Letter to Pope Francis John Cavalcoli, passion and hope in the Church
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LETTER TO POPE JOHN FRANCIS Cavalcoli, PASSION AND HOPE IN THE CHURCH
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[…] We invoke and implore, so, Most Holy Father, his help and his rescue, in a difficult time in history, in order to achieve the final victory and attain salvation and eternal life.
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We propose below an excerpt from the book by Father John Cavalcoli, ON
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Most Holy Father.
You are Peter and on this rock Christ builds His Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it [CF. Mt 16,18].
the book of John Cavalcoli published by Chora Books
The Lord instructed Your Holiness to shepherd his flock, to you it handed over the keys of the kingdom of heaven, result that the use of these keys has celestial effects, and the acts of his teaching and his government teach us, explain and interpret us the Word and the Will of God, give us the grace of Christ, show us the way of truth, of virtue, of justice, of mercy, of freedom, of salvation, of holiness, peace and heavenly bliss; guide us to the kingdom of heaven, and defend us from the power of darkness.
The Lord Jesus Christ, which Your Holiness, Bishop of Rome, It is the Vicar, "Sweet Christ on earth", as it calls the Holy Senese, The sent her to announce his victory over the powers of evil: "Now is come salvation, the strength and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, since it is the accuser of our brothers, the one who accused them before our God day and night " [AP 12,10].
The Lord Jesus, Conqueror of sin and death, The donated, indeed, his Spirit of Truth, of Love, Mercy and Power, What with and through Whom Your Holiness get from God for us faithful, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, "Every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or shadow due to change " [GC 1,17].
To her, Most Holy Father, "Friend of the bridegroom" [GV 3,29], Christ entrusted his beloved Bride, the church, "Woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars " [AP 12,1]. This messianic Woman, as Your Holiness knows well, who gives birth to "a son, to rule all the nations with an iron scepter " [AP 12, 5], It is constantly threatened and attacked on this earth by the "red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and ten crowns "heads, signs of "all the kingdoms of the earth" [LC 4,5], the glory and the powers of this world.
Her, Most Holy Father, with the power of the Holy Spirit, helped by the Archangel Michael, by His angels and by the successors of the apostles, He has a divine mandate to defend the bride against the Dragon, preparing them in the wilderness of this life a "haven" [AP 12,6], where it can be fed to the end of earthly history.
Her, Most Holy Father, supreme dispenser of the sacraments of salvation, He gives us his children, with the Most Holy Eucharist, the "Blood of the Lamb" [AP 12,11], washed and fortified by what, together with you, and under his leadership, we can make our witness and win the Dragon. We invoke and implore, so, Most Holy Father, his help and his rescue, in a difficult time in history, in order to achieve the final victory and attain salvation and eternal life.
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Fist of Fury: “The Lamb and the Dragon”, book-length interview with Cardinal Joseph Zen
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FROM CHINA WITH FURY: "THE LAMB AND THE DRAGON", BOOK-INTERVIEW WITH CARDINAL JOSEPH ZEN
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We point out to readers’Patmos island a book-interview with Cardinal Joseph Zen edited by Aurelio Porfiri, bringing the text of the preface to the work by Giovanni Cavalcoli, ON.
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the book interview with Cardinal Joseph Zen edited by Aurelio Porfiri, of which we give an introduction by John Cavalcoli, ON
Aurelio Porfiri so his debut in his book: "I lived in China, Macao to be exact, for seven years. Seven years when I learned about a little more difficult reality of modern China and its major challenges and contradictions. If it has to do with China it will be very easy to come across at some point with the name of Cardinal Joseph Zen, currently bishop emeritus of Hong Kong.
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, leading figure of the Chinese Church, is certainly not the type that sends word. His "observations" direct to the way China is governed in our day annoy - and - the central government, so much so that the Cardinal is not allowed to re-enter the Mainland China, where it comes from. Many observers of Chinese things are divided on its name, between those who favor the attitude of confrontation and who criticizes the lack of diplomacy ".
The book is an interview with the Cardinal Zen, in which it is the nature of Chinese communism in his relations with the Church and the Vatican. The Chinese people are not materialistic, although Christians of various denominations continue to be a small minority. Cardinal highlights how the Chinese ruling class is essentially attached to a power that wants to dominate as much as possible on the population and on the Church itself.
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Cardinal Joseph Zen
Cardinal speaks very frankly: «Communism does not stand, which means at some time, when communism came to power, there is power! there is no longer Marxism: there is not, in China there is no Marxism. So those who have realized that there is no longer Marxism, that there is nothing in the place of Marxism,even begin to doubt, thinking, but there are those who are holding firm to the party, in power [He banged his fist on the table ed]: those wanting to use it as they! these here, Unfortunately, they command. Those guys command, threaten all: it's all a country of slaves! Maybe those who think well have occasion to mettercisi, maybe because they are not very capable in fighting power, I'm not too interested in getting money and then they become the weakest ".
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It does not allow the existence of the episcopate, but you want the subject in power. By the Holy See arrive directives to maintain a wrong idea submission online, in the opinion of Cardinal, that a mild and condescending behavior can foster dialogue and peace.
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Cardinal Joseph Zen
The Cardinal, instead, It is of the opinion that the bishops should speak out, because the rulers are taking advantage of the weak; but they are frightened and fall for those who show boldness and courage. Cardinal Agostino Casaroli has much prevaricated. Who has defeated communism was St. John Paul II. Benedict XVI was too submissive. The present Pope seems a decisionist, but in practice for three years he is leaving things as they are.
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The Cardinal then intends to solicit the Pope: "I am going to write a fiery letter to the Pope. I say: “Holiness, look, she must clarify his doubts soon, because time is not in our favor. she waits, He expects that the others have the good will to dialogue. It reached the end of its expected or not? Not yet known whether or not there is a sincere desire? I do not know yet after so much waiting? We can not wait anymore! Them if they take advantage! Now there is an apparent truce, But the are already ruining!”».
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Cardinal Joseph Zen during a protest action [see WHO]
Asked what should the Pope, He responds well: "Take the 24 May [World Day to pray for the church in China ed], when he asked everyone to pray for China, It took a phrase from Pope Benedict's letter that says nothing. Dice: because our people are elements of harmony in society. There are slaves, ferment of nothing, because they are slaves in society! Try saying: let's pray, they may all be faithful to the Church as our Lord has done, a, universal, Cattolica, with the Pope at the head ". (beats on the table!)…
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The government is afraid of the force, even now with all the strength I have! Where there is the large and strong clergy are afraid. They are afraid! However when one are weak, crush you! (He beats his fists on the table!) You think, when they manage to do to go against his conscience, have victory, because that man has lost dignity: now he can not lift his head, finished, He must always obey now! There the bishops are treated as objects ".
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Asked if he feels spied: "Spied yes, but threatened no. I say all I want to say, even in the toughest manner ".
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The Bishop of Shanghai, S. AND. Mons. Ma Daqin, He was put under house arrest by the Communist Party in the Sheshan Seminary since July 2012, on the day of his episcopal consecration [see WHO].
When asked what he plans for the future: "No one can be a prophet today: in China everything is unpredictable. But it is important that we work for the success of the well and do not help the other party to perpetuate this system that is truly evil. We must work to change and to maintain the good that there is still to counter the evil that is being developed: This is in China, like here. In China, we encourage you to sit tight on the principles of our Church, of our faith and in fact when we join, also it manages. And I have seen in some dioceses when they are united, the government does not dare ".
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It is not easy to judge, for a layman like me, on what may be the best choice, if the hard line or the soft and much less can we know what will decide the Pope. But here we are faced with two competent persons: Professor Porfiry and Cardinal Zen, so I would be led to believe that a hard line can be more effective. Anyhow, for us Christians, one thing is certain: that the papacy for decades insistently calls for a new evangelization and that the Chinese are called to enter into the kingdom of God.
[text taken from the preface of John Cavalcoli, ON]
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– GIUSEPPE SIRI
The awareness of a close relationship between dogma and liturgy led the Popes from the early decades of the twentieth century to the present day have made the necessary updates in the liturgy: think of the Venerable Pius XII, who restored the rites of Holy Week; St John XXIII, that he inserted the memory of St. Joseph in the Roman Canon; to Paul VI, which provided the implementation of the new pastoral directives issued by the Vatican with the Constitution on the Liturgy Holy Council; Lastly Benedict XVI, which expanded the scope of discretion in the use of The old rite of the Mass. Even among the numerous residential bishops were the ones who set their pastoral work to ensure compliance with the diocese's liturgical norms, both traditional and new, wishing that the proper knowledge and personal assimilation of the revealed mysteries served to increase in the faithful a spirit of worship and fruitful participation in the liturgy Community. Among these bishops, a prominent place must be recognized Giuseppe Siri, publicly praised, for this, by St. John Paul II's pastoral visit to Genoa in September 1985. The theological criteria that guided his pastoral action can be a valuable training aid to practice today need "discernment of spirits", that is, to properly interpret the "signs of the times" in the light of Revelation. This is the reason why the curator has collected here some of his most important doctrinal and disciplinary actions; they range from 1955 al 1972 and are intended to animate with a constantly updated catechetical liturgical life of the people of God in his beloved diocese of Genoa.
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– Luigino ZARMATI
The Presentation, the director of the series, Antonio Livi writes: "Luigino Zarmati addressed in this book, the real problem of our age, the redemption of consciousness ideologies - apparently opposed to each other, but actually shared the same false premises epistemological - of rationalism and fideism , thus arriving at highlighting, as stated already the subtitle of his book, that belief in the necessary testimony of others and in the end faith in God who reveals Himself is the largest resource of what the man has to be fulfilled as a person, that is, how to be smart, free and responsible, endowed with the ability to profitably put in relation with the natural world and human society to understand the meaning of his life and wisely manage their own
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MARCO BRACCHI and JOHN COVINO: What epistemological
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GIUSEPPE BRIENZA, The theology under the "dictatorship of relativism"
Exposure of the thesis LIVI
FRANCIS PISTOIA, UNo example of intellectual charity
Fabrizio Renzi, The issue of epistemological instances
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ALEXANDER BABY, Theology as a "rigorous science"
Massimiliano THE BIG, Between metaphysics and theology fantasy
Seraphim LANZETTA, A contribution to substantiation
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CHRISTIAN FERRARO, The premise of epistemic
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DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE
PIERO Vassallo, The science of faith and philosophical
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DARIO BAGS, "True and false theology". A counterpoint
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NICOLA BUX, The status of theology, "Periphery" in which
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JOHN Cavalcoli, Why is it necessary for a return to
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MARCO BRACCHI and JOHN COVINO, The theology through
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ANTONIO Livi, Some clarification, in dialogue with
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– GIUSEPPE BRIENZA
Exemplary figure of the shepherd who always work for the common good and the salvation of souls, Pietro
Fathy (1916-2004), mentioned here on the tenth anniversary of his death (2004), seems to correspond to the vision of the bishop who, second Pope francesco, the Church "wants to be": determined to make choices free from 'influences of stables, cliques or hegemonies ", in imitation of those who live holy bishops as "sowers humble and confident of the truth" (cf. Address to the Congregation for Bishops, 27 February 2014). Mons. Fiordelli has worked to bring Meadow, of which he was pastor for 37 year old, to the full practice of the Christian life. Actively involved in all areas of society, and is done so staunch defender of life and family, beginning with the indispensable restoration of the dignity of marriage and the resistance to the legalization of abortion. Heedless of those who oppose dell'intollerazna Christian social teaching, Fiordelli was one of the most courageous advocates of the social values of the family. A's and deve, The Other Brother, the theological definition of the family as the "domestic Church", implemented by the Second Vatican Council (costituzone cf. Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic, n. 11) and now commonly used in the pastoral care of the family. The first part of the book is devoted to a historical perspective of the life and activity of the ecclesiastical Fiordelli, especially at the head of the Bishops' Committee for the Family of the CEI (Today the Episcopal Commission for Family and Life). The second part, instead, examines its production journalism, showing how the proposals for social reform have been made by this bishop really farsighted and courageous. Today, a religious and social background even more degenerate than that in which he was called to work Fiordelli, it is hoped that his example will be followed by the entire Italian epicopato, giving up behaviors that seem dictated dictated more by fear than by virtue of prudence.
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The defense of the family's social
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The defense of the family's social, a book written by Giuseppe Brienza (in the photo on the left) with a foreword 
Archbishop of Ferrara, Mons. Luigi Negri (in the lower right) and afterword by Mons. Antonio Love, that once again the attention of all the pastoral workers in Italy the example of the battle led by the Bishop of Prato, Mons. Peter Fiordelli, to emphasize the human and religious values of the family, against the civil legislation that gradually - first with divorce, then with abortion, then with the homosexual marriage and euthanasia — go deleting from the common principles of consciousness natural moral law, that the gospel n
on repealing but strengthens and elevates the supernatural order.
I'm, these, topics of perennial relevance but now need to be dealt with theological seriousness and sense of pastoral responsibility, taking into account the public discussions that preceded, accompanied and followed the work of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, and that will intensify even more in view than the ordinary next year.
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