NOT ALL IS LOST: THE METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP OF MILAN DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH, IMMEDIATELY!

Sooner or later there will be a conclave. Perhaps it would be appropriate to have the majority of the Cardinal electors recite the formula of oath in their national languages, exempting them from pronouncing it in a Latin that many do not know. In this way we will avoid the anticlerical secularists, agnostics and atheists, however, gifted with culture and preparation, can make fun of us for centuries to come.

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We never would have imagined than one day, the actor and director Carlo Verdone entered the literature of the Wisdom Books with his famous phrase: or it's strange, at least until the Supreme Pontiff began to give his best in the choice of new cardinals.

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In 2017 he was made a cardinal the auxiliary bishop of San Salvador S.E. Mons. Gregory Rosa Chavez. The archbishop of that diocese, S. AND. Mons. Jose Luis Escobar Alas, thus he found himself as auxiliary a cardinal. Everything always to be read in the light of the great wisdom of Carlo Verdone: …‘or Word Association!

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Without cardinal all those Italian dioceses which historically have been residential cardinal seats remain: Palermo, Naples, Florence, Bologna, Genoa, Milan, Turin and Venice. In all these historic seats there are currently two cardinals, the meek but decisive and determined Giuseppe Betori in Florence, created cardinal by Benedict XVI in 2012 and the meek and enough Matteo Maria Zuppi, created cardinal by Francis and today President of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

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With a subtle Socratic irony that one would never have expected from a Milanese - we are so used to thinking that it is almost a prerogative of the inhabitants of the Italic areas of Magna Graecia which was, being ironic -, S. AND. Mons. Mario Delpini delivered memorable jabs in his official greeting to the newly elected Cardinal Oscar Cantoni, Bishop of Como, Suffragan diocese of Milan.

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We are sincere: but who are they baucia Milanese? After all, Milan is only an ancient diocese that has given saints to Christianity, blessed, Doctors of the Church and Supreme Pontiffs. It is only a Diocese that with its missionary priests or the gift of faith he contributed in a decisive way to evangelize entire nations around the world. All trivial and completely obvious things. Perhaps we want to compare this Diocese, the largest in Europe, historically and ecclesially so insignificant, with the Apostolic Vicariate of Mongolia (1.300 baptized Catholics) with the diocese of Tonga (9.000 baptized), with the Vicariate of Brunei, where there are barely any baptized Catholics throughout the country 15.000, whose bishops were created cardinals? What is Milan, in the face of the eccentric papal extravagance of … 'O famously strange? Because we are reduced to this: to wanting to do eccentric things that can surprise, since no one seems to be able to amaze with Jesus Christ anymore.

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A subdued advice: sooner or later there will be a conclave. Perhaps it would be appropriate to have the majority of the Cardinal electors recite the formula of oath in their national languages, exempting them from pronouncing it in a Latin that many do not know. In this way we will avoid the anticlerical secularists, agnostics and atheists, however, gifted with culture and preparation, can make fun of us for centuries to come. Not everyone can in fact understand the profound and great mystagogical wisdom of ... 'O famously strange!

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the Island of Patmos, 1September 2022

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