I Santi “obnoxious”, Popes included …

— Letters from the readers of’Patmos Island -

SAINTS OBNOXIOUS, PONTIFFS INCLUDING…

 

[…] if the Holy Father Benedict, doctrine man and refined theologian, he had a tendentially mild and weak character, to the point of being subjected to a real dripping during the last year of his pontificate; the Holy Father Francis, che conosce la dottrina e che per sua stessa e ripetuta ammissione non è un teologo, far from having a mild and weak character has the spirit of the leader, of General and, tra un sorriso mediatico e l’altro, his authority knows exercise and enforce, and how! At this delicate moment in history at Christ Church maybe needed this: a Pontiff that impose its authority knew and know to cry if the proud and arrogant rather than go away crying before the arrogance of the proud and arrogant.

 

 

Author Father Ariel

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Caro Father. I've been reading your articles for a while and I have to tell you: on something I agree on other somewhat less. We witnessed a very painful renunciation from part of a great Pope that stinks more than blatant exclusion on the part of those who have always hated. She defines a thing for me was the spearhead of the Holy Pope John Paul II and now impresses me the strength with which bears his cross. Frankly it saddens me to compare his meekness and determination the arrogance of his successor who seem to be debunked a Paladin of so-called progressive that a representative of the East India Company as she called his order [cf. WHO] intriso di potenti. I know that the Holy Spirit is at work but does not force then it is not that we have closed the door on making us owners of what is not ours? I'm not a traditionalist I am just a Catholic Christian a little saddened and bewildered. Thank you for your attention and for your possible reply.

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Caro Ermanno.

The vocation follows the dynamics of falling in love. When as a teenager I used to fall — something that happened every two weeks media —, my age seemed to me as a beautiful goddess, what am I saying: perfetta! A quel point, by man “adulto” ed “experttal ero a 13 year old, got to sing and dance "Ramaya Ramaya Bokuko abantu Ramaya Miranda Tumbala» [see WHO], I went to get my grandfather's advice, che aveva la capacità di prendermi persino sul serio — forse perché si chiamava Giordano Bruno? —, remaining unmoved in the face of my shoot, type: "I fell in love with Silva, the daughter of pharmacist». And he, Serio: "But I didn't realize that Silvia was the daughter of the bakery». And I: "And, you got it right, because even the Baker's daughter is called Silvia, but that was two girl cooked does». E dopo la prima euforia la ragazzina cominciava ad apparirmi non più una dèa, and rather than see her perfection I began to see the flaws.

How many times I happen to smile to myself, quando per i sacramentali o le assistenze liturgiche indosso la crush bianca, oggi che sono felice sposo della Chiesa.

After disbanding neurotic Dell’falling vocations one of my trainers — also became a priest in adulthood —, mi rivolse un monito di cui feci subito tesoro e che oggi è per me oggetto di esortazione: «Do not idealize the people, because you can create idealizing of idols, finendo poi appresso delusi e non di rado arrabbiati col coltello stretto tra i denti».

To avoid falling into such disarray and at the same time clarifying certain doubts legittimi altogether, should be clear, first of all, what is Holiness. Saints are those figures to which all we do cheer but well we look by look, in particular to the holy martyrs. What are the soubrette e gli attori di film demenziali che amano dichiararsi devoti di San Pio da Pietrelcina in giro per le televisioni o sulle colonne dei rotocalchi rosa, to whom is never crossed my mind to make the slightest effort to imitate the model in their lives of faith and Christian virtues of this extraordinary santo?

There are major figures in the history of the Church that no one has ever canonized and that inspire my deepest sympathy, that is a human element subjective. Ci sono diversi santi, alcuni anche dottori della Chiesa, that make me instead antipatia, some deep well; and the antipathy, as the sympathy, is a human element subjective and as such if necessary to control, because from it you should not be affected when you are called to formulate evaluations and especially to make choices regarding the Church's life or the lives of individuals.

La riconosciuta santità instead relies on an element objective rectum on a solemn pronouncement of the highest Mastership: the Church has canonized that man or that woman — I can be obnoxious — recognizing objectively la eroicità delle loro virtù ed elevandoli quindi a modello di esempio per il Popolo di Dio. This element of objectivity is a given for me that I have never denied, quite the opposite: lo riconosco, I respect that, I follow it and send to the people of God. Moreover, the Church does not requires me to ask you to intercede for me with God in those saints who subjectively I think “obnoxious”. E se per un verso non nego di sentirmi molto più vicino alla spiritualità di San Domenico di Guzman e dei suoi Frati Domenicani, on the other hand I don't have any problem to declare indifferent to the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi and distant from his Franciscan friars. I have sympathy for St. Philip Neri and devotion to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Despite being free to express that the current Jesuits — to me epitetati Company of the Indies —, have little to do now with the society of Jesus designed by their founder, perché se tornassero a essere ciò che erano, instead of spreading poisons of Karl Rahner like Thomas Aquinas novel of the 20th century, would the novitiates and student full, instead populated by some African shaman or by young Indians who often manifest themselves most clearly that Buddhist Christians. And we pass on the kind of training through which came to the priesthood a pious past and Jesuit on what you come today certain methods and certain Buddhist shamans means.

The whole thing is just Chronicle of a death foretold, why the 23 October 1972 un insigne gesuita, Cardinal Jean Danielou, rispondeva così a un intervistatore della Radio Vaticana sulla crisi della vita religiosa, in particolare della Compagnia di Gesù:

«La soluzione unica e urgente è fermare i falsi orientamenti presi in un certo numero di istituti. For this it is necessary to stop all experiments and all decisions contrary to the directives of the Council; mettere in guardia contro i libri, the magazines, conventions that are put into circulation these misconceptions; ripristinare nella loro integrità la pratica delle costituzioni con gli adattamenti chiesti dal Concilio. Where this appears impossible, It seems to me that you can not refuse to the religious who want to be faithful to the constitutions of their order and directives of Vatican II to form distinct communities. I superiori religiosi sono tenuti a rispettare questo desiderio. These communities must be allowed to have houses of formation. Experience will show if vocations are more numerous in case of strict observance or observance homes mitigated. Nel caso in cui i superiori si oppongano a queste richieste legittime, un ricorso al Sommo Pontefice è certamente autorizzato» [text of interview, WHO].

E sulle ceneri della Compagnia di Gesù St Ignatius Loyola, He was born to father Pedro Arrupe new Company of the Indies diretta oggi da Padre Adolfo Nicolás.

Another item to clarify is the fact that the Holy perfection is not required. Not only, indeed, There were saints who walked the capital sins far and wide, because along with the sins they committed all manner of errors, prima di quella conversione che li ha portati a diveniri degli autentici modelli di virtù. A separate topic deserve those saints who were Matti come cavalli da corsa, per citarne uno tra i tanti: St. John of God, also as former soldier Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Fatebenefratelli order meritorious, It takes its name from the habit of this man of God who often, between the laughter of the people, began to rant and to gesture the squares and markets screaming: «Fate del bene, fate bene, siblings, a voi stessi!». Implying that doing good to the next, and in particular to the sick, It was also good to yourself, alla propria anima.

The last Popes canonized and beatified, were far from perfect: mi riferisco a San Giovanni XXIII, Blessed Paul VI and John Paul II San …
… certain naivety of John XXIII are known facts, as is the fact that if the withdrawn Paul VI, anziché piagnucolare, He had used his authority to invoke Apostolic and nipping their legs to certain theologians who spread dangerous heresies, today their children ed i loro grandkids non avrebbero impestato la Chiesa intera di pensieri eterodossi. Nor can we evade the fact that in the last decade of pontificate of Saint John Paul II, with Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for bishops have risen to some of the worst Episcopal bishops ever had by the Church over the past two hundred years of history; and this statement is a fact supported by the convictions of various courts of the world, from various more or less silent dismissals, da tanti penosi promoted to be removed, etc ...

Ciò vuol forse dire che sono stati canonizzati e beatificati degli uomini che non lo meritavano? Or men without the fundamental virtue required of a Saint, che è la prudenza?

Place without stain of original sin was born only the Blessed Virgin Mary and that only the word of God made man has never known SIN, These Popes have been canonized and beatified because in spite of their imperfection, in the face of an appeal before which Apostolic, the first to be inadequate in its way it was personally chosen by Christ God, were models of heroic virtue. Analogamente a San Pietro anche questi suoi recenti Santi Successori hanno vissuto una vita esemplare in contesti sociali e politici talvolta difficilissimi, a volte impossibili da gestire, Blessed Paul VI in particular. And as we know Peter, dopo essere scappato impaurito [cf. Mt. 26, 47-56], dopo avere rinnegato il Signore per tre volte [cf. 26, 69-75], dopo essere stato a giusta ragione rimproverato da Paolo ad Antiochia [cf. Gal. 2,1-2.7-14], è morto versando il proprio sangue per Cristo e per la sua Chiesa; a blood that makes him heroic in faith but certainly not perfect in some of its incorrect opinions, in certe sue condotte di vita e in certe sue scelte.

This logical Christian It is therefore also applicable to Benedict XVI, None of us can reasonably change nor in a roaring lion or a warrior, né in un idolo, even with all the affection and reverence that I for one I cherish towards him.

Che Benedetto XVI abbia mostrato profonda debolezza and sometimes a total lack of Church Government, is a fact that nothing takes away the virtues, His Holiness of life and beautiful theology according to which, Apostolic authority together with its, He could order the diffusion of heretical thoughts of many theologians — starting from Karl Rahner — and to prohibit their thoughts were used as teaching incorrect even required under her window to pull up papal of future priests who do not have a clear idea at the outset on the ministerial priesthood, proprio perché infarciti delle gravi eresie rahneriane riguardo la concezione stessa del Sacro Ordine [reference on the subject to the splendid article by John Carlson, see WHO].

From refined what was theologian could have avoided, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, to consecrate a Bishop with his bare hands a topic from questionable to say the least Christology as Bruno Forte; could have avoided by the Roman Pontiff to consecrate a bishop and then create a subject like Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, that embodies the denial not only of healthy living theology of Benedict XVI but the orthodoxy of Catholic doctrine; avrebbe potuto impedire a molti scellerati vescovi italiani di mandare i loro seminaristi a fare i ritiri spirituali prima delle sacre ordinazioni presso il false prophet e bad teacher Enzo Bianchi, perché tutto questo è autentica empietà … These and more are the devastating works that took place under the eyes of Benedict XVI, fully informed and aware of all. Delle oggettivepecche” that invalidated but his Holiness of life, alla sua alta teologia ed al suo splendido magistero pontificio.

Having said that I add: If those who by waiving the sacred throne continue to try theories from libro giallo, Instead they tried to penetrate the mystery of the Church — which requires the assumption of humility and listening — understand that Pope Benedict has done voluntarily, spontaneously and freely by the why can't handle a situation of paralysis that has developed as a tumor with disseminated metastases in the last half-century of the Church's life, starting from John XXIII, come blaterano gli accusatori del Concilio Vaticano II, because the triggering conditions already there were everyone in the last part of the pontificate of Pius XII, which saw fit not to appoint a Secretary of State; But having said that why can't I gotta sit open a complex topic in the theme. I will only say that the many, le troppe Agatha Christie entering as tanks in the factory of Murano crystals of the contemporary church history, should assess the damage and the bewilderment that produce the good people of God, pronto spesso a prenderli sul serio in quanto “Seri” e “Devotees” Catholic historians or journalists. One “Serio” e “devotee” giornalista cattolico non svende però la povera e deturpata sposa di Cristo per uno scoop, impersonating the sensationalism for irrefutable truth; a “Serio” e “devotee” storico non spaccia per verità le proprie ideologie soggettive, as such all debatable.

If we do priests catechesis, If we explained to our faithful the fundamentals of doctrine, of Ecclesiology, the sacramentary, Church history and Canon law — but the assumption though is the knowledge transmission — we would avoid leaving them in meal daily Twaddle who write many vaticanologists loaded by their owner-operators or as any from small serpents hidden in the anonymity of the Roman curia; giornalisti che molti nostri fedeli — non avendo adeguate risposte da parte di noi preti — prendono come Parola di Dio con tutto ciò che ne consegue.

And to respond strictly in relation a relevant question: ammettiamo che il Santo Padre Francesco, as our dear reader is an «arrogant». Admitted and that the grace of the Holy Spirit is able to pull out the virtue even the habit, I ask: After a gentle man was devoured by an open-air dump which gave rise within the Church to a dirt like no other traveling upstream from weakness of blessed Paul VI inherited almost unmanageable heritage from San Giovanni Paolo II, It wasn't that there was providential as a “marpione Jesuitche sorride pubblicamente in piazza rimanendo simpatico a tutti ma che in privato a Santa Marta taglia le teste? And those who were guillotined cannot manco complain, because if they did they would finish the square filled with lynched fans from … er papa piacone He immediately declared that "from the other side of the world», unless you have the ability to make smart concrete facts in — and I mean that in the positive form — out of this world.

More than answers I gave food for thought, including the action of grace of the Holy Spirit through the Holy Father Francis, and as I said already two years ago in the third month of his pontificate: «È enigmatico. One Pied Piper that is bringing all the mice in the open ' and that I hope will lead them one below the other to jump into the river for the Supreme good of the Church. I am more and more convinced, indeed, through the Synod on the family pulled them into a trap by placing them in a position to go all out in the open, cosa che alla resa dei conti comporterà che allo scoperto venga infine anche lui. E, as I wrote in the past, the Holy Father could run the risk of returning to wear the red shoes for what they really mean: the martyrdom of Peter that with bloody feet on Vatican Hill came to be crucified upside down [see WHO]. At that point we — which we devoutly criticized — we will defend it and we will watch the cross with the young John and the Blessed Virgin Mary, While "all the disciples, forsook him, fled» [cf. Mt. 26,56], because I am afraid this is the end, all in all very glorious, reserved for the Holy Father Francis, at the end of this honeymoon media that was too long and that even the most shrewd and cunning of the old Jesuits can pull over for a long time.

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THE ENIGMA OF FRANCIS – intervista del giugno 2013 ad Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Antonio Socci, the “motu proprio” and the problem of faith

ANTONIO SOCCI, THE “MOTU PROPRIO ” AND THE PROBLEM OF FAITH

 

The question of faith is explicitly mentioned in the document of the Supreme Pontiff because in the present situation characterized by secularism and de-Christianization from a galloping more foals Palio di Siena, the religious element of ignorance on the increase is so great and this, together with the surface lightly, that today we are compelled to clarify what for centuries was obvious even among people unlearned. And today more than ever is really quite high the risk of couples who marry in church without true faith in Sacramento, because we do not believe or pretend to believe because, or because they conceive evil or by simulation or inadvertent error.

 

 

Author Father Ariel

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

 

 

dear Antonio.

antonio socci

A Christian father who loves does not forgive just a small mistake, forgive the mistakes also committed “seventy times seven” [One of the books devoted to Antonio Socci's daughter Catherine, see WHO]

Many readers have pointed me your article [see WHO], and in truth I must tell you that if you do not commentassi would risk to appear partial. The human affection and esteem I have unchanged against you together with my sympathy can not in fact take the use of two weights and two measures, because I would be pastorally and intellectually right, if not dishonest worse.

You are a sincere and devoted Catholic, as it is Prof. Roberto de Mattei you mention in your article and of which I have recently written [see WHO]. An undoubted sincerity of purpose - your like that of de Mattei - who does not exempt from error analysis and evaluation, as they are not free from error I, I can commit even more serious and produce as a result of damage to a lot more than I can compierne any secular. Even the saints were not exempt from errors, sometimes even from heresies, from which then you are obviously amended.

About the motu proprio of the Supreme Pontiff Francis [see WHO] you write that: "The dynamite is mainly Article 14 the "rules of procedure" where he evokes the "lack of faith" of those being married as a possible cause of simulation or error in the consensus and then the nullity of marriage '.

I would like to assure you that this is not a "dynamite". Indeed, the point of your article through which it is clear that you can not grasp the scale of the problem in itself and by itself, It is based on the reference you make to the Procedural Rules Motu Proprio [Art. 14 § 1]. My fear is that you have not grasped the complexity of the reasons that are upstream and which led the Pope to indicate how elements for discussion the cause of nullity of marriage, by means of the shorter process, according to the canons 1683-1687, also "the lack of faith that can generate the simulation of consent or the error that determines the will».

Unfortunately mistakes in thinking that in the past the Church "excludes" the lack of faith by invalidity. An idea like this is really your absurd on formal and substantive grounds. And here I would like to point out incidentally that I made use of the term "absurd" in the strict sense according to the correct etymology and not according to the use for which this lemma is used in everyday language. Per absurd It means it, in philosophical language and the philosophy of law, an element or a thought that is contrary to logic or reason.

If the Church did not speak essential element of faith, it was because it was the first condition of the minimum required for the validity of the Sacrament. He did not speak simply because, marriage being a sacrament, It supposed, or it is still assumed that the engaged have the same faith in Sacramento. Or in other words: who never would have crossed my mind, yesterday, of asking a candidate for priestly ordination next if you truly believe in the Eucharistic Sacrifice Mystery? Unfortunately, as a presbyter, I can witnessing to today, before ordering priests certain subjects that should not be made to approach the altar even as altar boys, the bishops should ascertain if they know and especially if you truly believe the fundamental truths contained in the dogmas of the Catholic faith, What this requires that upstream the fact that, to be trained in the correct Catholic doctrine are first of all the bishops [see my article on the Secretary General of the CEI, WHO].

I'll try to clarify everything with another example: in the beautiful Tuscan countryside where last year you you invited me to lunch and my co-worker - and where I hope to come back soon to visit you - today there are old farmhouses that cost much more than a house located in historical city centers. In these houses they lived until less than a century ago the farmers many of whom knew barely read and write. With this example I would like to offer you a concrete idea of ​​radical social transformation and environmental. but yet, those farmers, including especially the illiterate, they knew very well what marriage was. Today, many of those who bought the houses of the old farmers by paying over the nineties up to ten million old lire per square meter, if anything professionals with the parcels to six zeros, or wealthy entrepreneurs, or rich foreigners … What is marriage a high percentage do not know precisely. It would be enough to go that genderista Gianna Nannini, born into a wealthy family of Siena impreditori, popstar famous all over the world, degree in literature and so on, asking her to explain what marriage; if anything, since we, to explain well what the family, or the relationship between parents and children, or whether it is humane and just a creature is deprived of a father and a mother “date” to be raised among circles of homosexuals and lesbians sour.

I hope I've made clear why the question of faith is explicitly mentioned in the document of the Supreme Pontiff: because in the present situation characterized by secularism and de-Christianization from a galloping more of the foals of the Siena Palio, the religious element of ignorance on the increase is so great and this, together with the surface lightly, that today we are compelled to clarify what for centuries was obvious even among people unlearned. And today more than ever is really quite high the risk of couples who marry in church without true faith in Sacramento, because we do not believe or pretend to believe because, or because they conceive evil or by simulation or inadvertent error.

This is the reason why in my homilies often I insist on some fundamental elements of the faith, speaking of the mystery of God's Word made flesh, clarifying the nature hypostatic Christ true God and true man. Speaking of the Eucharist and clarifying that it is the mystery of the real presence of Christ under the appearances of bread and wine; then explain that the Eucharist is not an allegory, a metaphor, a symbol of the spiritual presence of Christ. Similarly I explain that the Holy Mass is the living and holy sacrifice of the cross that is renewed in a bloodless way, and invite you to pay first of all listen to the words of the celebrant when the ruling canon the word "sacrifice", or when the faithful themselves respond to the priest also making reference: "May the Lord accept this sacrifice from your hands, to the praise and glory of His name and of all His Holy Church ". I explain that the Holy Mass, namely the Eucharistic Sacrifice, is not a dance or drumming, It is not a canteen where joyful friends make dinner together; that the altar is the table of the deejay around which anyone who knows three chords can torture the whole assembly with inappropriate and annoying schitarrate. I recently used the pastoral life experience during a sermon telling of when replacing a pastor in a parish church, just arrived, I was approached by two catechists in the mood to give me directions on how to celebrate, unaware that tells me how to celebrate the Church through the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, not those pie gives I renamed inappropriate pretesse born of the worst confusion of roles produced by the worst of the post-conciliar, which has nothing to do with the Second Vatican Council. The two tell me: "You do not know our parish, so we wanted to inform you that we at the center of the liturgy we put young people '. The fulmino with a fiery look and answer: "I'm sorry for you, and above all I regret your young, because I put Christ at the center of the liturgy, and young people need to be adoring and kneeling before Him, because the center is His, and it is a total and totalizing center, because Christ is the beginning, the center and the ultimate goal of our entire humanism " [CF. Declaration Lord Jesus, see WHO, Instruction Sacramentum, WHO].

Between you and me, there are only a few years apart: you were born in 1959 and I in 1963. So I ask you: when between 1967 and the 1968 you made the catechism to prepare for First Communion, at the end of the receipt preparation, you had the conscious awareness of what you were going to receive? Of course you had, I'd like that in May 1972 I received my First Communion kneeling at the railing on the surface covered with white linen and with the altar boy who was holding me the plate under the chin.

I mentioned three accidental elements or so-called “damn external” - The genuflessione, the balustrade covered with linen, the plate - that in their accidental contingent recall elements of sacredness and reverence for the sacred mystery today unfortunately lost with all that is sad and painful it follows, starting from the way in which many faithful receive no sacred respect and deep reverence the Body of Christ; from sloppy way in which many priests distribute the Eucharist, often demandandone distribution - without any objective necessity - to lay more sloppy even some priests.

You and I, how we received the first confession? Kneeling before the confessional grille, inside which there was the priest wearing a cassock, the white surplice and purple stole,. Or maybe it would have been unthinkable that one of the many priests today ye ye, with trousers jeans and scollacciata shirt with short sleeves administer confessions to young women sitting in a chair inside the parish office with the door closed, if anything, even answering the phone during the sacramental action? And with that I hardly explain that I am not a misogynist, but a priest of Christ which never enter our minds of sitting on an office chair to face a penitent intention to confess their sins to have the grace, the mercy and forgiveness of God; I would never do with anyone, especially with a woman, which it is due by the priest a delicacy and respect very special.

Now you understand why for which we must unfortunately also explain the obvious, Once discharged, and took tragic act that what for centuries has been obvious, Today, unfortunately, no longer is? And you not only have to explain the obvious to the lay, but also to many priests malformed placed by wickedness of our bishops in places often more delicate. You understand, Dear friend, that today, under the indifferent eyes of our bishops, to priests placed in the larger parishes or to strut in the offices of the curia, we see doing things that until a few decades ago would have never crossed your mind to even more ignorant of the country cared, of those who, more than theology, They had studied the need catechism with a stick, and to whom we owe eternal gratitude today if we still have a Faithful People, from John Vianney patron saint of us priests, that with many difficulties read well or not the Latin of the Missal of St. Pius V?

I entrust your daughter Catherine again the Blessed Virgin Mary at the end of the day when the universal Church celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, honored more than ever for your friendship.

The Holy Father Francis causes “an injury to Christian marriage”? Come on, let's be serious …

THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS BRINGS "AN INJURY TO CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE»? COME on, LET'S TRY TO BE SERIOUS ...

 

During my preaching in the desert for years I have been saying that the source of the problem is the fact that sacramental marriage is granted by the bishops and their priests with a lightness that cries out for vengeance before God. Would not it be better to prevent, rather then try to cure later what is not always treatable?

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo 

 

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a priest who allows a bride in these conditions access to church, deserves due compliments, of course with his Bishop …

Rarely happen read legal documents based on such deep on pastoral criteria. Managed to work wonders in the Apostolic Letter motu proprio of the Supreme Pontiff Francis, The gentle judge of the Lord Jesus on the reform of the canonical process for the causes of nullity of marriage [full original text, WHO]. Unfortunately in the hours we asstop to a different train of bad information and all’Patmos Island I have reached so many letters from readers who have asked explanations on "new procedures" about "marriage annulment" according to the "new rules of the Holy Father Francis». Except for the priests readers tend to base their questions on journalistic news of this kind: "Francis continues the revolution: “Canceling quick and free marriage " [see WHO].

We repeat to readers what we have repeatedly urged them: It should never rely on newspaper reports or extracts often misinterpreted by news agencies; you should always go to the source and read official documents, all available on the website of the Holy See.

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Rome, Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina – It is not the image of a pornstars but of a bride admitted under these conditions in a church of the Diocese of Rome. This requires to extend the warmest congratulations to Monsignor Rector of this underground church and those of the Vicariate of Rome …

The title earlier reported he is alone one among many in which there are two words misleading and incorrect: "revolution", lemma dear to the Argentine Passionaria Elisabetta Piqué [see WHO]; and the even more unfair to "undo". For as we will explain any Pontiff, including the Holy Father Francis, You can cancel a Sacramento. It was possible the Popes Clement VII and Paul III, who excommunicated Henry VIII, respectively, in 1533 It is in the 1538 for its double story and its claim to bend the Discipline of the Sacraments to his will, They would gladly spared the schism of the West with all the persecution that followed for the Catholic Church of England, for the clergy and the lay faithful in Rome, as demonstrated by the Thomas More's martyrdom and that of the Bishop and Cardinal John Fisher, both beheaded and later proclaimed holy martyrs.

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Let's clarify the terms making use of correct words, why nobody, including the Roman Pontiff, can "cancel”, “delete”, “remove"A sacrament validly celebrated or administered. A Sacramento - in this specific case the marriage - can be null, which is different from the concept of aberrant "sacrament canceled”. For instance: I have received validly and lawfully the Sacrament of Orders whose validity requirements are minimal, as indeed they are for all of the Sacraments. But if it were true that I have not received the Holy Order freely but under threat and coercion, and that in truth it was not my intention to become a priest; if it were established that have come to the Sacred Order for wicked and perverse purposes, animated by contempt for the deposit of faith, the Magisterium of the Church and the truths of faith from it guarded and announced … ascertained everything would be said that the sacrament received from me is null. E, although consecrated priest, formally received the sacrament would not be valid to me, because the imposition of hands and the prayer of consecration recited by the bishop on me and the anointing of the palms of my hands with sacred chrism, then it may be only signs in themselves that they could not produce any sacramental effect on a person totally closed to the gifts of grace of the Holy Order.

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Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli. Always with renewed congratulations to the Franciscan Friars Minor who are entrusted with the rectory of this basilica and those of the Vicariate of Rome.

The church may declare that a sacrament is null, What materially different from 'cancel a sacrament. The Church has no faculty to "cancel"A sacrament because they can not dispose of the substance of the Sacraments as the goods are unavailable and therefore non-alterable variables and not in their essence, being precisely the means and instruments of divine institution grace of which we ministry we are only the custodians and dispensers according to the different power of the sacrament of Holy Order; Sacraments do not have and they are not masters. All this is not a game of words and not even a matter of wool goats, quite the opposite: who affirms: "The ecclesiastical court has canceled the marriage of Tom and Caia, "says an enormous foolishness. The ecclesiastical court has just declared that the marriage is void after having ascertained the lack of one or more requirements to make it valid.

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spouses Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracaeli 3

Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli. Always with renewed congratulations to the Franciscan Friars Minor who are entrusted with the rectory of this basilica and those of the Vicariate of Rome

Now I will try to clarify the issue: years ago I was called by an ecclesiastical court with another person to give evidence for a judgment of nullity of marriage. The fact to which I bore my testimony concerned a story that happened years before I divenissi priest; In fact, as many know I became a priest in adulthood. The other person who testified with me was my ex-girlfriend. It happened in the past that during a dinner, the two that became husband and wife had before us an interview that it was a true pact exchanged our presence as condition not To marriage. He said his future wife: «I marry you on a specific condition: I know that I do not want children, and that I will use every precaution not to have. I am happy to live my life with you, but no children. So if you want to have children it is better not to marry ". I replied to her friend - which by the way was also a lawyer - which in my opinion was not one of the best conditions to get married. Two years after we lost touch and after a further 12 years I was called in ecclesiastical courts, deposited before which - together with what in another life It was my girlfriend - what we both heard one evening in 14 years ago.

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I will not forget He never told me what the elder brother hearer [ecclesiastical judge], then taking me by face to face. If I have to tell it all first made me this joke: «I notice that before becoming a priest you had good tastes …», referring thus to the beautiful young lady who testified with me, accompanied by his wife and out of the palace of the ecclesiastic tribunal embraced me and told me: "I am pleased to finally meet you in person since I have known through many accounts of my wife," And he asked me if I could baptize their second child on the way, which I did later with great pleasure …

… and after this joke aimed at breaking the ice, the confrere hearer [ecclesiastical judge] She passed with a smile far more serious jokes: "This procedure certainly will fail not because there's half a priest, but because there is half a priest who has faith, who really believe God's judgment and that this never proferirebbe false; What I sensed right away ». He went on to say: "You know how many advance request for recognition of the nullity of marriage basing their claims on the fact that they promised not to have children, who they were married under duress or that they were not able to have sex couples as sexually incompatible?». He concluded: "The reasons given are the most difficult to prove scientifically, why we often resort to the formulas of oath ". I replied: "Are you saying that many have compromised the health of soul uttering perjurers?». He smiled and answered no more, while I continued saying: «… but the priest who welcomed them, who he talked to them and they accepted the consensus that they exchanged, What kind of priest is ... how he knew them ... What has heard before they were united in marriage ... what perception has this priest of the sacraments of grace? Because upstream of these situations, if we want to be honest we always end up discovering the inevitable presence of a bad priest, or a surface priest to whom their bishop permits dangerous luxury Memo be a bad priest or a superficial priest ". It concluded: "This where I just laid are in fact the consequences of not applying the proper discipline of the sacraments on the part of the bishops responsible for the surveillance on their priests'.

Rome, Church of San Pietro in Montorio al Gianicolo. This bride was admitted into a church of the Diocese of Rome covered in a transparent lace. Always with renewed congratulations to the Franciscan Friars Minor who is entrusted with this church and those of the Vicariate of Rome

Do not hesitate to call misleading from the title Article signed by historian Roberto de Mattei on the agency Correspondence Romana: "An injury to Christian marriage" [see WHO, WHO, WHO]. My fear is that the distinguished and myself always esteemed historian - with whom I share and I can share many concerns - has perhaps misunderstood the text, Why l’begins initial of this motu proprio It is the following:

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«The Lord Jesus, judge clement, Shepherd of our souls, He entrusted to the Apostle Peter and his successors the power of the keys to accomplish in the Church the work of justice and truth; This supreme and universal power, to bind and to loose on earth, he claims, It strengthens and vindicates that of the Pastors of the particular Churches, under which they have the sacred right and the duty before the Lord to judge his subjects' [CF. WHO].

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Rome, Church of Santa Prisca on the Aventine. the bride's entrance to the shoulders and open back. Always with Rinovati congratulate the Augustinian friars who are entrusted with this church and those of the Vicariate of Rome.

In that text does not speak Jorge Mario Bergoglio, ma Peter expressed in the highest exercise of that power that he has received from Christ, God himself, who gave him the power to "bind and loose" [cf. Mt. 16,13-20].

Sull 'Patmos Island anyone can read one of my recent articles in which I gave the Holy Father a caress branch with her hand covered with sandpaper [cf. WHO] as a matter relating to pastoral matters; a text accompanied by two other article in their own way have uproar [cf. QUI, WHO]. In my article I expressed my concerns to grant to priests Valid ma illegal the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X to administer confessions; and I repeat that in this, the Holy Father, in my opinion, perhaps it was inopportune pastorally. Then, if anything, one day emerge all highly appropriate reasons for his choice, and in this case I will be the first to ask for forgiveness for having formulated an opinion that in retrospect could be totally wrong, unhesitatingly admitting a mistake. Waiting for this seguiterò to dissent whenever the Holy Father, as a media Pope piacione or serving as tele-journalistic your Sympathy instead of his Holiness, He will debut as a private doctor extemporaneously, off the cuff or via private messages on issues and matters not related to issues strictly connected to the doctrine of faith and the discipline of the sacraments. Or better still clarify: I seguiterò to claim the freedom of the children of God and the legitimate exercise of always turned critical with great devotion even to the Supreme Pontiff, limited to what concerns all those issues in which do not satisfy the three different degrees of papal infallibility given in the Apostolic Letter To protect the faith prepared in the form of motu proprio by St. John Paul II [see WHO].

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But if I read the heading of a papal document "motu proprio», ancòra first read the following in the text I have already accepted the contents without conditions and discussions, mindful that Peter received from Christ the power to "bind and loose"; and I paid devout and filial obedience to the Bishop who consecrated me in the sacred order of priesthood itself in full communion with the Bishop of Rome; I certainly did not pay obedience to my opinions or my way of seeing and hearing; I did not pay allegiance to my pride and my arrogance. It is in this way that as a priest of the secular clergy have been trained to act and rapportarmi towards Ecclesiastical Authority, starting first from the authority the Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church, the Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ on earth, to which the Word of God has given power to "bind and loose".

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them facie Carmelite Friars, to better publicize their profitable little factory of marriages near San Giovanni al Velabro, the official web site of the historic church have entered this photo, just to entice brides to enter seminude [see WHO]

you do not understand so where would come the mortal "wound in Christian marriage", if we consider that the motu proprio the Holy Father Francis begins with the premise of the indissolubility of marriage. In fact, the text reads:

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"In the course of the centuries the Church in matrimonial matters, gaining a clearer sense of the words of Christ, He has understood and explained more fully the doctrine of the indissolubility of the sacred bond of marriage, It has developed a system of nullity of marriage consent and has regulated more adequately the judicial process in the area, so that ecclesiastical discipline was more consistent with the truths of faith professed ".

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Bride church San Andrea and Gregorio al Celio

Rome, Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Celio. Once these were slips to put under your clothes, do not wear dresses to church. With renewed congratulations to the members of the Priestly Fraternity of San Carlo Borromeo to whom this church is entrusted and to those of the Vicariate of Rome

With this motu proprio the Holy Father tries to remedy uncontrolled and unfortunately uncontrollable drifts related to the discipline of the Sacraments. He may not be present in every diocese in the world to control what nefarious continue to do many priests under the indifferent eyes of many bishops, that with a lightness that ranges between sloth and spirit of the temple merchants allow weddings to anyone as if the sacrament had a "right" before which you can not say no. Because this is the real pastoral issue that we will now analyze; a serious problem, indeed primary, I hope will be analyzed in time and place by the bishops at the Synod Fathers on the family still in progress. If we do not admit with Christian honesty that many of the problems related to marriage fall under the direct responsibility of bishops and presbyters, namely that upstream it is generated just by us and our lack of, sometimes almost absent supervision, little worth talking about marriage and family in the Synods of Bishops.

Then, we are honest: how many times have I heard my brothers after the celebration of marriages make jokes of this kind in the sacristy: "I bet in a couple of years these get divorced". And when I, reproachfully, I replied: "E tu, Why, although aware that this marriage there are no Christian foundation, you accepted their consent?». Bell'O ready the priest's answer: "And what should I do?».

I ask then, the Synod Fathers: of these real problems, intend to speak to the Synod on the family, looking and healing first of all the problems and our faults, before you get lost in the discussion of the problems and especially in the most convenient and easy search of the others' faults, or better to say of those who then, divorced and remarried, claim remarriage “clean” and access to the sacraments as if the one and the other had a right rather than an action of grace?»

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The pastoral problems not resolved attempting the impossible task of straightening of a crooked tree grew; It is trying to act behind preventing the tree planted on the river bank to grow crooked. So if you are diagnosed with cancer, you can not let that developments, then attempting unnecessary interventions before the widespread metastases, because at that point you can only intervene with palliative care to try to alleviate the pain the patient, but certainly not to save his life. Or you can take action by placing the sick person who refuses the illness and death in the face of reality and its heavy responsibility: the salvation of one's soul.

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Church of San Martino ai Monti, other little factory wedding de facie them brothers Carmelites

During my preaching in the desert for years I have been saying that the source of the problem is the fact that the sacramental marriage is granted by the bishops and their priests with a lightness that cries out vengeance before God. Therefore it would be necessary to prevent, instead find himself then to cure what is not always treatable, all to the superficiality with which to mount the priests administer certain sacraments.

During my years of sacred ministry, how many couples more or less young I addressed the prayer: "Do not marry in church, because they lack the minimum requirements to receive the Sacrament. Do not marry in church, because you are not interested in the Christian life, why not accept the fundamental principles of our profession of faith ". But the answers have always been: "And, I admit to not being a believer, but I do it for her ... it is true, we are in favor of abortion, all’eutanasia, to divorce, we support the culture of gender … But we have to get married in church to make parents happy, because they are keen to certain traditions ... ".

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Spouses church of San Pietro in Montorio al Gianicolo

Rome, Church of San Pietro in Montorio al Gianicolo. Shoulders and back and discovery … renewed congratulations to the Franciscan Friars Minor who are entrusted with this church and those of the Vicariate of Rome

a thirty year old who she was allowed to enter in triumph into an ancient cathedral church dressed in tails along with a bride who seemed to Princess Diana in cascades of flowers, sounds of organ and violins, during a private meeting took place a few weeks before the presence of eleven people during a dinner in a private home, he told me not to believe in the divinity of Christ, much less in his physical resurrection; he considered it "childish" believe that the bread and wine could actually become the body and blood of Christ; who judged the Gospel a book of stories and legends that had been in his power would have locked up in jail, the President of the Italian Bishops' Conference - which at the time was Cardinal Camillo Ruini -, because he said stuck his nose in political matters that did not concern him or the Italian bishops. Obviously informed of all this, the bishop of that diocese, Also riferendogli that during this dinner the future wife had entered the abortion issue to support the full legitimacy of the woman to have an abortion, calling abortion a "great vested right" and a "social achievement", and to this end he had brought his own experience, having herself aborted 19 year old, age in which - he said - "I was neither ready nor was I inclined to have a child at the time ', and affirmed: "I could go back I would do the same". Informed of all, the bishop of that diocese sent me, through his presbytery elder, the invitation to be "less rigorous" because "applying your logic we would have maybe ten weddings a year across the diocese".

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Church spouses sant Alessio Aventino

Rome, Church of Sant'Alessio on the Aventine Hill. there … This bride has had the good taste to discover decolletage back and shoulders but to cover their hands with transparent gloves. With renewed congratulations to the Dominican Friars who are entrusted with this church and those of the Vicariate of Rome

Today this bishop, in the light of its own motion The gentle judge of the Lord Jesus It must assume all its responsibilities even before such cases, because when later many of these invalid marriages upstream will founder, the good shepherd and his priests will be set before the undeniable evidence of their failures, and it will be up to them to remedy it, on pain of salvation or eternal damnation of their souls.

Atheism of many couples who marry under these or similar conditions should be added the very worst atheism of certain priests, especially those priests appointed as parish priests or rectors of historical and artistic prestigious churches that much pull for these "skit weddings”. In the Diocese of Rome the worst markets They are managed by priests belonging to various religious families. Many of these priests behave in fact as merchants on advanced collection of "parcel"No qualms to be the first to wreak havoc of Sacramento: brides admitted to church half-naked with bare shoulders and breasts media outside, photographers and cameramen who are the masters on the presbytery, assemblies consisting of friends and relatives totally disinterested in the sacred rite, it is not for them that space a sacred place and what takes place inside a Sacramento, but a charming theater in which we recite a scripted this is only for souvenir photos or the movie ... and in front of this many pii Religious silent and raking in as much money as they can for their religious provinces, often retaining evil historic churches, with often the sacristies inside of which are crammed synthetic vestments, yellowed and badly smelling gowns, tablecloths for altar worn, ornaments and sacred vessels ingiovabili and corroded inside, because the practice tends to be that of the “to take” and yet not invest a penny in “maintenance“.

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San Anselmo aventino

Rome, Badia di Sant'Anselmo Primaziale. In this case any comment on shoulders, arms and necklines is superfluous, because by the Benedictines of St. Anselm everything is permitted except what is Catholic. With renewed congratulations to the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation and those of the Vicariate of Rome

These are the problems to be solved upstream on the basis that the sacraments are the actions of supernatural grace, not a right, not a market, not a mess profane and sacrilegious. Therefore inside the churches to join in marriage should only be accepted believers, aware that during the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the couple will exchange the agreement before the priest and the assembly of the People of God; and that consensus is an eternal and indelible sacrament, unless tomorrow is not recognized that because of a major incidence on Sacramento, although formally celebrated, It lacked one or more requirements that make it valid actually.

These serious underlying problems, to which must be added the lack of preparation of the spouses, the marriage preparation courses reduced to two or three meetings made by some priests with people who did not enter the church from the day that they had received Confirmation, They are not solved only by proclaiming the streamlining of judicial canonical procedure, but really doing pastoral catechesis and above, reserving the sacraments of grace to believers and the disbelievers who use our historical churches like the studios for their dramatized. Certain problems are solved by saying: no, you can not marry in church, why you not have the requirements to do so, and you must have paid the full and unconditional acceptance of what is contained in the Profession of Faith Catholic and concrete demonstration of having a tense will at least try to live a Christian life.

Over time I happened to witness the most renowned in the Churches of Rome - just to take the Diocese of the Roman Pontiff - at weddings, during which the priest spoke to the altar was answered by himself; with the couple who could not even replicate "amen ”, who did not know how to respond during the offertory rite, who knew not even the Our father … All these problems are resolved with decisive and serious pastoral firmness by saying: no, you're getting married in church, because as far as baptized, despite having received the sacraments of Christian initiation, in concrete facts you are not a Christian, Why not Christian is your thinking and your life; and as such we bishops, we priests, we Church respect you as well, but do not come to the House of God to make fun of Christ and his saints because, all polished, next to you with your woman totally scollacciata and more like a Strumpet in dress dressed up to the nines at a Christian wedding, you have to make a photo album or a souvenir movie inside a suggestive 16th century church.

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Rome, Basilica of Santa Costanza. What kind of “Shaman ritual” He is doing the priest in this church entrusted to the Canons Regular Lateranesi altar dressed with a wedding so that it seems to have just unplugged from pole Lap-dance of a night club? Go for it: renewed congratulations to those of the Vicariate of Rome and in particular those responsible for the Office Liturgical.

To solve these problems difficult to manage, the Holy Father has chosen the right way to recognize the bishops the exercise of their powers, so before some damage products then provvedano their pigs remedy; and to any remedy that will put in place, will somehow clear to them the failure of their pastoral, because they will have to solve the problem without the ability to download it on to others.

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Dear de Mattei reports in his article an expression of Cardinal Raymond Burke who said Leonard:

« […] It exists in about a catastrophic experience. In The United States, Since July 1971 to November 1983, entered into force the so-called Provisional Norms which they eliminated de facto mandatory double conforming decisions. The result was that the bishops' conference did not deny one request for dispensation from the hundreds of thousands received and the common perception of the process began to be called "Catholic divorce" [Remain in the Truth of Christ. Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church, Cantagalli, Siena 2014, pp. 222-223]».

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Rome, Basilica of Santa Costanza … renewed congratulations to those of the Vicariate of Rome

Cardinal Burke, as a former President of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura it should be informed of the fact that in those years came several instances the United States of America to the Roman Rota from people who had seen deny the nullity of marriage ruling by US diocesan tribunals; just make a thorough and serious research in the archives. Apart from this, before such true or partially true problem, It remains more than ever, standing as I previously stated: Bishops put in a position to assume all their responsibilities without the ability to do damage and download problems and solutions often difficult on him to others.

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in fact the impossibility views to prevent bishops and priests to reduce marriage to a lucrative Street market de-sanctifying and often truly sacrilegious, who then proceeds to put them in a position to assume full responsibility for the damage which they have produced not allow him to continue in their bed pastoral bankruptcy.

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Santo Spirito in Sassia, placed in Borgo Santo Spirito, behind the Bernini Colonnade, Millionaire marriage Flavio Briatore and Elisabetta Gregoraci

For when the bishops They will have to solve certain problems judicially, at that point it will come out the lightness of their priests: catechesis in preparation for marriage often reduced to two or three meetings farcical during which many pastors are limited only to say how much money they pay to the church and at which florist and photographer should contact, for certain parish priests lucrino further percentage gabelle; the inability of ignorance or worse often in real intent through which, and threatens, prove unable to distinguish even the believers from nonbelievers. And the main problem, that is what non-believers who claim the "right" to Sacramento, It is often solved with several hundred euros left in offering to the priest for the celebration of marriage. But when tomorrow the Bishops of these priests should solve problems of unprecedented lightness unpleasant welcoming couple instances that a few months from the wedding demand recognition of the nullity of their marriage, will be forced to collect their own hands what nefarious also allowed it to be sown in the field of the Lord.

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This motu proprio the Supreme Pontiff is an act aimed at empowering the bishops of a contemporary church in which everyone wants to become cardinal, but no one seems willing to take on even the slightest responsibility. Well, that the bishops are beginning to take responsibility for all of them own their apostolic office. What this for which we thank, with reverence and devotion, the Supreme Pontiff Francis, for putting them, juxtaposition, in a position to take their responsibilities.

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«Pecunia non Oleta»*

GOD BLESS THE PRINCIPLES OF CHURCH AND FATHERS OF FAITH

 

 

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Dear readers: which of you, seeing this picture, He has paid attention to the beautiful neckline of the bride and who, instead, He has paid attention to the valuable Archbishop's pastoral staff celebrant owner? Reverend Signatory of this article, He admits he was admired by the breast of the bride and not to have rather paid any attention to the pastoral staff. But on the other hand, could a celebrity multimillionaire and marries naked, not be joined in marriage at least by a Cardinal, to enrich also of this “accessory” their princely frame? And a veil on offer in several zeros that will surely slipped into the old Cardinal Paul Poupard pockets, obviously for the benefit of his pious foundation … is intende! Why does everything always goes to the work of God and God's works, obviously!

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* «money does not stink», Vespasian said in response to the members of the Roman senate when hurled the coins after he had set the fee sull'orina.

 

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All images used in this article does not violate the privacy any person these are photographs taken from the internet, so public and as such available to anyone.

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Giovanni Cavalcoli
Of the Order of Preachers
Presbyter and Theologian

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Father Tomas Tyn and the Lefebvrismo

FATHER TOMAS TYN AND THE LEFEBVRISMO

 

The few competent theologians, learned, wise, balanced, brave and faithful to the Magisterium are easily marginalized, defamed, ignored or even persecuted by a modernistic power or rahneriano now established in academic circles and of ecclesiastical authority, so is now operating an inquisition just as modernist and even more sharp-eyed and lasts of the Romans at the time of St. Pius X and Monsignor Umberto Benigni against the modernists of the time …

 

Author John Cavalcoli OP

Author
John Cavalcoli OP

 

The wolf and the lamb

Ad eundem rivum Lupus et Agnus … [by Phaedrus ' Fables]

We often tell ourselves that we need good theologians, in a situation like the present one, where the greatest damage to the souls and the Church are caused by bad theologians. However, it is so strong, seductive and insidious the influence and power of these theologians, that even the good Catholic, who loves the truth and wants nothing more than to follow the Gospel, sound doctrine and the Church's Magisterium, difficulties or is easily deceived in the knowledge the righteous judgment criteria, of discernment and evaluation for identifying valid theologians from imposters, by hucksters and theologasters O, as Christ would say, by false prophets and wolves in lambs [cf. ].

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the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI during one of his Catecheses

but yet, know these criteria it shouldn't be too difficult. Since we all must and can save ourselves, It gave, in the most diverse ways, it does not deny to any man of good will the knowledge of saving truth. Benedict XVI had this to say, to distinguish the good from the bad theologians it is necessary to compare them with the Catechism, where we find the fundamental truths of the faith. In fact, today some theologians errors are so crude and glaring, that are not limited as a time to thin sophistry born to the disquisitions of school, where then, after all, were things that only understand craft and clerks were mere opinions of school, that is not questioned by any dogma quietly accepted, but today errors affect all the fundamental truths of the faith, from the divine attributes to the Holy Trinity, to the dogmas of creation, the existence of angels, the Constitution of man, of Eden and original sin, of grace, of Mary's virginity, of the incarnation, of the Redemption, of the Resurrection of Christ, up to the liturgy, natural and supernatural morality, to nature, origin and purpose of the Church, to eschatology, to the value of miracles and prophecies, the same faith, of Tradition, of Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church. Nothing is spared and everything is questioned, questioned or denied or falsified.

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a cartoon depicting the father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, ON

The few competent theologians, learned, wise, balanced, brave and faithful to the Magisterium are easily marginalized, defamed, ignored or even persecuted by a modernistic power or rahneriano now established in academic circles and of ecclesiastical authority, so is now operating an inquisition just as modernist and even more sharp-eyed and lasts of the Romans at the time of St. Pius X and Monsignor Umberto Benigni against the modernists of the time, less dangerous than those of today, except that if a poor father Lagrange, Father Juan Arintero or Cardinal Andrea Carlo Ferrari were suspected unfairly by modernism from Orthodox conservatives, today the Orthodox, even moderately progressives, as the maritainiani, they are harassed and persecuted by the modernists.

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Dominican theologian Tomas Tyn

The Dominican Tomas Tyn the same fate has befallen. Teacher in the 1980s at the Studio Teologico bolognese Dominican, the learned theologian, zealous, brave, generous, thomist, fervent and most faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, warned with a lot of energy and a wealth of arguments against the snaking errors both in the doctrinal field and in that of morality: especially modernists, secularists, relativists, Communists, existentialists, Protestants, idealists and pantheists.

Father Tomas felt a particular interest for the values ​​of the Catholic tradition, warned the Mission of remembering those who had forgotten or neglected, in that climate of reckless then rejection of the past, that, as we well know, characterized those troubled years, remained in our memory as the period of “dispute“, during which, under the pretext of conciliar renewal, many foolishly abandoned or changed sacred and immutable values, You should keep. In those same years, moreover, to complicate matters, a movement of Catholics arose on the initiative of Monsignor Marcèl Lefèbvre, who believed that the new doctrines of the Council were infected with modernism, rationalism, enlightenment, anthropocentrism, liberalism and indifferentism. The Council, so, According to him, had broken with sacred tradition, proposing new harmful, that had already been condemned by the pre-Conciliar Magisterium. The Church had so, col Council, deviated from the truth and had to return there, rejecting those doctrines as false. Among the innovations he condemned Lefèbvre asked also promulgated by Paul VI reformed, claiming that the only valid Mass, the “Mass of All Time“, as they call the lefebvrists, was the previous one of St. Pius V: for this it was necessary to stop immediately with the new Setting and return to the ancient.

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Tomas Tyn

Father Tomas welcomed the new docility of the Council, so much so that every day he celebrated that, is in the convent, both the Sunday to the parish of San Giacomo Bologna fuori le Mura, where he served for 14 years from 1976 al 1989. He died on 1° gennauo of 1990, just 39 years of age.

He did not hide his admiration for the Tridentine Mass, of which praised the beauty in a long letter, that he in 1985 He wrote to the then prefect of the Congregation for the doctrine of the faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who pleased us to send him a meaningful reply, in which he declared his agreement [1]. This was certainly the condition that allowed some point, in the same year, to Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop of Bologna, to have the prior of the Bolognese convent ask Father Tomas Tyn to celebrate the Tridentine Mass for a group of faithful weekly in a private convent, that earlier had turned to Cardinal, which the Father did until he left Bologna in 1989 hit by disease, that led him to death.

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Tomas Tyn

Father Tomas was a traditionalist, but in the sense of the word praiseworthy, as preferential attention to traditional values, more than those of new advance or. His sympathy for the Tridentine Mass can surmise something like. Nothing, however, had to do with the lefebvrist traditionalism, though some, especially the modernistic environment or despiser of tradition, uninformed, for interest or in bad faith I have mistaken for a lefebvrist.

In fact what is lefebvrismo? In the belief that the Second Vatican Council the Church, infected with modernism, taught, under pretext of “pastorality“, false doctrines on itself and damaging about the relationship with the modern world, failing its duty as guardian of Holy Tradition. The lefevriani recognize the validity and legitimacy of the Council, ma, though in fact originates of the doctrines, that they reject as false, consider only pastoral and, because in the Church's pastoral is not infallible, they believe that it teaches wrong doctrines or that they can be wrong. The lefebvrists don't see a witness Council, but a traitor of tradition. They do not understand that the Council has taken a step forward in the tradition, in accordance with what the Council itself teaches on Tradition, where it says it “progresses” e “grows” knowledge of revealed truths, that it transmits to us [2], also contained in Sacred Scripture, It is clarification and completion of what is contained in Sacred Scripture, both, almost forming a single thing (“coalesce“), one word of God, both are sources of divine Revelation, which are infallibly guarded and interpreted by the Magisterium of the Church.

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the book dedicated to John Carlson to Tomas Tyn

None of these ideas in lefebvriane Father Tomas, what if, as I said, shows a particular attention to the Tradition, has no difficulty to see it confirmed, continued and progressed in the teachings of the Council and of the following Magisterium of the Church. Father Tomas, instead of the lefebvrists who claim to find errors in the doctrines of the Council, he never dares to make any criticism of the Council's doctrines, and the lodi did not return, While stating that should be properly interpreted and warning from misinterpretation or exploitation made by modernists.

Father Tomas, Thanks to his solid faith and theologically strong, he realizes very well with the acute lucidity and fine discernment of a Thomist, reacting with extreme promptness and energy and an inexorable criticism, of indiscipline, of impostures and theological deviations, that swarm in his time, covering Deceits them unfairly with the authority of the Council and it looks good by letting the slander of deceived lefevriani, who would find the cause of those deviations in the same Council.

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Tomas Tyn, at the top right, with a group of brothers in the convent of Bologna

Father Tomas, with his frankness and parrhesia, with his hand out with both hands the water of wisdom and his battle against counterfeiters and the enemies of the faith, "stumbling stone» [RM 9,33] and «scandal» stone [The Pt 2,8], could not create around itself and two opposing sides against each other armed: one part, a crowd of admirers and devotees, not only believers, but also simple people of good will, He also drove and helped with his charity high priestly and pastoral prudence, especially among the poor and the humble, but also in each social milieu ― arrived everywhere with the intense apostolic activity " ; and the progressive thickening of those storm clouds, especially cultural environments of the left but also the right, modernists, Pharisees, Freemasons, Communists, Protestants, careerists, opportunists and so on, increasingly irritated by his fiery words that were stinging in their consciousness. But the storm was supposed to break out after death.

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Tomas Tyn

A fundamental theme of Tynian speculation is that of freedom [3], that must be based on truth, regulated by the moral law, especially of charity, freedom as the person's mastery of his own acts, freedom as a principle of justice, freedom as the primacy of the person over the common good and therefore the rejection of any left or right totalitarianism, but also and especially, as St. Augustine, "freedom under grace».

In this we could make a link between Tyn and Father Giorgio Callegari, Venetian Dominican, that in the late 1960s in Brazil, together with others, he fought and suffered for the liberation of the popular classes from a tyrannical regime, that it was said and hypocritically saw communism in fact only to fight for social justice.

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the Dominican Giorgio Callegari

Father Tomas instead met the cruel and inhumane face of communism, so that he too fought and suffered for freedom, and while Father Callegari, calunniosamente accused of being a Communist, fighting for the change of social conditions, the struggle of Father Tomas Tyn, mistaken for a fascist and a Lefebvrian, was to unmask the Hegelian roots of totalitarianism of the left and right, latest offshoot of that Lutheran immanentism that, after having snatched the Gospel from the Church, and have it delivered in the hands of the State, put the bases for the divinization of the State, that in the 20th century would prove in Nazism and communism.

Two Dominicans united in the same ideal of truth, Justice and freedom, though so different for mutual contrast of historical and social climates in which they lived. Father Tyn must be freed from lefevriano label required by the modernists, While father Callegari from rich appioppatagli Communist. The fame of Holiness should always open the hard way between misunderstandings, the slander and lies that would stop the unstoppable advance of witnesses of the Gospel.

Tomas Tyn Marinella Montanari

Tomas Tyn by Marinella Montanari

Later in the early 2000, God has granted the Church a great gift of his grace in order to make it shine even more for the benefit of the whole Church, that light which Father Tomas had already scattered throughout his earthly life among those whom he had met, family members, faithful of the Church of Bologna and other places, confreres, penitents, friends and enemies, people of all walks of life, believers and non-believers, particularly suffering and thirsting for truth, of justice, of freedom and Holiness.

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Tomas Tyn's grave

So the Czech Dominicans, at the beginning of 2000, they were promoters of the cause of beatification of Father Tyn, not only because of its reputation for sanctity there giunta, but also, and it was the decisive thing, for the news or discovery of the vow he had made at the time of his priestly ordination in 1975 and he kept secret, to offer his life under the protection of our Lady for the liberation of his homeland from Communist oppression. Now, God wanted Father Tomas died right on 1 January 1990, at the end of a brief and painful illness, When the President of the Republic, Vaclav Havel, inaugurated in the exultation of the whole nation, the new Government. On that occasion,, being now publicly know father Tomas vow, he was immediately raised to the rank of national hero, so much so that that same State Television which until a few months earlier was an organ of the Communist Party, praised the heroic witness of Father Tyn.

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the servant of God Tomas Tyn and his image chosen by the Office of the Postulator for the cause of beatification

The thought of the servant of God You can qualify as genuinely, frankly and fully Catholic and more precisely thomist, given his absolute adherence to the doctrine of the faith, interpreted, taught and guarded by the Magisterium of the Church. In tal modo, How often reiterates its scholar Gianni Battisti [4], You can find in Tyn thinking what exactly that being Catholic, as defined by the Catholic Church [5], name that is now misunderstood, exploited, falsified and mistreated in a thousand ways with create a huge confusion, damage to the faithful and discredit the Catholic name, with whom do you spend every kind of imposture and heresy. But nothing prevents, wanting to further clarify this Tyn Catholicism, It can be classified as “traditionalist“. E’ however, on this point the most hateful ones have arisen and been relentless, stubborn and nefarious misunderstandings and malice on behalf of theologian, given that some Catholics, lefevrismo related, have tried, though in vain, to make Father Tomas one of their; while others, of modernist orientation and are the majority, as well as having a strong power in the Church, they try to discredit Father Tomas by presenting him or passing him off as Lefevriano or Filolefevriano. But the dishonest operation by the latter consists in the fact that they condemn as block “traditionalist” Anyone who doesn't is modernist or “progressive“, like them, to be a driver of legitimacy, They call themselves, blurring into one appellation dishonorable legitimate traditionalism, How is precisely to Tyn, with the schismatic traditionalism of the Lefevrians.

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left on Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, the Center John Carlson at the convent of San Domenico in Bologna on the occasion of the opening of the cause for beatification of Tomas Tyn

Despite repeated attempts by witnesses and actors of the process of beatification was opened in 2006 in Bologna by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, to pluck these poisonous weeds, They allignato among the people and the faithful, to the point of putting an obstacle to continuing the process, the Diocesan phase which was nearly finished, so the testimonial material was almost ready to be sent to Rome to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in order to complete it. Like this, an intervention by the competent authorities and all the devotees of the Servant of God appears urgent to give the Cause a new impulse, whereas the sublime doctrine and the shining example of Father Tyn, for their balance, the courage and wisdom, could play a valuable role in spreading the truth, in refutation of the errors, in the promotion of good morals in individuals and in society, in fostering ecclesial justice and communion and in making peace, with adverse parties reconcile, left and right, that today, with their fanatical presumption and intransigence, they are torturing the Church and paralyzing her in her task of evangelizing the world.

Cardinal Carlo Caffarra during the opening of the beatification process of Tomas Tyn

It is therefore highly desirable that the cause of Tyn may progress through a courageous and decisive intervention by its supporters, of devotees, of the disciples and scholars of Father Tyn, scattered in Italy, in the Czech Republic and around the world, from Germany, to France, to Spain, to United States, at Austria, to Switzerland, to Philippines, to Hungary, to Slovenia, to Mexico, to Brazil, the Argentina, to Albania, in Malta. This opposition of forces is one of the earliest signs of trouble more severe macroscopic of today's Church, i.e. the absolutization and ideologization of the two opposing parties of lefevriani and of the modernists, that, arrogatisi in place of the Pope the Church censors function, We condemn and are mutually, as if it were to separate the wicked from the righteous. There is no doubt that these categories have value, being used by the Bible itself, which, however, absolutely does not use them in that meanly biased sense, but only in relation to obedience or disobedience to God, where in individual cases it is prudent to refrain from judging. But the problem that afflicts us is foolishness with which these categories are used by these two parties, which reduce them to their partial vision, one-sided and biased. These categories make sense only in relation to those who serve God and those who hate him; which is not easy to judge in individual cases. Hence the folly and recklessness to use them only in reference to your party, furthermore, tainted by misconceptions and heterodox ideas.

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Tomas Tyn

The Catholic as such, How to pose well Antonio Livi in’Patmos Island [see WHO], is neither progressive nor conservative, but simply Catholic without adjectives; is above the left. “Catholic” It means “universal”: Catholic would be one that is partial? Unless it's specifications that have nothing to do with the truths of faith, but add something accidental to the Catholic, how, for example, it would be to distinguish the French Catholic from the Italian one or the young Catholic from the adult one. Reduce instead, How to make lefevriani and modernists, being Catholic at their current size-restricted, you offend the sacredness and universality of the Catholic name. No problems qualify as conservative or progressive: is completely legitimate and normal, provided, however, that this is done within the bed of orthodoxy and of communion with the Church and the Pope, as accidental expressions, modal and contingent of legitimate different ways of living one's Catholicism, respecting and working with the opposite trend, because of the one and the other are made to complement each other and together serve the Church.

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Tomas Tyn

Another thing to note. The contents of theology are subject in history to a continuous deepening and clarification, Thanks to the research of the theologian. For this there is a traditional theology, expressing and comment on existing data, for example of the great masters like Thomas Aquinas; and a new or innovative theology, presenting the latest survey results, often only questionable or hypothetical, therefore questionable, and that can also be wrong. The theologian, in principle, has this dual task: comment on traditional data, already acquired, Maybe exposing them with a modern language; and engage in research or formulation of new theories or interpretations, of course on the solid foundation of those already acquired. The theologian more interested in progress, may be called “progressive“, but which, however, has nothing to do with “modernist“, that is a false way to advance and modernize the theology.

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Tomas Tyn image child

Father Tomas chose to devote the exhibition of traditional doctrines, without he disdained any new, which presented themselves as development or explanations of the doctrines of the Council. In fact, they paid attention and did not fail to give himself new contributions e.g. to the advancement of metaphysics or the doctrine of grace and freedom in relation to psychology. In any case and in the aforementioned sense he can be qualified as a traditionalist theologian qualification, of which he was aware and of which he boasted.

Revisit with Father Tyn content of the tradition, just as they are left to us and emerge from the Magisterium of the Church, starting with the Apostolic tradition until Pope's Magisterium, it is a salutary exercise in Catholic orthodoxy, that fixes the lefevriano concept of tradition, locked at the time of the Council, showing how the post-Conciliar progress in the knowledge of God's Word, under the leadership of the Church, It is the most authentic experience of sacred tradition today.

Varazze, 7 September 2015

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NOTE

[1] The correspondence between Father Tyn and the Cardinal is published in my book Father Tomas Tyn. A traditionalist post-conciliar, Editions Faith&Culture, Verona 2007.
[2] Cost.Dogm. God's word, n.8.
[3] CF. The anthology of his writings on freedom in The liberation of freedom, edited by G.Cavalcoli, Editions Faith&Culture, Verona 2008.
[4] CF. t. Tyn performance, The power of truth. Lessons of theologiansa, Diffusion Editorial Umbilicus in Italy, Rieti 2012.
[5] See the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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Father Tomas Tyn Conference “The virtue of religion

 

 

Gives “imago Dei” ad “image net”. Next time the Holy Father will buy zucchini in Campo dei Fiori?

GIVES IMAGO DEI SUCH IMAGO NET. NEXT TIME THE HOLY FATHER WILL BUY ZUCCHINI IN FIELD OF FLOWERS?

 

Man created in the image and likeness of God wanted to rebel against Him making himself God, and today, instead of kneeling in front of your Creator, no longer even kneel before idols, but he prostrates himself before directly to digital cameras, giving up totally to live the present and projected future, as if from the philosophical and theological language of our dying world was missing the word eschatology, to make room for all other questions and purposes: … and tomorrow, What I invented, to amaze again? Or: Today I gave the daily dose to mass media going to the optician, but tomorrow I will be forced to increase the dose. So if you went to the fruit market in Campo dei Fiori to buy two courgettes under the statue of that "holy man" by Giordano Bruno?

 

Author Jorge A. Faccio Lince

Author
George A.. Faccio Lince

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… never as today the man was committed to deface the creature being created in the image of God-likeness

The expression of Saint Augustine imago Dei O image of God [II sent. d. a. 16 1, q.1], today should be the subject of in-depth reflections, having regard to the social upheaval that seems to have changed now image net. For this I resonates in the ears a well-known expression of St. Thomas Aquinas: Agere sequitur esse [the Act follows the be], principle that is at the foundation of Thomistic ethics. For St. Thomas, from being necessarily follows the to-be. What exists has its own ontological nature that affect the action of the same entity, in the case of male moral action. The man, as a creature created by God and therefore God's creature will not only possess the simple ontological creature feature, Why must also have an appropriate moral behavior and in its way as a result of the to-be which will lead him to aspire to ultra-terrestrial perfection. For Saint Thomas being mean Act of being [They actu essendi ab] i.e. action, News. In Thomistic perspective everything exists to implement actions, and in this way be coincides with the action in its final fulfillment.

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The future that awaits us? the model Valeria Lukyanova photographed with Barbie doll, which it has come to resemble …

These days are about ten years old Since the Ukrainian model Valeria Lukyanova became famous throughout the world for its natural resemblance or artificially created with the famous Barbie doll. For many of those like me who grew up watching commercials for this toy and seeing little girls play with this famous doll, has always been the question of how this would be if it were a doll real person.

The first impression we seeing the pictures of this woman is: “But it's true?». And again: «How did ... it's all the result of Magic from the computer?». Then, After the first impression, begins to take a negative rating given by the fact that it is a person totally falsified, or as it is now customary to say: all redone. In others, however, a sense of satisfaction may arise in seeing a toy you grew up with made in the flesh. In both cases, curiosity almost morbidly pushes us to look for more images and data of the model which arouses a whole series of emotions and chain reactions in the world of Cyberspace that made her famous.

Valeria Lukyanova in costume

The future that awaits us? The model Valeria Lukyanova posing in a swimsuit at the beach with her body transformed into Barbie doll

If the reputation of this model was the result of an advertising campaign the same company Mattel makes sense, above all considering that today more than ever in the world of advertising as in that of fashion, slogans are also based on the components of aggressiveness, of transgression, of the upheaval or total reversal of the real data. Because this is the planet where it is born and increased the fame of this model through photographs and video clips that have been around the world through social networks [see WHO, WHO, WHO]. And today the social network have become much more of a fundamental part of human communication, in particular the younger generation; for many are the only form of expression.

Ever as before, who owns a computer, a Table or smartphone has the ability to find everything they need in terms of information; as well as the possibility to express their reviews toward anything. Technological progress is so large now that we don't need to argue our choices, because with a simple “I like it” his Facebook ed a Tweet everything is done on Twitter. We can then spend time commenting everything and its opposite with a thumbs down or up, with a little heart or one emoticon.

telematic means — that could be a means of communication and dissemination of knowledge and culture, but also of pastoral care - they have instead become instruments of authentic annihilation, Sometimes the Guillotines, of parallel worlds that you put in a destructive manner to the real; a "real" now reduced the immediate, as if there had never been a "first"and there wasn't a"after”. Worlds governed entirely by snapshots that require continuous updating both by those who want to be the center of attention and by those who want to be in the know at every moment of their day. Then begins a new day, in which you do not even remember the day before and do not take into consideration the future day that will follow and which you will need to "raise the bar" of surprise and then amazement. In one of our newspapers private interviews the father Ariel S. Levi of Gualdo told me long ago that ' the story progresses so fast through its increasingly policy-historians who sometimes has the impression of not having my living, not having more time to process it, but what is worse: to live it».

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the new people …

This instant update it has become an archetype of conduct in every sense, not only in the virtual world, because it is increasingly imposing in the most varied spheres: in political as in the religious and pastoral care. The aim seems to be to become "famous" or to have a role and a group of people who follow you, thereby finding the very reason for one's being, the purpose of one's life and existence.

Social networks are not only audiences of auto-exposure, But even the courts of assizes making reviews following the "law” dictated by the statistics of personal success or failure; a trap into which even our Pastors fall who seem at times more concerned with pleasing the world than with Jesus Christ, all with an aggravating circumstance: the world to which they want to pleasure has no body and has no soul, It is a world made such is precisely because without Jesus Christ.

The virtual world will inevitably produce a virtual reality

Every person who enters this virtual circle sooner or later is forced to take precise and variable forms of behaviour and expression that tend to mutate itself, because permanence in success is based on the principle of continuous updating; It is therefore necessary to provide elements of "astonishment” always higher and in ever more massive doses. Just like the Ukrainian model that has undergone a process of constant mutation and that at this point could be called the "new Eve”, the prototype of the new or future world that is not coming, but which has already taken possession of the real through the virtual form.

This instant update not only involves the world of show business – that it's not only cinema, the world of tv or swimsuit –, Why, as I said before, It affects all social scopes, politicians, religious and scientific. Needless to say, what dangers this can lead: not only the loss of values and laws that for the entire course of history have governed civilizations; not only for the loss of a conception of life, of time and of the same relationships with others, because this path leads to a consequent and total emptying of the man in action, in his being and his human creature role created in the image and likeness of the living God [cf. Gen. 1, 26-27].

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the new slavery "like», I like it …

The instant update "that is the negation of theology of the body of Saint Paul the Apostle [CF. With the. 1,18] and of the Christian who becomes a living image of Christ [CF. RM 8,28; The Cor. 15,49; ] ― imposes to please always a distant world that is without penalty and body without head, made anonymous and hidden behind a screen on which symbols of liking or disliking are proclaimed destined to make up the number. Finally will be indicated with a Clik What to do for better pleasure, thereby generating the danger that all-out misconceptions will soon be imposed, but above all that a style will end up being imposed that will bring the men of the near future - in any social role, political or religious they find themselves - to a dramatic forced choice: be similar to their predecessors, or to overcome that imposed limit thanks to which today we are no longer even able to distinguish the ridiculous from the far-fetched?

This is the true and final reversal of God, of real substance and man; a reversal that blocks all in a time instant that lasts longer than that taken by the Flash cameras. Today, a Ghost Pilate without a body and soul, speaking from an undisclosed location in computer network to a mass without the head and without a tail would have ended up asking the same question: «Who do you want to free you, Barabbas or Jesus Christ said?» [cf. Mt. 27,16-26]. I leave it to the readers to evaluate the answer which in this case would end up being shouted "democratically" by the Cyberspace ...

3 September 2015, the Holy Father Francis makes an improvised in an optical shop to change lenses to glasses

The created man in the image and likeness of God wanted to rebel against Him making himself God, and today, instead of kneeling in front of your Creator, no longer even kneel before idols, but he prostrates himself before directly to digital cameras, giving up totally to live the present and projected future, as if from the philosophical and theological language of our dying world was missing the word eschatology, to make room for all other questions and purposes: ... and tomorrow what I invented to impress again? Or: today I gave the daily dose of amazement to the mass-media going to the optician to change lenses, but tomorrow I will be forced to increase the dose; so if you went to the fruit market in Campo dei Fiori to buy two courgettes under the statue of that "holy man" by Giordano Bruno?

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TV2000 is perhaps already testing the waters at the fruit market in Campo dei Fiori?

Domenico Giani, Guardian Angel “Pope Cecco” seen from a “divota vecchiaccia Tuscany”

DOMENICO GIANI, GUARDIAN ANGEL POPE CECCO SEEN BY A DIVOTA VECCHIACCIA TUSCANY

 

Domenico Giani is from 2006 head of the Vatican City security services. Fifty years old, Tuscan born in the beautiful Arezzo and with a remarkable career behind him in the State Police and in the security services of the Italian Republic [see WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO]. Since March 2013 is perhaps one of the least envied men in the world. Few, at this moment they would like to be in his place to manage the safety of the Holy Father in situations that are sometimes unmanageable. A mother from Arezzo who could be the mother of Commander Giani, with maternal transport wanted indirizzargli this letter in Tuscan vernacular — or better in vernacular aretino/chianaiolo — entrusting to our Hypatia Roman cat on publication’Patmos Island. Although this is not a philosophical and theological character according to the usual cut of our online magazine, publish it too with a smile, This letter is not at all devoid of maternal common sense and Christian.

 

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Hypatia author Roman cat

 

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The extent to which a Pope who doesn't listen to anyone except himself may fall into error?

THE EXTENT TO WHICH A POPE WHO DOESN'T LISTEN TO ANYONE EXCEPT HIMSELF MAY FALL INTO ERROR?

 

The statement of the Holy Father: "I decided, Notwithstanding anything to the contrary ' should cheer the Bishops, that far from being questioned, You may have thus earned an essay about what is the real concept of "collegiality" of the Prince of the Apostles and Head of the Apostolic College, in case any of them meant to express opposition, because every apostolic college always ends up having to ineffable grace of the Holy Spirit Chief who deserves.

 

 

Author Father Ariel

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

The priest Ariel S. Levi Gualdo aggressively, the Dominican Giovanni Cavalcoli more mitigated, They have written harsh words against Lefebvre. Today Pope Francis said: «[…] I have decided, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, to grant to all priests for the Jubilee Year the faculty of absolving from the sin of abortion and those who have procured contrite of heart will ask forgiveness […] Meantime, moved by the need to match the welfare of these faithful, for my own hand I establish that many during the Holy Year of Mercy come near to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation at the priests of the Society of St. Pius X, validly and lawfully receive absolution of their sins " [cf. document WHO]. Should it not apologize by you for all that you have written in the past against the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X?

Alessio Maffei

Dear Reader

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Saint Pio in the confessional in San Giovanni Rotondo

First of all I tell her that I apologize to Lefebvre heretics - that these in fact are and remain - when I will impose my Diocesan Ordinary and after the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or his acting guardian will have shown me one by one the doctrinal errors, canonical and pastoral in which they are incurred during those past all of my writings found in the archive of 'Patmos Island; I hereby confirm that the writings in their substance on the floor dogmatic and canon from first to last.

The statement of the Holy Father: "I decided, Notwithstanding anything to the contrary ' should cheer the Bishops, that far from being questioned he may have thus earned an essay about what is the real concept of "collegiality" of the Prince of the Apostles, if any of them wished to express legitimate concerns, because every apostolic college always ends up having to ineffable grace of the Holy Spirit Chief who deserves, because between the lines - and even so between the lines - the Holy Father said to them all: “I do what I want and how I want, no matter what you may think of you”. And that unlike his predecessor too mild Supreme crucified for years even the worst criticisms of the bishops, not to mention those of the theologians or those at times furious that authentic ecclesial plague these are the feminist theologians. That is what we should remember that Benedict XVI proceeded to the remission of the excommunication in which incorsero the consecrating bishops and bishops consecrated without papal mandate in June 1988, only "after extensive consultation ', as reported in 2009 Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos at the time insider [see WHO].

At the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth century he reigned in France, Louis XIV [1643-1715], also known as Sun King. He ascended the throne at the tender age of five years under the regency of his mother Anne of Austria. At the age of 13 year old, In the 1651, He was declared an adult and therefore capable of governing, even if the government continued to be exercised by Cardinal Jules Mazarin [1602-1661], natural death which he assumed full royal powers. His government was marked by the so-called absolutism, soon imitated by most of the European sovereigns. A Louis XIV is attributed the dubious phrase I am the state [the state is me] variously reported and disseminated by various authors as well the legislation is me [the law is me].

I sincerely believe that the Holy Father Francis is so humble that it never would behave as if "The Church is me"Come on up"Law is me”. Pope Francis is in fact so open to everything, including what is not Catholic, and is so "liberal" or "revolutionary" - to use two misnomers flush with the injury to the person of the Roman Pontiff used from that passionaria Argentine Elisabetta Piqué [1] and an international press that has not really clear the role of Peter's Successor - that never would behave in an arbitrary and impulsive; never would behave as if the Church was his or if he could safely go beyond the ecclesiastical laws, up to model a Church ad personam.

It is not by chance, until a few decades ago the Roman Pontiff spoke using “We “, or so-called the plural of majesty, which had nothing redundant or imperial but much rather a theological and pastoral, as demonstrated by the fact that once removed the “We ” inevitably it took over the’ “the“, up to the most extreme forms and exasperating to the pontificate customization. No longer then the “We ” that makes impersonal the holy Petrine ministry first reminding Peter that he is in fact Peter and no longer Simone, wrong’ “the ” which instead customizes the papacy and who may run the risk of making a hostage of Peter Simone whims.

Without worth clarify misunderstanding: being the Roman Pontiff covered with a power that to him comes from Christ and certainly not from God Sovereign people or from Democratic Parliament of Cardinals who elected him, he has full and legitimate right to say “no” also proposed, directives or reforms unanimously approved by an ecumenical council, for nothing could ever become a binding doctrine or law of the Church without its approval. When in fact in the ecumenical councils or synods of bishops will vote, what happens to Peter has clear what is the thought of the College of the Apostles, but then, Who ultimately decides he is; and its decisions are not taken in majority of parliamentary votes but by the grace of the state of the Apostles Prince Successor [2] which it acts and which should always act as “We ” and certainly not in what “the “.

As regards the law: the Roman Pontiff has full and immediate authority over the whole Church. He is the supreme legislator and as such has a legitimate right to abolish, to change, reformulate or otherwise disregarded the rules of the Code of Canon Law at any time you want [3]. What this usually occurs through decrees, papal bulls, or other specific acts of his supreme magisterium, not through interviews, speeches off the cuff or private messages, because the Roman Pontiff, supreme guardian of the deposit of faith is also the supreme teacher, and a teacher is such to the extent that explains and makes comprehensible his explanations through the pious teaching newcomers to pick prudence and wisdom. And here it is worth remembering that prudence is the first of the four cardinal virtues [4], Wisdom is the first of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit [5].

It pains me to say what others do not seem to have the courage to say: what the Holy Father has is unfortunately wrong pastorally. It is also an obvious error, one of many that day after day pass under the silence of the bishops, and that are intended to add to the confusion that winds in the Church and among the members already too confused the People of God.

A heart anything but lightweight I say that what is pastorally wrong for this simple reason: priests consecrated priests in the Priestly Society of St. Pius X, under the Code of Canon Law are valid but illicit [6], so they do not administer and can not lawfully administer the Sacraments, as explained by the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI clarified that the lifting of the excommunication does not erase the fact that so-called Lefebvrians can not precisely lawfully administer the Sacraments:

"To this clear once again: until the doctrinal questions are clarified, the Society has no canonical status in the Church, and its ministers - even though they were freed of the ecclesiastical penalty - do not legitimately exercise any ministry in the Church " [7].

Said in other terms: their priestly ordination is valid, because it governed by a bishop who in turn has been validly but illicitly consecrated. This validity nothing detracts from the unlawful, precisely because it is illegal as well as serious priests consecrate the priests not in communion with Rome. And as is well known so-called Lefebvre deny the validity of the last council of the Church and almost all the new disciplines which followed them from the doctrinal, not only on what is "merely" pastoral.

I do not know what has prompted the Holy Father to give that option to the priests illicitly ordained and as such are suspended that fact from the exercise of the sacred ministry very act of their sacred ordination. Indeed, the so-called Lefebvre priests, still not in communion with Rome and derogatory today's Magisterium of the Church, they accused of being slipped for half a century apostasy [8], They may lawfully administer confessions in one case: to a person in serious danger of life. What this can do - and indeed must do - even an excommunicated priest and dismissed from the clerical state [9].

So the Roman Pontiff, which also can abolish laws, reform laws and create new laws as and when he wants, It is not at the same time above the doctrine of the Church, even if all the bishops, either for cowardice, Look for interest, on certain utterances confused and ambiguous silent so guilty; and that up to gravarsi for omission spirit dictated perhaps by the quiet life or some of their irrepressible career aspirations, such a liability that could throw open the gates of tomorrow to several of them. Can not be done, indeed, silent on the obvious. They should silence those of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and should not be silent canonists that inhabit the palace of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, because we are dealing with an error that it does not seem to take into account a blatant obviousness: the sacraments are not available right, even for the Church herself who received them in custody by God and that dispenses them as actions of supernatural grace; them pantry, but do not own them. No one is given the opportunity, even the Roman Pontiff, to dispose of them in an arbitrary manner, concedendone the “lawful” Directors who in fact has erected its own being, exist and operate right on the unit's denial and the stubborn refusal of the Magisterium of the Church of the last fifty years. The Roman Pontiff is called to "confirm his brothers in faith" [10], not to legitimize them in error, has not confonderli, not to divide them with blows of ambiguity.

More complex still the discussion related to the dogmatic sacramental, before which seems shaky silence the army of monsignorini in force at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, most of whom also teach at various universities and pontifical universities: the essence of the sacraments and their metaphysical substance is based on the unit [11]. I celebrate the Mass and administer the sacraments because I am a priest in full communion with the Bishop, from which emanates and is dependent on the priesthood that I received for the mystery of grace, after a solemn promise to lend him "devout and filial obedience", because it is from the Eucharist the Bishop invested apostolic power which proceeds the validity of Masses celebrated by his priests. The bishop is not that just as such, but because in turn it is in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, and be in communion means above all accept, respect, apply and spread among the members of the People of God, the doctrine and the Magisterium of the Church, certainly not affirm and teach - as do instead Lefebvre - that the doctrines of the entire ecumenical council are misleading and the teaching that follows is even "apostate".

Regarding this last speech I would much more to add especially as it regards the nature and substance of the Sacraments. But I leave the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with which precisely worked an army of monsignorini variously doctors and professors, the answer to the following question: according to the discipline of the sacraments built on dogmatic sacramental, It may be granted right to lawfully administer the sacraments to priests and bishops who deny communion with Peter and with the College of the Apostles, and who for decades are accusing one another of apostasy from the Catholic faith, since the Supreme Pontiffs who have succeeded on the Chair of Peter from 1958 till today? Why i Byzantine canonical and pseudo Pharisaism pseudo theology of Lefebvre we have been known for four decades: one part, They claim to be celebrated in communion with the Church (!?), spread across texts and documents that indicate as heretics the Roman Pontiffs and the Bishops.

It should be pointed out to all those who lack the gift of memory that the heretical Superior General Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X was not limited to apostrofare as “heretic” the Holy Father Francis … much more! The Roman Pontiff has given this public definition: “We have before us a true modernist!» [see WHO]. It said this memory, to always deficient in memory and perhaps even theological culture, that modernism, according to the wise and always current definition of the Saint Pius X, It is not a simple heresy, but the mother and the repository of all the heresies. From this we may conclude that to deserve respect, the pastoral care, the tenderness and mercy of the Holy Father Francis - it goes without saying, It is a paradoxical question - you have accidentally accuse him publicly of being “repository of all the worst heresies“, as did the Head of Lefebvrians?

If these subjects is made that concession, well as on the occasion of the Jubilee Year, without that they have repented and without first having publicly asked forgiveness from the Roman Pontiff from them insulted bad words, and held up as a true heretic; if they do not fall into the full communion of unity with Rome, how far you can run the risk of turning into an available Sacramento good of which you can use and perhaps abuse arbitrarily? Because the Church is "sacrament of unity" [12] and if the discipline of the sacraments has been reformed under the merciful pontificate of Pope Francis, who has decided to render lawful the administration also to those who disparaging the doctrine and the magisterium deny their communion with the Church "apostate" of the "secret meeting" Vatican II and which does not recognize the acts of the subsequent magisterium 1958 [see WHO], then I demand that the pundits of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments we do so knowing clearly and quickly as possible, so that we priests can take note of the fact that I am the state [the state is me] is that the legislation is me [the law is me], then act accordingly by increasing our prayers, our penance and, if anything, putting even shouting: every man for himself ! Because if the Holy Father was not clear the nature of the supreme apostolic ministry of which he is covered by the mystery of grace - ministry which does not belong to him but that he was given in comodato d'uso to serve the Church and guide her as supreme servant - to us the whole thing is rather clear: no concessions should be made of any kind to people who for four decades accuse the Church of apostasy from the faith and covering insults of Peter and the entire College of the Apostles, because this is not mercy; and if these are the premises of the Year Jubilee of Mercy, as I said above … every man for himself !

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NOTE

[1] CF. Elizabeth Pique, Francesco, Life and Revolution [see WHO].

[2] CF. Dogmatic constitution The light, n. 8 [see WHO].

[3] CF. Code of Canon Law, cann. 331-335 [see WHO].

[4] Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1806.

[5] Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1830.

[6] CF. Code of Canon Law, cann. 1382-1384 [see WHO].

[7] Letter of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to the Bishops of the Catholic Church concerning the remission of the excommunication of 4 bishops consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre, 10 March 2009 [see WHO]; Note from the Secretary of State about the four bishops of the Fraternity of St. Pius X, 4 February 2009 [see WHO].

[8] Statement of Bishop Marcel Lefebvre on the apostasy of Rome, see WHO

[9] Code of Canon Law, on the Sacrament of Penance [cann. 965-986], see in particular can. 976.

[10] CF. LC. 22,32.

[11] CF. Blessed Paul VI, Reintegratio [see WHO]

[12] CF. Dogmatic constitution The light, NN. 1-8 [see WHO]; Code of Canon Law, can. 837 [see WHO]

Giovanni Cavalcoli
Of the Order of Preachers
Presbyter and Theologian

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Father Giovanni

Inadequate pastoral

INADEQUATE PASTORAL

 

The College of bishops in Union with the Bishop of Rome continues and will continue to be the infallible guide in the Catholic faith, whatever the way in which the Magisterium is expressed, simple or solemn, ordinary or extraordinary. It is up to the Bishops, fraternally United in collegiality, remedy the serious crisis of faith which meanders in the Church today.

 

 

Author John Cavalcoli OP

Author
John Cavalcoli OP

Giovanni XXIII opened the Second Vatican

San Giovanni XXIII at the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council

The Holy Father John XXIII in the famous opening speech Mother Church rejoices of Vatican II, the aim of the Council stressed it was not so much to condemn specific errors of this, but rather to bring the Christian message in a style and a modern language, suitable for people of our time. He stated as existed convictions; they were assumed and should not be forgotten; It was instead of giving prevalence to the purposeful tone, without completely exclude "which would not have made sense for the pastoral character of the Council ― the condemnation of the errors, and this conviction there was actually, Although the Council confined itself to General complaints without going into details and without citing the names of the authors. The Council also considered abandoning the traditional formula of the fee and thelet him be, which did not mean that the Council sentences could be taken lightly.

So we find the Council condemns of atheism, of materialism, of individualism, of secularism, of anthropocentrism, of liberalism, dogmatic and moral relativism, the exploitation of workers, of contempt for the poor and the weak, of political crime, the arms race, the war of aggression, dell'aborto, dictatorships, State totalitarianism, of racism, the exploitation of women and children, social injustice, of economic inequality. The Council also looked good, in reforming the Roman Curia, by abolishing the Ministry security guard and defense of doctrinal faith, which until then was called "the Holy Office". Instead this Office, with the new name more clearly than "Congregation for the doctrine of the faith", It was adapted to the spirit of the Conciliar renewal with losing that exclusive and excessive character repressive intervention and sanctions and buy a setting and a more human and Evangelical, for which the reasoned and substantiated refutation of the error was aimed to promote the positives of the erroneous doctrines and human and cultural qualities of the Wanderer, through the use of interpretative and corrective procedures, and the errant insurance greater ability to defend and explain his positions. The penis then were mitigated. At the same time was abolished the index of banned books.

This wise Council setting you would assume that balance that it suggested; but unfortunately often in environments of the episcopate and academic institutions, under pressure from the so-called "progressives", that were actually crypto-modernists, the use was, intensified in recent decades, to tolerate the revival of old mistakes and the emergence of new, lest you be treated by pre-Conciliar and Pastors in the belief that they recognize as pluralism and freedom of expression.

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marble bust of Epicurus

What happened then? It happened that many errors already condemned in the past are resurrected and, not being condemned, resulted in many the belief or the impression that the previous conviction had been superseded or canceled by the new doctrinal and pastoral climate initiated by Council. This was accompanied by the rise of the modernist ideas that supported the mutability of dogmatic concepts, without that this unfortunate phenomenon has been properly restrained, which resulted in many a historicist mentality, relativist and evolutionist, that has led to the contempt of the old convictions and the peaceful assumption of modern errors, also recognized as such only by experts of the history of ideas and heresies, Since in reality many doctrines presented as new and advanced, in the eyes of serious historians of thought, are almost always return, Perhaps with terms or different shades, timing errors immediately preceding the Council or even old or ancient dating back sometimes even philosophers presocratics, like for example the aphorisms of Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Pythagoras, Epicurus, Democritus, O Parmenides Protagoras or mythologies of ancient India or China.

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that “right to abortion” that you can't touch …

We could do many examples of these errors condemned by the Church before Vatican II up until the early centuries of Christianity, errors that remain and that the Council has not denied, but it assumes, at least implicitly: the negation of demonstrability of God's existence rationale; the denial of transcendence, the immutability of divine indifference and; the denial of Christ's divinity; the denial of miracles and prophecies; the idea that God in Christ you dumb man; the negation of redemption and then of the mass as sacrifice for sin and repairer; the denial of sensitive corporeity risen Christ; the negation of hierarchy; the idea that everyone and always in grace; the possibility of salvation even for atheists and for those outside of the Church; the identification of the Church with the world; the idea that every religion is salvation; the negation of primitive pair and of the transmission of original sin by generation; the idea that God never punishes but does only mercy; God forgives those who repent not; the denial of the existence of the damned in hell; the denial of the existence of the devil; the conception of man as a supernatural being or divine; the negation of the immutability of dogma; the conception of faith not as truth but as an experience or as a practice, or faith as essentially linked to doubt or unbelief; the denial of the natural moral law; the exaltation of homosexuality; the lawfulness of artificial insemination, extra marital sexual relationships and use of anti-fecondativi; abortion and euthanasia are intended as; the priesthood of women, etc ..

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the Council of Chalcedon in a Byzantine icon

So similarly believed that the doctrine of the two natures at the Council of Chalcedon is no longer present, refuses the dogma of the human soul as substantial form of the body from the Viennes Council taught in 1312; rejecting the condemnation of Eckhart made by Clement V in 1329; you deny the doctrine of the immortality of the soul proclaimed by the fifth Council of the Lateran in 1513; It is believed that Luther's condemnation made by the Council of Trent is wrong; It is believed that the condemnation of liberalism made by blessed Pius IX is exceeded; no account is taken of the condemnation of Pantheism is made by the first Vatican Council and St. Pius X; he despises the Encyclical Feeding of Dominic's Sheep of St. Pius X; not more mistakes tien of Rosmini condemned by the Holy Office in 1887; There is care of the condemnation of Freemasonry is made by Pope Leo XIII, Communism made by Pius XI, and the excommunication of the Communists made by Pius XII in 1949; There is care of the condemnation of spiritualism is made by the Holy Office in 1918; do not take heed to the dangers of a certain ecumenism reported by Pius XI in the Encyclical Mortalium animos; you forgot errors reported by Pius XII in Humani Generis; It rejects the warning about the teilhardismo made by the Holy Office in 1959.

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famous cartoon about Sigmund Freud

Not to mention the contamination of Catholicism that arise from the fact of mixing it with the thought of the Italian Renaissance, of Descartes, of Luther, of the enlightenment, of empiricism, Kant's, Fichte, Schelling, of Hegel, by Marx, Freud's, Existentialism, by Husserl, by Heidegger, by Severino, Historicism of Bohnöffer, Indian thought, of Buddhism and other.

The lack of critical or corrective action on the part of Bishops or academic institutions or people of Catholic culture leads many to believe that all these theories and ideas on balance have become accepted and acceptable: the church, you think, changed or opinion is correct in most critical studies and more documented. If we want to be modern, updated and followers of the Council ― such is the thinking of many ", We must follow these publicists, journalists, Philosophy, theology, moralists, exegetes, Bishops and Cardinals who have taken positions contrary to the traditional ones presented above. The fact that Rome or other ecclesiastical authorities not to intervene is believed to be a sign that Rome tacitly acknowledges that he was wrong.

This crisis of faith within the Church and among the pastors themselves, excluded, is intende, dad, and the Magisterium, enjoying the charism of infallibility, can be characterized with five attributes: subjectivism, "do-goodism", relativism, modernism, secularism.

Subjectivism. Faith is not conceived more like listening to a doctrine taught by Jesus the teacher, through the Church, but as instant meeting, existential, affective and experiential with Christ, even without going through the Magisterium of the Church: a typical concept of the Protestant faith, which appears not as the jointly adapt our intellect to an objective truth — what Saint Paul calls "the obedience of faith" ―, but as free expression of subjective consciousness, believed to directly illuminated by God, possibly by Writing, but in the sense of Sola Scriptura.

Do-gooders. Then faith is not virtue of intellect, followed by the charity as a result of the will, but faith is resolved in charity and confused. Faith is not the Act of knowing, but it's practical involvement of the whole person, What actually belongs to the charity and not the faith. The charity in any way replaces the truth. It is not based on truth, does not presuppose the truth, but it appears the same as a foundation of truth.

Behind this there is a vision and a dysfunction in the relationship between intellect and will. It must be said that in the past they lacked to charity in the name of truth, see for example the trial of Giordano Bruno; today is missing the truth in the name of charity, for example, to rahnerismo today on the loose.

Relativism. Since each man needs the truth, It is believed that all are in truth understood as charity. Then all are good and in good faith, Although each in their own way. In fact, respect for diversity, the freedom and pluralism requires that the truth is not an objective fact, universal, binding, one for all, but is something related to the subjective consciousness and creativity of each, as each one is different from others.

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religious freedom is also based on the recognition and especially from that reciprocity from which comes then true peace …

From here a false concept of religious freedom, that pretty much is the absolutizing of individual consciousness, liberalism and religious Indifferentism is: Why bother to proclaim the Gospel? So everyone knows the truth already, everyone is saved, all are in favor, all are forgiven, all have good intention and good will. No one does evil willingly. According to them all are in truth, Although my truth contradicts to your. But anyway God is in all and save all. There is no clear opposition, absolute, unchangeable, objective and universal between true and false: the same thing can be true and false for me for you. We all have reason. Depends on point of view. So you must condemn errors and heresies. At most you can express your own opinion but you must also respect the ideas of others, However contrary to our.

It would be good therefore for some close the Congregation for the doctrine of the faith, body that still reflects an outdated mentality pre-Conciliar, inquisitorial. Faith is not a certainty, but a mere opinion among other, by its very nature dialogue, comparison, living with doubt and unbelief. Only in this way is open and tolerant; otherwise you become of Taliban and fundamentalists.

Secularism. We observe that faith has lost its speculative orientation, contemplative, spiritual, transcendent, supernatural, eschatological, Although we continue to use these terms, as does Rahner, but falsificandoli and secolarizzandoli. Actually it says "and Rahner explicitly" does not believe at all in the immortality of the soul and an afterlife, but salvation is only here.

christ old

Christ is God in history

God is not above or beyond history, but only in the history. There is another world beyond this and over this, but Christianity is only for this world which is the only world. There is an addition to the sacred profane, but the same profane is sacred (Rahner). The priesthood is not founded by Christ, but emanates from the people of God ("Low Church"), There are no hierarchies ("pyramid"), but we are all equally priests brothers (Schillebeeckx). The Church's action is a political action and not supernatural (liberation theology).

Christ transcends the world but is the evolutionary World Summit ― "Omega Point" ―: "cosmic" Christology (Teilhard of Chardin). It is not the spirit (divine) that creates matter, but is the matter which becomes spirit and becomes God (yet Teilhard, with reference to Darwin, Schelling and Bruno).

Modernism. All these ideas and perspectives are processed in the belief of being modern and entertaining dialogue and confrontation with modernity, in the wake of the innovative approach of the Council. The idea in itself is good, but the trouble is that here "modernity", instead of being seen as a complex of data to examine in the light of the Gospel, in order to take the positive and reject the negative, is considered itself an absolute, in the light of which the Gospel only what fits into modernity. Is the serious error of modernism of yesterday and today.

Italian bishops

Assembly of Italian Bishops

Spontaneous suggestions branches arise to the Bishops: the College of bishops in Union with the Pope continues and will continue to be the infallible guide in the Catholic faith, whatever the way in which the Magisterium is expressed, simple or solemn, ordinary or extraordinary. Can't go wrong just the single Bishop or bishops (for example, a National Conference) If they are not in communion with the Pope. It is up to the Bishops, fraternally United in collegiality, rectify this serious crisis of faith. Benedict XVI, not for nothing called the year of faith and had plans to publish an encyclical on faith, If the modernists, Obviously alarmed, They stopped. However I think it is good that the new Pope the project put in place by Pope Benedict, without fear of the modernists. They must give, certainly not Rome.

Leap of Faith

the leap of faith …

You have to go back to having genuine appreciation for the theological virtue of faith, that is the beginning of salvation. If the faith is strong and healthy, then can practice any other virtue, first charity. But if faith is watered or confused with other important things, everything crumbles and nothing you can build. Faith can be without charity although with difficulty: but the charity cannot possibly exist without faith, If it doesn't decay in mere philanthropy, to emotion or, worse, a rash of subjective instincts. But faith is truth, to return to have respect for the truth, Some charity. But there is no charity without truth. Proper respect for subjective consciousness and religious freedom should not be an excuse to disparage the objective truth, universal and unchanging. Ecclesiastical authority must reconcile respect for wisely subjective consciousness with the care of the common good in terms of doctrine of the faith, promoting sound doctrine and claiming its disseminators and Apostles, and refuting with good reasons and persuasively continually arising errors, appropriate remedies and opposing lovingly correcting with justice walkers and the rebels.

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the pastoral staff of Bishop, a tool of great charity which should also serve to correct the rebels

This function of Bishops, However today suffered a major crisis, is a vital function of the Church that Christ founded guaranteeing that is won of the forces of hell. How so today the situation is distressing and shocking, as Catholics we are absolutely sure that this crisis will be overcome by the power of the Holy Spirit to a holier Church and stronger than before, true light to the Gentiles and the universal sacrament of salvation.

Varazze, 27 August 2015

Karl Rahner between sociologismi, teologismi and heresies: the theory of “anonymous Christians” – Lectio magistralis by John Carlson

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KARL RAHNER TRA THEOLOGISM, SOCIOLOGISMI Heresies ED: THE THEORY OF "CHRISTIAN ANONYMOUS"

 

Among the various "theories" of the German Jesuit Karl Rahner, one of the best known is that of "anonymous Christians". An ambiguous theory that if read and applied could lead to real nullification of the entire mystery of redemption.

 

 

Author Drafting of the Island of Patmos

Author
Drafting
of the island of Patmos

Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner (1900-1984), expert of Vatican II, in the immediate post-conciliar it acquired a reputation as one of the greatest Catholic theologians and interpreters of the Council. Except though, other eminent theologians, as Fabro, Lakebrink, he card. Relative, Von Balthasar and Cardinal. Ratzinger signaled serious pitfalls contained in the system rahneriano and the falsity of his modernistic interpretation of the Council, does not conform to that of the post-conciliar Church. An interpretation of continuity but not breaking, which provided pretexts to ultratradizionaliste reactions. From the reports of these theologians, at first unheeded, It is rising an international theological movement, faithful to the Church and to the Pope, which he is committed to correct the views rahneriane, the consequences of which have proved harmful in the moral field, as put forward by some moralists, including Don Dario Composed. This movement aims to contribute to the true interpretation of the Council, without disregard the merits of the German theologian.

We present anew on 'Patmos Island a keynote held at the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate Seminary Pontifical Academician John Cavalcoli in which the metaphysical philosopher and theologian dogmatic Dominican refutes this subtle but dangerous heresy Rahner.

 

 

The work of John Cavalcoli of Karl Rahner

 

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Bishops, fashions and advice for new careerists: "Be poor, existential and peripheral-sloppy»

BISHOPS, FASHIONS AND TIPS FOR NEW CAREERS: "BE POOR, -EXISTENTIAL PERIPHERAL AND SLOPPY»

 

together with the pretext of the poor, Today we have a veritable army of Judah, thieves and traitors, ready to use the poor as false and measure as a new pretext for their personal gain, always moved by those irrepressible ambitions originating from the queen mother of all deadly sins: the Superbia.

 

 

Author Father Ariel

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

 

 

Country Priest

the work of George Bernanos, Diary of a country priest.

There are numerous private messages that more brothers I have posted priests from various parts of Italy, all moved by the same underlying substance; but not only them, several confreres from North America and Latin America have also asked me the same question: "Today, to be elected bishops in Italy, it has become a fundamental prerequisite to have been pastor of some more or less peripheral parish, and having dedicated themselves above all to the poor and derelict?».

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Before proceeding further I would like to make an introduction to our readers, because as they know who reads my writings assiduously, it is my habit to call people and situations by their name, I'm so accustomed to shun the "to say and not to say”, the "do not name"but at the same time"make it clear”, If anything oozing poison also, According to the incorrigible habit of certain clerical, that when they press “it is said that…“, shortly after squirt cyanide at its purest.

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THE NEW UNTOUCHABLES – two Genoese priests wearing a kind of apron for housekeeping and a colorful Sadat, taken while travelling with their own Bishop to celebrate the funeral of Don Andrea Gallo, more Companion of ideological Brigade brother in Christ.

Continue with round off on its way to the heart of a problem whose delicacy claim useful examples, starting from this first: time ago, a group of priests - including me - pointed to the president of the regional episcopal conference a little over fifty fellow priest who in our opinion had an Episcopal respectable profile; and maybe, for this, nor his bishop nor the bishops of that area who also knew him they had never dreamed of taking it into consideration. When a bishop does not report its own priest as a factor of the episcopate, and the bishops of the region show no interest to accept him as one of their "band”, it is unlikely that the alert can go forward. Needless then to report potential bishop to various departments of the Holy See, without making sure that does not end impallinato by snipers at the first request for information; because each of the sniper is usually provided with a list of friends of friends to promote and place. This is the reason why in Italy in particular, it is for specialists in cutting the legs of the good elements. Spent time and having had no response, It was sent on ahead myself as a "battering ram" to request explanations. The vice-president of the local bishops' conference gave me this short answer: "Undoubtedly it's a great priest, but it does not correspond to what are now the criteria and pastoral styles of Pope Francis'. I replied: "I am not aware that the Word of God, first, Pietro da He covered an extraordinary and heavy vicarious function, after, We have never proceeded to choose the apostles through the principle of cloning '. Instead of behaving like "sport" the bishop acted for the little man who was said and as such: "But in short, you can not always throw everything in theology!». I replied: "And what should I throw it, in gastronomy?». It resulted in having the bishop turned to the authentic leader impallinatore which was actually, beginning to throw up everything and more, up to define this holy priest as "theologically and liturgically in plaster, rigid and not flexible pastorally ". Something due to the fact that in the two parishes where he had been previously pastor had forbidden the Neocatechumenal celebrate on Saturday night, at the movie-hall of the parish, the "Agape", also known as "messa kikiana”. Had forbidden to lay men and women rule the roost on the presbytery changed during the sacred celebrations in their stage, to make so-called "resonance" during the Liturgy of the Word, because they were often real rants spree doctrinal errors. He had forbidden them to compose the Prayer of the Faithful, to teach catechism to the children of the First Communion and Confirmation to the boys in the questionable "doctrine" Neocatechumenal, explaining calmly but clearly: "In this parish children and adolescents will be prepared to receive the sacraments by the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the texts approved by the Italian Episcopal Conference". And after twenty years of unchallenged domination Parish neocatechumenal, He made for a whole year a series of reflections to explain the liturgical reform contained in Holy Council [text, WHO] the post-synodal exhortation Sacramentum [text WHO] the sense of what is done during the Eucharistic celebration and its meaning in the light of the Roman Missal; but above all he explained that the Holy Mass is the sacrifice, the sacrifice of passion, death and resurrection of Christ the Lord, not a dance party where others - be they people O idea - End up being the real stars.

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Michel-Marie Zanotti

PRIESTS FILL-CHURCHES – Michel-Marie Zanotti, a priest in France ultra secularist drew many faithful, young species, starting from the element basilar: presenting more visibly as a priest [see WHO]

Given the progress achieved, although paid by the priest with a price of accusations and obstructions, after five years the bishop decides to move it to a larger parish where this time the problem was the charismatic "filled" with the Holy Spirit, led by a group of lay people who organized "rites" healing, liberation "rites" of alleged diabolical possession and so on. very difficult task, because if a group of seasoned lay appropriates a parish which manages years after creating the vacuum and turned away anyone who dares not to follow the dictates of the Holy Spirit in the exclusive service of the ringleaders of that movement, the priest may risk being lynched, if not the physical surely the moral, that is worse. Heedless of all, just arrived first of all taken by the "boss"Of the group"pretesse"Filled with special gifts of the Holy Spirit and enjoined: "Give me her copy of the key of the tabernacle". she answers: "I have it for years and I need to organize the Communion to the sick '. Replies the priest: "Give sick I go there, even because, before receiving Communion, several of them, especially the elderly used to frequent use of confession, They might want to confess, What she can not do. Or maybe you think you could be absolved for his charismatic special grace?». Soon said: the "pious women" launched against the pastor anything that resembled the Demon that Jesus rebuked: "enough! What do you want from us, Jesus of Nazareth? You come to destroy?» [cf. Lk 4, 31-37]. After two years it was a real pleasure to celebrate Mass in that parish, where often the brother invited me to preach in some special occasions, so that the faithful also should hear the voice of a different preacher pastor.

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Bishop in tie

THE BISHOPS EMPTY-CHURCHES – S. AND. Mons. Claude Dagens, Bishop of Angoulême (France)

In short, a presbyter reminder for confession and spiritual direction, respected by young people as a priestly figure, not as a priest trendy playing at the little friend Brigadier, because not only do young people need, but they want the very priest who is such authority, authority and discipline of inner life, devoted to prayer and study in his spare time, open and available to all, but at the same time he reserved and always witness through his words and above all his works the sum sacramental dignity of which is covered by permanent and eternal character. I fellows Brigadier our young people if they go them to look elsewhere, certainly not among priests.

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After briefly He had responded to the bishop which he had claimed: "Undoubtedly it's a great priest, but it does not correspond to what are now the criteria and pastoral styles of Pope Francis', here is that the good shepherd covered the fullness of the apostolic priesthood, He kneeled before me with a blouse-clergyman scollacciata - I'd rather duly presented by the bishop with my best Roman cassock - not knowing where to stick told me: "I felt, I understand you, he and others, you are of the same "school" ... in short, however young, Priests are "old fashioned", in cassock always on him. For charity, fate pure, nothing to say, but at least realize that times have changed, whether you like it or not ". He spread his arms and then shined with thumb and left index finger ring on his right middle finger up making the boy who leaves you understand "both the bishop's me, I am ... "and with a wry smile concluded: «… cheat a reason!».

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THE BISHOPS EMPTY-CHURCHES – S. AND. Mons. Jacques Walnut, Bishop of Amiens (France)

What is disheartening for a priest find himself wearing his best cassock, for the respect due initially to the bishop, even though it is revealed as an authentic quintessence of sloppiness. It is bitter to find themselves before a bishop in his pants, with scollacciata shirt, but with the ever-present on the pectoral cross dangling belly, sign of his power and of his often arbitrary humoral. At that point - and I do not regret it - I answered: "You see, Excellence, in my opinion it would be more prudent to avoid annoying people who refused any kind of education and thus of transformation through the gifts of grace, can move abruptly and laid the hoe to the pastoral ". And by that I mean shut the speech. Indeed it also closed the bishop, but he did it with a sentence that confirmed my theory about hoe and pastoral, in addition to confirming that the seminaries - I renamed pretify, great hotbed of deformation and deformed - by four decades not train and do not want to educate anyone. soon exclaims Bishop: "But to go see affanc ...!». And having said that I refused his hand to kiss, because if a bishop sends me to hell, more so I will kiss the hand, not for the obvious poor man who is, but for the sacramental grace of which is covered.

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THE BISHOPS EMPTY-CHURCHES – S. AND. Mons. Francois Fontlupt, Bishop of Rodez (France), please note the mustache to Freddie Mercury …

Soon after, the bishops of that region chose for one of their vacant sees a parish priest who in the three parishes where he had been confined himself to celebrate Mass, leaving everywhere lay people rule the roost, the organization of catechism classes to the liturgy, it prerogative of the inevitable "pretesse”. And when some relatives of sick elderly parishioners, They asked if he could get him to bring Communion, at least sometimes, He said that "there were lay leaders in whose ministry he could not interfere". When together with two other priests in that parish I went to confess several dozen kids the following Sunday they would receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, together with my two brothers I was amazed: boys and girls did not know what to say, were silent scene looking right and left, no one knew the act of contrition and all I had to say to make the sign of the cross while the priest was giving them absolution …

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… singer Freddie Mercury, perhaps more or less distant relative of S.It is. Mons. Francois Fontlupt, Bishop of Rodez.

… and while this took place in the parish church, eight catechists were sitting before the Blessed Sacrament Chapel to chat, to laugh with each other and to send text messages with cell phones, all with their backs toward the tabernacle of the sacred reserve Eucharistic. When I arrived at the parish church dressed in cassock, breviary with arm and purple stole folded over - because of penitents waiting I well “effrontery” old style even to recite the Liturgy of the Hours -, the pastor, today bishop, he said laughing: "But where are you going? Dressed like me scares the boys, They are not used to seeing a priest dressed up in this way. Go to the sacristy, take off this stuff and put white dawn, if you want". Indeed, he administered the confessions with a shirt unbuttoned paintings sitting with his legs on a bench. And when the fateful day he was summoned to the Bishop's Curia of his diocese and was communicated his episcopal appointment, his bishop, dressed in a clergyman sdrucite, after the reading of the official text put on the newly elected head bishop, dressed in civilian clothes, the red skullcap. A scene that, if it were not pathetic, it would be really ridiculous …

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SMALL KÜNG NOSTRANI – the priest Enrico Mazza, course lecturer at the pontifical university catholic-protestant Sant'Anselmo.

… just as in 2011 pathetic was the chaplain of a hospital in Pisa, with whom I went from Rome in the early morning, I come from whom I sought the chaplain and asked if I could administer the anointing of the sick to my brother-in-law. He looked at me as if I were a Martian and enjoined me: "This is a secular environment and if you think to go up in the oncology ward to dress this way, then I say no right away ». Faced with this answer does not think, our dear readers, I had gone to steal from the closets of a clown Circus Moira Orfei clothes with which to clothe me from Rome, absolutely not! I was wearing the cassock and surplice arm, the stole and the book of the ritual anointing of the sick. I took off my cassock and went up in the oncology department with trousers and white shirt under my, because if I have to open the gates of Heaven to a soul, But any dementia - including a priest - requires me before singing "Red flag”, in that case I pretend for two minutes of being untouchable Genovese heretic priest Andrea Gallo and without hesitation attack: "Next people to the Rescue, Red flag …». Of all this, that soul deeply Catholic my brother, he was upset, species at that particular juncture, so much so that he said: "I do not think you go for a few words with the Archbishop of Pisa?». Eruppi with a laugh and replied: "My brother, come on! To make a word with those who, with that good man of John Paul Benotto, to which the priests give pats on the back while on the other hand he could have serious problems in being able to give an order to the porter of the archbishop's palace?». And of course let it go, because if you lose valuable time to reason with certain priests often serves, to lose it with certain bishops is even worse and far more disappointing.

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Paolo Giulietti

BISHOPS DRAWS-YOUNG? – S. AND. Mons. Paolo Giulietti, auxiliary bishop of Perugia [see WHO]

I have just brought the examples of two different parishes that showed in the facts to be: one, a man of God and a man of government, a shepherd caring for the souls that if necessary he says what is right and what is wrong to do, pastorally acting accordingly in conformity with the doctrine, the magisterium and to the laws of the Church. The other, although bad pastor, however, it was provided by his protectors of a "card" where they had been impressed some really magic words today: "... He has dedicated himself to charitable activities, he was an assistant at Caritas, He attended the youth of the nearby golf Rom, etc..". And reading this "" tab there is clear the bleak present and the worst foreseeable future that awaits us. That's clear why the second of two parish priests brought to mo 'sample, and now Bishop, She could not take care of the sacred liturgy left outsourced to the laity; that is why he could not go and bring the Eucharist to the sick; that's why he could not watch over the First Communion children who did not even know the Our father and the boys of Confirmation that not even know what it was the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. He could not do anything about all these things “secondary” because he was engaged in something far more primary: visit the local Roma camp! A topic that which I have already discussed in my previous article, to explain between the lines that if God's ways are notoriously endless, those of the clergy are more and more "finished" and "defined", sometimes even so not just fool [see WHO], because nothing is more dangerous than an incompetent who exercises a power that first of all is a heavy duty; power which in any case does not come to him either by the sovereign people or by the appreciation of the everyday The Republic, but by Christ God.

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BISHOPS DRAWS- YOUNG? – S. AND. Mons. Paolo Giulietti, auxiliary bishop of Perugia.

If someone decided to choose new bishops give her existential suburbs, or to promote the episcopate priests who played at “Compagnucci Brigadier” In fields scouts, instead fascinate young people with the style and charisma of a man of God like the French priest Michel Marie Zanotti [see WHO], go ahead, but the failure will be sealed through the ecclesial drama of the fall in the ridiculous. And unfortunately, in the space of not many years, the results will be paid by the Church of Christ and the People of God. All without even knowing who really make it through, because the mechanism of appointment of new bishops itself is so complex, species in a particular country like Italy, it's almost like a game of Chinese boxes. For what we know is the kind of work done by various church institutions and departments of the Holy See for the selection of future bishops. Work in which are involved several clerics who sometimes manage to drive certain appointments much more than they can make certain influential bishops and cardinals; and not infrequently, the various organs of the Holy See who have tried to carry out a serious and meticulous work characterized primarily on prudence, in an effort to select suitable candidates, you see everything clear before all’Friend of a Friend to place; and often, for these coups, you do not even know what “santo” to thank.

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FIGURE STOLEN IN CINEMAS TO ATTRACT YOUNG PEOPLE? – S. AND. Mons. Nicolo Anselmi, auxiliary bishop of Genoa [see WHO]

Ultimately comes to work concluded a dossier to the Pope containing a set of three names, from which he usually chooses the first indicated among the three candidates. There are several eyewitnesses who reported that often John Paul II signed without even reading the summaries of the three names listed, while Benedict XVI gave him a last and then signed. It is true that to appoint bishops his collaborators is Peter, but the mechanism is quite complex and in most cases the Holy Father merely ratify the choices of others that are the result of investigations, research and evaluations almost always very complex, both for good and for evil. Thing in itself entirely understandable: how could it, the Supreme Pontiff, take care of appointments and the periodic replacement of about 5.000 bishops scattered throughout 'Catholic world? All his time would not be enough for that alone.

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FIGURE STOLEN IN CINEMAS TO ATTRACT YOUNG PEOPLE? – S. AND. Mons. Nicolo Anselmi, auxiliary bishop of Genoa.

From these delicate situations It comes the element of fundamental importance for any Pope: get close to her precious and especially loyal employees. It is the preciousness is loyalty panels on a clear premise: selflessness and faith in the deserved eternal reward for having served freely and without according any purpose the Church of Christ and Peter her Supreme Pastor; and to make these valuable services to the Church and her Supreme Pastor Peter, They are the ones who tell you always what they think, not those who are adept at concealing their own and be equally adept at trying to please in every way, the wagon master. Many are the damages caused to the Church by the period of the last Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, all due precisely to this: choosing bad associates who, in turn, They polluted the dioceses on the one hand and the Roman Curia on the other hand, often placing in the second even those most resembling the parakeets instead of males with all its appurtenances; and when these subjects are then lobby, We know what happens [see my old interview, WHO].

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the Holy Pontiff Pius X depicted in a satirical cartoon of the anti-clerical newspaper L'Assiette au Beurre (Butter dish) n. 242 of November 1905.

For forty years the Church has been playing with the world of the media which is based on logical ruthless image increasingly anti-Christian. Once - in recent times, not centuries ago - the Roman Pontiff and the bishops of many large and medium-sized diocese could walk on foot through the crowd camouflaged in civilian clothes, no one would recognize them; and in fact many did. The image of the Roman Pontiff was just over an effigy of the State coins Pontifical, while that of the bishop was depicted in a picture inserted into an inner room of the cathedral church in which they were collected the paintings of his predecessors. There were several bishops to control the scattered parishes in their dioceses turned camouflaged by secular, without being recognized even by pastors, but above all by the many manicured country that made up the bulk of the slice of their clergy. The Popes of the late nineteenth early twentieth century we had only a few official photos and from the pontificate of Benedict XV some very short and rare footage. With John XXIII the televisions begin to get into places until just before impenetrable and finally, with the pontificate of John Paul II, the media make their entrance “triumphal” in the Church, and every move and breath of the Roman Pontiff will be made public: from the “cradle of the newborn” inside the conclave until his dead body lying on the bed inside the room of his private apartment. Now, I do not say that this is bad, I say that all would be able to handle, why the media, wanting, They can also transform us into a truly grotesque structure through the most dangerous subliminal messages …

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The OF PRODUCTS TODAY PRETEND, THAT IS SEMINARS – within which there is no selection and supervision, where often there are no suitable trainers who have first been educated and made suitable to impart an ecclesiastical education appropriate to the dignity of the future priest [see movie WHO]

… example: beyond the respect of the Italian television after Democrat, if we analyze the shooting made by US television stations owned by secularist or Protestant societies, not to mention the Arab and Israeli, we see in close-ups during the celebrations of Benedict XVI a small army of ceremonies that sway between smiles and flattery, and they do not give some beautiful image of the Apostolic See, but they transmit in seconds the idea subliminally that the rate of male testosterone in certain ecclesiastical circles is quite low. No one pretends that they are chosen as bishops of fashion models, But enter the world of the image with caricatured figures if not worse grotesque, It hurts the Church, making the game that some ecclesiastics are very dangerous and harmful to the media …

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WHEN THE CHURCH PLAYS WITH DANGEROUS WORLD IMAGE – S.E. Mons. Nosiglia, Archbishop of Turin.

… be clear: Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani was not an Adonis, it was not the Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, and it was not John XXIII, the ugliness of which was, however, surpassed by that of Leo XIII, to follow with the frail and hunchbacked Benedict XV. But the ugliness of certain figures or Pappagorgia which endear Ottaviani, They were offset by capacity and uncommon talent also recognized by many people adverse to the Church. What so I lament is the multiplication of figures that even cartoonists of the nineteenth century anti-clerical were going to draw, almost as if today the Church wanted to make a lavish wedding dinner with nuts and dried figs, public figures who presentanto, in addition to being unpleasant, they have not at all the charisma and the talent that would make it very beautiful even in their ugliness. And who reasonably believes that I am wrong, Please indicate and demonstrate publicly my error analysis and evaluation - and if the case so requires well with all canonical appeals of the case -, starting from pundits that the Holy See is at the Italian Episcopal Conference dealing with social communication, namely the service staff of catering organizing lavish wedding with nuts and dried figs.

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Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco and his Auxiliary Bishop, Teodrammatica a contemporary church in which the servant can never be more beautiful master …

Which aims to shake it's obvious, we understand ever since the Holy Father, ignoring all theologians at its disposal, He launched yet another message inviting a priest to preach the spiritual exercises to the Roman Curia. The message passed, however, was the only unusual thing in itself, ie sberlone another given to the Curia and the Curia by a Latin American with the aggravation of the Argentine spirit, and burdened - and let's face it! - By many anti-Roman prejudices. Because at this point I do not know what the Holy Father has truly taken care to know Rome and its history, including the history of the Roman Curia that he would reform, but it certainly can not be reformed without first getting to know her well and thoroughly, but above all without being free from the burden of prejudice. Over time, however, we can assess retrospectively what he is free party, or solid and adamant about their own prejudices, then acting accordingly.

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John XXIII 2

… Also John XXIII was ugly, at times almost caricatural, but he was a man who despite all his amiability could inspire awe at a glance, and the talent that had, faith, hope and charity that animated him, united with his loving sympathy, not only made it beautiful, much more: They made it holy and heroic virtues model.

Singular and unique is the fact it sberlone linked to those spiritual exercises, because what just passed, Once again it was the gesture, or if you prefer the Holy Father's setback came in pullman Ariccia where the exercises were held, taking with him the bishops and cardinals style "group holidays Piedmont, if part! ”, in the words of an old TV commercial. So here's that journalists have delighted telling us that the Holy Father is sitting in the midst of all, the equal of all, in a simple way, resigned … because Francesco is “er papa de noartri ”. Let me be clear: I have nothing to say on certain styles homemade the Holy Father, I would much rather to ask about things far more serious, from the first: of those spiritual exercises, What is left? What was discussed? How it was talked about? What message it was launched by a particularly enlightened by God speaker, He called the onerous office of preaching before the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles and the other Apostles? If we go to practice we find that the spiritual exercises of Pope Francis there only remains the image of a pastor who preaches them, of a Supreme Pontiff sitting on pullman with everyone and among all. That there remains, and it's really miserable thing, as are many other buildings that house day after day, instead of on the rock, It is erected on the sand [cf. Mt 7, 26-27]. On the contrary, instead, memorable spiritual exercises preached in Lent 1971 by Father Divo Barsotti to the Roman curia on the invitation of Paul VI, Today it has left behind a monumental text, sometimes prophetic, work of a mystical authentic, of an authentic theologian, of a real Father of the Church [see WHO]; without which none of us know and without anything to any of us interests and as the board of what the participants have arrived, or where the Blessed Paul VI was sitting on the way.

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This is not to say that it is wrong to take something of parish priests solid experience and promote them to the episcopate, because what they vitally need the many small, but also medium-sized Italian dioceses, It is the figure of a Bishop with pastoral experience, who knows how to treat this with his presbyters and that can receive and guide the flock portion of the People of God entrusted to him. But be pastor is not a guarantee, because the bishop demand extra completeness that few pastors have: first of all, He must be able to govern their own priests with authority and authority, confirming them day after day in faith [cf. LC 22, 31-34] then drive in a decisive and credible God's People.

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the bishop has requested an iron fist covered with a delicate velvet glove.

The bishops must be adverse compared to the attitudes spineless that to please everyone and not upset anyone, create self-destructive paralysis situations because they do not actually govern their particular Church, leaving that to govern is bullying, quarrels and priests arbitrarities divided among themselves, where light is only the arrogance of the strongest in the time that you are placed in the right places after collecting the worst weapons of blackmail. Priests in some dioceses, although representing a small number of three or four elements, they put in check and silenced three bishops one after the other, after making them understand that they had in hand instruments of blackmail both on the moral side both on the economic side to blow up an entire diocese, with all the criminal implications in the event that certain information had reached the competent civil courts. And not a few Italian bishops, in such situations, They remained with their beautiful pastoral in his hand used solely as Liturgical trinket to do done anything.

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the chair of the bishop great master [The model shown in the picture belongs to the Cathedral of Massa Marittima, WHO]

The bishop must be a master of doctrine. And here it should be noted that I have not said a supremely theologian but a master of doctrine, able to teach and if necessary enforce compliance with the Magisterium of the Church which the supreme guardian in his particular Church deposit of credit. And consider the recorded sermons that were spoken both for their settlement is in the chair during the first acts of the episcopal ministry by several of these bishops from parishes-existential-devices, the doctrine of several of them is not that exciting; and when you do not know well and thoroughly deposit of credit, safeguard it is not easy, although of course no limits to the grace of the Holy Spirit, but it is good not to challenge.

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The bishop must also be a connoisseur of law, with a keen sense of natural law. And here you notice: I did not say that it should be a supremely doctor in canon law, but a person with the sense of entitlement, because if it is not, easily slip in free agency, factory all the worst injustices. And also in this case, many of the new recruits, leave to be desired as well in this sense, although it was priests for many years.

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Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, to which we have devoted a few critical articles to his theological thought [see WHO, WHO], but we have always referred to with reverence as one of the most beautiful episcopate figures of the twentieth century, simple but solemn liturgist.

The bishop is the supreme liturgist and celebrating the Eucharist depends on the validity of all the Masses celebrated in his own particular Church. And even in this case it is good to gloss over the sloppy manner and approximate with which certain bishops from parishes-existential-devices, true or presumed, They have been taken for years and years by many cameramen while celebrating liturgies that you may want to draw a veil.

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I stop here not to proceed further, but there is enough to say that both trends, both conformism, lead by different routes but both parallel to the same disaster. Indeed, first fashion maverick bishops-pastors, we experienced both the fashion-curial bishops is the fashion of the bishops-professors. these seconds, mostly linked to the pontificate of Benedict XVI, that realizing how inside the Church of the ferment of heresy or doctrinal errors had pushed up huge panettone, to remedy, instead of closing the factories of panettone, instead of removing certain pontifical universities and pontifical universities the title "Pontifical", He begins to appoint bishops more or less illustrious professors of theology, often right from these factories of heresies, inside which were themselves the first and most pernicious speakers. Unfortunately these professors, some of which are true theologians others instead of pure windbags, over time they have sown around the Italian diocese so many and such damage that in many cases it will take decades before they can repair, especially when such serious damage are related to the priestly ordinations of many wrong subjects as such should never have become priests.

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two farmers kneel on the muddy ground as it passes the country priest who leads the Most Holy Eucharist to a sick. In front of these witnesses and testimonies, how they can, bishops and priests, show up today “trousers and shirt sleeves“? For what, perhaps to attract young? deluded! Are the priests like the one portrayed in this picture only that today might come to fill our churches, if the clerical pride would not close his eyes well before the evidence of the facts.

Problems not solved by switching between fashion, He has already done politics. Either the Church wants to repeat the political mistakes? Does anyone remember the times when before the political fall to historic lows of credibility, politicians tried to lure voters applying actors, singers and players on the electoral roll? Actually it was nominated and elected as well as a famous pornstars. We want to repeat the same mistakes in the Church, pornstars included?

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The problem It is not to become bishops You need not be priests, or professors of theology, or who work in the Curia duties. It is not in fact the role that makes holy man, but the man who sanctifies the role that has been appointed to. A good bishop can then exit out of a suburban parish priest as a luminary of theology; by a qualified diplomatic service or by a priest who served the Church in a curia office, precisely because it is the man who makes the good bishop and certainly not the specific office he has held.

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Ildefonso Schüster

BISHOPS WHO HAD UP TO A FEW TENS OF YEARS AGO – Blessed Ildefonso Schüster, Archbishop of Milan from 1929 al 1954. Figure of great theological depth, mystic and great shepherd of souls. When he made a pastoral visit, often he came at five in the morning in front of the parish churches, he knelt and prayed in the square waiting for the pastor opened the door for the celebration of the first Mass.

In my book published in early 2013, speaking of the episcopate and of our natural vocation to holiness, written in the water of our baptism, It said that it is up to the Church to establish how consecrated in the sacrament of Holy Order should play and pay their grateful and valuable services; the assumption that what is at the basis of the nature of the sacrament of Holy Orders. It is unacceptable that the priests are proposed as candidates for the episcopate, or bishops propose to major metropolitan locations, office of the Roman Curia or the honorary title of Cardinals. Anyone, in direct or indirect way it did, the penalty should be excluded from any possibility of promotion. No one is in fact promoted and consecrated bishop for his personal prestige but to be a faithful servant and devoted to the particular Church entrusted to him, always bearing in mind that God became incarnate in Jesus not to be served but to serve [CF. Mt 20,28]. Therefore we should work towards a day to an important result: a Catholic clergy formed by secular and religious priests are well aware that being bishop of a large and important diocese or be pastor of a small country parish is equally dignified and important for the Church, within which the Bishop of the largest diocese and the parish priest of the small country church offer both an essential service, united by their very nature of servants.

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In the Church there is precious inspiring figure and the high example of the Holy Bishop Charles Borromeo, but there is just as valuable inspirational figure of no less high and example: John Mary Vianney, He elected not by chance patron of parish priests and priests. Surely no sane mind would ever sent Carlo Borromeo parish priest at Ars, and Jean Marie Vianney as bishop in Milan; but it is precisely the Church, the unique and the only one to determine who is to become Bishop of Milan and who the priest of Ars, to better develop its natural vocation to holiness and to preserve and save the faith of the People of God.

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Bishop Mario Enrico Delpini

FROM THE HIERATIC FIGURE OF SCHÜSTER TO CURRENT TIMES – S. AND. Mons. Mario Enrico Delpini, President of the team for the Ongoing Formation of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Milan [see WHO]

When common sense take over fashions or market strategies played on real advertising slogans, the risk that we run is to put John Vianney being the Bishop of Milan and Carlo Borromeo to make the priest at Ars, with a sad consequent results: neither will become saints. The first, will not become holy because be an inappropriate subject as not up to the Bishop of Milan; The second one, will not become holy because it is an inappropriate subject as not up to the priest at Ars, and both sow damage to no end.

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In the state in which we find ourselves, it is useless to look small, futile and clerical strategies, today targeted the baked professors and curial, tomorrow in the parish priests who have taken upon themselves in some way - or really clever joke - the smell of the poor and of those existential suburbs that seem to go out of fashion today. Each of these choices are only palliatives that will lead to total failure. What in fact does not seem to enter into the ever smaller heads of certain ecclesiastical, It is the fact that to come to be truly perfect in one [Cf Gv 17, 23] We must proceed if necessary with dramatic divisions, mindful that Christ the Lord also came to bring a sword and war, not only peace [cf. Mt 10,34]; Mindful that sooner or later, at the right moment, wheat will be separated from the chaff, when you are sure that to rip the weeds is not lost even an ear of corn, which is not to say: ups weeds that choke the good grain permanently [CF. Mt 13, 24-30].

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Rafael Merry del Val

Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, Secretary of State of the Holy Pontiff Pius X, a man who today do not ever become a bishop, or that maybe they would not even be a priest.

Fashions are always harmful, of whatever kind they are, including the current research of parish priests with past real or imagined between Caritas, slums and Roma settlements, because this means that today, a man of God of extraordinary human completeness, morale, theological, legal and pastoral as Rafael Merry del Val, not only it would never became cardinal, but neither bishop and maybe even a priest, because only the sound of his name would turn up their noses many who pretend to want to smell the sheep to be taken on themselves, without having all understand what the Holy Father Francis wanted to say and convey to the shepherds in the care of souls by saying: "Be shepherds wearing the smell of the sheep". Nor ever he would have done any road a man like Giovanni Battista Montini, accused of coming from a family of the old Lombard bourgeoisie. Supersedes then the unhappy fate that in the Church trendy Today would be affected to a person like Eugenio Pacelli and step directly to Angelo Roncalli, but to the real, not to Santino from popular iconography. Today as today, the future St John XXIII, at the peak of the diplomatic career as apostolic nuncio in Paris, It would never become Patriarch of Venice - most ultra seventy -, after spending his entire life in the diplomatic service of the Holy See? Of course not, because if the logic had been applied fashionistas Today would have been tried definitely a pastor of some Veneto province that between 1945 and the 1950 He had enriched their curriculum, up to make it in such a way episcopabile, after dedicating himself to refugees and war orphans or have served meals to the homeless.

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Bishop Claudio Cipolla

S. AND. Mons. Claudio Cipolla, former pastor, newly elected Bishop of Padua, where from 85 years was not chosen a cadidato that was not already a bishop with pastoral experience. Faced with this cute face is affectionately to say: to certain parish priests, until they give him a red, a dignified black cassock if not even put to picking up the appointment as bishop.

If at certain bishoprics They are sent from decades, or even centuries of bishops who have already gained pastoral experience in other dioceses where they have given proof of good governance, There must be a reason? If some Italian archbishop's offices have for centuries also cardinals locations, is because there are ancient traditions related to the history and the past kingdoms and principalities of the Italian peninsula; this has established a tradition that is said to be maintained. Rules and habits can be changed and in fact, to do it, Peter does not have to ask anyone's permission. Limit it, if he wants, or if it has the necessary humility to do it, can ask people who are certain historical and ecclesial mechanisms may know them even better than him, but he still bears the full power to act as considers most appropriate. So that the current Patriarch of Venice was not created cardinal, perhaps to the person concerned does not affect anything, but the Venetians used to having for centuries a patriarch also awarded the honorary title of cardinal very interested and, this failure to red biretta, they experienced as a humiliation. At the other end of our country, the Palermo, are already wondering if after his appointment as Cardinal Archbishop of Agrigento, also for their home will not be given the title of Cardinals to successor to the resigning Cardinal Paolo Romeo.

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Erio Castellucci Archbishop of Modena

S. AND. Mons. Erio Castellucci, newly elected Archbishop of Modena

I understand that the Holy Father He hath now declared as part of "the other side of the world," but that does not mean engage in making things of this world, because it is common ground that the Italian Church, its bishops and clergy, soprattutto alla sua storia bimillenaria, is due at least the same respect that the Holy Father shows to have for real or alleged refugees [see WHO] landing for an average of 700/800 per day in a country - ours - unable to contain and assist such a flood of people, because we are talking about 400.000/ 500.000 people a year who arrive on a certain non-extended territory as Australia. The Italian Church and its history is due at least the same respect that the Holy Father for the inhabitants of the Roma camps, whose workers in dell'accattonaggio blaspheme Christ and all the saints along Via della Conciliazione behind those who dare not give him money. It is not beautiful nor good, even for a Roman Pontiff, albeit enveloped in "liberal" to which he believes seriously or just pretend that case geriatric Eugenio Scalfari, let it be understood: "I am and I do what I want". For us there is no doubt that you are Peter - for your Pentecostal friends do not know ', but to us you are Peter -, But before you establish precise rules, you have full authority to do so. Before Abolish customs and practices, then you should appoint a cardinal who you want and when you want, preventing a slice of your faithful, who for centuries they have been at the head of their diocese a bishop always created cardinal practices, they have to ask: "But what have we done wrong to the Church and the Holy Father?». The Church needs of their steadfastness and their own stability, which they contribute to some extent the traditions and customs of all accidental and quotas as such are changing and may be abolished at any time by the Supreme Shepherd. But I think that the least likely candidate to make the dangerous game to destabilization without first having established rules, is the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, also because sooner or later, the People of God, that has never been a fool in the whole course of the history of salvation, You might begin to wonder: in which pro 'all this, but especially, at what price?

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Giuseppe Siri

Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, Metropolitan Archbishop of Genoa, also remembered as a man of extraordinary class and hieratic dignity. His mother worked as a concierge and his father was a handyman. He became a priest, however, at a time when the workshops were equipped with all the educational tools needed to maximize human development, morale, spiritual and theological of young talent.

The greatness of the Church has always been to be a mother and teacher, and a good teacher, which it is also mother, primarily educates. This is the reason why this extraordinary mother who is a body whose head is Christ [cf. With the 1, 18], He never made the class distinction, race and nation. We know all the flaws of our Church, holy and sinful according to the old definition ambrosiana. historical defects that the undersigned knows enough to have them repeatedly stigmatized in deference to the wise admonition of Pope Leo XIII who on September 8 1899 stated:

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"The Church historian will more strongly emphasize its divine origin as has been loyal in no way conceal the evidence that the sins of her children and sometimes of his own ministers did suffer this bride of Christ".

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Yet this mother and teacher, and at the same time holy and sinful, even in its most controversial eras and you contrasted saw up to their so-called leaders many men from very simple and modest families; because even in its most controversial eras and contrasted could spot talent, rather: I was looking right. Who today says, a spirit so romanofobo as anti-historical, which until not so long ago, to become bishops and cardinals had to be called Borghese, Orsini, Column, Odescalchi, Chigi, Doctors, Sforza ... wrong and mind. The histories of the bishops who have succeeded in many of our numerous Italian dioceses, They include many names of men from poor families, entered in the seminaries with kits donated to them by a poor country priest who had collected offers from equally poor faithful.

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pietro Gasparri

Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, Secretary of State succeeded to Cardinal Merry del Val, He came from a family of farmers Marche, by many is considered as one of the greatest canon lawyers of the twentieth century.

Do not forget that to succeed Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, who had a blood concentration of the oldest noble families of Europe, was Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, who was secretary of state under Pope Benedict XV and Pius XI, as well as a signatory of the Lateran Treaty that ended the long Roman question began with the capture of Rome on 20 September 1870 lasted 59 long years. Peter Gasparri, born in the Marche in a village of the province, He came from a family of farmers pastoralists, was a canonist of rare refinement and decisive was his contribution to the drafting of the Code of Canon Law 1917. From modest family came the Holy Pontiff Pius X, who also he wanted beside him in the role of Secretary of State, Cardinal Merry del Val. From a poor family born Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, in the Trastevere, where his father worked as a laborer at a baker. We stop to these few examples that really would be the long list of men whose names are now part of the history of the Church and were not taking all the surnames of the most powerful European princely families.

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What about the fact that in the early sixties, while in the United States there was racial segregation between blacks and whites, in Rome, a newly elected black cardinal red dress with purple and ermine cape magna, received kissed knee flexed by the papal nobility? Knows the Holy Father Francesco these edifying pearls of history related to a Roman curia kissing the hand of a black while in the US blacks could not even go on public transport? He is informed, the Holy Father Francis, that his Supreme Predecessor Benedict XIV, nee Prospero Lambertini, In the 1741 He did not hesitate to challenge, even with all the risks of the case, the major European powers, condemning without appeal slavery and declaring illegal, under penalty of immediate excommunication, the sale and the reduction of the Indians to slavery? Condemns, however, already delivered earlier by his predecessors Supreme Eugene IV [1435], Paul III [1537], urban VIII [1639], none of which came from existential suburbs They never played any apostolate in villas miseries.

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Alfredo Ottaviani

Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani in an image of old age. Was prefect of the then Holy Office, today Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, man of great acumen and theological character of Vatican II. He was born in Trastevera from a very poor family and as Cardinal. Merry del Val is very devoted to charitable activities in favor of Roman children of that neighborhood, who affectionately they nicknamed him for his enormous double-chin “er jowl Cardinal“.

Unfortunately I fear that for some decades they are crushed delicate and old balances, and today we seem apotheosis joints. man ever, in the past, a Rafael Merry del Val prevented a priest of recognized talent with him to sit in the pews of the College of Cardinals, as guilty of coming from humble beginnings. But what today we should instead fear is that many Pietro Gasparri and Alfredo Ottaviani totally devoid of great talent and great compassion which characterized these men of God, but filled with ambitions in return for which they never could aspire in the civilized world, can prevent a Merry del Val to become bishop and cardinal, since "it does not correspond to what pastoral criteria and styles are today" - from villas miseries - "The Holy Father Francesco", with all the terrible harm that would result to the private church of this faith, of such talent and such a rare intelligence.

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I do not know if anyone will reflect on all this, in a Church no longer able to educate and logical grasp the talent and mutate in the very principles of the Gasparri and Ottaviani, making them the principles for nothing less principles of a prince of birth as Merry del Val. I fear that in these sad times, where many churchmen seem the immediate junkies and live day after day without thinking of the future and to build for the future, few will make similar reflections. When in fact the one hand they make a coup and the other one gives in to fashions, the first thing you lose the freedom of the children of God and trying the worst coercion and arbitrary action of the worst even force others to the loss of this precious gift of grace. A church that no longer free teetering between bankruptcy and fashions equally unsuccessful experiments is bound to collapse, from his heart: the Sacred College of the Apostles, in which to recruit a mediocre after another into effect the coup of mediocrity in power. Never as today is in fact echoed the false and misleading warning which Judas:

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[…] then Mary, took a pound of ointment of true nard, very precious, He anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. Then Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who would betray, he said: "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?». He said this not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and, He had the bag, to take what was put therein. Then Jesus said: "Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial. For the poor you have always with you, but you do not always have me " [GV 12, 3-8]

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E together with the pretext of the poor, Today we have a veritable army of Judah, thieves and traitors, ready to use the poor as false and measure as a new pretext for their personal gain, always moved by those irrepressible ambitions originating from the queen mother of all deadly sins: the Superbia, which always blinds, preventing to correctly perceive the present and the future to build a holy manner to the praise and glory of God.

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