RELATIONS BETWEEN POPE FRANCIS AND PAPA BENEDETTO, E ARROGANCE OF ANDREA GRILLO …

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Benedict XVI reasoned too much in human terms, He thought over his human weakness - as is clear from the official reason for his act of renunciation - and too little in the way of faith, that too little thought to the supernatural strength of the charism of Peter. Anyhow, He did not make it. Hard to know if insurmountable objective limits, independent from his will, humility or lack of courage and faith in the charism of Peter. Let us leave to God's judgment on his conscience and his responsibility. But the fact itself will remain in history. Benedict there was an example of fidelity to the doctrine, but not of example in courage.

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coexistence and almost living together in the same place, the Vatican City State, two legitimate Popes, one of which ruler and the other so-called emeritus, It had never occurred in the history of the Church. All this leads us to question legitimately the mysterious status legal of Pope Benedict XVI. It is an entirely new, that may surprise you, but it must not upset, because it does not affect anything for the continuity of tradition and apostolic succession and the primacy of the Roman Pontiff. Certainly it is subject to the monarchical principle of the leadership of the Church, nor could it be otherwise, since it is willed by Christ for unity, stability, universality, Justice, concord, freedom, progress and peace in the Church.

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Of course, it is a fact legitimate of primary importance for the fate of the Church, concerned in this case at its summit, that, however, requires the invention and adoption of expedients, found and legal arrangements have novel, making it possible to deal with, evaluate and regulate prudently, in the light of faith, this new situation, although it does not seem that we are totally ignorant of similar cases, such as the retired bishop of a diocese or the resignation or termination of the assignment of a Superior in a Religious Institute.

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In an unprecedented event like, we have to see one that Pope Francis calls "surprises of the Holy Spirit". Apparently such a thing would seem to indicate that we are in a situation that contrasts with the essence or at least with the good life of the Church. If so, certainly this situation should be remedied, although it can be expected that it will not last long, given the advanced age of both Pontiffs, to which, however, we wish you a long and happy life, rich in good works and spiritual benefits.

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The possibility that a pope face waiver, It was already provided for in canon law [cf. can. 332 §2. See text WHO]. But then it does not regulate those to be the conduct and status legal renunciant. The expression Pope emeritus therefore it arouses in some of the problems. They argue that it is not possible to make a comparison with the Bishop Emeritus, because these remains bishop; but a Pope who resigns is no longer Pope. The case of Benedict XVI is unique in the history of the Church, on canonical and ecclesial plane, because in the past very rare that you are registered, The dropout is always returned to its status Previous election to the Holy Throne. Therefore, in the opinion of several canonists and theologians, Benedict XVI would have to return to the simple cardinal condition. Leaving fact that you call Pope emeritus, It may give the impression that it wants to somehow maintain at least morally, if not legally, special influence on the reigning Pope, similarly precisely what can a bishop emeritus against the owner. The other part, Benedict XVI has professed full obedience to Pope Francis as the legitimate pope since before his election, When it had to say before the Cardinals should meet in conclave to elect a successor [see Official Video WHO].

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Benedict XVI himself, in an interview with Peter Seewald, He still recognizes Pope, but in a sense "deeper and more intimate" [1]; He says to "maintain the responsibility that has taken on an inner sense, but not in function. For that gradually you will understand that the papal ministry is not diminished, though perhaps it is more clearly his humanity ".

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Those who do not approve of the expression Pope emeritus see more favorably and right thing, if not dutiful, cite the example of the famous renunciation of Papa Celestino V, which by the way it was done Santo, who, left the government of the Church, he returned to the simple monaco what condition it was before.

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To light conveniently this complex situation, to understand its meaning in the light of faith, find legal ways of settlement and give it an appropriate adjustment, correcting defects and remove any risks or hazards present and future, we would like to suggest to the reigning Pope, in collaboration with the Holy Father Benedict XVI, with the help and advice of good employees, canonists, moralists, ecclesiologists and prophets, to make use of the following four-fold criterion of judgment, always keeping in mind the desire of Christ, the good of the Church, God's honor and the salvation of souls.

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The first check to do, it should not be difficult, It is whether this coexistence of two Popes offends in some way natural justice or the moral law or Christian brotherly love. If it passes this first check, We have to see if it responds to a prompting of the Holy Spirit. If the thing also passes to this sieve, then you need to check whether contrasts somewhat with the essential constitution of the Church and the papacy. But to do work very wise and appropriate to the magnitude of the spiritual question, You must refer to the history of the Church and the examples of Saints, in which, although in other fields, it appeared evident to operate innovative and surprising of the Holy Spirit. Only then you can move on the establishment of appropriate legal rules relating not only to the present case, but also to possible future cases.

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One thing is certain, after more than four years from the act of renunciation of Benedict XVI, the figure of the so-called Papa emeritus it has not been established, least of all inserted into the Code of Canon Law and regulated by the laws of the Church, because the title of "Emeritus" given to a Pope who made free act of renunciation, creates problems maybe not easy to solve in the legal, theological level. Therefore, until l 'emeritus applied to the Roman Pontiff will not be established and governed by canon law, It will remain just a figure of speech to indicate an unusual and temporary situation. And in an unusual and temporary situation, and a legal institution, the difference that exists is not a small matter.

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A revolutionary court

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With the foregoing circumstances we acknowledge to Professor Andrea Grillo had taken into account the serious and difficult problem of status legal Benedict XVI. Cricket, who it is also a lawyer, has noticed the existence of a legal area remained uncovered, and as such need to be adjusted in a very delicate sector of Church life: none other than the pontifical right [see full text of the interview, WHO].

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Pope francesco It seems to care little about this issue. But this means that on it are raging interventions and the most strange and contradictory opinions, reflective, as usual, the unfortunate contrast between Lefebvrians and modernists, resulting on the one hand to please the world and the enemies of the church exterior and interior and the other, to disconcert and disturb the minds of the good faithful on what is a cornerstone of the Catholic understanding of the Church, that is, the Petrine ministry.

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Unfortunately Grillo He has addressed this very serious and urgent matter without giving exhibition based on the above criteria, on the contrary, in a superficial way and it is also irresponsible, as if it were to expel or punish a political party, a former executive who does still affect the legitimate successor. In addition, from the tone of reprimand merciful Grillo against Benedict XVI, It suggests a mood biased and executioner and a seemingly rational argument, but actually sophistry against so-called Pope emeritus, he hinted, called "bishop emeritus".

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Cricket, with the style of a tribune of the people of '89 or of a sixty-eight that decreed summary justice against the bosses, It seems to suggest more than enjoin, al Pope emeritus, to go into exile away from the Vatican and silenced forever, motivating this with specious arguments and inconsistent, that only show the Grillo anger at a great theologian who discovered his altars. Because of this, in my opinion, Grillo - I turn to him fraternally, as a theologian theologian -, to avoid increasing the bad reputation that has already been procured with other outputs of the genus, He would do well to keep quiet. And if you want to talk, what that, and as a Catholic theologian and as a lawyer has the right and duty to do, speak;, ma grain of salt e as sobriety but especially avoiding to extinguish the fire with gasoline.

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Perhaps Grillo does not realize the serious extent of his judgments in a church and ecclesiastical situation already plagued stubborn and torn apart by internal conflicts between extremist adverse parties of Lefebvre and the modernists, where the mediation space seem to shrink by the day and the gap between the enemy is becoming an abyss for continuous emergence on the scene of subversive characters and raving, who pretend to be friends and collaborators of the Holy Father, when in fact their Catholicism resembles the doctrine of the Church as the witch of the seven dwarfs look like Snow White.

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It arouses really suffering the impudence with which Grillo accused Benedict XVI of reason contempt for the mere fact of having supported with wise words the value of liturgical silence, if we keep in mind the strength and authority with which he, in the wake of his previous activities as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, alongside the mighty Author of Faith and Reason and in the line of the great recent Popes retribution, and promoters of reason in faith, by Blessed Pius IX, San Pio X, Pio XI, Pio XII, St. John XXIII, Blessed Paul VI, bravely and wisely he supported and defended the dignity of human reason ("Enlargement of reason"), premised on the moral (the "non-negotiable values"), preamble of faith and theology tool, endured opposition from scientistic, irrationalists, luterani, modernists, idealists, Freemasons, Communists and Muslims.

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Unhappy and out of place thus the idea of ​​cricket to silence Professor Joseph Ratzinger in the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, showing it to be thus scarcely able to grasp the strength and nobility of thought of the man who for twenty years has fought as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the values ​​of reason and faith. Indeed, with his recent criticism hugging the teasing turned to the ethics of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra and St. Giovanni Paolo II, Grillo clearly shows that he was ready to upset the real figure, if it's true, as he claims, Pope Francis has revolutionized the concept of marriage of Blessed Pius IX, Pius XI and St. Giovanni Paolo II [See previous articles, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO].

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Cricket seems just ignore what is the sacred right and duty of Papa Benedetto to express their authoritative thought, in his capacity as a great theologian now counted among the greatest contemporary theologians. It's simply ridiculous that Grillo, infected modernism, purports to teach as Benedict should pose against Pope Francis. The charge that Grillo ago to Benedict to get out of his seat and embarrass Francis or even to interfere in his apostolic authority with his preface to the book by Cardinale Robert Sarah is absolutely unfounded. Benedict knows much better how Grillo, in what way and to what extent a theologian can and must express their thoughts to help the papal magisterium, he who as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued in 1990 the The gift of truth, an illuminating statement on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian [see text WHO].

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I am sure however that the Holy Father, who has reverence for Benedict and if he keeps it close, to the hand, as its authoritative and wise counselor, greatly he appreciated the humble intervention, useful and measured Benedict, who knows how to juggle with the Supreme Pontiff, having joint himself in his person the role of the Pope with that of a theologian loyal to the Magisterium.

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An encyclical written for four hands

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The same encyclical of Pope Francis, Light of Faith, as is known, resume and complete the work that Benedict had started and left unfinished with his act of renunciation, much that has been written encyclical called "four hands". In it you may feel an echo of the veneration of St. Augustine ratzingheriana, student of Plato as mystagogue the mysteries of faith: "In the life of St. Augustine we find a significant example of the way in which the research of reason, with his desire for truth and clarity, It has been integrated into the horizon of faith, from which he received new understanding » [n. 33].

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We also know what Benedict XVI He highlighted the contribution of Greek philosophy to the understanding of the Word of God explained and formulated by the Church in dogma. And in fact, the text goes on: "On the one hand, Augustine welcomes Greek philosophy of light with its insistence on vision. His meeting with the neo-Platonism did know the paradigm of light, which comes down from above to illuminate things, and is thus a symbol of God […] The other part, But, the practical experience of St. Augustine, he himself tells in his confessions, the defining moment of his journey of faith was not that of a vision of God, beyond this world, but rather that of listening, in the garden when he heard a voice saying: "Take and read"; he took the volume with the Letters of St. Paul focusing on the thirteenth chapter of the Romans. He appeared as the God of the Bible personal, able to speak to the man, to get off to live with him and accompany her journey through history, manifesting itself in the time of listening and response. And yet, This encounter with the God of the Word has not led St. Augustine to reject the light and vision. He has integrated both perspectives, always guided by the revelation of God in Jesus. And so he developed a philosophy of light that welcomes what their word reciprocity and opens a space to freedom of gaze towards the light " [ibid.].

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In Sant’Agostino listening to the Word of God in faith is the preparation and introduction to the blessed vision of God in heaven. In fact, he is well aware that this world can know God only indirectly, for mediation of creatures, as Saint Paul says: "Now we see through a mirror darkly, but then face to face " [The Cor 13,12].

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Benedict XVI and Francis I meet, as it is obvious for two Popes, in recognition of this essential function of reason in the acquisition of faith, supremely important gesture for the salvation of men of our time, Lost in reason even before the faith. And if Papa Benedetto insisted so much as a theologian in highlighting the reason as the basis of faith, Pope francesco, also aware of the urgency to rebuild the dignity and powers of reason, in its own way also he works for this noble end, from a shepherd's perspective and not as a theologian, when so insistently emphasizes human values, so as to arouse discomfort if not scandal in those who would like her more in tune speeches and more attention to spiritual values, of the sacred, of religion and the supernatural.

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But already Pius XII, you certainly can not accuse you of little attention to spirituality, He was aware of the need to restore the human being as a condition for building up the Christian and Blessed Paul VI stressed the need to precede evangelization and human promotion in a world that has lost the notion of reason and by that notion man, if it is true that man is a rational animal.

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Benedict and Francis complement each other

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The thing that is plain for all are the good external relationships and the mutual respect between the two certificates Papi, reports they have publicly expressed on several occasions; this is already a good basis to address and resolve the question of a certain contrast to a greater depth. In my way of seeing Pope Francis would do well to collect and make money from the rich and precious inheritance of Benedict XVI, as I tried to show in my recent article on The Island of Patmos. Pope Francis wanted to give impetus to the reform of the Council, but perhaps that this was not even the intention of Benedict? Only that Benedict was concerned to defend the council modernist interpretation Rahner. Vice versa, the way in which Francis enhances the council means that sometimes he gives the impression of approaching modernist interpretation and you can see that avoids highlight the opposition, which Benedict XVI spoke between continuity and rupture around the issue of the Council's relationship with tradition. It seems that for Francis problems are mainly from righteousness, by conservatism and the "stiffness", while it is too lenient to the much more serious deviations historicist, relativistic, Mutabilist, subversive and modernist. He also highlights a tendency to reconcile the pastoral misericordista, Ratzinger had tried to stem.

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It should be that the two Popes they knew better support and complement each other and work together better, the use of the qualities of each: Benedict XVI can help the reigning Pope with Cardinal Gerhard L. Müller in the promotion and defense of the sound doctrine, correcting ecumenism opportunist, inconclusive and relativist Cardinal Walter Kasper. To Pope Francis, therefore, still remains the onerous task of making efforts to achieve the objective of the last Reintegratio, even rejected by Kasper line, objective which provides, removed "obstacles" and "gaps", "Access of our separated brethren into full communion with the Catholic Church" [cf. n.3].

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So also in the dialogue with Islam, it is necessary that Pope Francis, the faithful to reconcile Islam In our age, that shows the contact points of Islamic theology with Christianity, in order to offer the Church a complete view of Islamic theology, complementing the conciliar teaching with that of Papa Benedetto expressed in the famous keynote Regensburg, which highlights the irrational aspect of God and fatalistic Koranic, Grillo thing should keep in mind before accusing Benedict of irrationalism [text and video WHO e WHO].

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In each of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X, Pope Francis has shown kindness by giving permission to priests to hear confessions and celebrate weddings, but still remains the opposition of the Society to the doctrines of the Council reported by Benedict XVI and the pro-Protestant judgment given by Archbishop Marcel Lefèbvre in Mass Novus order, things that, as he warned the predecessor of the reigning Pontiff: "Prevent the Brotherhood of being in full communion with the Church" [cf. WHO].

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Pope Francis makes up and remedy the limited social sensitivity of Papa Benedetto - he humbly acknowledged -, with the tireless preaching of the opening to the next, with the enunciation of the principles of social and economic justice, with concrete actions in this field, with the promotion of mercy, of conversion, of forgiveness, Peace and reconciliation, about the big humanitarian issues of how to deal with the moral degradation in families and in society, youth education, the work of pacification to be conducted between warring, political corruption and customs, opposition to fundamentalism and terrorism, the food problems and health, those posed by inequality and economic inequality, labor exploitation of children and women, the drama of immigration and the problem of the survival of vast human masses without the need, the urgency of the care and respect for nature, the problem of climate change, with its harmful consequences in poor populations.

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In the sensitive issue of liberation theology, Cardinal Müller highlights by quoting some of Gustavo Gutiérrez statements, the positive elements of said theology, that the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, He had already highlighted in Education message of freedom the 1986. Says Cardinal Müller: "In a speech in the mid-nineties to the presence of Cardinal Ratzinger, Gustavo Gutiérrez stressed that "it is important that as a final step the option for the poor is an option for the God of the kingdom announced by Jesus Christ", and added: "The ultimate reason for the commitment to the poor and oppressed lies not so in the company analysis, or in the direct experience that we can make poverty, and even in our human compassion. All these things are useful reasons, which will no doubt play an important role in our lives and in our human relationships. Nonetheless, our commitment as Christians is based on faith in the God of Jesus Christ. It is an option theocentric and prophetic, which is rooted in the gratuitousness of God, making it necessary '' [2].

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It is known as Pope Francis sympathize for the positive aspects of liberation theology, which of course does not mean that he ignores the risk that it may be contaminated by Marxism, reported by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 'Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "Theology of Liberation" the 1984 [see text WHO].

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The publication joy dell'amore He did think to some conflict between the Magisterium of Pope Francis to Papa Benedetto, with particular rifermento the permission of the Communion for divorced and remarried. As I have explained many times over The Island of Patmos, the possibility that Francis grant in special cases, as those given by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, the said permission, within its power to regulate the administration of the Sacraments, so it remains saves magisterial continuity between the two Popes in the dogmatic, as the rest otherwise could not be. Rather, those who create confusion in this field with their situationist historicism and relativism are Cardinal Kasper and the Cricket. True interpreter of the papal document, indicated by the same Pontiff, instead Cardinal Christoph Schönborn.

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The most successful people Pope Francis gets on his travels than Papa Benedetto is not due to a better evangelization or at a higher Christian proposal, how to enhance the consideration of anthropological and social aspects. The high number of non-believers or former enemies of the Church, those that remain, but weaving rave to Pope Francis does not seem mostly motivated by the fact that they are mostly seen in him the man of God and the witness of God's kingdom or perhaps the Vicar of Christ, but it seems in part influenced and bewildered by the powerful mass media controlled by Freemasonry, skillfully presented to the public a liberationist Pope, modernist, populist, wire-Lutheran and merciful, lassista and permissive. All defects that the Holy Father would seem to have, but that really does not, because it would be too severe, although its language is not always clear, the carelessness of some of his pastoral choices, the hardness of certain interventions on that they know of authoritarianism, the partiality of certain opinions that divide rather than unite, and the ambiguity of his moral conduct, that smacks of opportunism, seem to favor this interpretation.

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The popular success It is not always a sign that the preacher announced the Gospel in its entirety outrageous and irritating to the world. If the preacher likes the world, It is not necessarily a good sign. The Gospel message, in truth, It arises to two levels of content, which they appear clearly by the example of Jesus himself: one, relevant to the needs and human rights, especially the poor, the suffering and the oppressed. In fact, Jesus begins his preaching calling to conversion and exhorting to good works, and announcing the coming of the kingdom of God, kingdom of mercy, of forgiveness, of freedom, justice and peace, and performing miracles. the crazy, comprehensibly, I am very satisfied for such a benefactor, and flock to the Lord, praising him. But then Jesus, at a certain point, after having made credible with these works of charity and mercy and common human wisdom teachings, passes to announce heart the gospel message, which it is the mystery of the cross and its mysteries of salvation and eternal life, apparently difficult parts to reason and to human interests, but in reality the sources of true bliss, like for example, when he speaks of the Eucharist [cf. GV 6] or she announces to Peter, his passion, not to mention when he announces to be the Messiah Son of God to judge the living and the dead. It is at this point that the crowds thin out, Jesus remains alone and encounters such opposition, The lead that the cross.

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Pope Francis has stopped until now mainly on the first level and has done some good. But good Catholics and true evangelizers, and not the masses manipulated by clever and flatterers of the Pope, expect that he steps to the second level of preaching, giving the impression he to dwell too much on the first, almost out of human respect or fear of threats that opposition comes from the world, Today especially the Masons, penetrated the Church, since the time of Blessed Pope Paul VI, by means of the modernists and rahneriani. Of course, the Pope will have under the eyes what happened to Benedict for announcing Christ Crucified, especially in its beautiful and most learned Christological trilogy. Francesco is very careful not to pull on the aggression of the modernists, of rahneriani, communists, Lutheran and Islamic. He tries every possible point of contact and dialogue; and that's fine. But sometimes the two-way expressions, that may have an orthodox sense, but also heterodox, thus easily exploitable by the enemies of the Church. And this defect, adapted to generate misunderstandings, defect that has been repeatedly criticized by many, also good Cardinals, that's no good; therefore it is necessary that correct. Moreover, Francis will not be silent endlessly about the errors of the enemies of the Church. Then, in my opinion, would do well to put more light what is the original substance of the Gospel, of which speaks too little. We ask the Holy Spirit and to the intercession of the Madonna that they get to Pope Francis the strength to resist these enemies, and to overcome.

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How and why it has come to this situation? And as you can get out?

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What, if anything, we might ask It is how come, and because of such events or the reasons why the Church today has two popes simultaneously and how they could and the relations between them should be considered and regulated. The recent speeches by Andrea Grillo about, give the impression, as they say, He entered a bull in a china shop. It might indeed imagine anything more coarse and offensive to Benedict XVI, nor blatantly and sycophantic courtier against Pope Francis. It is evident the inability of Grillo to mitigate, as it should, the undoubted although not serious existing contrast between the pastoral elite Ratzingerian and that populist bergogliana. What is needed by all means working to foster collaboration between the two Popes for the good of the Church.

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There is also to be noted that From the time of Blessed Paul VI began will appear increasingly clear, until you get to the evidence of our handheld days, that the papacy is the subject, by the Freemasonry, a systematic operation of encirclement and isolation from the rest of the Church, aimed at preserving the apparent tributandogli school treat, but actually making it ineffective government action, in order to empty it of its own value, Christ willed, for debasing to a simple function or symbolic representation, the type of the British monarchy or dell'O.N.U Presidency or the Orthodox patriarchates or Protestant ministers, while the actual government of the Church would be entrusted to a group of modernist power, long hand of Freemasonry, arisen in the episcopate and the College of Cardinals. And thereor theological instrument which Freemasonry has used and uses to conduct this operation, Rahner's theology, which, passed off as theology of Vatican II, thanks to a methodical perseverance and good organization to, lavishly funded by Freemasonry, It was made to penetrate subtly in educational institutions of the Church, without that the papacy was able to prevent it, to obtain a bishopric and a cardinal rahneriano, not subject to the papacy, but the Masons. This colossal task diabolical, today as today, It is largely successful. This has led to a Church Masonic - modernist Church - within the Catholic Church. Some call it "neochiesa». We use then the right expression: it's a false church.

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About Rahner, some might remember that in the end Ratzinger and Rahner collaborated accounts together in the work of Vatican II. It's true. But when Ratzinger was elected to the Sacred Throne, a lot of water had flowed under the bridge. Indeed, as recounted in the same Ratzinger in said interview with Seewald, and as shown by the history of post-conciliar theology, finished the Council, Ratzinger saw that Rahner, under the mask of the progressive - in which there is nothing wrong - in fact it was a modernist, which it is clearly heresy. A quel point, Ratzinger, that he intended to remain faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, not only he began to distance himself from Rahner, but to attack him severely, as he deserved. For all answer, Rahner and Ratzinger went to war against fellow kunghiani, a war that is still going on.

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Saint John Paul II, For its part, he rewarded the courage Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger in the making 1981 Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The conclave 2005 it further rewarded with his election as Supreme Pontiff. But in the meantime, The powerful rahneriani who had penetrated the sacred college, They managed to gain the favor of the pro-rahneriani, therefore they reversed from positive to negative orientation towards Benedict. So now is the act of renunciation of Benedict XVI, after it was pushed into an untenable situation. Shortly after Benedict XVI was succeeded by Pope Francis, that in the minds of their rahneriani had to be a docile instrument to maneuver at will. But they did not count right. They have missed the fact that Pope Francis, even with all its human limitations, And Vicar of Christ. For this Pope Francis balance held the helm of the Church, despite its apparent maneuverability.

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The free act of renunciation of Papa Benedetto, It happened as he himself stated in full freedom and without any coercion, It is therefore explains how the desire not lend itself to this abject operation, not to give in to this imposition, and at the same time assume the belief that he could not cope. Who is fighting against an enemy too strong, he gives up, refusing to yield to its demands or to join or to have part of his wicked intentions and let him use. This was the choice of Benedict, dictated by full and conscious freedom. However, this choice is a commendable appearance and reprehensible aspect. The commendable aspect, in that, fine theologian from what was, Ratzinger knew the deception and seduction of modernism, so absolutely he refused to accomplice to do with it. The appearance reprehensible, Benedict because he reasoned too much in human terms, He thought over his human weakness - as is clear from the official reason for his act of renunciation - and too little in the way of faith, that too little thought to the supernatural strength of the charism of Peter.

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Perhaps that in previous centuries many Roman pontiffs were not found in similar situations? Yet they did not waiver, They have stood up to the last, and some have faced martyrdom. The head of a company does not have a divine charisma that allows him to remain always in its place, but the Head of the Church yes, It owns to the promise and the will of Christ, who assists him through the work and grace of the Holy Spirit actions [cf. LC 22, 31-34; GV 20, 19-29]. Benedict XVI, Anyway, He did not make it. Hard to know if insurmountable objective limits, independent from his will, humility or lack of courage and faith in the charism of Peter. Let us leave to God's judgment on his conscience and his responsibility. But the fact itself will remain in history. Benedict there was an example of fidelity to the doctrine, but not of example in courage.

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Papa Benedetto has made a waiver because it is noticed to be betrayed even by his closest collaborators, as it became clear in the story of Paolo Gabriele. And because the cross was becoming too heavy, not if it is felt to continue working with collaborators treacherous. "Dad", Benedict says [3], 'Daily encounters the cross […] If a Pope received only applause, you should ask yourself if you're doing something wrong […] The Pope will always be a sign of contradiction, ... but that does not mean that he must die under the ax '. It is not allowed to escape from a too heavy load. Benedict found himself at one point surrounded by treacherous collaborators, modernists and rahneriani. And he realized that in those conditions was no longer able to govern the Church, hindered by those who most needed help.

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Pope francesco, for its part, more energetic character and leathery, aware of the fact that the Church has to have a guide, although aware of the situation, It started confidently in the hands of the Holy Spirit, initiating action difficult, with which on the one hand saves the essence of the Petrine ministry; but on the other side must give up points to avoid the worst. But he has already said that, for Christ's sake, He is ready to face martyrdom.

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Meanwhile, the operation of the Masons and Judah It has reached such a point of maturation, that, after decades of rise to power, and failure of the papacy, now they have come close to the throne of Peter, within the same State Secretariat. The pot is ready. Missing cover. But that there will never be, since, as the saying goes, the devil makes the pots, but not the covers. The true Church will endure, under the guidance of the Pope, Despite the work that Masonry is currently trying to convince, between flattery and threats, surrounding him with fake employees, to transfer to its conception of the papacy not as a guide of the Church but merely as a representative and expression of the collegiality of believers.

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Since God wants everyone to be saved and gives everyone the means to save themselves, we have to, together with the Holy Father, have more confidence, as the Church has always had confidence, could drive, under the impulse of the Holy Spirit, with the preaching and good example, all the peoples of the land to the Catholic Church, whatever the culture or religion to which they belong. This is the meaning of The gospel of joy, in line with the evangelizing thrust of the Council and all of the post-council Papi. In particular, against doing good today, which it is a real spirit drug, and for an authentic conception of mercy, on which so much he insists the Pope, it should be noted that the preaching of mercy and trust in God but must be accompanied by love for the sinner, but at the same hatred for sin, and then from the warning that God punishes sin, why should arouse the fear of God and the absolute desire not to offend. In this way the Church, arousing in the hearts a sense of their responsibility before God, will re-offer persuasively the true way of the Gospel and the sanctification of men, ridding himself of a false mercy that leads to ruin.

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Varazze, 12 June 2017

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RESPONSE Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, CARDINAL ROBERT SARAH, It IS NOT MADE A LONG WAIT:

 

"I pray devoutly for those who have the time and patience to read this book carefully [The power of silence, see WHO]: God help them forget the vulgarity and baseness used by some people when they refer to “Foreword” and its author, Pope Benedict XVI. Arrogance, the violence of language, disrespect and inhuman contempt for Benedict XVI are evil and cover the church with a mantle of sadness and shame. These people demolish the Church and his profound nature. The Christian does not fight against anyone. The Christian has no enemies to defeat " [see in The New Compass Quotidiana, WHO].

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[1] Benedict XVI, Recent conversations, Garzanti, Milan 2016, p.39.

[2] G.L.Müller, Blessed&Francesco Successor of Peter at the service of the Church, Editions ARES, 2016, pp.84-85.

[3] Recent conversations, op.cit., p.36.

 

 

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Maximalism AND HEROISM. Opportunism ANDREA CRICKET THAT TRIES TO PLAY BETWEEN THE JOY OF LOVE E TRUTH SHINE. WITH APPENDIX posthumous ON THE CASE OF ARCHBISHOP LUIGI NEGRI

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The moral ideas of Andrea Grillo produce of Don Abbondio, ready to obey the first rascal who happen, the smart ones who want to get away on the cheap and with the aura of the Prophet, of court jesters or flatterers of the master who pays them well, of the Machiavellian dictator Service, the opportunists pushed by the wind that pulls, of Talleyrand who are always afloat, adept at saving your skin in all circumstances, of cowards ready to kneel down to the ground and kiss the feet of the first bully that makes its voice. Therefore, certain ideas and ways of acting, do not produce the eagle's flight, but the cackling of hens in the henhouse.

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I charge you to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ [The Tm 6,14]

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Andrea Grillo intervened the 3 Last May, on its website European Cultural Magazine a short article entitled "love joy: Beyond The Splendor of Truth, ie on this side of the moral maximalism " [cf. readable text WHO]», which he sees in 'love joy a contrast, or rather an approach to the question of the relationship between moral law and moral circumstances of the act, "That would be no exaggeration to define" diametrically opposite "" with respect to The Splendor of Truth of St. John Paul II, which according to him would be tainted by "maximalism", "Rationalism" and contempt for the "tradition", while 'love joy, "She realizes with great power and with a Prophetic tradition recovery ', so it 'processes, in section. VIII, an understanding of the "wounds of the family", which proposes a relationship between "rules" and "discernment" which retrieves an ancient ecclesial wisdom, with respect to which a "Desktop cold morality" [cf. The joy of love, 312] He had claimed to distance itself dramatically and maximalist ".

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This contrast made by Grillo between these two great papal documents is totally false and sophistic, slanderous towards Saint John Paul II and blatantly flattering towards Pope Francis, according to a costume objectionable that has spread among the flatterers modernists reigning Pope, for example, also Enzo Bianchi. If anything is to be said that the two documents complement and illuminate each other, because while the encyclical of Giovanni Paolo II stopped more about some basic principles of moral theology, the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis takes greater account of local conditions, the circumstances and manner, in which the subject agent must apply, in the case of married life, the moral law.

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How silly is the accusation made by some to the Pope to relativize the moral law, or to question the indissolubility of marriage or even the sacredness of the Eucharist, as if to encourage moral laxity, equally foolish is the accusation made by Grillo to a Holy Pontiff, an expert in pastoral care, of "maximalism" moral, ie abstractness, stiffness, excessive demands, too much severity and poor understanding of human weaknesses, As if he lacked compassion and sense of circumstances.

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There is no doubt that not only for the Holy Father Giovanni Paolo II, but also for the Holy Father Francis adultery is a intrinsically evil, because this concept, as is clear from the The Splendor of Truth, It is necessarily linked with the words of Christ himself on the indissolubility of marriage and the prohibition of adultery.

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But Unlike the case of adultery and the dissolution of marriage. Adultery is always prohibited without exception. In the second case, however - apart from the Mosaic law about changed by Christ -, St. Paul gives permission to the believing mate, whose faith is endangered by non-believing mate, to leave, so that the marriage is dissolved. It is the so-called Pauline privilege. So we read in Moral Theology Dictionary directed by Cardinal Francesco Roberti [1], to the item Pauline privilege: «The so-called Pauline privilege is contained in I Cor 7, 11-16. […] For it can melt only legitimate marriage, also consumed, namely to contract by two unbaptized, if one of them is converted to Christianity. It does not apply to marriage between a baptized and an infidel, Contract previous dispensation from the impediment of disparity of cult ".

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Here we have a sacred value - the marriage bond -, to which in two different ways opposes a certain human act. But what abysmal difference in the one in the other case! Adultery is a private act by which a man does a grave sin against the indissolubility and sacredness of marriage, so that the bond remains intact. The dissolution of the bond is a public act of legitimate ecclesiastical authority, authorized by the doctrine of St. Paul.

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Here we see that the difference, regarding the sacrament of marriage legislation, between the divine institution (Christ's will) and the legal power of authority of the Church ("Power of the keys"). While Christ gave to the Church and then to the moral from it taught - with all due respect to Grillo - to make exceptions to the prohibition of adultery and divorce, He has granted to the Church, through St. Paul, the faculty, in certain cases, to dissolve the marriage bond.

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Grillo plays unfairly sull'inveterato idealistic misunderstanding, which gives the primacy of subject on 'object, meaning by subject consciousness as intended by Descartes, ie not regulated by the truth, but as a rule of truth, not as thought by the idea it adapts to the real, but as real or be (sum) deducted from the thought (cogito) or idea, so the truth for Descartes is not what is really there in front of me (object), independently of me (if anything dependent on God), but what I (subject, "subject") I decide to be the truth and reality. Now, we must say that it is true that if I think, it means that I exist, but it is even more true that in order to think, I must first exist. Hence the primacy of being over thought and so on consciousness. The dissolution of being in thought and subjective consciousness is the folly of idealism, producer of metaphysical solipsism, theoretical soggettivismo, moral relativism and corruption, emotional disorders, hallucinatory or autistic disorders, illusions to no end.

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This principle, carried to its extreme consequences produced the Hegelian identification and Gentile being in thought. This is the modern subject Grillo pleases and that he has unwittingly put in the place of God, for it is only God, Self-awareness is only the divine, which it is being rule, of truth and conscience.

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It is clear that if subject, according to the idealistic language, It means the world of spirit or consciousness, while 'object are the things external materials, it has the primacy of the subject, that the spirit, on the object, that is to say on the matter. But if by Subject, according to the realist language, we mean thought and by object we mean the real, Here is the thought that has to adapt to the real. But it must be said that consciousness is not intended as absolute source of truth, but as a moral obligation to accept the truth. Instead, what Grillo called "modern subject", is nothing more than the modernist concept of consciousness, for which Father Arturo Sosa speaks of "primacy of conscience", forgetting, as I have shown in my previous article dedicated to him, that consciousness has no record either in the know, where the record goes to the intuition of reality, nor much less in the context of being, where the primacy goes to the truth of being, objective rule of the truth of conscience.

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Comparison between The Splendor of Truth e love joy.

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So, if one side is right in claiming that Pope Francis:

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1. "It is true that the general rules are good that one should never disregard or neglect, but in their formulation can not absolutely embrace all special situations' [love joy 304]. That does not deny the existence of inalienable values, namely 'intrinsically good O the virtuous, nor it means that the fact that the legislature ignore all possible cases admits the possibility of cases in which we can make an exception to the law.

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2. "The Church has a solid reflection on the conditioning and the mitigating circumstances. Therefore it is no longer possible to say that all those who are in some situation so-called "irregular" they live in a state of mortal sin, deprived of sanctifying grace " [love joy 301]. You can alternating periods in which they have grace periods in which they are in sin, devoid of grace.

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3. "It's possible that by an objective situation of sin - that is not subjectively guilty or that it is not so full - we can live in God's grace, you can love, and it can also grow in the life of grace and charity, receiving for this purpose the help of the Church " [love joy 305].

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4. "You have to accompany with mercy and patience possible stages of growth of the people who are building day by day, giving way to the mercy of the Lord who inspires us to do good can […] Jesus wants a Church attentive to the good that the Spirit spreads in the middle of the fragility: a mother, at the very moment in which he clearly expresses his target education, can not give up the good, although it runs the risk of getting dirty with mud of the road " [love joy, 308]. It is clear that the use of accompaniment, of mercy, understanding, tolerance and patience, in certain circumstances does not exclude, in other circumstances, the stimulus, incitement, the warning, recall, the reprimand and warning.

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1. "They give the human act of items that are considered" not being ordered to God ", because they radically contradict the good of the person, made in his image " [The Splendor of Truth, 80].

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2. In the moral tradition of the Church human acts that are directed to those objects "they are called intrinsically evil (intrinsically evil): they are always and per se, that is, by their very purpose, apart from the ulterior intentions of those acts or circumstances' [truth Spendor, 80].

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3. "The circumstances and intentions can never transform an act intrinsically evil for its object into an act 'subjectively' good or defensible as a choice" [The Splendor of Truth, 81].

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Here there is no maximalism, no rigor, no stiffness, no rationalism, no exaggerated claim. No stiffness or too strict requirement, but wise and prudent flexibility in adapting the call to perfection, the possibilities and own needs of each. The Pope knows what God can ask the man, where man can be responsible and where he is worthy of pity.

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"The Church - says St. Giovanni Paolo II [The Splendor of Truth,95] ―, that can never renounce the "the principle of truth" and consistency, why not agree to call good evil and evil good, must always be careful not to break the bruised reed, and to quench the dimly burning wick [cf Is 42,3]. Blessed Paul VI wrote: "To diminish in no way the saving teaching of Christ constitutes an eminent form of charity for souls. But this must ever be accompanied by patience and goodness, such as the Lord himself gave example of in dealing with men. Having come not to condemn but to save [cf. GV 3,17], He was intransigent with evil, but merciful towards individuals "».

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It is perfectly reasonable considerations, based on rational concept of the good man and his ultimate goal, who is God. The knowledge of this order is provable, as is known, natural reason, it is an order or absolute good, that requires absolutely, failing which the man fails in life. The rules to follow to achieve the ultimate goal, namely natural law, The reason derives from the consideration of man as a rational animal.

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If the mountain guide indicates downstream walker to the peak to conquer, certainly it does not claim that he reaches the suddenly with a jump, or crosses his mind to reproach him if he does not immediately, but apparently it is ready to help and to accompany him, with thoughtfulness and wisdom, in the slow climb to the top.

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To facilitate the journey of life we must lower the moral ideal or have discounts on our own initiative, but put all our good will with the help of grace, trusting in the mercy of God, but without taking advantage of his kindness slyly to make our comfortable. We must be able to present to the next, whoever he is, the Christian ideal in all its loftiness, assure our help and especially encourage him to make the most - that's the good "maximalism"! - trusting in the Lord.

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Saint Giovanni Paolo II does not call for the impossible, but it reminds everyone of the highest dignity of the person and of his responsibility, created in God's image, without forgetting all its miseries, consequent to sin, especially in today's climate of widespread intellectual disorientation, and on the limits of human nature eternally established by the Creator and overcome to varying degrees by the life of grace and holiness, gift of the Savior's mercy.

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And Pope Francis is not the manipulator ambiguous or that cunning lax that some would have us believe. instead, you must, with careful exegesis and benevolent, take note of his pastoral wisdom and the fact that love joy he adds to The Splendor of Truth indications lenient case, which does not give the space The Splendor of Truth, more theoretical approach. It is true that some steps of love joy, for unclear, They can cause problems, but much is clarified by resorting to the previous Magisterium, starting from Familiar Consortium.

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Let's say instead Grillo that we must not confuse the seriousness and moral rigor with rigor, the moral effort with maximalism, loyalty to our promises, to our vocation or ideal inviolable and sacred purpose we have set ourselves, with conservatism or stagnation or fundamentalism or stubbornness or "closed to new".

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The moral principles of Grillo, spoiled by historicism, are too weak and fragile to produce not say of the martyrs and heroes, but even people of character, with robust backbone. If Maria Goretti had taken Andrea Grillo's ideas on sex and marriage, He would certainly have granted requests for Alessandro Serenelli, that at least distinguish the man from the woman and made no confusion between the sexes.

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The moral ideas Grillo produce of Don Abbondio, ready to obey the first rascal who happen, the smart ones who want to get away on the cheap and with the aura of the Prophet, of court jesters or flatterers of the master who pays them well, of the Machiavellian dictator Service, the opportunists pushed by the wind that pulls, of Taillerand who are always afloat, adept at saving your skin in all circumstances, of cowards ready to kneel down to the ground and kiss the feet of the first bully that makes its voice. Therefore, certain ideas and ways of acting, do not produce the eagle's flight, but the cackling of hens in the henhouse.

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Varazze, 23 May 2017

Translation of the Holy Father Domenico di Guzman

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[1] Studium Publishing, Rome 1961.

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APPENDIX posthumous ON THE CASE OF ARCHBISHOP LUIGI NEGRI

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Andrea Grillo struck again. This time he attacked some thoughts of S.It is. Mons. Luigi Negri, Emeritus Archbishop of Ferrara, on the attack in Manchester, very serious episode which was followed by the very recent massacre in Egypt [see the full texts WHO].

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We need to detect real pain foolishness and irresponsibility of the aggression of the Archbishop Grillo. Cricket, that, with diabolical cunning, It uses a procedural defect in the thoughts of the illustrious and courageous Pastor, not understanding the literary module of which Mons. Luigi Negri has used to express, in an ideal heartfelt conversation with the poor boys killed, on the one hand his bitterness and his disdain for the umpteenth Islamic attack on Christianity, continuing an old tradition of centuries XIV and, on the other, duty to denounce the hypocrisy disgust of a rotten and secularized Europe ex-Christian, reduced to nihilism, denying with affected ignorance of the religious nature of Islamic terrorism and would like to hide behind this excuse to groped in vain to silence his conscience, that the prosecution and the storm for betraying Christ, not to defend the faith against Muslim attack and for having lost what the latest reasons for living, the rejoicing, the suffering and death.

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Cricket is a dangerous and emblematic exponent of a corrupt and hypocritical Christianity papist, and burns the fact that Bishop. Luigi Negri, a good doctor and pastor, He has put his finger on the wound to heal, not to kill. But Grillo, this, He not understood or do not want to understand, and so, proud and stubborn as, rather than reflect on the wise moral considerations of this Bishop and convert, accentuates its bitterness and doth his sophistry against those who called him back to his fatherly duties as a Christian, invoking a vain pretext criticism based sull'incomprensione unhappy literary form adopted by Mons. Luigi Negri.

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A POPE MODERNISTA? THE SHAM OF THE VALLEY RANIERO

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It is very sad and outrageous that a valuable and long-life experience man like La Valle has fallen so low slandering the Pope while he believes to praise him, not to have noticed to have become, with his blasphemies, miserable instrument of a Masonic plan of destruction of the Church, inexorably destined to failure, surely fail as all enemies of God.

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Raniero La Valle, as is the custom usual modernists, especially Rahnerians, He claims to submit his thesis as a heretical interpretation of the doctrines of the Council, ma, since reigns the present Pope, modernists have increased their audacity and brazenness, and they have come to the point of presenting their heresies even as the thought of the Holy Father himself, taking advantage of some of his occasional expressions, that, unlike the previous Pontiffs language, it was always clear, if you pay, if it is not correctly interpreted and contextualized, to be understood in a sense or modernist rahneriano [following article …].

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THE REAL WAY TO DOMINICAN JOY OF LOVE: OPEN LETTER TO PROF. ANDREA GRILLO

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Cardinal Carlo Caffarra no way opposed to freedom of conscience, She accuses him how to do, but it opposes, rightly, the subjectivist conception, its modernism, that is the individual conscience, dell’ “I”, the meter, the principle and the ultimate criterion of truth.

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The marital status is called "regular", as it is supposed a valid marriage, while the concubinage or state of divorced and remarried is called "irregular", as their union is illegitimate. The question of regularity or irregularity touches the outer hole, not the interior of conscience before God. In fact, one can be in a regular state (such religious) and be devoid of grace and, conversely one may be in a state irregular and be grace.

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We must therefore distinguish it was legal and canonical from It was the will. The first is an external appearance of the person or a state of life, socially visible, and can be regular, ie according to the rule; or irregular, ie against the rule. A religious, voted to regular life, It can lead to an irregular life. A layman, not required to follow a religious life rule, It can be more regular than a bad religion. The state of the will is an inner state, for only best known to God and to the subject. It can be good - good will - and is supported by grace; or bad - ill will - and then it is devoid of grace. The latter is the state of sin […] The divorced and remarried can be in any state or situation, that, on reasonable grounds or force majeure, It can not be stopped. However, they Peccano, instead they have the possibility of interrupting the state of sin by penance and recover the lost grace [It follows the full article …]

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A NEWS HISTORY: ALBERTO MELLONI ANNOUNCES TERMINATION OF PRIESTHOOD

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At absurd and dangerous claims of the head of the School of Bologna, is a must reply that the priest did not invent the Council of Trent, as he falsely claims, but our Lord Jesus Christ, however different the priesthood is the time of Christ, to those of Trent, to ours.

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In the rubric defend the Pope from false friends, we offer this time to the readers Feedback.Article the historian Alberto Melloni, that some years was planning to propose to the Pope an equal share of the leadership of the Church with the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, while recently he extolled Pope Francis for making peace, after a thousand years, with the Orthodox Patriarchate of that city, ending the doctrinal controversy.

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We refer article titled "The Mass is ended. So after five centuries it sets the figure of the priest " [cf. WHO], appeared on The Republic on Wednesday 22 last March in signing Alberto Melloni, which strives for a quick picture of the priest figure promoted by the Council of Trent, hinting at certain psychological aspects, behavioral, cultural and pastoral - the so-called "clericalism" -, They actually have characterized some priestly style spread until Vatican II, and to which the Council and the post-conciliar Magisterium have remedied. Although he completely neglects to mention the merits dogmatic and anti-heretical Council of Trent, for example the priest as a guide of souls, man of the sacred and doctrinal firmness; and at the same time analyzing certain pastoral limits of the reform of Vatican II, for example, the secularizing trend, gooder and peace activist, all elements further aggravated by the resurgence of modernism, which Alberto Melloni, leader of the School of Bologna, It is one of the best known leaders in the field of church history.

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The most serious shortcoming of this short article is biased misconception evil with which Alberto Melloni plays unfairly between the refusal of the Tridentine model of the priest - something about which you might even agree, not for nothing that the Vatican has proposed a reform, although partially questionable -, and the rejection of the priest as such, or the Sacrament of Orders, on Luther's footsteps, as it is clear from the title of the article.

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Let us now review the pearls of this beautiful melloniana necklace. For every assertion of Alberto Melloni will now follow my answer.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – Muted is a great cycle is exhausted: that of the priest. That formidable sixteenth invention that has shaped the culture and politics, psychology and inner life, art and theology of the West and its former colonies was not extinguished (are approximately 420.000 the priests in the world), But for over a century it is in crisis: in Italy we passed by 15 thousand to approximately ninety 2.700 seminarians.

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Answer from such purpose that the author begins with the recall the Tridentine reform. The priest, according to its interpretation of the Tridentine, He not established Jesus Christ, but it is an invention of the papacy, it is the fourth century, how they think Schillebeeckx and Rahner or the Middle Ages, as Luther believes, or with the Council of Trent, how do you think Melloni, does not matter. The fact is that, according to them, Here Christ has nothing to do, but the thirst for power of the papacy.

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The growth of priestly vocations is not in crisis because the Church is still harks back to the Tridentine dogmatic about the Sacrament of Orders and directives of Vatican II; the crisis of vocations depends on whether the modernists have put about a false idea of ​​the priesthood, which it is a rejection of the Tridentine dogmatic and false interpretation of Vatican II directives. The major responsible for this massive fraud is Karl Rahner[1], while Alberto Melloni is one of the corporals of this army of modernists.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – Counts in this historical phase the reverb on the clergy of the fall of the intellectual qualities of the ruling classes to which they belong and those who choose the priesthood that he who gives it to him.

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I repeat in this regard that this is a false history. Whatever seminarian who studies the history of the Church - not by Melloni, but with a normal historical -, knows that the Tridentine reform of the studies and the training of clergy, to which we have precisely the birth of Seminars, powerfully he revived the emaciated scholastic theology, marred by neo-paganism humanistic Renaissance, and dall'occamismo which is at the origin of Luther's theology, and he resurrected a new fruitful season of scholastic theology, and then of priestly formation, especially at the hands of the Dominicans and the Jesuits, which, as is known, the late sixteenth century, until the dawn of the following, They challenged in a noble contest, that fielded the best samples of the two parts.

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Famous remained the Dominican Domingo Bañez against the Jesuit Luigi Molina, initiator of the dispute, in an attempt to clarify the relationship between the action of grace and the free will, a very serious, subtle and fascinating question raised by the Lutheran problematic.

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The noble tournament was well 164 sessions, in which the great theologians disputed passionately or turn to the presence of the Pope. The Dominicans emphasized the power of grace, using the metaphysical category of causality, the so-called "physical premozione"; the Jesuits, instead, They emphasized the power of the human will, using the biblical category of "covenant". There is no doubt that this dispute, although between ducts, He did not fail to powerfully revitalize the intellectual culture of the bishops and priests, making them experts in the mystical world of grace and freedom, and therefore more capable of guiding souls on the way of salvation and holiness.

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Moreover, everyone knows how the Tridentine Reform began a training of clergy animated by a strong missionary spirit. The recent discovery of new continents made conscious European Christianity do not run out, as he believed the Middle Ages, the whole inhabited world. So the Church began to expand rapidly in the immense new lands and continued the evangelization of Asia and Africa.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – But the question is wedged deeper into history. This “Trent prête” It seems to cross the turning point of modernity without damage: indeed the birth of new orders and nineteenth priests companies, and zeal in making large seminars as factories, appear to ensure that its function remains intact within the same institutional and theological shell. But it's not true: the church which is perched in defense of their own fence makes an official whose inner profile wear in social control.

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Answer from such purpose that the birth of many religious institutes and clerical nineteenth testimony of a Church attentive to the signs of the times and the great social needs: the poorest, the suffering and the marginalized, education of children and young people, to their preparation for work, the good of families, the dignity of women, the Catholic culture, the political commitment of the laity, missions.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – The poll of consciousness of a humanity which has no experience weakens compassion.

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Answer from such purpose that human experience of the priest does not need to apply their own horizon of the secular - economy, finance, militia, policy, family, technology, industry and commerce -, because it focuses on human values ​​that are at the root and the purpose of existence, more relevant to the meaning of life and history, to the problem of suffering, of sin and salvation, the need for truth, of justice, of peace, of freedom and happiness, to moral values, Religious and Spiritual, the relationship with God.

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In the Sacrament of Penance, the confessor, who knows the dignity and the fragility of consciousness, familiar with the resources and the weaknesses of man, and knows that he too a forgiven sinner, enters so gently and respectfully in the conscience of the penitent and judges it, competently, prudence and charity, like a surgeon who operates on the heart, but only because the same penitent, in faith knowing the invaluable help he can give the priest in the life of grace, he needs it, She wishes him and asks him, and then opens it to him, to be evaluated, analyzed, included, healed, pardoned, purified, illuminated, guided, set free, comforted, consulate, encouraged, pacified.

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lay, man or woman, the priest who tries, It does not expect to find him or find a similar worldly experience, secular or lay, which may have far too much, but what he wants is the man of God, the man of truth and love, which it has the analogical knowledge and wisdom of God, He knows how to talk to him about, unable to raise his spirit and brought to holiness (anagogia), He knows how to introduce it in his mystery (mystagogia), and let them experience in prayer, in worship and liturgy, in ecclesial communion with the Supreme Pontiff.

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The believer knows well, as saith the prophet Malachi, that "the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and from his mouth trying Education, for he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty " (Ml 2,7). The faithful know that the priest is "appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices" (EB 8,3). At Mass, he, in the person of Christ, It is offering to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, the redemptive sacrifice of Christ and atoning for the remission of sins. He is the "pope" who, in Christ and through Christ, "Builds a bridge between God and man".

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It is man who, like Christ, deep knowledge of the man (GV 2,25; Mt 9,4), problems, the values ​​and universal human feelings, of the doubt, of certainty, of passion, of love, dell'odio, of joy, of pain, of pleasure, anguish, of fear, of hope, of repentance, of forgiveness. It is man who, in the relationship with his neighbor, It aims first of all to the salvation of souls, according to the saying of St. Giovanni Bosco: «Give me the people;, The rest take» [dami the anime, and take everything else], which, evidently, in no way precludes the priest takes action, according to his powers and skills, Also for the physical well-being of men, especially the poor and suffering. It remains, however, that for the good shepherd always applies the law of St. Gregorio Magno: "Salus animarum suprema lex esto" [the health of souls is the supreme law].

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The priest must be a doctor culture, without the need to become an anthropologist, a sociologist or a psychologist. They, without being a politician or a social worker, But everyone knows stimulate human solidarity, without bias or partisanship, obedient to the authorities, especially with the Pope, but without flattery, careerism or flattery, and without being servant of rulers. The priest opens the hearts of the faithful to all human values ​​and needs of brotherly love with the heart of Christ, communicates to him, in the sacraments, God's forgiveness and the life of grace. Sa show the treasures of human dignity, to make them participate and at the same time the man's miseries, to heal them in mercy and justice. According to biblical Revelation, Tradition and the Church's doctrine, It introduced him of future realities and makes informed of the origin and end of the story.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – Its ancient science compared to transmission of knowledge ever more sophisticated, makes an under-educated.

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Answer from such purpose that the priest knows that culture, truly valuable, essential and most important is not the technological or scientific, but the moral, religious and spiritual. Because of this, if a St. Giovanni Maria Vianney, a St. Pio of Pietrelcina or San Leopoldo Mandić had lived today, they would not be taken care of "transmission of knowledge ever more sophisticated", aware that they were playing a far more important service.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – The ecclesiastic zeal in condemning everything to which you can attach the suffix “Ismo”, It impoverishes the readings and makes it foreign to “its”, who become suddenly “distant”.

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Answer from such purpose that Melloni, man "carnal" as, that "does not understand the things of the Spirit of God" (The Cor 2,14), He understands nothing of priestly discernment, in which the minister of Christ, thanks to the wisdom of the Holy Spirit gift, is that ' "spiritual man, that judges everything, without being judged by anyone" (v.15), if not from God himself (The Cor 4,4).

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Writes Alberto Melloni – The loss of role and’ emotional neglect exposes the worst: until the soppy exaltation of celibacy, that traps sexuality in search of sublimation and attracts the priesthood unresolved or even sick people.

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Answer from such purpose with that wicked and slanderous insinuation, Melloni seems to extend to the generality of the clergy the ideas and the vicious behavior of some priests unworthy, although you have to actually recognize that among moralists meander heretical ideas, o o rigorous lassiste, about sexual ethics value and, consequently, of priestly celibacy, as it reflected by the Magisterium of the Church, that indeed is to be feared that the corruption of the clergy on this point is larger than it looks.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – And in recent European history the priest's job is contracted out, as marginal tasks, to import clerics, elected caretakers of abandoned communities.

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I repeat in this regard that this further, wicked and obtuse misunderstanding, it is now that of charity, of mutual aid, solidarity, of generosity and Priestly availability and between priests, to serve the Church and our neighbor, charity exemplary, which today give evidence many priests and religious, ready to leave their homeland, maybe very far, to aid needy dioceses or offering possibilities for ministry or other institution of their communities in areas with shortage of vocations.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – Even the discussion on the woman-priest - forgetting that the “priesthood” that is received in baptism women have already, and that is no small thing -, It mixes dangerously to the whole male logic which grants the other typically become obsolete crafts.

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Answer from such purpose that the Church does not forget at all that a Christian woman is baptized; rather it is that Melloni - endorsed heresy Schillebeeckx - forget that the Church, by the will of Christ, does not allow the woman to enter the ministerial priesthood.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – The Vatican II merely groped to remove the priest that semi-monastic tone that had. Not the papacy which simply pack a priest of the poetic. Do not talk about the bishops who package the communities in what are called in Italy “pastoral unit”, and condemn the priests to become breathless officials, overwhelmed by a Community polygamy where nobody wants them well and they fail to love, at the risk of becoming saints or shipwrecked on the rocks erotic not always candid.

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Answer from such purpose who is seriously insulting to the papal magisterium of the past and present state that it "simply pack a priest of the poetic". Likewise, the historian Melloni forget the world and national synods of bishops dedicated to the priesthood. The mocking tone in which mention the pastoral units, It is totally undesirable and denotes the presumption of those handling sensitive topics, where it has no jurisdiction.

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Reckless and offensive of the priestly class, sign of partisanship and not of historical objectivity, It is the unwarranted generalization, extending to all the clergy dysfunction and maybe existing anomalies, but isolated and accidental. As to the "risk of becoming holy", Melloni not worry, tea, with these slanders, exaggerations and falsehoods, He certainly did not run.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – What is so bad that not even speak Pope Francis.

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Answer from such purpose that this is not true, although of course the Pope can not echo the falsity of Melloni. The Holy Father has intervened several times to condemn the vices of the clergy and the defects of the same Roman Curia, and to indicate to the priests of holiness through their faith (cf. Light of Faith) and the best way to proclaim the Gospel (cf. The gospel of joy), shepherding the flock entrusted to them in some difficult circumstances (cf. love joy), plus all the times in which he spoke of vocations, of the works of mercy, the ministry of confession, of prayer, of the liturgy, forcing himself to be an example for priests.

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If anything, we would like to ask the Pope to better promote the sacredness of the liturgy, remembering the sacrificial character of the Mass. The ecumenical concern to converge with Protestant brothers in memory of the Lord's Supper, It is certainly good and in line with the Council; but we have to wait in prayer and ecumenical dialogue, in mutual charity, then blessed, hidden in the plans of the Lord, but also related to the goodwill of all, in which the separated brethren recognize the sacrament of priestly ministry, the mystery of transubstantiation and the Mass as a sacrifice, in order to finally celebrate the Eucharist together. This is not to give in to lefebvrismo, but rather to take the reform of the reform, who initiated Papa Benedetto.

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Writes Alberto Melloni – So would touch to the bishops and the Bishops' Conferences to raise an issue on which it plays the lives of their churches: but laziness prevails, encouraged by the hope that the reform tomorrow to have the same courage that “He invented the priest”.

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Answer from such purpose that the priest did not invent the Council of Trent, but our Lord Jesus Christ, however different the priesthood is the time of Christ, to those of Trent, to ours. The episcopate problem is not indolence - some are too active -, but the fact of the spread between the bishops of modernism, whereby, people suffering from this disease, prefer listening Alberto Melloni and other ringleaders and modernists rahneriani, rather than the Pope, Scripture and Tradition.

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Varazze, 21 April 2017

between the Octave of Easter

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Notes:

[1] CF. my study The concept of the priesthood in Rahner, in The Ministerial Priesthood, “The love of the Heart of Jesus”, edited S.Lanzetta and S.Manelli, Mariana Publishing House, Frigento-Naples 2010, pp.183-229.

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