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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beware of false prophets

Mt 7,15

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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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– homiletics –

THE GOSPEL OF THE TEMPTATIONS : SEARCH THE DEMON OF HITTING THE WORD OF GOD IN HIS HUMANITY

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If the devil can take pride in, relying on the weak points of the ambition and vanity, can make us what we want and get what craving since the dawn of time: who we prostrate ourselves before him and worshiping him call man. And for a better name man, then we will go directly into the house of Satan, as recently did the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, to beatify the headquarters of the Radical Party the "spirituality" and "the precious heritage" of those who, such as the late Marco Pannella, the supreme gift of life attacked him and profaned, indicating as "civil rights" and as "social achievement" the monstrous crime of abortion [on the topic, see the article by John Cavalcoli: "Marco Pannella, “saint now !”», see WHO]

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In this brief passage from the Gospel we are faced with a paradox: really it happened that the devil has tempted God Incarnate, the Word was made flesh ? [CF. Mt 4, 1-11 - text WHO]. Perhaps the devil attempted to play God in his humanity, pretending to be unaware of what Jesus was divine in his humanity and his divinity in human. Blinded by pride and by the delirium of omnipotence tend to overestimate the most of themselves and to underestimate others, why they are doomed to defeat. It may be that they do not fall in the near, but inevitably fall at the first change of season, with the wilting of wildflowers.

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In Gospel of the temptations, one would think just that: that the Devil overestimate himself and underestimate God [following full text …]

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05.03.2017 Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo — THE GOSPEL OF TEMPTATIONS: THE DEMON IN SEARCH OF HITTING THE WORD OF GOD IN HIS HUMANITY

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— defend the Pope from false friends —

THE SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, USA MAYBE "STUFF" CUT MALE? THE SERIOUS LYING JESUIT ARTURO SOSA

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Smell, in Via dei Penitentiaries, the corner of the General Curia of the Jesuits is a beautiful historic café, with a large collection of wines and liqueurs. "I do not think this Venezuelan" - ranted Ariel S. Levi Gualdo after having read the interview with the Superior General of the Society of Jesus - "has opened a branch of his office at this fine wine shop ! ».

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THE MADONNA SOFT E PACIOCCONA LITTLE FATHER LIVIO FANZAGA ANTONIO AND THE BIG HEART CATHOLIC SOCCI INVITING TO PRAYER FOR THE POPE

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In this section letters from readers, Father Giovanni Cavalcoli responds by explaining the reason for his dismissal by Radio Maria, occurred under this merciful Pope in which they are experiencing purges worthy of the old Soviet regimes; Father Ariel S.. Levi praises instead of Gualdo with affection and esteem that “damn Tuscan” Antonio Socci.

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Dear Father Giovanni Cavalcoli,

we would appreciate if you yourself, who starred in the unfortunate story of Radio Maria, from which was then sent off for the claims which in truth would not do, He declares it to you as the events were held.

Redazione del blog think Man [Ed. cf. WHO]

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I began to work with Radio Maria station in 1993 and any accident had never happened, rather, I enjoyed the esteem of Father Livio Fanzaga, who had become enthusiastic diffuser of my book Hell esiste. The truth denied [Faith & Culture, 2010].

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For some years now I was conducting a course for catechists and that Sunday, explaining the reason and the purpose of baptism, I said that it serves to remove the guilt and the punishment of original sin. Like this, for example, I remembered that earthquakes could be considered a consequence of original sin and God's call to conversion from sin.

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In my catechesis, it was all framed in the mystery of original sin, because of which not only the man loses his original perfection, angelic creature from becoming immortal mortal creature, but also the very nature of creation is affected by this sin, becoming hostile to man and manifesting this hostility by tsunamis, earthquakes, large volcanic eruptions; or through the change of the geological structure of the earth itself, as the sea withdraws generating desert areas, or the sea advancing and submerges residential areas and arable areas, causing the survivors to emigrate elsewhere, to fight with famine and hunger. In short, that natural disasters described both in the Old Testament New.

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All of this, in theology, It has always been connected to original sin, that touched both the man and the nature, ie the whole of creation, altering and thus corrupting the perfect balance originally created by God.

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Over the centuries, God's mercy has also served of these events for the salvation of man. For instance: when the European population was decimated by the great Black Death of 1347, populations, time more Christian in their entirety, They interpreted that event as a reminder of God for calling to their conversion. And if we look only to the architectural appearance, on the one hand we see great unfinished works prior to 1374 - in this connection I come to mind among the many great church of San Petronio in Bologna -, on the other hand we, in the decades immediately following, the construction of beautiful buildings of worship representing the new man's dedication to God through faith, manifested not only with the works of art, but also through the great philosophical productions, literary and theological that followed, or even through the birth of many new forms of consecrated religious life.

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In this sense, mine, expressed in that radio transmission, were words that called to mind the divine justice, but though, while, arouse in the Christian peace in the soul, because the believer sees in misfortune not only the sign of a just God, but also merciful; is something historical evidence that after certain catastrophic events, There have always been a great resurgence expressions, and that no one can reasonably deny, because it is written in our monuments still visible.

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These words, inspired by the common Christian tradition, They aroused against Radio Maria, but particularly against me, immediate action outraged by several prelates, basarono that his comments "hot" about what had been written and reported by newspapers, instead of what I had actually said in the enacting part of a catechesis on original sin, the synthesis of which was already encapsulated in an article published a year before the page Theology from The Island of Patmos: God chastises and uses mercy [see WHO], that he did not arouse any scandal [N.d.R. We have occurred in the statistical details from 18.11.2015 at today's date, This article has been opened and read for a total of 71.203 times].

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The allegations that have been raised - apart from the slander slanderous for a theologian known for decades as a faithful servant of the Church - are all based mostly on heretical principles, for which they are absolutely void and indeed deserving of being themselves the object of severe condemnation. In this regard I refer to Ariel S Articles. Levi di Gualdo, that in those days of controversy - after my superiors asked me via “precautionary” not to intervene or to publish the writings for the moment - intervened on our Patmos Island with precise and detailed accounts, putting the record straight and pointing openly heretical thoughts expressed by some bishops, and unfortunately by some high official of the Holy See [cf. WHO, WHO].

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For instance, there were those who accused me of starting from a "pre-Christian god ', contrary to mercy. But saying this, my priest accuser, he thus showed that he was influenced by Marcion, heretic of the second century and father of the so-called heresy Marcionite, who claimed that, while the God of the Old Testament was a bad God, che win, the God of the new is the good God, which it is only mercy and not punish.

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Another Bishop he accused me to have a "most pagan god", the assumption that the God who allows the earthquakes is not the God of the Bible, but the pagan. What completely false, since the Bible teaches very clearly that even earthquakes are warnings of divine mercy. Just consider the Book of Revelation or ads eschatological gospel.

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The Evangelista Luca He gives precise words spoken by Jesus who says to his disciples,:

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"See that you not be deceived. Many will come in my name, saying,: "It's me" and: "The time is near"; not follow them. When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified;. These things must happen first, but it will not immediately be the end '. Then he said to them,: «People will rise up against people and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be earthquakes from place to place, famines and pestilences; There will be terrors and great signs from heaven [cf. LC 21, 8-11].

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With verve sua notorious ironica, Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, in those days ridiculed:

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"Surely, Christ the Lord, it was just a "pre-Christian god", because one thing remains beyond any possible discussion: Christ, It was not a Christian!».

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Can we blame this my brother priest and theologian, that with a joke only apparently, sintentizzo obvious theological truth ?

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If at that time I had had before that Bishop, I would have asked how, but above all what kind of answer he would have given, before the drama of an innocent creature dying two years in a pediatric oncology ward, consumed by an incurable cancer. Perhaps, this Bishop, It did not have an answer, but I will, and is not a response to Pope Giovanni Cavalcoli, but the Catholic faith. Well, Accordingly, first, that the innocent child is not guilty of the cancer that is consuming, since in God's plans, we, we were not created to be attacked by cancer and finally from death, my answer of faith, consequently my theological answer, is that cancer and death, are consequences of original sin has corrupted nature and has delivered to humanity descending imperfect nature, corrupt and deadly.

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But wanting Worse yet. If someone had asked this bishop: "Why does God allow an innocent child die consumed by cancer just two years, while fine wrongdoers, who they spend the days of their life to do the worst harm to its neighbor and welcome the evil they do, They come to live to be ninety, finally he is dying without even having never sick and without having suffered from any kind of sickness? We men of faith, answer these questions, we always, because everyone has his answer and reason within the mystery that is the original sin.

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Another Bishop, newly appointed, He accused me of saying 'nonsense' and 'nonsense', to "take the name of God in vain" and have a "childish concept of God". All these foolish and hurtful accusations against me, academic pontifical, I teach Thomistic theology for forty years, I sincerely feel I reject all the different senders, as I did from the start, while only answer my accusers rincaravano the dose saying: "There, also he denies to apologize!». Sincerely, I asked myself yesterday and I wonder to this day: how can, a theologian, apologizing for the Catholic doctrine ?

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Father Livio accused me He had offended the mercy of the Madonna, since, saying that God punishes, I implicitly conceived as a cruel woman, associated with a cruel God. Who, poor Father Livio, He has done a shameful sudden about-face, fearfully interrupting his courageous pastoral line, in which, in his earlier books, Maria showed rightly fighting against the Dragon and denying my book about hell.

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Here, then suddenly come out a soggy Madonna and easy-going, new look, updated to the most vulgar and dangerous misericordismo and doing good. But for Father Livio will not be enough jettison Giovanni Cavalcoli, As in the past he has done with Prof. Roberto de Mattei [cf. WHO], rather it should understand that against some ravenous insatiable enemies that now surround us on all sides and which has long had broken in our house, You must not yield, you have to fight, but not with a paciona Madonna and imbelle, but one who has conquered Satan and all heresies.

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A story thanks to God ended, we impose some thoughts. In the days following the attacks suffered I have come thousands of messages of understanding, praise and solidarity, from abroad, by good simple faithful. Many lay theologians have stood up for me on several Catholic websites. But no bishop has been done live, his 250 that we have in Italy. The only one who supported me was S.It is. Mons. Giovanni D'Ercole, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno. This phenomenon is interpreted as, how do you explain, what does it mean?

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I would say three things. Before, an obvious presence of the Holy Spirit in God's people more than the shepherds. Second, a crisis of widespread belief among the shepherds. Third, these good lay defenders of the faith have certainly behind the good priests and good bishops, which, however, they remain in the shadows, do not expose themselves. And that's not good. We are at war and we must fight. We have the weapons to win, It must come out and fight valiantly. It is not decent to snipers. The enemy has to down a peg. But why this can happen, We must show our strength. If we appear timid and yielding, such as a Father Livio, the enemy took advantage.

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You have that priests and bishops who are behind the lay people come out into the open with courage. They no longer say to the laity: "Go on you, because you know ... I can not commit myself mica! But I will keep you in the shadows ". No. Bishops and priests should take the field to animate the combatants. The pastor must be the head of the flock. Also because we have to count on, know how many we are and who we are, we have to know each other. If we are hidden, they do not know each other; this decreases the strength, and it prevents us to organize and initiate joint action.

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It is particularly important to free the Pope from the swarm of courtiers around him, who pretend to be servants of the Church and instead destroy it, that self-appointed collaborators of the Pope and instead flatter, deceive him and circuiscono, and possibly threaten it. They make him appear as enemies his true believers, while they pretend to be faithful, and are enemies.

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In this confused situation, You must more than ever count on the Pope in the fight against modernism, although he sometimes seems marry appearances. What is needed more than ever to distinguish the Pope driving to victory, by his human failings, of which must not be taken into account, If he fails to correct them, because that would make us lose sight of the the Pope's help function.

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So, not only the content of what I said, but also the opportunity to have it said, as I pointed out above, contrary to what appeared to someone, He intended to be a source of Christian comfort, just for poor earthquake victims.

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This of which I realize, Today more than ever, It is how difficult it is for many transpose the Christian lexicon, sometimes for the clergy themselves. Therefore, talking about certain issues, We should never assume anything, lingering even in the explanations that might seem obvious, moved in this direction by the knowledge that among the listeners, not only can be those who are not willing to listen, but also of those who so totally wanted, I dare say evil, often they misunderstand intentionally and then sow discord.

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How it happened shows how, on one hand we are experiencing a widespread crisis of faith, But the Holy Spirit never fails to be felt even in the darkest moments why we endure suffering, We nurture hope and we are strong in doing good.

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Taking my full and active work his The Island of Patmos, I take this opportunity to thank all those who prayed for me and I ask all of them also a prayer for my beloved Order of Friars Preachers of St. Domenico di Guzmán, because I never cease, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, to be grateful to God for having me in his service as a priest and Dominican theologian, until the end of my life, whatever the cost and whatever the cost, I will carry out my mission with the help of the Blessed Vergine Maria of the Rosary.

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Varazze, 12 February 2017

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THE BIG HEART CATHOLIC ANTONIO SOCCI INVITING TO PRAYER FOR THE POPE

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Dear Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo.

Some time ago she refuted the book by Antonio Socci, It is not Francis ", with a long article. Let me know what you think of the last article published by Socci on his blog The stranger [Ed. cf. WHO].

Mattia Vizzini

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I read with pleasure the beautiful and touching article by Antonio Socci [cf. WHO], commented shortly after by Roberto de Mattei on the agency Catholic Correspondence Romana with the dry and aseptic balance of the scholar that analyzes a fact and the comments, as in the style of this great Church historian [cf. WHO].

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I do not know if Antonio Socci has reflected on some throws that in the past I focused its, from my short essay in refutation of his book It is not Francis [cf. WHO]. But if there is one thing that I remember very well - and here the principle applies writings remain - it is that just waging criticism I have always emphasized two different elements, an objective and a subjective. The objective fact: Antonio Socci is a true believer, a devout Catholic son of the Church of Christ. The subjective data: Antonio Socci I love her and to him I always had estimated, without ever ceasing to consider it as a journalist and an unquestionable talent commentator.

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But now we come to the "Partners" phenomenon, whose phenomenality is primarily linked to the fact that he belongs to a "race cursed by God and men", ie Tuscan, people I know well by my own birth line. Not that I want to compete in the "cursed spirit", but certainly are more "I cursed" by Antonio Socci, because while he is a Tuscan undoubted purity, I'm rather a "mestizo". Tuscany for generations is my maternal family, because my father's family is Roman strain. And so, at the “Tuscan nastiness”, sufficient to go into Purgatory until the parousia, I add the Roman spirit which if necessary makes me a happy medium between Boccaccio and Pasquino, though I do not go around the Urbs Quirite to put up posters written in Roman dialect of is dad …

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To understand Antonio Socci also as a talented journalist, must enter the Tuscanity, if anything making reference to some characters in the world of journalism have left a historical mark, perhaps by virtue of their character of Tuscan, ie "people cursed by God and men".

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In Antonio Socci is reflected what was the consistency and the courage to Indro Montanelli, and at the same time the blood character and intelligently impulsive Oriana Fallaci, that just when played at the pulse, He had actually studied with prudence and wisdom also altered sighs which then flowed out of his mouth or from his pen. And those who like myself have known in their youth these two characters - not only for their fame and their writings, but also in person -, He does not hesitate to sense that Antonio Socci is in its way a synthesis of these two wizards kind is talented, but far from easy to treat.

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The 29 January I sent a message managers of various telematic magazines, Catholic websites and blogs, including Antonio Socci, to which I wrote:

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"The worst thing that in certain circumstances we can do, It is to stay in our so-called backyard. We can also argue and attack each other on certain issues ecclesial and pastoral, but before such cases, everything has to go in the third order because the defense of the doctrine and faith goes forward all, including personal frictions, likes or dislikes, different ways of thinking and so on. For if the soldiers at war they start fighting with each other instead of fighting, needless to say what would happen …»

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What were "the facts of this kind» to which I alluded in the email ? The fact was one: the intolerable attacks targeting by a theologaster patently heretical, or in any case non-Catholic, that the evidence shows is Andrea Grillo, who repeatedly attacked the Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, considered a master of Catholic moral world famous even by the scholars who do not think like him, but with proper intellectual honesty will always recognize the great value.

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In defense of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, and refutation of the folly of Andrea Grillo, his The Island of Patmos It was published a text of great theological depth [cf. WHO], that in that private message put at the disposal of the various sites and blogs Catholics, so the defense could make her own, thus showing, our increasingly powerful opponents, which if necessary the true Catholics faithful to the doctrine and the Magisterium of the Church are linked together.

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Imagine, these Catholics I even answered. And this for the simple fact that - as I wrote and complained two years ago -, these so-called Catholics, in truth they are only quarrelsome, self-referential and often tremendous narcissists tend to talk to him, locked up in the ghetto or otherwise delimited in their psychotic backyard. As a theologian and as a pastor in charge of souls I have tried several times to tell them, on various occasions and unsuccessfully, who face certain great themes of faith must show unity, instead of making people laugh rightly our enemies palesandoci as a group of limbs scattered about the forest, inside which there rather also launch the arrows against each other.

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A nothing is served, however, the invitation to these scattered individuals who now rant now mourn him, but above all a lot like what you talk about him. Needless my invitation to form through the various magazines, websites and blogs a "Holy League", mindful of the wise exhortation Pauline: "But if you bite and devour one another, heed that are not consumed by one another!» [Gal 5, 15].

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These petty ranging between the ghetto and the orticello self surrounded by barbed wire, Today I began to rend their garments even to those who until yesterday were their favorites Lefebvre, which they have begun to launch high treason charges for their ongoing negotiations with the Holy See, I would ask: You think that today riusciremmo to win a new Battle of Lepanto shouting "Ave Maria!»? Because with an armed Brancaleone crush the quarrelsome like you, the Muslims would defeat submerging with a laugh, while your various factions would be taken to quarrel among themselves on the fact that’Ave Maria It should be recited in Latin, a straight tone, with forty lighted candles and with the fabrics of vestments whose manufacture must be earlier than 20 September 1870, date of the capture of Rome which marked the fall of the Papal States. Because this is the grotesque theater which unfortunately we are reduced: arguing on the irrigation of the garden daisies in danger of wilting in the heat developed by the flames that are burning all the house.

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Alas I am poorly rebounded on a rubber wall, without being able to make people understand even the obvious: the evil that corrupts the Church today, for imperare must first divide, and in this work of division, we make the henchmen of the evil splendid service giving them a result of guaranteed success and with their minimum effort.

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Only Antonio Socci seems to have been thinking about some of my words. And it is clear: it is my pure guess based on the fact that his last wife reported just now written all instances that unnecessarily try to carry on for two years, in a desperate and unfortunately at times futile attempt to remove the watering of the hands Barbie doll to those who are losing precious time to water the daisies, explaining equally useless so that you have to shut down as soon as the fire that is burning all the house.

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Now I will try to outline the difference running between two authentic believers and men of faith as Antonio Socci and Roberto de Mattei, compared to the plethora of self than on the closed ghettos and on the divisions they find their reason for being and existence. But before outlining some differences need clarification: Why, Antonio Socci and Roberto de Mattei, in some circumstances I have reserved harsh treatment, while other subjects I have treated them with submerging sarcastic turn took [cf. WHO]? For a simple fact: Antonio Socci and Roberto de Mattei are two people who live and who suffer intimately the Catholic Church, with which they have an authentic relationship son-mother. The others, instead, are mostly former politicians unsuccessfully, variously failed or trombati, only able to speak with the contentiousness of the councilors of the province countries, that not being able to break even as a constituency advisors, They found in the Catholic Church as a place to vent for their psychopathology. Having said that I note that the columns of The Island of Patmos, the distinguished truly Catholic scholar Roberto de Mattei has been supported by me and defended many times in all the great themes of faith and doctrine [between the various writings see WHO].

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Because I got together two such different people as Antonio Socci and Roberto de Mattei? Exactly why: because they are very different but similar way across the drive into the mystery of faith.

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Roberto de Mattei, Roman-born descendant of a family of the Sicilian aristocracy, It has the natural aplomb perfect gentleman, person is always very measured, especially when he gets angry, so much so that it is not easy to understand even when he is angry. Antonio Socci, Tuscany for generations, It born into a working class family in the province of Siena, son of a deep Christian sentiments miner, Militant in the first Christian Democrat who was. Man on whom - his father miner -, Antonio Socci wrote repeatedly touching words related primarily to the feelings and the wisdom of his beloved parent. Antonio Socci is a blood son of the peoples of ancient Etruria, and when he gets angry, his anger manifests it in every way, including the use of theatricality of Tuscany, that they not infrequently to be egregious in their hyperbolic expressions. I always certain that Tuscans are able to make people laugh even God and the Blessed Vergine Maria with their blasphemies, because sometimes they are so colorful, elaborate and imaginative - but especially those without the slightest intention of offending God and the Madonna -, that it finds it hard to imagine any of these commoners buzzurri hell in Dante's circle of blasphemers, place to blaspheme really we need the conscious, stops and devilish desire to offend God and the Blessed Vergine Maria.

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For Antonio Socci, the Roman Pontiff, Another was not so that her beloved father made supreme perfection Christological and apostolic. Antonio Socci has revered his father as worthy paterfamilias, as culturally simple man, but with that innate wisdom resulting from the culture of that sense of faith who led St. Caterina da Siena, unlettered, illiterate, empyrean of the doctors of the Church. Because that for every good Christian is the Roman Pontiff: the supreme father of family Christi.

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I do not mean to psychoanalyze dear Antonio Socci, especially in a public document, quite the opposite: I intend to justify he and several other faithful devoted sons of the Church that increasingly come to our confessionals with no easy questions to be resolved, related to quite a few unhappy and the reigning Pontiff expressions, which it is the most exalted of all the worst enemies of the Church, Plus it creates bewilderment in the living members of the faithful who make up the Body of Christ which is the Church [I refer to my previous article, WHO].

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Antonio Socci, as many of us, including myself, She has been blessed by God with the grace of a loving father, wise, with paternal authority and authority, capable as such to be credible and valuable guide for children.

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All these features, we can recognize in man Jorge Mario Bergoglio? it reflects, what are the characteristics of the caring father, wise, with paternal authority and authority, capable as such to be credible and valuable guide for children? It omits to answer, limiting myself to reiterate what I said in my detailed historical and theological comments to Antonio Socci about the book on It is not Francis [cf. WHO]. And that in a nutshell, the answer was this: a bad father, It does not cease to be the legal father.

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The problem of the "bad father", we live it day after day, mainly because of dangerous courtiers and pimps pernicious of which he hath been surrounded, acting with all the typical dangers of unintelligent and equally ill prepared philosophically, historical, theological and juridical, but even despite they believe to be shrewd, or to be able to manage and control everything, without even make account instead of being managed and controlled, often from the worst might exist.

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In Antonio Socci, as in many other faithful and devoted children of the Church, first he had to explode the discomfort, through the anger that he write to the blood Oriana Fallaci's book titled The Rage and the Pride, which was by no means an expression of anger, Despite the title, but the representation and the narrative of an elaborate anger. Equally Antonio Socci, writing his It is not Francis, he first pulled out and then elaborate their anger, moreover entirely understandable and in many respects also shareable both on human and on that Christian.

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I do not think that Antonio Socci Today would write that book again, but it has been valuable for him and also for us; and I also believe that in the future, near or far, has not just no need to have recourse to deny himself, because that book was a valuable time to process your authentic Catholic life, which as such does not require and does not need just any posthumous denial.

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In the true faithful son of Holy Mother Church open to listening, as I said earlier I prevail by the gift and mystery of grace sense of faith, that instead unfortunately it does not prevail in rabid ends in themselves, in contentious and in pathological narcissists recalled previously, to which it is taken off the dispute and division, It took off just their way of being and existence. And these are those who, as I said a little while ago, in today Lepanto it would defeat inundated with a big laugh from Muslims, and instead of fighting are taken to quarrel among themselves on the most formal and unnecessary technicalities of liturgical rubrics, saying with each other: "Mine is the Mass of All Time », with others that replicate … "And, But mine is the Mass of All Time, but that ever and as such is very more and more !».

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Antonio Socci understood, as many of us, that we are in this moment in history to do with a paterfamilias that is exposing the Holy Bride of Christ to prostitution under the streetlights of sidewalks; clubbing the sheep of his flock, which after being inflated barrel joyful runs to say to all the lost sheep who have done well to get lost and that above all must remain lost. Or maybe it was not under this pontificate Augusto, that the heretic Luther, for the worst clutches Teutonic fell immediately on the Successor of Peter, it ended up becoming even a "reformer" and a tender soul, "well-intentioned" ?

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Antonio Socci, since childhood, he learned to be a good son of a worthy father; and how he, this, They have learned and also lived a lot of us.

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Son, especially a grown son and mature, however, it must also have the ability to accept the reality of a bad father, never take the easy way, one absolutely not viable leading to say: is not my father ... is not the real father!

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The existence of the bad father It is a dramatic reality, as is that of the wicked sons. But one thing which in any case can not be denied, It is fatherhood.

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As a pastor in charge of souls I can say in good conscience one thing: I have known, inside and outside the confessional, People on their way even into his eighties who were children of bad fathers, of which reminded one by one all the bad actions: the lack of care for the family, the beatings given to mother, the mistreatment of children. but yet, several of these children, even before the painful and disastrous memories of certain fathers anything but model, now finding their way to the end of their lives, they were able to tell me, their confessor, some key words for the acquisition of inner peace with themselves: "In his own way, my father, however also he left me something good. One thing is certain: is the father that life has given me, I could never deny that his son, although I would have liked to have much better, compared to a father after all disastrous as it was him ".

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Together with Antonio Socci we never cease to pray for the reigning Pontiff, that with true filial devotion we remember every day in the Holy Mass canon, with the addition of a special prayer intention: that the grace of God always protect Peter and the Petrine ministry which underpins the mystery of the Church, by carelessness and the man limitatezze Jorge Mario Bergoglio. We are well aware that the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio will, but the ministry of Peter, on which rests the mystery of the Church, will remain until the return of Christ at the end of time. E, very mercifully, when Christ the Lord "will return in glory to judge the living and the dead", do not tell all: “Next all, that all of you have been saved!”. Christ Supreme Judge separate the wheat from the chaff; and weeds will be tied in bundles and burned Hell, while the good grain will be stored in Heaven for all eternity [cf. Mt 13, 24-30]. For it is the God's mercy, certainly not according to the questionable theological opinions, but according to the deposit of the Catholic faith.

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From the island of Patmos, 12 February 2017

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