MARCO PERFETTI: TELLING ME THAT I AM A PROBLEMATIC IS AS OBVIOUS AS SAYING THAT MADDALENA WAS A PROSTITUTE

The strength of the offense consists in revealing a hidden truth intended first and foremost to hurt. But when that truth is already known, accepted and recognized by the interested party, the offense loses much of its effectiveness.

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Carefully avoiding mentioning my name and surname, but making me perfectly identifiable, Mr.. Marco Perfetti mentions me for the umpteenth time in the article «Tornielli puts the Pope in trouble: I can't be silent against the intimidating ambush".

The proof that the reference is unambiguous is very simple: every time he publishes one of these articles, within a few hours I receive messages from priests, friends and acquaintances who invariably write me the same sentence: «He's mad at you again». And so in the last article of 9 June, where he goes so far as to complain that the director of the Vatican Media even ambushed him during the Meeting annual Communion and Liberation held in Rimini - and I confess that Andrea Tornielli in the terrorist version of Al Qaeda was also missing from my collection of surreal images produced by the universe sileriano —, Mr.. Perfetti writes:

«That conversation, for which we reiterate there are several sources (and perspectives) test, confirmed what had been reported inside Palazzo Pio for some time: Tornielli supports and incites the convicted serial defamer who published homophobic insults and who was kicked out of his diocese of origin for the numerous problems created. The nice thing is that Tornielli defined it: “A problematic person who attacks the Pope, that attacks everyone", as if to distance themselves from it. But we'll talk about this later." (see article who).

In this passage accusations are reiterated that Mr. Perfetti has been repeating since November 2023, that is to say that the undersigned would have been "kicked out of his diocese of origin due to the numerous problems created" and that "he cannot even set foot in it". These are the same accusations contained in four letters with clearly defamatory content, sent by the same between 2023 and the 2025 to the Bishop, to the offices of the Curia and to the entire presbytery of my Diocese to which I belong, in which I was indicated - of course I was! - with name and surname. For this reason, the expedient of omitting the name in the articles published on his blog appears frankly bizarre: the recipient of his allusions is perfectly recognizable by anyone even vaguely familiar with the story. It is also singular that, although these accusations have been denied several times, also to Mr. himself. Perfect, he has continued to reiterate them over the last three years, obstinately repeating them in articles, comments and videos. A circumstance that leaves the reader the freedom to evaluate whether it is simple obstinacy, of singular forgetfulness or of the belief that a falsehood, sufficiently repeated over time, may finally acquire the appearance of truth.

Not to mention the recent attack aimed at my Bishop, subject of an article in which Mr. Perfetti and his anonymous collaborators do not limit themselves to expressing criticism or dissent, but they construct an unfair, systematically denigrating portrait of his person and his episcopal ministry. In that same article, it almost goes without saying, the undersigned is mentioned again through the same accusations, reiterated for years and not corresponding to any objective reality (see who). In fact, if I had been "kicked out of my diocese of origin due to the numerous problems created", to the point that "he can't even set foot in it", Mr.. Perfetti should explain to all how was it possible that just ten months ago he took part, as the first concelebrant of the Bishop and together with the Bishop emeritus, at the funeral of the Apostolic Nuncio H.E. Mons. Adriano Bernardini, holding the funeral homily before the priests of that same diocese (see who). This is a public fact, easily verifiable and difficult to reconcile, on a logical and ecclesial level, with what he is repeating.

Obviously false statements removed, However, there remains one that deserves attention: that of being a problematic subject. I don't know if Andrea Tornielli really defined me that way, I'll ask him at the first opportunity. However, I can say that the current director of the Vatican Media, internationally renowned journalist and Vatican expert, as well as an exemplary man and Christian, he has known me for twenty-five years. If he really had made such judgments about me, not only would he have said something true, but he would even have been generous towards me, as friends can be when they tend to judge with indulgence. My defects are in fact much more numerous and serious than Mr. can imagine. Perfetti and the group of heroic anonymous people who write unsigned articles on his blog. Therefore, they may even delude themselves that they have won something, but hardly against whom, like me, he has already come to terms with himself and with the fact that he lost his battle with life some time ago.

One of the beautiful things about old age is disenchantment of not having to pretend to be what you are not, knowing full well what your limits are, their own inadequacies and even their own failures. So I certainly can't get offended, also because the truth must be accepted, not experienced as an offense, least of all as a lèse majesté attack. It is a fact that I have never occupied any role of particular importance in the Church, nor has he ever been called to offices of even the slightest importance. And if I have always been kept on the most extreme margins, evidently it's because whoever was called to evaluate me felt that I wasn't up to par. And if this happened, it's certainly because whoever had to judge saw with foresight what I couldn't see as clearly about myself, drawing the appropriate consequences.

It is equally evident how worthless I am as a theologian, for this reason I was even accused of defining myself as such in an improper and abusive way. Yup, I wrote sixteen books in twenty years, but they are not very widespread and even less read texts, certainly not displayed in the windows of Catholic bookstores, where I certainly couldn't take away Vito Mancuso's place. And if Mr. Perfetti wished to rejoice further, I can confide to him publicly that I am so little considered - or rather not considered at all -, that I even stopped sending my books to scholars and ecclesiastical authorities, as is sometimes done out of courtesy and good etiquette. When I did it, I didn't even receive a thank you message, starting - first of all - from those ecclesiastical authorities to whose canonical jurisdiction I belong. And if one is the object of such indifference, which might even hide a well-deserved contempt, it means that he earned it or that he did everything to deserve it. In fact, as the wise man says: «Whoever is the victim of his evil should cry for himself». As for me, I don't even feel sorry for myself, I calmly accept myself for who I am: a failure who barely reaches the threshold of mediocrity.

The strength of the offense consists in revealing a hidden truth intended first and foremost to hurt. But when that truth is already known, accepted and recognized by the interested party first, the offense loses all its effectiveness. Mr. Perfetti probably thinks he's offending me by quoting me in a clearly recognizable way, while omitting my first and last name? In doing so, however, he forgets that one of the beautiful things about those he calls in an ironic and derogatory way boomer it's precisely the disenchantment. At a certain age one stops believing in heroic representations of oneself and instead begins to deal with one's own limits, their own miseries and mediocrities. For this reason, reading that I would be a problematic person does not cause me any indignation, rather, I would be surprised otherwise.

After all, it's well known: It happens that bishops make the wrong people like me into priests, instead of young people who cannot remain silent, rich in talents and qualities that can be predicted, from an early age, brilliant careers among the sacred palaces, perhaps already intent on imagining themselves tickling the marbles of His Holiness's Secretariat of State with the soles of their shoes, discussing canon law. I regret that I was mistakenly included in the priesthood, while others more deserving and promising were excluded. For this reason I am sure I can count on the compassion and prayers of those who read me.

However, I can console myself thinking I was in rather large company. The history of the Church is full of problematic people. On the contrary, a leg vedere, it is full of people who would have offered far more abundant material to Mr. As perfect as an insignificant louse like me can offer: Pietro, who denied Christ. Paul, who persecuted Christians. Augustine, who before becoming bishop led a life that was anything but exemplary. St. John of God, who today would be entrusted to the care of a psychiatrist, who would probably throw up his hands and declare that he doesn't know where to start with such a subject, crazy as a racehorse. St. Ignatius of Loyola, equipped with a terrible character and anything but easy to relate to. San Filippo Neri, to whom the Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome revoked the faculty of administering confessions for a few weeks after accusing him of pastoral extravagances. Finally, the one that Christian tradition has always identified with Mary Magdalene.

This is why I just can't get offended. To say that I'm problematic is a bit of a stretch’ like telling Mary Magdalene that she was a prostitute: this is not new news. On the contrary, assuming and not granting that this was really the case, she was probably the first to know her own story. Yet it was precisely that woman, with the far from light weight of his own personal story, to be chosen by the risen Christ to announce his Resurrection to the Apostles.

Mystery of faith!

From the island of Patmos, 11 June 2026

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