The last of Senator Dario Franceschini: "The paternal surname is a patriarchal tradition" …
The last of Senator Dario Franceschini: "The paternal surname is a patriarchal tradition"
If we want a thought so to speak "left", You have to go back to the end of the sixties of the twentieth century, open an encyclical written by Paolo VI in 1967 entitled Development of Peoples, Read it carefully and learn what should really be the progress of peoples based on the common human and Christian sense, not on blind ideology.
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Jorge Facio Lynx
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The bill of Senator Dario Franceschini which provides for the possibility of automatically attributing the maternal surname to infants has generated a heated public debate, With conflicting voices and comments. Proposed by him defined as
«Compensation for a secular injustice that has had not only a symbolic value, But it was one of the cultural and social sources of gender inequalities " (cf.. WHO)
The supporters of the proposal they see it as a necessary legislative and social adaptation that follows the constitutive changes of families, so that there is greater gender equality and the custom of the paternal surname is eliminated, considered "patriarchal tradition". In this way a greater role would be given to the mothers at a social level, With greater freedom of choice of the surname to be transmitted to the children by the parents, promoting a more balanced and real vision of the wider family concept compared to that considered too restrictive of the so -called "non -traditional family". The proposal does not exclude the possibility for parents to jointly choose the surname, including the double surname option.
Critics of the proposal argue that it risks creating confusion on family identity, influence the perception of the relationship with the parents and the related daughter, producing divisions within families in case of disagreement between the parents for the choice of the surname.
For jurists and experts There are undeniable problems on the proposal regarding the bureaucratic complexity that could derive from the application of the law, such as difficulties in managing documents and administrative practices. In this regard, the Supreme Constitutional Court has already given indications for the overcoming of the purely paternal surname, in which the cases and cases to which the proposal is targeted can return.
It is difficult to predict precisely how many infants would receive the maternal surname following the approval of the law, without specific data on parents' preferences, Any calculation would be approximate but still indicative. Analyzing some data of the National Statistics Authority (cf.. WHO), It is clear that:
– The born in Italy is constantly decreasing, In the 2023, The born residents in Italy were 379.000, marking a new historical minimum with a decrease of 14.000 unit compared to 2022 (-3,6%);
– The sun mothers, or the so -called "monogenitoric" families, they still have very approximate statistics for the reduced sample, however, The family nuclei in which the mother is the sole parent has increased as a consequence of the divorces, Motherhood separations and singular choices;
– I “Monogenitori”, that is, fathers and mothers alone, between 2011 and the 2021 have recorded an increase in 44%: Sun mothers have increased by 35,5%, While the only fathers increased by attesting to 85%.
This bill It would be interesting for the "monogenitoric" nuclei which according to Istat data would be growing and which include families sensitive to gender equality issues, Families with unmarried parents in which the choice of the surname can be more complex, In this and other cases the proposal would simplify the process of assigning the surname. It is extremely difficult to calculate precisely how many families would actually choose to use the maternal surname, But it could also arrive at 10-20% of families, This would represent a significant number of individuals who must not be excluded.
The political choice of the left, In recent years it could be considered progressive, But also wanting a form of radical struggle for civil recognition and legal and social adaptation to minority groups. According to what the current political exponents say in their ideological speeches made on televisions and rallies on the squares, these groups, ostracized or condemned throughout history, Today they must receive their full recognition within the company, If the company itself wants to be truly civil. This abandonment of the left towards the ideal of class struggle or against certain economic systems in which the operative or the proletarian class member was exploited as a propaganda element, it is no longer so important and relevant, as is the struggle for these minority groups, or to put it in other words: from the workers' struggles in the square with the parades of the metalworkers in a suit, We moved on to the gay pride with rainbow men dressed as grotesque faces in heels and mesh stockings.
It is an ideological choice, that of post-communists, which appears today more in contradiction with a world in which the defense of the weak, within economic-annibal powers, It is favored in its tragic inequalities among the classes precisely from the international claims, Those who yesterday screamed "Peace and Love" and who today scream to the rearmament of Europe, with Germany in the lead, who at the time was not properly unarmed by chance.
The transfer Freudian on certain privileged minorities come i cisgender and those who do not want to accept and adapt to "traditional" social roles and schemes, It seems a sort of "updating of the class struggle" or, Better one of his parodys, so that the basic concepts of culture can be revolutionized which little by little manage to "educate" the new generations, In addition to the people obliged in turn to change the company to their root. The ideological choice, however, even if it claims greater inclusion and tolerance, Too often it highlights the exclusivity of these minority groups at the expense of the majority of the population. They are statistically lower segments that are saved and protected by the "mass" almost like a new sort of different and welcoming higher "bundle". Complex theme, this, on which he wrote a far -sighted essay one of our author, Francesco Mangiacapra, In his work The coup of the politically correct - When minorities become dictatorship.
The new struggle of the left exponents not only forgets the people, as evidenced by the facts, But with unconscious comic vein uses the dialectic one in which the policies of opponents are presented as "belly rhetoric", or as a "bieco populism", Fomentati da talk show which feed victimism, The poses and the need for a vindictive redemption, Instead of the search for remuneration justice and the assets of each individual above their personal selfish or self -centered pleasures.
If we want a thought so to speak "left", You have to go back to the end of the sixties of the twentieth century, open an encyclical written by Paolo VI in 1967 entitled Development of Peoples, Read it carefully and learn what should really be the progress of peoples based on the common human and Christian sense, not on blind ideology.
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Semperity of the proposed di Silent I can: from the “vertical man” to the “pick me up” e “somewhere” by Leonardo Sciascia
Always about I CAN'T BE SILENT: DAL “Vertical man"A" Fireculo "and" quadhow "of Leonardo Sciascia
Since it is reported that the SIG. Marco Perfetti started a training course in the Seminary of La Spezia, then to the community New horizons of Genoa, Then a couple of years in the Seminary of Massa Carrara where they report that they have accompanied him to the door; Since they report that he would attempt an approach to Assisi, where at the time he was the guardian of the sacred convent the future cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Currently archpriest of the papal archbasilical of San Pietro, object of dozens of violent insults for two years; Since they report that he would try to approach some traditionalist institutions and some monastic communities, However, since he denies it, maybe it should be clarified: Among the ecclesiastics and trainers of three different dioceses and the person concerned, Who says the truth and who says the false?
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We are very far from 1898 When Leo XIII, He was resumed with a camera as it crossed her legs. Images that ended even in places that are not very suitable or even lewd, so much so that the Vatican was forced to break the relationships with the Americans who had created those filming and established them with the Calcina brothers e i Light.
More recently Perhaps some remember that in 2015 The crediting to a long -term Vaticanist of the caliber of Sandro Master, guilty of having broken the embargo on the long -awaited encyclical of Pope Francis "Laudato yes", anticipating excerpts, A few days before the release, his Espresso.
All this seems prehistory Compared to the current panorama that, thanks to the spread of social, sees a proliferation of characters to accredit themselves as authoritative connoisseurs of the Vatican things and the life of the Church or its representatives. Case striking the blog I cannot be silent, than in their own social indicates as a place of “residence” the Vatican City State, With his blogghettaro who in his videos and articles repeats with great Sicumera: «… We in the Vatican … here in the Vatican …». In short: a joke, If there was no tragedy behind.
I social, as we know and experience, They are fabulous tools if used well, but they can be equally deleterious if used in a bad way, To hit someone, person or institution, or to delegitimize or bring discredit. Used without verification control or possibility of reasoned replica, they can lead to dangerous consequences, or at least annoying. It is not now that the alarm sounds due to those who use these means to spread fake news or distort the reality of the facts for their ends. If they are caught on the live or made subject to argued answers and try, Son able to revolt pinned, denial o, worse, Use an old invalo method at ancient institutions such as the Catholic Church: the use of the delator letter. It is a typical expedient of the subtle, that not knowing how to respond to the arguments, they turn to the superior of those who want to hit, to the head above, or, If it is a priest, even to the whole presbytery that that cleric is linked by affection, as well as for incardination. Just as Marco Perfetti did a few days ago, By sending a delusional lungent poison letter addressed to all members of the presbyitèrio of the diocese to which Father Ariel S belongs. Levi di Gualdo, The fourth in standard order, From November 2023 till today.
The purpose of this poisonous slimy is to hit low, It doesn't matter the person, his dignity and not even what he wrote to contradict incorrect news. What you want to achieve is the greatest discredit possible, Using even those Melense and greasy ecclesiastical tones that would like to pass the dirty operation for something healthy, right, providential with regard to that presbyterio, of that historical order or of that religious congregation looked at with commiseration to include cadent people who dare to contradict the new paladins of communication (sic!) Vatican and Ecclesial, those who define themselves as those who are not can, except to hide behind the most vile anonymity.
Not just father Ariel, which of the magazine is responsible director and figure among the founders together with the late Antonio Love, Last philosopher and theologian of the Roman school, and to the Dominican theologian Giovanni Cavalcoli, all the member of the scientific committee of the Editions The island of Patmos, All editors of the magazine The Island of Patmos The treatment recently described have recently been made. In particular, the thing could have passed in silence and similar subjects not even taken into consideration, following the adage of an imaginary character, the famous cetto the whatever, impersonated by the actor Antonio Albanese: «Don't spit you out if not you perfume!». But since the editors decetors de The Island of Patmos they have always had the good of their readers in the eyes and to follow intellectual honesty, they find themselves forced to speak even of these annoying faces, Which they would do very help in very much.
That Father Ariel uses strong tones not given today. It is written that it uses swear words. I am not capable of it, But I am sure that they are all present in the dictionaries of the Italian language and Treccani and that they made the fortune of Facondi writers such as Aldo Busi who wrote in 1994 Cocks and kangaroos (very few kangaroos) O You have to have the balls to take it in the ass, edited none other than Mondadori. And what about the prof. Vittorio Sgarbi, To which our thoughts goes in this moment of his physical and psychic difficulty, who made an emblem of the word. But if we want to take the ecclesiastics that made intelligent use of the foul language, not for vulgarity, But for healthy pedagogy, Just remember Benedict XIV, nee Prospero Lambertini, that speaking interspersed with saying «Fuck!»Every three words.
A little above I mentioned affixed Aldo Busi Because one of the accusations addressed in that subtle way to Father Ariel is that he always thinks about gays and the consequent lobby widespread in the Church, as if he knew it in Menadito and indeed he was part of it. Maybe he doesn't know, The poor writer of letters, that Father Ariel already discounted from 2011 (see WHO) with the intent to warn ecclesiastical managers from that drift? A little different from who - poor - instead of confronting each other, He prefers to pour poison to diocesan and superior ordinary on religious and priests, while on their blog the doors to statements are open on the relationship between Bible and homosexuality of this kind:
«Reading these texts carefully, so, there is nothing against homosexuality".
There is nothing? Then why then, in the same text, He is seen favorably a phantom homosexual relationship between a centurion and his servant healed by Jesus? In fact, I read on the page of I cannot be silent words that would never have come out even as imaginative hypotheses from Mario Mieli Circle of homosexual culture:
“It is not unpleasant to think so. Think if it really was like that, We should explain to blogs psycho repressed (sic!) that Jesus made the greatest praise to a homosexual. But this should not be surprised. The references could be many, There are also Greek expressions that specify certain types of love also in reference to the disciples and Jesus himself, between Lazzaro and Jesus, etc ... however it is, like always, to want to look for answers in writing that they are not offered to us, they are not necessary. It's as if we wanted to know, Reading the episode of the wedding at Cana, as the bride was dressed. Scripture does not say it. We don't care " (WHO).
What to say? Wanting we could call Paolo Poli to mind, that with regard to the absurd claims of certain excellent and inaciditis, he said:
«Gays may have the opportunity to express their own uniqueness and diversity in the most true sense of the term. But no, they want to play husband and wife and have the Pope's permission to fuck each other!» (From the interview to GayTv the 17 December 2003)
I then mentioned Sgarbi not surprisingly. Because, If true that he made the dirty word and the "goat" epithet of the battle horses, At least at the beginning of public career, His very vehement releases have always been explicit in excellent Italian. Which cannot be said of who, with the intent of spreading mud, He writes the aforementioned letters, that we must find by digging between spelling and syntax errors. Already, because there are also those. And from this we understand - at least we who are professionals of writing - that the articles published by the leader of I cannot be silent are reworked by a good concealer before publication, while the impetuous emotional letters sent without prior correction, Instead, they are the mirror of what is the real culture and syntax of their author: A perfect donkey on a grammar level.
Father Ariel uses strong words and does not escape the controversy, but it does it openly, with reasoning that follow a logic and that can also be countered, since opinions remain, Although based on a practice of the Church that is difficult to oppose, because at the basis of his debates, especially of the controversy, He always places Catholic doctrine and morality. Also in the magazine or on his page Facebook You can answer and say your own, Father Ariel has always allowed, To anyone, not only to counter, but even to insult it. Which cannot be done on the sites of those who prefer, Because point on the live of their inconsistencies or falsehoods, Write Dileggio letters. If in the magazine - from Father Ariel or by other editors - he sometimes took the aim of Tizio or Caio, priest or bishop who is, It has always been done in compliance with the person and the role. The same cannot be said of those who write letters of regret and then stand for the trainer of the spiritual and priestly life of the priests, Except then Irrude them, insolentirli e redarguirli, But always without the possibility of leaving room for comments or answers.
Bad letters are written to bishops on priests or religious superiors because they follow or write in the magazine The Island of Patmos so that they are alerted or redeemed or even discharged by the clerical state (sic!), Then you make articles or posts in which the bishops reproach themselves who do not protect their priests enough. Not to mention the injuries scattered to the right and missing, For the reading of which I refer to our recent article on the seamstress who gives lessons to Giorgio Armani (WHO), to which we could also combine another paradigmatic figure: The beautiful laundry.
As a hermit monk I could cite a few thousand expressions of holy spiritual fathers who invite to avoid slander, the hatred and the deterioration, In addition to passages from the New Testament that invite to respect, in particular of those who have a task of authority.
I hope who to receive such letters, Ordinary diocesan, Superior father, presbyter or simple secular that it is, It indicates the inexorable path of the trash to the same. Or call your priest or religious and after receiving the debt explanations respond to the sender with a nice: "We have more to think about and more important things to do".
In one of his four letters sent to all members of the presbytery of Father Ariel, that of 3 November 2023, Marco Perfetti says:
"Just think of the considerations that Di Gualdo makes on the undersigned regarding a never that has never occurred by any seminar and religious institute".
Since it is reported that Mr. Marco Perfetti started a training course in the Seminary of La Spezia, then to the community New horizons of Genoa - the same accused by him to exercise "abuse of consciences" -, Then a couple of years in the Seminary of Massa Carrara where they report that they have accompanied him to the door; Since they report that he would attempt an approach to Assisi, where at the time he was the guardian of the sacred convent the future cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Currently archpriest of the papal archbasilical of San Pietro, object of dozens of violent insults for two years, 57 in total to be precise; Since they report that he would try to approach some traditionalist institutions and some monastic communities, However, since he denies it, maybe it should be clarified: Among the ecclesiastics and trainers of three different dioceses and the person concerned, who says the truth and who the false? The question, aimed at the person concerned, it's simple and serene, It does not want any intimate sphere, But if I had not been clear then I repeat it: Who says the truth and who says the false?
To finish I bring a personal testimony. A few months ago I was invited for lunch by a parish priest who wanted to celebrate an anniversary with his family. Father Ariel was also present at that juncture and he also invited him, Indeed he insisted on why he was present. The Parish Priest, how to do among friends, he made a word to a confrere, among other things responsible for his pastoral area. This person, despite not being invited, heard that there was father Ariel made the devil four to be there. Not only, he did everything to sit next to him and be able to talk to it, disinteresting almost completely from the rest of the table which was also numerous. This is to say that an account are the slanders - for the outcome of which you refer to the famous apologist of San Filippo Neri and the slander of the woman who had gone to confess from him - and another thing is instead the estimate reserved for a known priest who has spent himself and spent for years to support with any means priest in any situation are located.
This is the difference that exists, To put it with the Spaniards, between a vertical man And who - forgive me -, He chooses other geometric figures to position himself, like the flat or right angle. And since it was about swearing, In this regard, the distinction is always useful, remaining classic, by Leonardo Sciascia in his book The Day of the Owl, that puts on the lips of the mafia, don Mariano Arena. So he turns to the captain of the Carabinieri Bellodi who had allowed himself to be a search at his home:
"I have a certain experience of the world; and we say that humanity, and fill our mouths to say humanity, nice word full of wind, divide into five categories: the men, the mezz'uomini, the ominicchi, i (respectfully speaking) Piglioinculo and the Quaquaraquà ... very few men; the few mezz'uomini, because I would keep me the humanity stopped at the middle of the men ... and instead not, falls down even more, to ominicchi: who are like children who think they are great, monkeys that make the same moves as the big ones ... and even further down: the pigliainculo, which are becoming an army ... and finally the Quaquaraquà: that they should live like ducks in the puddles, because their life no longer makes sense and more expression than that of the ducks ... she, even if I grind to a halt on these cards as a Christ, She is a man ... ".
I let the reader evaluate Who is the man who faces you with an open face and who the Piglianculo Quaquaraquà of Shaking Memory that sends poisonous displaced letters to bishops, Religious superiors and to whole presbyéri, teaching Giorgio Armani how men's jackets are cut.
From the Hermitage, 29 March 2025
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Our previous articles on the Band of the Silerian:
– 16 August 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY" (To open the article click WHO)
– 14 August 2025 — There is a homosexual? AT THAT TIME I CAN'T BE SILENT Also defends the indefensible (To open the article click WHO)
– 29 March 2025 — Always about I CAN'T BE SILENT: DAL “Vertical man"A" Fireculo "and" quadhow "of Leonardo Sciascia (To open the article click WHO)
– 21 March 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And the story of that convinced seamstress that he can give Giorgio Armani high fashion lessons (To open the article click WHO)
– 12 February 2025 — The Opossum is to the knowledge of the Vatican as Henger is in chastity and like his deceased husband Riccardo Schicchi is at work Confessions OF SAINT AUGUSTINE (To open the article click WHO)
– 15 January 2025 — AT THE CLERICAL BORDERS WITH REALITY: THE WOMAN SUFFERS FROM FREUDIAN PENIS ENVY, The Opossum of the envy by Matteo Bruni Director of the Press Room of the Holy See (To open the article click WHO)
– 20 January 2025 — THE OPOSSUM IGNORE THAT A NUN CAN QUIETLY BECOME GOVERNOR OF THE VATICAN CITY STATE, As already was Giulio Sacchetti (To open the article click WHO)
– 22 November 2024 — THE EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT OF RENATO TARANTELLI BACCARI. WHEN YOU ARE AFFECTED BY LIVER CANCER, THEY CHARGE ON THE ATTACK THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)
– 31 May 2024 — A NOTE FROM FATHER ARIEL ON THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT: «AS ANNOYING AS A SEA URCHIN INSIDE YOUR UNDERPANTS» (To open the article click WHO)
– 8 December 2023 — WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN? (To open the article click WHO)
– 14 October 2023 — THE ARCHABOT EMERITUS OF MONTECASSINO PIETRO VITTORELLI HAS DEAD: CHRISTIAN PIETY CAN ERASE THE SAD TRUTH? (To open the article click WHO)
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Prayer in Sant'Agnese: the saint who makes the hair regrets
Prayer in Sant'Agnese: The saint who makes the hair regrets
«Gorgeous Agnese, Young you who naked challenge the protected martyrdom against the executioner from your courage and faith and protected by your thick hair from the looks of the emppi: intercede so that the Lord gives balance and relief to the suffering of those who instead lose the hair and help us who try to lighten his anxiety […]».
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On the occasion of the arrival of yet another love letter, I discovered a saint to whom those who suffer from hair loss can contact, elected protector of trichologists who cure baldness. I ignored its existence, This is why I decided to apply the skilful Augustinian motto I can not remain silent (cf.. SACTI Augustine, Sermon. 88, Trad.. “I can't keep silent”), because having discovered that behind certain miracles there is her, It is necessary to shout it from the roofs (cf.. Mt 10,26). It deals with, obviously, of Sant'Agnese, of which the official website of the doctors Trichologists speaks to us.
The explanatory photos used to illustrate the trichological miracles of Sant'Agnese are public images taken from the Internet where they are available and visible by anyone
Of noble origins, belonging to the Clodia people, he suffered martyrdom at a very young age, as soon as 12 year old, During the persecution of Christians under Diocletian. The news relating to his life and martyrdom are different and conflicting. According to some sources, The son of the prefect of Rome had fallen in love with Agnese but was refused, having made a vow of chastity to Jesus. At that point the young man's father imposed her cloister among the vestals consecrated to the goddess Vesta, Protector of Rome, But she refused and was locked up in a cottage in which, But, Nobody dared to touch it except a man who, according to religious tradition, was blinded by a white angel and that, afterwards, he regained his sight precisely by intercession of Agnese, which for this reason was accused of magic and sentenced to the stake.
It is said that the flames divided under his body without touching him and that his hair suddenly grew to cover his nudity. Following this miracle he was pierced by a sword blow to the throat, modalities with which the lambs were killed, reason why the saint is often represented together with this animal. His body was buried in what is known today as a catacomb of S. Agnese while his skull is exhibited in a chapel in the church of S. Agnese in Agone.
There is also a prayer To be recited to the Holy Protector of Trichologists and of those suffering from hair loss:
«Gorgeous Agnese, Young you who naked challenge the protected martyrdom against the executioner from your courage and faith and protected by your thick hair from the looks of the emppi: intercede so that the Lord gives balance and relief to the suffering of those who instead lose the hair and help us who try to lighten his anxiety. man, With the intercession of Santa Agnese who was given to us as a protector, make us capable of taking on the commitments of daily work and be recognized at all times the signs of your spirit. Amen».
Source: WHO.
Having discovered the watter of certain miracles, I could perhaps silence the existence of this holy protector? No, Because as the Holy Father and Doctor of the Church would say: «I can't silent » (cf.. SACTI Augustine, Sermon. 88)
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Benedict XVI and Dario Argento. The Holy Father Francesco remains on the chair of Pietro and avoid another trauma-Benedict XVI and the Film-Sirector Dario Argento. May the Holy Father Francis avoid us another trauma
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Benedict XVI and Dario Argento. The Holy Father Francis remains on the chair of Peter and avoid another trauma
If the Holy Father Francis, with a very personal act, legitimate and not subject to discussion and acceptance by any authority - not existing in the Church and in the world of authority higher than his - he should decide to acknowledge renunciation, would aggravate our trauma and give life to a disastrous custom: The papacy as a product with expiry date.
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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo
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It is always important to explain the meaning of words, even when it might appear superfluous.
In current language, spoken and written, certain terms have lost not only their original etymology, they are even used in negative meaning. This that happens even within the Church, where more often it happens to hear ecclesiastical to affirm that we need "less dogmas and more basic church", complaining "forms of excessive attachment to the doctrine", or exposing to the public to the public a priest or theologian defined with a "Tridentine" contempt.
Regarding the concept "less dogmas plus basic church", It is necessary to clarify that, if so, The first to make mistakes would have been the fathers of the Council of Nicea del 325, followed a few decades later by the Council of Constantinople of 381. Their obsession with the dogmas was in fact so strong to give life to the symbol of faith known as Niceno-Costantinopolitan, A concentrate of Christological and trinitarian dogmas that we persist in reciting every Sunday in the creed, through which, In addition to not understanding the "basic church", even pluralism and religious relativism is rejected by arrogantly affirming: "I think the Church one, holy catholic and apostolic. I professed only one baptism for the forgiveness of sins ". A real exclusivity not incident that he shouts revenge on the sky!
Our, Far from the "basic" Esser, However, it is the exact opposite: a church of summit by its foundative nature. Christ himself put Simone called Pietro at his summit, from which everything proceeds with a waterfall effect, from top to bottom (cf.. Mt 16, 13-20).
Use the term "tridentino" as an insult, denotes a lack of worrying Catholic culture, It would be enough to know the rudiments of history to know in what conditions of decline the church between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had sunk and what moral degradation afflicted the clergy, together with ignorance. The work of this great council was extraordinary in all doctrinal aspects, legal, pastoral, training, disciplinary and moral.
In the pudibonda society of the politically correct there are various terms emptied of one's own meaning and filled with other things, To then be used in a derogatory and offensive meaning. But here is a truly striking example. If using Office365 we type the word "Jesuit" and seek synonyms, The writing program indicates the following synonymous: "hypocritical, Pharisee, farisea, simulator, simulatrice». Instead, If we type the word "Jew" and seek synonyms, The same program will indicate these synonymous: "Jewish, Jewish". And here it should be remembered that in the German dictionaries of the 1930s, as synonyms of the word "Jew" these terms were indicated: «hypocritical, Pharisee, Simulator» (hypocritical, Pharisee, simulator). And with this we must take note that the modern Nazi of the 21st century have transferred their old hateful synonymies to other objects: by the Jews, that as such are children of a greater God, now untouchable, The same terminologies have been transferred to the Jesuits that, being children of a very minor God, they can be touched and can be insulted in the same way that the Nazis of the 1930s insult the Jews.
To communicate a language is needed, principal that can sound almost obvious but that is not at all at all, There are many people who, while speaking the same language, words give a completely different meaning. This obliges us to clarify and explain the meaning of the words that are intended to use. Example: To the word "punishment" I give a theological meaning linked to its correct etymology deriving from the Latin terms chaste e hint from which the word chastise was born, which means "to make pure" or "purify". Nothing to do with punitive or vindictive actions, In the biblical and theological lexicon, punishment is an action of grace of divine mercy, that is, an act of love, Why, as it is written in the book of Tobia:
«Benedict God who lives forever
His kingdom lasts for all centuries;
He chastise and uses mercy,
It drops into the abysses of the earth,
traces from the great perdition
And nothing escapes his hand " (Tb 13, 2).
The word Tràuma, deriving from the Greek wound (-this), which in the letter means "wound", begins to be used in medical literature around the 1650, in the psychological one starting from 1889 Thanks mainly to the research of the Viennese neuropathologist Sigmund Freud. There are several forms of trauma understood in its more adherent meaning of "wound". Of course, the most serious forms, they are not linked to physical injuries, but to the psychological ones, to the spiritual ones. And we were amazed expansions by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI who made us spectators and protagonists of a historical event that the Church has known very rarely: The renunciation of a Roman Pontiff.
Through incorrect uses of words The act of renunciation of the pontificate soon took the improper and misleading name of "resignation". Since this was not enough, Benedict XVI cheered the dose by launching the tragically unhappy expression of "Pope emeritus". The unusual way, in many respects extravagant, through which this legitimate act of renunciation has been made and made official, He gave jobs scattered throughout the terracqueo orbe, fomenting the crazy theories of some poor priests out of balance and some little successful lyrical singer who started playing Dan Brown of noartri By printing an unlikely Ratzinx coder, promptly renamed by the undersigned Codice Katzinger.
The Supreme Pontiff Francis, Admitted to the Roman Polyclinic Agostino Gemelli, He has found himself several times between life and death over the past four weeks. He currently seems to be out of danger and after a month about the specialists have melted the prognosis. If the Holy Father comes out and returns to his residence in the Vatican, He will be a very fragile and deeply weakened elderly man, With walking problems and difficulties in breathing and talking, inclined to fatigue themselves to minimal physical effort, need to be monitored and cared for constantly.
To govern the Church it may be enough that a Roman pontiff is simply alive, even if unable to move and say a few words in a low voice, to appear in public and to receive people. To bring trauma instead it may be enough to implement what Benedict XVI brought to the scene of our history in February of 2013, not so much with its legitimate and valid act of renunciation, but in the manner chosen, resulting to the proof of the facts: unhappy, misleading and imprudent.
The detractors of the Supreme Pontiff Francesco The clothes for the effigy of the infamous Pachamama made the Vatican in August of the Vatican 2020 During the Synod on the Amazon. Perhaps it would be more appropriate and coherent to regret the eccentricity of Benedict XVI who in the Vatican had the director Dario Argento entered, By giving us a horror film entitled not by chance Trauma, With a screenplay entirely built on delusional thoughts that went from the "resignation" to the "emeritus popes", from the "active papacy and contemplative papacy" to the "extended papacy" (!?) ... Moreover, everyone torture, Sgozza and spreads blood on your cinematographic set as it can best can. Then, If the perverse psychology of decadent German romanticism comes into play, At that point the limits are lost and the inhibitory brakes as well. With the difference, But, that that of the silver master is fiction, that of Benedict XVI was our tragic ecclesial reality.
If with a very personal act, legitimate and not subject to discussion and acceptance by any authority - not existing in the Church and in the world of authority higher than his - the Holy Father Francesco had to decide to acknowledge renunciation, would aggravate our trauma and give life to a disastrous custom: The papacy as a product with expiry date. I pray and I hope this does not happen and that it remains on the chair of the blessed apostle Pietro up to death, because the Dario Argento brought to the scene by Benedict XVI, It was enough for us and advanced for the next five hundred years.
From the island of Patmos, 19 March 2025
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BENEDICT XVI AND THE FILM-DIRECTOR DARIO ARGENTO. MAY THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS AVOID US ANOTHER TRAUMA
If the Holy Father Francis, with a very personal act, legitimate and not subject to discussion and acceptance by any authority – there being no authority superior to his in the Church and world – were to decide to make free and unquestionable act of renunciation, he would aggravate our trauma and give rise to a disastrous custom: the papacy as one product with expiration date.
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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo
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It is always important to explain the meaning of words, even when it might seem superfluous.
In current language, spoken and written, certain terms have lost not only their original etymology, but are used in a negative sense. This is that happens even within the Church, where often we hear ecclesiastics affirm that we need «less dogmas and more basic Church», lamenting «excessive attachment to doctrine», or exposing to ridicule a priest or a theologian scornfully defined as «Tridentine».
Regarding the concept of «less dogmas, more church of basic», it is necessary to clarify that, if this were the case, the first to err were the Fathers of the Council of Nicaea in the year 325, followed a few decades later by the Council of Constantinople in the year 381. Their obsession with dogma was in fact so strong that it gave birth to the Symbol of Faith known as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan, a concentration of Christological and Trinitarian dogmas that we insist on reciting every Sunday in the Creed, through which, in addition to not understanding the «church of basic», we even reject pluralism and religious relativism by arrogantly stating: «I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I profess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins». Horror! A true non-inclusive exclusivism that cries out to heaven for vengeance!
Ours Church, is’nt “of basic”, is the opposite: for very nature foundative is Church of vertex. Christ himself placed at its vertex Simon called Peter, from whom everything proceeds with a cascade effect, from the top to the bottom (Mt 16, 13-20).
Using the term “Tridentine” as an insult, denotes lack of Catholic culture, it would be enough to know the rudiments of history to know into what conditions of decadence the Church had sunk between the 15th and 16th centuries and what moral degradation afflicted the clergy, together with ignorance. The work of this great council was extraordinary in all doctrinal, juridical, pastoral, formative, disciplinary and moral aspects.
In the prudish society of political correctness, there are various terms emptied of their meaning and filled with something else, used in a derogatory and offensive sense. But here is a example. If we use Office365 to type the word “Jesuit” and look for synonyms, the writing program indicates the following synonyms: «hypocrite, Pharisee, simulator». Instead, if we type the word “Jew” and look for synonyms, the program indicate these synonyms: «Jewish, Judaic». And here it should be remembered that in the German dictionaries of the 1930s, the following terms were used as synonyms of the word “Jew”: «hypocritical, Pharisee, Simulator» (hypocrite, Pharisee, simulator). The modern Nazis of the 21st century have transferred their old hateful synonyms to other subjects: from the Jews, who as such are children of a greater God, today untouchable, the same terminologies have been transferred to the Jesuits who, being children of a much lesser God, are touchable and can be insulted in the same way in which the Nazis of the 1930s insulted the Jews.
To communicate, you need a language, a principle that may sound almost obvious but is not at all, many people, even though they speak the same language, give words a completely different meaning. This forces us to explain the meaning of the words that are intended to be used. For example: to the word “punishment” I give a theological meaning linked to its correct etymology deriving from the Latin terms “chaste” and “hint” from which the word castigare comes, which means “to make pure” or “to purify”. Nothing to do with or vengeful actions, in the biblical and theological lexicon punishment is an act of grace of divine mercy, an act of love, because, as it is written in the Book of Tobit:
«For he afflicts and shows mercy,
casts down to the depths of Hades,
brings up from the great abyss.
Give thanks to him, you Israelites,
in the presence of the nations,
for though he has scattered you among them,
even there recount his greatness» (Tb 13, 2).
The word tràuma, derived from the Greek τραῦμα (-this), which means “wound”, began to be used in medical literature around 1650, in psychological literature starting in 1889, thanks mainly to the research of the Viennese neuropathologist Sigmund Freud. There are different forms of trauma understood in its most adherent meaning of “wound”. Certainly, the most serious forms are not linked to physical wounds, but to psychological, spiritual ones. We have been extensively traumatized by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI who made us spectators and protagonists of a historical event that the Church has very rarely known: the renunce of a Roman Pontiff.
Through incorrect uses of words, the act of renunce from the pontificate soon took the improper and misleading name of «dimissions». Since this was not enough, Benedict XVI doubled the dose by launching the unfortunate expression of «pope emeritus». The unusual, and in many ways bizarre, way in which this legitimate act of renunciation occurred has given work to conspiracy theorists all over the globe, fomenting the crazy theories of some poor, unbalanced priests and some fantasists who have started playing at being the Dan Brown of the situation.
The Supreme Pontiff Francis, hospitalized at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, has found himself between life and death several times over the last four weeks. In the present time appears to be out of danger and after about a month the specialists have loose the prognosis. If the Holy Father leaves and returns to his residence in the Vatican, he will be and profoundly weakened elderly man, with walking problems and difficulty breathing and speaking, prone to fatigue at the slightest physical effort, in need of constant monitoring and care.
To govern the Church, it may be enough for a Roman Pontiff simply to be alive, even if unable to move and say a few words in a whisper, to appear in public and receive people. To cause trauma, however, it may be enough to implement what Benedict XVI brought to the stage of our history in February 2013, not so much with his legitimate and valid act of renunciation, but with the methods chosen, which proved to be unfortunate, misleading and imprudent when put to the test.
The detractors of the Supreme Pontiff Francis are still tearing their clothes over the effigy of the Pachamama brought into the Vatican in August 2020 during the Synod on the Amazon. Perhaps it would be more appropriate and coherent cry tears for the eccentricity by Benedict XVI who brought the famous Italian director Dario Argento into the Vatican, giving us a horror film not coincidentally entitled Trauma, with a screenplay entirely built on delusional thoughts that ranged from «resignations» to «popes emeritus», from the «active papacy and contemplative papacy» to the «extended papacy» (!?) … After all, everyone tortures, slaughters and sheds blood on their own film set as best they can. Then, if the perverse psychology of decadent German romanticism comes into play, at that point the limits are lost and so are the inhibitions. With the difference: that of film-director Dario Argento is fiction by horror films, that of Benedict XVI was our tragic ecclesial reality.
If the Holy Father Francis, with a very personal act, legitimate and not subject to discussion and acceptance by any authority – there being no authority superior to his in the Church and world – were to decide to make free and unquestionable act of renunciation, he would aggravate our trauma and give rise to a disastrous custom: the papacy as one product with expiration date. I pray and hope that this does not happen and that he remains on the chair of the Blessed Apostle Peter until his death, because the Dario Argento brought to the scene by Benedict XVI has been more than enough for the next five hundred years.
From The Island of Patmos, March 19, 2025
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And if simonia was back in vogue to vogue? – What if the simony return again at the next conclave?
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And if simonia was back in vogue to vogue?
At present, the poor so exalted in this pontificate were left hostage of the whims of the rich as they had never been before, After giving life to a college of cardinal voters who do not represent the various items, The most diverse opinions and positions that have always enriched the church inside, but an univocal voice, monocorde.
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Everyone has their own style, single or collective. In the first, as in the second case, It can be spontaneous, or studied at the table. The Fathers of the Island of Patmos, During their ten years of publicity activity, Starting from October 2014, several times for opportunities, Others for virtue of prudence, have given up on dealing with certain emerging issues related to the Church and the Papacy, Being first of all presbyters; editors and publicists to follow, But forward at all presbyters. Certain themes may require not to be silent, or worse hidden, but treated when you have more cognitive elements that can lead to a truthful, fair judgment.
Because you don't write anything about the health of the Holy Father, They asked us for more readers? Yup, In fact, the Supreme Pontiff Francesco has been hospitalized at the Polyclinic Agostino Gemelli and his health and his state of health have not emitted from these colors of our columns. And on the basis of what we should have done it, Perhaps based on daily medical bulletins, giving to follow breath to the trumpets of interpretations and hypotheses, including the most absurd, which however arouse that unhealthy itching that for the social media It is like yeast in croissants?
When a supreme pontiff is seriously ill, Talking about the succession is inevitable. Who does it with competence and delicacy, who instead with incompetence and lack of respect for his Augusta person. To these seconds it would only be enough to ask who the new Roman Pontiff is successor, If of the one who died before him, or of the blessed apostle Pietro, thus grasping the level of their preparation. Someone complained that talking about conclave is lack of respect and regard towards a supreme pontiff mildly defined by medical bulletins in now "serious" conditions now "stationary", all alternating with various small improvements or worsening. The truth is that the Supreme Pontiff is a terminal patient who is concluding his life and the reserved prognosis will be dissolved after Cardinal Camerlengo will recite the solemn sentence: «The Pope is really dead», Then he will turn to his corpse by calling him with his name of baptism: Jorge Mario. This means that the papacy, being an office and not the extreme degree of the sacrament of the order, once acquired legally, certainly not for the sacramental way, With death ceases. Contrary to the priesthood, acquired sacramentally, which makes us priests for eternity: «You are a priest forever» (Shall 110,4).
At the time he died back in August 1990, My father had 34 less years of the current reigning pontiff. Today, in Italy, The average age of the Italian male is equal to 84 year old; in Argentina, that of the Argentine male, is equal to 74 year old. Dying at the age that is anything but tender 88 years old, After having already exceeded the Italian average and fourteen average of the Argentine one, It could be said very serenely that the Holy Father will certainly not have been cruelly torn by the amorous arms of the nurse. I fell on an engraved with the premature death of my parent who took place within a year for a metastatized tumor not diagnosed in time and therefore impossible to cure, To narrate that while he was in the terminal state I have never wished him to continue living, but I praised the mercy of God who took it as soon as possible. Today, under certain circumstances, even without wishing anyone death, I continue to pray to God so that certain suffering are brought soon to the house of the divine Father, without ever forgetting the salvific value of human suffering, of which the Holy Pope John Paul II spoke in his magisterium in his apostolic letter saving Passion, which opens with the words of the blessed apostle Paul:
«Complete in my flesh what is missing from Christ's sufferings, in favor of his body which is the Church "" (With the 1, 14).
Those who declare that they pray for the health and healing of the Holy Father, inviting to do the same, either they live in the world of the Irreale or think that in front of a dying elderly, all the more a Roman pontiff, Galateo rules are applied to pathetic, if not perhaps ridiculous. You have to pray yes, But so that God grant the Holy Father the grace of a peaceful death, limiting his physical suffering, human and spiritual. With the complex and serious pathological state that afflicts it, including a total absence of immune defenses, its public exhibition would be impossible, Equally problematic to receive people who could be a vehicle for transmission of micro bacteria. If he stayed alive for other months, would return to Martha House Sancthae in conditions of this physical debilitation for which it would be necessary to set up a space-like space at that residence with the constant control of a team of specialists present day and night. All of this, It is perhaps wishable to a man like the reigning pontiff for whom isolation and lack of free contact with people would be something unbearable and unsustainable? This is to respond to all those romantics who pray for the now lost health of the Holy Father and for his impossible healing.
Think right now about a next conclave, It has not fallen in style but simple obviousness. And when the doors of the Sistine Chapel will close, The church will have to deal with the various problems left inheritance by this pontificate, which remains judged overall only by history, perhaps even in many years. The Supreme Pontiff Francesco was elected after an act of renunciation by his predecessor, Rare event result for all of us traumatic, especially for the unhappy ways chosen at the time by Benedict XVI, complete with an extravagant invention of the "Emeritus Papacy", or of sviant terms as "extended papacy", "Active papacy and contemplative papacy" ...
That of the Holy Father Francis It is a pontificate that is placed in a social and geopolitical context of great decadence on a planetary level, With a sceristianization of Europe that has already reached irreversible levels for twenty years. Elsewhere, an bleeding of faithful was consumed in what were once the two lungs with which Catholicism breathed: Latin America and Africa. Francesco's was a pontificate full of problematicities, made of ambiguity and lack of clarity, There are no lack of forms of despotism put in place in the total contempt of ecclesiastical laws and rules. Deny that this pontiff will leave a confused church, divided and quarrelsome due to open processes on all fronts, based on the unusual principle that "the important thing is to open the processes" without however concluding and bringing them to full fulfillment, It means denying the most clear evidence of the facts. But, Those who tell us that in several years will not have to be made thanks to Francesco's pontificate for having preserved and saved the Church by problems and damage that without his action, not understandable on the spot, they would have been greater, or even irreparable? Francesco is a complicated man who fits as such in a very complicated historical moment, any judgment given to the present on him and his pontificate could be completely wrong tomorrow. Certain expressions or decisions judged as eccentric - and in fact they are -, how completely different could appear tomorrow? It wouldn't be the first time that certain men, not included at the moment in their action, they were subsequently celebrated as a personality that were on decades compared to the present time in which they lived. That's why sometimes, just when you are perplexed, disoriented and suffering for certain ambiguous attitudes and not easy even to decipher, while exercising the legitimate critical sense it deserves prudentially suspend the judgment.
One of the serious problems that this pontificate will leave to the next conclave it is given by the fact that the cardinal voters do not know each other among them. The last secret consistory took place in 2015. Let's clarify: The Consistor is the assembly of the cardinals convened by the Roman Pontiff and can be secret, public, semi-public (see WHO). The one in which only the cardinals gathered to discuss in private form are called "secret", i.e. secret, with the Supreme Pontiff, Regarding the various problems of the Church and its government. Today, to the serious problem of cardinals who do not know each other among them, Another unknown to the secularists of the international left who magnify the poor church for the poor adds it, so much poverty excites them in the houses and on the skin of others, praising this pontificate that would have appointed dozens of cardinals "from the suburbs of the world" and "from the poorest countries". We fly over the scarce doctrinal and theological formation by several of these sant'Uomini from those privileged situations for which today a cardinal purple can be deserved: "The suburbs" ... "poor countries"… Several of these cardinals are bishops of countries where the presence of Catholics cannot be called even a small minority: on the island of Tonga, whose bishop Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi is, The baptized Catholics are about 10.000. Cardinal was created in the 2020, at the age of just 46 year old, Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Vicar of Mongolia, where Catholics count 1.200 baptized on 3.300.000 inhabitants. These cardinal voters, Emblem of the "poor church for the poor" of the various "existential suburbs", they govern local churches that can survive and live in contexts of great discomfort and authentic poverty thanks to the donations that come to them as rich local churches, or by large foundations dependent or related to them. To be understood: A single Austrian parish, German, Australian, Canoeing About, North American … It can maintain an entire diocese in certain poor countries of Latin America, of Asia and Africa, where the relationship between the euro and the dollar and their national currency is totally disproportionate in purchase value.
Tomorrow, in the Sistine Chapel, a group of cardinals from these countries, rigorously chosen among the exponents of the so -called more advanced progressiveness, With delicate ease they will make people understand that the cords of the bag hold them, leaving dozens of "poor-peripheral-existential" cardinals the obligatory choice played on the survival of local churches that can live only thanks to external aid. Of course, once this was called simonia, Today it is called instead "poor church for the poor".
At present, the poor so exalted in this pontificate they were left hostage of the whims of the rich as never before, After giving life to a college of cardinal voters who do not represent the various items, The most diverse opinions and positions that have always enriched the church inside, but an univocal voice, monocorde. And among the various damage perpetrated, This will perhaps be the worst, because weighs as a heavy mortgage like lead on the next conclave. This with all due respect to the poor Church, that inside the Sistine chapel will beat the poor with the cords of the bag of the most progressive and more ideologized rich.
From the island of Patmos, 2 March 2025
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WHAT IF THE SIMONY RETURN AGAIN AT THE NEXT CONCLAVE?
At present the poor so exalted in this pontificate have been left hostage to the whims of the rich as they had never been before, after having given life to a College of cardinal electors who do not represent the various and noumerous voices, opinions and positions that have always enriched the Church internally, but a single, monotonous voice.
— Ecclesial actuality —
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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo
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Everyone has their own style, individual or collective. In the first, as in the second case, it can be spontaneous, or studied on the table. The Fathers of this magazine The Island of Patmos , during ten years of journalistic activity, starting from October 2014, several times due to opportunity, other times due to the virtue of prudence, have renounced dealing with emerging themes linked to the Church and the Papacy, being first and foremost presbyters ; editors and publicists to follow, but presbyters ahead of everything. Certain topics may require to be dealt with when there is greater knowledge that can lead to a truthful, fair and balanced judgement.
Why don’t you write anything about the health of the Holy Father, several readers have asked us? Yes, in fact the Supreme Pontiff Francis has been hospitalized at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for two weeks now and we have not uttered a sigh about him and his state of health in these columns of ours. And on the basis of what should we have done it, perhaps based on the daily medical bulletins, followed by interpretations and hypotheses, including the most absurd ones, which however arouse that unhealthy itch which for social media is like yeast in croissants?
When a Supreme Pontiff is seriously ill, talking about succession is inevitable. Some do it with competence and delicacy, some with incompetence and lack of respect for his August Person. These latter it would be enough ask, whose successor’s the new Roman Pontiff is: of the one who died before him, or of the Blessed Apostle Peter? Thus grasping the level of their preparation. Someone has complained that talking about a conclave is a lack of respect towards a Supreme Pontiff blandly defined by medical bulletins as being in sometimes “serious” and sometimes “stationary” conditions, all alternating with various small improvements or worsening. The truth is that the Supreme Pontiff is a terminally ill patient who is ending his life and the reserved prognosis will be dissolved after the cardinal chamberlain recites the solemn phrase: «The Pope is really dead» (The Pope is truly dead), then he will address his corpse by calling it by his baptismal name: Jorge Mario. This because the papacy, being an office, not the extreme degree of the Sacrament of Orders, once acquired by juridical means, not by sacramental means, ceases with death. Contrary to the priesthood, acquired through the Sacrament, which makes us priests for eternity: «You are a priest forever» (you are a priest forever) (Ps 110,4).
Way back in August 1990 my father died, he was 34 years younger than the current reigning Pontiff. Today, in Italy, the average age of the Italian male is 84 years; in Argentina, that of the Argentine male, is 74 years. Dying at the age of 88, after having already exceeded the Italian average by four years and the Argentine average by fourteen, one could say very serenely that the Holy Father will not be cruelly torn from the loving arms of the nanny. I mentioned the premature death of my parent which occurred within a year due to a metastasized tumor that was not diagnosed in time and therefore impossible to cure, to narrate that while he was in a terminal state I did not wish him to continue living, but I prayed to God’s mercy that he would take him as soon as possible. Today, in certain circumstances, without wishing death on anyone, I continue to pray to God that certain sufferers may be brought quickly to the House of the Divine Father, without ever forgetting the salvific value of human suffering, which the Holy Pontiff John Paul II spoke about in his magisterium in his Apostolic Letter Salvifici Pain, which opens with the words of the Blessed Apostle Paul:
«In my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church» (With the 1, 14).
Those who invite prayer for the health and healing of the Holy Father live in the world of the unreal. We must pray, yes, but so that God grants the Holy Father the grace of a peaceful death, limiting his physical, human and spiritual suffering. With the complex and serious pathological state that afflicts him, including a now total absence of immune defenses, his public exposure would be impossible, and it would be equally problematic to welcome people who could be a vehicle for the transmission of micro bacteria. If he remains alive for a few more months and returns to the Vatican, to the Martha House Sancthae, his conditions of physical debilitation will be so serious that it will be necessary to set up a hospital-type space in that residence with the constant presence of a team of specialists present day and night. Is all this perhaps desirable for a man like the reigning Pontiff for whom isolation and the lack of free contact with people would be something absolutely unbearable and unsustainable? This is to respond to all those romantics who pray for the now lost health of the Holy Father and for his impossible recovery.
Thinking at this moment about an upcoming conclave is not a fall in style but simple obviousness. And when the doors of the Sistine Chapel close, the Church will have to deal with the various problems left as a legacy by this pontificate, which remains judgeable, overall, only by history, perhaps even many years from now. The Supreme Pontiff Francis was elected after an act of renunciation by his predecessor, a rare event and a traumatic for all of us, especially due to the unfortunate methods chosen at the time by Benedict XVI, complete with the extravagant invention of the «emeritus papacy», or misleading terms such as «enlarged papacy», «active papacy and contemplative papacy» (!?)…
That of the Holy Father Francis is a pontificate that takes place in a social and geopolitical context of great decadence on a global level, with a de-Christianization of Europe that has already reached irreversible levels for twenty years. Elsewhere a hemorrhage of faithful has taken place in what were once the two lungs with which Catholicism breathed: Latin America and Africa.
Francis’ pontificate was full of problems, ambiguities and lack of clarity, there were also forms of despotism in total contempt of ecclesiastical laws and rules. To deny that this Pontiff will leave a confused, divided and quarrelsome Church due to trials open on all fronts, based on the unusual principle that «the important thing is to open the trials», without however concluding them and bringing them to full completion, is to deny the clearest evidence of the facts. However, who tells us that in several years we will not have to thank the pontificate of Francis for having preserved and saved the Church from problems and damage which without his actions, not understandable at the time, would have been greater, or even irreparable? Francis is a complicated man who fits into a very complicated historical moment, any judgment given in the present about him and his pontificate, could be completely wrong tomorrow.
It would not be the first time that certain men, not understood at the time in their actions, were later celebrated as extraordinary personalities who were decades ahead of the present time in which they lived. This is why sometimes, precisely when one is perplexed, disoriented and grieve for certain ambiguous attitudes and not even easy to decipher, despite exercising legitimate critical sense, is necessary and prudently suspending judgement..
One of the serious problems this pontificate will leave for the next conclave is this: tthe cardinal electors do not know each other. The last secret consistory took place in 2015. Let’s clarify: the consistory is the assembly of cardinals convened by the Roman Pontiff and can be secret, public, semi-public. What is called “secret” is that in which only the cardinals gathered to discuss in a private, i.e. secret, form with the Supreme Pontiff participate, regarding the various problems of the Church and its government. Today, to the serious problem of the cardinals who do not know each other, there is another one unknown to the secularists of the international left who glorify «the poor Church for the poor», so much does poverty in the homes and on the lives of others excites them, praising this pontificate which has appointed dozens of cardinals «coming from the peripheries of the world» and «from the poorest countries».
Let us not dwell the poor doctrinal and theological training of several of these holy men coming from those privileged situations for which today they can deserve a cardinal’s purple: «the suburbs» … «the poor countries». Several of these cardinals are bishops of countries where the presence of Catholics cannot be defined as even a small minority: on the island of Tonga, of which Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi is bishop, there are around 10,000 baptized Catholics. Giorgio Marengo, apostolic vicar of Mongolia, where Catholics number 1,200 baptized out of 3,300,000 inhabitants, was created cardinal in 2020, at the age of just 46. These cardinal electors, emblem of the «poor Church for the poor» of the various «existential peripheries», govern local churches that can survive and live in contexts of great hardship and authentic poverty thanks to the donations that come to them from rich local churches, or from large foundations on linked to them. To be clear: a single Austrian, German, Australian, Canadian or North American parish can maintain an entire diocese in certain poor countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa, where the relationship between the Euro and the Dollar and their national currency is totally disproportionate in terms of purchase value.
Tomorrow, in the Sistine Chapel, a group of cardinals from these countries, rigorously chosen by Holy Father among the exponents of the so-called most advanced progressivism, will with delicate ease make it clear that they hold the purse strings, leaving dozens of “poor-peripheral-existential” cardinals the forced choice based on the survival of their local churches that can only live thanks to external aid. Of course, once this was called simony, today it is instead called «poor church for the poor».
At present the poor so exalted in this pontificate have been left hostage to the whims of the rich as they had never been before, after having given life to a College of cardinal electors who do not represent the various and noumerous voices, opinions and positions that have always enriched the Church internally, but a single, monotonous voice. And among the various damages perpetrated, this will perhaps be the worst, because it weighs like a lead-heavy mortgage on the next conclave. With all due respect to the poor Church, which inside the Sistine Chapel will strangle the poor, with the purse strings by rich most progressive and ideologicalized.
From The Island of Patmos, March 2, 2025
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Rediscover the beauty of the life of grace through the work of Blessed Angelico
REDISCOVERING THE BEAUTY OF GRAZIA'S LIFE THROUGH THE WORK OF BEATO ANGELICO
The feast of Beato Angelico remembers that every man, illuminated by grace, Although called to walk on steep paths, continually rediscover one's nature as a divine masterpiece. Creation, although disfigured by sin and the difficulties of life, it is always the place where the chiaroscuro of human existence intertwines with true and profound love.
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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.
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Fra Angelico, born Giovanni da Fiesole, he was a Dominican friar who lived his religious life between torment and ecstasy. Through this writing I would like to share some thoughts on this Dominican brother famous throughout the world for his art and his faith.
To illustrate life, Angelico's works and pictorial style I made use of the precious advice of the Dominican brothers Sister Paola Gobbo and Brother Manuel Russo. So let's start from life: Giovanni da Fiesole was born in the last years of the 14th century, between 1395 and the beginning of 1400, in Vicchio, a town in Mugello, today in the province of Florence. Since I was young, one of his most obvious gifts was painting. To follow this talent, he decided to leave his home. It is known with certainty that he moved to Florence for his apprenticeship. Experts maintain that his teacher was Lorenzo Monaco, a Camaldolese from the Florentine abbey of Santa Maria degli Angeli. His stay at Monaco lasted until 1417. As was typical of the shops of the time, in his early years Giovanni learned the art of miniature painting, of the panel and the fresco, depending on the master's commissions. The master took care of the most important parts of the works, leaving the secondary ones to his boys, who also had the task of preparing the materials and grinding the pigments. In this way, the disciples learned the trade by observing and practicing.
During the apprenticeship period, the composition of the works followed rigorous rules established by the iconographic tradition of Byzantine origin. The hierarchy established the size of the characters in proportion to their dignity, with the central place reserved for Christ. Even the scenic environment, the number and role of the characters, their attitudes were all set. The artists used traditional patterns, as if they had a ready-to-use manual that indicated the methods and subjects to paint. Even the color, fundamental for its expressive and iconographic value, was subject to significant limitations. For example, the gold background of the panels prevented a naturalistic setting and the colors of the clothes were fixed: yellow indicated Pietro, red and blue indicated Mary, blue and red indicated Christ.
In this context, artistic genius was expressed through rigid legislation, but with full creative freedom. The risk was high, since the works could be rejected by clients not ready for such innovations, or they could bring fame, precisely because novelty attracted and fascinated. This was the most important lesson that Giovanni learned in the Monk's workshop. The latter had drawn from the masters of the past, like Duccio da Buoninsegna, Simone Martini, the Lorenzetti brothers, Cimabue and Giotto. Giovanni Monaco's art took place in the transition between Gothic and Renaissance Humanism, learning from the greats of the past to "go beyond" tradition and studying the innovations of his time.
The first document concerning Fra Angelico it is dated 1417 and concerns his enrollment in the Company of San Nicolò, at the Carmine church in Florence, sign of a spiritual journey undertaken. In this document he is recognized as a «painter”. On that date, thanks to a posthumous gloss that reports the wording: «Fecesi friar of Saint Domenicho», we know he was still secular. He entered the reformed Dominican convent of Fiesole between 1420 and the 1422, by joining the Order of Preachers. We'll see you again, a few years later, also his brother Benedetto, miniaturist.
There were two Dominican convents in Florence: Santa Maria Novella and San Domenico in Fiesole. Of the first it is written that the priesthood was not granted to artists because they were considered servile workers. Beato Angelico instead fully entered the Fiesole convent. Religious education had a decisive impact on Fra Giovanni's life and art. To religious profession, he found himself at a crossroads: become a lay brother, today we would call him a lay brother, which would have ensured him greater freedom in his work, or friar cleric. He chose, with his superiors, the second street, probably because they judged him capable of being an authentic friar, priest and preacher through art. For this we must thank Saint Antoninus of Florence, who glimpsed the genius of Angelico and allowed it to develop and bear fruit.
In his works we find these themes predominant: the centrality of Christ, knowledge of the Holy Scripture, the magisterium of the Church, adherence to Thomistic theology, the exemplary nature of the saints and the attention to the requests and expectations of the people, and finally the simplicity of his creations. Among the numerous commissions that Angelico received, there was that of his prior Sant'Antonino, who wanted to create a series of wall paintings in the convent of the observants of San Marco. Work began in 1437 e, between 1439 and the 1445, Beato Angelico painted in fresco 54 compositions with over 320 figure umane.
Inside a convent they were legal, indeed requests, sacred images accompanying the common rooms, of the dormitory and cells. Non-sacred images were prohibited and precious materials were excluded. For this reason Fra Giovanni chose the fresco technique, whose compositional materials are simple, lowly, natural: lime, sand, terre. The beauty of these wall paintings is that they are found in the places intended by the artist. This is an advantage for us because we can grasp Angelico's thought, who created them in those precise places according to a project and a message that was very clear in his mind. For example, outside the entrance to the guesthouse of the convent he painted Christ the pilgrim welcomed by two friars. In the novitiate the figures of the crucified Christ stand out, support for those who entered religious life and an invitation to recognize and unite with love. Everything was designed to recall the minds of the friars to the divine, the divine that inhabits the human. It was a sort of help to maintain that climate of contemplation and deep listening that inhabited Dominican homes.
Let's look briefly at Angelico's pictorial work. It is transmitted to us by Vasari that he:
«He would never have put his hand to the brushes without first praying. He never made a crucifix that didn't wet his cheeks with tears.".
This tells us how mystical the soul of Beato Angelico was and how much his art came from deep contemplation, from an experience that becomes a message. Some authors tell us that he painted in a state of ecstasy. Obviously it's not the ecstasy we think it is, but something similar to a "kidnapping"; that is, being totally immersed, in what you are doing and thinking, with utmost dedication, placing all our faculties at that service. Angelico was immersed in the Mystery that he intended to celebrate with his art where he found that vital center where God lives and speaks to the heart.
Paola Mancinelli writes: «Artistic creation is always an event of truth and generosity as well as the possibility of humbly giving shape to the mystery of being after having received the call as a thirst for beauty» (cf.. The amazement of beauty, Oristampa, Florence, 2008). It's a wait, conceive and give birth to an intuition, an image that almost suddenly generates in our mind, before our eyes. Certain that what we produce will only be a reflection of that Beauty that flashed in our spirit.
As for the other aspect of tears that he indicates to us, he was reminiscent of Vasari, they are an expression of love, of pain, of involvement so Angelico was moved to the deepest fibers of his soul. If it is true that "the tongue speaks of the abundance of the heart", this also applies to artistic expression, through which Fra Giovanni showed his entire interior world. We cannot separate the man from the artist, the man from the consecrated, this unity which is not separable.
Il Beato Angelico seppe to touche dalla "gracias gracias facens" (the grace that makes us welcome), a gift that illuminates the path of humanity, guiding her through the challenges and darknesses of life. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:
«Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free help that God gives us because we respond to his invitation: become children of God, adopted children, participate in the divine nature, of eternal life. Grace is a participation in the life of God; introduces us into the intimacy of Trinitarian life. Through Baptism the Christian participates in the grace of Christ, Head of his body. As an “adopted son”, he can now call God “Father”, in union with the only begotten Son. He receives the life of the Spirit which instills charity in him and forms the Church. This vocation to eternal life is supernatural. It depends entirely on the free initiative of God, since he alone can reveal himself and give himself. It surpasses the capabilities of man's intelligence and willpower, as of every creature" (cf.. CCC 1996, 1997, 1998).
Jesus Christ, with his sacrifice, he gave us "grace upon grace" (GV 1,16), a continuous flow of love and redemption that manifests divine glory. This is why Fra Angelico, with his art, continues to speak to our hearts, offering a path of beauty and light that shines in the darkest moments. His party, today, takes on an even deeper meaning, especially in an era marked by war, the division and isolation produced even by social media, when instead spiritual rebirth and beauty, including the artistic one, they are essential for all humanity.
God's grace is both a concept and a reality which truly expresses and represents the unconditional love and divine favor that is offered to us without merit. This grace makes the glory of God present, visible through the works of Christ and his followers.
Fra Angelico, with his art, he was able to capture this glory, transferring divine grace into his works with representations that speak directly to the soul. His works, such as «The Annunciation» and «The Last Judgment», they are visual testimonies of that grace, and they call us inviting us to reflect on our relationship with the divine.
In times of crisis like ours, beauty plays a fundamental role for our spiritual and moral rebirth, that of the rediscovery of the Good of Beauty. Scriveva Hans Urs Von Balthasar:
«In a world without beauty, in a world that is perhaps not without them, but he is no longer able to see her, to deal with it, even good has lost its attractive force, the evidence of its must-be-fulfilled; and man remains perplexed by it and wonders why he shouldn't rather prefer evil" (cf.. Gloria 1 – Perception of Form, Jaca Book, Milan, 2012, 18).
Fra Angelico, with his being an artist, he showed how beauty can be a vehicle of grace and redemption. Even the light that illuminates his paintings is a symbol of the divine light that guides our steps, even in the darkest moments.
The feast of Beato Angelico remembers that every man, illuminated by grace, Although called to walk on steep paths, continually rediscover one's nature as a divine masterpiece. Creation, although disfigured by sin and the difficulties of life, it is always the place where the chiaroscuro of human existence intertwines with true and profound love. Fra Angelico, with his art, invites us to see beyond appearances, to discover the beauty hidden in every corner of our lives.
The artists, like Fra Angelico, they have the gift of dragging us beyond immanence, beyond the paths of pure rationality and theoresis. Their art takes us between torment and ecstasy, making us live experiences that go beyond simply seeing. Beauty, in this sense, it becomes a way of knowing and experiencing the divine. It is a path that invites us to let ourselves be transformed by grace, to see the world with new eyes, illuminated by the light of faith.
In conclusion, the path of light through grace is a journey we are all called to take. Fra Angelico, offers us invaluable guidance on this journey, showing us how beauty and light can illuminate our darkest paths. His party, today, invites us to rediscover our nature as divine masterpieces, to let ourselves be transformed by grace and to walk with confidence towards glory. This celebration can be a time of rebirth for all of us, especially for artists who, with their work, continue to bring light and hope to the world.
The hope, which is also the guiding theme of this jubilee, as Holy Scripture reminds us, when it comes from God it is always founded and does not confuse. Hope, like art and the beauty that is its necessary corollary, is harmonious, integral and proportionate. So that we all become beautiful and hopeful, let's rediscover the art of Beato Angelico who depicted the beauty and uniqueness of Christ for us.
Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 18 February 2025
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The ancient intelligent animal and the new artificial intelligence
THE ANCIENT INTELLIGENT ANIMAL AND THE NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
These are the occasions in which man has demonstrated his intelligence, certainly not imposing itself as the strongest animal, or fast, or skilled, but showing himself capable of managing a superior instrument with his adaptable intelligence, exercising his ability with which he has always been able to adapt to those numerous historical changes which today are called technological changes.
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In these days one of the most present topics in the news and in social media it is focusing on AI (Artificial Intelligences) and its positive implications, but above all negative, especially with the summit that is being celebrated in Paris: AI Action Summit.
It is appropriate to start from two important premises: each of these systems is ultimately an instrument in the hands of man and for this reason reflects with an unimaginable enhancement nowadays the same research and way of thinking and acting of man. Therefore it is man himself who can direct the instrument to help and improve progress, science and human life itself, how can he use this tool for the worst nightmares ever experienced in history.
The very concept of Intelligence must be clarified: Due to their power and speed, the systems can achieve calculations and operations that human beings individually or in groups would not be able to easily achieve, but so far they are sectoral and specific operations; while the singularity of human Intelligence is characterized by creativity and simultaneity in operating multiple functions and themes. The fear is not so much about where artificial intelligence systems can arrive as tools, but to what point is laziness reaching, the reluctance, the ignorance and inactivity that people are reaching in everyday life, favoring leisure in an increasingly vain and superficial world, rather than trying to best develop one's qualities, gifts and abilities.
Today life itself is structured to be lived passively, in zombie or “amoeba” mode, despite having access to unlimited information at our fingertips and with such a vast range of technical tools and technologists with which we could work wonders.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming society and the world of work, so much so that its development and diffusion raise important ethical questions, social and economic. While Europe pursues as a strategy a theoretical framework of a regulatory and human-centered approach, especially the protection of fundamental rights, the United States and Asia, especially China, they instead chose a pragmatic and economic approach where they left carte blanche for innovation and competition. There has been a massive investment in AI research and development by governments with the sole goal of achieving the leadership worldwide in the sector.
One of the main concerns about AI is its potential impact on the world of work: the automation of production processes would lead to an increase in unemployment and social inequality, especially in the manufacturing sectors, agricultural, of trade and services.
The other important issue is the ecological impact, AI models are complex and require enormous amounts of energy, with a consequent significant impact on the environment. The widespread use of smart devices and the production of large amounts of data also raise concerns about natural resource consumption and e-waste management. Exists, along with the two concerns just indicated, also the danger of losing control over AI and the consequent fear of developing capabilities that can surpass human control and generate unpredictable consequences for society. Equal fear generates the danger of the improper use of AI for harmful purposes, such as the creation of autonomous weapons or the manipulation of public opinion.
AIs have an immediate and devastating impact in different generations of society, especially the older ones, who are much more vulnerable, as well as defenseless and often unable to grasp the danger when they find themselves involved in scams , thefts and deceptions for which they are not prepared, not having received adequate information from anyone, today more pressing than ever, about the dangers that may arise.
If AI as a powerful technology offers great opportunities, at the same time it also raises big questions. On the one hand, an open dialogue that takes into account the potential benefits as well as the risks for workers and the environment appears essential, so that its development and use is ethical and sustainable and aimed at the good of humanity. But, as you know, when money is involved it is difficult to have a solid guarantee on the operation of the project, and everything could remain within the ideal scope of beautiful words.
Workplace AI will not lead to the abolition of human work if we accept the profound transformation of the labor market that is already taking place, It is therefore essential to invest in education and training to prepare workers to coexist with AI as humans did in the past with the arrival of the steam engine or the automobile.; because these are the occasions in which man has demonstrated his intelligence, certainly not imposing itself as the strongest animal, or fast, or skilled, but showing himself capable of managing a superior instrument with his adaptable intelligence, exercising his ability with which he has always been able to adapt to those numerous historical changes which today are called technological changes, reinventing new activities and developing new skills.
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