense Hell. But this argument overlooks the fact that the irrevocable fullness of hellish condition for humans is only after death. However, every man, You may repent before death, It can regain the status of the grace of Christ, whereby, if it continues in this state until death, can avoid Hell.

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What Scripture says about?

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The most authoritative voice is that of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In it we find an echo in the other books of the New Testament, and in particular in the Revelation, in which we have a great vision of the ultimate triumph of Christ over all the powers of evil, which it will be put in a position of no more harm to the elect.

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The Hell's admirable description of the Divine Comedy is credible?

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Certainly in its substance it is credible, Why, as you know, Dante was not only a Catholic, He had acquired a remarkable theological culture of Thomistic mold attending the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. While, Dante, the great poet who was, It has allowed the so-called poetic license, for which he created environments, events and characters that clearly beyond those we are taught by the Christian Revelation, although at the same time, all in all, not oppose. A curious thing that we might note in this regard and that it is not a matter of Christian faith, is the condition of so-called "cowardous», who lived "without fame and without praise"And therefore they are placed by Dante in the Inferno, but in a place by itself.

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Admitting the existence of Hell presupposes fear the Devil. How the fallen angel and Hell lie in the divine plan?

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The Christian must have a certain fear of the Devil, as well as we can have a reasonable fear to take a disease or falling into some sin. Hence the duty of the Christian to guard against moral dangers that can come from evil temptations, avoiding excessive safety attitudes. Said this, however, the Christian basically not afraid of the Devil, because the Christian who lives in Christ enjoys the same power of Christ, who conquered Satan. On the contrary, from this point of view, We can say it is the devil who is afraid of the Christian. As it says St. Caterina da Siena, we are defeated by the Devil if we want, loving or committing sin. The Devil and Hell lie in the divine plan as it is a deterrent that helps us to avoid sin. In second place, as far as the devil, also it is seen as an instrument of divine Providence for two purposes: to strengthen us in virtue and to call paternally when we commit evil. The devil in itself would just our bad, only that Divine Providence uses it according to his very wise designs for our good.

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Why does God allow the angel to rebel?

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Because it has a great respect for the free will of the creature. Now, precisely, the Rebel Angel is a creature endowed with free. Then, at this point, we can say that God, in order to comply with this free will, She agrees to be rejected by that creature that really could only find in him his full happiness. This analogy holds true also for the human story. Also it can say that God allowed the Angel disobedience, because from eternity he had planned the Incarnation of the Word, thanks to which humanity, saved by Christ, He would in Christ defeated Satan and reached a condition of life - that of the children of God - higher than we would have been if the angel had not sinned.

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What is the relationship between evil and Hell?

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We can say that Hell is a victory over the moral evil, or on sin, although it remains the evil of punishment, that is, the suffering of the damned. Here, however, it is a just penalty, whereby, From this point of view we can say that it is good that there is this evil, so we see that, dal punto di vista scatological, everything is resolved in well. It should also be pointed out very clearly that it would be blasphemous to blame God for this evil, which instead he is responsible only for the angelic creature, or human, while on the other hand the existence of evil it just manifests divine justice, which, moreover, it is always mitigated by mercy.

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What should people do to escape Hell and gaining Heaven?

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Practically it comes to putting in place all the precepts of the Christian life, starting with hatred for sin, by the knowledge of its consequences, to move to the duty to obey with all our strength to the commands of the Lord, to live in grace, the continued practice of conversion and Christian life, in unlimited confidence in divine mercy, frequenting the sacraments in communion with the Church, in devotion to the saints and especially to the Blessed Virgin Mary, cultivating a strong desire of Heaven and holiness and courageously fighting daily against the wiles of the tempter, under the protection of St. Michele Arcangelo. In exceptional cases of aggression on the part of the devil, there exists the practice of exorcism. These recommendations apply of course for Catholics, But as all men are called to salvation and therefore they are called to avoid Hell and gaining Heaven, their duty is to follow their correct conscience, to the extent that they know the needs of the property and cultivating, with the help of grace, an at least implicit faith in God as the rewarder of the good and the wicked Judge.

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REASONS FOR DON ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA SHOULD REMAIN IN THE COMMUNION OF THE CHURCH AND IN THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH IN OBEDIENCE TO THE CHURCH

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Today, some thinkers, and unfortunately many clergymen, They have passed the same Luther, which in comparison - it goes without saying it is a paradox -, ends up be more orthodox of them. From these cases then we see that there is more contrast between modernists and Catholic, than between Lutherans and Catholics. Catholics are more united with Luther that the modernist. The main problem of unity among Christians, today, It is not so much that of the union with the Lutherans - there's also this, obviously -, but rather that of 'unity among Catholics.

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Dear Brother Priest

ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA

Priest of the Church of Palermo

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it Presbítero Alessandro Minutella, sermon "The embarrassment of the false church» [to open the video click on the image]

the news of the decree of your Bishop He was surprised and saddened, because recently I heard some of your homilies in which you earnestly denounced the spread of many heresies in the Church type modernistic, declaring at the same time, in critical tone towards the Lefebvrians, your respect for the decrees of the Second Vatican Council and complaining about their performance in the modernist sense.

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These your words coincide with what I am arguing publicly for many years, so I suffered unjust measures by the authorities. How you claim you, Today in the Church the modernist trend has become so established, which it is also widespread among Bishops, so that they favor the modernists and punish anti-modernists. And how can you determine, we Fathers de The Island of Patmos We are writing for some years about these serious problems, Just browse our store to find dozens of writings on this specific topic.

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I know that your Bishop has motivated the decree citing you, while it is free from heretical infections, break the ecclesial communion. You, instead, from your hand, you feel unjustly punished and you quoted the authority of St. Thomas about. I state that I do not have enough information to form an opinion, but I offer you some criteria derived from Angelic Doctor.

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Alessandro Minutella appeal to the Supreme Pontiff Francis [to open the video click on the image]

First of all must be for you a great satisfaction the fact he had been assured by your Bishop was not a heretic, considered, as I said earlier, the current widespread heresy even between the hierarchy and the theologians. At the same time I am amazed inconsistency of your bishop but allows a heretic as Enzo Bianchi to make a public lecture in his cathedral church [cf. recent article by Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, WHO]. Indeed, by Enzo Bianchi, There are authoritative rebuttals, like that of our dear and esteemed brother Antonio Livi, while on this online magazine of the Fathers The Island of Patmos I have refuted several times and severely; is also one document in preparation study to which Dr.. Jorge Facio Lince has been working for months [some of our other articles on Enzo Bianchi heresies are still readable WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, etc ..]

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As for the teaching of Aquinas in terms of criminal decrees, he distinguishes an undue Decree [excommunication due;] because of the contempt of the law by the authority [the opinion of law being observed]. "So, if part of the judgment that there is an error, to render void the judgment, it has no effect ». So those affected can not take this into account.

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"If the ruling is right, it is to be punished and must obey humbly, and it will be his merit; or it must ask the Superior the annulment of the decree; or recourse must be had to a higher level. If he showed contempt for the decree, thereby sinning mortally " [Sum. Theol., Suppl., q. 21, a. 4]. I am unable to advise you on which path to take. You stand, in conscience, before God, make the decision. I can cite my own case, who has found the following solution. Following my broadcast on Radio Maria, the 30 last October, in which I talked about divine punishments, my Superior I partially suspended peep the 5 following November, by publishing a statement against me infected by heresy, that denies the original sin [in these articles is my defense: WHO, WHO, in this next trilogy Instead it shows that my case was mounted by environment-related lobby gay, WHO, WHO, WHO].

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daily news on “If Alessandro Minutella” [to open the video click on the image]

Judgment obviously unjust that against me, to which I I adeguai in obedience, without failing to explain in detail my reasons to the Superior. But there was nothing to be done. He did not answer me either. Then, in late January, I appeal to higher court, getting satisfaction. Two days after the Superior reinstated me in the fullness of my priestly functions. But the question, very serious, of the divine punishments, It remains open in the field of contemporary theology. The same Pontiff, in his speech to the earthquake victims during his visit to the Carpi 2 last April, he mentioned the consequences of original sin in the following words: "Our soul, created for life, He suffers hearing that his thirst for eternal good is oppressed by an ancient and evil dark ' [cf. video, WHO, WHO].

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The Church teaches the priest He must see the Bishop as his immediate superior, which, however, it represents the Pope, to whom, ultimately goes obedience to supreme level on this earth. The communion with the bishop and the local Church is subject to communion with the Supreme Pontiff.

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Today we are in an ecclesial situation in which there are modernists Bishops or Lefebvrians, who are not in full communion with the Vicar of Christ or pretend to be; rather, while the former, careerists and bullies, flatter him and pressed on him with a style that looks like the mafia, seconds, on the basis of an incorrect reference to Tradition, reject the teachings of Vatican II and the Mass new world order, and disobey the Pope openly [cf. article in the 2015 at Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, WHO].

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about three thousand faithful packed the Cathedral of Palermo to huddle in prayer around their Bishop [to open the video click on the image]

The unity of the local Church He must always take - priests and Bishop together - making the head unit of the Church Universal Roman, drawing inspiration from it and submitting it. This loyalty and obedience to the Pope and the Magisterium of the Church is the only treasure that we Catholics possess among all non-Catholic Christian brothers. These supreme values ​​I could deepen thanks to the experience that I have done since 1982 al 1990 as the official Secretary of State of John Paul II. Near the Pope and as collaborators of the Pope can make a beautiful and most fruitful experience of the universal Church, which does not detract at all, indeed does better understand the dignity and autonomy of the local church.

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This wide and universal outlook, this bond with the Pope not to mention the immediate superior, but right through him, And, as it were, In the DNA the spirituality of us Dominicans, we make our profession of obedience to our Provincial Superior, Certainly, but beyond him and beyond him, our total profess obedience to the Supreme Pontiff.

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Today the papacy has more than ever need to be helped, He warned in his ministry and defended by all the people of God, especially by the true prophets and the anime-victim, and because never before has he tried, threatened and besieged by Satanic forces who pretend to be friends, and instead they want to bring it down, and because unfortunately - something that never happened in the entire history of the Church - a crisis of faith has crept within the same episcopate and of the College of Cardinals and, consequently, They have arisen in the Church bitterly opposed factions and divisions [cf. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, WHO] - case in point the opposition between Lefebvre and modernists - right on the issue of the truths of faith.

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S. AND. Rev.ma Mons. Corrado Lorefice, Primate Archbishop of Palermo and Sicily [to open the video click on the image]

There is more contrast between Rahner and St. Thomas Aquinas than between Luther and St. Thomas Aquinas. For Luther God is creator, for Teilhard de Chardin God is organizer of matter. For Luther the atheist is in error, Rahner instead for the atheist is an unwitting believer. For Luther God is omnipotent, David Maria Turoldo is weak. For Luther God is a You in front of 'the, Marco Vannini l 'the It is the "absolute subject". Luther admitted the immutability of dogma, Walter Kasper la Nega. Luther condemned atheism, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said that in the consciousness of the believer there is always an atheist. For Luther, faith is knowing the truth - that is, the Word of God -, many Catholic theologians is a "athematic and existential encounter" with Christ …

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… for Luther Christianity is at the top of other religions, for Dupuis is one religion among others, Pair of other. For Luther the true religion is Christianity, however for Schillebeeckx it is the global federation of all religions [cf. my articles WHO, WHO]. For Luther the Christian only has the gift of the Spirit, however Raimundo Panikkar, the Indian mystic is the same as Christian. For Luther Muslims are enemies of the gospel, Instead Rahner are "anonymous Christians" [cf. my article WHO]. Luther believed in the next world; Gutiérrez said that the only world is this world. Luther thought that Adam and Eve were really existed; Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said that the account of man's creation is an etiological myth [cf. my article WHO, Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo WHO]. Luther admits the Biblical account of man's creation, while Teilhard de Chardin says that man comes from monkeys.

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Luther distinguishes the body from the spirit; Teilhard de Chardin says that evolution matter becomes spirit [cf. my article WHO]. Luther believed in the immortality of the soul, Vito Mancuso denies. Luther believed in the resurrection of the dead at the end of the world, per Rahner, instead, the resurrection takes place immediately after death. Luther believed in the divine punishment, Raniero Cantalamessa and Hermes Ronchi do not believe [cf. my article WHO, Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, WHO]. Luther believed in hell, von Balthasar says that "exists" but that "is empty". Luther believed in the existence of the devil, many Catholic exegetes do not believe.

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S.It is prayer. Rev.ma Mons. Corrado Lorefice, Primate Archbishop of Palermo and Sicily [to open the video click on the image]

For Luther Trinity Three Persons, Rahner are three ways to be God. Luther recognized the And the son, for Melloni, which instead is wire-orthodox, if you can do without. Luther was quite certain of what Christ said, Father Arturo Sosa S.J. He says that we are not sure [cf. article by Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, WHO]. For Luther was a heretic Arius, Arius was right for Bianchi, as it seems to have said recently in your church cathedral [cf. texts lessons by Enzo Bianchi, WHO, WHO]. Luther acknowledged the deity of Christ, Schillebeeckx believes Christ alone il "eschatological prophet". For Luther believe that Christ is the Redeemer, It is an absolute truth, Instead Marcello Bordoni, Christ can freely interpret, choice, or as a redeemer or "martyr prophet", as one prefers. For Luther Christ is the only Savior, Giuseppe Dossetti Jews are also saved without Christ.

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Luther accepted the Christological dogma of Chalcedon, Bruno Forte interprets the Incarnation in the Hegelian sense [cf. my article, WHO]. For Luther Christ is the God of Truth, while de la Potterie simply Christ teaches us the Gospel. As for Luther the atoning sacrifice of Christ is the truth of faith, for Cardinal Robert Zollitsch the idea of ​​atonement is medieval image exceeded. For Luther Christ's sacrifice was wanted by the Father for our salvation, Schillebeeckx for the death of Christ was not a sin offering, but only a crime caused by human malice.

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Luther distinguished thought from reality: duty of thinking is adapted to the real. Instead, for Rahner, the real is identified with the thought, so my idea is reality: the self is always right. Luther recognized that we have to obey the Ten Commandments, Rahner while everyone is free to decide for themselves of their identity. For Luther consciousness is submitted to the word of God, while Cardinal Walter Kasper is the source of truth [the cogito of Descartes] and for the Father Arturo Sosa excels on everything [cf. my article, WHO, Our answers to the Readers WHO, etc ..]. Luther knows that sin is a tremendous evil, which it is only removed from the Cross of Christ, per Teilhard de Chardin, instead, sin is simply a negligible hiccup in the unstoppable path Evolution [Kasper see my articles WHO, WHO]

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S.It is prayer. Rev.ma Mons. Corrado Lorefice, Primate Archbishop of Palermo and Sicily [to open the video click on the image]

Luther was against Pelagio, for which grace was the prize to the works, instead, per Rahner, the grace is the vertex human self-transcendence. Luther said that it is only justified those who believe, who does not believe, it is condemned, instead, per Rahner, all are justified, because all have faith, least "implied, preconscious and athematic ". Luther believed in original sin, Nunzio Galantino does not believe [cf. my article WHO, Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo WHO]. Luther condemned sodomy, Bianchi approves. Vincenzo Paglia does great things about Pannella, approving the confusion between the sexes [cf. my article WHO], Luther recognized the distinction between men and women and he condemned as immoral Pannella. Luther judges modernity according to the Gospel, modernists judge the Gospel according to modernity.

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Today, some thinkers, and unfortunately many clergymen, They have passed the same Luther, which in comparison - it goes without saying it is a paradox -, ends up be more orthodox of them. From these cases then we see that there is more contrast between modernists and Catholic, than between Lutherans and Catholics. Catholics are more united with Luther that the modernist. The main problem of unity among Christians, today, It is not so much that of the union with the Lutherans - there's also this, obviously -, but rather that of 'unity among Catholics. The modernists, who boast of dialogue with the Lutherans, They end up absorbing the heresies of Luther, giving them a Catholic painting and despising actually Luther, by them as a fundamentalist overcome by the "historical-critical exegesis".

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Dear Don Alessandro, your battle against modernism is more legitimate than ever, necessary and appropriate. The modernists have come to a very high directional seats, among the collaborators of the Pope or presenting themselves as friends of the Pope, while the crafty sycophants and Judah, that would impose, as mobsters, their shady plans Masonic subservience of the Church to the powers of the world [cf. article in the 2015 at Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, WHO] . We must do everything possible to free the Holy Father from this deadly embrace and these occult powers, who put the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI in the position of having to give freely to the Petrine ministry.

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running commentary, Eucharistic Adoration in the Cathedral presided by S.It is. Rev.ma Mons. Corrado Lorefice, Primate Archbishop of Palermo and Sicily [to open the video click on the image]

I think this is a purifying and sanctifying mission, Our Lady entrusted you, along with your service to the noble and ancient Church Palermo, that today suffer in you, suffering in Bishop, He suffers in good faithful, He suffers for the sins of all, but while this Palermo do not miss the mercy of the Father and the Holy Spirit consolation, That all summons to penance, to reconciliation, to communion and peace, under the guidance of legitimate Shepherd, not without human weakness, Yet Servant of your souls in the name and by mandate of Christ. Therefore listen, help and follow your bishop !

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Take yourself, dear Don Alessandro, a long period of pause and reflection hermitical, I listen to the voice of the Lord, like the prophet Elijah: "Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord's presence" [I Re 19, 11] and wait "a light wind murmuring" [v.12]. It is the wind of the Holy Spirit. Accept orders, win the temptations. China head before the divine Majesty. Beseech mercy for your sins and those of sinners. Abandoned in the hands of the God of mercy. In the words of St. Caterina da Siena: "Rest on the Cross". Soon you will be rebuilt in the fullness of your priestly functions and increasing its fully the gifts God gave you.

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New and great tasks await, new achievements for your sanctification, to that of the Pope, for the good of the universal Church, for the Church of Palermo, for Italy, for world evangelization, for the salvation of souls, for the kingdom of Christ, for the triumph of Mary, for the defeat of Satan.

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S. AND. Rev.ma Mons. Corrado Lorefice, Primate Archbishop of Palermo and Sicily, call for unity of the Church [to open the video click on the image]

Very moving and a harbinger of celestial favors was the recent and happy collective eucharistic adoration cathedral with four thousand people and the Bishop meekly on his knees before the Blessed Sacrament, to plead with songs and tears light, pace, pardon, love, harmony and unity for the Church Palermo. I feel for you all, dear brothers in faith, admiration, compassion and tenderness. I remember in prayer. Pray for me.

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Confirm the blood pact with Christ: He gives you his blood; you give Him your. The sin is washed with blood, the blood of the New Covenant. We Romagna - not to mention the Tuscan! ―, Sicilians like you have the hot blood: we may sometimes verbally violent, but always generous.

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Madonna vera, flesh and blood, is merciful and tender with the humble, but it is terrible with the proud; is the Madonna at Fatima showed the little shepherds the damned in hell; Madonna is the one that glorifies the Lord because he has "scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts" [LC 1,51]. that Madonna, Seat of Wisdom, which he is winner of Satan and of all heresies.

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the splendid cathedral primatial Metro Palermo, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary assumed into heaven

She will protect you and defend all, beginning with your Bishop; She is, or Palermitani, the heavenly Presidio of your Diocese and the wiles of the enemy infiltration and support you in the good fight.

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Fight against principalities, against powers! [Ef 6, 12]. By Caterina da Siena, confidate, generous Palermitani, that soon you will be a sign for the Italian Church and cry with Catherine: "Fire! Fire! Fire!». Soon they will come down abundant graces upon you all and Italy will be inflamed.

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With esteem and affection in the Lord.

Varazze, 7 April 2017

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ALL THAT IS NOT MODERN MODERNISM. REFLECTIONS ON traditionalism: Modernists and traditionalists

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The most urgent and important dialogue that today we need to promote is not the dialogue with Protestants, with the Orthodox, with Jews, with Muslims or with non-believers, and all useful things to do; what is urgent is the intra-ecclesial dialogue, the dialogue between Catholics, because there are in us and among us of the doctrinal and moral divisions very serious and intolerable.

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The Fathers de The Island of Patmos They remained bitter about the case of the priest Palermo Alessandro Minutella [see WHO], so they decided to dedicate two different writings: Giovanni Cavalcoli, an indirect reflection but to him valuable due to the fact that all that is modern is not modernism; Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, more directly, also he considered it in the consciousness of having to recall the duties of his priestly vows.

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by poor theology and spiritual formation for the priesthood, It can rise to the idea totally wrong that what is modern is in itself Modernist. the priest Alessandro Palermo Minutella has unfortunately given test. To open the video click on the image

The most urgent dialogue and important that today we need to promote is not the dialogue with Protestants, with the Orthodox, with Jews, with Muslims or with non-believers, and all useful things to do; what is urgent is the intra-ecclesial dialogue, the dialogue between Catholics, because there are in us and among us of the doctrinal and moral divisions very serious and intolerable.

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It no longer knows what it means to be Catholic, because everyone puts this title what he pleases, and then the strangest ideas, extraneous and contradictory. You go to the supermarket of religions, you choose what you prefer, It passes by the bishop to the cashier to pay, and then home, with purchased products, it organizes the menu of the week and invite friends.

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It is therefore urgent that we all gather around the Pope, Teacher of the Faith and supreme guardian and promoter in the ground unit, reconciliation and peace in the Church, all attentive and faithful to the fundamental lines of his pastoral service, without bothering to argue for some of its contingent choices, occasionally they are and remain questionable with filial freedom of thought, but giving up at the same time every foolish adulation and criticism malevolent.

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THE SECOND VATICAN CARDINAL WALTER KASPER, IN AN ARTICLE THAT IS ALL PROGRAM

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We must recognize that some thesis doctrinal the council may appear ambiguous or have a certain modernist flavor, but this concern is dispelled by an appropriate interpretation, what it was the one made by post-conciliar Magisterium and authoritative theologians faithful to the Church.

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Cardinal Walter Kasper

In an article on The Osservatore Romano the 12 April 2013 under the title A council still journeying, [text WHO] Cardinal Walter Kasper, one month and just over the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of the reigning Pontiff, says Paul VI, in an attempt to prevent formulations proposed by a progressive majority that worried him, 'Involved' traditionalist minority allowing them to introduce changes in the drafting, that attenuated or mingled sense of modernizing steps.

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If the Supreme Pontiff He felt compelled to moderate the intervention of these so-called "progressive", making room for traditionalists, means that he, with the aim of which was equipped with intuition, and with the sense of responsibility of the Successor of Peter, was aware of the plot in place and that these so-called progressives and bandied about were actually the cryptomodernists, that with their maneuvers risked contaminating the purity of the doctrine reconcile.

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Blessed Paul VI in the chair during Vatican II

Paul VI was not a conservative and since when he was Archbishop of Milan showed appreciate a healthy modernization of the life of the Church and the Christian life, a need, this, intrinsic to Christianity itself, animated by the Holy Spirit who makes all things and leading the Church in history the fullness of truth. So if the "progressivism" of that most worried him, it means that it was a false promotion of the advancement of the faith and a reckless assumption of modernity.

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Cardinal Walter Kasper It seems not to have grasped the wisdom and prudence of the Supreme Pontiff, today beatified, since it succeeds in asserting that with the intervention of the Pope, "he paid a price" with the "compromise formula, in which, often the majority of the positions are located immediately next to those of the minority, designed to delimit ". That means, if I understand the words of Cardinal, that the innovative thrust, According to him, It was held back by the Conservatives, so that it could not give everything he could give. But you have to wonder if these "conservatives" were not all the way in this circumstance the guardians of orthodoxy, Considering the importance given to them by Paul VI, who approved their amendments aimed at correcting the initiatives of the pro-modernist "progressives".

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Paul VI in the apostolic visit to Venice, received by the Patriarch Albino Luciani, than in 1978 It will happen to the sacred throne with the name of Giovanni Paolo I

According to the author of this article that sounds almost like an implementation program for the immediate future, these "limitations", of which he speaks not modify the original texts of all "progressive", that is - let's say it frankly - modernist, but they left them intact, limiting a star beside them in incongruous and contradictory way, implying offensively against Paul VI's inability to reconcile the Council Fathers.

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The article goes on to explain - and this follows logically from what the author has said - that, because of these "compromise formula", "The conciliar texts have in them an enormous potential for conflict; They open the door to a selective reception in either direction ».

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In this article, Cardinal also declares that "not even the official reception has been stationary. Partly, It exceeded the Council ", as if to say, apparently, that the Council orthodox and modernist statements are next to each other, as if the reader could then choose the ones you prefer, unless it is put on a contradictory position giving a blow to the rim and a barrel.

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Paul VI with Cardinal Karol Woytila, than in 1978 He will succeed Giovanni Paolo I by the name of Giovanni Paolo II

In that consists This "way" of the council according to the author? It seems the path of a drunk who now hangs here now hangs beyond: interpretation totally disrespectful and tendentious, that one is surprised that it has been hosted in a prestigious newspaper like The Osservatore Romano, which by its nature should reflect in an objective and impartial way, the supremely papal teachings, clarifying or defending positions possibly, especially if it is a question of such an important event as the Second Vatican Council and the part that it was Blessed Pope Paul VI.

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With all due respect this well-known and influential Cardinal, what is the Cardinal Walter Kasper, for twenty years he was head of the Department for Ecumenism and enjoys great reputation as a scholar Christology, I must say that I differ markedly from this interpretation that he gives the conciliar doctrines, interpretation that negates the evidence continuity with Tradition, thing that all the Popes, by John XXIII to Benedict XVI, They have insistently maintained, to limit ourselves only to remember the famous formula of Benedict XVI "progress in continuity", from which I drew the title of one of my in-depth study on the subject, I allow myself to alert the reader [1].

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Paul VI requires the cardinal's hat to the Archbishop of Monaco of Bavaria Joseph Ratzinger, It will happen in 2005 to Giovanni Paolo II

Serious thing, in summary, It is that Cardinal Walter Kasper seems to insinuate that between the doctrines of the Council will still have infiltrated certain theses neomoderniste that Paul VI wanted to prevent, but to which you would be resigned to leaving juxtaposed to those Orthodox to "price" of "an enormous potential for conflict".

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It is the same false reading which it calls made by Bishop Marcel Lefèbvre, because in hindsight extremes meet. All with a difference: while the Cardinal Walter Kasper welcomes it as a "progress" or "road", Bishop Marcel Lefebvre sorry it as a denial of Tradition. But the mistake of the two is common: see the Council a modernism that does not exist, rejecting the explanations put forward by all the popes of the post-conciliar.

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Paul VI in his chair gestatoria, of which he used for the last time Giovanni Paolo I

It must be acknowledged that some thesis doctrinal the council may appear ambiguous or have a certain modernist flavor; but this concern is dispelled by an appropriate interpretation, what it was the one made by post-conciliar Magisterium and authoritative theologians faithful to the Church.

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Insist, as some do, in the belief that the council contains steps modernist equivalent to think that a Council can be wrong when it comes to issues pertaining to faith and morals. Which for a Catholic does not make sense, although it is true that the Council does not contain new solemnly defined dogma. Questionable if anything could be some directions pastoral, where the Church certainly is not foolproof, but still worthy of high regard.

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The thesis of Cardinal Walter Kasper, according to which the doctrines of the Council would lead to a simple juxtaposition undisguised or patched between opposing contradictory thesis, traditional and modernist, It is absolutely unsustainable, because it would be tantamount to accusing the council of heresy, given the heretical nature of modernism; and what would be the sign that Paul VI was unable to still prevent the presence of modernism in the Council, that much and rightly worried him, though he was not at all a notoriously conservative backwater.

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Paul VI, It served lunch to the children winners of the competition for the most beautiful crib, 30 January 1966

If the council has a pastoral style and not a defining tone even in the dogmatic teachings, this does not authorize anyone to take them lightly, denying their infallibility, because in judging the authority of the Church's teaching you should not care so much come but he teaches what teaches.

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The formal definition is a rare mode magisterial teaching, why you should not use the pretext of the fact that this style is lacking in the Council, for error accuse or modernism or rupture with Tradition. Even when Christ was teaching in a boat or sitting at the table with her and not in the temple, it was always the Word of God accepted in faith.

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It is true that Paul VI, after Good Pope John XXIII, He allowed the Council the presence of Karl Rahner and others criptomodernisti. He was right? It hurt? It is difficult to judge. He's still the fact that, as it is clear from the studies that have been done on the contribution of these experts, they offered an innovator in the assembly reconcile contribution but substantially in the limits of orthodoxy. And how could it be otherwise?

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Paul VI, 7 December 1965, closing act of Vatican II

It is after the Council that Rahner, with surprising boldness, unfortunately without being censored by the Ecclesiastical, He gave vent undisturbed and with great cunning to his modernist trends. But since he had already acquired a world-class, even among the bishops, even the Pope had to make the best of a bad situation.

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We must point out that it is true that at the Council there was a clash between a reactionary traditionalism and modernism crypto, He paludava progressive appearance, to get a pass; but it must also say that this comparison - that in some circumstances took on a harsh tone, dramatic and deeply worried Paul VI -, He ended, thank God, Rated with final agreements to very wide majorities and certain tone progressive. The Council was a great innovation council, ma absolutely modernist, who feared the Pope, who he was known in the progressive line but maritainiana absolutely not at all favorable to modernism, which is notoriously a heresy condemned by St. Pius X.

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Speaking therefore "enormous potential for conflict" It is very serious offense against the supernatural wisdom of the doctrines of the Council, we were almost in front of politicians pateracchi or conflicts of the Hegelian dialectic, and it is therefore completely misunderstand the balanced and consistent results of the conciliar debates, where is that, thanks to the assistance of the Holy Spirit, the fathers, come to a fraternal agreement, They were able to offer us a more advanced knowledge of the Word of God without any breakage or unthinkable contradiction with previous doctrinal heritage the Council.

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Paul VI, receive for free a white dove

Find here the contradictions It means disregard the root of wisdom and nobility of these doctrines, true light for our times, signal indicators of the way that today should the Church do to confront the modern thought and increase the number of his children. So this is not to do any 'reception selective in either direction », but to take one direction, with obvious possibility of particular choices, resulting from the harmonious confluence of fidelity and progress: the one we just mentioned by the Council documents in their authentic interpretation, that the Popes of the post-conciliar do not get tired from fifty to propose to the whole Church for the good and progress of the Church and all people of good will.

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Those who believe they have to choose in the Council between traditionalism and criptomodernismo he has understood nothing of the teaching of the Council and it is only a proponent of divisions within the Church.

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Paul VI, image of seniority, year 1977

The official reception of the Council certainly he not remained stagnant and in some ways exceeded the Council, but not in the sense understood by Cardinal Walter Kasper, ie oscillating between two opposing thesis and leaving choose from time to time between the one and the other depending on the conveniences, but rather deepening this wise synthesis of modernity and tradition.

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I do not know what this interpretation the council given by Cardinal Walter Kasper, that seems made to stoke the flames of controversy between opposing extremists, can serve for the dialogue between believers, which however he has devoted himself so zealously for so many years. Le dottrine dei Council, as it says the same word council: reconcile, have always had in the Church is an important pacifying and conciliatory function; and the last Council, if well interpreted and well understood, It is not called in this providential function.

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19 October 2014, the tapestry found in the central loggia of the Papal Archbasilica St. Peter's for the beatification of Pope Paul VI

Of course, the Magisterium of the Church Today also is in motion, but not to deny the truth of faith previously taught, but rather to guide us in a motherly and infallibly to an ever deepening his elder in the tradition and with an eye to including more advanced on the path to the kingdom of God and the fullness of truth.

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In some ways some indications of the Council they are overcome, But not to have been abandoned, but in the sense that they lived better and more devoutly according to the new situations that did not exist at the time of the Council, but of course always in continuity with the unchanging heritage of faith that Christ offered once for all to the Church to be transmitted intact to all mankind until the end of time.

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Varazze, 22 March 2017

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[1] PROGRESS IN CONTINUITY. THE QUESTION OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL AND postcouncil, Faith&Culture, Verona 2011.

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— defend the Pope from false friends —

ENZO BIANCHI AND VIOLINO tzigano : THE FALSE PROPHETS AND THEIR harping THE POPE

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As for the Pope personally and merciful liberator, this is a different matter. Of course, He has made many significant gestures toward the poor, the exploited, the little ones, the marginalized, families wounds, seniors, the sick, immigrants; but one may wonder how much mercy towards the faithful disturbed and shocked by the heretics, by modernists and false prophets, or if no exchange for mercy excessive benevolence towards enemies of the Church, or how much mercy - or whether there is mercy - in some of his interventions towards people, prelates, theologians or institutions altogether worthy and faithful to the Church, maybe for a long time.

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Giovanni Cavalcoli, ON

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Beware of false prophets

Mt 7,15

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Pietro, beware of false prophets …

In this daily race to those who shoot biggest by many and influential members of the Episcopate and the Roman Curia, Fathers de The Island of Patmos They have initiated the heading 'Defending the Holy Father from the bad friends ", dedicated to refute a number of well-known modernists, that, for some time, you are going, with serratus pace, on the catwalk their offer from the big mass media, to work on the demolition of the Church. This time is to turn Enzo Bianchi, interviewed by Bruno Quaranta it The Print the 14 last February [see text interview WHO]. These characters seem to have agreed among themselves a plan to flatter and exploit the Pope in a sneaky way for novice, but blatant for experts, to which the Catholic faithful to the Pope, which opens our eyes to these maneuvers, Test outrage and revulsion at such flattery, that do nothing but damage the venerable person of the Holy Father, from their exalted so immoderate, as did the courtiers of the ancient oriental empires.

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Central point in the interview is the comparison that makes Bianchi between the present Pope John Paul II and St.. The basis for comparison is the most important and delicate issue of freedom. We know we Catholics what is precious to us freedom. It is the vocation of the Christian: "Brothers, you were called to freedom " [Gal 5,13]. But now here is the clarification: « […] provided that this freedom as an excuse for self-indulgence, but through love be servants of one another " [v.13]. So you will understand how difficult and delicate, which firmness and prudence of judgment criteria, how much delicacy of judgment, how much information, how many checks, how much prudence, that discernment, how many clarifications are necessary, to judge a Pope in relation to the great, vital question of freedom, so closely tied to the fate of man, the history of the Church and to the very essence of Christianity.

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Enzo Bianchi visited the Supreme Pontiff Giovanni Paolo II

Enzo Bianchi, instead, does not find any difficulty to categorize categorically, sharp, with the utmost ease and the most incredible oversimplification, on the subject of freedom, the whole figure and story of two Popes, Saint John Paul II and the current, with them in opposition to one another in a dramatic and radical way; the first, stuck in the total negativity: 'Closing in the Church, Waterproof what was at liberty ", therefore, a dictator of the stack of Stalin, Hitler or Ivan the Terrible; The second one, raised to the stars: "With him freedom was reconciled with the Church", as if before Pope Francis freedom in the Church did not exist. I wonder if Pope Francis phoned Bianchi begging him not to say such nonsense.

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These two outputs on the relationship of the two Popes with freedom denote Bianchi in the complete lack of discretion in judging two great personalities, which are two Popes, of which one is a saint canonized, who is offended by an insult of extreme gravity, which could not throw the worst of the Masons or Communists, while the other, still alive, He can not, in his humility and his sense, do not feel embarrassed at being put, still alive, on top of a Holy Pontiff, and he can not but have found it extremely unpleasant, and offensive misplaced praise so effusive, who forgets that freedom has no need to "be reconciled with the Church", this being, under the leadership of the Pope and every Pope, free yourself, by own account and teacher of freedom for all mankind, until the end of the world.

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Enzo Bianchi on a visit to the Holy Father Benedict XVI

If Bianchi believes that freedom is never been separated from the Church or in contrast with the Church, yes it may have been necessary to "reconcile" with the Church, it means that he does not know what freedom is or has a Masonic concept or liberal and believes that the Church should learn freedom from masonry or by liberalism, Therefore, his is a wrong concept of freedom. Because on the contrary, true freedom is only one taught and practiced by the Church. If there can be a freedom that is reconciled with the Church, It will be the false freedom that becomes true listening to Christian teaching on freedom and imitating the Christian practice of freedom. A Church without freedom does not exist, although it may exist Christians who do not live the freedom of God's children.

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Enzo Bianchi contradicts, when it denies that St. John Paul II has been a promoter of freedom, while he is recognizing the merit of his hostility to communism and its openness to ecumenical dialogue. On the first point, Bianchi completely ignores which wrestler was by Pope John Paul II and before becoming Pope, against communist tyranny for freedom of the Church, of his homeland and of humanity itself. Concerning the second point, it is clear that ecumenical dialogue is the sum expression of religious freedom.

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Freedom promoted by John Paul II in the Church was true freedom, founded on zeal for the sound doctrine, for it is the truth that makes us free [CF Jn. 8,32]. Like this, If on the one hand, with the help of the brave Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Pope has forcefully defended the doctrine of the faith against several errors insurgents, on the other he has left us the powerful encyclical The Splendor of Truth, in which the great Pontiff proposes, against the other, a large teaching on Christian freedom in his relationship with the moral act, conscience, the moral law, virtue and vice, the grace, the Word of God and the ultimate end.

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Enzo Bianchi in St. Peter's Square pays tribute to Pope Benedict XVI

It makes you wonder according to which the concept of freedom Bianchi dares to speak, about San Giovanni Paolo II, of 'closure in the Church, Waterproof what was at liberty ". He obviously does not refer to that freedom which the Pope described in The splendor of truth, relying on which he ruled the Church, and therefore he rejected the freedom of Bianchi, that Paul would have called "the flesh" [Gal 5,13]. And as it is reckless on the one hand - as well as wicked, being a saint - the judgment of Bianchi of St. John Paul II, just as it is reckless in the opposite direction and blatant sycophantic it is the judgment on the Pontiff, which undoubtedly it is against the closure and intellectual conformism, to self-righteous legalism and a rigid traditionalism, He is attentive to religious freedom and conscience, the liberation of the poor and oppressed, to the freedom of the children of God, open to the newness of the Spirit, sensitive to cultural and religious pluralism, all’ecumenismo, to dialogue, the elasticity and flexibility of choices, attentive to concrete cases, the area of ​​freedom against the law.

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It would be ridiculous consider Pope Francis short such as "reconciling freedom with the Church", as if the Church of John Paul II has been in conflict with the freedom, false claim, unjust and blasphemous towards the Church and previous Popes, falsehoods understandable on the lips of a Mason or a liberal or a Mazzini or a communist, but certainly not a Catholic monaco, let alone a prophet, which Bianchi passes to be at many.

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The fact of the limits realize in which the Pope is the organizer of freedom in the Church, I feel like the more reason to express our filial devotion and desire to be close to him in trials and to help, defend it and support it, for what it is in us, in his service to the universal Church and to humanity. Hiding his brother his faults, real or apparent, was also the Pope, to launch themselves recklessly into hyperbolic and ridiculous flattery, how does Bianchi, It is not true respect, It is not frank, It is not obedience, It is sincerity, is not charity, It is not confidence, It is not trusted, It is mercy, It is not co, is no faithfulness, especially when the same judgment criteria, as in the case of Bianchi, They are not taken from the Gospel, but by the worldly spirit. Well, if the Pope of course, as Pope, in assistance of the Holy Spirit, can not fail to have correct ideas, on freedom, instead, as a pastor and man of government, It is not protected from faults due to his human frailty. For he shows too lenient and almost shy into the modernists, repressive and vice versa, too severe, towards the traditionalists. The first leaves them too free, so they take the opportunity to cause great harm to the Church; others restrict freedom, taking unused or even suppressing healthy forces, which could otherwise be productively employed for the good of the Church. Interestingly, in a recent ecumenical meeting, dad, asked for an opinion on Luther, he has sent to Cardinal Walter Kasper, confessing candidly "afraid" of him, how could a schoolboy before the master.

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Enzo Bianchi pays tribute to Pope Francis I, shortly after his election to the sacred throne

Rightly the Pope it was proposed to carry forward the reforms of Vatican II; but too-good is an increased tendency of the Council, when instead, after fifty years in which we experienced the damage that the feel-good trend brings to the Church, It feels more and more the need, without renouncing to the greater understanding of the mercy made by the Council, to restore or find or rediscover, without useless nostalgia for a past that has passed, the educational function, liberating and corrective discipline human and divine, as well as clarity, steadfastness and firmness of the principles of reason and faith, of dogma and morality. Dad, instead, Unfortunately, paradoxically, It seems to want to impose by force gooders. So there are now Superiors, pedestrian followers of the Pope, to punish those who support the existence of the divine punishment.

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Freedom has certainly disciplined and governed by the law, to avoid the anarchy and individualistic gooders, relativist and liberale dell 'one man Wolf. In fact, doing good is the worst enemy of goodness and therefore of freedom. Freedom has built in freedom and if, in serious cases, We must resort to coercion, this must always be done to defend and promote freedom.

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Enzo Bianchi and Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini

You see that the Pope He received a liberal education, perhaps Rahner; whereby, if it has no difficulty to appreciate the freedom, the concrete, becoming, the modern, the new, the progress and the historicity, It is hard to appreciate, obviously repulsion, the abstract values, immutable, universal, absolute and traditional. Moreover, the Pope himself, many signs and facts, Apparently not fully free to bring forth the fullness of its apostolic faculty; but one gets the impression that it is surrounded by intrusive and intriguing collaborators, which, for their false obedience to the Pope and contradictions with the Pope's duties, seem to, rather than being the subject of a free choice of the Pope, themselves be, with diabolical arts and who knows what false promises, to impose itself, or maybe they are imposed on him by cunning and powerful foreign forces, harmful to the Church and to the Pope himself, probably Freemasonry, which shows benevolent towards the Pope to buy credit and trick him better, waiting to strike when they have made it weaker. They, moreover, who often speaks of the devil, must have an inkling of what, but probably he does not know how to get rid.

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Difficult to know how much freedom Pope moves and how much he is instead held back by obscure or obvious harmful forces, outwardly obsequious, but enemy covertly. But this anomalous situation of a helpless Papacy, hostage of fake friends, It has been dragging on since the time of Blessed Pope Paul VI, whose doldrums, omissions, inadvertencies, naivety, excessive concern, prevarications, hesitations, incapacity and weaknesses, They were not due to true faults, because it was a saint, but its human objective limits, of whom have taken advantage wickedly dark conspirators, Evil characters and smart collaborators, relying on a mass of believers in their faith weakened and disoriented, prey of those wolves in sheep.

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Enzo Bianchi during a conference, to his left, the Secretary General of the Italian Episcopal Conference S.It is. Mons. Nunzio Galantine

She was historical, for instance, the disappointment of Paul VI for the Cardinal betrayal Léon-Joseph Getting sick, first much appreciated by him; e, for another example, he realized too late the combined trouble in the liturgy by Bishop. Annibale Bugnini. So too, deceived by rahneriani, He never thought to condemn Karl Rahner, while this would be the right time. He got wind of only minimal heresies of Edward Schillebeeckx, who treated him with much regard. Only Saint John Paul II tried to remedy, but could only partially, because he did not have the support of the Dominican Order.

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Because of this, in regulating the exercise of freedom in the Church, Pope Francis is struggling to implement justice, and consequently also affects the exercise of mercy, as well as so much at heart, the fact that the mercy supposed to recognize the merits of others with justice, especially if we are in authority, supporting and rewarding the good and combating the evil. Only then the merciful acts by lifting the weak and forgiving to repentant. But the rebels unrepentant, which they may wish the divine favors, without changing their perverse will, they themselves to continue to be punished. In these cases it is not God who is "perverted", as it would like Bianchi: it is they who are perverse.

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Enzo Bianchi in the cathedral with the then Archbishop of Palermo, Cardinal Paolo Romeo

In their false judgment on the Pope, White seems to present the Holy Father as a liberalone permissive on the line by Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino. Ma, if we meditate carefully on its crude paean to the Pope: "With him freedom was reconciled with the Church", I have already commented, and the words that immediately follow, then we find his game. In fact, let us pause on these words and valutiamone weight. Hence the big white shoots, as if what he said was not enough. But now we understand what he means. For he says that Pope Francis would "craftsman of gestures until recently inconceivable '. there, so, il eschatological myth and fantapolitico Pope revolutionary that appeals to Eugenio Scalfari, that in reality, of the pope, He did not understand anything. Or the Pope, according to the Communists, He is coagulating in the world all the forces of the left, hope of Castro Cuban and Argentine revolutionary, Terror of the American capitalists.

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To me seventy-five, I experienced the famous Sixty-eight when I was a student at the University of Bologna, where I studied before taking the vocational path to the ministerial priesthood and religious life, It seems to be back in those days, as if by then the story had not gone on, and as if the calamitous implementation, in the decades of the ideas of those fanatics excited, it was plain for all. But the thing hilarious is that these dangerous lingered considering Progressives and the reformers of the Church, perhaps taking Luther to model and interpreter of Vatican II! Here then the shouts of joy of the poor masses manipulated by the various Bianchi: "A Pope so he never saw!», "Finally the Pope that we like!», "The Pope of all!"And bales of this kind, just that these bales are taken out of many naive, deceived by the modernists, who would like to present a chameleon and modernist Pope, and many take the bait or to cry or to dance.

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Enzo Bianchi again in the Cathedral of Palermo with the new Archbishop S.It is. Mons. Corrado Lorefice, who invited him to speak shortly after his election to the bishopric

But in what consist these "gestures until recently inconceivable '? I do not think Bianchi think here when the Pope went solo optician in town to be repaired glasses or confessed a boy in St. Peter's Square, or when we have seen no red shoes. It must be something more serious and important to Bianchi, namely 'gestures' that until Pope Bergoglio seemed inconceivable, and that instead the Pope has put in place. Now, what becomes "conceivable" with the current Pope and that before, it seems from time immemorial, "inconceivable", White does not specify, ma, looking at the context and in particular to his ideas about freedom and what it says on the subject for each of the two Popes, you can well imagine.

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What are these gestures who will remain in the history of future centuries? The answer does not seem difficult, and is obtained by referring to the comparison that makes Bianchi between the two popes on freedom and his ideas on freedom: it follows that for Bergoglio Bianchi overthrew the traditional Wojtyla idea of ​​freedom, replacing the real one in place as part of a Church illiberal, authoritarian and despotic over the centuries and perhaps millennia. But given that St. John Paul II, holy as it was, It is instead a great teacher and heroic witness of freedom, that consequently it is? That the good Bianchi, prophet amateur, opposing foolishly on freedom St. John Paul II to the present Pope, It is logical to attribute to them a false concept of freedom, believing what cheer the Pope sensational or rediscoverers discoverer of Christian freedom.

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With this gigantic bluster, Bianchi makes in what the Pope a good service? Or everything is resolved in a painful buffoonery, humiliating and offensive to the same Pope Francis, that will have made you a great laugh, but not without bitterness, to note how far can drop his child, however, not devoid of spiritual gifts?

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Enzo Bianchi holds a retreat to the clergy of the Archdiocese of Siena in the seminary Archbishop, currently closed for lack of vocations

But here then the rub; we understand why the judgments of Bianchi on two Popes, so that he discovers his game. Bianchi, when he is rejecting the traditional concept of freedom catholic up to Pope Bergoglio, It can not help but fall just in the carnal conception - today we would say liberal - Freedom, that St. Paul excludes and condemns [Gal 5,13], ending up making the Pope say what is absolutely foreign to his thought of Teacher of the Faith. And with that I remember The condemnation of the liberal conception of freedom it is now standing: We find in the teachings of Blessed Pius IX and Leo XIII's encyclical freedom praestantissinmum the 1888. This conception, It originated from the Lutheran subjectivism and anthropocentrism Renaissance, the culmination or extreme idealism consequences of Hegel, jogging human freedom even to the divine: "The will wills itself». This pantheistic conception is taken from Rahner, harshly criticized by Ratzinger in his book Principles of Catholic Theology [CF. Who are you, Paris 1982, pp.187-188]. It is that freedom, about which Emanuel Mounier, honest leftist Catholic thirties and friend of Maritain, proclaimed, remained in a famous political philosophy program: "We must free up the freedom by the liberals'. This freedom has nothing to do with true Christian freedom, in obedience to the Magisterium of the Church, freedom that is based on truth cf. GV 8,32] and it is within the law, the freedom that does not give any space to "conflicts", but that is the climate of their solution, freedom that knows to avoid them in charity and mutual acceptance, however, giving rise to a legitimate pluralism and a peaceful confrontation of opinions, in the unity of the only freely shared and common truth of faith, in full communion with the Church and obedience to the legitimate Pastors.

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The opposition that Bianchi would like to find between St. John Paul II and the Holy Father Francis in theme and practice of freedom, It is totally false. Either freedom is jointly responsible and effective freedom of choice, as well as the gift of God, that is grace and mercy. Saint John Paul II further accentuated the metaphysical bases, rational and dogmatic freedom, which it is the highest expression of ecclesial communion, created by the Holy Spirit. A Pope Francis are rather more to heart the dynamism and creativity of freedom, as a privileged expression of the person created in the image of God and moved by the Holy Spirit, the service of others, especially the poorest and most suffering.

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Enzo Bianchi holds a conference in the cathedral of Arezzo, to his right, the Bishop of the City S.It is. Mons. Riccardo Fontana

There is no doubt that the insistence with which Pope Francis presented the Christian as a man of mercy, It has a close relationship with the ideal of freedom. Actually, the Merciful is a liberator: liberator from the miseries of the body and spirit, deliverer from the power of Satan. The right, instead, Reward the merits, up to take away your freedom to criminals. As for the Pope personally and merciful liberator, this is a different matter. Of course, He has made many significant gestures toward the poor, the exploited, the little ones, the marginalized, families wounds, seniors, the sick, immigrants; but one may wonder how much mercy towards the faithful disturbed and shocked by the heretics, by modernists and false prophets, or if no exchange for mercy excessive benevolence towards enemies of the Church, or how much mercy - or whether there is mercy - in some of his interventions towards people, prelates, theologians or institutions altogether worthy and faithful to the Church, maybe for a long time.

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The interviewer then attempts to dig deeper the soul of Bianchi and here we come to discover the root of his theological liberalism: a "change in the idea of ​​God", practically … from the bad to the good God God (!?). In fact, says Bianchi: "In my formative years God stood out as a judge, severe. A face that gradually I will appear perverse. Jesus Christ is the only God narration. I could not believe in God without Christ ". And from these words we see how White has embraced misericordismo fideist of Lutheran origin. His spiritual path is similar to that of Luther: He started from a God who rebuked him for his sins, the God "severe" and "punishing" the Old Testament, It began to try impatience, and to appear to "perverted"; so, to be "free", without too many worries or guilt senses, She has imagined and fashioned a good God and tender, which would be the God of the New Testament, sweet and "merciful", forgiving, Jesus Christ, that excuses everything, He does not punish, and has already promised Paradise. It deals with, in essence, the ancient heresy of Marcion. It does not appear that Luther was aware. But the fact remains.

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Enzo Bianchi holds a conference of the ambo of Padua Cathedral

As it forced the image bianchiana the God of the Old Testament, equally so is that of the goodness of Jesus Christ, all and only mawkish tenderness, completely rammollito, how those quilts, that, if they are struck by a punch, the fist sinks without resistance. With the God of the Old Testament do not mess. Instead with "good" God of the New, for those who offend, there are no unpleasant consequences: You have always forgiven. Here then is the Christ who imagines Bianchi is not the real one, ma, wanting to give an opinion psychoanalytic, It is the dream of childish child who wants to do his pranks without being punished by his father. I remember that when I was in elementary school, there were of my Compagnucci naughty or "bad companions", to use the language of Savonarola, for which the teachers "good" ones were not punished, while the others were the "bad".

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The feel-good Christology today is the expression academically pompous, with quotes from Bultmann, Rahner and Luther, a psyche remained stagnant at that level of mental and emotional development. At this airhead Christology and gelatinous corresponds to a Mariology easy-going and sweetish, in which Our Lady "merciful" is one of those moms "modern", that satisfy the unique son in all his whims, They not ever make the slightest warning or the slightest correction, they may grow "free" and "make their own choices". But they come out of the frustrated intolerant, as some theologians and bishops of our days.

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Enzo Bianchi at a conference on the liturgy in Gubbio, to his right the Bishop S.It is. Mons. Claudio Maniago, at the time the archdiocese of Florence

In fact the God of the Gospel is more severe than the God of Moses, and this is quite logical, precisely because the God of Christ is the most merciful of God to Moses. Indeed, while the God of the Old Testament prophets only sends simple, the God of the New Testament Father sends us His own Son to make us children of God and to die on the cross for us. As a result, Christian ethics is more demanding [cf. Mt 5, 20-43], just because, as ethics of God's children, the image of Christ, It is the ethics of those who, being the subject of greater mercy, that is quickened and strengthened by a more grace, and more enlightened by the truth, They are bound to a 'greater justice' [cf. Mt 5,20], to greater virtues - charity - and best good works - works of mercy - , although it is true that Christianity, doing better know human weakness, He teaches a greater mercy, tolerance and understanding towards others. But at the same time, the Gospel, showing better the secrets of the human heart, makes us better know the malice of sin, so it is more severe towards the sinner. Hence the severe, but salutary warning of the Letter to the Hebrews: "brothers, if we sin willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth ", that is, the Gospel, "There remains no more sacrifice for sins", ie the divine worship becomes useless hypocrisy, "But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries", nothing but mercy! "When someone has violated the law of Moses, He is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses. Then a much worse punishment do you think will be the one who has trampled the Son of God, considers unclean the blood of the Covenant, from which he was consecrated, and insults the spirit of grace?» [EB 10, 26-29]. And this also happens in human relationships. Indeed, if I show myself to someone more kind and merciful than with other, maybe I will not have reason to be waiting for that person a greater appreciation and, consequently, feel more offended, if such recognition does not reach or even that person repays me with ingratitude and contempt?

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the … “Dad” Enzo Bianchi

In these theologies of God "bad", There is confusion between the concept of punishment and that of cruelty. Missing the true concept of punishment, so you can not distinguish a just punishment of an unjust punishment. The punishment as such is always injustice, cruelty, violence or revenge and rancorous. There is the idea of ​​punishment as restoration of violated justice, but as retaliation by the injured party, as to unleash a litany of hatreds and vendettas without end. No questions are asked about who of the two contenders is right, why do not you believe in an objective truth, absolute and universal. The truth is what I think. The judge in the same court is not seen as an arbitrator, representative of a common law and equal for all, but as the enemy that haunts us. And the same divine judgment is seen as, as he confesses candidly Bianchi. The important thing is to respond tit for tat according to "own" truth. And this dialectic without end, damn and hell, It is even applied in the relationship between man and God. Man feels a Prometheus, innocent victim of a jealous and vengeful God, that, with its punishments and earthquakes, would make him afraid, crush his freedom and make his slave. And these conceptions are those that, He protests with the desire for peace, of Christian meekness and "forgiveness", do not allow any distinction between just war and unjust war, between righteous anger and unjust anger, between the offender and the assault of police officer, and to reduce violence, hatred or injustice any form military virtues, of bravery, coercion or use of force.

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It is clear that if we were to strictly the requirements of this hypocritical and cowardly pacifism, should dissolve the armed forces, the Carabinieri, the Guardia di Finanza and the Alpine Corps, abolish prisons, destroy the code of canon law, as did Luther, and many other forces and institutions such, while the court order would look like the system of evil and the same referees football matches would be abolished. The same is true of punishment and divine justice. But - so thinks Bianchi together with all the do-gooders -, since God is good, Dio non earn, but he approves or forgive everything I do and I like. But we must say that God promises us yes mercy, but only if we discount our faults. The prophets announce us a just and merciful God. Angry or offended in front of the warnings of the prophets, It is foolish and, far from attracting the divine mercy, l'increases anger. Wise thing however is to do penance as did the inhabitants of Nineveh at the preaching of Jonah. Indeed it is only by striving to avoid sin with holy fear of God, accepting from God, humbly, serenely and confidently, trials and punishments as factors of repair and purification, that we are preparing to receive God's mercy and to enter into intimacy with God, as St. Augustine says: "To be filled, you must first empty. You must be filled with good and so you have to free yourself from evil. Suppose that God wants to fill you with honey " (here is mercy). "If you are full of vinegar, where will you put the honey? You have to free the vessel from that which contained, indeed it must be cleaned. Maybe you have to clean it with hard work and commitment, if needed, it is suitable to receive anything » [cf.Treaties Objection Letter of Saint John, Treat. 4,6; PL 2008-2009]. Here is the ascetic function, here is the purifying function of the misfortunes and punishments, what St. John of the Cross called "passive purifications" and of which the "prophet" Bianchi, like Luther, It does not seem to know anything or have horror, why would enjoy immediately and low price of the mystical, without the proper preparation consisting confident acceptance of divine justice.

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the winning combination: Enzo Bianchi and Luigi Ciotti …

In gooders like Bianchi but it lacks the concept of punishment or penalty as an expression of the human and divine justice. They do not seem to understand that it is good and right that evildoers suffer to counterbalance or even, how do you say, for "retaliation", that same evil that he did - "who does, the aspects "-, so that the sinner himself, although unwillingly, It is reported in the order, in which consists the penalty or punishment. The delinquent contracts a debt to justice, you must pay. Indeed, Justice must compensate, return, restore order, back in its place that is out of place and make it right [Right in German, right in English] or straighten what is wrong. Thus justice reward merit, repair the wrong done, It gives the offended satisfaction, take away the evil of disorder, but it may be the just penalty. The mercy, as well as remove the clutter, It removes the guilt and punishment. So justice is a balance, one to equalize, a balance, not lean either to one side or the other, without partiality, no sense of people, without favoritism, but recognizing to each their own right and on its own merit (to each his own), with balance and fairness. This means the balance icon, we see the statue of Justice in our courts.

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The undeniable fact that in this life often innocent people are affected by calamities, while criminals get away, creates doubts about divine justice. But we must consider three things: first, that the same disorder in the distribution of the penis is a consequence of original sin. Second, that divine justice commands but to human justice, Civil and ecclesiastical right to administer justice, but unfortunately, because of the consequences of original sin or error or judges sins, human justice is faulty. Third, God does not always immediately punish the evildoers, because he wants to give them time to repent [cf. Is 30,18; Sap 12,19; Pt II 3,9]. But if they continue in sin, comes sooner or later, one way or another, showdown, which can also result in the punishment of hell. God forgets, when he forgives; but remember, when it has to punish.

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"Hell Dancing ', Nietzsche. And so it is for Whites? And here it is good to make a short speech on this topic. Bianchi, moved by the divine mercy, assures us: "I will sing your mercy, even from hell '. I believe that in Hell there is little to sing. And if I can imagine some singing, certainly it will not be the choirs of angels represented in the frescoes by Fra Angelico, and absolutely repugnant to me that the White singing can be a hymn to divine mercy, given that one is damned just because he hates God's mercy and believed not to have any need, since, in his opinion, He had not done anything wrong and did not need anything, He replied as Adolf Eichmann, the Auschwitz Executioner, interrogated, the day before the execution, if he was sorry for what he had done. Or if anything I can think of some blasphemous hymn, like theHymn to Satan Carducci, or as those found in satanic sects or are tuned in magic rituals, as for example in Proclus, Iamblichus or Giordano Bruno, or those pagans or woodoo, or those produced or music rock or communism or Nazism or esoteric Freemasonry.

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Enzo Bianchi speaks of his own subjective idea of ​​mercy

These absurd words of Bianchi bring to mind the equally absurd and blasphemous expression of Luther, who, convinced of the existence of a divine predestination to damnation, even he said that he would go willingly to Hell, if that should be God's will. It remains always impossible to perceive the merciful God without first accepting the just God. It is from the Old Testament God who comes to understand Jesus, God of the New Testament. It's because we know God based on reason, we can reach, in faith, believe in Christ. The gospel is the proclamation of the opportunity to gain eternal life, offered to all, but it sets conditions to obtain it: "If you would enter life, keep the commandments " [Mt 19,17]. There is the possibility of obtaining mercy; but it must do penance. Christ promises the opportunity to enter into the kingdom of God, but warns that those who do not believe, It will be condemned [MC 16,16].

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The Gospel is supposed which it is in man's ability to choose either for God or against God. The kingdom of God is a gift of grace; yet it is necessary to conquer [Mt 11,12]; It is a "prize", for which must compete [The Cor 9,24]; It is a "precious pearl", which must be bought [Mt 13,45]; It is the pay good worker [Mt 20,1]. But the merit is a gift of grace. All good action of the just, after all, It is a gift of grace and mercy. But if the choice is against God, here come on stream justice punishing, until the infernal punishment. The Gospel, so, brings joy to the humble, the afflicted, to those who seek God, who have repented of their sins, who they respect the divine justice and believe in His mercy; I have gorgeous, the unrepentant, to the wicked, the promise of divine forgiveness of eternal life does not interest, because they are already full of themselves, them just this life and do not feel they need to lose, while the threat of divine punishment irritates them and makes them blaspheme.

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Enzo Bianchi guest in the journal of the Italian Clergy, which they would never hosted writings and articles of many distinguished elderly priests with a life spent serving the Church and the People of God

White flips the spirit path: Needless to say with all firmness and clarity that we could not accept Christ, if I did not believe in God. For as we come to know that Christ is God, if we knew that God exists? Christ does not make us know that God exists, but that we already know by themselves according to reason, even before being informed by the Church of Christ preaching. Therefore the order is: by God to Christ, not by Christ to God. Christ gives us the knowledge of God and his will for us - the Holy Trinity, the baptism, faith, the Redemption, the grace, everlasting life, the church -, that with our simple reason, It had been that of Aristotle or Plato, we could never reach or imagine, if the Father himself, for his mercy, without his forced, through his Son, there he had given in the Holy Spirit. Christ makes known to us the mystery of the Father, that only He and the Father know, but based on the knowledge we already possess by reason and from the Old Testament. Jews and Muslims already know the true God, although they are not enlightened by the mystery of Christ. Through Christ did not come to believe in God SIC et simpliciter, but there comes a knowledge of God supernatural, revealed, infinitely superior to that of the simple reason. Our intelligence does not pass directly from the knowledge of the world to Christ, but come to Christ, object of faith, known by the Church's preaching, through the mediation of rational knowledge of God, cause and end of the universe, creator of heaven and earth.

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Tll men know that God exists based on reason, that all men possess as. Only some of them, starting from the natural knowledge of God, and informed by the ecclesial catechesis, they arrive, if you come, enlightened by the grace, believe in Christ. Others may be enlightened by God without knowing it. The flipped speech Bianchi is therefore to one who can not who God or who Christ. By starting from Christ and reach God, Christ should be the same, which it is the deception of pantheism Christological Hegel. Or, It should possess an intuitive faith or experiential, Previous to reason, as in the Lutheran fideism. Instead it is the reason that you switch to the faith and not vice versa.

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… too many confusions “under the same sky”

Faith is a divine knowledge. Now, is only the divine knowledge which starts from himself and passes to humans, because it creates. As for us, starting from the human that we can rise to the divine. Believing they can go the opposite way, You want to believe that our knowledge can be commenced by God and not by man, which is Hegelian idealism and scellinghiano.

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In conclusion, the Bianchi prophecy is careful not to displease by the party animals, asking the prophets: "Us smooth things" [Is 30,10]. This is the message that Bianchi, young "prophet", he left mankind, by writing to 30 years of age, in a book that has had a worldwide success, enough to be translated into 35 languages, while precious works of medieval or Renaissance Dominican theologians and mystics are still waiting to be translated. Already St. Thomas shrewdly observes in fact that the number of fools is vastly greater than that of the wise. Well, never before has it proves valid this observation Aquinas. But what I wonder is now more like a character of this kind and with similar ideas succeeded in obtaining credit even to the Holy See, as it has happened since Blessed Pope Paul VI, with St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, to the reigning Pontiff. We must really say that the devil is adept at masquerade as an angel of light, if he can cajole and circumvent even the Popes [cf. II Cor 11,14]. Naturally, White also has his good qualities, the study and the worship of God's Word, sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, l'ecumenism, the veneration of the Holy Fathers of the Church, the love for prayer and contemplation. Council anyway, to clarify things about him, the facts critical studies by Bishop. Antonio Love, in addition to the output next text edited by the young philosopher and theologian Dr.. George A.. Faccio Lince.

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Varazze, 12 March 2017

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