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The homoerotic frescoes created by Sodoma in the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore are worse than the parody of the last supper made by gays and trans at the opening of the Olympics in France

6 August 2024/in Actuality/by father ariel

THE HOMOEROTIC FRESCOES CREATED BY SODOMA IN THE ABBEY OF MONTE OLIVETO MAGGIORE ARE WORSE THAN THE PARODY OF THE LAST SUPPER MADE BY GAY AND TRANS AT THE OPENING OF THE OLYMPICS IN FRANCE

Intellectual honesty requires us to admit that much worse images have been fixed on frescoes and canvases inside our sacred places, with scenes that would make the theater of gays and trans people who parodied the Last Supper at the opening of the Olympics pale in comparison.

Author
Ariel S. Levi's Gualdo

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In 2019 I wrote and published an article that I am reposting today following the completely legitimate controversy over the anti-Christian desecration made at the inauguration of the Olympics in France, whose ceremony was transformed into a grotesque Gay Pride.

Intellectual honesty forces us to admit that much worse images have been fixed on frescoes and canvases inside our sacred places, with scenes that would make the theater of gays and trans people who parodied the Last Supper at the opening of the Olympics pale in comparison. Think for example of the obscene homoerotic frescoes in the central cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore on which no pious abbot, over the course of more than five centuries, have you ever dreamed of passing white lime over it?, even though they are splendid paintings created by Ugo Bassi, known by his stage name which it was no coincidence Sodom.

In front of certain triumphs of frocismo in our sacred places, we truly have reason to be scandalized like vilified virgins, without prejudice to the offense and vulgarity of what happened at the Olympics?

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FROM THE SODOM SPINELLO UP TO RETREAT TO THE ROMAN CURIA, WHILE NO ONE IN THE WORLD IS unreal MAKES STATEMENT THAT LIFE MONASTIC IS DEAD AND THAT THAT REMAINS IS A PARODY: "You call them IF YOU WANT, EMOTIONS "

The preacher Abbot will speak to the Roman Curia about the dreamer Giorgio La Pira and the poet Mario Luzi, as if it was a dream spirituality and theology poetry, as if the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, loudly proclaimed a saint had never written the encyclical Faith and Reason, the base of which there is the thought of a great Benedictine Abbot, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, who did not live the relationship with faith in dreams and poetry, but explaining that faith seeking understanding [faith requires reason] and in need: «I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust» [I think to understand, I understand to believe]. Unfortunately the famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti has been dead for years, otherwise, for the next retreat, perhaps Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi would have proposed the thoughtful lyrics of his famous song Emotions …

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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Next the Council of Trent who attempted to curb the drifts of the clergy, Many abbeys poured in disastrous moral conditions. Recently he's talked in an essay dedicated to religious life [cf. WHO]. The state of men's abbeys, towards the end of the fifteenth century it was not unlike that of many female monasteries bleak, especially in those with rich heritages.

The Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, 14th century, erected in the Crete Senesi area

One example among many: in the architecture of many historic abbeys we can observe the standing buildings, detached from the monastery at least a hundred meters. If we ask the monks who continue to live in those abbeys and monasteries - because many of these facilities are no longer abbeys and monasteries, others are not inhabited by monks -, the answers that we shall receive will be varied, and equally disparate will not be the real answer, because often the truth burns, especially it can be really unedifying.

the ancient bachelor pad abbots more or less renaissance

Since we will speak of the frescoes of the cloister Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, erected in the fourteenth century in the countryside of the Crete Senesi, as an example we will take one of these stable detached from the monastery and today referred to as entrance door. Nothing to say that architectural styles change in the course of the centuries, but that function had a detached tower of the abbey and not visible from the abbey, which it is spread over four levels and incorporates a structure that, starting from the ground floor is dominated by two upper levels, all on an area of ​​over one thousand square meters? Do we have to believe that this gift of God architecture was really created only as a gateway to the abbey, or perhaps as a fortress? But a fort that would be if there were solid and high walls, that in that property, however, never existed, so?

So the structure was the residence of some revelers abbots, become such good offices of powerful families or for questions related to specific political arrangements, that being accustomed to lead monastic lifestyle at all, in those places they had their own small courts, They were devoted to hunting, at parties and so on. Then sometimes down in the monastery, necessary to fulfill their offices.

the ancient garçonnière of the more or less Renaissance abbots

The era the late fifteenth century He marked a doctrinal crisis, morality and customs preceded about three centuries earlier by an equally unfortunate epoch, when in the thirteenth century, Pope Eugenius III called for the Fourth Lateran Council that enacted strict rules against the immorality of the clergy and religious. It was in this jolly Renaissance that comes from Vercelli at the rich and powerful Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore a gay character: Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom [1477-1549].

About Sodom, subsequent historiography penned by religious pious attempt to clarify how mischievous connect the nickname by which the famous artist went to art history with those who would be his homosexual tastes. He even tried to resort to a pathetic sophistry arguing that the nickname Sodom It had nothing to do with the practice of sodomy but was linked to an expression that the artist in his local dialect used to say 'his, 'nduma», meaning "to go". Unlike what later tried to say critics pious to save the honor of not Bazzi, but that of the monastic structures that this bugger if contending with each other, the famous painter and architect Giorgio Vasari from Arezzo [1511-1574], who was his contemporary and connoisseur of his deeds, states that the source of such a nickname derived from his own homosexuality. The precise than that of Vasari Sodom It was also a hidden homosexuality at all, quite the opposite: He was performed in ostentatious and brazen way.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma: Christ bound to the column for the scourging

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom he married in his youth, but very soon he separated from his wife. Who knows if even in this regard some pious art critic - convinced that no one knows canon law and the discipline of the sacraments -, It can say that this separation was due to pure temperamental incompatibility. As if the end of the fifteenth separation from his wife and cut and run what would be more obvious could happen?

The Gay search for beauty which in this artist transcends nell'omoerotico, It is a feature of the painting Sodom, suffice to analyze the really striking figure of Christ tied to the column located in a corner of the central cloister Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore before the internal entrance door to the Abbey cathedral. Picture this sufficient to assess whether Christ bound to the column can look so sexy boy by winking. But for divine charity, you look carefully air and shameless position of the Christ at the Column portrait Sodom: there may remember certain images of the famous film Midnight Cowboy, with the then young Jon Voight in the provincial role Texan who arrived in New York full of dreams he ends up leaning against a street pole to hustle?

the historic poster of the famous film The Man on the Sidewalk, with the young Jon Voight leaning against the pole in the role of the hustler

Sodom, in that place of apparent quiet, as well as even more apparent religiosity, Perhaps the sign left him not only in the frescoes, but also in the air, and through the centuries! Indeed, the beautiful nature that surrounds equally stunning that abbey with all the architectural and artistic works of art, including homoerotic paintings, suppliscono for centuries the poor lack of religiosity; this thing that I do not say, because to prove it is the story. It would be enough just ask yourself this question: from the 1313 to date, how many monks of the Benedictine Congregation Olivetan that in the following seven hundred years of life we ​​have been beatified and canonized? Note that this Congregation, albeit reached between the end of the fifteenth and the end of the seventeenth century to count up to 1200 Monks distributed in several tens of Italian monasteries, seven centuries of existence has given the Church a unique blessed, its founder Maria Bernardo Tolomei [Siena 1272 — †Siena 1348], beatified three centuries after his death. Then, elapsed 661 year old, Blessed Bernardo Tolomei Maria was eventually canonized 20 August 2009.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said

Concerning the canonization of Maria Bernardo Tolomei would be interesting to see how the distinguished biographer Belgian Benedictine Dom Réginald Grégoire [1935 — †2013], postulator of the cause, has finally retrieved documents to carry on this historical cause at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, if it considers that for centuries has been complained precisely the impossibility of proceeding with a process of canonization for the lack of necessary historical documentation, which it seems to have finally compensated for the hagiography (!?). However, since this congregation with a rich heritage and being counted among the great Tuscan companies that possess the largest land plots, it may be that he had the means to finally find the historiography which for centuries did not exist?

particularly large fresco

Di Maria Bernardo Tolomei There were perhaps handed memorable sermons and wonderful spiritual lessons to its monks or as many of his lyrics lofty theological stature? To be honest, the collection of his letters [cf. WHO] more than the spiritual have the flavor of the writings of an administrator who organizes, directs, issuing directives and requires a papal legates and bishops concessions and privileges to their monasteries. As for the texts on his life, from one of the oldest [cf. WHO], they are an obvious jumble of ordinary gold legends with whom they were infiorettate the middle of the seventeenth century the lives of Saints or the candidates for canonization, all through precise and repetitive styles, thanks to writers who often gathered together episodes, visions and tests virtue that emerged as such in the lives of dozens of other saints or candidates for canonization. And even working in hagiography hagiography but apografia in apografia, the distinguished Belgian Benedictine biographer has finally changed over the centuries in a stratified apografie Position on life, virtues and reputation of holiness. So today, narrate the holy deeds of Bernardo Maria Tolomei, of which there are no written and original works but only posthumous biographies, It is like telling the struggle of St George and the dragon, canonizing finally biographers and hagiographers. That said it is good to clarify, to those to whom it was not clear if necessary, that the speeches have just made they do not rely on more or less stringent opinions or even ungenerous, but strictly on scientific data and not easy to disprove.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma

By way of historical inquiry, we want to check how many blesseds and saints were instead donated, including also some Doctors of the Church, from other religious congregations, in a life span far below the Congregation of Benedictine monks Olivetani? Can a monastic congregation not donate to the Church and Blessed Saints in seven hundred years? Yup, it's possible, As a gay character like Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom He does not just leave their mark only of ancient frescoes, but also in the air that permeates the walls, from the entrance building that was the bachelor pad connoisseurs of Renaissance abbots until the stable monastic populated by several other monks no less revelers. If the saying is true that "the barrel the wine that ', shortages blessed, santi, mystical and spiritual fathers, however, it was compensated with other talents, from that of Dom Francis Ringhieri [1721-1787], devoted to theatrical works in the Baroque era and defined by critics as "More heretical than any other tragedy friar in that century" [can be consulted WHO, WHO, WHO].

Speaking on asset plan: no Abbot of Monte Oliveto Maggiore has never had problems accommodating between those rich spiritual walls of an aesthetic but often empty Anima Christi, a large army of children of Sodom roughly similar to the poor sensual and winking Christ tied to the column. But when the abbot Dom Maurizio Maria Outlines [1986-1992], previously already economer general of the congregation, nell'avallo he was involved in financial transactions which led to the loss of several billion old lire, the children of Sodom They did not hesitate to remove him, because you can defer the morale of flickering monks tied to the column, but on the money deposited with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena can not however compromise. Everything although a Abate remain in office until 75 years of age, though re-elected by the general chapter every six years. A document everything is cronotassi of the abbots of the twentieth century, that until 1970 They remained in office for life, only from the successor of Dom Romualdo Maria Zilianti [1928-1946], with his successor Dom Angelo Maria Sabatini [1970-1986] takes over the practice of giving up the chair at the abbey they are 75 years of age.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma, between the sacred, profane and scenes of Bacchanalian … to the right are depicted the family Abbot era

If today we can call ourselves Christians we owe it to the children of St. Benedict of Norcia through monasticism have first saved, then spread Christianity in the West. The same lemma Europe, of which St. Benedict is the patron, It was born as an idea and concept in the great Benedictine abbeys circuit, because they were the sons of St. Benedict in creating Europe. And if today we can read and study Greek philosophy, Latin classical literature or know the works of the great Fathers of the Church, if we have so many secular works from the contents anything but Christians, Gaius Valerius Catullus, including, we owe it to the Benedictine monks, born children of St. Benedict, and then it is reduced centuries after the children of Sodom.

To those who have always nurtured great veneration historical and theological towards the Benedictine Order, heart-wrenching to see today reduced monasticism in a similar decline. Unfortunately in this world in which even the most scandalous news today are born to die tomorrow and make room for other scandals, I fear that few have realized that to Montecassino, mother of all Western abbeys, gangrenous a homosexual in their unbridled vices has decreed the death of monasticism; and today, what's left, It is an empty shell, fact of historical abbeys - those that today have survived - rich in works of art and beautiful scenery,, but empty of the substance of the faith and of that glorious monasticism from the sixth century faith saved her and then spread. In short: attention to be seduced by the historical frames of the beautiful and the aesthetic that, however, conceals the emptiness of the spirit and of the Christian virtues, because the Devil, in addition to having extraordinary aesthetic sense, wonderfully sung in Gregorian chant and “celebrates pontifical abbey” with great stylish exterior, He is having trained at the monastic life by jumping from a “another particular friendship”. And today, all the “special friends” of yesterday, are abbots in the various abbeys, not to mention the monks that “special friendships” they sealed them with their vow in the monastic chapters and in the general chapter, ie how much it would be enough to pray God's mercy throughout their lives so that it can preserve them from Hellfire.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma.

The funeral march on monasticism, after so many scandals in the abbeys and monasteries of Europe has finally played Dom Pietro Vittorelli, 191Th successor of St. Benedict of Norcia, who delighted to lead a life of luxury around Europe, to stay in expensive hotels and pay a high price the company of young gay with Abbey money [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO, etc …]. To this is then also added the use of drugs, for which has had consequent health problems cost the Abbey of Montecassino very high amounts when for a period of time the Abbot took refuge in a Swiss clinic to detox and to try to cure his cocaine addiction. The most tragic thing though is that he was not subjected to canonical penalties and has not been dismissed from the clerical state, so as to be still in the cronotassi Arciabati of Monte Cassino and in the yearbooks of the Italian Episcopal Conference as "Abbot Emeritus Professor ' [cf. WHO] rather than as "destitute".

the homoerotic figures for nothing hidden in painting “sacred” by Giovanni Bazzi known as Sodoma

(C)On the abbot of Montecassino the funeral march of monasticism has only come to an end, because the execution was carried out previously with moral scandals scattered abbeys spread across Europe. Of course, other cases it was able to treat them with confidentiality, from the Abbey of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Finally, the private status territorial prelature, to follow with the Abbey of Grottaferrata, where he was deposed Abbot Dom Emiliano maker, even in that case this happened especially for the nocturnal comings and goings of the inevitable paid young men who went to amuse some vicious monks, so much so that the Holy See - a rare thing indeed - proceeded to declare invalid certain priestly ordinations of young monks. We could follow with the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum, academic structure of the Benedictine Confederation, to which Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski several times, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education [1999-2015], between 2007 and the 2008 intimated that if not cleaned up their internal college from various pleasantries and numerous fact coppiette, the Holy See would have shut him.

To limit ourselves only ever scope Roman: what happened to the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, where he was elected abbot a former Milanese designer, also very gay, He rose from the fashion world to monasticism and become in a few years monaco, a priest and then abbot aesthetic? but yet, near the Aventine Hill, It is the General Curia of the Cistercian Monks, where a decade ago, at the time of certain facts, He lays the Abbot General Dom Mauro Esteva i Alsina [1933 — †2014], the concern of which was to impart obsessive etiquette lessons to young monks and verify that the dining hall was set with forks and knives positioned at the right distance to the right and left of the plate, or that the bows were made according to the proper angle, as if they had depended survival and the historic honor of the Cistercian Order. May today this man rest in peace in the crypt of the Abbey of Poblet Catalan and may the mercy of God forgive him with a mild purgatory all serious and irreparable damage to him went the entire Cistercian Order during its general mandate carried out between 1995 and the 2010.

particular: efebo winking

To retreat at the Roman Curia this year a member of the Congregation of Olivetan Benedictine Monks was chosen by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and presented to the Pope, Dom Bernardo Gianni, Abbot of the Abbey of San Miniato al Monte in Florence. If nell'Archicenobio of Monte Oliveto Maggiore stands Sodom, San Miniato the most valuable frescoes are those of Spinello Aretino. The substance, however, remains the same, while ranging from the art of Sodom to that of the Spinel. And this - the Joint -, It would be particularly appreciated dall'Arciabate Montecassino Dom Pietro Vittorelli, that the drug was a great expert and consumer.

The abbot of the Abbey of San Miniato in Florence He is one who can speak to this world. He speaks to the world language that appeals to the world. Indeed, the spiritual exercises, They will be marked on dreams and poetry: the dream of political Giorgio La Pira and the poetry of Mario Luzi, whose poetry, Christian speaking, it is certainly not that of the French writer and priest Michel Quoist [1921-1997].

the homoerotic figures for nothing hidden in painting “sacred” by Giovanni Bazzi known as Sodoma

The abbot preacher, son of the noble Order of St. Benedict which we owe the survival of Christianity and the preservation of historical heritage, philosophical and literary, He will speak to the Roman Curia of a dreamer and a poet, as if it was a dream spirituality and theology poetry, as if the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, loudly proclaimed saint, had never written the Encyclical Faith and Reason, the base of which there is the thought of a great Benedictine Abbot, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, who did not live the relationship with faith in dreams and poetry, but explaining that faith seeking understanding [faith requires reason] and in need: «I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust» [I think to understand, I understand to believe]. Unfortunately the famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti has been dead for years, otherwise, for the next retreat, perhaps Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi would have proposed the thoughtful lyrics of his famous song Emotions :

particular: ephebus winking that shows the rear

“And close your eyes to stop
something that's inside me
but in your mind it is not
You cannot understand
you call them if you want
emotions " [Mogol-Battisti, 1970]

We know that after the tragedy comes the increasingly grotesque farce precisely that ranges between Sodom and Spinello. All the more reason to pray and to cleanse us during this Holy Lent, in the course of which, the largest of the mortifications, It remains the awareness of not being credible in the world, but instead of being laughed at by the world, especially when the world to please try to speak the language of the world, after having emptied of Christ and of the mystery of the Cross, to fill us with dreams and poems … "you call them if you want emotions".

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: Sodom's insistent obsession with depicting the male posterior which “if offer” and in which we read the prophecy about the posthumous decadent monasticism …

One thing is certain: art leaves no sign simply on the walls, especially if certain pictorial images are the most realistic representation of who certain walls inhabits. Obviously, the question as to why seven hundred years of life the monks of the Benedictine Congregation Olivetan have given the Church blessed, santi, mystics, theology, doctors and spirituality fathers, It is a purely rhetorical question, the answer is in fact all contained in homoerotic images that stand in the frescoes realized by Sodom in the cloister; and the cloister is reached after entering the abbey territory passing through the building once used as bachelor pad abbots Renaissance revelers. In Paradise, instead, it comes only after converting, repented and cleansed of sins, no one comes or with Giorgio La Pira dreams, nor with poems by Mario Luzi. Lent begins with the imposition of ashes followed by the admonition "converted and believe in the Gospel", it does not begin with an invitation to believe in dreams and live poems …

 

the Island of Patmos, 08 March 2019

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Dear Cousins ​​from beyond the Alps, these circumstances, very simply, give us back the Mona Lisa

1 August 2024/in Actuality/by Straight Anna Monia

DEAR COUSINS FROM OVER THE ALPE, THIS BEING SO, VERY SIMPLY, GIVE US BACK THE MICA

I do not tear my clothes in the name of sacrilege, this is not what this is about. I tear my clothes because of abortion included in the Constitution. Terrible. In this case, let's keep our clothes on, despite the heat, and let's ask ourselves: what does the carnival have to do with the Olympics??

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Anna Monia Alfieri, I.M.
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Basically that's what I thought, when I saw, during the inauguration ceremony of the Olympics, the wagon with the parody, let's call it, of Leonardo's Last Supper (cf.. Future, WHO e WHO).

I don't tear my clothes in the name of sacrilege, this is not what this is about. I tear my clothes because of abortion included in the French Constitution. Terrible. In this case, let's keep our clothes on, despite the heat, and let's ask ourselves: what does the carnival have to do with the Olympics?, (c)it is useful?

The aim was to reiterate the secular character of the State? Secularism does not mean bad taste or desecration of culture. I think it was a bad page in the history of the Olympics and of France, of Western culture in general, also given the almost general silence. After all, everyone, I stand corrected, almost everyone — because those who are not aligned with the dominant culture must remain silent, under penalty of being accused of being obscurantist - they have the right to have their say, regardless of the form which is always substance.

Yet another consideration, this, I admit, sweaty, after all, I also belong to the category: seeing those images I thought of Charlemagne, I thought of the pages of Bossuet, so much loved by Manzoni, I thought of Saint Therese of Lisieux, I thought of Maritain, so appreciated by Saint Paul VI. Ma, above all, I thought of the Lourdes cave which still attracts pilgrims from all over the world and which remains a sign of contradiction for everyone's intelligence, even lay people, the honest ones, it's obvious.

Dear young people, reflect and reject bad taste, ignorance and contempt of the true culture that, to be such, it is the fruit of free and honest hearts and minds. We who have inherited so much beauty have the task of safeguarding and respecting it. If we are not capable of it, let's give it to others to do it. So, give us back the Mona Lisa!

Milan, 1 August 2024

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When the dream amphibologist author of “Codice Katzinger” he took care of “cat and cat” and tried to scratch itches by celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Viagra …

31 July 2024/in Actuality/by father ariel

WHEN THE DREAM AMPHIBOLOGIST AUTHOR OF CODICE KATZINGER HE WAS DEALING WITH CATZ AND MATZ AND HE TRIED TO PITCH THE ITCHES BY CELEBRATING TWENTY YEARS OF VIAGRA …

Good times, when it was more of a woman's hair rather than ridicule Codice Katzinger of a pathetic character who, in order to make news and cassettes, makes no distinction between the twentieth anniversary of Viagra and the twenty centuries of history of the Papacy!

— Smiling at what isn't serious but would like to be —

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

 

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Overwhelmed by the heat that envelops us this summer, Fathers de The Island of Patmos they have entrusted to my pen the gift of a fresh smile with which to pay homage to our Readers, reiterating incidentally that as priests we are called to be serious and not serious people. In fact, between the serious and the serious lies the difference between a sincere man and a hypocritical man.

The Italian man is no longer what he once was, when for a skirt he lost the light of reason. And faced with certain current situations we can only say... those were good times! Today, the light of reason, many lose it behind conspiracies or unlikely cryptic codes of the Supreme Pontiffs who have made false renouncements of the pontificate, to follow with unspecified amphibologies marketed by some salesman …

Instead of testosterone certain Italian men exude science fiction phobias, often even of a pseudo-religious nature. No longer foaming at the mouth as happened in the past, to talk about the unforgettable performances from One Thousand and One Nights that they would offer to certain beautiful women; today, with their mouths, they drool excitedly to talk about gift e ministry pontifical, getting excited much more than they would get excited in front of a beautiful model put on the cover of an erotic monthly magazine.

And so it was that a certain journalist - whose intellectual honesty is equal to that of a fox who enters a henhouse dressed as a Carmelite nun to preach penitential fasting -, he understood that the wise popular proverb had been tragically reversed. In fact, our wise elders said:

«It pulls a woman's hair more than an ox cart».

That's why ours, in data 6 February 2019, he tried to arouse itching with the historical apologia of the ancestors of Viagra by writing in the newspaper The 19th Century this article:

«The ancestors of Viagra. Thousand-year history of aphrodisiacs, from the ancient Romans to words in chat» (see article WHO).

It may be that while working on this article ended up discovering that if Viagra exists it's precisely because women's hair grows less and less, the cart is increasingly tired and the oxen that pull it are increasingly horned. And as if by magic he decided to transform himself from an unlikely historian of urology and andrology into a canonist, ecclesiologist and historian of the most unlikely Church yet, creating a kind of hair and itching that today is more painful than ever, perhaps even on a compensatory level, because many men seem to make up for their natural lack of libido by arousing themselves with plots centered on false popes ruling false churches after their predecessor had falsely renounced the sacred throne to inaugurate a fantastic “venue prevented” (!?).

We priests miss them terribly those men who let themselves be pulled more by a woman's hair than by an ox cart. For us confessors, then, it was a pleasure and a great act of grace to absolve an army of lustful people, behind which, well never forget it, there were just as many lustful women, because men did not do it alone, in that case it would have just been masturbation. Therefore, when certain weeping women, groaning and afflicted in their victimhood, they speak of the plague of cheaters, referring to them as whoremongers, with due honesty they should remember and admit that behind every whoremonger there is always and necessarily a whoremonger, unless, as we said just now, man does not do it alone, in this case, however, it would not be betrayal but a completely different thing and very different sexual practice and activity.

Today, the psycho-impotent in the brain following Carini's rabid rabid dogs and amphibologists who wrote cryptic codes to decode, I am far from coming to confession, because the more they wreak havoc on the Church and the Papacy, the more they pretend to feel right.

Good times, when it was more of a woman's hair rather than ridicule Codice Katzinger of a pathetic character who, in order to make news and cassettes, makes no distinction between the twentieth anniversary of Viagra and the twenty centuries of history of the Papacy!

Happy summer everyone.

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The work of the Devil in the history of man: temptation as a daily battle

3 July 2024/in Actuality/by Father Gabriele

THE WORK OF THE DEVIL IN THE HISTORY OF MAN: TEMPTATION AS A DAILY BATTLE

Now the diabolical possession, of which even the Lord Jesus was accused is an extraordinary action, very rare, of which the Church follows a strict procedure and rules for its certification. But ordinary action, daily, of the Devil is the temptation that comes to strike man both in the body and in the psyche.

 

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Some time ago I dedicated an article to the figure of the Demon, after that in Sicily, in February this year, a heinous crime was committed where the killer, to explain his insane act, he was hiding behind the reason that in his house, in his family members, there was this dark presence (WHO).

I continued to think about it and I find it prudent as well as reasonable to add a few words about temptation, which appears as the ordinary way through which Satan acts among men, placing stumbles, by virtue of his being disobedient and a liar first and foremost. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, al n. 395, he is defined as a spirit with limited power:

«However, Satan's power is not infinite. He is but a creature, powerful because it is pure spirit, but still a creature: cannot prevent the building of the kingdom of God. Although Satan works in the world out of hatred against God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action causes serious damage - of a spiritual nature and indirectly also of a physical nature - to every man and to society, this action is permitted by divine providence, which guides the history of man and the world with strength and sweetness. Divine permission of diabolical activity is a great mystery, but "we know that everything works for the good of those who love God (RM 8,28)».

I think it is right to return to reflecting on the meaning of temptation, because this topic seems to have disappeared from the horizon of Christian life, rather, sometimes, we try to diminish personal responsibility for sin. How many times have we heard it pronounced, as a joke, Oscar Wilde's famous phrase: «The best way to get rid of a temptation, is to give in". Or only the first part of a well-known phrase of Jesus in the Gospel is retained: "I don't condemn you either"; forgetting that the text continues with: "will’ and from now on sin no more ". Or when in the everyday phrasebook, to excuse particular sins they say: «The flesh is weak».

Just to mention, having quoted the famous writer Oscar Wilde, I would like to mention that, despite his past, the many homosexual adventures, he died as a Catholic, after receiving Baptism from a priest, absolution from sins the moment of death and extreme unction. In the famous letter Out of the depths addressed to a lover of hers, Oscar Wilde never stops blaming himself for the weaknesses demonstrated on every occasion and pronounces the phrase: «Catholicism is the only religion worth dying for».

Always to loosen personal responsibility in sinning, sometimes it comes, in the religious field, to put the entire blame on the Devil. Or we resort, outside the horizon of faith, to the psychological processes by which the human being, since it is such, subject to impulses and desires that often date back to childhood, he is free from sin; he can self-absolve without intermediaries, even going as far as removing the guilt itself, in defiance of any ethics of responsibility. This is something in which Freudian psychoanalysis is a pioneer.

Understand what temptation is it means understanding precisely this human fragility. In a religious and specifically Christian context, we see that this humanity subject to transience has not been condemned by God, but rather, assumed by Verbo, the second person of the Holy Trinity, so much so that in the Creed it is professed that He is: «True God and true Man». In fact, we know that Jesus himself suffered the attack of temptation and brought the word of forgiveness and mercy to everyone, leaving man the freedom to be able to disregard this proposal to his own detriment.

Face temptation for us human beings it means waging a war that we fight frequently. And the example of Christ who engaged in a final battle with the Devil comes to us. According to the account of the Synoptics, the public demonstration of Jesus' messiahship in baptism is immediately followed by the conflict with the Devil, whose peak is reached by the Lucanian version of the second temptation:

«E, leading him upwards, showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the ecumene; and the Devil told him: “I will give you all this power and their glory, because it was given to me and I give it to whoever I want; if you then bow down before me, it will be all yours”» (LC 4, 5-6).

It's a deadly challenge. Jesus cannot contest the Demon's assertion of power, but he opposes it with faith in another power. To whom later, echoing the words of the devil, he will accuse him of being possessed himself, will answer:

«But if it is with the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come to you" (LC 11, 20).

Now the diabolical possession, of which even the Lord Jesus was accused is an extraordinary action, very rare, of which the Church follows a strict procedure and rules for its certification. But ordinary action, daily, of the Devil is the temptation that comes to strike man both in the body and in the psyche.

As the Catechism stated mentioned above, for the mysterious plans of God, this tempting yet limited activity, it is also allowed, evidently for a higher purpose. We could say, for the good of souls. The psychological and spiritual dynamics of temptation have as their goal the overturning of the real relationship between us and God. The devil makes us appear to be good things that are not, leading us to sin, attempts to distance us from the living and true God by placing before our eyes attractive realities that are in truth poor idols.

These demonic dynamics of temptation we can trace them in the first biblical book of Genesis. It is there that we find the mother of all temptation narrated, in the third chapter of the work. The text shows us how a temptation moves that is to the detriment of man and his original relationship with the Creator.

First of all, temptation, in its first movement, it comes between man and God's plan for him, until it corrupts him.

“It meanders […] he said to the woman: “It is true that God said: You must not eat from any tree in the garden?”» (Gen 3, 1).

The tempter thus insinuates himself into the relationship between the creature and the Creator, starting to ask doubts in the form of a question in a dialogue context. The first failure occurs here, the trap into which Eve falls, because he answers. All spiritual authors, based on the biblical text, they warn that we must not dialogue with the devil, but silence it, preventing it from triggering any suspicion. The only voice we need to listen to is that of God.

The next move, or second movement of every temptation, it consists in the moral distortion of a good, making it perceived as the opposite:

«The serpent said to the woman: “You will not die at all! On the contrary, God knows when you ate it, your eyes would be opened and you would become like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen 3, 4-5).

Once you open a door for dialogue the Devil not only sneakily insinuates himself and raises doubts about God like few others, but he distorts His teaching, perverting it. It is the end of morality and the search for true good: make it seem like a bad choice, a shame, as the best and most reasonable thing. Having reached this point, how can you not fall? In fact, everything happens easily. Because sin is presented to us as the truest and most useful way, only to then discover that it is insidious and above all distances us from God:

«Then the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, pleasing to the eyes and desirable for gaining wisdom; he took of its fruit and ate, then she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he also ate it."(Gen 3,6).

As noted, then exit the tunnel of temptation, once entered, it is difficult if not impossible. Yet at the beginning we said that we are not subjects without freedom and responsibility. Even if indispensable goods are undermined by a threat such as the demonic one, we have the capacity, if not duty, to oppose us. The Saints and the masters of the spirit have shown us some means which, if they don't help us avoid being tempted, they strengthen us, they give us those antibodies that make us almost unassailable. I mentioned before not giving space to dialogue with the devil, which can be, for instance, inner, in our thoughts; and to do this we need to be vigilant.

The prayer, following the example of Jesus, It helps a lot in not falling into temptation. It trains us to be vigilant and prepares us for future difficulties and battles with the devil. But sometimes it is also necessary to escape temptation, as if faced with a danger that overwhelms us or that we cannot control, a fire that blazes. The sayings of the desert fathers are full of examples of this kind, when they were tempted on their genuine faith or on the chastity they had chosen. There is a beautiful painting by Matthias Grünewald, preserved in Colmar in France, where the father of the desert is seen, Saint Anthony the Abbot, stretched and attacked on all sides by beasts representing demons with their temptations. But he doesn't give in or give up. The account of the battles of Saint Anthony the Abbot against the devil is told to us in these terms by Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria who wrote, having known him in life, a biography of the holy anchorite:

«The place seemed to have been shaken by an earthquake, and demons, almost as if they were breaking down the four walls of the shelter they seemed to penetrate through them, and appear in the form of beasts and creeping things. The place suddenly filled with lion shapes, bears, leopards, Market, snakes, aspidi, scorpions, and each of them moved according to its nature".

It has rightly been observed that sermons on demons constitute

«… a great example of Christian psychology, in which human excesses are described in the form of demons recalled from the abyss of the unconscious, a sort of Freud ante litteram with the power of Dostoevsky.» (Louis Goosen, Dictionary of saints, Mondadori, 2000).

From what has been said so far it is clear that, humanity being fragile, it is easy for us to give in to sin as a result of temptation. Yet we know from all revelation that we cannot be tempted beyond our ability, that God is our strength in all circumstances. And even if we fall, God loves the repentant man and always welcomes him in his great goodness, as the parables of mercy that we read in the Gospel teach us. So much so that Jesus himself asks us to imitate him in forgiving others and to convert.

Give in to temptation and passively accept sin it does not just appear as a serious act of irresponsibility and immorality; I would also say that it is an act against the beauty and value of the dignity and freedom that God himself has given us. His grace and his love, which has revealed to us in the course of the history of salvation and above all in Christ our Lord push us to free ourselves from the bonds of temptation to live habitually in virtue.

In a next episode we will be able to better analyze the equipment of the virtuous man and what weapons we have from God to fight demonic assaults. In the meantime, to tone down the serious tones a bit, I leave you with a reading recommendation, the beautiful book by C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. This book is a satirical story in epistolary form in which an elderly devil, «his powerful Abyssal Sublimity, Undersecretary Screwtape», instructs his nephew Malacoda, a young devil apprentice tempter. Screwtape advises Wormwood on how to ensure the damnation of the soul of a young human assigned to him, referred to as the "patient", while God is the «Enemy». So he wisely states, in the introduction, the Lewis:

«There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall regarding devils. One is not to believe in their existence. The other is to believe it, and have an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and greet a materialist or a magician with the same pleasure.".

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Aldo Moro at the seaside in a jacket and tie, bishops and priests in their underwear, we “rigid priests” called “Pharisees” e “formalist” if we dare to appeal to priestly dignity

27 June 2024/in Actuality/by father ariel

ALDO MORO AT THE SEA IN A JACKET AND TIE, BISHOPS AND PRIESTS IN UNDERWEAR, WE “STIFF PRIESTS” CALLED “PHARISEES” E “FORMALISTS” IF WE DARE TO MAKE CALLS TO PRIESTLY DIGNITY

«When we went to the beach, dad always wore a jacket and when I asked him for an explanation he replied that being a representative of the Italian people he always had to be dignified and presentable".

 

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In these days of summer heat I came across a photo of one of our twentieth-century Italian statesmen, Aldo Moro, portrayed with his daughter while walking on the beach in a jacket and tie. Daughter Agnese remembers:

«When we went to the beach, dad always wore a jacket and when I asked him for an explanation he replied that being a representative of the Italian people he always had to be dignified and presentable" (cf.. WHO, WHO).

Photo 1963: Aldo Moro (1916-1978) with his daughter Agnese (1952) walking on the beach in the height of summer

To those brothers who, not finding anything better, turn to me as a spiritual director or confessor, I often repeat:

«Each of us, perhaps without even realizing it, has as its models those priests known in the delicate years of childhood".

There are facts and situations in which we have the clear perception that we have not aged that much, but that we are considered old by those who have transformed the visible Church into a theater of the burlesque.

When I was a child I went for two weeks to a summer camp organized by the parish and run by the nuns. I wouldn't have needed to go to the colony to go to the seaside, where my family had summer homes. I also went several times with my maternal grandmother to the French coast for a summer stay with her sister. My parents sent me to those seaside colonies, then following the mountain ones above L'Aquila, so that I could spend periods of time with my peers.

In August, at the beginning of the marine colony, between 10 and the 11 in the morning the bishop of the diocese arrived on the inaugural visit accompanied by the parish priest and his secretary. Ten year old child that I was - so we are talking about fifty years ago - I still remember the bishop with his cassock threaded in purplish red and the other two presbyters with the black one. At the time in Italy, the use of white cassocks, it was only allowed from Naples downwards. After the greeting addressed to us children - as he used at the time and as he continues to use for many of us today -, one by one we went to kiss the bishop's right hand. When it was my turn, after kissing the bishop's hand, I looked at him and the other two priests and asked them if they weren't hot. The bishop smiled together with the other two and answered me:

«Yes we are hot, very much! However, if one day you happen to see a shepherd among his flock of sheep, you will notice that he is always dressed as a shepherd, in summer and winter. The sheep also recognize their shepherd by how he is dressed. Even the wolf that tries to attack the sheep, if he recognizes the shepherd he stays away and doesn't come closer".

Exactly half a century has passed since then, yet I always remember, not just the words, but even the tone of voice of that bishop, dead now for thirty-five years at the age of ninety. Today instead, some bishops and priests new generation, they smile when faced with stories of this kind, they give you a look mixed with tenderness and pain, then, as they say to the nostalgic poor, they respond: «But what are you thinking and going over again, were other times!». We are sure that priestly dignity and decorum are things of the past?

In the days before, Rome was dying of heat, between Borgo Santo Spirito, Borgo Pio and Via della Conciliazione was mostly a bustle of priests with shirts with short sleeves undone, not to mention the nuns with the t-shirt white that reveal the transparent bra laces, and to whom one might ask why they wear the veil on their heads, in those estates it would be better to go without. Wanting, with the heat, they could even do without a bra, if his breasts didn't reach his navel. Then there are the inevitable bishops with the low-cut shirt with short sleeves and the pectoral cross inside the breast pocket, so that the piece of chain left visible gives the image of "power" through what was once called the "pectoral cross", today it is instead called "panzoral cross", because it is no longer on the chest but hanging on the belly, or “tascoral cross”, because it is placed inside the shirt pocket.

Walking along Borgo Pio, in the direction of a crossroad that is located just before the end, three groups of people stopped me, the “stiff priest” with the cassock on, despite the heat; and some Latin Americans asked me for my blessing, two other small groups of people if I could bless them with the religious objects they had just purchased. As usual I blessed the people and objects. Among these, a young man asked me if I wasn't hot. I replied that I have always suffered a lot from the heat and that I was going to the laundry to pick up my two white light linen cassocks that I had brought to be washed and that I would wear if that heat continued or worse increased. Having said that, I clarified:

«Priestly decorum and dignity can be manifested both dressed and half-naked with two dirty rags on. Our martyr bishops and priests, died in Nazi concentration camps or in Gulag Communists, were they not perhaps also clothed with great dignity? But since we are neither inside the concentration camps nor inside the Gulag, It's a good idea to stay dressed from neck to ankles, even when it's hot".

I used other words, compared to those that bishop used with me half a century ago, but the substance was the same and I think the effect produced was the same. Like a good priest “stiff” no one has ever seen me walking around in shorts, let alone entering churches to celebrate Holy Mass in those conditions. No one has ever seen me at the beach in a swimsuit among people, the very few times that I go there during the summer, approximately three or four times, I go to isolated and depopulated places where I don't know anyone and where no one knows me. Matters of … rigidity.

Or as some dear detractors say who I particularly like and who wander around calmly in canvas trousers after having undergone six or seven years of fantastic training in the most holy seminary:

«Pay no attention to him, he doesn't text, he didn't even attend the seminar, he's a stiff!».

Empirical evidence shows it's worth saying: «Thank God!», if anything, reminding these of the gaps in the history of the Church, as well as in Catholic doctrine, that not even John Paul II did the seminary, Paul VI and before them not even Pius XII, the latter passed off as a student of the Almo Collegio Capranica, where, however, he only stayed two or three months, just to be able to say that he had passed through the corridor of a Roman seminary before being ordained a priest and catapulted the following day to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. The privilege of not having attended the seminary will certainly not allow me to become the Supreme Pontiff, I hope, however, that he can allow me to sanctify myself.

Definitely, the most holy seminary, the Bishop of Vallo della Lucania did it, photographed smiling in his underwear and put on the page social of his Diocese complete with a playful 8X1000 t-shirt (cf.. WHO), about which some people also wonder: like never in years, this revenue intended for us by Italian taxpayers, it's not even decreasing anymore, but in free fall? It may be that it depends on a lack of rigidity and on the excellent training given in our most holy seminaries to our bishops and priests new generation?

Since according to the best of the worst of the clericalese - exactly what you learn in the most holy seminaries -, the consolidated technique is to overturn the facts and then attack those who have made completely legitimate criticisms, Knowing certain priestly psychology, I would like to point out that the prompt reply regarding the fact that the photo was stolen by someone and then published, it doesn't hold up; especially since it was first published on the page social of the Diocese complete with an official message and shortly afterwards removed. The question is in fact upstream and goes far beyond the photo itself: a sixty-year-old bishop in a physical condition that is anything but toned and sporty, with plenty of belly and superfluous fat on him, it is appropriate for him to be a youngster by taking to the football field? This pertinent question is then followed by a second one: today's young and old, increasingly poor in Christ and illiterate in matters of doctrine and faith, the bishop, they prefer him in the classroom to teach and transmit those now lost truths of faith, or playing football matches in a sort of pathetic re-edition of the old and fun matches between bachelors and married men?

 

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Shames of the priesthood grow and multiply

24 June 2024/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Drafting

SHAME OF THE PRIESTHOOD GROW AND MULTIPLY

The explanations for this cartoon which mocks Jesus Christ and the Apostles with two brushstrokes, the Veronese presbyter Giovanni Berti should not provide them, ma who has the obligation to ensure the correct orthodoxy of priests.

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In front of this mocking cartoon, we would like those who are responsible for supervising the correct doctrine of priests - and it seems that these persons in charge are called bishops, term deriving from Greek bishop, which means vigilant / he who watches over — would enlighten us on how we should interpret certain passages of the Blessed Apostle Paul. Just in case, it is appropriate to delete them from the Holy Scriptures? Or it could be sufficient to avoid saying "Word of God" at the end of the proclamation of certain passages, explaining to Believers in Christ that the Apostle was in grave error? In fact, Paul writes:

«Ptherefore God abandoned them to infamous passions: in fact their women have changed the natural use into that which is against nature; similarly also men, leaving the natural relationship with the woman, they became inflamed in their lust for one another, committing infamous acts with men, receiving in themselves the deserved reward for their own aberration» (RM 1, 24-27).

It's still:

«Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don't fool yourself: neither fornicators, born idolatry, nor adulterers, ne prostitutes, born sodomiti, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, not cursed, nor will they extortionately inherit the kingdom of God» (The Cor 6, 9-10).

It will also be appropriate, always in the light of the illuminating cartoon by Giovanni Berti aka Gioba, also delete this passage from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

«Homosexuality refers to relationships between men or women who experience sexual attraction, exclusive or predominant, towards people of the same sex. It manifests itself in very varied forms over the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychic genesis remains largely unexplained. Relying on the Holy Scripture, which presents homosexual relationships as serious depravities (cf.. GN 19,1-29; RM 1,24-27; 1 Color 6,9-10; 1 TM 1,10), Tradition has always declared that “acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered” (Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, You. Human person, 8: AAS 68 (1976) 85). They are against natural law. They preclude the gift of life from the sexual act. They are not the fruit of true emotional and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved […] A significant number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies. This inclination, objectively disordered, constitutes a test for most of them. Therefore they must be welcomed with respect, compassion, delicacy. In their regard, any sign of unfair discrimination will be avoided. Such people are called to carry out God's will in their life, e, if they are Christian, to unite the difficulties they may encounter as a result of their condition to the sacrifice of the Lord's cross " (NN. 2357-2358)

We are sure that Jesus Christ, to those who practiced «the other side» he said «… but that's okay, eh, eh …» and that a priest can spread this mocking message in the total indifference of those who should monitor the doctrinal and moral orthodoxy of priests?

 

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The logic of Alessandro Minutella: "Others do worse". Maybe yes, but they are clever and keep quiet

21 June 2024/in Actuality/by Drafting

THE LOGIC OF ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA: «THE OTHERS DO WORSE». MAYBE YES, BUT THEY ARE SMART AND THEY SHUT UP

If an opponent suffers a defeat, rejoicing over it is not Christian, sinking a blow is not human. Even making moral judgments is not appropriate, it's not up to us to do it, while definitive sentences are the responsibility of the courts, not of the moods of social media or anyone. Minutella deserves human respect precisely because she suffered a solemn defeat, but equally humane respect would also be deserved by those simple and naive people who followed him and who for days he has been reassuring with surreal stories, presenting them with another reality.

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The structure of Little Nazareth founded by Alessandro Minutella, the presbyter of Panormita incurred excommunication for heresy and schism, then resigned by the clerical state, after two sentences from the Regional Administrative Court of Sicily for building irregularities, one of the 2023 (see WHO) and one of 2024 (see WHO), it was acquired by the assets of the Municipality of Carini as required by the executive decree (see WHO).

«They are attacking us for two arches that have been closed, just stuff 20 square meters" (Alessandro Minutella from “Saints and Coffee” the 21.06.2024, hours 9:15, Channel YouTube Of Radio Domina Nostra). In the picture: "just." 20 square meters" taken with satellite in May 2024.

If an opponent suffers a defeat rejoicing in it is not Christian, sinking a blow is not human. Even making moral judgments is not appropriate, it's not up to us to do it, while definitive sentences are the responsibility of the courts, not of the moods of social media or anyone. Minutella deserves human respect precisely because she suffered a solemn defeat, but equally humane respect would also be deserved by those simple and naive people who followed him and who for days he has been reassuring with surreal stories, presenting them with another reality. Reason why, based strictly on objective facts and actions, not on subjective interpretations, we believe it is our duty to offer a faithful summary of what happened, in total adherence to what is narrated by the reasoned sentences issued by the Regional Administrative Court of Sicily.

On land in the municipality of Carini (Palermo) is licensed in 2007 to build a small rural building for agricultural use. As soon as the work began, Minutella ordered the workers to modify the project and what should have been a small building for agricultural use became a chapel of approximately 180 square meters. When, following a report, the traffic police go to check whether he was building in compliance with the building permit granted, they discover a whole series of irregularities and an initial concreting process carried out. At that point an order is issued ordering him to proceed with the immediate restoration of the original state in accordance with the approved project and the building permit granted.. In this photoshoot of 2013 the process of overbuilding of the rural area is documented.

The first ruling of the TAR the 2017 (see WHO), followed by that of 2018 (see WHO), photograph and detail this situation in every detail. Instead of appealing, however, Minutella changes the cards on the table and suddenly the land is no longer his but belongs to another property.. Thus we return again to the TAR, which rules that it is certainly not the change of owners that will cure everything. Meanwhile, to the old discrepancies already contested, the "miraculous" water well was added, the swimming pool of the “aspiring Sicilian Lourdes”, a further pouring of concrete to create the so-called chapel of the Holy Face of Manoppello on the outside, walls and concrete structures scattered everywhere visible and documented by images taken via satellite before and after the construction of the concrete structures. All these works have been declared abusive, although the interested party tries to deny the evidence of the facts in his videos, presenting himself as a persecuted victim.

Minutella has been saying this for weeks in his public videos that this "persecutory fury" unleashed towards him and towards "a work desired by the Madonna" is based on "very small discrepancies", now pointing to a window, now a couple of closed arches. He has specified several times that the buildings built in this area are made of wood and as such can be dismantled (see his videos WHO, WHO, WHO, etc..), however, failing to specify that they were erected on agricultural land on cemented bases with a screed of 20 cm. subsequently tiled, with related electrical and water systems that are anything but regular and compliant with safety regulations. According to him, these would be small, insignificant things carried out in areas where - he ironically - illegal construction triumphs everywhere, that means: others do worse things (see his videos WHO, WHO, WHO, etc..).

The urban discrepancy it does not depend on "two closed arches" but on the fact that in the master plan this land for agricultural use was not intended for a place of worship. Moreover, to be able to build a church - be it a chapel or a building used for worship in any case -, dealing with the administrative authorities cannot be a priest resigned from the clerical state declared by sentence of the supreme ecclesiastical authority no longer a member of the clergy and of the Catholic Church, but only the diocesan ordinary of the particular place, according to the laws that regulate relations between State and Church in accordance with the Concordat of 1929 revised in 1984. Therefore, any individual who overnight deemed it appropriate to declare that the current one is a "false Catholic Church governed by a false Pope" and that they, called "small remainder", they are instead the true Catholic Church, has no legal right to request and negotiate with the competent administrative bodies the erection of places of worship, as he and his associates do not constitute either a religious body under public law or a religious association recognized by the State. This is the reason why H.E. Mons. Michele Pennisi, Archbishop of Monreale, within whose canonical jurisdiction the town of Carini fell, with a public decree of 17 September 2015 defined Minutella's activities as "illicit" and "suspected of manipulating the consciences of ordinary people", as well as «the construction of the so-called is illegitimate “cappella” on privately owned land, because it lacks the necessary ecclesiastical license" (see text of the decree WHO).

Affirm and complain: «They give space to everyone, to the Jews, of Protestants, to the Mormons, to Buddhists... but not to us!» is an irrational victim pose. These religious associations that he mentions from time to time are all recognized cults, starting fromKILL (Union of Jewish Communities of Italy), equally the various non-Catholic Christian aggregations such as the FCEI (Federation of Italian Evangelical Churches) o la Sacred Orthodox Diocese of Italy, to follow with non-Christian aggregations such as theUBI (Italian Buddhist Union) and various others who have stipulated specific agreements with the State obtaining related recognition and protection as cults and religious bodies under public law.

The facts prove that Minutella has repeatedly attempted to obtain concessions that are impossible to grant under the law - such as for example the erection of places of worship - by acting in an aggressive and mocking manner towards the public administrators and ecclesiastical authorities of the place. This is what happened when in 2022, finding himself passing through Trebaseleghe (Padova), canonical territory of the Diocese of Treviso, struck by inspiration he decided to found the Little Tabor, purchasing on the spot for 200.000 euro the building of a former gym that needed to be completely renovated. And after making the purchase he realized that this building which had been unsold on the market for eight years was entirely covered with an asbestos roof., the disposal of which cost - by his public and repeated admission - 60.000 Euro (see video WHO).

A few days after his arrival in Trebaseleghe he was already posting on his channel YouTube daily videos where he insulted all the Bishops of the Triveneto (see video WHO), starting from the Patriarch of Venice, to follow up with the administrators of the local municipality, who could not grant the change of use of a building from a gym to a place of worship, for the legal reasons already explained above (see video WHO). Not to mention opportunity and prudence, as well as knowledge of the history and society of areas which between the 1980s and 1990s always constituted the great stronghold of the old Northern League, imbued with all his prejudices - whether acceptable or unacceptable - towards Southern Italy; and where perhaps they were not anxiously awaiting the arrival of an exuberant Sicilian who would mock the bishops of the region and the local public administrators.

Seeing the glass half empty and half full we must take into consideration when Minutella complains that on the neighboring land there are houses that have not been abused, but which are precisely entirely illegal constructions (see video WHO). Then he later becomes ironic: «Elsewhere there are no abuses and irregularities... no, everything is fine, especially here in Sicily!». He also narrated several times that when the traffic police went to carry out various inspections, they stood with their backs turned towards the neighboring buildings burdened by the same ones, if not worse building abuses (see video WHO).

Anyone who has known and visited Sicily he could see, especially in certain coastal areas, of construction irregularities and abuses than in other parts of our country, they're not just impossible to make, but they are just impossible to think about. The difference between certain subjects and Minutella is that they, knowing that he had committed irregularities and abuses, they are silent, they don't go and attack everything and everyone around the globe. This is how things work - certainly in the wrong way - within a country like ours, who knows how to be corrupt and corrupting when necessary from Trieste to Porto Palo di Capo Passero, a location also known as the "last Sicilian stone in Italy", much closer to Malta than to Rome.

 

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The most manipulated phrase of this pontificate: «Who am I to judge a gay man?»

29 May 2024/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

THE MOST MANIPULATED PHRASE OF THIS PONTIFICATE: «WHO AM I TO JUDGE A GAY?»

Years later, starting from certain poisoned pseudo-Catholics, we must continue to read these scandalized assertions: «… the Pope stated: who am I to judge a gay?». To then subsequently accuse him of having cleared what remains a moral disorder for Catholic morality. In fact, it is precisely the Catechism to which the Holy Father referred that in n. 2357 clarifies: «Acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered».

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The «who am I to judge a gay man» it is a sentence that has a premise followed by a clarification, then an expression in line with Catholic doctrine and a further final clarification with reference to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Even if we have the Internet available and everyone can go and look for and read the official speeches almost always accompanied by video documents, available and accessible on website of the Holy See, the army of functional or digital illiterates limits itself with obstinate obstinacy to relying on hearsay and half-sentences reported from blog to blog.

Aware that it will be of little value to clarify it, I do it anyway: the Holy Father began: «… the lobby, all, they are not good". And as a premise it is not a trivial matter, because he is referring to the powerful and ideological LGBT lobbies, even if he doesn't name them, but he makes it clear.

After this introduction moves on to an unequivocal clarification: «… if one is gay and seeks the Lord...". There's no talking, so, of an elusive gay as such, but of a gay «…who seeks the Lord…». After the introduction and clarification, a further clarification «… and has good will…». At this point the Holy Father makes a statement that is obvious from the point of view of the doctrine of the Catholic faith: «… who am I to judge?».

I say obvious because only God can read and judge the conscience of a man, none of us can, because even if he wanted to he wouldn't be able to do it. Having expressed everything, the Holy Father concludes: «The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this so beautifully, but he says: “These people must not be marginalized for this reason, they must be integrated into society".

Now let's read the whole sentence with which the 28 July 2013 the Holy Father responded to the Brazilian journalist Ilze Scamparini, correspondent from Italy and the Vatican for Rede Globo, unleashing the LGBT fans and making those obtuse Catholics cry foul for whom not understanding seemed to be more convenient than ever:

«[…] You were talking about the gay lobby. MAh! Much is written about the gay lobby. I still haven't found anyone to give me an identity card in the Vatican with "gay". They say there are some. I believe that when you find yourself with a person like that, must distinguish the fact of being a gay person, from lobbying, because the lobbies, all are not good. That's bad. If a person is gay and seeking the Lord and goodwill, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this so beautifully, but he says: “These people must not be marginalized for this reason, must be integrated into society" […]». (Official text, QUI).

The n. 2358 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, to which the Holy Father refers, recital:

«A non-negligible number of men and women have deeply rooted homosexual tendencies. This inclination, objectively disordered, constitutes a test for most of them. Therefore they must be welcomed with respect, compassion, delicacy. In their regard, any sign of unfair discrimination will be avoided. Such people are called to carry out God's will in their life, e, if they are Christian, to unite the difficulties they may encounter as a result of their condition to the sacrifice of the Lord's cross ".

Years later, starting from certain poisoned pseudo-Catholics, we must continue to read these scandalized assertions: «… the Pope stated: who am I to judge a gay?». To then subsequently accuse him of having cleared what remains a moral disorder for Catholic morality. In fact, it is precisely the Catechism to which the Holy Father referred that in n. 2357 clarifies: «Acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered». What this implies, in the whole context of the numbers 2357-2358, a clear distinction between sin, to be rejected always and in any case, and the sinner, to be welcomed always and in any case.

It should always be avoided to take at face value the things reported from blog to blog. but yet, those who are careful not to go and read official speeches and documents, almost always with movie attachments, available and within everyone's reach, they constitute a painful and pitiful army that is increasingly dense, with whom often, we priests and theologians, we must experience the great failure of impotence, in front of whom, stubbornly, he doesn't want to listen to reasons, Why … “my sui social I read that …".

 

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Holiness, and from 2011 what a testimony and lament that «a universal cloudburst has broken out in the Church». If today you have decided to use my styles and phrasebooks, at least pay me the royalties

28 May 2024/in Actuality/by father ariel

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To all the bishops that yesterday, not being able to deny the obvious problem I raised about poisoning lobby gay inside the church, they clung to the form to the point of calling me blasphemous, Today I have a very serious question to ask, this: the Roman Pontiff who speaks of "faggotness" is blasphemous or else, much more simply, it was finally discovered after a decade that his ghost-writer it's me?

 

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In my book of 2011, titled And Satan became triune, still distributed today by our Edizioni L'Isola di Patmos, in paragraph V of Chapter Two I deal with this delicate topic:

«Gay priests and careerists punished and expelled? nope: they lobby and are warmed like snakes in the bosom giving life to pornocracy clerical».

In the narrative of this chapter I made use of an expression about which some bishops with particularly sensitive uteruses - and therefore easy to be attacked by itching - complained to my then Bishop, the late Luigi Negri of blessed memory, that I needed to be corrected and rebuked for having resorted to blasphemy. In fact, it happened that this good Prelate of mine at the time, just arrived at the plenary of the Italian Episcopal Conference of 2012, during the first available break he was assailed by the jeremiads of several of his brother Bishops, those who incidentally, much to be understood, of the "nubifrossing» were directly responsible, as well as guilty before God and before men. The sentence judged blasphemous was the following:

«In this new, highly de-virilized ecclesial dimension, it seems that something has really broken out in the Church nubifrossing universal"

Thirteen years later the Supreme Pontiff Francis, during the plenary assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference this May 2024, speaking behind closed doors with the Bishops, perfectly aware that the matter would be reported to journalists within a few hours - certainly by some prelate who had felt stung to the core - he complained that "There is too much fagotism in the seminaries". Inviting the Bishops not to admit into our disastrous seminaries - which for years and years I have complained are real branches of the Gay village - people with homosexual tendencies. Pointing out and clarifying in another closed-door speech made to the same Bishops in May of 2018:

«If there is a doubt about homosexuality, it is better not to let anyone enter the seminary» (cf.. WHO).

To all the bishops that yesterday, not being able to deny the obvious problem I raised about poisoning lobby gay inside the church, they clung to the form to the point of calling me blasphemous, Today I have a very serious question to ask, this: the Roman Pontiff who speaks of "faggotness", is he blasphemous or, much more simply, it was finally discovered after a decade that his ghost-writer it's me?

Below is the excerpt of that fifth paragraph taken from Chapter Two of my work And Satan became triune, a book written between 2008 and the 2010, published at the suggestion of my then Bishop only at the end of 2011.

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GAY PRIESTS AND CAREER PEOPLE PUNISHED AND EXPOSED? NOTHING: THEY LOBBY AND ARE HEATED LIKE SNAKES IN THEIR BOMBS, GIVING LIFE TO CLERICAL PORNOCRACY

(And Satan became triune, Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Rome, 2011, Cap. II by. V)

A dirty body that gives off a strong odor of sweat should be stripped and washed thoroughly with soap and water, at the end of the wash it can be sprinkled with perfume; but if perfume is sprinkled on a dirty body that gives off a strong odor of sweat, the effect will be that the perfume mixed with sweat will end up making it stink more.

Involved in topics related to painful facts that afflict and humiliate the Church, at the end the prelate admonished me:

«The problem is not telling the truth but how it is said».

I replied:

«Jesus Christ did not die for the truths that the political and religious authorities wanted to hear, but for those truths that they were not willing to tolerate being merely sighed".

When the substance cannot be demolished, a last desperate defense is attempted by quibbling over the futile form, to best defend the right to spiritual blindness. When in fact it was not possible to rebuke Jesus for having healed a blind man by restoring his sight, he reproached himself with harsh criticism for having performed a miracle on the Sabbath, on a day when work is not permitted (cf.. GV 5, 2-16).

Or maybe we are, we modern Christians, so different from the Pharisees of ancient Judea? When we talk about Pharisees we tend to do so in the past tense, as if they were only one of the many Jewish sects present in Judea at the time; while the Pharisee is a being without time and religious connotation, it is a lifestyle that can take root anywhere, in every time and religious culture.

The desire for career, far from being a modern quirk, according to the words of Saint Paul it also existed in the apostolic era; even then there were those who aspired to the episcopate, so much so that the Apostle exhorts:

«What I tell you is worthy of belief: if one aspires episcopate, wants an excellent task, but the bishop must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, prudent, decent, hospitable and capable of teaching, not addicted to wine, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not attached to money" (The Tm 3, 1-3).

Today the difference lies in the erotic-psychological approach. The careerists of the past were manfully driven by motivations that in the councils of the first centuries generated heated doctrinal battles, in subsequent political and religious struggles; social animals who believed in something beyond themselves and their lust for career.

For men of the past, making a career in the ecclesiastical world was a means of winning a battle, to impose their doctrine, their social or economic policy.

Today's is a careerism that comes to the surface in a world of little men e somewhere retreat into the hedonism of a social psychology that has reached the peak of collective narcissism. To the virility of the males who yesterday fought for the investitures and who were willing to risk their lives and the health of their souls to be able to impose what they believed in, the androgynous softness has been replaced by an aesthetic vision of social being and appearance, even through a privileged place like the Church, a set of international coverage which can bring bishops and priests into the limelight of the mass media, or in close contact with the world of politics, of culture and the public and private economy.

In this new highly devirilized ecclesial dimension, it seems that something has really broken out in the Church nubifrossing universal, led by a fierce army of monsignorini in career, friends of friends of friends... who have not yet been kicked out of the Roman Curia and who proliferate within it through the good offices of friends of friends of friends, often removing or keeping away everything pure that could enter it. But having to please and please to achieve the goal of pleasing and pleasing oneself, by intrinsic nature aesthetic careerists are not inclined to make decisions, this would imply the psycho-physical possession and use of those masculine attributes necessary to take on responsibilities, which in every society entail the high risk of pleasing two men and remaining unwelcome to two thousand, from time to time to be celebrated twenty years after their departure as far-sighted spirits by twenty million men against the negative opinion of only two obstinate fools.

The media ended up distorting the episcopal figure and in the collective imagination the bishop was transformed into a sort of Queen Elizabeth, representative icon for stamps, punts and Buckingham Palace parades. They speak of the bishop as a religious subject responsible for "representing his Church", starting from the first of the bishops, the Supreme Pontiff, which “represents the Catholic Church”. Which is true but also ambiguous, if the hand is pressed on those concepts of "representation" which have erased from the collective memory that the fact that the bishop is called to govern his Church, before being its religious "representative" and merely managing director, or worse, bankruptcy trustee [1].

Today the pastoral and spiritual figure of the apostolic father who governs the family has been lost, guaranteeing the protection and education of children and also making the bite of authority and discipline felt when necessary.

Bishops govern the particular Churches entrusted to them as vicars and legates of Christ, with advice, persuasion, the example, but also with authority and sacred power, which, however, they do not use except to edify their flock in truth and holiness, remembering that whoever is bigger must do like the smaller one, and who is the boss, come chi serve (cf.. LC 22, 26-27).

This power, which they personally exercise in the name of Christ, it is its own, ordinary and immediate, although its exercise is ultimately subject to the supreme authority of the Church and, within certain limits, with a view to the usefulness of the Church or the faithful, can be restricted.

«By virtue of this power bishops have the sacred right and before God the duty to give laws to their subjects, to judge and regulate everything that pertains to worship and the apostolate […][2] Under this, the Bishops govern the particular Churches entrusted to them, as vicars and delegates of Christ, with advice, persuasion, the example, but also with authority and sacred power, which, however, they do not use except to edify their flock in truth and holiness" […][3].

Lose all this, it means losing the spiritual and pastoral sense of the episcopate in the Church.

In his most important liturgical actions the bishop is called to proceed with the rod, the pastoral staff, which is a sign of his spiritual government and his Christian and psychological virility.

Even more so today it makes you blush with embarrassment, when certain aesthetic masters of ceremonies cover the poor bishops with cascades of lace and lace, which are more reminiscent of the bewitching female underwear rather than the vestments of the male Fathers of the Church.

Modern aesthetic and media careerism is based on a singular element: he is not virile but ephebic, feminine; asexual at best, at worst it leads to real sexual disorder due to obvious consequences of character.

In the unbalanced relationship with the ecclesiastical career, There are tremendously high numbers of individuals influenced by the typical instinct of the homosexual narcissist. And for the Church machine there is no worse engulfment than the devious personalities of repressed gays, ended up in considerable numbers like foxes in the henhouse in delicate roles where they end up "not to serve but to serve themselves"[4], not to please God, but to please others and please oneself, instead of exercising the power to decide according to charity and justice what that episcopal chair or that office of curia requires for the good of the Church and its faithful.

Hiding the truth does no one any good, especially to those who have to announce it to the world.

If we really want to seriously address this very dramatic problem, we must start from a sad fact of life: today, within the secular and religious clergy men, the number of homosexuals is alarmingly high, and is divided between gay gay practitioners and repressed; the most active seconds of the first exercise of their exhausting psychological homosexuality. Homosexuals for repressed psychic character in the body, They are far worse than those who practice homosexuality physical, causing always within the Church of sometimes enormous damage sometimes irreparable, always aiming to place itself in the highest positions and key government roles, the better to strengthen a powerful and united lobby inside, straight on pornocratici criteria.

what the pornocrazi to[5] is a drama that wounds the Church striking with deadly sinking. recent term of French origin, pornocrazi to It indicates a form of government characterized by the pernicious influence of fops and prostitutes on the men in charge of the exercise of power. Literally meaning "of prostitutes government", or government based in large part on the typical mechanisms of prostitution.

The hallmark of the pornocrazi to, It is not so much bartering for sexual favors with privileged positions, as in the usual relations between powerful and prostitute, because these power relations have not always been sexual connotations, species within certain pockets decaying, that they have formed in the past and present horrible ballast for the Church, where often the mechanism, far from being the completely natural one of heterosexual sexuality, It is based on asexuality, or of pure homosexuals mechanisms, often more psychological than physical.

In pornocrazi to clerical, homosexuality practiced at the physical level is just the tip of mental homosexuality radicalized and went often to power.

With the exercise of its influence on man power prostitute, or gay-prostitute, not so much they can indirectly exercise their personal power, because similar role mechanisms have been repeatedly applied in a quasi-institutional of the legitimate spouses of kings, or their various buddies-gay.

What is particularly stressful in the Church, more than in the secular civil power, is the prostitute ability to create their own personal power at times almost absolute, which often replaces the authority of the powerful, which often survives the same powerful.

Consider for example the young and adolescent secretary from whose lips hung the powerful, and that after an impact on the exercise of the power of the prelate - who was appointed to serve, not to drive by hitting it with the arrows of Cupid -, when he is about to retire from office for new arrivals age limit, he is promoted bishop, taking the place - in rank and sacramental dignity - of his platonically in love master[6].

The use of the term prostitute rather than prostitute, in a male society like the ecclesiastical one it is not accidental, whereas in the Church the pornocrazi to it tends to have eminently male subjects as driving characters.

The latter is the dramatic case of the powerful gay lobby, which within the Church has been able to impact and influence the driving force of the whole for some decades Orb Cattolica: the promotion of priests to the episcopate.

Predating by many centuries the classification of men placed by Leonardo Sciascia on the lips of the character of his novel, St. Bernard of Clairvaux[7] who is not a fictional character but an extraordinary saint and doctor of the Church, In the 1145 he wrote to his disciple Bernardo dei Paganelli, became Supreme Pontiff with the name of Eugene III, greeting his election to the See of Peter with a Treaty good for every Pope, carefully tailored for him. In this writing Bernardo does not fail to point out that certain mellifluous pages and young men with hair following bishops and cardinals are not happy at all around the Holy Father..

Wise exhortation addressed to a newly elected Pontiff nine centuries ago by a future saint and doctor of the Church.

Today some can say that we were not warned well in advance, regarding the damage that can be caused by certain smooth pages and young haired men to whom Saint Bernard of Clairvaux refers?[8] O, if to the medieval language of this Doctor of the Church, we prefer Sciascia's literary one from the 20th century: «take me e somewhere»?[9]

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[1] On the governing power of the bishop and his ministry: Christ the Lord, n. 8 e n. 11, Apostolic Exhortation Herdsmen, n. 42, n. 54, n. 55 and the following.

[2] Dogmatic Constitution on the Church The light, n. 27.

[3] Apostolic Exhortation Shepherds of the flocks, n. 43.

[4] Meditation of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the IX Station ofthe Way of the cross, Colosseum in Rome, 25 March 2005. Benedict XVI: Way of the cross 2005, Libreria Editrice Vaticana Publishing House.

[5] Italian term coined on the film by Catherine Breillat whose original title is Anatomy of Hell. Prod. France, 2004.

[6] N.d.A. edition of 2019 - Made of record as reported by the press: «In the summer of 2017 the Vatican Gendarmerie arrests Mons. Louis Capozzi, of fifty years, Secretary of Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio and officer second class at the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, chaired by the cardinal. The fact: in his apartment located in the Vatican in the Holy Office building, Monsignor organized revels gay-based drugs, so much so that he was admitted to the Roman Pio XI clinic for detoxification therapies", cf.. Franca Giansoldati, The messenger, 29 June 2017; Francesco Antonio Grana, The Daily, 5 July 2017; Editorial, Free, 7 July 2017; Dominic Gramazio, The City of SalernO, 2 July 2017; Emanuele Barbieri, Correspondence Romana, 22 November 2017; Richard Cascioli, The New Compass Daily, 4 December 2017, etc..]. Referring to news they received from the inside of the Holy See, newspapers state that Monsignor "had already been proposed by the Cardinal to be raised to the episcopal dignity ', Francesco Antonio Grana, Daily fact, 28 June 2017. More than a year after the fact, journalists Maike Hickson and John Henry Westen LifeSiteNews they launch a piece of news later reported by the Vatican expert Marco Tosatti, pencil Court 11 October 2018 and Giuseppe Aloisi, The Journale, 11 October 2018 and various organs of Print: «Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio […] was present at party homosexual drug-based affair which the Vatican police raided in the summer of 2017 and he was arrested his secretary, Mons. Luigi Capozzi». At this news the same evening responds with a Tweet Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, at the time of the incident Substitute of the Secretariat of State: «The news is baseless. I was the one to inform arrest of the priest Cardinal. Coccopalmerio end of the day, I did not find, for a mistake, the morning. The priest was not arrested during a phantom party, but in the courtyard of the house". Let's clarify everything: for over a year Cardinal Angelo Becciu allowed the newspapers to smear a priest by writing without ever being contradicted that «the arrest took place inside the apartment during a party gay a base drug», then, spent sixteen months - when at stake was pulled a cardinal - the former deputy to the Secretary of State, with timing diligent and sudden love for the truth, reports a Tweet that the arrest did not take place «during a phantom party» but «in the backyard» (!?) … «Il 29 August 2018 the roof of the Roman church of San Giuseppe ai Falegnami collapses", The Republic, 30 August 2018, whose title is held by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio. After having shown this faithful history not subject to denial, perhaps it would be good to keep close tabs, in order to avoid further sharp drops, the Etruscan necropolis of Roselle Maremma, of which Cardinal Angelo Becciu is titular Archbishop, so the roof of the Roman church of San Lino, of which he holds the title of Cardinals.

[7] Monk and then Abbot of the Cistercian Order (Fontaine les Dijon 1090 – City under Ferté 1153). He founded Clairvaux Abbey and other monasteries, including Chiaravalle Abbey in Italy. Canonized in 1174, he was declared Doctor of the Church in 1830. In 1953 the Supreme Pontiff Pius XII wanted to dedicate the Encyclical to him: Doctor Mellifluus.

[8] N.d.A. edition of 2019 – When in 2009 As I was writing these lines, the following reflection escaped me: perhaps, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, indicating «mellifluous pages and young men with hair», that is to say the gays present in certain ecclesiastical courts of the time, it could have been based on the Free Gomorrhianus written a few decades earlier by San Pier Damiani (Ravenna 1007 – Faenza 1072), work in which he begs the Roman Pontiff to dismiss those guilty of the foul sins of homosexuality from the priestly and episcopal ministry, ephebophilia and pedophilia. However, a powerful force already existed at the time lobby gay, and the Supreme Pontiff replied that these desired severe measures would be taken only in the event of a repeat offense.

[9] Leonardo Sciascia: The Day of the Owl. Torino, 1960, Einaudi publishing house.

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The disastrous episcopal appointments of a Church that despises and destroys talent to make ideology prevail

5 May 2024/in Actuality/by father ariel

THE DISASTROUS EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENTS OF A CHURCH THAT DESPISES AND DESTROYS TALENT TO MAKE IDEOLOGY PREVAIL

Nhe 1960, while in the United States there was racial segregation between blacks and whites, abolished only 4 years later from Civil Rights Act, in Rome, the Tanzanian Laurean Rugambwa, newly elected cardinal, dressed in purple with ermine and cappa magna, he received a kiss on the knee from members of the most ancient pontifical nobility. Does the Holy Father Francis know these edifying pearls of history linked to a Roman curia kissing the hand of a black cardinal while in the United States blacks were not even allowed to ride public transport?

 

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Take parish priests with consolidated experience and promoting them to the episcopate would not in itself be wrong, because what they vitally need the many small, but also in medium-sized Italian dioceses there is the figure of a bishop with pastoral experience, who knows how to deal with his priests and welcome and guide the portion of the flock of the People of God entrusted to him. But being a parish priest, or have been, It's not a guarantee at all, because the bishop is required to have a particular thoroughness that few parish priests have, especially those who, in order to reach the episcopate, managed to sew on themselves the “fortunato” curriculum of "frontier priest" or "periphery", essential and decisive under this pontificate. The Bishop must first of all know how to govern his priests with authority and authority, confirming them day after day in faith (cf.. LC 22, 31-34) then drive in a decisive and credible God's People.

Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, archive photo, Vatican CITY,1960

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

The bishop must be a master of doctrine. And here note that I did not say an excellent theologian, but a master of doctrine, able to teach and if necessary enforce compliance with the Magisterium of the Church which the supreme guardian in his particular Church deposit of credit. However, considering the recorded homilies that were pronounced both for their installation in the chair and during the first acts of episcopal ministry by several of these bishops coming from parishes-existential-devices, the doctrine of several of them is not all that exciting; and when you don't know well and thoroughly the deposit of credit, safeguard it is not easy, although of course no limits to the grace of the Holy Spirit, which however is best not to challenge to the levels of certain unfortunate appointments.

The bishop must also be a connoisseur of law and have a strong natural sense of justice. And here you notice: I did not say that it should be a supremely doctor in canon law, but a person with the sense of entitlement, because if it is not, easily slip in free agency, factory all the worst injustices. Even in this case, many of the new recruits, They also leave a lot to be desired in this sense, despite having been parish priests Peripheral-existential for many years and presented themselves as champions of the poor Church for the poor which looks out for refugees and Roma.

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

Run the mode, both conformism, lead by different routes but both parallel to the same disaster. Indeed, before the conformist fashion of peripheral-existential bishops-parish priests, we experienced both the fashion of curial bishops with John Paul II and the fashion of professor bishops with Benedict XVI. these seconds, mostly linked to the last part of the pontificate of John Paul II and the subsequent pontificate of Benedict XVI, that realizing how inside the Church of the ferment of heresy or doctrinal errors had pushed up huge panettone, to remedy, instead of closing the factories of panettone, instead of stripping certain pontifical universities and pontifical universities of the title "pontifical", we begin to have more or less illustrious professors of theology appointed as bishops, often coming from these same factories of heresy, inside which were themselves the first and most pernicious speakers. Unfortunately these professors, some of them true theologians, others pure puffballs, over time they have sown so much damage around the dioceses that in many cases it will take decades before it can be remedied, especially when such serious damage are related to the priestly ordinations of many wrong subjects as such should never have become priests.

Problems are not solved by moving from one fashion to another, He has already done politics. Or perhaps the Church wants to repeat the mistakes of politicians? Does anyone remember the times when before the political fall to historic lows of credibility, Italian political parties attempted to entice voters by nominating actors, singers and players on the electoral roll? To tell the truth, a famous person was also nominated and elected pornstars. We want to repeat these same mistakes in the Church, pornstars included?

The problem is only to become bishops it is necessary to have been a parish priest, or professors of theology, or who work in the Curia duties. It is not in fact the role that makes holy man, but the man who sanctifies the role that has been appointed to. A good bishop can emerge from a suburban parish priest as from a luminary of theology, by an employee of the diplomatic service or by a priest who has served the Church in a hospital specialized in the care of terminally ill patients, from a missionary who spent many years of his life in the poorest villages of the Congo as well as from a researcher who spent much of his life inside historical archives and libraries, because it is the man who makes the good bishop, not the specific position he held. Otherwise we risk reasoning and assigning episcopates on the basis of ideological stereotypes, with the bleak results that end up shining in the sunlight today.

Talking about the drama of the self-candidates and the clerical mafia that promotes them, in a book of mine published at the beginning of 2011[1], speaking of the episcopate and of our natural vocation to holiness, written in the water of our baptism, It said that it is up to the Church to establish how consecrated in the sacrament of Holy Order should play and pay their grateful and valuable services; the assumption that what is at the basis of the nature of the sacrament of Holy Orders. It is unacceptable that the priests are proposed as candidates for the episcopate, or bishops propose to major metropolitan locations, office of the Roman Curia or the honorary title of Cardinals. Anyone, in direct or indirect way it did, the penalty should be excluded from any possibility of promotion. No one is in fact promoted and consecrated bishop for his personal prestige but to be a faithful servant and devoted to the particular Church entrusted to him, always bearing in mind that God became incarnate in Jesus not to be served but to serve (cf.. Mt 20,28). Therefore we should work towards a day to an important result: a Catholic clergy formed by secular and religious priests are well aware that being bishop of a large and important diocese or be pastor of a small country parish is equally dignified and important for the Church, within which the Bishop of the largest diocese and the parish priest of the small country church offer both an essential service, united by their very nature of servants.

In the Church there is precious inspiring figure and the high example of the Holy Bishop Carlo Borromeo, but there is just as valuable inspirational figure of no less high and example: John Mary Vianney, elected patron saint of priests not by chance. No wise mind would have ever sent Carlo Borromeo as parish priest to Ars e John Mary Vianney as bishop in Milan; but it is precisely the Church that is the only one, the only one to establish who should become bishop of Milan and who should become curate of Ars, to better develop its natural vocation to holiness and to preserve and save the faith of the People of God.

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

In the state in which we find ourselves, it is useless to look small, futile and clerical strategies, today targeted the baked professors and curial, tomorrow in the parish priests who have taken upon themselves in some way - or really clever joke - the smell of the poor and of those existential suburbs that seem to go out of fashion today. Each of these choices are only palliatives that lead to total failure. What in fact does not seem to enter into the ever smaller heads of certain ecclesiastical, is that to arrive at being truly perfect in unity (cf.. GV 17, 23) We must proceed if necessary with dramatic divisions, mindful that Christ the Lord also came to bring a sword and war, not just peace understood in the manner of dreamlike ideological pacifists (cf.. Mt 10,34), Mindful that sooner or later, at the right moment, wheat will be separated from the chaff, when it is certain that not even an ear of wheat will be sacrificed to tear out the weeds. That doesn't mean that: ups weeds that choke the good grain permanently, as we are doing these days (cf.. Mt 13, 24-30).

Today's fashions prevent golden eagles to access ecclesiastical offices where they could render excellent services to the Church. Because trends are always harmful, of whatever kind they are, including the current research of parish priests with past real or imagined between Caritas, the slums and Roma camps, because that means that in the present, a man of God of extraordinary human completeness, morale, theological, juridical and pastoral as Rafael Merry del Val, not only it would never became cardinal, but not even bishop and perhaps not even priest, because just the sound of his surname would turn up many noses who pretend to only want to smell the smell of sheep to take on themselves, without having at all understood what the Holy Father Francis wanted to say and convey to shepherds caring for souls by claiming to be shepherds with the smell of sheep on them (cf.. WHO). Nor ever he would have done any road a man like Giovanni Battista Montini, guilty of coming from a family of the old and rich Lombard bourgeoisie[2]. Let us not dwell on the unfortunate fates of the Church trendy today they would have fallen to someone like Eugenio Pacelli, which is better to ignore and move directly to Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, but to the real, not to Santino from popular iconography. Today as today, the future St John XXIII, at the peak of the diplomatic career as apostolic nuncio in Paris, It would never become Patriarch of Venice - most ultra seventy -, after spending his entire life in the diplomatic service of the Holy See? Of course not, because if the logic had been applied fashionistas Today would have been tried definitely a pastor of some Veneto province that between 1945 and the 1950 he had enriched his CV after having dedicated himself to refugees and war orphans or for having served meals to the homeless left homeless after the Allied bombings of Italy.

If at certain bishoprics Bishops who have already gained pastoral experience in other dioceses where they have given good evidence of governance are usually sent., there is a reason, or not? If some Italian archbishop's offices have for centuries also cardinals locations, it is because there are ancient traditions linked to history and the past kingdoms and principalities of the Italian peninsula; this has established a tradition that is said to be maintained. Rules and habits can be changed and in fact, to do it, Peter does not have to ask anyone's permission. Limit it, if he wants, or if it has the necessary humility to do it, can ask people who are certain historical and ecclesial mechanisms may know them even better than him; but he alone, remains equipped with a full tank power to act as considers most appropriate. So that the current Patriarch of Venice was not created cardinal, perhaps to the person concerned does not affect anything, but the Venetians who have been accustomed to having a patriarch also awarded the honorary title of cardinal for centuries are very interested, so much so that they experienced this lack of a red hat as a humiliation, some even as a personal affront.

I understand that the Holy Father declared himself to be from "the other side of the world", However, this does not mean attempting other-worldly extravagances, because it is common ground that the Italian Church, its bishops and clergy, soprattutto alla sua storia bimillenaria, at least the same respect is due that the Holy Father shows he has for real or presumed refugees who disembark for an average of sometimes 700/800 per day in a country - ours - unable to contain and assist such a flood of people, because we are talking about 400.000/ 500.000 people per year who arrive in a territory - the Italian one - which is certainly not as large as Argentina.

To the Italian Church and its history at least the same respect that the Holy Father has for the inhabitants of the Roma camps is due, whose workers in the begging industry blaspheme Christ and all the saints along Via della Conciliazione, in front of the Papal Archbasilica of St. Peter, behind those who dare not give him money. It is not beautiful nor good, even for a Roman Pontiff, albeit surrounded by a "liberal" aura that only those who don't enter churches even for Christmas and Easter believe in, let it be understood: "I am and I do what I want". For us there is no doubt that you are Pietro, for your Lutheran or Pentecostal friends I don't know, but for us yes, you are Peter. Therefore, first establish precise rules, you have full authority to do so. Before Abolish customs and practices, then you should appoint a cardinal who you want and when you want, preventing a slice of your faithful, who for centuries they have been at the head of their diocese a bishop always created cardinal practices, they must ask themselves what they have done wrong to the Church and to the Holy Father to receive such a slap from him.

The Church needs its own strength and its own stability, which they contribute to some extent the traditions and customs of all accidental and quotas as such are changing and may be abolished at any time by the Supreme Shepherd. But I think that the least likely candidate to make the dangerous game to destabilization without first having established rules, is the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, also because sooner or later, the People of God, that has never been a fool in the whole course of the history of salvation, You might begin to wonder: in which pro 'all this, but especially, at what price must we pay for the eccentric deeds of this subject who seems to be suffering from a great thirst for originality? And at least according to our increasingly empty churches, more than in front of faithful who ask themselves certain questions, we are faced with an increasingly numerous army of faithful who are so disaffected that they do not consider it useful to even ask questions, they prefer to desert or abandon the churches directly.

The Church cannot give up being mother and teacher beyond the time, of fashions and ideologies, because the greatness of the Church has always been that of being a mother and teacher. And a good teacher, which it is also mother, primarily educates. This is the reason why this extraordinary mother who is a body whose head is Christ (cf.. With the 1, 18) He never made the class distinction, race and nation. We know all the flaws of our Church, holy and sinful according to the old definition ambrosiana. Historical defects that the undersigned know enough to have stigmatized several times in compliance with the wise warning of the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIII who stated:

"The Church historian will more strongly emphasize its divine origin as has been loyal in no way conceal the evidence that the sins of her children and sometimes of his own ministers did suffer this bride of Christ" (Speech to the academics of France, 8 September 1899).

This mother and teacher, at the same time saint and sinner, even in its most controversial eras and you contrasted saw up to their so-called leaders many men from very simple and modest families. Even in his most controversial and conflicted eras he managed to spot talent, rather: I was looking right. Who today says, with a spirit that is both Romanophobic and anti-historical, which until not so long ago, to become bishops and cardinals had to be called Borghese, Orsini, Column, Odescalchi, Chigi, Doctors, Sforza ... wrong and mind, or rather he doesn't know the history of the Church at all. The chronologies of the bishops who have succeeded one another in our numerous Italian dioceses, They include many names of men from poor families, they entered the seminaries with the outfits given to them by a poor country parish priest who had collected donations from equally poor faithful.

Do not forget that to succeed Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, who had a blood concentration of the oldest noble families of Europe, it was the Cardinal Peter Gasparri, who was secretary of state under Pope Benedict XV and Pius XI, as well as a signatory of the Lateran Pacts which put an end to the long Roman Question that began with the capture of Rome 20 September 1870 lasted 59 long years until 1929. Peter Gasparri, born in the Marche in a village of the province, He came from a family of farmers pastoralists. In the Roman curia, where not even the Supreme Pontiffs have ever been exempt from the attribution of a nickname, he was nicknamed, not by chance, he shepherd. Pietro Gasparri was a canonist of rare refinement and his contribution to the drafting of the Code of Canon Law of 1917. From modest family came the Holy Pontiff Pius X, who also he wanted beside him in the role of Secretary of State, Cardinal Merry del Val. The Cardinal was born into a poor family Alfredo Ottaviani, in the Trastevere, where his father worked as a laborer at a baker. The Cardinal Giuseppe Siri he was the son of a janitor and a concierge. We stop at these few examples because the list of men whose names are today included in the history of the Church would be long, not at all marked by the surnames of the most powerful European princely families.

What can we say then that nohe 1960, while in the United States of America there was racial segregation between whites and blacks, abolished only 4 years later from Civil Rights Act, in Rome, the Tanzanian Laurean Rugambwa, newly elected cardinal, dressed in purple with ermine and cappa magna, he received a kiss on the knee from members of the most ancient pontifical nobility. Does the Holy Father Francis know these edifying pearls of history linked to a Roman curia kissing the hand of a black cardinal while in the United States blacks were not even allowed to ride public transport? He is informed, the Holy Father Francis, that his Supreme Predecessor Benedict XIV, nee Prospero Lambertini, In the 1741 he did not hesitate to challenge - despite all the risks involved - the major European powers, condemning without appeal slavery and declaring illegal, under penalty of immediate excommunication, the sale and the reduction of the Indians to slavery? Condemns, however, already delivered earlier by his predecessors Supreme Eugene IV (1435), Paul III (1537), urban VIII (1639), none of whom came from the "existential periphery" nor had they ever carried out any apostolate in the villas miseries.

I fear that for some decades delicate and ancient balances have been shattered and that today we have reached the apotheosis. man ever, in the past, a Rafael Merry del Val prevented a priest of recognized talent with him to sit in the pews of the College of Cardinals, as guilty of coming from humble beginnings. However, what should be feared today is that numerous Pietro Gasparri and Alfredo Ottaviani are totally devoid of the great talent and great piety that characterized these men of God, but filled with ambitions in return for which they never could aspire in the civilized world, can prevent a Merry del Val to become bishop and cardinal, because it "does not correspond to what are the criteria and pastoral styles today" - from villas miseries - "The Holy Father Francesco", with all the immense damage that would result and that has already occurred to the Church which has been deprived of this faith for years now, talent and rare intelligence.

Today the Church is no longer capable of educating and valorizing precious talents given by God to certain of his children. I don't know if anyone will reflect on all this, in a Church no longer capable of grasping talent, to educate and as a logical consequence to grasp the talent and transform the Gasparri and Ottaviani into authentic principles, making them the principles for nothing less principles of a prince of birth as Merry del Val. I fear that in these sad times, where many men of the Church seem addicted to the immediate and to living day after day without thinking about the future and building for the future, few will make similar reflections. When in fact the one hand they make a coup and the other one gives in to fashions, first of all, the freedom of the children of God is lost and we try with the worst coercions and the worst arbitrariness to force others to also lose this precious gift of grace. A church that no longer free teetering between bankruptcy and fashions equally unsuccessful experiments is bound to collapse, from his heart: the College of the Apostles, in which to recruit a mediocre after another into effect the coup of mediocrity in power. Never as today is in fact echoed the false and misleading warning which Judas:

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

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

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[1] See. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, And Satan became triune, Iª ed. Rome 2011, reprint, Rome 2019, Editions The island of Patmos.

[2] See. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Digressions of a liberal priest, about the true curriculum of Giovanni Battista Montini, pag 61 e ss.. Rome 2023, Editions The island of Patmos.

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