CULTURE AND homosexual FETISH OF HOMOPHOBIA

They do not argue on other people's sexual tastes or the right of adults to exercise them freely and consenting way, but no one can force myself sodomy by enforcing legislation as a model and as a lifestyle, protecting all with another law - the so-called law fetish of homophobia - that if Misconceived threatens to severely restrict the right to exercise the people's freedom of thought, speech and expression.

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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Dear Father Ariel,

I am perplexed his latest article [see WHO], even if I can not make a judgment, because I recognize many underlying reasons. For this I ask: for months optimally treated theological issues, the case was going to get into political issues as well? Mine is only one question to understand, and I hope in his clarification. Treats also to Father Giovanni Cavalcoli of which I remember homilies memorable and touching confessions, when he was here in town with us in the convent of San Domenico.

Giovanni Cantargianni, Bologna

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abortion is not only a right but a right even “sacrosanct“

Through a question posed by a reader answer also to other analogues and received by the editorial staff of 'Patmos Island, starting again with an example: In the 1978, when I had 14 year old, at the end of Sunday Mass with my father, my mother and my grandmother in one of the church halls in which a notary collected the signatures of the Catholic faithful to be presented against the referendum on abortion promoted by the Radical Party with the support of other parties more or less hidden behind these ram heads. Law then ratified by politicians and ministers Democrats, who were careful to resign from their government posts, not being able to, come “Catholics”, for serious matters of conscience, put their signatures on that text, Giulio Andreotti ahead of all, who was then head of government, as say in retrospect Renato Farina, that time seems to act almost as postulator for his cause of beatification [see WHO].

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Emma Bonino speech on a stage against “the interference” of the Catholic Church in State affairs, while Marco Pannella and another militant flaunt sign: no to the Vatican no to Taliban

Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino his disciple - that today are exploiting the Augusta person of the Supreme Pontiff in a vain attempt to pull water to their mill - they continue to talk about the interference of Catholics in politics and "Mafia" Vatican equating our bishops to the Taliban, whenever they dared to talk about life, bioethics and values ​​linked not only to Catholic morality, But the natural law. Topics on which there is a huge literature written, filmic and photographic, made mostly of free offenses committed against the Catholic world by Pannella, by Bonino reflexively, and followed by their faithful followers [see WHO].

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Request: before that referendum 1978, Catholics interfered on politics or, as citizens of the Italian Republic with full rights and duties, instead they exercised their right guaranteed by the Constitution?

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S. AND. Mons. Domenico Sigalini, Bishop of the Diocese of Palestrina suburbicarian

Days ago, S. AND. Mons. Domenico Sigalini, Bishop of Palestrina, It was made as the saying Black said the program Announo on La7 network [full-length episode WHO]. What happened to the fact that the prelate prenestino is scarce in sagacity and dialectical. And before the question of the intelligent and sympathetic homosexual intellectual Aldo Busi - that of sagacity and dialectics has to sell - which he addressed to the Bishop the unfortunate dispute that our task would be to think of our sacristies, the prelate prenestino remained speechless, exhibiting in direct his face framed, not by chance in the foreground, printed with a bewildered expression.

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Sister Giuliana Galli, commentator at the program A clean sweep conducted by Gad Lerner, at which no answer answering questions addressed to her cryptic on the Vatican bank [see WHO]

Given that the beasts of information and of War machines as the organizers of that program, They would look from inviting one of those leader of the Catholic world that smallish em down. Here then is that to achieve the purpose of including the Church without giving arguments at the same time a caricatured image, We just have to ask the nun to good blood volume the program of the equally treacherous Gad Lerner, to get mixed up in matters beyond its logical and theological ability to debate, not to mention the economic and banking. Or inviting the bishop prenestino, that when it's bad figures is even nice to me, if the price of that sympathy was not quite so high, seen how this can translate into disrepute for the entire Italian Church, of which I am part, not only as a faithful, but as a devoted priest, therefore free before to similar facts manifest discomfort and disappointment, if anything, even with a touch of irony, never with disrespect, especially in regards to a bishop.

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the Italian intellectual Aldo Busi to Announo program on La7 network

I who am not bishop of Palestrina and that just are not a bishop at all - apart from the titular see of Laodicea Combusta that I was assigned to the 1st of April, by way of joke [see WHO, WHO, WHO] - the good Busi I first took a lesson of secularism and following the Constitutional Law, about where you can not afford in any way, in a democratic republic, to relegate in the sacristy, then to remove the word to the legitimate citizens of this country - these are the bishops - such as having all the rights and duties deriving from the right of the commonwealth [right of citizenship], including the right to think, speech and expression, in addition to voting rights. Then I remembered the organizers of the program as many times as, submissive kneeling with a microphone in hand, Instead they listened unflinchingly people who do not belong to our country, who are not citizens, but that even in spite, sometimes even arrogant insolence, They challenged by our television networks our traditions, our laws and the norms established by various governments on various issues, wild immigration included; or it holds forth about the intolerable discomfort that caused them the vision of a crucifix in a public place. And we all, as perfect Obtuse, silent and dumb in front of people from dictatorial regimes ruled by religious theocracies which they themselves approved and defended even in our house, But unless mention on our TV had to respect another's religious sensibilities; the same “religious sensibilities” in whose name in their countries of origin is still cut the throats and heads to Christians, women and children included.

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Alba Parietti: when a swollen mouth like a beach raft put on the throne of opinion leaders emerge pearls of foolishness

Not to say that I would have responded to Alba Parietti, separated from the upper throne reserved to you in the studio has run even improvised largitrice ethics and morals. First of all, I would have remembered that Italians always remember in the prime of his life as a certain beauty woman, that in the course of its almost thirty years of television and film spent demonstrated in any way can not sing, not to know how to dance and not knowing how to play; Finally, going from light programs on the role of "enlightened" commentator. Having clarified all I tried common union and dialogue points with Mrs., reminding in this regard that she, like me, perhaps he had made "career" on his knees, with the difference that I, "career", I made it on my knees to pray. And what course, not to dispense lashes, but simply because a Bishop, that at that critical moment the public is not only himself but the dignity of the entire College of Bishops, neither can nor should be bacchettare by a woman without art or talent that ultra fifty vague today by a plastic surgeon to another. All in the full and legitimate exercise of his unquestionable freedom that we are pleased necessary to protect; But not to the point of unquestionable bacchettare a bishop like that, as Maddalena, before Jesus, He appeared to be accepted and forgiven, not to scold him with an air of haughty, if anything, bringing as an example and model of life Giuda Iscariota.

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the deceased to Andrea Gallo gay pride, to his left the disguised Guadango said Vladimir Luxuria, former MP of the Communist Refoundation, to his right the former president of’Arcigay, Franco Grillini, Parliament also of post-communist Left

The Lady Parietti has indeed elevated to supreme model Communist Genoese priest Andrea Gallo [see WHO], who in his self and his self-centeredness pathogen did not hesitate to mock and “to betray” Repeatedly the doctrine and the Magisterium of the Church [see WHO, WHO, WHO] up to state publicly that they have personally accompanied prostitutes to clinic for an abortion [see WHO], as well as having established a van that night he traveled to Genoa to deploy to prostitutes, well as hot drinks, condoms [WHO]. Perhaps it is too much to expect from the Bishop of Palestrina, as such responsible to the government of the priests of his particular Church, a quick answer: to clarify that a priest like this is anything but a Christian and priestly life model; so much so that the prelate prenestino moved to take the unprecedented lesson from a surgically inflated lips like a sea boat and in silence in front of millions of Italian Catholics, including young people of Catholic Action, of which it was a national ecclesiastical assistant.

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the young Matteo who from the studies of Announo harshly he attacked the Bishop Domenico Sigalini

What then say the young activist homosexual that wild-eyed attacked several times the bishop prenestino, finally telling him that he did not accept to be told what is sexuality, or how to live, from one that sexuality does not live and no one has ever lived [see full movie, WHO]. Well I do not tell you what I would have given to have been there at that time instead dell'improvvido prelate, turn to feel that one dispute. First of all, that way the arrogant and aggressive, with a lot of use of "you" to a prelate thank God nearly seventy-five, I replied that I was, not to take lessons from him about sexuality, that his sexuality was living freely and legitimately fours, I then informed him that the priest had become a 40 year old, after many vicissitudes, during which, one of the things that was not lacking in experience of my life had been in-depth knowledge of human sexuality, although I never lived on all fours, in days gone. All this with the result that I would end up procure sympathy even of those who did not think like me, which they would finish by saying: "Well did he mouthful, after that youngster She attacked him disrespectfully, Why, anyhow, a twenty year old is not directed to an ultra septuagenarian like that, either in public or in private ". But on the other hand, both the Holy See as a universal institution, both the Italian Episcopal Conference, which also have press offices, secretariats for social communications, and so on, appear to continue to place within these structures the most damaging friends of friends of that or the other monsignorotto, always to return to the complaints of my previous article in which I referred to our state of mediocrity, within which the “mezze figure” reproduce the figures even more “mezze” of them; and these are the results of our public “perverse” rated selection now the total decline.

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S. AND. Mons. Domenico Sigalini to The Barbarian Invasions, program by topics, run public, It could lead to debate regarding the prudent opportunities of participation of a bishop

If the Holy See or the C.E.I. they suggested to S.It is. Mons. Domenico Sigalini to escape in the future the temptation to go to other such programs with results described just now, instead of going to a monastery of Carthusian monks to make a spiritual retreat, They will avoid many hardships and suffering to many Catholics, that the exploits of many ecclesiastics have too ashamed to suffer,.

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S. AND. Mons. Domenico Sigalini all'agguerrito program A clean sweep where he could not answer several questions-trap addressed to him on “scandals” IOR

In that program that could be interesting, it would be possible to speak of the vision that Catholic morality has life, Family and children, But with other settings and interlocutors; but mostly it clear that if bishops, priests and lay Catholics involved dealing with certain issues, They do not to stray out of their sacristies, or to detach from the clouds of their teaching, attached to which some are convinced that to save the people of God will be metaphysics and epistemology; but simply because it is our duty to exercise a right recognized also last more or less real refugees, more or less truly escaped persecution, that just touched the sacred soil of Lampedusa can say and do whatever they want and how they want better.

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S.S. Leone XIII, recognized as the Father of the Social Doctrine of the Church

The expression of the bishop or the priest on certain issues It must not be purely political and aimed at political, but ethics, to Catholic morality and the proclamation of the Gospel. Our policy must not be aimed at policy, But the social doctrine of the Church; and this must be our approach, built on the deposit of faith and theology from the best supported by the best of philosophy, of metaphysics and so common that it can be such only if based on reality.

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What I however so severely challenged in my previous article to certain individuals or Catholic associations, up to use the term "cathofascists”, it is just the opposite: use ethical issues and moral to seek political brawl, so using as a pretext the Church and its message of redemption and salvation to vent their being political, given that several of the subjects that I have been harshly critical in their lives: or aspiring politicians, or non-political. Request: is the case that they "realize" or "sfoghino" certain their frustrations, often resulting from their goals not achieved, through the Church and the use pretext of issues related to morality and family?

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famous and sad images of a newborn just born from a “uterus for rent” and delivered to a gay couple from “surrogate” that bare

I think I have summarized my preoccupation in a clear way, regarding these Catholics so insulted attack homosexuals shouting "inverted, pederasty, Sodomites”, or mocking the coup “sodomitic" O "pederastic”, fearing "the invertitismo in power" and so on, explaining to them that in this socio-historical moment to me mostly affect those who are outside the Church or distant from it. I'm interested not intelligent and reasonable people of the stature of Aldo Busi, but the young and unreasonable that the study La7, if they could, They would take to blows Bishop prenestino, just look at the video of that episode, because what is written in their eyes bright with contempt and aggression. And as is well known, and well known with the square no reasoning, because it is bad by nature. Now, if some piazzisti should take certain "expression" of a certain Catholic world as a natural manifestation of thinking, feel and act of the Catholic Church, sooner or later, at the exit of the churches, we who have nothing to do with such aggressive tones look toward a suscettibilissimo world as complex and varied gay world, We'd taken a stick, while the leaders of incitement to certain reactions would be locked inside their houses Olgiata, Castelli Romani or in their super-penthouse in the Parioli district to continue to say to each other: As Catholics we are ... what we really traditional, all while Rome burns. Or are segregated in their academic offices to be said and sung to each other: they are metaphysical, how much I am an epistemologist, Amerio as they are ...

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the women I attack and insolentiscono in the name of “no to homophobia“, Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, Primate of the Catholic Church in Belgium, during one of his lectures

I have never disrespected historians Roberto de Mattei Piero Vassallo, of which I do not share certain positions and which remain for me the model gentlemen. In the exercise of my freedom I feel, however, to say that in contrast to de Mattei who lectures on potential schisms more or less inevitable [see WHO], I believe that at this time we risk something worse, of those schisms that exist in the Church tacitly half a century, though never been formalized; we risk being bludgeoned out of these Churches "pederasty, reversed and sodomites”, many of them hatch a sense of innate hatred of all that is Catholic, just think of the sacrilegious desecration put up almost every practice gay pride against the Catholic Church. Entities that are not to be offered as an excuse insults unnecessary, non-productive and not in the spirit of Christian charity.

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occult elites power are using lobby gay to bribe people and drag them to the irreversible human and moral decay

But we can not even give in to attempts political impositions at all “Liberals” e “democratic”, censurandoci car for the cowardly fear of angering the powerful gay lobbyists, because such with all the grace of the case and with no harm, sodomy for us, especially that flaunted with pride, It makes this sin - which can be very serious if knowingly committed -, worse still what in itself and by itself is [on the specific topic of the article to see Father Giovanni Cavalcoli, WHO].

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Jeremiah Brent and her boyfriend, new star campaign spring-summer Of Banana republic

They do not argue on other people's sexual tastes or the right of adults to exercise them freely and consenting way, but no one can force myself sodomy by enforcing legislation as a model and lifestyle, protecting all with another law - the so-called law fetish of homophobia - that if Misconceived likely to affect other people's right to exercise freedom of thought, speech and expression. And we do not even enter the complex issue of data babies up for adoption to homosexual couples or derived from them by “wombs for rent” and genetic manipulation, because this topic is of such an extraordinary gravity that must be treated separately.

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It is not science fiction, It is a real risk …

If the legislature not pay attention, in which case we priests can run a high risk of being arrested at the end of the Mass to have read and preached a Letter of St. Paolo Apostolo:

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"Make no mistake, because neither immoral, né idolatry, né adultery, ne prostitutes, born sodomiti […] they will inherit the kingdom of God " [cf. The Cor. 6,9-10].

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These were the themes which should have dealt with the Bishop of Palestrina or on which he would have had to drag the topic during the course of the program to which I referred earlier, taking as a model example of Aldo Busi that, As soon as the parties have agreed on a tangent, He has been clarified: "I came here to talk about the responsibility of the Church on the spread of homophobia, otherwise I have no reason to stay; and if you continue on other issues I take and I leave '. And in the meantime, the prelate prelate, followed silenced; and when he spoke, It was worse than when he was silent.

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other anti-Catholic demonstration

I even though I tried to work to the best of my ability, also inviting to have respect for these human beings who have a different perception of our sexuality and that they live in a way that for us is out wrong doubt, as well as harmful if imposed as a model by enforcing legislation, unfortunately I will be there to take the beatings, at the right moment, while perhaps, the alabardieri who dream time “glorious” who were and the harem of aspiring countess will certainly be protected in some living room to discuss the Old Order posted.

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another activist broke into Cologne Cathedral jumping on the altar during the celebration of Christmas Mass, written on his body I’m God (I am God)

All these things I say today, 15 June 2015, with pastoral common sense and perhaps with a little prophetic touch, in the certainty that tomorrow, when unfortunately what will happen in these lines I anticipated, none of the people involved, and least of all our ecclesiastical authorities will unfortunately human and Christian humility to say or admit: Unfortunately, you were right.

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These reasons for which I felt I should write my previous article in very harsh tones, in conscious awareness of how serious set the fires and then escape, leaving others to run all the risks involved before the fire that blazes and the fire exits blocked. But above all, I wrote it because I am sure that the people I slapped understand the seriousness of the situation we are experiencing, and perhaps will change attitude, because they are intelligent people, good, suffering and lost as we are more or less everyone in this socio-historical moment of extraordinary delicacy; and they are also devout Catholics, although for provocation, only for provocation and to stimulate them with it to the reflection, I questioned their catholicity.

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a real danger from which we can not and we should not feel either immune or distant

Purpose and Mission Fathers of 'Patmos Island It is to support our readers and Catholic faithful writings of sound doctrine, spreading and explaining the Church's Magisterium. This can not, however, prevent us from entering - sometimes even with my vehemence "effective"? - on very sensitive issues, Why, if anything, some they had not understood, there have long been powerful and aggressive secularist forces that the wrong pretext intended forms of "respect", "tolerance" and protection of "diversity", They aim in concrete facts to make outlawed Christianity. It is a problem of such extraordinary delicacy, with all the risks it may pose to the life of the Church and the quiet confidence of his faithful, It is not resolved squealing “Sodomites, pederasty, reversed” … all in the days when our eternal Rome, bathed in the blood of the martyrs, from the blood of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, seat of the Vicar of Christ, It was scarred for the umpteenth time since the new edition of Sodom&Gomorrah 2015, that is to say the gay pride, whose ostentatious insults and provocations on the part of a boys disguised army “bitches in heat“, nobody needs, away from their cause. But on the other hand, narcissism and homosexuality are the two sides of the same coin, which lie - as would the psychologist Roberto Marchesini - behind the "fetish “homosexual” homophobia ' [Article R. Marchesini, see WHO].

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flee to the culture of death …

It is therefore right in this case the Director of Levied Christian, that with quiet bitterness invited to the prayer of reparation for the outrage yet another went by this culture of death to our eternal Rome, cradle of Christianity [see WHO]. Heart we unite ourselves in prayer so that the maternal hand of the Blessed Vergine Maria followed to hold the arm of her Divine Son and to save us from the wrath. Because "the Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and great in » [cf, Shall 102,8]. But be “slow to anger” It does not mean being free; It means precisely to be “slow”, before reaching to exercise, because even His wrath is a great gift of mercy, but also a great medicine to those who, after making himself God, think you can easily subvert the natural order of Creation. It is the problem of ever: the Superbia, the favorite sin of Satan from all sins, that for different roads leading to the destruction before, Then the soul eternal damnation.

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— The deadly sins: pride as a denial of the truth -

The APOLOGY OF PRIDE

Among the pantheist who believes he is the’the and the absolute lunatic who thinks he's Napoleon, the difference is that some academics believe the first and consider him a genius, while the second considering compassionano, quite rightly, in need of care. But they do not realize that the fundamental driving force of the attitude of both is the same: a subtle arrogance, intelligent and refined, nourished by long philosophical and theological studies in the university professor or theologian, perfect Pharisee; and a crude pride, crass and ridiculous in the second.

Author
John Cavalcoli OP

Everyone who does evil, He hates the light
neither cometh to the light
because his works should be exposed [GV 3,20]

No one can lay a foundation
other than what is already there
[The Cor 3,11]

THE QUESTION OF PRIDE

depiction of the Pride in a Byzantine mosaic

Pride is already known at the wise pagans, which they have represented the myth of Narcissus, Icarus, Prometheus and Titans. In Greek literature there are many people proud, bullies and bullies regarded with admiration, like some Homeric heroes. The pride we say in greek also hyperephania, compound word that implies the idea of ​​showing more than what it really is. It corresponds to the Latin pride. In both cases the meaning of the term is ambiguous: It can mean yes vice, but it can also have a positive way of overcoming oneself, magnificence, noble feel, pride, thing that makes us understand how the pagan world did not have clear ideas on such an important point of human.

It took the wisdom Jewish-Christian to give pride significance negative, related to disobedience to God, opposing it to humility and distinguishing it from the legitimate aspiration of man to overcome their limitatezze, the size and rise to God. This is not a trend to the supernatural, which by that very fact it would cancel, but simply a need for perfection. Jesus in the Gospel of Mark [7,22] condemns in no uncertain terms the pride (hyperephania). With everything Greece, Aristotle and Antigone, also he left us wonderful examples of humility, that is the remedy for pride, reminding us how our thinking must be subjected to real - the famous Aristotelian realism - and our will must humbly accept the natural moral law unwritten, but printed in the consciousness.

Pride in Greece is also called hubris, expression meaning a thinking that goes beyond the limits of what is permissible, what in the etymological sense is between-cotanza, ie the trans-cogitate, a self-consciousness that goes beyond what is reasonable to think of himself. Pride has so substantial and fundamental reference to’I namely self-consciousness, the consciousness of their own intelligence and their own spiritual dignity.

THE ESSENCE OF PRIDE

pride as a refusal to submit to the truth

Pride is essentially and originally the refusal to submit to the truth, the truth about himself and about God. This is clear from the biblical story of original sin. Although it may seem strange for a creature as man, made to find truth in his happiness, remain true to love the words of Christ: "Men loved darkness rather than the light" [GV 3,19]. And the cause of it is nothing more than pride, sad legacy of original sin. It is therefore a sin of thought of themselves; It is an account of himself and his own dignity or grandeur, that is not within the limits of truth and justice, It is not regulated by the real or from being, It does not recognize the limits of their creaturely essence, but it means that the subject has of itself a consideration and a valuation higher than what he actually is. It is what is called presumption.

… word of a famous star adept of the sect of Scientology!

Hardly the contemporary liberal culture He understands and accepts that there may be a thinking guilty and reprehensible, that it may sin in thought, convinced that thinking like that can create true as he pleases, It intoxicated as it is a false freedom of thought, ignoring that thought is really free and healthy, when he submits to the objective truth and to external reality, independent from the ego or thinking, created by God and not by man. Pride is a form of self-deception with which then the proud seek to deceive and captivate others he believes them to be doing what he, in his delirium, imagine being. Pride produces so bragging and boasting,, Typical of those who always need to have someone around to his service, to be the center of attention, to speak with pride to others even without challenge, of its exceptional qualities and their big business, superior to those of many other.

arrogance and lack of understanding of the real data

Among the pantheist who believes he is the’the absolute and the madman who thinks he's Napoleon, the difference is that some academics believe the first and consider him a genius, while the second considering compassionano, rightly, a subject in need of care. But they do not realize that the key driver of the attitude of both is the same: a subtle arrogance, intelligent and refined, nourished by long philosophical and theological studies, the theologian or the university teacher, perfect Pharisee; and a crude pride, crass and ridiculous in the second. But perhaps more would need treatment first, remedying its pride with a sincere repentance and the exercise of humility, It does reach that true greatness, that pride promises so fallacious.

intellectual pride

Pride is often the habit of intellectuals and educated people, refined, check, courtly, intellectually equipped, Record title holders. But precisely here lies the danger and the problem: that they, in the last analysis and in a special way, fall into that category of abomination 'rich', of which Christ speaks, selfish and the exploiters, ambitious and greedy and end the wicked and candidates to damnation. It seriously does not use the aid to the poor their material wealth; but it is even more serious advocating pride, that is wasting its spiritual and stimulates souls to rebel against God and go to hell.

THE SIN OF PRIDE

Tarquinius Superbus

But as the superb tricks? How does? How so? By what way? Under such pretexts? With such sophistry and cunning? The superb leverages our innate need for greatness and self-assertion, for example, the certainty of truth and security to do well. All things and worthy in themselves and most lawful, gifts and commands that come from God. Deceives the superb giving us to understand the various ways in which our I or humanity worth and can much more than at first, empirically it appears. It strives to show that we are not subject to any, but that we source and rule ourselves.

the superb and others

This is not to recognize a reality outside of us and independent of us, but are we to put the real and ourselves with our thoughts and our will, Since the real is nothing but our thinking: being is being thought, It is perceived to be. There is no principle or foundation of knowledge and action objective and reliable, one for all; but each of us is free to place the principle that prefers.

To the proud the world is not a world unto itself, which is to be explained by a cause other than ourselves. The world is our world, It is what we think and we want to be world. The world is a result of our thinking and our action. This is not the simple fact that we know what we do, according to the famous motto of Giambattista Vico, It is very true, but the impious claim of its own very being.

natural accessory of pride: blinders

Undoubtedly, petty people, the limited objectives, incapable of intellectual abstractions, living hand to mouth in the midst of so much trouble or banality or immersed in carnal vices, with a harsh reality, I am somehow protected from believing the delusions of grandeur and the mad dreams of the proud, that promise to be aware of being God or the Absolute, which might not even believe, reach an absolute knowledge or a boundless freedom and omnipotence, that natural men are not interested nor judges possible, contenting, to use a phrase of Sartre, Of terrestrial foods. These people undoubtedly sin, but not so serious and responsible as the proud, and for the matter of the sin of the proud, that touches more closely the spiritual life and the eternal destiny of man, and the fact that the sin of pride leads to clarity of conscience, a calculating cunning and a free will, that there are so perfectly in carnal sins, which, though they may be serious, They are usually the most effect of weakness or push passionate than malice, since they often have their origins in an occasional bad upbringing, morally degraded environments, in situations of poverty or abandonment, or with a background calibrated or mentally deficient.

scene from the opera theater “The intellectuals” Moliere

The pride, most prevalent in educated circles and in the upper classes, proud of their quality, social prestige and wealth, civil and ecclesiastical, It can make use of refined cultural and ideological pretexts covers, Whether with great skill from different philosophies and religions, in particular those traditions Gnostic-idealistic-pantheistic, possibly occult or esoteric, and in the West beginning with Parmenides and India with Vedanta. L’I the illusion of being the appearance or avatar O “moment” sensitive of the Absolute, so that in the end does not have to be accountable to no one for its actions, all is allowed and would arrive at the absolute moral perversion, it normally is not retained in the common rules of civil coexistence and ecclesial, certainly not from personal conviction, but for sheer convenience, that allowed him to reach leading positions and go for wise and respectable.

Jesus and the washing of the feet

The advent of Christianity, heir of the Old Testament wisdom, so aware of man's creaturely, with humility preaching, his spirit of penance and conversion, his characteristic realism and epistemological cult of obedience to God, It generates an even tougher fight against the spirit of pride, whose origins date back to Adam's sin. Fundamental becomes Christ's example, that although he was Son, he humbled himself the humiliation of the cross and commands us: "Learn from me, I am meek and humble of heart " [Mt 11,29]. Christianity is indeed a great exaltation of man called in Christ to be the son of God, partaker of the divine life, but as long to subside and to humble themselves before God and the same Brothers, which ask for forgiveness and mercy.

other side of pride: the ipocrisia

To impiety, the rejection of the transcendent and honor God, the self-deification, the magic and rebellion to God, Christianity replaces the humble trust, the faithful listen to the Word of God and of the ecclesial community, the devotion, the adoration, praise and contemplation. The arrogance of neighbor, the thirst for domination, to selfishness, all'egocentrismo, the exploitation of others, the hypocrisy, arrogance, below albagia, to arrogance, oppression of the weak, contempt or offensive mockery of others, pride unforgiving, the touchiness, to impatience, the stubbornness, to revenge, all'ingordigia, hateful properties and consequences of pride in relationships with others, Christian ethics replaces humility, meekness, sweetness, the indulgence, mercy, the friendliness, the gratitude, the spirit of sacrifice, generous dedication, the spirit of service, availability, the docilità, sociability, solidarity, the openness and simplicity of heart, selfless love.

pride is first of all a thought

The superb intentionally conceives thoughts they do appear plausible pride or incite pride under specious pretexts, to cover or justify their actions, hiding evil thinking and makes. But it is said that anyone who understands those thoughts, especially if you learn them from other, or it was also the same author, is a superb and therefore has fault. It can happen, indeed, that one conceives them without realizing the seriousness of what he thinks or its consequences, You remain deceived or believe they have made a great discovery for the good of humanity. In that case, his thoughts are objectively harmful and dangerous, but whoever makes them, or greets them in good faith remains innocent.

Even in the saints or worthy men as for example a Sant'Anselmo, a Duns Scotus, one Eckhart, a Cusano, one Suarez, a Rosmini exist principles or doctrines, especially if taken to the extreme, They are seriously wrong; but this does not prevent that the distinguished authors remain morally irreproachable. Sin those who welcome these thoughts with malice, to satisfy their pride or their passions. The rest, It is not at all certain that all the errors in order to assist the pride, for there are also six other deadly sins, waiting to have their apologists.

DEACADENZA the ideal HUMILITY AND RETURN OF THE PRIDE

Niccolo Machiavelli and the ancient pagan cult of the ruler

Over the centuries the Christian ideal of human greatness It founded on humility is not always properly understood. After signs of emanatistic theology of Scotus Eriugena in the ninth century, beginning in the fourteenth century German mystic, assimilation to Christ has been confused in Meister Eckhart with an impossible identification with Christ, losing sight of the limits of human nature; and then especially from the Italian Renaissance, with its characteristic anthropocentrism inspired hermeticism of Marsilio Ficino, a misinterpretation of Christocentrism, He has begun to peep the ancient pagan cult of the individual ruler with Machiavelli and magic with Pico della Mirandola and later Giordano Bruno. Rises a Christianity that instead of inciting to humility, under the pretext of human dignity redeemed in Christ, It begins in practice to enhance the pride and to incite him to pride, naturally with all possible expedients, It is well known the clear opposition to this vice to the Christian virtues.

Nietzsche and the will to power

This happened at the beginning, with Humanism Italian, timidly and with great circumspection; but later in the following centuries in an ever more open, until reaching, since the eighteenth century, to consider the Christian doctrine of humility as an enemy of man. The culmination of this process will be achieved by Nietzsche, the late nineteenth century, with its open exaltation of “will to power” in fierce polemics with Christianity. But to open the floodgates to this torrent of impiety, you ingrosserà viepiù, up to our days, will paradoxically Lutheranism, who also wanted to present himself as a singer of divine mercy and the enemy of human pride and its claim to advance the merits before God. But the well-known fact is that Luther mailed this preaching not without its positive aspects, based on totally false and the shifting sands of the rebellion to the Magisterium of the Church, under the pretext to object to the moral corruption of the papacy, giving clear shows that his exaltation of humility was a fake, concealing the substantial pride to rebel doctrinal authority of the Vicar of Christ and set himself up as judge of his orthodoxy, breaking with this very communion with the Church, who claimed to “reform“, when the first was that he had to reform itself. Thus the content of Christian revelation, no longer held by the Magisterium, They found themselves at the mercy of the first exalted or filofastro, who, on the basis of its idiosyncrasies and a mixt culture, and considering himself inspired by the Holy Spirit, he felt free and allowed to plunder the wealth of Revelation, choosing or rejecting what they wanted, and mixing it if necessary - in defiance of the “pure Gospel” Luther - with other ideologies of begging: new way to satisfy his pride and his desire for fame and notoriety.

Luther's rebellion paradigm dictated by pride

Already in his life Luther, as is known, It had to do with characters of this kind, which they made him go on a rampage, without which he would realize that they did nothing but put into practice the approach to Scripture, that he first was practicing, in opposition to the interpretation of the Magisterium of the Church. Not including that break away from supervision -”episcopal“- And the guidance of the Magisterium is not a phenomenon of freedom, but it produces chaos and war of all against all, then masked by Hegel under the euphemism of “dialectic”. It seems that still to this day Protestants have not understood. Serve them the ecumenical dialogue?

full review of the deadly sins

In this way the Christian pride It became much more serious and harmful the coarse pagan pride, for if this could inflate the values ​​of reason or the simple brute force, the heretic that is available to the immense treasures of Revelation, He could adorn these jewels, that the pay does not even know. And so he was born the Christian pantheism, especially with Hegel and followers to this day. But things got even more dangerous, , when they were no longer just elated, visionaries and false mystics to approach the doctrines of Luther and to use his method of interpretation, but they arrived philosophers undoubtedly brilliant, with academic degrees, these then also be purchased credit in the appropriate circles learned to date and found the Lutheran theology and still a philosophy that was compatible with the doctrine of Luther. These philosophers were not long in coming. The first was Descartes. Then those who wanted to use Descartes to a rational foundation of Protestantism, were Leibniz and Wolff. And the ironic thing was that Descartes founded a rationalistic approach to Scripture, so that he began to choose from in the Bible no longer what he had already chosen Luther, which was taken for granted, but what it was to be compliant “reason”; Not now healthy and balanced Aristotelian-Thomistic reason, already recommended by the Magisterium of the Church, but precisely that reason superb and proud, which he had already formed the subject of hatred of Luther. So it was that his fideism begat exactly the opposite, ie rationalism, just what Luther wanted to avoid.

pictorial image of Descartes

However Protestants soon realized that the affinity cogito Descartes had with me a Lutheran. The psychological approach was the same: the same withdrawal of’I on itself as the foundation of certainty; and therefore they adopted the Cartesian philosophy, though born in a Catholic environment, like the philosophy of Protestantism, despite the Lutheran contempt for philosophy and for the reason. Ma la philosophy Cartesian, despite his rationalism, It seemed closer to Luther of scholastic philosophy, because Descartes as Luther, He gave primacy to consciousness than the objectivity of reality as the rule of truth, beginning, this, the Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy supported by Roma. Descartes, on the level of reason, rejecting the objectivity of sensitive; Luther, the level of faith, rejecting the objectivity of the Roman Church. But both, then, based on ego, They found themselves, Descartes, the reality of external things and Luther objectivity of the Lutheran community.

Both l'autocoscienza Cartesian As the Lutheran conscience placed themselves at the beginning and the foundation of knowledge: know the reason, that of Descartes; knowledge of faith, to Luther. But nothing from outside could and should contradict this consciousness or get into this consciousness, primary source of truth and certainty. Also this blatant sign of pride.

In Descartes' idealism of ideas innate was explicit, veiled by a false realism and convenience; in Luther, substantially realistic to Ockham, the implicit idealism will come to light by virtue of the Cartesian treatment, that Lutheranism to undergo transcendental idealism work of the nineteenth century.

THE TWO REFORMERS

Chinese wisdom: «As you stretch your neck, goose never become a swan»

Here, then, these two paradigmatic figures, closely associated with each other, in this process of decline of the ideal of humility and of cunning disguised revival of pride: Luther and Descartes. Of course, in words they reject pride, knowing full well, as Christians, that it is a deadly sin. Except that in practice, however, such a thought process, for which objectively, perhaps without themselves being aware, It expresses a state of mind and intent that are clearly inspired by pride and therefore effectively, regardless of their intentions and declarations, They give the appearance of virtue to pride. Both intend to found a Christian thinking adequate to correct its approach as it constituted in their time. Luther wanted to correct the Magisterium of the Church in the interpretation of the Gospel and Scripture; Descartes thought of having to give a definitive basis of the philosophy certainty, until then, according to him, placed on a doubtful basis,, then in order to provide a solid rationale to the truths of faith and theology. It's not maybe, also, this pride?

pictorial representation of Luther burning the papal bull

Luther insists a lot about humility in polemic against pride, continuing in that one of the underlying themes of Augustinian and medieval spirituality in general; but grossly it distorts the sense of the concepts, because in his mind the humility becomes the impotence acceptance of reason and will, slaves of lust and involves faith in the grace without works; while pride would be the attitude of one who claims to work with reason and free will to the work of grace. The humility, But, I observe, by no means implies the renunciation of works rationally and voluntarily made under the influence of grace in view of our salvation. On the contrary, this is precisely the result of humility, for which, trusting in God, humbly we accept the plan of salvation, which provides precisely this human synergy with the divine, both coming from God.

… humility Luther

What humility can be found in the rebellion to the Magisterium of the Church? We also grant the legitimacy of protest against certain administrative abuses of Roma and anti-corruption of the papacy; but the acrimony frantic with which Luther railed against the sacred ministry of the Pope, deprives Luther takes away any credibility in being an example and humility preacher. Moreover, as he pointed to Luther, the Emperor Charles V in a tough but fair indictment, what may have prompted a simple monaco Augustinian, albeit doctor of theology, to be held, alone, after fifteen centuries of Christianity, against all the Popes, and Council, Holy Fathers, Saints Doctors and Saints who preceded him, the discoverer of the true Gospel, until then buried in magic, in fairy tales and superstition, though with a crazy and immeasurable pride? And then,, that humility?

Luther Luther public and private

Actually ego Luther, under the appearances of love for the Word of God, It hides a principle of pride, that indeed at first glance can be mistaken for zeal for the Word of God and the Reformed Church, but that is not difficult to recognize considering the proud and stubborn feeling that Luther did this his ego, he says yes, to submit to the Word of God, but actually it falsifies and rejects this same word when they refuse to listen to the interpretation of the Church. It is a false humility that says to submit to Christ and his Gospel, but refuses, by an act of arrogance, obedience to the Church and to the Pope.

Descartes does not openly question of humility or pride; however, it is obvious to those who read carefully his fundamental writings, as he has moved from a state of the mind and conceited boaster, beyond all his insurance only seek the truth. Indeed, he shows not to be sincere in these statements, Pending its claim senseless to present himself as the one who, after thousands of years of uncertainty of human reason, even in the great scholars who preceded him, therefore including the Judeo-Christian wisdom, he finally get to give to humanity certain foundation and unshakable to knowledge for all ages to come. It is hard to understand how a bully of this kind was able to gather around him many acclaim to date and be considered the founder of “modern philosophy”. The philosophy of Descartes did not make all that foundation absolutely and finally some knowledge, he had promised, nor could it do, because the foundation already existed in the Aristotelian-Thomistic realism, now it recommended for centuries by the Church, while the works of Descartes were placed on the Index in 1663.

cogito, therefore I am

Even the famous principle of cogito, He responds to an attitude of mind that lacks humility. In fact the cogito It is presented as a decisive response to an absurd doubt, which concerns the certainty of sensitive knowledge, that is the beginning and the basis of human knowledge, on which it is built the whole edifice of knowledge; whereby, if it would not be worth, any other higher level of knowledge it would be impossible. The Cartesian cogito presupposes that the mind can perceive directly the self-consciousness and the spiritual world without passing sensitive experience, something that does not correspond at all to the real dynamism of human knowledge, which it rises to intellection pure intelligible starting from the experience of material things.

some posthumous developments based on Cartesian thought

La gnoseology Cartesian then it assumed a conceited and arrogant contempt of the sensitive dimension of our knowledge, we have in common with animals and claim to conceive the self or the person as a pure spirit, confusing the man with the angel. In the epistemology of Descartes plays only prudence and however exaggerated and unreasonable, as it divorced from the simplicity of spirit, who gives up the evidence to it humbly subjects, just the command of the Lord: "Simple as doves, wise as serpents " [Mt 10,16].

pictorial representation of Prudence, by Piero del Henhouse, XV sec.

It is just prudence who wants to keep a safe distance from the risk of deceiving ourselves and want to have a critical view of reality. We must certainly avoid the naivety that borders on stupidity, and take all precautions, solving all the possible doubts, but doubting the evidence, doubting dell'indubitabile is foolishness, and indocility — apaideusia, Aristotle says - contrary to that simplicity, which is commanded by the Lord and that is wisdom and humility. The task of the philosopher is certain to address the underlying issues and to resolve doubts and problems, that drag on for a long time even at the scholars or to show how question what until then seemed certain; but can not afford to establish his base of knowledge with its stamp principles, because it is a logos that already exists in the mind of every man, in a certain and irrefutable way, and this basis is the certainty of the things. In fact the basis of knowledge - sense and intellect - he founded with elementary highlight what is built on it, but he does not need to turn to be founded, precisely because it is the basis, nor can it be doubted, why not admit another external certainty or higher, such as to resolve any doubts, so as to be in need of being replaced with a further base and better, why, being the only basis, those who would put in doubt, Far from giving certainty, foundation and principle to thought, He would crumble to its foundations by opening the doors to nihilism.

St. Thomas, table of the XV century.

St. Thomas, however, shows that the true principle of basic security is not the certainty of doubt, but the certainty of knowing. Doubt about the objective principle of knowledge is not wisdom, nor is prudence, but betrays the pride and folly of those who do not accept the reality or retracts in front of it with the claim to replace it with their own thoughts and ideas. The doubt, as St. Thomas on the basis of Aristotle, is not really thinking, but on the contrary is a block and a paralysis of thought, because it has a real object, given that oscillates between yes and no. Therefore, the cogito Cartesian, far from opening the doors at the thought, It opens them to nihilism, with the presumption that he had finally found the truth first in the history of humanity. The true principle does not confuse thinking with doubt, but it is expressed in this formula: I think I know a thing or, therefore I am.

The philosopher is not forbidden to formulate hypotheses for doubt around the base of thought, indeed must do; It did the same with its famous St. Thomas universal doubt about the truth; but then withdraw immediately from this doubt or this horrible pit of hell, judging it absurd. Descartes, instead, He took that seriously doubt, whereby, as it has rightly Gilson, despite all his efforts, Descartes he is no longer published, so that gives us the certainty that he is ultimately founded on the sand and on the presumption. And what it can push a philosopher to want to replace with his ideas on universal objective principle of knowledge, if not pride?

The epigones OF REFORMERS

Pittora portrayal of Luther's sermon

The history of Lutheranism basically follows two strands: There is a traditionalist trend, that captures the Luther organizer, Pastor and Teacher, right of Lutheran communities guided by their shepherds, as its own symbol of the Lutheran faith and its rituals and ministries, like Baptism and the Supper; is the setting right of the Protestant theological faculties; and there is a Gnostic Lutheranism, individualistic and liberal, not at all devoid of religious and cultural values, who takes instead the deep spirit of Luther, charismatic and subjectivist, more prevalent in secular and philosophical circles, who did not fail to give us great personalities from Leibniz to Kant, a spruce, and veil maker, a Schelling, Hegel until Kierkegaard, Von Harnack and Bultmann.

While the ecumenical dialogue with the first strand is easy and constructive, given the numerous convergences between the Credo Lutheran and Catholic, harder appears the comparison with the second strand, both because, while in the former it is still a common vision of Christian faith, in the second the view is of the gnostic-rationalist, and is also why, being the second strand devoid of a common teaching of the Church , You can not compare in terms of official representatives, but it must do so with the individual philosophers, although dean, which are themselves often have absorbed the theology and dogma in their philosophy.

while there an official Lutheran doctrine guarded by the Lutheran World Federation, the comparison with the second strand necessarily requires the other party's choice according to the substantial differences existing between individual thinkers. Here is one thing to deal with the Kantianism, it is one thing to deal with Fichte, it is one thing to deal with Hegelianism, etc..

first edition of the Lutheran Bible translated into German

That's how we find scholars specialists for the individual authors. In them, however, the application of the same subjectivist method and Luther anarchist, averse to letting checked by qualunque authorities, it was not their vaunted consciousness as “Word of God”, He leads them to annacquare to their agency the same doctrine of Luther creating syncretism with other philosophical trends also limit d and quite contrary - it does not create difficulties for the Hegelian -, contrary to what happens in the first strand, loyal to Lutheran orthodoxy. Our vote is that a revival of the Christian faith, thanks to the progress of ecumenism, come back to spread that spirit of humility, which is one of the most beautiful treasures of the Gospel, the principle of the true greatness of man and what did the cultural splendor, moral and spiritual of European civilization in the world.

Varazze, 10 June 2015

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WONDER FORGIVENESS TO HIS HOLINESS THE 'APRIL FOOL"OFFERING A REFLECTION ON Careerism-chameleon

Who hopes to get something never tells the truth, limited only to try to please in every way the boss to get every possible benefit from it. And in the Church today, unfortunately, we have not nor a St. Bernard of Clairvaux or a St. Catherine of Siena that address to the Roman Pontiff so decided, wrapped in love and sacred respect for the August Person of the Holiness of Our Lord; I fear, therefore, that in these times of lean Your Holiness should settle for half scrap like me.

"No one sews a patch of cloth on an old garment; otherwise the new patch tears the old, and a worse tear '

[Gospel of St. Mark 2, 21]

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Most Holy Father.

Aware that a "patch" can bring about a "worse tear" [MC 2, 21] humble and sincere I ask pardon for having made his debut on April 1, followed the online magazine The Island of Patmos with a kind of joke known in Europe as "April Fools» [ed. see WHO], the same kind of joke that the lands of origin of Your Holiness is known instead as "jokes dia de los Santos Inocentes» [Jokes of the day of the Holy Innocents], that in Latin America falls 28 December.

Trust also in the smile of S.It is. Mons. Guido Pozzo that by the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei was promoted apostolic nuncio in the Republic of Nauru, because also in his church life will perhaps received or made some "joke as a priest”, starting from the days when he was a student at the old Collegio Capranica, from which came out during the last decades of cordate subjects of jokes to the Church have made several and heavy; many of the bishops donated to the Italian diocese of quest'Almo College under the previous presidency of the CEI. they are in fact clear evidence.

No one can say that I have the hidden feelings of careerism, scourge against which I have often fought and wrote in harsh tones in my books and articles; that whoever seeks within himself to anything is careful not to promote himself as a joke to a bishopric, much is known and recognized that even one who aspires to become pastor of a church in the country would make jokes like that public.

The careerists have not disappeared, they only changed as: under the pontificate of your Supreme Predecessor were all taken into boastful of attention to the sacred liturgy and its major equipment, so much so that at the time the tailors ecclesiastical vestments and factories of artistic did brisk business. Today, however, the same tailor shops and factories crying poverty, because the new style inaugurated by Your Holiness is all based on simplicity and a Franciscan poverty that even St. Francis of Assisi never knew, saw that his brothers were so poor, but their churches were equipped for the glory of God the most beautiful vestments and furnishings more valuable. The glasses crock began to use recently for ostentatious "poverty" those certain Friars Minor who then pushed his Order into bankruptcy by reckless financial speculation with Swiss banks, while joyous singing the praises of Lady Poverty and placed at the same time the Body and Blood of Christ in terracotta pottery decorated with the colors of “peace flag“, which arises, however, in the field of esoteric and occult, as is now well known and often unnecessarily repeated to several priests who insist on putting it on the altar from which time they removed the crucifix from the central, so that the shadow of our Lord should not tarnish the image of the “priest-protagonist“.

I am therefore certain that with the grace of your state and the wisdom of which you are the Supreme Master will be prudent and far-sighted enough to not trust these Camaleonti, because the careerists who today speak of the poor and homeless are the same ones who, until two years ago, spent exorbitant sums of money just to organize a sumptuous dinner to celebrate their anniversary of episcopal consecration, in the presence of gotha the old aristocracy and members of the orders of chivalry that during certain festivals worthy of the Renaissance courts shed tears of nostalgia for the old Papal States. But then suddenly there they are found before totally transformed, and just two years after then, Today every opportunity to talk about the poor and homeless at every public occasion propitious.

Perhaps it would be good to inform Your Holiness that there are bishops who in their homilies have now placed into the background the Word of God made man to speak to the faithful of the homeless, showers and barbers that the Roman Pontiff has made available to them. As far as we can tell, however, none of them has made available to the homeless nor its super-penthouse in the city, nor his villa, nor the precious country home that you are prepared with great care and waste of money to be able to withdraw quiet life when they are "retired bishops"; nor does it seem that any of them have made available to the homeless the substantial savings accumulated during the years of his episcopal ministry.

My modest experience teaches me that you should never trust those who passed with such ease from brocades decorated in gold and silver to rags cheesy acrylic Synthetic, because this shows that these clerical change artists are never themselves and then never manifest the genuine sincerity of his being. Those that after your election to Augusta Sacred Throne have placed in the safe pectoral crosses of gold to show up at meetings of bishops or in private audience by the Pope with pectoral crosses iron, or those who appear to poorer still occur directly with pectoral crosses of wood shaped yes Franciscan, are the living sign of unreliability most false and dangerous, as well as the paradigm of that appalling mediocrity that today stifles the Church of Christ from the lowest to the highest levels.

Those that joke very seriously are a lot more reliable than these transformists, because as we were taught that playful saint of Philip Blacks they truly serve the Church and the Roman Pontiff even to the shedding of blood, while i Camaleonti always betray; and do not just betray the living, betray even the dead.

I wish that during the blessing Urbi et Your Holiness is presented seated on the golden throne with the papal choir dress, after celebrating the Solemnity of Easter in the vestments of the most beautiful historic that abound in the papal basilica of St. Peter, because at that point, those who ride a picture of poverty by marketing media and offering homilies solely based bums, describing our many faithful who no longer know even the basics of the Catechism of the Catholic Church the importance of showers and barbers placed at their service; modernist heretics on the one hand and on the other hand heretics Lefebvrians, would put all of them in total confusion; and we will put them in more confusion, most will take them into the open; most will take them into the open, the better chance we will have to liberate the Holy Church of Christ in these tumor cells scattered in his Corpo Santo as metastasis.

These days, to preserve and to save the Holy Church of Christ we must not bring peace, but a sword [Mt 10, 34], which if necessary can also be a sword of sound and useful Christian irony to expose those who are ready to change very easily flag and to instantly jump on the bandwagon of new winner, in order to remain the same as always, trying to get all that you can be able to get in benefits and ecclesiastical offices even after some radical changes of government. And they, from which Your Holiness is unfortunately surrounded, are the modern incarnation of Judas rebuked Mary had anointed the Lord with a precious nard oil which in the opinion dell'Iscariota could be sold for 300 money to then give it to the poor [GV 12, 5]; are the same after that accompanied the Lord in his triumphal entry into Jerusalem shortly after abandoned him before the danger and fled [Mt 26, 56], while the crowd yesterday, like today's, chose Barabbas and cried into the judgment hall of Pilate: "Crucify, crucify!» [GV 19, 6].

My heart rejoices before the mercy and tenderness repeatedly invoked by Your Holiness and that makes me confident that together we will be able to receive these benefits even bums us your sons and devoted servants of the Church, rendered unworthy to share the mystery of grace to the ministerial priesthood of Christ, although we priests increasingly deficient both in mercy both tenderness by our Church authorities.

Your Holiness has ever thought — and with you those Your Venerable brother bishops devoted today to the preaching of the new Gospel of bums — send these lovable bums to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice, to give the sacred rites to a sick, to absolve the faithful from their sins, to drive in various ways the people of God on the path of faith in all those regions of the world where the lack of priests is increasing more and more, and where the age of the clergy is always higher? Because we too priests who serve the Church with our lives and at the cost of our lives and that we are often a lot more alone and abandoned the homeless, we need to “showers”, Of “barbers” and various other attentions but nobody gives us.

Who hopes to get something never tells the truth, limited only to try to please in every way the boss to get every possible benefit from it. And in the Church today, unfortunately, we have not nor a St. Bernard of Clairvaux or a St. Catherine of Siena that address to the Roman Pontiff so decided, wrapped in love and sacred respect towards the August Person of the Holiness of Our Lord; I fear, therefore, that in these times of “lean” Your Holiness should just settle for half scrap like me.

Prostrate at your feet kiss with devout obedience the Fisherman's ring, with eyes illuminated by the gift of grace in faith through which I shall never cease to worship You in the Mystery of the Church built by the Word of God on the rock of Peter.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, presbyter

From the island of Patmos, 1 April 2015, hours 23.00
Eve of Mass of the Lord's Supper

In the picture: Pope Francis during the Chrism Mass of 2014

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THE QUESTION OF HERESY AND HERETICS, YESTERDAY AND TODAY

Any faithful firmly in faith, sensitive to the good of souls, well informed of the case, can pronounce, with caution and after careful consideration, the note of heresy against another faithful; can also report it, if you believe and if that can serve the good of the heretic and that of the faithful […]

Author
John Cavalcoli OP

the work of the Dominican theologian John Cavalcoli, The question of heresy today [see WHO]

A term delicate but important Christian language, use with caution, in appropriate circumstances and with knowledge of the facts, is to “heresy”, which consists in general in the choice (AIRESIS, αἵρεσις) a false proposition in doctrine of faith or in the suppression or denial or doubt volunteers of some truths of faith. Now, because faith is truth, heresy is a false proposition against the doctrine of the faith. The heretic does not welcome with true faith (fides through) everything (the faith which) the church, at various levels of authority, gives us to believe as is contained in the deposit of Revelation, whose sources are Scripture and Tradition. Instead, he does a sorting arbitrary; or, maybe considering themselves directly illuminated by God, subjectively choose between the contents of faith only those that please him or make him comfortable or is complying with its reason. Which shows the lack of a true faith, even if the subject accepts other content, because those who believe, welcomes with confidence all that the authority reveals. Vice versa, is precisely when it comes to unique data or homogeneous to reason, that reason has the right and duty to do a screen according to his principles and his method and take only what is in accordance with reason and can be intuited or proven by reason. Instead the truths of faith do not conflict with reason, but are however higher, as divine truths, so that, if there can be harmony between reason and faith, given that the one and the other is based in God, such harmony does not allow the right to make themselves evident truths, who are most certain, but for her mysterious and transcendent.

Joan of Arc led the French army against the English during the Hundred Years War. Captured by the Burgundians was sold to the English that on trial for heresy. The 30 May 1431 was burned alive at the stake. In 1456 Pontiff Callixtus III declared that process null and void. In 1909 was beatified by Pope Pius X and canonized in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV.

This inconsistency intellect heretic with the truth and therefore its false notion, which also appears true to him, can be conscious and intentional, or it may be unconscious and involuntary. In the first case gives a grave offense, because it suppresses or falsifies the faith under the angle of that proposition. And since every truth of faith is necessary for salvation, heresy compromises salvation, even if it is a single proposition, as just one mortal sin to take away the grace. So likewise in an organism, any corruption or dysfunction of a vital organ, although others remain healthy, causes the death of the subject.

In the second case, the subject does not know to be in error, why not to blame. Assuming that he loves the truth, if it is lit, easily corrects. Instead the heretic volunteer, since it is attached to its error, although refuted, persists in restargli attacked as it prefers its judgment for that of the Church, that warns him of his heresy, that he continues to profess no love for the truth, but because it suits them or for pride or for other interests unrelated to love the truth.
The heretic is not simply those who deny a truth of faith or dogma, but it is the Catholic who betrays the faith through heresy. Because of this, those subjects, as for example the Protestants, born in a Protestant and receive an education Protestant, though in their doctrines are contained objectively heresies, can not properly be called “heretics”, ma, according to the expression coined by St. John XXIII, and entered into use, I'm “separated brethren“, They, as the Council teaches, belong to the Church, but without being in full communion, for which the Bond hopes that one day they enter the Catholic Church [see WHO].

Sant'Agostino dispute with heretics Donatists, painting by Carl Van Loo (1753)

Heresy is opposed to revealed truth or faith, it is the Word of God, either dogma or is the doctrine of the Church. It questions the true and the false suspect; exchanges the true with the false and the false with the true; the appearance with the truth and the truth with appearance; relativize the absolute and the relative absoluteness; makes changing the unchanging and unchangeable the changing; confuses what is distinct; opposes that which is joined; takes the part for the whole (“ideology”) and the whole for the part.
The New Testament, while considering inevitable heresies because of the weakness and human malice [The Cor 11,19], considers heresies as “doctrines of devils” [The Tm 4,1] and warns against the heretics [Tt 3,10]. The heretic 'refuses to turn to the truth to give heed to fables " [II Tm 4,4]. It's a “Antichrist” which separates from the Christian community [The Gv 2,19]. Heresy is a wisdom “earthly, fleshly, diabolic” [GC 3,15]. San Giovanni is severe against heretics: must stay away from them: "Who goes further and does not adhere to the doctrine of Christ, do not receive him into your house nor greet; because who greets him, participates in his evil deeds " [II Jn 11].

the famous statue erected in honor of Giordano Bruno in Campo dei Fiori in Rome after the unification of Italy. The Bruno underwent a long process from 1592. In 1599 the Inquisition invited him to recant seven propositions heretical. After the sentence was made to spend another year during which the invitation was repeated several times. The judges of the Inquisition, in addition to condemning his heresies, for years tried to save him.

The Church from the beginning, in the decrees of the Popes and Councils, after an appropriate warning heretic, if these are not corrected, was always careful to point out the heretics to the community and possibly punish them, so that the same caution and avoided their mistake. A disciplinary canon is excommunication, the so-called let him be, which has the task of clarifying that the heretic, because of his heresy, can not be considered as a member of that community, which is founded on the truth that he refuses. However the Church, even in the case of heretics, not always resorts to excommunication, but it also has other means and ways to stimulate and induce the sinner to repent and abandon his error.

However, while an excommunication can be removed, when the Church condemns heresy, as is demonstrated by the story itself [see WHO], not ever withdraws his judgment [see WHO, WHO], because it is considered that the Church is infallible in this type of judgments, that touch, albeit sub contrario, the doctrine of the faith.

In canon law heresy is configured as a felony or misdemeanor, which can then be punished after due process, initiated following a complaint made to the competent judicial authority of the Church, from the Episcopal and Roman. Today the heresy trials are very rare. The pastors prefer interventions less formalized and more soft or ductile, as the case, promoting the good qualities of the heretic and aiming more than punishment, to correction. This style more evangelical and more respectful of the person of the heretic and confident in the ability of self-defense of a people of God duly informed in those truths that are denied heretic, originates from the pastoral and canonical reform promoted by the Second Vatican Council, who, while condemning serious errors of the modern world, not ever pronounce the word “heresy” preferring equivalent expressions. Nor are the traditional canons against heretics.

ancient fresco depicting the heretic Arius

Heresy in the strongest sense is the denial of a dogma solemnly and explicitly defined [doctrine from the throne]. But as the Magisterium of the Church teaches infallibly the truths of faith or related to the faith even at two levels or lower mode of authority, such was the case for the doctrines of Vatican II [see me previous article WHO], those who do not accept these doctrines of authority less, certainly not would sin against the divine faith and therefore could not be considered properly heretic; and yet his mistake could be qualified as “next heresy” (the nearest heresy), to heresy (heresy wise) or at least disobedient to the authentic Magisterium of the Church: offensive to pious ears (pious ears relentless).

St. Augustine in a depiction of Peter della Francesca. The Ipponate was staunch in combat heresy of Pelagius

Any faithful firmly in faith, sensitive to the good of souls, well informed of the case, can pronounce, with caution and after careful consideration, the note of heresy against another faithful; can also report it, if you believe and if that can serve the good of the heretic and that of the faithful, to the Bishop or to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith [see our previous article WHO]. It is therefore not necessary to consider heresy or heretics only those doctrines or those who have been explicitly condemned by the Church. Of course, of these heresies you can have absolute certainty and condemn our part can give great strength to our judgment. But nobody prevents us, indeed the’love Christi that No urgencys, urges us to take note of the heresies that are in circulation, and several, to see what can be done to remedy it.

Undoubtedly the scrutiny and judgment of heresies is not easy. You must have a great love for the truth and be animated by a great charity: must be well prepared in Catholic doctrine and know how to interpret the sayings and writings of others. Efforts should be interpreted in good, unless the error is not obvious. It should, however, always, in principle, put in mind of being able to make mistakes in interpreting or judging: or too severe or too mild. A proposition that seems heretical to the letter, namely, according to the objective meaning, own and coherent words, may not be heretical in intentions and in that meaning, that did not express the goods or property of language, but meant another thing, on balance, is Orthodox.

Farinata Dante illustrates the condition of heretics condemned to eternal damnation

The Church condemns always, when it does, a heresy to the letter, that is, in the literal meaning, as objectively causes harm to the faithful and inspires followers, perhaps without the author's name, not to address the issue of sometimes thorny what he meant exactly the author, but the thing from a pastoral point of view does not interest. The important thing is that the faithful be preserved from error and know what the truth is the opposite.

The Church is the author's name, when it is a doctrine of his own or intends to censor the leading exponent or the initiator of a heretical movement or when the adherents of this movement may be crafty in decline or hide their responsibilities. Today, however, the Church often avoids to name, to prevent an exaggerated opposition to the heretic, that a failure to recognize the qualities, which can be also great and beneficial for other reasons.

Blessed Antonio Rosmini

Today, however, especially - See for example the case of Blessed Antonio Rosmini - the Church, making use of the most advanced methods and means of hermeneutics, as for example the method of contextualization, historicizing, or the variety of languages ​​and ways of expression or the same psychology author, seeks to highlight any good intentions or good faith of the author, thus exonerating evidence least heresy “formal”, that is, guilty and to admit only one '”heresy material”, unconscious and involuntary, that saves the innocence of the author.

Martin Luther affixes 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg. Perhaps no one had ever explained that the door of the church is “Christ brings salvation” e “leads the flock“, if he had learned, would try another place to drive nails and heresies …

You can not admit instead that the Church is wrong interpreting the thought of an author, so as to convict him wrongly for heresy. The goddess then certain false ecumenists, according to which the Council of Trent would not understand Luther is absolutely false and the attempt to present it as a Catholic is not understood well because absolutely lost, after five centuries of studies most learned and numerous interventions of the Magisterium concerning him.

Ecumenism desired by the Council is certainly a blessing and a gift of the Holy Spirit, as agreement between Catholics and Protestants in the truths that were common; but let's not make the Trojan horse to let the heresies of Luther in the Church, this would no longer be the Holy Spirit, Demon ma. And we already have evidence of the confusion created by the modernists, which, as already observed in the St. Pius X Pascendi Dominici Gregis, students are Protestants [see our previous articles WHO, WHO]. If anything, are these false ecumenists, who have not understood neither Luther nor the Council of Trent. But they are causing a serious damage, as they prevent the authority that today we remember the heresies of Luther. But if circulate as circulating heresies Lutheran, in disguise, without the authority intervenes, the fact remains that they continue heresies; However, it is conceivable that in certain cases the inaction of authority is motivated by valid reasons, such an opportunity or avoid a greater evil and therefore also less noble reasons, such as negligence or human respect.

seated judges of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Considering the content heretical or supposed such or para-heretical, necessary to determine the amount or extent or the weight of the error, to what degree of authority of the Church opposes it, than you away from the truth, the damage it causes, those that traditionally are called “theological notes”. The alleged error is opposed to a dogma or only to a doctrine of the Church or only a theological opinion? When satisfied that the magnitude of the error, must first groped to persuade the heretic face to face, as required by the Gospel. The public denunciation of error should be done only if the heretic refuses correction and if his heresy seduces many. For a small blaze may suffice two buckets of water. But for a fire, you have to call the fire department. This is why Christ says, if your brother does not listen in private conversation or in dealing with the thing between two or three, be given to the Church [cf. LC 17, 1-4; Mt 18, 15-17].

Heresy is not just a contrary opinion that does not affect the unity of the faith, but instead it corrupts the faith. Woe to treated as a heretic who simply has a contrary or different! But woe to let it go heresies that send perishing souls under the pretext of freedom of thought or theological pluralism! Theological certainty and assurance of faith are two different things. Today we tend to reduce everything to opinion, the certitudes of faith: because of this, if someone falls into heresy, you think that simply has a different opinion. You do not give weight to the fact that a certain modernism and a certain reactionary traditionalism are heresies. Or the opposite occurs: those who think differently from me is a heretic. Must recover the objective criteria for evaluations and not get carried away with prejudices, by emotion and partisanship. Otherwise, that Catholics, that “universal” are, if everyone wants to pull the sacred name of a Catholic on his side?

to err is human, but to persevere is diabolical

Necessary to distinguish the error in the theological or exegetical heresy. The theologian and exegete deal some of the doctrine of faith or the Church, but by their science, which certainly is founded on principles of faith and dogma; but theology and exegesis build their knowledge by putting in place and using methods and cognitive methods elaborated by reason.
This involves the fact that the reason, being fallible, can not go wrong in two ways: or within his own proceed, and then we have the error; or as the reason interprets the truth of faith, the biblical data or dogmatic, and then we have the heresy. If for example an exegete is wrong nell'ubicare a city or in interpreting the nature of a musical instrument of the Old Testament, without this explicit about the Doctrine of the Faith, this is a simple mistake exegetical. If were to say that the Angerli in Scripture are merely symbolic characters and fantastic, it is clear that would fall into heresy.

And so too, if a theologian prefer to divide the body into finite and infinite being rather than in the body for essence and entity for participation, this does not compromise the Doctrine of the Faith. But if it were to resolve the human person in the relationship, would endanger the dogma of the Holy Trinity, for which only the divine person is subsisting relationship. And if it falls into heresy formally and directly, falls indirectly and consequently (next proposition heresy).

Heresy is properly a thesis rebellious to the doctrine of the Church infallible interpreter of the Word of God. But there is an error against faith even more serious, the maximum degree of the error: blasphemy, which is the verbal insult to the same Word of God, ie to God, to Christ and his teaching, with the attribution to God or Christ of derogatory epithets or attributes, offensive and insulting. Blasphemy, in practice, especially liturgical and sacramental, corresponds sacrilege or impiety.

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Therefore, is given four degrees of authority in the Doctrine of the Faith and for consideration of rebellion to the truth of faith: the maximum degree is the Word of God, which opposes the blasphemy. Below the Word of God, that comes out of the same mouth of Christ, Then there are the teachings of the Church: the highest level is the dogma definit (from the throne), object of the Extraordinary Magisterium (Pope and Council) and solemn definition (faith belief).

Under the doctrine is the doctrine close to the faith, object of the simple and ordinary Magisterium (the Pope with bishops around the world); contains the truth logically connected, inferred or assumed, al dogma (Faith held). At this degree opposes the doctrine next heresy. At the lowest level we have the simple authentic Magisterium, which is always faith, but what the Church deduced or derived from his own doctrine. And so too is infallible, However, it was responsible for the religious submission of will. The opposite error is disobedience to the Magisterium of the Church.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Who today is concerned or interested in heresies, those who try to locate them and correct them, those who express opinions on them, those allegations formula, reliefs or notes of heresy; the only limit to talk seriously about heresies than those of the first centuries, is often frowned upon especially in environments modernists. We see immediately in him with some irony or discomfort the witch hunter, Cerberus inexorable, the aggressor windmills, a pathetic remnant of the past, the eager pursuer of ghosts, the surplus of the Inquisition, the mind incapable rigid elasticity or ductility, the narrow mind of those who see the enemy in different, the traditionalist retrograde, the arrogant and intolerant without mercy, closed in their outdated ideas, envious of those who succeed, the pedant who seeks nit, the Pharisee who pretends to judge others, he who seeks to dominate consciences, the aspiring bishop shearer's flock.

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In the name of a misunderstood ecumenism, of a false religious freedom, and a comprehensive dialogue, we have lost the awareness of the universality of the objective truth as well vital common. We are still sensitive, thank God, the sophistication of the food, the danger of epidemics, counterfeiting of currency, rightly together we seek to remedy these evils, aware of their objectivity. But when it comes to ideas, of doctrines, intelligible content, truth of reason or faith, here appear the monster nice subjectivism and relativism and thus the indifference to the dangers our and other.

an interesting work of St. Thomas Aquinas [see WHO]

How much awareness instead had the medieval Christendom of the damage done to all heresy. Not for nothing was spoken of “over heretics”. And St. Thomas did not hesitate to compare precisely the falsification of the faith for the counterfeiting of currency. What sense of the weight of spiritual realities in better or worse! Which vivid perception of the importance of faith in our lives! What consciousness of faith as a common good! There is much talk of truth and faith. And this certainly goes well. But there is little talk or do not know how to speak in due heresy. We have not yet released by the ghosts of the past, that weigh on this fateful word. Some may wish to remove it from the vocabulary; but it is wrong. The Church still uses it and will always use. It is to learn or relearn to use it. Indeed, it is most desirable that the Church organizes research centers, data collection, and care of heresies, as well as in the medical field, there are powerful organizations and structures that study and solve problems as a team and scientifically health.

pictorial representation of the retraction of the heretic before the Supreme Pontiff

Why would we notice the most flattering advances, with the presence of highly specialized personnel, in the care of the physical health, for which there are many structures, such seriousness and competence, while in the field of spiritual life and in particular the problems concerning the truth and its counterfeits seems to reign indifference, amateurism, backwardness and carelessness? Not only to the Holy See and in large academic institutions, but in every diocese, in every parish, in every religious institute, cultural center in every Catholic layman should exist offices and services well supplied, to help the faithful to discern and defend themselves or to defend others from the poison of heresy. The time has come to speak of heresy seriously, with serenity, with objectivity, responsibly, with pastoralità, in a climate of fraternal charity and service, without ironies, without anxiety and without hysteria, a powder’ as the doctor speaks of influenza or measles vaccine.

heresies and heretics modern: the schismatic bishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrated four bishops illicitly in disobedience to Rome, declared by him “fallen into apostasy” because of “heretical doctrines” of Vatican II [view movies WHO e WHO]

Sure heresy is a serious matter, but precisely because this, should be incorporated to talk seriously, calm and informed basis, without leaving it in the hands of seven or extremists, that disqualify and distort the meaning, use it to devour each other and to affirm a petty domination on the conscience of others. Operate against heresy for the victory of truth and then for the salvation of souls, is not a trivial matter.

We need a strong equipment not only cultural, but also spiritual, why, in addition to having to fight against ignorance, the malice and stupidity human, it is also to meet the dangers of the father of lies; from that back very advisable, if not necessary, recourse to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, winner of all heresies.

Varazze, 6 March 2015