TOMORROW THE COMPANY OF JESUS ​​WILL BE BURIED FOREVER. È MORTO PETER GUMPEL, JESUITE OF THE OLD SCHOOL AND POSTULATOR OF THE CAUSE OF BEATIFICATION OF PIUS XII

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Father Peter Gumpel was the last of the Mohicans. When tomorrow morning at 10 her funeral services will be celebrated with him will be permanently buried, after the previous deaths of the other elders, what was once the glorious Society of Jesus, reduced today to all the most tragic squalor personified by the unhappy and above all seriously heterodox jokes of their Superior General Arturo Sosa Abascal.

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Peter Gumpel (1923-2022) Jesuit theologian and historian of dogma, he was academic, expert at the Second Vatican Council, general postulator of the Society of Jesus and postulator of the cause of beatification of Pius XII

Yesterday morning Andrea Tornielli, dear old friend, he had the sensible kindness to inform me that the Jesuit Peter Kurt Gumpel had recently died, theologian and historian of dogma, already expert at the Second Vatican Council, for half a century postulator general of the Society of Jesus together with his confrere Paolo Molinari (1924-2014), with whom he took care of the cause of beatification of Pius XII. Both were trusted private advisors of the Holy Pontiff Paul VI in the delicate and turbulent historical phase of the post-council.

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Father Peter, born in Hannover on 15 November 1923, he came from a rich family of the ancient German aristocracy, soon disliked the Nazi regime. This is the reason why they first moved to France and then to Holland, where the very young Peter, he learned the language and studied. Being a connoisseur of that country and its language, when decades later the delicate problem of the publication of the Dutch Catechism arose (1966), the Supreme Pontiff Paul VI sent him as his trustee on a visit to Holland.

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Only male heir of the family, several times he told me of how much adolescent he expressed to his father that he wanted to enter the Society of Jesus:

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“We were in the car, my father stopped, he made me get off with my dachshund dog with whom I walked a few kilometers to return home. When I entered my father told me never to go back to certain fantasies. Then he added that he would allow me to enter the Society of Jesus only if the Supreme Pontiff himself had told him ".

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The young man took his father at his word. The family had known and hosted Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli several times, at the time apostolic nuncio to Berlin, elected in 1939 to the sacred throne, to which he did not hesitate to write. A month later the father received an autograph letter from the Supreme Pontiff Pius XII asking him to allow his son to enter the Society of Jesus..

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Since I was a student with his brother Paolo Molinari he made a profound one, fraternal and intense friendship that lasted for a lifetime. During his student period in England he was an indefatigable fan of Father Paolo who masterfully played football. To my question if he ever played, with humor all the Teutonic answered:

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"No, because it is intellectually more gratifying and physically less tiring to cheer from the stands for those who play ".

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Yup, he preferred to sit and smoke one cigarette after another and enjoying the game of others. Heavy smoker, several times I found him in his study enveloped in a blanket of smoke. He could also have not signed the documents he had drawn up, because the author could have been recognized by the smell of tobacco that impregnated them. I told him once while I was smoking with him:

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«Certainly smoking is seriously harmful to health, but I fear that even cancer is far from the Jesuits, taking care not to have to deal with dangerous subjects like you ".

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Father Peter and Father Paolo they have been my teachers and trainers, for years they have guided me beyond the words imprinted in the documents of the Second Vatican Council, explaining step by step from which stories and events many of those texts were born. After my specialized studies in dogmatics, Father Peter started me on the study of the history of dogma, in the absence of which one can run the risk of ending up immersed in a dogmatic that rests on the clouds. He suggested that my bishop send me to study for a period of time in Germany, where I had some Jesuits of the old guard as teachers. Later I was trained in the postulation of the causes of the Saints, where they instructed me mainly on the papers of the delicate and complex process of beatification of the Venerable Pontiff Pius XII, to which I dedicated in 2006 the main section of my work Herbs Amare, from which a single essay dedicated to the figure of Eugenio Pacelli was later born: Pius XII and the Shoah.

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The 2 May 2014, when the funeral services of Father Paolo Molinari were celebrated in the chapel of the General Curia of the Society of Jesus, I understood that Father Peter had lost half of his life and that from then on he would be prepared to lose the other half he had left.

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The year was 2013 when during an interview he told me that the current Society of Jesus had no affinity and similarity with the one in which he had entered at the beginning of the Second World War. I understood that he was not referring to a transformation due to a natural process of evolution, but to a radical deformation that had long since affected the very heart of the charism of the Companions of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

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Shortly after the friend's notice I arrived at the Residenza San Pietro Canisio together with my brother Marcello Stanzione, great expert in angelology with whom I had been traveling until the day before. We found his body composed at the least worst possible way, placed in a corner at the entrance of the San Pietro Canisio Residence, without a cross, without a light on, without a flower. Emblem of the squalor of today's East India Company. I kissed the cold forehead of my father and trainer, I laid my hands on his and together with Father Marcello we recited the From the depths and blessed is that revered body which it contained for almost 100 years his immortal priestly soul.

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Father Peter Gumpel he was the last of the Mohicans. When tomorrow morning at 10 her funeral services will be celebrated with him will be permanently buried, after the previous deaths of the other elders, what was once the glorious Society of Jesus, reduced today to all the most tragic squalor personified by the unhappy and above all seriously heterodox jokes of their Superior General Arturo Sosa Abascal.

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A beautiful memory by Father Federico Lombardi, S.J. his The Osservatore Romano [view of page. 4 from The Osservatore Romano, WHO].

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FROM HIS WORLD OF THE IRREAL ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA TAKES IT UP WITH ARCHBISHOP GEORG GANSWEIN. A HUMAN TRAGEDY AND A DISASTER OF SOULS IN A PERIOD OF DEVASTATING CRISIS THAT INVOLVES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

In a Church that in an obsessive way seems capable of talking only about the poor and migrants while the house is burning engulfed in flames, a subject like Mr. Minutella can gather followers and produce huge souls disasters. Nor can we forget that he certainly did not become a priest by himself, quite the opposite: it is the emblem of one of the many monsters created by the superficiality and lack of vigilance of our Bishops and the formators appointed by them to train future priests.

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Athe sad case by Alessandro Minutella, suspended priest from Palermo peep In the 2017, fell into excommunication In the 2018, resigned In the 2022 by the clerical state, punishment that the Church very rarely inflicts, I dedicated one conference to which I refer.

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Il Signor Minutella he's a serial liar lying - who knows, perhaps even knowing that he is lying? ―, contradicting itself for years continuously. Proof of this are his videos present by the hundreds on the Internet in which he usually affirms the opposite of what was previously stated even after a short time, or even in the space of a single video. The dangerous element that characterizes this twisted psychology is the continuous falsification and manipulation of facts, of the history and documents of the Church and what they contain. Mr. Minutella specializes in having the documents of the Magisterium of the Church say what they do not contain. The technique he uses is always the same: takes a few lines, manipulates them, it distorts the text and makes the document say what it does not say. We have repeatedly shown that on certain texts it is not written what Mr. Minutella attributes to him but the exact opposite of what he affirms and supports.

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Let's try to clarify matters with just one example among many: to argue that the election of the legitimate Successor of the resigning Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI is invalid and that the reigning Pontiff is a usurper antipope, has always used the Apostolic Constitution Dominic Flock where the Holy Pontiff John Paul II establishes:

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"If the election had taken place otherwise than as prescribed in this Constitution or if the conditions set out here had not been observed, the election is therefore null and void, without any declaration in this regard e, so, it does not confer any rights on the elected person " [cf.. n. 76].

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This statement however, it is only the conclusion of the entire previous Chapter V placed as closed at the end of precise and detailed explanations related to the mechanism of voting in conclave. Extrapolating these four lines and building on them what the entire Apostolic Constitution does not say is a serious and dishonest mystification. However, this is the consolidated action that Mr. Minutella has been carrying out for years: extrapolates a passage in which pacts and agreements between the Cardinals before the conclave are prohibited, extrapolates a closure that concludes Chapter V, after which it omits, with obvious criminal intent, to cite the article that clarifies since the opening of the following Chapter VI:

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"If in the election of the Roman Pontiff - God forbid - the crime of simony were perpetrated, I decide and declare that all those who are guilty of it will incur excommunication automatic and that the nullity or non-validity of the same simoniacal provision is nevertheless removed, so that for this reason - as already established by my Predecessors - the validity of the election of the Roman Pontiff is not challenged [cf.. n. 78].

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This is imprinted in that Apostolic Constitution to which Mr. Minutella attributes what was never written by the Holy Pontiff John Paul II, which, without penalty of misunderstanding, clarifies that not even the shameful and grave crime of simonia renders the election of the Roman Pontiff invalid and illegitimate.

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The game should be clear and easy to unmask, but this is precisely the problem: Mr. Minutella addresses an audience of lost and superficial people in front of whom two different ways of acting collide: that of us theologians, philosophers and jurists who we speculate on the basis of scientific criteria structured on logic and rationality, that of the pseudo-theologian Minutella who knowingly plays on the emotionality of the frail and the weak and who acts in total disregard of logic and rationality. The pseudo-theology of Mr. Minutella is structured on a heretical Mariology with a millenarian structure that totally distorts the figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary changed into a modern pagan divinity, with constant obsessive magical-esoteric references to the imminent triumph of his immaculate heart, without taking into account the absolute centrality of the Christological mystery. with a style that ranges between the tele-barker and the magician who reads the tarot, Mr. Minutella continually arouses in fragile and lost people that deleterious spirit towards which the Blessed Apostle Paul warns us by saying:

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«The day will come, indeed, when they will not endure sound doctrine;, ma, having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales " [II Tm 4, 1-4].

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I neuro-video-delusions of Signor Minutella are an incessant itchy stimulus through the spreading of Marian messages, visions of mystics and mystics and their alleged prophecies, most of which have never been recognized as authentic by the Church. Tease the catastrophic morbidity with the messages of Our Lady of Fatima, obviously after having twisted and manipulated them, presents the writings of Maria Valtorta as foundations of faith, heedless of the negative judgments and condemnations of the Church [cf.. My previous article, WHO]. He insists that the “prophecies” of Blessed Katharina Emmerick are authentic, because according to him beatified by the Church. In doing so he demonstrates disturbing and crass ignorance, because when in the 2004 Emmerick was beatified the competent dicastery of the Holy See reiterated the inauthenticity of the so-called prophecies attributed to her by writing:

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«The blessed has certainly left us only three letters. The other writings, which are erroneously attributed to it, have different origins: the "visions" of the Passion of Christ were annotated and reworked with great freedom and without any control by the German writer Clemens Brentano (1778-1842). The works in question cannot be considered either written or dictated by Emmerick and not even authentic transcriptions of her statements and narratives, but a literary work by Brentano " [Declaration of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, 2004].

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If the Church proclaims a blessed, or later proclaims a blessed as a saint, this does not imply that he recognizes, you beatify and canonize everything you have said or written. Affirm to your followers that everything is authentic because the Church has beatified or canonized, it means expressing genuine idiocy. Mr. Minutella is able to mix together Our Lady of Fatima with Saint Malachi Bishop of Armagh, lived in the twelfth century, whose “prophecies” on the popes are a resounding forgery attributed to him and further manipulated in the seventeenth century. Mr. Minutella done all this, as Friar Cipolla in the short story of Giovanni Boccaccio, reassures the villagers about the authenticity of the amazing relics displayed, pointing out that he is "twice a doctor of sacred theology" and that he is a theologian trained at the school of St. Thomas Aquinas, as well as expert in theology of the famous twentieth century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In fact, Mr. Minutella is so limited and ignorant that he would not be able to make even the structure of one question dell’Aquinate, however, he has such a nerve that he would be able to declare even the sensational fake of the Constantinian donation, stating that Lorenzo Valla, who proved its falsity in 1440, he was just a poor incompetent.

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Numerous followers of this sect leader are suffering from functional illiteracy which makes them unable to read and understand a document, from other digital illiteracy. Both take as gold standard what their guru says, taking care not to make a very minimum effort: go on official site of the Holy See, look for and read the documents of the Magisterium of the Church which he overturned to ascertain that they say the exact opposite of what Mr. Minutella bi-doctor in sacred theology attributes to him. Both of these types of people are to such an extent devoid of critical sense that they are unable to analyze certain statements and compare them with those that demonstrate how surreal and insane the statements of Mr. Minutella are.. Let me be clear, by ignorant we do not mean humble or simple people who are always ready to listen and learn what they do not know, but those who refuse to reason, who are incapable of developing critical thinking and who with aggressive pride feel they possess knowledge, especially of true faith.

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For some time now a journalist who writes rants on the newspaper's blog has taken on the shoulder of Mr. Minutella Free and who recently published a book in which he explains how the resigning Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI made an act of resignation through a document deliberately made invalid by various Latin grammatical errors. I do not know if this Lord is aware that in the Holy Gospels there are some errors, even gross ones due to translations and transcriptions, perhaps he also intends to invalidate the revealed Word of God? And so, after the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, forced to make an act of resignation, would have retired to "an impeded seat", began to speak and communicate "in code", to demonstrate in cryptic language the invalidity of his renunciation and the state of impediment that would not allow him to speak and express himself, but only to send encrypted messages, of which he is the only and brilliant world interpreter, as well as discoverer, this reporter fantasy Of Free.

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The birth and proliferation of certain subjects it can also be a natural reaction in historical-social contexts that have always been known in sociology and mainly linked to the various stages of decadence marked by great cultural regresses and the consequent rejection of the basic principles of human rationality. It is in fact known that when one ceases to believe in the foundations of revealed faith, one ends up believing in everything. Of course, what is very perplexing is that a nice face of an undertaker like the director of Free Alessandro Sallustri allows space for such garbage. It would be as if in the nineties The Corriere della Sera had entrusted a front page column to Wanna Marchi and the magician Mário Pacheco Do Nascimento, if anything, after having removed space and closed a column entrusted to Vittorio Messori. A long-time newspaper editor who does not realize this is almost the corpse of a journalist who has now lost even that stiffness of death which might give it a certain charm.

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In fact, we are beyond science fiction, beyond the grotesque, because if Benedict XVI had done what is attributed to him by Wanna Marchi and the magician Do Nascimento - respectively priest dismissed from the clerical state and journalist fantasy - you understand well that we would find ourselves before the most lying and cowardly Pontiff in the history of the Church.

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Deny these people, as has been done several times, it is completely useless, because Mr. Minutella and the journalist author of this fantastic Ratzinger Code upset any sentence, word or deed. Example: Benedict XVI blinked his right eyelid twice? Think of it as a natural mechanism of the human body dictated by the functioning of the facial muscles? Absolutely not. In truth it is a Ratzingerian morse code through which the Holy Father, forced to make an act of renunciation, is communicating and confirming that he is in an "impeded seat" and that he is always the only and legitimate Roman Pontiff. Some think that Benedict XVI's hunched shoulders are due to the natural physical decline of a man in his nineties? Absolutely not. In truth, it is proof that the Holy Father is bent under the weight of the oppression of the Bergoglian conspiracy hatched by the so-called Mafia of St. Gallen by the cardinal Masons who are all venerable masters of the XXXIII degree of the Masonic Grand Lodge of the ancient Scottish rite.

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It recently ended up in the viewfinder S. AND. Mons. George Ganswein Prefect emeritus of the Papal Household and still faithful private secretary of the resigning Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, to which Mr. Minutella sent a letter together with a small group of seven other priests following him on 6 August, asking for an account and confirmation that Benedict XVI had truly and validly renounced and that the Supreme Pontiff Francis was really his legitimate successor. We reason: to questions as idiotic and provocative as it would be possible to answer, especially if they are posed by manipulators who usually distort any response, even the clearest and most decisive? In fact, the reaction was not long in coming: a few weeks later, Mr. Minutella explained that the lack of response should not be read as a form of rudeness, but as a test of silence-assent. This is equivalent to sending a message to the Abbess of the Poor Clares of strict observance to ask if she is a virgin or if before becoming a nun, when she was a young secular woman, she had had sexual intercourse with men. These are perhaps questions to ask? there, do not think that asking such questions to a Supreme Pontiff who has made an act of resignation is so different from asking a question like the one just illustrated to the Abbess of the Poor Clares, except to state below that her failure to answer is a proof to be read as a form of silence-assent on the part of the Reverend Mother.

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Recently Mr. Minutella complained that H.E. Mons. Georg Gänswein allegedly telephoned the brother priest of a German priest who joined his entourage stating that this subject is in concrete facts a “crazy” as well as “theologically out of my mind” and that his book Pietro, where are you? it does not deserve the paper it is printed on”. Let me be clear: all this is stated by Mr. Minutella, we don't know if this phone call took place. If it had happened, we do not know what Archbishop Georg Gänswein really said to his interlocutor and in what terms. One thing is certain: in case he had expressed those judgments, he would have said and summarized nothing but the reality of the facts.

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The reply was not long in coming of Mr. Minutella who first of all gave the ignorant to Archbishop Georg Gänswein who by training is a canonist and who according to him "should know that a madman cannot incur excommunication, because he is not aware and therefore not responsible for his actions ". Also in this case, Mr. Minutella confirms Urbi et Orbi his ignorance and narrowness. Not all insane people or all people suffering from severe psychiatric disorders are subjects incapable of understanding and willing. We could start from Friedrich Nietzsche dead mad until the mathematician John Forbes Nash, Nobel Prize for Economics, who suffered from a very severe form of schizophrenia which could never be cured. All this proves that if there is an overt ignorant man, it is certainly not Archbishop Georg Gänswein but Mr. Minutella.

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Victimist and whiner to the point of paroxysm, Mr. Minutella has been repeating for years: "No one wants to confront me on the merits of the issues", implying and giving his followers to drink that no theologian, canonist and ecclesiologist would hold up a comparison with such great and powerful science. The reality is quite different: although it proclaims itself "lion of Mary", in truth, Mr. Minutella is just a poor werewolf who screams like a castrated capon in a camera room from which he throws arrows in his videos, but who has always been careful not to seek and accept comparisons with true and serious scholars. Before Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke and the presbyter and theologian Nicola Bux, who tried to bring him back into the ranks at the beginning of his mad delusions between the 2016 and the 2017, this self-styled "lion of Mary" werewolf stood before them with his head down, with the tail between the legs and the small voice. So he did with them as with other interlocutors. Then, when she walks into her video-shooting room with her adoring caregivers nodding, at that point it turns into a hyena.

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Qhen in September 2018 the Supreme Pontiff Francis he went to Palermo Mr. Minutella was warned in time and a private meeting with the Holy Father was proposed, so that she could have a chance to ask him about it or tell him what he thought to his face. All before he was notified of the excommunication automatic. What was the reaction of the self-styled "lion of Mary" werewolf? Two days before the arrival of the Holy Father he went to Verona, fired every worst poison and two days later returned to Palermo to continue vomiting on "Bergoglio antipope usurper emissary of the Antichrist", obviously from his room of filming assisted by his adoring caregivers. Why the "lion of Mary" did not take that splendid opportunity to tell the person directly concerned what he thought of him, instead of fleeing to Verona two days earlier and returning two days after the Holy Father had left Palermo? If the followers of this pathological liar ask coward unable to deal with anyone on the merits of delicate theological and juridical issues which he reduced to a little theater of the grotesque.

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Someone wondered: why they did not receive it from Benedict XVI, so that he was informed by the voice of the person concerned about his free and valid act of renunciation, thus bringing him back to the right path? Several thought about this eventuality, but it was prudently discarded, the results would have been so obvious: the "lion of Mary" would have prostrated himself with his tail between his legs, her head down and her small voice, then, just got home, he would have flung himself into his bedroom to take on the role of the werewolf and announce that thanks to that meeting he had had irrefutable proof that Benedict XVI, imprisoned in “venue prevented”, he had been forced to reassure him under the threat of the powerful ecclesiastical freemasonry of the Vatican ruled by cardinal Satanist Masons affiliated to the Grand Orient of the Scottish Rite.

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Mr. Minutella is one of the many monsters born within the Church and before which we should all question ourselves, our Bishops in the lead. He is neither intelligent nor cultured, he is by no means a talented communicator and is devoid of rhetorical art, he's just a salesman, a barker. Its cultural narrowness is embarrassing, for this he needs to advertise the academic qualifications obtained in ecclesiastical universities, which have never been proof and attestation of ability, science and intelligence. For several decades a specialization or a theological doctorate in Rome has been granted to anyone. We priests and theologians, that we know this, we laugh about it every time Mr. Minutella reassures his followers by citing their academic qualifications as a guarantee of the nonsense he utters.

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Like a real cancer Mr. Minutella came to life and developed in a historical moment of serious intra and extra ecclesial crisis. For years I have been repeating that since the end of the 1960s a crisis of doctrine has developed in the Church which has given rise to a crisis of faith., the consequence of which was finally a devastating moral crisis of the clergy [cf.. my book And Satan became triune]. Devoid of intelligence and culture but rich in the cunning of the old illiterate peasant who can also be able to outsmart you with shrewdness, Mr. Minutella starts based on true things and objective data linked to this great and painful decadence that is affecting the Church, after which it sells endless falsehoods, gathering ever greater numbers of followers among those weak and lost Catholics who seek guidance and safety.

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in a Church that obsessively he seems able to speak only of the poor and migrants while the house is burning engulfed in flames, a subject like Mr. Minutella can gather followers in ever greater numbers and produce enormous disasters of souls. Nor can we forget that he certainly did not become a priest by himself, quite the opposite: it is the emblem of one of the many monsters created by the superficiality and lack of vigilance of our Bishops and the formators appointed by them to train future priests. These would be the real ones MEA culpa that the Church should do, instead of asking forgiveness from the natives of the Americas to whom i “bad” Spanish conquerors of the 16th century prevented from continuing to make human sacrifices of children to the Inca and Aztec deities, thus giving breath to the trumpets of Signor Minutella, a monster that did not create itself but that was created by us, largely guilty and responsible for the huge disasters that it is doing on souls.

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ITALY HAS CHOSEN WITH ITS DEMOCRATIC VOTE, BUT THE MOST LIBERTARIAN AND DEMANDING CHOICE REMAINS THAT FOR CHRIST

If the truth will be seen in Jesus everything will be recovered, otherwise everything will be lost for our poor Italy which has been struggling for some time in a Europe which is floundering lost between hatred towards its own Christian roots and an exasperated and maddening secularism which has lost, along with the Christian ones, also the roots of democratic liberalism itself.

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I just got back to the convent, after a retreat of a day and a half in the company of some priest confreres belonging to a priestly fraternity and I was unable to experience live the electoral count of the last political elections which involved all of Italy between Sunday and Monday, if not for short twitter beds before going to sleep, borrowed from some news agencies.

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During a sera to dinner, together with the other priests of this fraternity of which I belong, I was struck by the words of one of them, older than me in age and wiser in wisdom that thus began: "my experience with politicians has always been one of either disappointment or betrayal".

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This confession it was for me a bolt from the blue, because I found it profoundly topical and painfully true. The politician, when of his own free will he turns to the Church or to the priests, he does so either to ask for a vote or because he intends to carry out an exchange of favours. But surely he does not go to the priest as a baptized person who questions his being a politician and seeks the light of that Holy Spirit who is the only one who can obtain a wise heart in government, as we see done in the prayer of the young King Solomon [See. 1 Re 3, 5-15].

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It's very frequent for a politician running for election to identify as a Christian, but once elected he forgets it very easily, not hesitating to bite the hand of his electorate, not making the slightest scruple about going against the Gospel, to the Church and mocking the priests, the latter thing that many parish priests personally experience in the daily skirmishes with the various mayors and presidents of regions at any level, sign and color belong.

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To tell the truth, this occurrence occurs much more frequently with centre-right alignments which have always boasted a historic closeness to the Catholic electorate and even propose themselves as Defender of the Faith, except then endorsing anti-Christian policies using civil rights as a carpet and the untouchability of already established regulations that, needless to say, vary from abortion to euthanasia, from the recognition of marriage between same-sex couples to gender forced in schools and so on.

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This first look deserves careful reflection and at the same time a question: how come the Christian denomination within politics never coincides with adherence to the person of the living Risen One, except for some accident amarcord cultural, how is the matter of Halloween at the end of October or the crib before Christmas? Fare amarcord culture does not help salvation, both for man as well as for the State which is equally immersed in those pangs of Creation wounded by original sin which awaits a definitive redemption. We therefore need to walk a path of recovery that can only be undertaken with Christ and which is preserved within a path of holiness that, as John Chrysostom suggested, above all it needs the recognition of sin, so that the latter may be handed over to Him who has made a massacre of sin. Because it is clear, the baptized man, before any other work activity, social or political is a man handed over to Christ according to the words that the Blessed Apostle Paul will say to the Galatians:

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"Brothers, all of you are children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for how many of you have been baptized into Christ, you have put on Christ. There is no Jew or Greek; there is no slave nor free; there is no male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." [Gal 3,26-28].

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Christ is truly the all-encompassing element around which the new man reborn in baptism finds his deepest and truest identity together with that operation which drives him to build the Kingdom of God on earth (as we ask moreover in the Our father), which is not the antiquated implementation of an anachronistic theocracy but the definitive realization of that mystery of the incarnation in which "God became man to make human life, both personal and social, a concrete way of salvation [See. Speech of the Holy Father Francis on the occasion of 50 years after the encyclical Development of Peoples].

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It is not the political manifesto of an alignment that engages my characterization as a man but is the ontological resemblance to the Son of God who became man for me and in his humanity redeemed me by dying on the cross. With all due respect to the numerous baptized members of any political party, I would like to remind you that the ideal to be pursued in the Christian life, the fundamental option that informs action resides in the person of the glorious Crucified, in that tiring Amen daily uttered while following the Risen One in which all the authority of the Father is present who gives the possibility of doing things that would not be contemplated in our concrete possibilities [See. GV 21,1-14, MC 16,9-20].

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Christ is the life option that does not admit antagonists, which leaves no room for other suitors who aspire to win the heart of man, as we well know that those who are not willing to love Christ more than their father, of his own son, of his own daughter, of his wife, of his own party is not worthy of him [See. Mt 10,34-11,1]. Yup, dear, you understood correctly, even of his own party, just as the various disciples of Jesus who militated within the Zealot party had to learn.

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We often run the easy illusion to be disciples of Christ because we identify with perfect moral acts which not only do not lead to Christ but are revealing of that vanity and that narcissism which leads towards a pathological self-salvation. And of leader pathological narcissistic politicians and heads of state we can number several in this historical moment. Our local politics is sick and highlights the narcissistic aspect of the human, creating operational perspectives that are not redemptive because they lack the true Redeemer of man who is Christ. Invariably, with such programs based on narcissism, shipwreck is reached and the sovereign people go astray by revolting in the bed of their own conscience, now at right and now to left, in the fleeting hope of calming down and reaching the longed-for sleep, without knowing that he will still have to stay awake for a good part of the night waiting for that Bridegroom who he will only be able to recognize if his own baptismal lamp has not run out of oil.

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Italy has chosen the Centre-Right coalition with its vote, headed by the Honorable Giorgia Meloni. As a Christian and as a priest I can only pray for them as it is right to do, especially in a historical period so tormented by the specter of war, from a thousand human criticalities and the fragility of our planet's resources. I remain convinced that this last democratic expression is not yet fully mature, there is still too much evident passion that has guided the hand of the Italian voters. This portends an immediate future of bitter disappointments: from the appointment of ministers to the first measures in the courtroom, the veil will fall from the eyes of many and will be revealed, perhaps even betrayed and disillusioned with what one had hoped to be able to change.

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Meloni will be the first woman to head the Presidency of the Council of ministers in Italy, its task will be very difficult not so much for the fragile plethora of the current opposition but for the narcissistic dynamisms of the center-right coalition which will not allow it a serene government sheltered from snipers and moral blackmail. I am also very concerned about the possible tensions with the Quirinale which will entrust the task to a political coalition that does not seem to play its music and which in many respects has been prevented in various circumstances.

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I conclude with the reference to Italian Episcopal Conference which through the mouth of its Cardinal president affirms that the Church «will continue to indicate, severely if necessary, the common good and not personal interest, the defense of the inviolable rights of the person and of the community". I was surprised by the use of this noun in Cardinal Matteo Zuppi's communiqué, given that the Church in recent years has been everything, except strict with the various governments with mandatory traction PD. And so I thought, have you ever seen that also in via Aurelia n. 468 Has anyone thought of packing their bags and leaving the country as Chiara Ferragni proudly declared to the four winds, Fedez, Elodie, the Berte, Rula Jebreal, Roberto Saviano and many others still in view of Meloni's electoral victory? One might say, in both cases … God willing!

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Maybe it will be a mischievous thought but even within the Church the danger of parliamentarianism and narcissism is very strong, so as to obscure the primacy of the glorious Christ and it will certainly not be an unplanned severity to revive the fate of what appears lost. It takes seriousness to start afresh from Christ, not severity, it is necessary to invoke the Holy Spirit so that there may be a new Pentecost within the nation-states, this must be done by the Church.

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My very personal wish for the future premier italiano and his coalition is to start looking Christ in the eye and wondering like Governor Pilate: «What is truth?», if the truth will be seen in Jesus everything will be recovered, otherwise everything will be lost for our poor Italy which has been struggling for some time in a Europe which is floundering lost between hatred towards its own Christian roots and an exasperated and maddening secularism which has lost, along with the Christian ones, also the roots of democratic liberalism itself.

Laconi, 1October, 2022

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POLITICAL ELECTIONS 2022. THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE AND HAPPY. TO THE REDISCOVERY OF THE PERSON AND THE COMMON GOOD

The Common Good is tension to perfection reminds us that the political choice is always a choice in the making. The perfections, living conditions change and change, just like the parties: we need a heart and an attentive look at the signs of the times and at the neighbor who lives in a state of material poverty, moral and spiritual.

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Author:
Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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The year was 2005. As a young undergraduate student in philosophy at the state university Wisdom I had to make one of the first academic choices of my life. The curriculum of studies at the time required me to make a choice of specialization, then choose which specific subject I would have deepened within the philosophical branches.

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After careful reflection and prayer, I matured with God's help, the will to continue my studies in the specialization in political philosophy. This implied that the courses and research that I would support would also touch upon the fields of moral philosophy and law. The most recurring theme in those years among us young students and young philosophers was more or less always that: what is the relationship between the citizen and the institution? Between the whole and the part?

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After entering religious life this topic has continued to interest me. Especially because I have had good professors of moral theology and of the social doctrine of the Church who have been able to rigorously and systematically explain the thought of the Church on socio-political issues. I thank these teachers, many of whom are my brothers, because with their lessons today they allow me to express some reflections on the forthcoming political elections in which we all as citizens will have the opportunity to participate.

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The current political landscape, as it is known, is divided into three major parties, with the necessary internal nuances: Right, Left and Third Pole. So, to the nomenclature and division typical of Italian politics at the beginning of the twentieth century, we also find the insertion of a centrist pole. This is therefore the fact of reality what will be presented in the ballot paper that the Catholic voter will open and on which he will have the right to vote. Already the Father Ivano expressed himself in another very nice and profound article.

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We are therefore in a democratic system where we are all called to be responsible for the Common Good.

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About democracy, I always loved, read and meditated several times on the beautiful words of Annus, social encyclical which I advise all Catholics to read and meditate deeply:

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«The Church appreciates the system of democracy, as it ensures the participation of citizens in political choices and guarantees the governed the possibility of both electing and controlling their rulers, and to replace them peacefully, where this is appropriate. That, therefore, it cannot favor the formation of small managerial groups, who for particular interests or for ideological ends usurp the power of the State [1]».

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Now democracy, as Aristotle already teaches in the Policy, if badly managed, by free choice or incompetence, easily becomes demagoguery. I won't get too specific so as not to digress, but I also remember the studies on democracy, which can also easily assume dictatorial or totalitarian forms [2]. In practice what the Father Ariel analyzes in one of his works as "the phenomenon of democracy without freedom". What is the democratic foundation that then avoids these drifts? She explains it herself Annus:

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«[…] An authentic democracy is possible only in a rule of law and on the basis of a correct conception of the human person. It demands that the necessary conditions be met for the promotion of both individuals through education and formation in true ideals, and of the "subjectivity" of society through the creation of structures of participation and co-responsibility [3].»

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The first and true pillar of the company it is then the human person. Many books have been written on the concept of person, so much ink has been poured into as many reflections, on which perhaps a thousand pages would not be enough. Thus the person is the propulsive and intensive center of ideas, actions and values ​​for civil society and for the Church. So every democracy must defend it, promote it and educate it in civic and universal values. Every local Church must sanctify it, teach her correct doctrine and govern her on the way to holiness.

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The invitation to this rediscovery of man in its freedom and vocation to sociality it comes directly from God who created man in his own image and likeness. Like the One God, he is one in nature but threefold in person, thus by creating us, he in turn gave us the possibility of being people and of living according to freedom and relationship with one's neighbor. Jesus asks the apostles to be the light of the world. To lead every person to truth and goodness. This allows us to introduce the second major pillar of society and the state, according to the Church: the Common Good.

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We have seen that the document of St. John Paul II speaks of participation and co-responsibility in democratic choice. This is because it has a great Catholic tradition and reflection behind it on the theme of the Common Good, as the second great pillar of the Company. Each person is the center if he also knows how to decentralize. If he knows how to come out of himself to give himself to find himself in a collective communion that respects his individuality at the same time but also knows how to elevate it. Every person is relational and is called to social and ecclesial communion. She is called on a journey of truth and goodness. That is: the Lord invites us to the truth which makes us free to do good. Jesus then told those Jews that they had believed in him:

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“If you stick to my word, you will truly be my disciples; you will know the truth and the truth will set you free" [GV 8, 31-32].

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The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church clearly and concisely expresses the concept of the Common Good:

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"From dignity, unity and equality of all people derives above all the principle of the common good, to which every aspect of social life must refer to find full meaning. According to a first and broad meaning, by common good we mean "the set of conditions of social life that allow both communities and individual members, to reach one's perfection more fully and more quickly". The common good does not consist in the simple sum of the particular goods of each subject of the social body. Being of all and of each one, it is and remains common, because it is indivisible and because it is only possible to achieve it together, grow it and keep it, also in view of the future. How the moral action of the individual is realized in doing good, thus social action reaches its fullness by realizing the common good. The common good, indeed, can be understood as the social and community dimension of the moral good"[4].

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The Common Good as a set of conditions for the achievement of a greater perfection for the person. I think I have never found a more beautiful and more complete definition of the Common Good, in all the authors I studied and wrote about during my university years and even after. The Common Good as a tension towards improvement is in the first place, call for the enhancement and recognition of our neighbor ― with our work (basis of the Italian constitution), with respect for civic duties ― the neighbor who is a you that God has placed in our Italian nation and with which we must cohabit responsibly.

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In second place, the Common Good is tension to perfection reminds us that the political choice is always and in any case a choice in the making. The perfections, living conditions change and change, just like the parties: we need a heart and an attentive look at the signs of the times and at the neighbor who lives in a state of material poverty, moral and spiritual.

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there, so, the two poles that every Catholic must keep in mind when they present themselves at the polling station. And that every Catholic deputy or senator must always have in mind, if he is elected, and will present itself in Parliament.

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If perhaps this to the keyboard theologians and their supercazzole exhibited in the cathedrals of the social network it will sound like an abstract and beautiful speech in theory, but in practice absolutely impracticable, will once again prove how this generation of Digital Age she is perhaps one of the most ignorant ones in history but who at the same time believes herself to be the smartest ever. Because it's one of those digital generations that thinks of splitting up theory e praxis, but he knows nothing of either. That said, this is the call in conscience to the moral and social principles that should guide us. I have no intention of offering electoral and party suggestions. My task as a priest and theologian is therefore only to remember those core values ​​for all the faithful and encourage them to live them consistently. To imitate those who have embodied these values ​​in the past. Their actualization will also be made explicit by the circumstances from the principle of epic who will be able to suggest it to the readers.

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I conclude by asking you to pray for our Italy, because it also rediscovers the values ​​of secularism - against the prevailing secularism - and knows how to make faith dialogue, culture and theology, between Catholics and men distant from the faith always with the good will to serve the person and the Common Good.

Jesus sweet Jesus love (St. Caterina da Siena)

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Rome, 23 September 2022

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NOTE

[1] Annus, 46.

[2] I refer to those who want to deepen the necessary J. Talmon, At the origins of totalitarian democracy, The Mill, Bologna, 1967.

[3] Annus, 46.

[4] Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 164.

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