THE NEW CIONCI'S STORY: FROM THE ROMAN SERAPHICUM TO THE BRITISH NIMBY

Dear Cavalier Cionci - because incidentally you are also a Knight of the Italian Republic - you are very free to think what you believe, to write it, naturally, to have a following. But don't take the Catholic Church or those who manage its structures for fools, with means of this kind.

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Many know the English expression «Not In My Back Yard» (not in my garden), often abbreviated with the acronym: «Nimby». A saying that serves to designate someone's opposition to hosting projects on their territory.

But there is also a proverb, this time Italian, that we all know and that begins like this: «Between the two litigants…»; which I would like to conclude by modifying the classic form a little with «... the third laughs».

The two litigants in question I'm Alessandro Minutella, priest from Palermo excommunicated e dismissed from the clerical state, and the journalist Andrea Cionci, author of the book «Ratzinger Code» in which he advocates the thesis that Pope Benedict XVI would never have renounced the papacy, by taking shelter in an imaginary prevented location, with the consequence that Pope Francis would have been an antipope. For the current Pontiff, judgment is suspended. Once upon a time the two got along very well, sharing ideas and proceeds. But as happens in couples, even the most close-knit ones, who first love each other and then hate each other, this is what happened between our two. Not a day goes by that they get caught on social media, Holding things against each other and no longer mentioning each other's names. Minutella indicates Cionci as «the Roman journalist», while for Cionci the Palermo native is addressed with: «the great prelate». In truth they both have a mad desire for fame, but above all to be taken seriously. And where if not in the Catholic Church and in one of its structures for example?

It so happens that Cionci is invited to speak at a meeting promoted by an association on apocalyptic themes, none other than in a room belonging to the Pontifical University of San Bonaventura, which is part of the complex Seraphicum in Rome. Naturally quietly: "I kept a low profile", Cionci will say. To then promulgate to the four winds, something that his commentators on social media understood very well, just read the comments, who had been able to talk about what he believes even in a Pontifical University. Open up heaven. Minutella immediately raises her tone: «Yes to him, not to me?». And for the duration of the usual morning appointment with his followers he returns to it, showing the poster of the event, circled well to highlight Cionci's name and the cost of participation.

It happens that the event is cancelled. The university thinks again and does not make its spaces available. Naturally, CIONCA, he is quick to report it in a video on YouTube blaming Minutella, accusing him of having caused harm that was not so much to him, but to that extraordinary possibility of being able to speak about his theses in a Pontifical University.

Caro Cionci, we know Minutella, but this time he's not to blame: it is innocent. I'm the culprit, I admit: became aware of the thing and foreseeing the use that would then be made of it, I took pen and paper, or rather the computer, because even in my remote hermitage we have connection, and I wrote an email to the general secretary of the San Bonaventure Theological Faculty, asking if they thought it appropriate to host an event in which such bizarre ideas would be presented that still offend the person of Pope Francis, of venerable memory, and that of Pope Benedict, made to appear as a sort of carbonaro who puts the entire Church in check. The response was not long in coming: «the rental of the room was immediately canceled and the event at our headquarters was cancelled».

Perhaps the second email also had an impact, this time sent with more refined and appropriate tones by our editorial team of The Island of Patmos to the Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça? I do not know, but so.

Dear Cavalier Cionci - because incidentally he is also a Knight of the Italian Republic - you are very free to think what you believe, to write it, naturally, to have a following. But don't take the Catholic Church or those who manage its structures for fools, with means of this kind. You know what I recommend? Rent a plane, there, It seems like a good idea to me. He's already tried it? Or, like Minutella does, go to hotels. It will be expensive yes, but I don't think you will manage to buy a former gym with an asbestos roof in a hamlet in the province of Padua, like the double doctor of theology from Palermo. I don't see it.

To reassure her I conclude with Professor Keating's words to one of his students, alias Robin Williams, in the famous film Dead Poets Society: «Let's not laugh at her, let's laugh with her".

With estimates.

The Hermit Monk of The Isle of Patmos

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