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[…] if the Holy Father Benedict, doctrine man and refined theologian, he had a tendentially mild and weak character, to the point of being subjected to a real dripping during the last year of his pontificate; the Holy Father Francis, who knows the doctrine and who by his own and repeated admission is not a theologian, far from having a mild and weak character has the spirit of the leader, of General and, between a media smile and the other, his authority knows exercise and enforce, and how! At this delicate moment in history at Christ Church maybe needed this: a Pontiff that impose its authority knew and know to cry if the proud and arrogant rather than go away crying before the arrogance of the proud and arrogant.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Caro Father. I've been reading your articles for a while and I have to tell you: on something I agree on other somewhat less. We witnessed a very painful renunciation from part of a great Pope that stinks more than blatant exclusion on the part of those who have always hated. She defines a thing for me was the spearhead of the Holy Pope John Paul II and now impresses me the strength with which bears his cross. Frankly it saddens me to compare his meekness and determination the arrogance of his successor who seem to be debunked a Paladin of so-called progressive that a representative of the East India Company as she called his order [cf. WHO] imbued with powerful. I know that the Holy Spirit is at work but does not force then it is not that we have closed the door on making us owners of what is not ours? I'm not a traditionalist I am just a Catholic Christian a little saddened and bewildered. Thank you for your attention and for your possible reply.

Ermanno

Dear Ermanno.

The vocation follows the dynamics of falling in love. When as a teenager I used to fall — something that happened every two weeks media —, my age seemed to me as a beautiful goddess, what am I saying: perfect! A quel point, by man “adult” ed “expert” such an ero a 13 year old, got to sing and dance "Ramaya Ramaya Bokuko abantu Ramaya Miranda Tumbala» [see WHO], I went to get my grandfather's advice, who had the ability to take me even seriously - perhaps because it was called Giordano Bruno? —, remaining unmoved in the face of my shoot, type: "I fell in love with Silva, the daughter of pharmacist». And he, Serio: "But I didn't realize that Silvia was the daughter of the bakery». And I: "And, you got it right, because even the Baker's daughter is called Silvia, but that was two girl cooked does». And after the first euphoria the girl began to appear no longer a dèa, and rather than see her perfection I began to see the flaws.

How many times I happen to smile to myself, When for the sacramental or the liturgical assistance I wear the crush bianca, Today I am happy groom of the Church.

After disbanding neurotic Dell’falling vocations one of my trainers — also became a priest in adulthood —, He turned me a warning that I immediately treasured and which today is the subject of exhortation for me: «Do not idealize the people, because you can create idealizing of idols, then ending up disappointed and not rarely angry with a tight knife between the teeth ".

To avoid falling into such disarray and at the same time clarifying certain doubts legittimi altogether, should be clear, first of all, what is Holiness. Saints are those figures to which all we do cheer but well we look by look, in particular to the holy martyrs. What are the soubrette and the actors of dementive movies who love to declare themselves devotees of San Pio da Pietrelcina around the televisions or on the columns of the pink rotocalchi, to whom is never crossed my mind to make the slightest effort to imitate the model in their lives of faith and Christian virtues of this extraordinary santo?

There are major figures in the history of the Church that no one has ever canonized and that inspire my deepest sympathy, that is a human element subjective. There are several saints, Some also doctors of the Church, that make me instead dislike, some deep well; and the antipathy, as the sympathy, is a human element subjective and as such if necessary to control, because from it you should not be affected when you are called to formulate evaluations and especially to make choices regarding the Church's life or the lives of individuals.

The recognized holiness instead relies on an element objective rectum on a solemn pronouncement of the highest Mastership: the Church has canonized that man or that woman — I can be obnoxious — recognizing objectively the heroicity of their virtues and thus raising them as an example for the people of God. This element of objectivity is a given for me that I have never denied, quite the opposite: I recognize it, I respect that, I follow it and send to the people of God. Moreover, the Church does not requires me to ask you to intercede for me with God in those saints who subjectively I think “obnoxious”. And if on the one hand I do not deny myself much closer to the spirituality of San Domenico di Guzman and his Dominican friars, on the other hand I don't have any problem to declare indifferent to the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi and distant from his Franciscan friars. I have sympathy for St. Philip Neri and devotion to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Despite being free to express that the current Jesuits — to me epitetati Company of the Indies —, have little to do now with the society of Jesus designed by their founder, because if they came back to be what they were, instead of spreading poisons of Karl Rahner like Thomas Aquinas novel of the 20th century, would the novitiates and student full, instead populated by some African shaman or by young Indians who often manifest themselves most clearly that Buddhist Christians. And we pass on the kind of training through which came to the priesthood a pious past and Jesuit on what you come today certain methods and certain Buddhist shamans means.

The whole thing is just Chronicle of a death foretold, why the 23 October 1972 A Jesuit distinguished, Cardinal Jean Danielou, So he responded to an interviewer of the Vatican radio on the crisis of religious life, in particular of the Company of Jesus:

«The unique and urgent solution is to stop the false guidelines taken in a number of institutes. For this it is necessary to stop all experiments and all decisions contrary to the directives of the Council; warn against books, the magazines, conventions that are put into circulation these misconceptions; restore in their integrity the practice of the constitutions with the adaptations requested by the Council. Where this appears impossible, It seems to me that you can not refuse to the religious who want to be faithful to the constitutions of their order and directives of Vatican II to form distinct communities. Religious superiors are required to respect this desire. These communities must be allowed to have houses of formation. Experience will show if vocations are more numerous in case of strict observance or observance homes mitigated. In the event that superiors oppose these legitimate requests, An appeal to the Supreme Pontiff is certainly authorized " [text of interview, WHO].

… And on the ashes of the company of Jesus St Ignatius Loyola, He was born to father Pedro Arrupe new Company of the Indies directed today by Father Adolfo Nicolás.

Another item to clarify is the fact that the Holy perfection is not required. Not only, indeed, There were saints who walked the capital sins far and wide, because along with the sins they committed all manner of errors, before that conversion that led them to becoming authentic models of virtue. A separate topic deserve those saints who were Matti like racing horses, to name one among many: St. John of God, also as former soldier Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Fatebenefratelli order meritorious, It takes its name from the habit of this man of God who often, between the laughter of the people, began to rant and to gesture the squares and markets screaming: «Do good good, do well, siblings, to yourself!». Implying that doing good to the next, and in particular to the sick, It was also good to yourself, to one's soul.

The last Popes canonized and beatified, were far from perfect: I will refer to St.Jevanni 21st XXIII, Blessed Paul VI and John Paul II San …
… certain naivety of John XXIII are known facts, as is the fact that if the withdrawn Paul VI, instead of whining, He had used his authority to invoke Apostolic and nipping their legs to certain theologians who spread dangerous heresies, today their children and theirs grandkids they would not have played the whole church of heterodox thoughts. Nor can we evade the fact that in the last decade of pontificate of Saint John Paul II, with Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for bishops have risen to some of the worst Episcopal bishops ever had by the Church over the past two hundred years of history; and this statement is a fact supported by the convictions of various courts of the world, from various more or less silent dismissals, by so many painful promoted to be removed, etc ...

This wants to say who were canonized and beatified of men who did not deserve it? Or men without the fundamental virtue required of a Saint, which is prudence?

Place without stain of original sin was born only the Blessed Virgin Mary and that only the word of God made man has never known SIN, These Popes have been canonized and beatified because in spite of their imperfection, in the face of an appeal before which Apostolic, the first to be inadequate in its way it was personally chosen by Christ God, were models of heroic virtue. Similarly to San Pietro also these recent successors have experienced an exemplary life in social and political contexts sometimes very difficult, sometimes impossible to manage, Blessed Paul VI in particular. And as we know Peter, After running out impaurized [cf. Mt. 26, 47-56], After denying the Lord three times [cf. 26, 69-75], After having been rightly reproached by Paolo in Antiochia [cf. Gal. 2,1-2.7-14], He died by pouring his blood for Christ and for his Church; a blood that makes him heroic in faith but certainly not perfect in some of its incorrect opinions, in certain of his life conduct and in certain of his choices.

This logical Christian It is therefore also applicable to Benedict XVI, None of us can reasonably change nor in a roaring lion or a warrior, right in a idolo, even with all the affection and reverence that I for one I cherish towards him.

That Benedict XVI showed profound weakness and sometimes a total lack of Church Government, is a fact that nothing takes away the virtues, His Holiness of life and beautiful theology according to which, Apostolic authority together with its, He could order the diffusion of heretical thoughts of many theologians — starting from Karl Rahner — and to prohibit their thoughts were used as teaching incorrect even required under her window to pull up papal of future priests who do not have a clear idea at the outset on the ministerial priesthood, Precisely because they full of serious Rahnerian heresies regarding the conception of the sacred order [reference on the subject to the splendid article by John Carlson, see WHO].

From refined what was theologian could have avoided, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, to consecrate a Bishop with his bare hands a topic from questionable to say the least Christology as Bruno Forte; could have avoided by the Roman Pontiff to consecrate a bishop and then create a subject like Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, that embodies the denial not only of healthy living theology of Benedict XVI but the orthodoxy of Catholic doctrine; he could have prevented many wicked Italian bishops from sending their seminarians to make spiritual retreats before the sacred ordinations at the false prophet e bad teacher Enzo Bianchi, because all this is authentic impiety … These and more are the devastating works that took place under the eyes of Benedict XVI, fully informed and aware of all. Objectives “flaws” that invalidated but his Holiness of life, to his high theology and his splendid papal magisterium.

Having said that I add: If those who by waiving the sacred throne continue to try theories from yellow book, Instead they tried to penetrate the mystery of the Church — which requires the assumption of humility and listening — understand that Pope Benedict has done voluntarily, spontaneously and freely by the why can't handle a situation of paralysis that has developed as a tumor with disseminated metastases in the last half-century of the Church's life, starting from John XXIII, How the accusers of the Vatican Council II blame, because the triggering conditions already there were everyone in the last part of the pontificate of Pius XII, which saw fit not to appoint a Secretary of State; But having said that why can't I gotta sit open a complex topic in the theme. I will only say that the many, too many Agatha Christie entering as tanks in the factory of Murano crystals of the contemporary church history, should assess the damage and the bewilderment that produce the good people of God, often ready to take them seriously as “Seri” e “Devotees” Catholic historians or journalists. One “Serio” e “devotee” Catholic journalist, however, does not sell off the poor and defaced Christ of Christ for one scoop, impersonating the sensationalism for irrefutable truth; a “Serio” e “devotee” historian does not predict their subjective ideologies by truth, as such all debatable.

If we do priests catechesis, If we explained to our faithful the fundamentals of doctrine, of Ecclesiology, the sacramentary, Church history and Canon law — but the assumption though is the knowledge transmission — we would avoid leaving them in meal daily Twaddle who write many vaticanologists loaded by their owner-operators or as any from small serpents hidden in the anonymity of the Roman curia; journalists that many of our faithful - having no adequate answers from us priests - take as a word of God with everything that follows.

And to respond strictly in relation a relevant question: We admit that the Holy Father Francis, as our dear reader is an «arrogant». Admitted and that the grace of the Holy Spirit is able to pull out the virtue even the habit, I ask: After a gentle man was devoured by an open-air dump which gave rise within the Church to a dirt like no other traveling upstream from weakness of blessed Paul VI inherited almost unmanageable heritage from San Giovanni Paolo II, It wasn't that there was providential as a “marpione Jesuit” who smiles publicly in the square, remaining nice to everyone but who in private in Santa Marta cuts the heads? And those who were guillotined cannot manco complain, because if they did they would finish the square filled with lynched fans from … Er papa market He immediately declared that "from the other side of the world», unless you have the ability to make smart concrete facts in — and I mean that in the positive form — out of this world.

More than answers I gave food for thought, including the action of grace of the Holy Spirit through the Holy Father Francis, and as I said already two years ago in the third month of his pontificate: “It's enigmatic. One Pied Piper that is bringing all the mice in the open ' and that I hope will lead them one below the other to jump into the river for the Supreme good of the Church. I am more and more convinced, indeed, through the Synod on the family pulled them into a trap by placing them in a position to go all out in the open, which to the return of the accounts will lead to the uncovered finally he is too. E, as I wrote in the past, the Holy Father could run the risk of returning to wear the red shoes for what they really mean: the martyrdom of Peter that with bloody feet on Vatican Hill came to be crucified upside down [see WHO]. At that point we — which we devoutly criticized — we will defend it and we will watch the cross with the young John and the Blessed Virgin Mary, While "all the disciples, forsook him, fled» [cf. Mt. 26,56], because I am afraid this is the end, all in all very glorious, reserved for the Holy Father Francis, at the end of this honeymoon media that was too long and that even the most shrewd and cunning of the old Jesuits can pull over for a long time.

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THE ENIGMA OF FRANCIS – June interview 2013 ad Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo