The Bishop of Ascoli Piceno Giovanni D'Ercole has a choice “the Benedict option”, the same one that many of us will follow shortly, together with those who have already undertaken it for some years
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However wanted AFFECTED.
I'm afraid they will withdraw in prayer, at least in some cases, can be a powerful temptation. Today perhaps there is a need for prayer of course, but also of testimony. The flame of the lamp risks extinguishing due to the strong storm wind. It must therefore be protected from the wind with a glass, but not put under a bushel.
Unfortunately, the Benedict option is not accessible to the many of us who have inalienable responsibilities…
I have immensely appreciated the passage from Guareschi's posthumous book. Written in unsuspecting times, when the new church of the council was taking its first steps and the total decay in which we live was far away. But there was who , equipped with foresight , he saw far away. We will guard the seed, Giovannino, and we hope that the time will come to sow and bear fruit, with God's help.
.Apparently he was somehow forced to resign.
Report by NBQ: “The choice will also have been free, but this does not mean that this freedom was not exercised in the face of very difficult circumstances. Which? Anyone who could hear it before the official announcement tells of a very suffering Hercules in the soul, a "difficult and painful" decision, he said. What's happened, so? From reliable sources, La Bussola Quotidiana has learned that in reality a lot of pressure has been put on Monsignor D'Ercole to resign: the request originated from Santa Marta and reported through the Congregation of Bishops. And to avoid confrontations that would have created even more tension in the Church, Monsignor D’Ercole "freely" chose to obey and step aside.”