From Fascism which yesterday feared the Church and Pius XI, to the young politicians who laugh at us today. The Italian Episcopal Conference and the urgent need to review their priorities
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I, on the other hand, see an infinitely petty politics that seeks, both from the right and from the left (but these expressions still mean something?), to tug at the Church for their own consumption to capture more votes. Then it is convenient to use crucifixes, Madonnas, S. Messe (denied in the covid period) of which fine atheists can no longer do without e, above all, the pigeon shooting against the Holy Father by sifting through every single word expressed by him in the most disparate contexts.
We should be offended by all of this, if not by faith at least for dignity.
A truly memorable Father Ivano.
honor to wisdom!
Sooner or later even the supporters of Bergoglio who perhaps criticize him harshly but do not lie in question will have to deal with the fruits of the false prophets: Matteo 7,15.
History has known questionable popes but the church has always preserved doctrine and faith and has always defended non-negotiable principles. Defending this government that seeks to approve the Zan Scalfarotto dl (and much more) puts in danger the Christians because that dl addita S. Paul and other martyrs who condemned sodomy.
…her …her… her … I smell .. nutella.
That Ferrero, be clear, not that of the Sicilian priest out of melon.
Agreeing with his reflections, I wonder and I ask you, what if one tomorrow, an alliance opposed to the one currently in power emerged victorious from the election? We know the current ruling coalition, kept alive if we also want to derogate from a healthy democratic practice, meets the sympathies of the CEI. Perhaps this imbalance is not an imprudence? It is perhaps not disrespectful to Catholics who do not feel similar to the current ideology in power in Italy? It is or is not that part of Italians, far from the current line of government, constitutive part of the flock of Our Lord entrusted to the bishops of the Bel Paese? Yet, in all of this, perhaps the CEI does not appear a bit forgetting of those who seek from shepherds a much more substantial nourishment than that mash made up of slogans and earthly proclamations, today so in vogue even among the highest Italian hierarchies?
I can try to explain the current conduct of the CEI as a special care for the politicians in power and for the people who follow them. Sure, indeed, that the shepherds must have the salvation of all in sight, but all of them, the souls. But here there is a risk that from caring for those who are far away one passes to a loving passion for them! In a paradoxical inversion of meaning, whereby one comes close to those who are far away, and we irremediably move away from those that are the closest today. This is in fact my greatest fear that our dear Conference will end up becoming, by heterogenesis of ends, instrument of division rather than of…