ABORTION, THE NEW DOGMA OF OUR TIME CRYING OUT FREEDOM, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY…

For the Catholic morality that descends from the Gospel and the living tradition of the Church, as well as by rational reflection, abortion is an evil and a sin, a serious crime against life worse than the murder of a man or femicide. A man or woman whose lives are being attacked, in some way they could also defend themselves and escape death, or flee from the murderer's attack, but a child in the mother's womb is not, he cannot defend himself in any way or escape.

 

 

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Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa of Calcutta he repeated a phrase: «The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion». The lapidary expression contains a challenge to those drifts of modern thought that often choose the logic of death rather than life. Among these is a certain culture of freedom that has imposed the possibility of choosing abortion, to the point of making it a contemporary "dogma"., rooted in the deepest beliefs of people and naturally of politicians who vote in parliaments and enact laws that favor the voluntary termination of pregnancy. In the last Italian electoral campaign even some Catholic-inspired politicians reassured their voters talk show television affirming: "abortion remains an intangible right" (!?).

 

About that I would like to refer to political events that occurred in two mature democracies, what are the American and the French ones, in which we can recognize the weakness of a culture of freedom on one side which is to the detriment of another weaker one, having almost no rights: that of the unborn child who aspires to his own existence.

In November 2022 in the State of Montana (USA) a referendum took place in which the following question was posed to voters:

«Medical care must be provided to children who need it, if they have survived an attempted abortion?».

The "no" vote won, with a percentage equal to 52% of voters. In the opinion of 231.345 voters of that American state should not be given treatment to a child who is dying because the first attempt to end his life failed: a woman's "freedom" comes before her right to live. According to the supporters of the "no" vote, healthcare personnel have every right to let a child die, as long as the woman sees her choice and her body "respected".. They are aberrations that escape a moral conscience; it is in fact very difficult to understand how the event occurred, let's take a look, of a little girl who survived a failed attempted abortion, can be defined as violence against the body of that woman who did not want it and therefore should be left to die, preventing her from being given life-saving care.

Soon said: precisely today when the so-called good society is pining for cases of feminicide, at the same time we must take note that it is not considered femicide if a girl is born alive following a botched abortion, is left to die. In fact, it is only feminicide if a man kills a woman in the grip of a criminal impulse, but not if a gynecologist kills a little girl, because in this second case we are faced with the exercise of a legally protected right, exercised by the mother who is recognized as having the power of life and death and carried out by the gynecologist who uses medical art to help the woman benefit from this indisputable right. On the contrary, more than indisputable, dogmatic!

Much more significant than the referendum in Montana was the recent definitive approval of the amendment to the Constitution by the French Parliament, the Congress of Parliament, than in assembled chambers, Monday 4 March of this year, wanted to include the "right" to abortion in the Constitutional Charter. France is now the leading country not only in Europe, but also in the world, to include the right to abortion in its fundamental charter. This right in France was governed by the Simone Veil law of 1975. The vote of the French Parliament e triumphalistic tones of the comments that exalted him, in France as well as in the international press, they seem to transform a tragedy to be indignant about and to fight against, in a supreme affirmation of the dignity and freedom of women. Abortion becomes a symbol of emancipation, prophecy of a new way of understanding femininity. Once again overshadowing the urgency of investing more resources to give to women, rather than the license to eliminate one's children, the possibility of not doing so. The now approved amendment to the Constitution, strongly supported by President Emmanuel Macron to mark a difference in approach with respect to a previous ruling of the United States Supreme Court (see WHO), poses several problems for example to those French who, following a religious confession that repudiates abortion, they now find it as a right enshrined in the constitution. No Americans, in the case provided for by the above-mentioned Sentence which postponed the decision on abortion to the federal States, he was put in the position to choose between his being a citizen and his conscience. In the French case, however, yes.

Abortion has always been a painful necessity for many women, of which they themselves were the first victims. Killing the child you carry in your womb has always been and is, for a normal mother, a drama, made more terrible by the fact that a chauvinistic society, today again, he doesn't do what he can to avoid it, often leaving her alone to experience first-hand the many problems that make motherhood problematic. For this reason, relying on the logical recognition of women's freedom to motivate such a political stance poses several problems from a philosophical point of view., moral and biological. For biology, eg, there are no "leaps" between pre-natal life and post-birth life and a caesura between one and the other would be arbitrary: the unborn are biologically human individuals, like those born. Everything then depends on the philosophical and ethical justifications that can be given to justify abortion and many scholars, even non-religious ones, have highlighted that Christian ethics has placed at least a barrier to what could be the consequences of similar rights sanctioned constitutionally and deriving from personal freedoms. In this way who will be able to decide in the future who is a self-conscious subject and who is not among a fetus, an infant, a mentally ill person or in a coma, a person suffering from total dementia incapable of understanding and wanting?

The two political cases reported above they make us think back to that Spartan tradition linked to Mount Taygetos. On that mountain the children unwanted because they were not fit for military life or "defective" were thrown from there and made to die. «The throwaway culture», as the Holy Father Francis called it back in 2023. Because, as we know, for Catholic morality that derives from the Gospel and the living tradition of the Church, as well as by rational reflection, abortion is an evil and a sin, a serious crime against life worse than the murder of a man or femicide. A man or woman whose lives are being attacked, in some way they could also defend themselves and escape death, or flee from the murderer's attack, but a child in the mother's womb is not, he cannot defend himself in any way or escape.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church remind believers: «Human life is sacred because, since its inception, it involves the creative action of God and remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, its sole purpose. Only God is the Lord of life from its beginning to its end: None, under any circumstances, can claim the right to directly destroy an innocent human being " (Nr 2258). And the number 2302 recalls - an echo of Mother Teresa's words reported at the beginning - that among the enemies of peace we find first and foremost murder.

The Pontiffs affected by this issue of abortion they all took a clear and contrary position. The Holy Father Francis, with the colorful attitude that often distinguishes him, he has repeatedly stated that this spiral of hatred is clear in abortion because when you have an abortion it is like paying a hitman to carry out a murder (cf.. WHO). The Holy Father Benedict XVI a few years ago recalled the terrible wound opened by the abortion laws, stating: "They have created a mentality of progressive debasement of the value of life" (cf.. WHO). The Magisterium of Saint John Paul II was very clear in this regard: «Everything seems to happen with the strongest respect for legality, at least when the laws that allow abortion or euthanasia are voted according to so-called democratic rules. In truth, we are only faced with a tragic semblance of legality and the democratic ideal, which is truly such when it recognizes and protects the dignity of every human person, it is betrayed in its very foundations: «How is it possible to still talk about the dignity of every human person, when the weakest and most innocent are allowed to be killed? In the name of what justice is the most unjust discrimination carried out among people?, declaring some worthy of defense, while others are denied this dignity?». When these conditions occur, those dynamisms that lead to the dissolution of authentic human coexistence and the disintegration of the state reality itself have already been triggered. Claim the right to abortion, to infanticide, to euthanasia and recognize it legally, is equivalent to attributing a perverse and unfair meaning to human freedom: that of absolute power over others and against others. But this is the death of true freedom: "In truth, truly I tell you: whoever commits sin is a slave to sin (GV 8, 34)» (cf.. Gospel of Life, n. 20).

The drama of abortion, because it remains so, it therefore does not seem exactly liberal, since taking someone's life, it was said at the beginning, peace undergoes a wound; and that inner peace also disappears, of the soul, in someone who makes such a violent gesture. Eventually, with it, beyond freedom and peace, even hope dies. First of all that of the fetus, because the future is closed to him, his human history among his peers. But also that of the woman who, despite all the health and psychological help, she will find herself alone in taking that terrible step. It may console you at that moment to know that abortion has been included among your constitutional rights? Or he will think back to all the help he would have needed - not just moral and spiritual, but also economical, social and political - so that he would not have to make a similar choice, she and all the women in the world who have taken the lives of their children?

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CHARITY WASHES AND MAKES EVEN DIRTY MONEY CLEAN, The great saints of charity teach it in the history of the Church

Some bishops of Migrantopoli and Pauperopoli seems to want to present themselves more pure and immaculate today than the Blessed Virgin Mary, in order to please the world and please it. Until not to understand that charity "everything covers" and "everything transforms", which, however, cannot grasp and understand, If like their president they find themselves a subject who affirms: "The Gospel is not a distillate of truth".

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When the blessed apostle Paul he composed praise to charity also spoke to the present day. This is the characteristic of the Word of God: An eternal language that communicates to men of all time and that over the centuries reveals new messages enclosed in those same words.

The Holy Scriptures they have a style and apocalyptic language in the etymological sense of the term. Although the term apocalypse is spoken in current language, the greek revelation, is erroneously used to indicate a catastrophic event or the end of the world, Its true meaning is "to be dischedamed", "Remove the veil that covers", then discover. Between the term apocalypse and the term epiphany, deriving from the Greek recover, which means "I make myself manifest", There is a close link. Epiphany intended as a manifestation of divinity is a continuous "unfortunate" of the contents enclosed on the lines, within the lines and beyond the lines themselves of the Holy Scriptures that enclose the Word of God.

In the song in question, also known as Hymn to Charity, The blessed apostle Paul expresses:

“Charity is patient, love is kind; It is not envious, It does not brag, not puffed up, no disrespect, does not seek its own interests, don't get angry, ignores the evil received, does not rejoice, but rejoices with the truth. It bears, Love believes, It hopes all things, It endures all things. The charity will never end. […] And now these three remain: faith, hope and charity; but the greatest of these is love!» (The Cor 1, 1-13)

We compare this song Paolino, Easy and understandable only apparently, with a recent fact of ecclesial news:

"" The Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital of Rome has done well to refuse the rich donation of the Leonardo company "because" it's dirty money, weapon, blood -dirty, dirty war ". Mons. Giovanni Ricchiuti National President of Pax Christi and Bishop of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti, takes a more clear position after that The Republic He wrote that one and a half million euros would be refused. "Finally," he says "we are in line with a church that truly frees himself of these conditioning, of these donations that come, as in the case, from an industry that produces weapons. The Vatican did well to refuse this offer. I say it as a bishop: It is a church that loves the truth "" (cf.. WHO e WHO).

First a question. After the president of Peace of Christ He announced that our current "is a church that loves the truth", It would be necessary to clarify two fundamental things. The first: earlier, the church, For two thousand years which truth loved, assuming that she loved her? The second: what is the truth?

Recently, The President of the Bishops of Italy, In the total silence of our national episcopate, he said that "the Gospel is not a distillate of truth" (cf.. WHO). At least, Pontius Pilate, At the time he did not have a statement like that of the President of the Bishops of Italy, in a much more elegant way he asked Christ a question: «What is truth?», What is the truth (cf.. GV 18,38).

It is not easy to talk about truth In today's emotional church of Migrantopoli and Pauperopoli. Let's try to make up for that St. Thomas Aquinas than in the lounges of the increasingly ignorant clerical radical chic It is variously indicated as "old" and "outdated". For the Angelic Doctor O Doctor Common The truth is God himself the very highest and the first reality (Summa Theologica, I q. 16 a. 5 (c)). The truth is never fully deceived, For this reason «truth and incorrect opinion, Truth and lie in the world are continually mixed in an almost inextricable way […] it becomes recognizable, if God becomes recognizable. He becomes recognizable in Jesus Christ. In him God entered the world, And he raised the criterion of truth in the middle of the story " (Joseph Ratzinger, in Jesus of Nazareth, Pilate's question, pp. 216-218).

By the will of his divine founder The Church of Christ was not born for pleasure in the world and pleased him, but to fight it:

"If the world hates you, know that it hated me before. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you from the world, that's why the world hates you " (GV 15, 18-19).

If incorrect opinions overlap with the truth who come to life from subjective or collective emotional elements, It remains completely hidden in the emotional church of Migrantopoli and Pauperopoli, Where he does not hesitate to say that "the Gospel is not a distillate of truth", All in the silence of the whole the Italian episcopate.

Refusing that donation He was still tried once to please the world, In particular, the one composed of people who far from going to the Holy Mass for Easter and for Christmas, They don't even know how to get the sign of the cross. This is the world to which our church visible with an increasingly exotic flavor wants to please at all costs, forgetting one's history, starting from that of the great saints of charity.

Let's start with the Jesuits, to which in the historical moment present it is right to confer a deserved right of priority: The pharaonic institutes built around the world, megalomania is not infrequently, Together with the churches adjacent to their colleges, who on many occasions have made so much irritating the diocesan bishops, because they are deliberately built larger, rich and solemn of their cathedral churches, with the money and contributions of those who were built? Because the Spaniards and Portuguese who offered them ample funding were the same as they managed the slave trafficking market or that if necessary administered justice in a casual way, that means: first they cut your head or implies you, then they possibly evaluated if you really did something wrong. Today's Jesuits, that of migrantopoli and pauperopoli are the propulsion ideological engine, A minimum of history have not really have it?

To the great saints of charity and to the great pedagogues to which we owe the foundation of precious assistance institutes for orphans, abandoned elderly, for the education of poor children and for the welcome and care of the disabled, it gives San Filippo Neri but to San Giovanni Bosco, passing through San Vincenzo de 'Paoli and reaching the most recent St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo, San Giovanni Calabria and San Luigi Orione, who provided the necessary money funds for the realization of their works? when in 1980 It was blessed Luigi Orione, Shortly thereafter various protests were raised by circles of people who did not even know the first six words of Our father, including the pathetic Anpi protest (National Association of Italian Partisans) who accused him of being a supporter of the fascist regime thanks to which he had funds for the realization of his works; protest that was then repeated in 2004, When Blessed Luigi Orione was canonized.

The great works of these saints of charity they are still active, some of which constitute clinical and assistance centers considered to be of true excellence at European level: The Turin Opera of San Giovanni Benedetto Cottolengo, The enormous welfare works of Genoa of San Luigi Orione, The Sacro Heart Hospital of Verona of San Giovanni Calabria ... Someone, He ever wondered where and who came from the money? More than anything else, he wonders if today, especially in the face of certain absurd protests, The visible church would have had the courage to body them and canonize them, or if instead he would have sold to groups of people who do not even know the first six words of the Our father but who pretend despite the fact that they dictate the law, with our ecclesiastical authorities that bend their heads and give in to political and ideological whims by non -Catholic and non -Christian environments. In this regard, I refer to my works Herbs Amare e Pius XII and the Shoah in which I explain the external influences exercised by certain fierce groups that they attempted with any unfair means, Until the manufacture of real false historians, to block the cause of beatification of Pius XII and the ceremony of father's beatification Leon dehon for which the date had already been set 24 April 2005 in St. Peter's Square, but which was canceled for improbable accusations of anti -Semitism moved to him by some Jewish circles. Given that never and in no case the Church can take orders from the modern great Sanhedrin and accept its protests, The question to ask was the following: Assuming that his father Leon Dehon wrote some critical phrases about Jewish entrepreneurs - who were rigorously read and contextualized historically in the context of the industrial revolution -, Given that his beatification process lasted almost half a century, because certain Jewish circles they attest to patients until ceremony of beatification set to give life to the public controversy in the world press? Simple: even if those writings had always known them, they had to demonstrate, with a real proof of strength, that they were able to give orders to the Church and induce it to relegate not only from a decision taken, but even from a beatification ceremony already made official and set. This was the real purpose, which was widely obtained for their arrogance and our weakness. The problem was not the beatification in itself and in itself of Father Leon Dehon, The Church can be blessed those who want and must never accept protests for this purpose, since the Jews have no kind of obligation to venerate our blessed and saints in their synagogues, Just like certain fringes of political Zionism, born and developed from the breast of Judaism, They do not accept criticisms aimed at the Israeli army when it is unwilling, except to shout as prefiche to anti -Semitic to anyone who dares to disagree with actions that do not constitute a legitimate defense but real crimes against humanity.

These great saints of charity they did not hesitate to accept money from the assets of known and known subjects for their immorality and for the somewhat casual way with which they carried on their business without getting too scruples. Li boni Jesuit who were, whose rigid moral was well known and which for a long time attempted to transform teenagers into the prey to hormonal crises into a bead army of San Luigi Gonzaga, There have never been particularly scruples in accepting conspicuous donations from the greatest whores and phenomenon of the Spanish courts. Puri and Casti had to be only teenagers, to which he imposed themselves in their colleges, up to time far from remote, to sleep with your hands out of the bed sheets in order to avoid the risk of committing “abominable impure acts”, while at the same time, Under the sheets of those to whom they owed great donations of money for the construction of their pharaonic structures, Instead, you could do everything and more, In impure acts truly abominable.

The big problem - Place that "the Gospel is not a distillate of truth" - is given by the inability to read the words of the blessed apostle Paolo on charity, For example the statement that it "covers everything". If his words were read and included in their depth, It would come to understand that for the realization of works of charity, not only the money of the companies that manufacture weapons should be accepted, But even the money donated by Mexican drug traffickers. Because if that dirty money is entirely used for works of charity in favor of poor people, weak, oppressed, disabled and sick, they will still become clean, because charity "everything covers" everything, or if we prefer: "Everything transforms", because only the divine charity, which is Christ, it can change the evil to good, So the dirty money in clean money. Otherwise a theological problem of no small importance may take over: deny that the grace of God can change the evil in good. As is well known, however,, One of the things that these days are less fashionable in the Church of the emotional and the politically correct is theology.

Certain bishops of Migrantopoli and Pauperopoli They seem to want to present themselves today more pure and immaculate the Blessed Virgin Mary, in order to please the world and please it. Until not to understand that charity "everything covers" and "everything transforms", which, however, cannot grasp and understand, If like their president they find themselves a subject who affirms: "The Gospel is not a distillate of truth".

the Island of Patmos, 23 January 2024

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WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN?

Why bother with this person who does not arouse any charm and interest in us, but only Christian and priestly compassion? Because it has happened very frequently that multiple people from Italy and abroad have asked us for information on this "great connoisseur" and "frequenter" of the Holy See and the Vatican.

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The Fathers of the Island of Patmos they have many interesting topics to deal with in the context of the doctrine of faith and talking about certain characters is not within their aspirations. However, we have duties that we cannot avoid. The site manager I Can't Be Silent continues to present himself as an excellent expert on the Roman Curia, of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. And this actually creates several problems.

Recently, when he attempted to beatify the unfortunate Archabbot of Montecassino who died a few weeks ago, alluding in his various posts that the Church should apologize to this "innocent" (!?), completely overlooking the fact that his deeds were and remain unspeakable, by these columns he was sensationally denied through gods dubia to which he obviously never responded (see article WHO).

He always fired in bursts on people and institutions of the Holy See, going against everyone's grain, from the Supreme Pontiff to the soldiers of the Vatican Gendarmerie. For months he has been relentlessly mocking and insulting Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communications of the Holy See, and Andrea Tornielli, Director of Media of the Holy See, indicating them as «incapable, incompetent, ignorant…», to the point of accusing them of being "illiterate". Whether Andrea Tornielli ― like it or not ― is an internationally renowned professional in the field of journalism and after over thirty years of profession one of the best-known Vatican experts in the world, It's not something that seems to interest Mr. Marco Felipe Perfetti, to whom it would be useless to remind that the director of the Vatican Media, repeatedly accused of "illiteracy", he certainly didn't self-publish, like he did, a booklet at your own expense, because he is the author of dozens of books translated into multiple languages, including substantial biographies on the Supreme Pontiffs of the twentieth century which at a documentary level remain works of high historical interest.

However, if calm "dubia" are addressed to him who insolent and mocks everything and everyone, by the Supreme Pontiff to follow (see video collection WHO), in this case he wouldn't hesitate to send some cheerful priest to complain to the Bishop of one of us. Already, because for some time Mr. Perfetti has wanted to clear the gay Trojan horse into the Church, stating in his writings and videos that clerics dedicated to the practice of homosexuality are only people who have the right to live their sexuality as they see fit in their private lives. In this way, however, he shows that he is unaware - despite presenting himself as an expert in Canon Law - that for a priest the concept of "private life" is very different from how he understands it., both on the level of Catholic morality and on that of law. The exercise of unnatural sexuality - because homosexuality remains such according to Catholic doctrine - if practiced by a cleric falls in fact and in law into the very serious crime of carnal sacrilege, certainly not in the exercise of freedoms linked to the private life of clerics.

Why bother with this person which does not arouse any fascination or interest in us, but only Christian and priestly compassion? Because it happened very frequently that more people, from Italy and abroad, they asked us for information on this "great connoisseur" and "frequenter" of the Holy See and the Vatican.

As already said and explained previously (see article WHO), This character cannot set foot in the Vatican, both for what he writes and for the bursts of insolence he utters. And if he were to get close to one of the access gates to the territory of this state, they wouldn't even allow him to enter.

When he uses expressions like this in his videos «here in the Vatican… we in the Vatican…», he boasts of knowledge and connections that he absolutely does not have. The only people he knows are some anonymous low-level minutants who have remained tied to the stake and who vent their frustrations deriving from their failed ecclesiastical career through him., providing him with doses of poison to spread through the social media. If not, to the many naive people who follow his site and take what he says and writes as true, he should prove his connections by shooting one of his videos from inside the Vatican City State. If he can't do it from the San Damaso Courtyard, or while walking under the frescoes of the Third Loggia of the Secretariat of State, could shoot one from the Vatican Gardens, or at the corner of the Governorate Palace under the statue of San Michele Arcangelo, or in front of the beautiful Fontana del Veliero. Instead he continues to present himself as a great connoisseur of Vatican matters while continuing to shoot and distribute videos while he is near Via della Conciliazione, or outside Bernini's Colonnade, or mainly from other external or internal places, all rigorously located within the territory of the Italian Republic, except to say "here in the Vatican... we in the Vatican...".

If growing up involves effort that some can't stand this is their problem, as long as they don't make people believe they are what they are not, or to enter where he is not allowed to set foot at all, forcing others to respond that this great frequenter and connoisseur of the Holy See who begins by saying "here in the Vatican... we in the Vatican...", to the point of dating their videos with the words "Vatican City", he is simply someone who cannot even get close to the gates of access to the Vatican City State. And if the person concerned could demonstrate the opposite, that proves it, rigorously replying to the merits of what was contested against him in light of the truth of the facts.

the Island of Patmos, 8 December 2023

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Our previous articles on the Band of the Silerian:

– 16 August 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY" (To open the article click WHO)

– 14 August 2025 — There is a homosexual? AT THAT TIME I CAN'T BE SILENT Also defends the indefensible (To open the article click WHO)

– 29 March 2025 — Always about I CAN'T BE SILENT: DAL “Vertical man"A" Fireculo "and" quadhow "of Leonardo Sciascia (To open the article click WHO)

– 21 March 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And the story of that convinced seamstress that he can give Giorgio Armani high fashion lessons (To open the article click WHO)

– 12 February 2025 — The Opossum is to the knowledge of the Vatican as Henger is in chastity and like his deceased husband Riccardo Schicchi is at work Confessions OF SAINT AUGUSTINE (To open the article click WHO)

– 15 January 2025 — AT THE CLERICAL BORDERS WITH REALITY: THE WOMAN SUFFERS FROM FREUDIAN PENIS ENVY, The Opossum of the envy by Matteo Bruni Director of the Press Room of the Holy See (To open the article click WHO)

– 20 January 2025 — THE OPOSSUM IGNORE THAT A NUN CAN QUIETLY BECOME GOVERNOR OF THE VATICAN CITY STATE, As already was Giulio Sacchetti (To open the article click WHO)

– 22 November 2024 — THE EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT OF RENATO TARANTELLI BACCARI. WHEN YOU ARE AFFECTED BY LIVER CANCER, THEY CHARGE ON THE ATTACK THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)

– 31 May 2024 — A NOTE FROM FATHER ARIEL ON THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT: «AS ANNOYING AS A SEA URCHIN INSIDE YOUR UNDERPANTS» (To open the article click WHO)

– 8 December 2023 — WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN? (To open the article click WHO)

– 14 October 2023 — THE ARCHABOT EMERITUS OF MONTECASSINO PIETRO VITTORELLI HAS DEAD: CHRISTIAN PIETY CAN ERASE THE SAD TRUTH? (To open the article click WHO)

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WHY HAVE WE FATHERS OF THE MAGAZINE THE ISLAND OF PATMOS NOT TALKED ABOUT THE SYNOD? BECAUSE WE ARE PRIESTS AND THEOLOGIANS, NOT GOSSIPARIES THAT EXCITE THE IRRATIONAL MOODS OF THE PEOPLE

Even before it began, this latest Synod was preceded by proclamations from unspecified internet experts who sowed terror not so dissimilar to that of the Hamas terrorists, to give a completely absurd-paradoxical hyperbolic example. If in fact Hamas terrorists kill innocent civilians, this other type of terrorist kills, in the increasingly lost faithful, the little that remains in them of faith and ecclesial feeling, of being members of the living body that is the Church.

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In one of my latest articles to which I refer you (see WHO) I spoke about the decline of the principle of authority in relation to social media, where even the least imbecile can launch into dealing in a grotesque and surreal way with topics that are the subject of complex historical debates on a scientific level, historical, social, politico, theological…

We the Fathers of this magazine we have convinced ourselves that when faced with certain desolations the ancient saying of Publius Terentius Afro is valid (190-159 a.C), universally known as Terence: «They are silent, praise them enough» (They are silent and in doing so they praise). With this maxim, the famous Roman playwright of probable Berber origin meant that sometimes silence prevents words from being expressed, also clearly, end up being distorted or even deliberately misunderstood by those who are inclined to misunderstand or look for any excuse for a dispute. From this maxim by Terenzi was born the famous popular saying "a beautiful silence was never written".

A personal note: for reasons that need not be explained, during this last Synod I had the opportunity to come and go from Martha House Sancthae several times, to meet and speak with various bishops from various parts of the world, clarifying the obvious that I certainly don't need to clarify, because the whole thing, for me as for many other scholars and theologians, it falls within the scope of obvious things about which there would be absolutely nothing to discuss. But, as I wrote in my previous article (see WHO) sometimes it is necessary to explain especially the things that seem obvious to us, in this crazy decadent world in which a boundless army of people thinks of giving maximum and unappealable sentences with a Tweet o a post su Facebook, after having fed themselves on the blogs of people who speak and discuss complex issues that they really don't know about practice and rigor.

Even before starting this latest Synod was preceded by proclamations from unspecified internet experts who sowed terror not so dissimilar to that of Hamas terrorists, to give a completely absurd-paradoxical hyperbolic example. If in fact Hamas terrorists kill innocent civilians, this other type of terrorist kills, in the increasingly lost faithful, the little that remains in them of faith and ecclesial feeling, of being members of the living body that is the Church (cf.. With the 1, 18).

For weeks we have read and heard proclamations in which certain web terrorists gave the best of themselves to disorient simple and increasingly lost Catholics by foreseeing the imminent customs clearance of priestly celibacy and married priests, women priests, or at least women deacons, the blessing at the altar of homosexual couples and so on to follow. And all these elements that to define as fantastic is just an understatement, they were announced as certain, indeed presented as taken for granted.

At the end of the Synod the Supreme Pontiff Francis spoke publicly, clarifying that priestly celibacy would not be affected in any way, reiterating what we have known for centuries: priestly celibacy, which has its roots since the first apostolic era and which has great value on a spiritual level, ecclesial and pastoral, it is not a dogma of faith but an ecclesiastical discipline. There is proof that even in the Catholic Church there have always been Eastern Rite priests who are married and have families. Having said this, the Holy Father reiterated that he does not intend in any way to modify ecclesiastical discipline on the celibacy of priests belonging to the Latin rite community, specifying that nothing similar "will happen under my pontificate".

Regarding the issue of women priests, the Supreme Pontiff Francis had already expressed himself several times in the past, therefore he did nothing but reiterate the pronouncement given in definitive form by his Holy Predecessor John Paul II which clarified for the present and future future: «The Church does not have the power to grant sacred priestly ordination to women» (cf.. WHO).

If in the preparatory stages of the Synod there was talk of the LGBT world, from the draft of the final document this acronym has completely disappeared, to the certain displeasure of that cheerful character Father James Martin supported not long ago with an article in the well-known pseudo-Catholic weekly slush Christian, originally born as Christian family, which he announced: «Pope Francis has restored dignity to LGBTQ people and this is a blessing for everyone» (cf.. QUI). So no blessing to the happy rainbow couples under the steps of the altars for the obvious reason that the Church, with the excuse of blessing the people who always need to be blessed, is not so naive and unprepared to end up blessing what for Catholic doctrine and morality remains the sin against nature (Catechism, n. 2357), which as such cannot be blessed, not even with the excuse of only blessing people. This is a topic on which the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith had already expressed its opinion (cf.. WHO). Several times over the last few years I have written and explained that the Church has the duty to welcome the sinner, especially the worst sinners, because if she did not do so she would betray the mission that Christ God has entrusted to her (cf.. Mt 9,13), always being careful, however, never to welcome sin, which cannot be welcomed, much less blessed.

This is why we remained silent, because we are priests, theologians and above all men of faith aware that even today the Church is experiencing very delicate moments, or if we want even confused and sad, In any case, she will never be able to betray the mission that Christ God has entrusted to her to meet the whims of the world, because God chose us from the world but we are not of the world (cf.. GV 15, 18-19).

Let's move on and conclude with two elements. The first: the essence of ecumenical councils and synods of the Church; The second one: the unusual attitude, perhaps even questionable and ambiguous of the Supreme Pontiff Francis.

The Catholic Hamas terrorists who have carried out campaigns for months and weeks aimed at exciting people, now at terrorizing them, they demonstrated first of all that they have no idea what councils and synods are in the two-thousand-year history of the Church. First let's see the difference between the two: by ecumenical council we mean, as the word itself says, an extraordinary event that involves all the bishops of the universal Church. The term “ecumenical” in fact it derives from Greek world (oikoumene) and it means universal. Otherwise instead, the Synod, which can be local or even global, it involves a slice of the episcopate, or invited and selected participants, which can also represent Catholic universality, but which do not constitute an ecumenical council, that is, that most important and solemn act of the Church which requires and implies the participation of the entire Catholic episcopate.

In both cases, whether it is an ecumenical council or a synod, participants are simply not entitled, but precisely the duty to discuss everything and its exact opposite. In discussions they can, indeed, even the most unlikely or even absurd hypotheses must be raised. Perhaps the great Fathers and Masters of classical scholasticism did not do this, often starting in their disputes even from surreal and paradoxical elements, in order to stimulate the speculative sense and arrive at wise judgments? What does this take to make clear to the aggressive blogger or to those who have a sentence on Twitter they have solved problems that have not yet had a definitive answer for centuries. Therefore, than certain fringes of the episcopate, that is, the inevitable Germans and Northern Europeans, have raised certain questions, It shouldn't have surprised anyone, including hardcore bloggers and tweeters, if only they had known the rudiments of Church history.

The Supreme Pontiff Francis for its part remains an enigma, as I defined it in an old article of mine from 2013 commenting on his first ones 100 days of pontificate (see WHO) where I compared him to the Pied Piper of Amelin, which deserves enormous credit: having made all the mice come out for what they really are, after they had hidden themselves in the most false and calculated condescension for thirty years under the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. At least today, thanks to this Augusto Pifferaio, we get to know the mice one by one for what they are and what they really think. This will make it especially difficult for them, or rather, really impossible to be able to recycle it at the next change of helmsman of Peter's boat, given that a 87 years and with health problems of no small importance, the Supreme Pontiff Francis will certainly not last forever. If so tomorrow, as if nothing had happened, a playful cardinal even went so far as to lower himself into a manhole to reconnect electricity to the inhabitants of an illegally occupied building (see WHO), if he showed up with three meters of cappa magna and a galero on his head - something that certain chameleons would be capable of doing because by their nature they lack the very sense of modesty - we would all ask him: "But you, Were you perhaps not the one who, under the pontificate of Francis, went in trousers and rolled up shirt sleeves to bring coffee in the evening to the tramps who had transformed Bernini's colonnade into a public urinal?, after showing off gold cufflinks and artfully pleated purple robes under the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI?”.

For the umpteenth time the Supreme Pontiff Francis brought them together, speak and vent in a Synod, causing them all to come out into the open again. Once the discussions were over he announced "then we'll see", concluding with a "see you next year", assuming of course that the Holiness of Our Lord is always alive.

Of the two one: or we are faced with a man who alone is crazier and more deranged than Joanna of Castile, Henry IV and Ludwig II of Bavaria all three combined, or we are faced with a man who in a very difficult and complex historical moment did what was best and most appropriate to have been done, using his state grace wisely and prudently, although at the moment his actions cannot be understood. In fact we cannot affirm either one thing or the other, because we lack the elements to be able to do it. Maybe it will take many years, but one day history will clarify the great "enigma" for us Francesco, how I defined it in 2013 after the first ones 100 days of his pontificate, revealing him as the right man who rode out an extraordinarily delicate season in the best way.

the Island of Patmos, 29 October 2023

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