GIACOMO BIFFI HAS LOST THE TRAIN?

 

With Cardinal Giacomo Biffi returns to father's House one of many Bishops of the last fifty years of church history which seem to have lost the train, Despite having spent his life talking to great wealth and competence of railway stations, always and pontificando penalty from the first class waiting room of Central station, while in all the other stations of the railway network the systems to lower the bars at the level crossings when the freight trains were passing were not even active.

 

 

 

I do not intend to do the so-called contrarian, because it was for me I would like not to do it and least of all to be. However, I do not intend to share this Italic mania to beatify the dead at all costs.

Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna from 1984 al 2003, is one of several Italian Bishops that I respected and more appreciated aspects, but which I have not estimated. Nothing bad, because as a priest I must be devoted to any Bishop as such, Why is their due respect — as in the case of Bishop having jurisdiction over me, for my part, the branch is also due obedience — but no estimate, that is not due to no Bishop; and if the Bishop wants it, he must deserve it and earn it. This was written in a very polite to Cardinal Giacomo Biffi in 2011, When I sent him a copy of my book And Satan came Trino, in which I dedicated to him a polite critical section, what I propose below at the end, and through which I let the person concerned understand why I venerate him as a bishop but did not respect him.

Faced with the current ecclesial situation in which Peter's boat is battered by the stormy waves, the responsibilities of men like Cardinal Giacomo Biffi are enormous; and this responsibility must meet face to face with God, regardless of whatever style of italic which I said earlier, certain characters will then beatified during the short drive that leads them from the mortuary until the Tomb, even newspapers ultra secularists specialize always reduce the Catholic Church in real pulp.

My modest and painful experience of priest and Pastor with the care of souls taught me to measure certain men of the church based on what they say, but what they do, or often what they don't do, because the sin of omission, together with the Sin capital of Sloth, they are the two most practiced sins of these times by clergymen. All beyond the fact that I am willing, as the Gospel, doing what right and wise to say but not to do what wrong do: «What they tell you, do it and look, but do not do according to their works, because they say and do. In fact, bind heavy burdens and impose them on the shoulders of the people, but they don't want to move them even with a finger " [CF. Mt 23, 3-4]. Unfortunately, really serious problems come when we find ourselves in difficult condition of not being able to do what they do but not what wrong say.

The bishop, depositary of the fullness of the Apostolic Priesthood and rightful heir of the Apostles, he is a Father who governs the particular Church entrusted to him. And a Bishop is not measured nor is judged historically by insightful jokes that gave us or from books he wrote, but from what he did, by the way in which he governed his Church and cared for the portion of the People of God entrusted to him. Therefore, if on one hand I consider Cardinal Giacomo Biffi a shiny pen, a sharp orator, a man of refined intelligence and a man of faith, on the other hand I have many reservations about his long pastoral Government, that is measured on all other items, I will mention only some of the many:

1. While a large slice of Bologna clergy slid in deeper secularization and modernist theologians led brilliantly out a real blow in the diocese felsinea, where he was and what he was, Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, that that particular Church was not a simple sharp and ironic observer “exterior”, but the Supreme Guide?

2. While for lack of vigilance and inadequate training offered, over the years even priests who were not suitable for the priesthood left the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Bologna, often bad formats thanks to "good" offices of several villains masters, with all the problems, even serious ones, which usually ensue from this in the clergy, where and what did the Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Since priests he consecrated them? Mistake, or the word “bishop” derives from the Greek bishop, which literally means “controller”, “vigilante”?

3. When several senior priests and long-time parish priests begged him several times not to ordain certain subjects as priests, Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, with irony - or perhaps with cynicism? — which has always characterized, leaving awestruck these elders replied that in the Church there was also need for labour» (!?). Responding to this way, he was never touched by the dramatic dilemma as to what would happen to the Church, When many of these "unskilled workers", good as few to snatch the good branches in the vineyard of the Lord, would become trainers, Faculty of theology, or even bishops?

4. While the scope and theological formation of Bologna was a powerful and impregnable feud of the dossettiani, while being recognized and allowed the license to teach in subjects who were delighted to sign posters against the Italian Bishops ' Conference and in fact against the Pontifical Magisterium [see WHO]; While a large number of teachers in charge of formation of future priests openly criticized the Magisterium of John Paul II in theological studies in Bologna, where and what did concretely the shrewd and ironic Giacomo Cardinal Biffi?

5. In a publication of the Cairo Cardinal Giacomo Biffi wove the praises of Joseph Babu, on whose sensational do not intend to dwell doctrinaire errors, I'd rather leave the unpleasant task to John Carlson, If you have time and desire, given that it was he — later our dear and esteemed Antonio Livi — to refute his Dominican friar, paying a very high price, aware of how they made it to unfairly pay for attack … “lesa majesta” [see WHO, WHO].

6. How many times has happened that Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, by no means exempt from that humor which is hardly suited to a man of government, in his capacity as President of the Episcopal Conference of Emilia Romagna led to the appointment of persons unsuitable to the episcopate and how many, then, when certain candidates proposed by him difettarono, rather than admit to having wrong to evaluate them, protected them before the Holy See, rather than invoke for them all due and strict references?

7. Because the Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna, President of the Episcopal Conference of Emilia Romagna, Member of the College of Cardinals, Member of three important Roman dicasteries, with the possibility of contact and direct access to the Supreme Pontiffs John Paul II and Benedict XVI, of whom he has always enjoyed the profound esteem, It is instead limited to be ironic right and missing, through speeches and books, rather than exercise all the prerogatives of his high office for example epurando from theological studies some bad teachers responsible for breastfeeding future priests with poisoned milk of the worst heresies and modernist thoughts and ambiguous misunderstandings of Hegel and of certain theologians of the New Theology?

The universal Church and the particular churches do not save with two shrewd ironic jokes, nor with very relevant and intelligent banter with dozens of publications; because when you got from God the gift of prophetic read in advance the evolve of certain problems in the course of time, It is required more than ever to act, always paying high prices, as we teach the story of salvation, as we teach the order given to Prophets of Israel, as in their little have paid without hesitation the fathers of’Patmos Island, never haggle on the truth and the mystery of salvation.

It's true, as the beatificators have written in recent days, Cardinal Giacomo Biffi had talked beforehand about the new danger "the Islamic invasion", as recently I reminded myself to its undoubted merit [see WHO], But while he spoke about this problem from there would create short-term emergency situations no longer arginabili, many of his priests were active more than ever to accept Muslims to glory, to put them to the best in our House; many of his priests were industrious in encouraging mixed marriages between Italian and Catholic Women Muslim men, as they were in carrying on that false and misunderstood ecumenism - which, moreover, does not reside in any document of the Second Vatican Council - which he always and rightly criticized. Unfortunately, While Cardinal Giacomo Biffi was insightful jokes, During the eighties, many of his priests organized inter-confessional meetings that would make the skin crawl to the most extreme ecumenisms of the Northern regions of Europe, in total silence and complete non-action and non-reaction of their Bishop.

I believe that Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, for gift and special grace of the Holy Spirit, have been able to read and describe the reality of the present and the future that awaited us, limited though to play before the home foil ironic enveloped by flames. Or to put it in other words: the Cardinal Giacomo Biffi was given not only the light of awareness, because with it he had been given a precise task and with it also the most adequate action tools, but with that typical cynicism of clericals cloaked behind as many clerical reasons “always higher”, did a halfway job. Returning to the father's House with a perception and objective awareness of that very dramatic reality which he has spoken and written, but which in fact he did not face and before which he did not act by making use of all the apostolic powers which he had been invested with by the gifts of grace of the Holy Spirit.

Not only the Cardinal Giacomo Biffi it had been equipped with all the pastoral instruments of government, but also the best supports, including the esteem of two Supreme Pontiffs and that of many Catholics who would have protected and followed him even in the face of his very unpopular decisions. Therefore, one of the many Bishops of the last fifty years of ecclesial history who missed the train returned to the Father's House, Despite having spent his life talking to great wealth and competence of railway stations, always and pontificando penalty from the first class waiting room of Central station, while in all the other stations of the railway network the systems to lower the bars at the level crossings when the freight trains were passing were not even active.

And may the Lord have mercy on him, because who like us priests has had so much in gifts of grace, for both had very seriously will have to answer to God, He will use towards us a totally proportionate severity, opinion having entrusted his Church, his People and his message of Salvation.

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THE PRETTY FOIL GIACOMO BIFFI

 

 

 

 

In memory of Giacomo Biffi, bishop

KILLING IN THE NAME OF GOD, REFLECTIONS ON ISLAM

On the question of how to punish the impiety is interesting comparison between the Bible and the Koran. In both the use of force or killing the enemy's legitimate, of the attacker and the wicked. Both the Bible and the Koran admit one God who reveals himself to the prophets. But here ends the contact between the Bible and the Koran, because according to Islam the revelation that God has made his salvific will humans not culminates in Jesus, but it goes beyond, Jesus corrects to culminate in the Mahomet, who claims to correct Jesus because not only would he be made God, but falls in the pagan polytheism, stating that in God there are three people, then claiming three gods, impiety worthy serious Muhammad of capital punishment.

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which we now present, 2 August 2016, this article last year

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Muslims are convinced to conquer the West, even those among them who are not jihadists or extremists, They are convinced. I've heard him say many times: "We will conquer Europe with faith and with the fruitfulness"

His Bechara Boutros Raï Beatitudine, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites [cf. WHO]

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It is often said that one cannot kill in the name of God, why, if he says, God is the God of life and does not want anyone's death. It does not make sense, It is a crime to attack next in the name of religion [1]. So motivated, This speech can have its validity, and it is important to stimulate the love of neighbour and honor of God, especially in our time, in which, with the terrible weapons that we, if a serious conflict arises, We know how it begins, but we will not know how it will end up. This talk also stimulates the faithful of different religions to mutual respect and to refrain from violent actions under the pretext of defending their religion. However remains a puzzlement on three points: first, There is no way to kill: it is one thing to kill an innocent, for example an abortion, an account is to kill in self-defense or to save the homeland. It is true that God does not want anyone to die.

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Let us ask ourselves then how exactly that principle should be understood. About it remember that legitimizes the killing is nothing but a way to put into practice a principle of Justice, that is the moral or legal law. But who is the tutor first and high of every law and every right, name Dio? Killing in the name of the law, of justice, of the common good, of freedom, What is then ultimately, except to kill legitimately in the name of God? We must not be too hasty in saying that you can not kill in God's name, without making the necessary clarifications; otherwise you end up endorsing that injustice and violence that would prevent, as it is just the right murder or the proper use of force, that punish and prevent in some extreme cases the injustice, violence or actual mass sterminî.

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Peace is not built and defended only peacefully, but also coercively. To spare those who are submissive and to conquer the proud, as the great poet Virgil. Already the ancient Romans had the motto: If you want peace, prepare for war. The enemies of peace must be overcome or kept at bay. War is not remedied only by inviting the belligerents to peace, but also indicating what concretely the aggressor must give up why don't both move a just war. This is the work of Evangelical advocates of peace. The work of justice and peace.

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It would be nice to be able to persuade a gangster (c)he looks threatening to us with the gun aimed to desist, maybe in the name of God, from his bad deed. But experience shows that, unfortunately, hardly the criminal has the fear of God, so this noble call, unless we are gifted by God to a rare gift of persuasiveness and the gangster is touched by grace, it has no effect. But you can't ordinarily rely on these supernatural interventions and God commands us to resort to human prudence. Hence the need to move to pickax. The give up self-defense or combat, When would be necessary and possible "we think for example to warring military" is a serious indiscipline or cowardice toward themselves and toward the common good, that may be subject to criminal penalty, as in the case of renegade soldier. It is said that saving the skin is always a legitimate defense.

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Different is the sacrifice of one's life, in the civil field, see for example Salvo d'acquisto; or religious, see for example St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe. This can be a most noble gesture of heroic love. And here we have Christ himself and the martyrs as our supreme model, who allow themselves to be killed - for example a Saint Ignatius of Antioch - to testify their faith or to save a multitude. Maybe that even in these cases is not acting "or rather" do not suffer in the name of God? Therefore God wants the death of the martyr? The father wanted as such and the death of her son? It would be ungodly to say so. The father wanted his son's sacrifice, which resulted in death.

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If I pay a fee to buy a well, don't pay for the sake of spending money, but to buy that good. Don't accuse me of having squandered the money, ma, If I made a good deal, I'll be worthy of praise. Which one “deal” more advantageous to us the Father, for his glory and that of his son, he could devise what to give his Son for our salvation? For this St. Paul says that we were ' bought dearly» [The Cor 6,20]. Those who foolishly, as Edward Schillebeeckx, focus on the material fact of Christ's death, to deny the value of the redemptive sacrifice of Christ by his father and wanted to make sure only the murder committed by killers of Christ, they don't know what they say.

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Second point. Acting in the name of someone, If it is sincere, is an act for which the agent performs an action, the qualification which involves moral and responsible person on behalf of whom the agent acts. From him, in the name of such acts, people, after all, receives the endorsement or the mandate to do what it does in its name. The action of the agent, so, It is not that the execution of the will or of the person in whose name the agent acts. What the agent does, It does for the principal authorities, guaranteed by that authority and to honor the same principal, receiving glory from the action of the agent, assuming of course that it is a good deed.

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The priest acts in the name of Christ, when this occurs validly and legitimately, it means what it does, it does so either because of or by the power of Christ or by the authority of Christ or by mandate or on behalf of Christ. Ultimately, what the priest does as a minister of Christ, it comes from Christ. Christ is the ultimate justification of what the priest does.

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Beyond a purely reading material of the fifth commandment, fashionable today, but only when it's convenient, it must be borne in mind that killing in itself is not yet a sin or a crime. It is necessary to see why or in the name of what or of what value or of what idea one kills. The judge who in the name of the law imposes the death penalty on the criminal, It is not a killer, but he acts according to justice, vindex is the law and defender of the common good of threatened criminal. The jeweler who, threatened with death by a thug, to defend the prevents and kills him, It is not a murderer, but he defended the inviolable value of his life as an innocent. The unjust aggressor loses the right to live with his own act of aggression, While the attacked unjustly has the right and duty to defend, up to kill, If necessary, the aggressor.

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The Righteous Kill It is therefore the right, as justified by a value or by a law that give sufficient legal or moral reason at the time of killing. In the name of defending innocent life may be safe to suppress a life. A lower level of life can and must be sacrificed to the higher, When this is endangered by the first. An idolatrous cult of life would make it impossible to supply the same. But let's ask ourselves: what is it or who, ultimately, justifies or establishes the bloody defense of life, unless the creator and Lawgiver of life, i.e. God? Here, then, as is evident, in the aforementioned cases, the killing of a criminal in the name of God.

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It is obvious that God is the God of life and does not want the death of the living, not even that of an Ant, because every living thing from him is created, loved, guarded and preserved. But precisely because God is such, protects life from defends unjust assailant, much to enable legally or even control the killing.

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Let's ask ourselves another question: It may be right to kill the wicked, that is, the one who dishonors the name of God? God punishes the wicked with death? Surely God is immortal and does not need neither to defend nor be defended. However, even those who kill in self defense, even the judge who sentenced to death, even those who fought in a just war or for Justice or for freedom, ultimately fighting for God or in the name of God, that tutor and of vindex is all these values. As Scripture says: «Save the weak and the poor, liberatelo by the hand of the wicked» [Shall 82,4].

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On the question of how to punish wickedness, the comparison between the Bible and the Koran is interesting. In both there is coercion or the use of force or the killing or legitimate enemy or assailant or killer, and even the wicked. In both of these sacred texts, such acts, in appropriate conditions and circumstances, are undeniably taken from God or made in his name.

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Both the Bible and the Koran admit a one God, single, spiritual, personal, creator of heaven and earth, then the angels and mankind, Eternal, Infinity, very high, wise, Provident, Almighty, mysterious, salvatore, just and merciful, that rewards with good paradise, the believers and the obedient, and punishes the wicked with hell, the infidels and the disobedient.
This God is revealed to the prophets, as it is revealed to Adam, to Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But here ends the contact between the Bible and the Koran, why, as we know, According to Islam, the revelation that God has made his salvific will humans not culminates in Jesus (Issa), but it goes beyond, corrects Jesus and culminates in Muhammad, who, without denying qualities and virtues in Jesus by Muhammad himself considered holy, up to chide the Jews killed him, However claims to correct Jesus because not only would have made God "and Muhammad here coincides with Judaism", but falls in the pagan polytheism, stating that in God there are three people, so, in the eyes of Muhammad, claiming three gods, impiety serious, worthy of capital punishment.

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Salvation, so, According to the Qur'an, does not take place by means of Christ's sacrifice, but with submit to God wholeheartedly and with absolute faith (Islam), in prayer, in ritual practices and in listening to the spiritual guide (Imam), in keeping to the Koranic law (Sharia), the study of the Qur'an, in the practice of virtue and in repairing the wrongs done. To this cultic sacrifice of the lamb is not a priestly Act, but simple to treat God, that can be accomplished by any faithful, as a member of the religious community (Umma).
Different is the method of the diffusion or promulgation of the divine orders concerning salvation in the Bible and in the Koran. In both cases you intimate with every man to accept and obey orders, under penalty of eternal damnation. «Who believes will save; Whoever does not believe will be condemned " [cf. MC 16, 15-16]. These words of Christ, mutatis mutandis, feedback can be found in the words of Muhammad. But there is also this profound difference: that while Christ refers to the afterlife damnation, the Qur'an also speaks of an earthly immediate coercion.

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Also different is the salvific message content in one and in the other case. The maximum difference is noted between the Koran and the Gospel: While the Quran merely transmit prescriptive orders with promise of reward and threat of punishment, This is not present in the Gospel; This however has as main announcement, entirely absent in the Quran, the coming of Christ the incarnate Son of God, that redeemed us with the sacrifice of the cross, giving us the remission of sins, the advertisement so that God wants us to grace, to make us his children and to give us his own divine life through Christ.

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The faithful relationship with God in the Quran It then summarizes the “devotee” (muslim, from which “Mussulman”). The perspective of the faithful as is completely absent “son of God”, which instead, as you know, it is fundamental in the Gospel. On the contrary, for the Qur'an, that does not accept Jesus as the son of God, the idea of a divine sonship bears an inexcusable familiarity with God, which the Koran, without excluding leniency, However, accentuates the transcendence and temibilità.

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Also note that in the Koran the subjective consciousness has a very small part. What man thinks or wants so it does not affect anything; for which the Koran leaves little room for personal reflection or being examined for signs of credibility that may lead to a convinced and reasoned faith. The faithful is more moved by fear of retribution that the love of a God who is love, as in Gospel. He must obey and just, more so than God, whatever human decisions, does what it wants without taking account of human choices. Hence the distinctive Islamic fatalism, which human free will crisis straining to derive from God as much good as bad.

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The coercive element appears in the religion of Islam also under this angle: the faithful believe and obey not so much for love or free personal reflection in consciousness, but for fear of eternal punishment and threatened thunderstorms. It is therefore necessary to make a distinction between divine injunctions announced in the Old Testament and those announced by Christ. Moreover, in Church history, It should be about, distinguish three periods: first, the early Church was persecuted by the Roman Empire; second, the Constantinian era, inaugurated by Constantine in 315, the Christian religion has become religio bid and even the official religion of the Empire. And finally we have the third period, currently in progress, whose preparations begin, After the Protestant crisis and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, principle whose region, his religion, the religious freedom enshrined in the peace of Westphalia the 1648. This approach of the Church-State relationship reaches maturity in civil field with the French Revolution, which puts an end to the medieval theocracy (old regime), he founded the democratic secular state and confirmed the right to religious freedom, without admitting that misfortune atheist state, that was the tragedy of the 20th century, of which we have not yet completely freed: see for example the Chinese Communist regime.

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This new type of relationship between state and church "free church in a free State" as Cavour, released by Liberals from which grain was infected, was officially recognized ecclesial field, After being put into practice since the past centuries, from the Second Vatican Council. Instead, the Qur'anic style the announcement of divine commands resembles that of mosaic Church of the medieval regime “secular arm“, When the Pope ruled a Western European Christianity entirely cattolica, so that you can serve in some degree of civil power and the public force to enforce the rules of Christian ethics and the contents of Catholic doctrine, approved the State law.

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It is to be noted that the Constantinian recognition of Catholicism as the State religion, if on the one hand it helped and protected the Church to assert itself on the civil level and to expand geographically in accordance with its mission and spiritual purposes, on the other hand not allowed to implement properly the Lord's command to spread and sustain the Gospel with the simple testimony of charity, of solidarity and human promotion, without the use of coercive apparatus provided State, what later would be called “secular arm“. In this the Church assumed the new style of Apostolate established by Christ, but it still remained influenced by the Mosaic tradition, who wanted the announcement of divine orders was meant by the Prophet and the priest, but supported by coercive power and King's justice. Moses himself, as you know, It was not only the Prophet and liturgist, but also political and military leader of the people of Israel; and Muhammad, for his prophetic style, not taken to model Christ, but Moses.

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Thus the papacy over the centuries acquisì, as is known, a real temporal power with territory, that was the so-called “States of the Church“, equipped with military forces like any other European state. In the field of ecclesiastical discipline the death penalty for heretics was tacitly abolished only with the abolition of the Criminal Code of the Papal States following the fall of the temporal power in 1871.

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The birth of the Italian, inspired by the principles of secularism and then open the right of religious freedom and the end of the temporal power marked the beginning of a new era in the relationship between Church and State in relation to evangelization and to the question of ecclesiastical use coercive power. The church, while maintaining its own judiciary and coercive power against the faithful, it stood towards civil society no longer Catholic but religiously divided or pluralistic, no longer as the State religion that is ultimately as one of the powers of the State, although under the presidency of the Pope, but as a public community competitor to the common good of society and the State within the State and obedient to civil laws, Despite its autonomy as a church, while at the same time it was protected by civil law.

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As the project of Koranic spread of Islam, It is inspired on the one hand by the Jewish people created by Moses "always, is intende, in the name of God "and the other towards Evangelical program of world conquest for Christ. Indeed, While on the one hand, the practice of the Islamic faith is associated with the possession of a territory, and therein the Qur'anic project resembles that of mosaic conquest of Palestine as the promised land, with the forced expulsion of peoples formerly therein in, on the other, Unlike Israel, the Muslims, taking a cue from the Christian perspective of world conquest, they believe that God sends them to conquer the world not only in the sense of global spread of Islam, but also in the belief that God has given to them the physical possession of the entire Earth, something that cannot happen without the use of arms. Hence the concept of “Holy war” (jihad), as military support of the preaching of the Koran from Islamic preachers.

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The Islamic religious authority does not claim to have only that coercive power that is allowed in principle to censor the faithful deviants, as is also given in Christian canon law, But u.s. threats and coercion even against the infidels or those to whom it is directed the Koranic message. The words of Christ ' who does not believe, will be condemned ", After having changed the reference to the Gospel, are therefore adapted to the Koran and preaching are intended in the sense that whoever does not accept the Islamic faith, he is punished up to the death penalty or forced to accept it by force.

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The use of force in the name of God in Islam until you come to the murder in jihad, goes beyond any reasonable limit of respect not only the conscience of others, but his own physical safety. It is a missionary zeal whose doctrinal content may be partially acceptable, such as divine attributes or certain duties of morality or divine worship; But what is absolutely unacceptable and, to the limit, inhumane and barbaric, it is this method of violent and aggressive pressure, that oversees each method of calm and thoughtful persuasion, with the adduction of evidence and signs of credibility, that characterizes so obvious the Christian apostolate.

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It's not that the religious culture, philosophical, Theology and Islamic mysticism, mind you, It is not full of great values and great thinkers, Masters, moralists, poets and mystics, only this immense literature formed over the centuries, not at all a free charm, of its suasiveness and credibility, then instead of fact sets by force from religious authority-Islamic policy in its inexorable motion of expansion and conquest of peoples not yet subdued to the Qur'an. And that is because the motor of Islamic expansion is not only the religious interest, but inextricably to this joint, is a thirst for power and political and even economic domain.

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In conclusion, we can say that appealing to God to justify the use of force or the Suppression of a human life can be lawful or a laudable action if it is right in itself, Since God is the Foundation of Justice and the Supreme Lawgiver, so everything is right can be found in Him its latest justification. This appeal, however, it must be sincere and well founded and must not be a pretext for coonestare an act of violence or an injustice. We must therefore see many acts of Saints who in the past have resorted to the use of force or endorsed in the name of God and for the love of God. We cannot think that they were all or cruel fanatics or hypocrites. They were in good faith, Although the time was not yet ripe, and even if undoubtedly they have done acts that we would not do today. But this does not mean that they remain our models, Once we have adapted their testimony to the needs of the Church today. Many doubts instead leave us some Islamic habits and stubborn inveterate, "not to mention the terrorists, they have nothing of religious, but they are pure criminals ", which make us suspect that the God in whose name they claim to act in reality is only the pretext of their pride, their arrogance and intolerance.

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Varazze, the 2 July 2015

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[1] Hence the disapproval without appeal of the wars of religion, even those carried out by Catholics against Protestants or Muslims.

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— The deadly sins: the pride of non-reason -

 

THE SYNOD AND THE "CATTOFASCISTS "UPHOLSTERY

 

… There are also some Church historians, whose bad faith stems from facts that they should not ignore for scientific duty, for instance: during the first great dogmatic Councils, between the 4th and 9th centuries, the Fathers of the Church did not perhaps freely discuss everything and then its exact opposite, before reaching the definitions that today are dogmas on which faith rests and stands? If representatives of some so-called "right"Catholic had lived in Nicaea in the fourth century during the celebration of that Council and if in those years they had already existed The Gazette the devout atheist Giuliano Ferrara and the press agency Correspondence Romana, through which spread as sensational scoop what some Father deep throat had decided to exit the courtroom about the way the meeting was discussing the nature of Christ, how they would have acted? They would boycott ... they would invite rebellion ... they would invite a “resist” against the Bishop of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople through handwritten threats made through campaigns on Papyri made lead in the cities of East and West by pigeons?

 

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

 

 

Before speaking of the Synod of the family and the topics that will be discussed in it "place that any decision is there to come and that no one should set up processes to less than ever and preventive wars based on nothing" is necessary to clarify what in concrete facts is the status of the European Church and clergy, Why do good pastoral care, and pastoral species of the family, with increasingly empty churches and with a clergy and an episcopate that seems to remember thearmada brancaleone, might be difficult even to the Holy Spirit, who has the divine power to mutate even donkeys in horse breeding; provided in the asses, noble and useful animals, There is a basic assumption: accept to be turned into horse breeding, because if you don't exercise the freedom of the children of God opening for grace, donkeys are and will asses forever.

The Italy, is it not a sick country within which a Catholicism roso from Cancer Metastasis is now underway to their natural state of agony? That statement might look defeatist, If laid from the pen of one who has been made to describe in articles, homilies and conferences, the importance of "Theology of Hope” [see WHO]. Maybe the question should be posed in other words and wanting even worse: the Italy was never a truly Catholic country? I tried to explain it long ago on these our columns of’Patmos Island:

«… to answer this question I think we should analyze why Protestantism in Italy has expanded as in Germany, Swiss, Scandinavian Countries, and later in the United States of America, starting from the 16th century. This did not happen because the nobility and the bourgeoisie divided into many principalities and lordships, in the 16th century sought immediately compromises more attractive with the Catholic Church. In Italy the nobility and the bourgeoisie, Although dedicated practice to Deism and agnosticism, in materia religiosa nutriva interessi meno radicali rispetto al resto dell’Europa. This meant that rulers, politicians, nobles, merchants, bankers and mercenaries were more Protestant German Protestants in practice, but Catholics in politics and in the outward forms. That's why in Italy has always opposed the bourgeois state a strong Catholic Church and compact, often formed by armies of "devotees" faithful unbelievers, but all tidy and homework in procession with a tear in the eye and the candle in hand " [Article on Lutheranism, WHO].

Another answer to these questions, In addition to history could also push other statistical data. After 20 September 1870, date that marked the fall of Rome, last shred of the Papal State, absorbed gradually in the ten years preceding the nascent Kingdom of Italy, What are the areas where the turnout at churches resulted in lowest percentage? What other dioceses that have the lowest number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life? Are the former territories of the old Papal States with the Lazio region in the head, for centuries the heart of Church Government, to have a shortage of priests and faithful attendance at churches. The dioceses of this region, in particular the suburbicarie of Rome Diocese, have a clergy made up of priests coming mainly from developing countries, that in some of them the proportion exceeds 50% of the total number of priests; to these must also be added several former religious who left their respective congregations, which have found ready acceptance in the secular clergy, especially in the dioceses of Albano Laziale, Palestrina and Tivoli. Among these "defectors" priests have emerged over time even a good number of subjects of concern which the Bishops of origin were well pleased to get rid, in safe assurance that some bishops in need of Italian "manpower"he would come to accept them, given its need resulting from the shortage of clergy. This with all the consequences that can derive from these wicked choices, when a diocese begins to be composed of a considerable number of priests whose main purpose is mostly to raise as much money as possible to support their families in their respective countries of origin, or poor children who "are dying of hunger". Except discover below, as sometimes happened, that the children to feed were the children that that priest had scattered throughout the villages; this is the real reason why the bishop, after it is moved from one place to another, found that every where the priest left pregnant girls, He is finally freed of problem sending him to Rome to study at the expense of the Congregation of reliable advertising, waiting for some Italian bishop "hungry" for the clergy to take him and therefore willing to collect Paris et boves et et nummularios columbas sedentes. Of all this there is no need to ask account to various Italian Bishops, nor those of Lazio used as a paradigm, because the complaint that in dioceses erected around Rome there were too many foreign priests was raised by the Venerable Pontiff Benedict XVI, those who felt so stung by similar claims if not take it with me, but with the Supreme Pontiff's predecessor now happily ruler.

With this premise does not intend to open a theme in the theme, but only to clarify - before going into the speeches related to the Synod on the family - that we must deal with the reality of a de-Christianized Europe where armies of former faithful swarm, or in the best hypothesis of lost faithful who increasingly ignore the foundations of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, What this attributable not so much to them as to the increasingly poor training of the clergy. A clergy made up an increasing number of priests that arouse serious embarrassment sometimes ― albeit often provided by all "most holy"academic papers now pull behind anyone from Pontifical universities today" and including, soon, the new bishops will be chosen, selected shootout between the most insignificant, so that some personalities of value, that with great effort we can still find in some corner of the Church, don't end up with the hacking mediocrity, flat calm is the stalemate generated by the bishops of that region, because the mezze figure must of necessity play even more figures half of them. On the other hand, we know very well that putting a lion in a rabbit cage or an eagle in a courtyard amidst the scratching chickens, for many it would perhaps be desirable to, but for others it is impossible. Better then protect certain clericalmente "balance" by allowing “rabbits” e “chickens” the full "right" to operate the “best "of their inability, regardless of the fact that they are burying Christianity. However, the "arcane" clerical balances, well worth the destruction of the Church, who is basically only the Bride of Christ; and in the name of the "arcane" clerical balances the Bride of Christ can be safely sacrificed, Indeed thrown directly on the sidewalk under a streetlight, with the bishops and cardinals who draw close to it aboard the scooters trying to scipparle handbag, ma … just to give the money to the poor, is intende!

These are the reasons why in my last lecture I concluded by hoping for the "big bang", that is the inevitable implosion to which we are approaching, to then start all over again to build on the rubble, because in the processes of forfeiture, once the so-called no-return limit has been exceeded, It is no longer possible to go back. Or to better express it all with a pertinent example: a car that ends up on the edge of an Escarpment can be saved with all the people that brings on board, If you do reverse it back promptly on roadway safety. If it is launched along the precipice, at that point it is useless, Indeed it is more harmful to try to reverse gear during the fall; the result will be to split the Exchange, since there is no turning back.

This the real situation in which the Synod Fathers will be working and from which we can not do without, because doing it will emerge from the real to go to space in the surreal. Fathers must therefore move aboard a car about to crash down the precipice, While the driver view all their broken gearbox wondering: «And now, how can we go back?». Now, as to agitate the broken automobile Exchange in the fall is the driver, namely the Holy Father Francis, with foresight he held a extraordinary Jubilee of mercy; and never was more appropriate Jubilee! Thing that I say with those priestly and pastoral knowledge which have not touched certain commentators, those species groups of Catholics sad that would contravene the Holy Father also have stated that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the father and the son and the father and the son is worshipped and glorified and spoke through the prophets» [CF. Symbol of faith].

To understand the meaning of the Jubilee of Mercy You must be some priests with their hands in the dough of the pastoral, some mechanics with dirty hands of oil. Time ago, the Holy Father, He used the picturesque expression "be shepherds wearing the smell of sheep» [see WHO]; which at the time made me smile, for example, imagining his vicar general for the Diocese of Rome, hear those words, He tried to comply by commissioning shortly to the new Chanel perfumes perfume sheep [scent of sheep], be distributed among the presbyters of Rome. Though perfectly understood what the Holy Father very fair meant to say and what little there was to joke about those words and that much serious invitation how deep.

But let us still use an example: days ago, to a sick person in Terminal I brought the grace and mercy of God, granting him — as is the rite of the sacrament of anointing of the sick "absolution from all sins, including those reserved to the Holy See, According to the powers conferred on me by the Apostolic See, According to the formula: «Ego, facultate mihi ab Apostolica Sede tributa indulgentiam plenariam et remissionem omnium peccatorum tibi grant …». Or good, the Holy Father, in the bubble Mercy look with which he announced this Jubilee [see WHO], has he not made it clear - to those who have heart, soul and true Catholic sentiment "that we are in fact Terminal State? Soon said where we can figure it out: not only the Roman Pontiff decided to send around "missionaries of mercy", What should induce to think is that it has given them full and stable power to perform throughout the Jubilee year, starting Lent, even the sins reserved by the code of Canon law to the Apostolic See [CF n. 18 see WHO]. And as we confessors know, absolution from sins reserved to the Apostolic See can just grant it only to a dying person or to a person in real life threatening, never on other occasions; because in the absence of real life-the acquittal of a reserved to the Apostolic See Sin would constitute a very serious abuse by the Confessor, and the priest that he imparted would be subject to strict canonical penalties [cf. on sins reserved see WHO].

The intertwining of the Synod on the family and the Jubilee of Mercy it is not an overlap of "activities", but a necessary logical path, if we consider that Europe, on the family now in agony, is likely to celebrate a solemn funeral shortly with the orchestra of the Freemasons, of the members of liberalism without values, by the puppeteers of the economy without ethics and the ideologues of the omosessualista culture, all together playing the funeral March to trumpets explained. And we, that in this situation we have already been set up in a sense gravediggers, We cannot play do obstetricians with corpses, We can only bless them and bury, if first the corpses have not already buried us.

All of these things in the obvious partly fundamental, they are escaping from almost two years to all those pseudo-Catholic ideologues that having to give vent to the worst of themselves, the Synod have mutated into a political battle ground. And before an agonizing started to discuss on strategies to be adopted for win the next general election, first of which is in their opinion useful defeat the "Kasper theorem" [see WHO, WHO], the report heretical Erdö " [see WHO], the Group of “false prophets” German bishops [see WHO], while giving meticulous information even on how many times the one who has been elected by them as a great antagonist and survivor "champion" of the "non-negotiable values" of the real goes to the bathroom "Catholic tradition”, Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, which was conferred by them the Palma of resistance … but to those who, Maybe Peter? [see WHO]. Then informing day behind day through the Bulletin of the now legendary and comic site church & Postcouncil, how perfect the functioning of his most eminent prostate, but especially in accordance with the Usus antiquior Roman Rite, as proof the first morning urination, then followed by the lauds in the Tridentine rite, first of which is a healthy urine pale yellow color that rivals the angels, that not having sex may not pee, for this I am envious.

Doing all this, which is equivalent to showing that you do not want to understand what the delicate pastoral action of the Church is in times like the ones we are experiencing, these subjects also presume to have or possess the true faith in the one Church, santa, catholic and apostolic, oblivious to profess concrete facts in another baptismo, in particular through their outbursts of hatred towards Peter [example, WHO].

Repeatedly, as a pastor in the care of souls — and certainly not as certain free citizens who play to sociologists or political scientists and as such must always have an enemy on which to vent their own inner discomfort "I remembered that lust is not the first of the deadly sins; the first is the pride followed by greed, envy, IRA ... On the seven deadly sins lust lies in fifth place. There will also be a reason, if in order of ranking, before the "notorious" sex sins, We are in row four? But journalists secularists for a verse, some Catholics on the other ideologues have banked shortly on the ancient obsession with always, sex, to turn this Synod into a meeting called to discuss problems related to human sexuality and its various implications. What indeed false, even if at the Synod there is also an eminent expert in bioethics and sexual ethics such as Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, that in the course of his apostolic ministry, however, he also dealt with many other things, from the ethics of Christological dogma economy, just read his homilies, some of them — without exceeding in lure, Since the Cardinals usually Witcher crina ferrata with brush and I hardly caresses — really worthy a doctor of the Church, species in this increasingly bleak Episcopal homiletic [in this regard, reference should be made to the dramas of the Bishop of Noto, WHO].

Nevertheless, the message about this Synod was passed by members of the "thesis" and those of "antithesis" is the usual prurient hunting pants and to the search of the bedrooms.

To create ideological confrontations and wars was taken the problem of eventual admission to the Eucharist of divorced and remarried persons, so once again, that sacred mystery that is the engine, life and center of unity of the Church, It was used as a means of fiendishly Division and ideological clash; the whole, What severe, based on nothing. And repeat based on nothing, Although some deep throat Cardinals or Bishops ' did leave the synodal Hall speeches or private relations, and at that point, in newspapers around the world and aggressive of telematics magazines usual suspects, he began to thunder against "blows of hand", potential "coup" … until reaching the worst: pastoral practice through the dangerous hazard on which modernists "did not discuss" would have ended up changing the substance of the sacraments, thus launching very serious alarms, ignoring, or pretending to ignore, that the Church cannot alter the substance of the sacraments, May, much less with the pastoral practice [see WHO, WHO, etc. ..]. In short, as the historian Roberto de Mattei explained: "The Church is on the verge of a schism» [see WHO, WHO]. Nothing is served my distinguished colleague senior John Carlson, from our magazine columns, explain with the theological richness that distinguishes how, the Holy Father, He had already made clear its positions on certain speech concluded the first part of the Synod, thus dispelling doubts and fears that had no reason to exist [see WHO].

Among these people There are also some Church historians, whose bad faith arises from facts that they should not ignore, for instance: during the first great dogmatic Councils, between the 4th and 9th centuries, the fathers of the Church, not discussed maybe freely about everything and its opposite, before reaching the definitions that today are dogmas on which faith rests and stands? If the leaders of today and the so-called "right" to have Catholic town in the 4th century in Nicaea during the celebration of that Council and if those years were already existed The Gazette the devout atheist Giuliano Ferrara and the press agency Correspondence Romana, through which spread as sensational scoop what some Father deep throat had decided to exit the courtroom about the way the meeting was discussing the nature of Christ, how they would have acted? They would boycott actions ... were incited to rebellion ... they called for resistance against the Bishop of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople through handwritten threats made through campaigns on Papyri made lead in the cities of East and West by pigeons? And in this case, What controversy they basted, admitted and not granted that between adverse schools and especially between dangerous heresies meandering in theOrbe catholica of those times - just think of the Arian heresy -, He was discussing, No communion for divorced and remarried persons, but the very foundation of the Church: the incarnation of the Word and the mystery of the Person of Christ?

Aunt Pasqualina that sells fruit in Campo dei Fiori under the statue of that bad boy of Giordano Bruno, he does not know these things, but I, who know them, use the expression of not by chance intellectual dishonesty and lack of scientific criteria on the part of these people who have been building wholes for almost two years theorem on mostly private speeches made by the Synod Fathers which should always, of practice and rigor, discuss in complete freedom and then its opposite, before Peter, assisted by the grace of the Holy Spirit, to say the last word, as always happens and as always happened. And doing it, until today, Pietro has never been wrong, included in the Vatican II, that the Church was the last great Council celebrated, Although some of those warring against improbable Eucharists granted to divorced rispostati with blows of the modernists and progressives, instead it was not an ecumenical council but a great mistake, or at best just a third-party pastoral council, maximum second degree, According at least to fanta-Ecclesiology theological duo Gherardini&Lanzetta.

From the Eucharist to divorcees the usual suspects move then the shot about gays, Fearing risks of homosexual unions recognition and to follow; and with a painful spirit, In addition to aggressive and bad, We must sorbirci the inevitable Paul Samson and Vainio, supported by a gynoecium of passionate women who, rather than with their brains, write articles from laundry, through which speak in harsh tones and often derogatory "reversed, perverts, pederasty, Sodomites …” [see WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, etc. ..]. Articles in which only the final gloss is missing: «Hangman who spring!», If anything, inviting readers to a pilgrimage to Predappio Memorial tomb of Benito Mussolini led personally by Vainio, having regard to the latest really indecent articles that have been written about Levied Christian on the occasion of the feast of Italian Republic celebrated the 2 June, day in which I, as a priest who at the same time is pure Italian citizen with full rights and duties, celebravo a holy mass for the benefit and prosperity of our beloved Homeland and its inhabitants [see WHO, WHO, WHO].

Since we fell upon this theme which I do not intend to leave either vague or suspended, Add also the instrumental use done earlier by these blatant nostalgic on the feast of liberation, that falls on 25 April, on the occasion of which he abused the memory of the venerable priests killed in the so-called "red triangle"Emilia Romagna by Communist partisans [see WHO, WHO], including the blessed soul of seminarian Rolando Rivi [see WHO], thinking of which it is rare that I take the cassock off me, If not replace it, in case of real need, with a decent clergyman. People so much ideology, These columnists incattiviti by strange feelings "truly Catholic", not to even understand the words they wrote themselves, since before his death, refusing to take off the cassock off, the young man said: "I study as a priest and the garment is the sign that I belong to Jesus". Did you understand, Paolo Deotto? You wrote it yourself trying to set up yet another ideological Theatre: the Blessed martyr Rolando Rivi didn't say ' I'm against the Communists fascists», Neither said ' I am against communists fascists», but he said exactly what you bring back, «I am of Jesus» [see WHO]. That statement in itself implies: I am of Him who died for our redemption as a sacrificed lamb and who does not invite partisan hatred towards anyone, calls to hate only sin that separates us from communion with him and his Holy Church erected on the rock of Peter.

It is true that were murdered about 80 priests from the "beasts" in that case redheads, who even raised the murderous shot on a teenager "guilty" of wearing the seminarian's cassock, but to the counterfeit ideologues of Levied Christian should not escape even the “deserving” beasts Black, Although in fact are capable to exploit and distort for their ideological purposes questionable even the heavenly blanket of the Blessed Virgin Mary, willingly waging of nasty wives at the wash house [example, WHO] to throw plenty of mud on the Supreme Pontiff and the Episcopal College, and all - it goes without saying - in the name of the true and authentic Catholic faith of which these subjects incognito by Luciferian pride even feel they possess.

Wonder therefore to all of them, with historical facts and documents in hand: Why, the 25 April and 2 June, do not also celebrate the memory of all those Italian priests - also superior in number - who during the "glorious" twenty years of Fascism were stunned with sticks and repeatedly attacked by black shirts, Some even while they were in the Church to the altar to celebrate the Holy Mass? It's Paolo Deotto, instead of playing with history together with the aspirant countess Cristina Saif, that on the feast of the Republic has pulled out the garbage hoax of electoral fraud for which the monarchy would lose the referendum in 1946 and weaving the “Catholic” Masonic House of Savoy's praise through the figure of a well-known womanizer [see WHO] "unaware of this dynasty thing of pirates boarding He acted for our country and for the Italian church by 1850 to follow ", instead he would take care to document himself properly, would find out how many times the agents of the "worthy" fascist Ovra have even staged suicides by priests. One of them was buried at the time Earth blessed and no funeral, because it was really believed that he had committed suicide by hanging himself under the altar of the church in front of the tabernacle of the Sacred Eucharistic reserve; then suicide and sacrilege. Only around half the fifties, putting together that several suspicious deaths, He began to nurture serious doubts that that priest no sympathy toward the fascist regime was really suicide, you chose to not deepen further and in that corner of southern Italy was made to fall silent on that and other sad deaths, but the coffin was revived and buried discreetly in the corner of the cemetery reserved for priests; and with this was clarified everything without having to spend even a Word. And to the delight of Deotto, of Vassallo and of the whole club nostalgic Of Levied Christian, We could continue with the youth of Catholic action groups of Scouts and taken a stick, some of whom remained permanently disabled or semi-disabled for life, since breaking bones in the 1930s was no joke and fixing a fractured femur in four or five places was not easy even for the best surgeons; to follow up with the burning Catholic printers, including the Civiltà Cattolica and follow. Be remembered with historical rigor that the so-called infamous “red triangle”, before being red, It was a “black triangle”, incubator and cradle of the nascent fascism, whose founder was a romagnolo away in Milan and his first companions were faithful to much Emilia Romagna. And in that region become fascistissima then comunistissima below, every wrong by reputed sigh “Sante” black shirts priests were toned with a stick, as happened to Don Giovanni Minzoni, in Argenta di Ferrara, which broke his skull with a stick. I therefore consider it a duty to remind the writers of Levied Christian inviting the outrage the public through images of the corpse of the duce and his poor lover [see WHO, WHO, WHO], than the priests died before 8 September 1943 amount to 422, between these 158 they were slain by the Nazi-fascists and 33 by the fascist soldiers of the Republic of Salò. I parish priests died violently before the Italian liberation of Italy from nazi-fascism were 238, to which must be added 41 Deputy parish priests and 129 between seminarians and novices. Statistics, names and descriptions of the dead can be found in the history section of Vatican Archive.

At the end of this painful issue I affirm - and certainly not lightly - that to "bless" in a more or less subliminal way the "Catholic fascism" and “Devotees” Savoy “Catholics” on the day that the Italy celebrates the liberation of the country from nazi-fascism soil and yet on the day in which we celebrate the Republic day, makes these subjects both as authentic Italians both shames as “Catholics”. All expressed in a regretful and severe tone by the descendant of a family whose members had the "privilege" of taking the blows of the fascists first and then those of the communists., except that for me are both evil and each other. It is therefore my duty - even for some discreet solicitation received from some ecclesiastical authorities who have left everything to my free decision - to make known through my pen, to non-believers and to all people distant from the Catholic Church who, wrong, may swap these subjects and their written very livorosi as an expression of the Catholic World, or worse than think and feel of the Italian church, that these characters are only “loose dogs” without master who as such represent only themselves, they do not represent any title the Catholic World, much less the priestly College Italian, who always cried and prayed for the victims of fascism and for the victims of communism, without ever exalt those killed on one side and ignoring ideological bad faith with those killed by the other party. The Church has always honored the memory of its priests killed in hatred of the faith by both fascists and communists, including a blessed martyr of just 14 year old.

Here is painted the real pasta of which these dark and nasty people are made of whom I ask: have you ever dealt - pastorally speaking - with homosexuals? Have you ever accepted in a confessional these "reversed, pederasty, Sodomites”, These are used to define "caritatevolmente" these humans with spirit and phrasebooks from Social Republic of Salò and ideological methods from Gulag Soviet? Have you ever stopped to listen to these subjects, to learn what they lived and often suffered in the course of their existence, given that not all gays are pathetic bad boys dressed as bitches in heat performing without dignity and decency in the Sodom and Gomorrah of the gay pride or the orgiastic festivities of Gay village? Apparently you have never met and heard, at least according to what you have been writing for months and stating in "your" pseudo “church” steeped in politics, of ideology, of nostalgia passed, in which the charity is not needless by circuitous route, taken as you are to stubbornly reject the present and that future becoming which instead characterizes the Church of Christ as a pilgrim on earth. Have you ever received, listened and learned and lives almost always shocking experiences of transvestites and transsexuals? I you, I listened to them for hours, when for a year I served in an ancient Roman basilica; and remember with affection this group of guys who all Saturday evening were to Mise vespertina, you put at the bottom of the basilica and listened devoutly, obviously not approached to do the Communion, as he did in his time for political provocation genderista sacrilegious Vladimiro Guadagno, said Luxuria, at the funeral of the heretic priest Andrea Gallo; and at the end of the Holy Mass, These guys, they were waiting for me to ask for blessings and prayers for their deceased or for their family members who lived in their countries of origin.

But all these are precisely pastoral actions a priest must not shirk. Actions that are not made by the Lepanto Foundation, too busy to contemplate the pond of water rafferma of the lefebvrists, which, if anything, give support to promote conferences against "invertiti“, “pederasty"and “Sodomites“, explaining with inhuman “morale” pharisaic in what way a teenager, in case he died without confession, would unquestionably to scorch in the flames of hell for having masturbated. Place from which would instead all rich immune of the extreme right American entrepreneurs or those arricchitisi in Brazil in ways and forms to clarify, that shade of sollazzandosi their 70 years in pools of their villas with their twenties — think not statuesque male, they are granddaughters who also recite praises and vespers with the Tridentine breviary - instead they will fly rights to Heaven for all the money given up in favor of the works of the schismatic and heretical Fraternity of Saint Pius X and for the perpetual Masses that the same has offered to celebrate after a substantial donation. Obviously, If on judgment day the Lord would send these connoisseurs and rich old people to hell, in this case the head-Pharisee and schismatic bishop Bernard Fellay could provide to go and raise "canonical" questions with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, complaining vigorously about the fact that these "excellent customers"they had regularly"paid"Suffrage masses until the Parousia; and it is not to be excluded that it also invites the “resistance” against the Supreme Court, that is to say its and its, would have arranged bad Judgement, If anything, with de Mattei that puts up a collecting signatures to protest the measure taken and the judgement given by the Almighty.

From "cattofascisti", who are worse than the "cattocomunists", Let's move on to the concrete pastoral dimension; and forgive me if once again I refer to my last conference in which, throughout the first part, I am speaking of that social and scientific progress with which the Church of the twentieth century was called to deal seriously, to equip pastorally through Vatican II [see WHO] We live today in a society subject to mutually radical gods, in front of which we cannot close ourselves within a Fort from which scream "executioner who spring!”, Once you have pulled up the drawbridge and have filled the moat of alligators kept fasted. Before these radical changes affecting the family and perception increasingly deteriorated and deteriorating of the idea of sexuality, interpersonal relationship, by love life or couple, We pastors in the care of souls should be equipped with adequate Church Pastoral tools; because in the face of such situations the Church cannot leave the bishops responsible to the Government of the particular churches, and all their priests to act alone or individually according to personal conscience, If not worse according to free will. Once again proceed with those concrete examples of where you won't find any trace in the article of the club of "Executioner who spring!”That throw fires and lightning bolts up “concubines“, “pederasty"And"reversed”, with thundering shouts from dive against the “Patti sodomitici” [see WHO]. Given that sodomy, yesterday as today it always remains a grave sin but also assuming that sin is condemned, always, whereas, on the other hand, the sinner is absolved every time he is repentant, our problem today is certainly not being opposed to that dangerous carnival that is marriage between subjects of the same sex, Why do we have to take note of the fact that now we are beyond this and that Europe — and beyond — has now succumbed to this sad reality that we, Christian speaking, is a real aberration, that can only lead to the first madness, then from madness to self-destruction, because the culture of life that in unborn life and the family has its own core Center, are replacing a culture of denial of life, thereby imposing an authentic culture of death.

But we must understand and accept - and here the word accept It should be read as acceptance of a colossal failure — that in several European countries the marriage between same-sex couples and the possibility for them to adopt children date is stipulated by laws in our opinion unfair and monstrous. Now, before laws that have sanctioned a fact, the problem is no longer the fight against Gay marriage, that is a fact because State law in different countries; the problem has now become another, that is what we will soon have to act and react to, for instance: if a pair of twos "his"or one of two"she"I come to ask for the baptism of"baby toy"taken in adoption to Crown of fiction and mass family standing, I used to take orders priest from the Church — and certainly not from The Gazette and from the Lepanto — Fonfazione How should I involve? I definitely need to baptize a creature and perhaps even the obligation to do so. How can I though, two lesbians or two playing the gay family and parents and they have created a real Satanic parody of family, to recite the profession of faith? How do I get subject like, According to the sacred rite of baptism: «You renounce Satan… all his works… all his seductions?», if in concrete facts the work of Satan incarnate is they through what they have done and set up through rented wombs, -surrogate mothers and genetic manipulation? Soon said that in that case would act according to their conscience, given that my priority would be to baptize the creature, then take the two, I would state that I do not intend to review their private life and their public choices that I absolutely do not approve of e, if they really want to baptize the creature, to have it presented to me by a godfather and a godmother, male and female, authentic Christian feelings animated, why otherwise, presented by them, I do not administer the sacrament of baptism, that many of these subjects would be asked only to purely provocative purposes catch attempting once again to force the Church to bow their heads before the their will and then accept that unacceptable that we cannot and we must not accept.

I am not a parish priest but I have always collaborated with parishes for their various needs not only but especially pastoral liturgical, so I can get easily in the shoes of my brethren pastors. For instance: If a cohabiting couple receiving the sacrament of matrimony, after having even more children, How should I involve, given that for the Church they are in fact two public concubines? Should I perhaps, like many parish priests, pretend not to know that the two have been living together for years and that they continue their cohabitation undeterred while they are preparing for marriage? I have to invite them to separate and go live together only after marriage, or, with a family of fact put up and with children who are already growing, I must respond by requiring them to live as brother and sister until after marriage? In short, What should I answer and, above all, how should I behave in the exercise of the sacred ministry, which I certainly do not exercise in my name but in the name of the Church of Christ, invoking for each sacrament and sacramental celebrated, given or administered the grace of the father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit?

It's still: two young boyfriends in their twenties that with sacrifice go off-site to study at the University "what they can do just because in two share a room and then the costs are halved, otherwise their families would not be able to support them at full single costs because they lack the means - what do I have to say? How should I consider these young people with sacrifice, success or non-success, try to live under the same roof as two boyfriends Christians? I have an obligation to impose “escape from temptation”? I have to treat them as cohabiting concubines and exclude them from the Sacraments only because in a similar situation they live under the same roof? To two young people who have found employment at a distance from their places of origin and who work hard to be able to pay the home loan and get married as soon as possible, living in a studio apartment sharing spaces and especially saving on expenses, what should I say, going to live in separate houses and burning a large part of their profits to pay for the rental of two individual accommodation, otherwise I do not admit them to the sacraments? Of course, these are circumstances that always make it necessary to evaluate case by case, I could then act by responding in consciousness, ma, however pure, man's conscience can be very defectable, for what is appropriate for my priest's conscience is adequately supported by precise indications given by the Church, that face these realities cannot nor escape or hide our heads in the sand like the ostrich, thus leaving the most vulnerable part of the body most deserving of dignified protection exposed and exposed to the worst attacks.

The discourse of the divorced and remarried is more complex to which I do not administer the Eucharist. And when some came to me saying that they were divorced but that "the priest friend" had told them that "they could receive Communion", I always replied: «The priest who told you this – if I said – has severely wrong, Therefore I urge you not to receive communion, while inviting you to participate with devotion to the Mass». The examples are many, including priests who have also replaced the judgment of the authority of the Church, even appointing divorced and remarried men and women as catechists and catechists, allowing them to receive communion without even the ecclesiastical courts asked for the case to be expressed on the validity or otherwise of the sacramental previous constraint, through which you were United in marriage and for which continued to be bound to the Church from Sacramento indissoluble.

Can the Church help pastors or individual priests to legislate in a personal capacity on such delicate matters, or leave them free to act in conscience, whereas conscience often, and especially that of malformed priest, It can be — as I explained shortly before — even several flawed? That's why I started this article just talking about the sad present-day level and increasingly scarce training of priests, certainly not to pull the usual deserve stored to bishops and those in charge of the seminars, to aim on which, today as today, equivalent even more to shoot on Red Cross, but on a hearse carrying the coffin of the deceased to the cemetery.

These are some of the real problems and very sensitive to be discussed at the Synod on the family, who then will have to give us clear answers and above all precise pastoral directives to which we must adhere with zeal, so we pastors in the care of souls you can now proceed to explain them and forwarding them to the people of God and if necessary imponendone the scrupulous observance. Use and abuse of all this for political confrontations and idologici, often played on the Holy Eucharistic mystery used as collision, What is harmful and dishonest; dishonesty is typical of the politicians missed, or politicians trumpet, who chose the Church as their field of rein and clash; is the typical dishonesty of whom, to the mystery of God's mercy, replaces the howling of the Executioner who spring!». And those who operate in this manner can also proclaim himself Catholic from morning to night, playing the ecclesiologist and writing articles tinged with apocalyptic tones on the Synod of the family which will mark - they say - the total fall into the great apostasy from the faith. While sad and tragic the fact remains that those who act so you are not in communion with the Church, because as the rich young [cf. MC 10, 17-22] they have never been emptied of the worst "riches" of themselves to fill with Christ and follow him, which through the Apostle Paul tells us as the most important virtue charity [cf. The Cor 13, 12-13] , that does not stand nor on sentimentality nor on "do-goodism", nor on mercy mundane, But even on ferocious justicialism and least of all on the ruthless and inhuman Pharisaic morality; is based on justice and truth, mix it by faith and hope. And who writes and sowing things so sad and bad, However, in the name of their presumed and only real “tradition”, has faith, has hope and has charity; in short, he is not Christian, And other, but he won't realize its sad otherness, because if the devil manages to take in pride, first it blinds us, then we will do everything he wants.

Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying:
«This people honors me with their lips, but their heart
is far from me. In vain do they worship me,
teaching doctrines that are precepts of men».

[Mt 15, 7-9]

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Letters of Patmos Island Readers

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DIVINE PUNISHMENT, LOVE, MERCY. The REASONS of ROBERTO de MATTEI

 

"Dear Fathers of Patmos Island, I came across a video of Prof. Roberto de Mattei in which relate to certain natural events such as the Messina earthquake of 1908 yet … divine retribution (!?). I am appalled that you still use certain tones and understand why Ariel's father pulled some lashings in his articles. All this in addition to the Jubilee gates of mercy. I'd like to know your opinion "

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"Dear Fathers of Patmos Island, I came across a video of Prof. Roberto de Mattei in which relate to certain natural events such as the Messina earthquake of 1908 yet … divine retribution (!?). I am appalled that you still use certain tones and understand why Ariel's father pulled some lashings in his articles. All this in addition to the Jubilee gates of mercy. I'd like to know your opinion " [N.d.R. see video WHO ]

John Salvitti, Rome

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Dear Reader.

The answer together to explain why we share what he presented Prof. Roberto de Mattei and because the difendemmo when it was attacked by the “fundamentalists” secularists so decomposed and no arguments, as he himself explains in detail and calm in the video that she sent us.

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Do not wrong his father Ariel Mal as his ' stripes ', because it's colorful exchanges d ’ opinions sometimes from his Tuscan spirit, through which never has dwarfed this talented Catholic academic, We both know each other in person. So don't confuse certain normal pinch among scholars with forms of hatred that does not touch the fathers of’Patmos Island. Know that philosophers, theologians and historians accapigliano since nate philosophical disciplines, theological and historical, and then dinner together, because the quarrel ends up put their hunger, many are burning energy in certain discussions.

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In the context of certain debates ’ We do not accept criticism of de Mattei at Vatican II, that regard we all ’ contentious issue if necessary. And here it is not opinions, but loyalty to the Magisterium of the Church, on which we cannot compromise, While in deep respect of the dear person.

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Through its application She offers confirmation of what today is difficult to talk about a “language” Cattolica. For this several times the fathers of’Patmos Island They insisted on various articles on “language loss”, or the drama arising from speaking a language that the secularist world, but often even some Catholic world steeped in modernismi and sociologismi is no longer willing to acknowledge and understand [see WHO].

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The mention of Salviano in Marseille [CF. The Governance of God] by de Mattei is relevant and applicable to our time, given the apparent biblical reference to ’ famous episodes of Sodom and Gomorrah. A company like ours, increasingly condescending to say in favour of behaviors contrary to divine law, What exactly can be sodomy, may actually suffer a severe divine retribution. If indeed God, How often does the Holy Father Francis, is always ready to accommodate anyone who repents, don't forget the needs of Justice, they want the punishment of sinful arrogant, Cheeky and obstinate. If we stuck with this concept of Justice is common to all religions and based on natural moral conscience, would collapse the entire legal order ’ of Church and State. One man wolf. The thugs crush the honest, the bullies would make the righteous slaves.

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The important distinction must be taken into account contained in the letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the pastoral care of homosexual persons of the Congregation for the doctrine of the Faith 1986, n.3 [see WHO]. This is the distinction between condition or homosexual tendency and homosexual acts. L ’ tilting, explains the document, «though is not in self pity», because it is instinctive and spontaneous, and sometimes the innate, «is however a trend, more or less strong, towards an intrinsically bad behavior from moral point of view», Since the acts to which pushes or prompt, «are deprived of their essential and indispensable aims», which is procreation. Therefore SIN or guilt is not the mere presence of the stimulus homosexual, but voluntarily agreeing to this inclination. Comply voluntarily to a bad angle ’, though unintentional, can only be a bad action ’. Which leaves the ecclesial and pastoral civil law a fair and ample space for specific interventions and calibrated, as the case, be implemented with caution, charity and respect for people, Since you must always remember the fundamental distinction between the objective moral qualification of a sin or offence in relation to moral law or civil and concrete responsibility entity ’, If there is and how much there is, in specific circumstances, the person who commits. Judge of the Act in principle is not the same as judging the individual consciousness in certain circumstances. It is in relation to this second aspect, not at first, You should refer to the popular and articulate the Holy Father's sentence summed up by newspapers in: "Who am I to judge?» [see part II of Ariel's Conference. Levi di Gualdo, minute 18,40 WHO].

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To support the Theology of doom o la Theology of Hell ’, We refer to the numerous times the Lord Jesus references in the Gospels, indicated variously as "fiery furnace" and as a place where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth» [Mt 13, 42]. Even in the old testament ’ frequent reference is made to the judgment of God and his punishment for sinners. In biblical literature l ’ the wrath of God is placed together with the ’ love from the Psalmist who sings the praises of God celebrandolo as "slow to anger and great in ’ ’ love» [Shall 102,8], and yet «patient and merciful is the Lord, slow to anger and rich in ’ grace» [Shall 144,8].

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The divine retribution It is not always necessarily a positive act of God against the sinner, as a necessary consequence of the same sin, he commits, as it is logical that died who drinks a poison. But, According to inscrutable Justice plans and mercy, God in this life sometimes punishes, in others not, leaving the punishment to the future life. Better to suffer the punishment now, because you can redeem, rather than in the ’ beyond, where there is more ’ remedy. Because of this, It is good to take advantage immediately of the divine mercy, doing penance for our sins, because if you don't do this now, beyond, instead of mercy, There will be justice, whose rigour does not wish you to anyone.

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The pains of this life may also affect innocent, While certain criminals seem to get away. It would seem at first that there was a lack in God of Justice, Why not punish the criminals and does not defend the oppressed; and mercy, Why let the innocent suffer? The answer comes to us from faith, which tells us that the innocent are joined by their father to the cross of Christ, the Innocent ’ par excellence, become in Christ salvation the world tools. Towards these innocent justice is mercy, According to the Pauline teaching ’ [RM 3,21], because it is God who justifies for mercy. As for miscreants, There is mercy for them, but as long as you convert. And God is right for them, because it offers them the means to save himself.

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L’IRA Divina in the Biblical sense does not mean then give outrage, nor does it mean much less cruelty, is simply the divine will to do justice and then the fitting punishment. Be slow to anger not so ’ say be free of anger, because the immense grace of ’ ’ God's love also righteousness resides in that mercy through which the divine Judge will grant the bliss of paradise, assign the destination of ’ soul to purgation, i.e. to purification in Purgatory, irrogherà and eternal punishment in Hell for those who ’ so stubborn and persistent have refused his love, His gifts of grace and his mercy and forgiveness.

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As priests and theologians We realize that we need more and more start from a thorough catechesis of the people of God, eliminating the imposture of a false "do-goodism" and a fake emphasis on forgiveness, and at the same time giving proper training to priests, given that many of the faithful, but unfortunately also individual shepherds care d ’ anime, have a ’ bad idea of God's mercy, that does not exclude punitive justice, as well as the existence of good ’ does not exclude the existence of evil ’; and the good deed does not exclude SIN. Mercy is not only a gift, but it's also prize. Do not reward the evil, but the good.

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The divine mercy supposed the punishment and penalty of sin. Mercy is the divine will to free in Christ the ’ man from sin and lift it from its miseries, consequences of original sin and, sometimes, of personal sins. It puts the SIN, but not necessarily removes or alleviates pain, which therefore, for love to the cross of Christ, takes a value and expiatory repairer. The remission of sin free from punishment of hell ’, While the penalty for sin is venial timeline, or redeem with down here with the penance and the ’ use of indulgences, or in Purgatory. Where pure souls can take advantage of indulgences.

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God wants to do in all mercy. If so — and in fact this is the truth of faith — some are rewarded and the object of mercy, while others are damned and smitten, This difference does not depend on God, but the typical swing of ’ free will human beings, able to work now well now the bad. It is therefore right that the good are rewarded and the bad are punished. It would be unfair that God would impress the bad. It would be like allowing them to do evil. May God never allow such a thing? The other part, If the ’ man wants to avoid punishment, didn't that make good, What in which God will infallibly rescues and surpass with his grace and his mercy.

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The punishment does not contradict nor denies mercy, which takes place without limits, as well as the existence of ’ bad does not mean that good. If someone is punished and rejects the mercy, It is not because God does people's preferences, but it's just the fault of the sinner. We're just us, with our sin, to put a stop to the divine mercy, which, by itself, as an inexhaustible torrent, would flow all the time.

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The divine mercy removes the punishment or transfigured. Our forefathers received a punishment that has echoed throughout the human ’. But God had mercy on us giving us his son, so using the cross we are forgiven of our sins and we transform the punishment in Atonement. And not only, but we also made children of God. If someone does not receive mercy, It is not because God does not want to give it to him, But why is he that arepenteth not of his sins, so the punishment, instead of Atonement, remains as punishment in all its severity.

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So much mercy that the punishment are dictated by ’ love. Indeed, l love what ’ asks? Wanting the good of ’ more. If so it is good that the malefactor, If deserves punishment, both chastened, and eventually forced to repair the badly done or to pay damages, at the same time, possibly do waves reflect, one is that the Cherubim, by the competent authority ’ [It gave, Papa, bishop, judge, superior, parent, educator, etc.] is an act of love, Although this may seem strange to those who have an emotional-only concept of love ’ love. On the contrary, can we get to say that the same damned by ’ Hell continue to be loved by God, that keeps them alive in the infernal city order and — as St. Thomas Aquinas considers — not so much to punish as deserve. For this the divine mercy is felt even in Hell ’.

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It is wrong to believe that one who punishes hates the punished. On the contrary, who chastens must give a glossy rating, prudent, objective, dispassionate and impartial, in law enforcement ’, as the judge of a court, for the audio if you can the same chastised, to safeguard the common good, as for the defense and the satisfaction of those who received wrong, without going by private interests or by passion, otherwise they would implement justice.

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Qhis spirit with which invite you to participate in the Jubilee of Mercy, Open all ’ acceptance of grace and forgiveness of God, There are granted on condition of our conversion and repudiation of our sins, sincerely dedicated to the works of Justice and mercy, taking care of our salvation with fear and trembling "», but also great confidence in divine mercy. «Here's the time!»- Saint Paul would say -. Behold the hour of salvation ’!» [II Cor 6,2].

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If God allows natural disasters It is only to admonish us on this earth, not for launch on us their revenge, but to give to men his mercy, so much want our conversion to snatch the eternal punishment. But to snatch the ' furnace ' where ' will be weeping and gnashing of teeth», He needs our consent, why free created us, free it takes.

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The problem is that today we fail to read the signs in ever greater numbers: unusual climatic changes, drought, earthquakes, tidal waves … and if anyone in all this invites to read also some divine warnings or admonitions, ends under the crossfire of those who were evicted God from history and human experience ’. And precisely these, that in all ways want to deprive the humanity of God ’, all ’ occurrence as well with blows of unfair laws, end with ’ then accuse us of failing of humanity, What this also happened to Roberto de Mattei swamped at the time d ’ insults, but also to us, When preaching the Gospel or certain pages reminding the faithful of certain warnings of the Lord Jesus, We felt respond, even from some fellow priests, that ' l ’ hell is a contradiction in terms of the mercy of God who is love and who as such would not ever the condemnation of all man ’ ’ eternal damnation». And all this, in the Church's doctrinal language, It's called heresy, only and nothing else ’ that heresy.

 

By’Patmos Island, 30 May 2015

 

 

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