ON THE DIVORCEED AND RESPONDED. CONTINUED DISCUSSION: REPLICA OF JOHN CARLSON ON THE RESPONSE OF CORRADO GNERRE

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Is now much quoted on no. 84 of the Apostolic Exhortation Family member company of St. John Paul II, in which the Pope expresses the condition of the irregularities of the divorced and remarried, in outer hole or, and how he expresses, "Objectively"; but the Holy Pontiff is careful not to say that they would, subjectively or in the inner hole, in a constant state of mortal sin, why, this, like I said, It would be a rash judgment, which claims scrutinize the intimate consciences and secret operations of grace. In second place, this teaching of the Holy Pontiff should not be taken as if it were an immutable doctrine of the faith, but only as a pastoral available, as such changeable, as the ancient tradition. But this is not Sacred Tradition, it only custodian of the data revealed, but only the canonical tradition. the years in which this apostolic Exhortation has been written, the question of divorced and remarried is somewhat extended, complicated and aggravated, so that the present Pope has decided to reconsider it in to see if they maintain the current discipline, or adopt solutions different from the past.

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John Cavalcoli OP

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[To read the article by Prof. Conrad Gnerre, refuted the eight points that follow, click WHO]

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the Dominican Pontifical academic John Cavalcoli

The prof. Riccardo Gnerre again intervened against me in the online magazine Levied Christian regarding the issue of the moral and legal issues pertaining to remarried divorcees [cf. item, WHO]. I believe that our discussion may offer a modest but sincere contribution and perhaps a help to the far more authoritative ongoing discussions of the Synod Fathers. Ma, these are serious issues of common interest, I think it's not bad that the two of us, ordinary faithful, we express our opinion in a constructive dialogue. Let's see the main and most significant criticisms and objections that makes me prof. Gnerre.

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1. I really believe that the divorced and remarried are in a state of grave sin is "rash judgment"?

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I answer: It is a rash judgment, if you believe that they are necessarily and constantly in a state of guilt or shame, so as to be permanently and irreparably, around the clock devoid of grace, so that if they were to die should fall into hell.

NOn this, however, is the thought of the Italian Episcopal Conference which, already in 1979, It issued an important document "Pastoral of irregular marriage situations" [cf. WHO], in which you give instructions, even today very useful, the Christian conduct, that these couples can practice. From this it easily deduces that they may be gracefully and therefore are not in a constant state of mortal sin. Indeed, if he says, for instance, the two can do "spiritual Communion”. If they had a mortal sin on his conscience, They could never do it?

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2. Gnerre makes me say that I would argue that one can be induced to sin against his will. In fact I objected saying that, if this were true, "Everyone could cite situations that would have prompted him, in spite of himself, to sin: "The woman you put with me gave me the fruit, and I ate!» [GN, 3]. Adam tries to exonerate himself needlessly ".

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But I said exactly the opposite. I said that sin is an act free and voluntary, for which there is a "sin spite of themselves". Of course, I can do an objectively bad action, ma, if I make unintentionally or because forced or inadvertent or deliberate consent without, the action I can not be accused of negligence, at least before God. It is different on If Adam, paradigm of the one who has sinned truly e voluntarily e, unfairly, He wants to shift blame on others; though it is true that Adam was led into temptation by Eve. But one thing is go up a temptation is to yield and an account voluntarily the temptation. I, however, I was referring to the case in which, as for example certain cohabiting, in insurmountable objective situations, Peccano certamente, but have extenuating circumstances, for the fact that, for hypothesis, They are every day in front frequent occasion, urgent and inevitable fall. Because of this, also a sin in itself fatal to his subject, but with lack of full - mitigating subjective deliberation because of the violence of passion -, It can drop venial fault level.

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3. Household members, says Gnerre, They have "an obligation to take off from the sinful condition, otherwise there is a risk of “try” It gave".

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The obligation is, but if there are real possibilities and objective to terminate the relationship. But there are complex and complicated cases in which the separation is not possible - at least momentarily - even with all the good will of the pair, which could also have repented of the new union, but he does not know how to get out. In these cases an occasion of sin is inevitable and unavoidable, whereby, if it is true that the occasion is not the it causes own, but only incentive O stimulus external to sin, and if it is true that the real cause of sin is only the ill will, it remains true that apply mitigating referred to in the previous issue. And if the two were to fall into mortal sin, They can be forgiven by God, even without the sacrament of penance. Clearly however, whenever they sin, to rise, They must have the intention to sin no more, despite the continuing supposed involuntary or greater than the power situation, which pushes to sin. However, it should never be called "sinful", but dangerous. Let us always remember that no situation is sinful O guilty in sé, but which, however, it can be an occasion of sin or temptation to sin. And if in some cases the situation can be avoided, It should be avoided.

The temptation of God is another thing. It involves asking a volunteer occasion or neglect to do everything possible to avoid sin, while claiming to enjoy the divine protection or escape, however the danger. God can not help if we throw ourselves voluntarily into the abyss.

The case of certain cohabitants is different. The hypothesis is that they are unable to avoid the opportunity or temptation. Because of this, when it comes, easily they fall into sin, but the fault decreases, as it is supposed that the will yields to the violence of passion. But if the fault is lowered to the level venial sin, they shall be removed by simple personal penitential practices, obtain forgiveness directly from God.

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4. "Two cohabiting changing lives, demonstrate that their intention not to sin does not exist ".

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They are cases in which, at least temporarily, you can not stop living together, which implies the existence of opportunities and inevitable temptations and perhaps irresistible to sin. This will mean frequent sins, more or less serious. But if their condition of life externally and legally is irregular and unlawful, and it is objectively reprehensible, we know then we of what grace can work in their consciences? It is true that the good intention proves with deeds. But it is also true that if you are in a situation like that of certain cohabitants, from which at the moment it is impossible to exit, Who prevents them from continuously renew and sincerely, with every effort, good intentions and good intentions, despite frequent falls?

To test the quality of an intent we should not ask the next actions that are beyond their strength. Two cohabiting obliged to remain living together can also perform acts of good will and then not at all excluded from God's mercy, maybe even more a married couple who live in a regular position. What do we know about the intentions of hearts? What do we know about the differences and conflicts that may arise between the two consciousnesses? What do we know of the violence with which certain forces of evil in contrast the good intention and good will of the subject? And if the good intention can not express the outside, Perhaps God does not see it and not the rewards? And we know what that grace operates in souls?

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5. "We take the Confession. This, to be valid it needs some conditions, including being sincerely repentant and the resolution not to sin again. In connection also comes in the future behavior. If I stole and I am convinced that a particular occasion he made me do it, I have a moral obligation to avoid that proximate occasion of sin. The same applies if a woman living with her as my wife does not this being my wife Again: from a formal point of view the father Cavalcoli reasoning could also have value, but not from the substantive and purposeful. That's why Jesus says the words I quoted earlier: “If you look at a woman to lust after ...”».

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No one stops to life partners to continually renew the resolution not to sin again whenever they sin. It is true that in ' Pain act in denominational we express the confessor this regard. But this does not prevent the next week we fall into the same sin, at least venial, without implying any recidivism or lightness or hypocrisy, but only because of the weakness of human nature. Which is not to say that there are not and should not exist healing processes, but they require their time and the confessor must know how to wait. Moreover, the aim must be weighed against their forces and their possibilities, compatibly to the condition of life in which there is located and from which it can not come out.

Now, our hypothesis is precisely that of a couple who, serious objective reasons, Larger and also in part reasonable force, can not stop the relationship. Of course, This requires continuous renewal of good intentions. But we must not believe that the two, for the simple fact of being in that situation, can not make sincere resolutions, that they open them to the grace of God.

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6. "The divorced and remarried can not access the Eucharist because their condition is objectively negative. The Familiar Consortium (n.84) [Ed. WHO] He speaks for divorced a condition of life that contradicts "objectively" the natural and Christian truth about marriage: “It's them (the divorced and remarried) unable to be admitted, since their state and their condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church, signified and effected by the Eucharist "".

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The Pope expresses here the condition of their irregularities, in outer hole or, and how he expresses, "Objectively"; but is careful not to say that they would, subjectively or in the inner hole, in a constant state of mortal sin, why, this, like I said, It would be a rash judgment, which claims scrutinize the intimate consciences and secret operations of grace. In second place, this teaching of the Holy Pontiff should not be taken as if it were an immutable doctrine of the faith, but only as a pastoral available, as such changeable, as the ancient tradition. But this is not Sacred Tradition, it only custodian of the data revealed, but only the canonical tradition. In fact, the years in which this apostolic Exhortation has been written, the question of divorced and remarried is somewhat extended, complicated and aggravated, so that the present Pope has decided to reconsider it in to see if they maintain the current discipline, or adopt solutions different from the past. For this he convened the Synod. The question puts a game two values ​​of faith, that is connected to the Church with wise pastoral: one part, respect for the sacraments, Immutable means of grace and salvation, established by Christ; on the other, the care of souls, nourished by sacramental grace, administered by the Church.

Depending on where hangs, as it were, the balance, the Church can give precedence to Sacramento; and then from this springs the current framework; or can put up more clearly the salvation of souls; and then the current rules could be changed. We await the Holy Father's decisions, such that they are, no alarmism of a narrow-minded conservatism and without the superficiality of the modernists.

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7. "Father Cavalcoli falls into heresy today: sin in itself does not exist, It should rather be regarded as a fine halved. Cavalcoli Father should know that if there is absolute good, not the absolute evil exists, but no evil is not and will not remain evil ".

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The professor. Gnerre gives me horrible things that I never said, nor can absolutely draw from my statements. Why such a blinding? What happened to him? He believes he can get this view from my words: "The sin of living together, as sinning, It is not necessarily coextensive with their live. It is not that their whole life is a sin?. They may very well have good quality in other respects, quality that they can and should enhance, without sin on the merits ".

As for the "good half", we must be understood. If I make only half of my duty, I certainly sin. But if I cut in half an apple, to eat I do not do anything wrong, Halve a good is sin, if the asset is to be whole: if I cut in half a human person, certainly I am doing wrong, i.e. sin.

Adultery is bad, it's a shame, because it destroys a marriage, source of human life. But the new couple is adultery, once you committed this sin, it is said that later in life following it is always sin, devoid of grace, even if it lasts a state of deplorable life. Indeed, the two can repent every sin and regain whenever grace, although it remains the illegitimate union or reprehensible.

Perhaps Professor. Gnerre, with its reference to buonismo, He intended to refer to the theory of sin as "imperfection", devised by the modernists to apply to cohabiting under the pretext that the two possess the human qualities, to minimize their faults. Instead the moral imperfection is quite distinct from sin, because imperfection is in good line, is an action essentially good, although it lacks its fullness, but not bad agent will, but only to the limits of his will. It is therefore the fruit of good will. The sin, vice versa, It is an evil act, effect of ill will. It is voluntary imperfection, is a volunteer had to halve the fine.

So, I would say that sin in itself does not exist? There is pure evil? I simply say that cohabiting, like any human being Adam's son, mixed good deeds with bad deeds. I also recalled that, if you are not in grace, also good works are not for the salvation. I have said and repeated, Furthermore, that sin is a bad voluntary act performed with caution and deliberate consent.

Where here prof. Gnerre reason of his delirious accusations against me? He rather, with his theory of full time sin - "sinful situation" - approaches to horribly Manichean conception of evil and to hell relentlessly poor sinners ignoring the work of grace; a serious problem, this, also indicated by Ariel S. Levi Gualdo since the subtitle of his last thundering item [cf. The Island of Patmos, WHO].

Turning then to the question of absolute good and absolute evil, what I have always said is that there is absolute good and absolute evil does not exist, Why, while the well can be totally free from evil, evil is nothing but a deficiency or an accidental character deprivation, because it needs a substance or subject, to which inhere. The total evil, absolute or substantial, so, does not exist, why, in the moment when all the substance is destroyed, evil cancels itself.

But the sin is not an evil that destroys himself, as Karl Rahner thinks; In fact, in the case of sin, the subject is the soul, which, as sin is serious, It can not be destroyed by this evil, which remains in the soul. How do I remove this evil? It is God who takes away in Christ, provoking repentance or giving grace, and this also happens in divorced and remarried, even if they have the ability to terminate their relationship.

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8. To say that the Pope can never speak against the Tradition, even though it will be caretaker, It means in fact considers it infallible on everything. Graziano writes in his decree of Pope: “A nemine is judicandus, unless it is found to have deviated from the faith,”, what does it mean: "It should not be judged by anyone, unless it turns away from the faith. "

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The Pope is infallible interpreter of Tradition, not in everything? Those who have never supported? If the Pope speaks of the game Milan-Inter, It is not infallible. Graziano is a hypothetical reasoning purely formal and abstract, where it is a result, not the consequent. It's like if I said: if I were to throw from the fifth floor, I'd kill. But I do not mean to throw myself from the fifth floor.

Dad, as Teacher of the Faith, Supreme unchanging saving truth interpreter, revealed to us by Christ and contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, as the Vicar of Christ in teaching gospel doctrine, the contents of dogma and morality, the demands of divine law and natural law, although not formally ruling - a very rare thing - a new dogmatic definition, according to papal infallibility conditions laid down by the First Vatican Council, in his public teaching ordinary, oral or written, an encyclical, exhortation or apostolic letter, a motu proprio, a general audience or a homily of the Mass daily, or a public talk to anyone or at any level, or an interview with a journalist or by famous people, benefits from the charism of Peter, to whom Christ said: «strengthen your brethren» ['Strengthen your brothers in the faith ", cf. LC 22,32] and therefore can not be deceived and does not deceive, errs not and is not fallible, but he always says with certainty vero, that, if it is not immediately truths of faith, it is still connected with faith or descends from the faith.

The Pope is not infallible instead and indeed may err or deceive or be deceived, or sin in everything else, It may be unfair or reckless in his moral conduct, in making a decision, in governing the Church, in enacting or repealing or changing a canonical law or a standard liturgical, expressing a theological opinion, in private speech or behavior, in the choice of collaborators, in the appointment or promotion or dismissal of bishops or prelates, in dealing with the political power or political judgments. It can be deposed or unworthiness or incapacity or for grave reasons that affect the well or peace in the Church, but he can never be convinced of heresy, which, moreover, it has never happened. Himself, as now we know now, It can make withdrawal from the sacred ministry for good cause, more or less freely.

The only valid hypothesis of a heretic pope is the case of manifest dementia, something which has never occurred, or had undergone constriction, case, the latter, that has occurred; but the Pope, Free return, It canceled the act invalid, accomplished in need.

It is therefore inconceivable vergognosissima idea and that of some self-styled Catholics or Catholics, which, false supporters of Tradition, dare advance the possibility of the Pope "heretic", with the clear intention to put a basic "legal", to accuse the current Pontiff, while some come audacity to openly accuse, taking occasion, an example among many, by his decision to allow the Synod will discuss the possibility of admitting the divorced and remarried to receive Communion, as if this constituted an attack on "Tradition" and the dignity of the Sacraments.

On the other side we have the most consistent and dangerous modernist faction, arrogant, skeptically, liberal, subjectivist, historicist, evolutionary and relativistic, which, denies any certainty how or universal and objective evidence - contemptuously called "abstract" – and then not only the immutability of dogma, but also of the truth of reason, promotes, under the pretext of "progress", "freedom", "mercy" and "modernity", a change of discipline, not to adapt it better to dogma or to divine law, waves implement a better application, but because he does not believe in any absolute value.

Impersonate Catholics and not be is a serious scam or a purely political, much worse than those who claim to cure the sick, without proper title. The Catholic is neither one who is in charge of overseeing the orthodoxy Pope, to ensure you are faithful to the Tradition, or one that, believing they have a direct line to the Holy Spirit or with the Bible, It acts according to his subjective consciousness, in absolute autonomy, as Fichte was the "absolute I", like it or not the Pope, which for him it is a believer on a par with all other, with his own questionable and even backward opinions, as he said Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, shortly before dying, that "the Church of Benedict XVI is back two centuries', and fortunately "Today we have great theologians like Rahner" [ CF. the Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, please refer to our past articles: WHO, WHO].

The Catholic stands out among all other Christians - and he has - because of its loyal obedience to the Pope, that is not obedience supine, but that of intelligent and responsible people, who enjoy the freedom of the children of God, and therefore they know when the Pope must be obeyed, and when it can be criticized, sn the basis of criteria of discernment that the Pope himself gives, and not those that come from Mons. Marcel Lefebvre o da Hans Kung.

Although the Pope is not perfectly impartially between the two parties in conflict, we should not trouble us that much: It is one of those things where he is not infallible and can correct itself. We express our disagreement fairly, where it is allowed, But look above him as the successor of Peter. Let us be neighbors in the struggle and suffering, we call upon him for the assistance of the Holy Spirit and the intercession of Our Lady, so that "there may be one flock and one shepherd".

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Varazze, 22 October 2015

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CATHOLICS AND EROTOPHOBIA: "THE VIRGINITY OF HERETICS IS MORE IMPURE THAN ADULTERY"

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Some Catholics cupi very similar to the Sadducees and the Pharisees, are grown with an idea of Christ not died but rose again, with an idea of ​​sexuality whole Manichaean; I am fixed on arid legalism and concepts imbued with Pelagianism, and similarly to Luther they have serious problems on the Pauline concept of predestination, then on the theology of justification that often threaten to reduce to an idea the whole Calvinist, albeit in the form of Catholic moral rigor.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Shortly after the exit interview to John Cavalcoli made by the Vatican correspondent of The Print Andrea Tornielli [cf. WHO] It has unleashed a welter of controversy following heavy accusations against the Dominican theologian; accusations to which I do not answer specifically, why he did it in a masterly way the direct question, that does not need my "office defenses" [cf. WHO].

I do, however bitter confirmation and reaffirm a concept emerged in recent months: on the pretext of the Synod on the family armada of Pharisees followed to change the Sixth Commandment in sin of sins, as if it were residing the whole mystery of evil. And just to support their outlandish theories, They are ready "politically" to all, even to raise the African bishops as a banner in defense of orthodoxy family [cf. WHO, WHO, etc.]. What really makes this pathetic certain “politicians” who bring out what they care only pretending not to know that several of these champions of defense non-negotiable values, the family and the sacred marriage; these defenders of the true doctrine that thundered against adultery and concubinage, Fathers are often results of several children around the world, which the Holy See has always knows; and specifically know those of Congregation of reliable advertising, whose main problem, when it comes to electing a new bishop in any diocese of the Black Continent, It is able to select a candidate who has not concubines and children scattered around, venture far from easy.

Or to clarify a concrete example: in Rome, the end of 2009 spent two days together with a great Archbishop of the diocese of Africa who asked me for help to the reading of the Latin missal of Blessed Pope Paul VI. A few days later he would be gone in a private audience by Pope Benedict XVI, he concelebrated with him and that it then had talks over breakfast. The archbishop had learned that the Pope used in his private chapel, this Missal and wanted to refresh his reading of the Latin. Before you go, to me and to another priest, he said: "I want to tell you why I asked for an audience with the Holy Father. Celebrities, mine is a very extensive diocese but poor, in which we have a big problem: we totally lack the necessary means to support all the children who were brought into the world by our priests around the villages. And we, towards these creatures, we as a Church have moral obligations and we can not leave them abandoned on the streets. Why I go to the Holy Father: to ask him for financial assistance '. He concluded by saying: "And I hope that the Holy Father, as those of the Congregation of reliable advertising I did not listen to me, accept my request and remove my auxiliary bishop, which he has three concubines and do not even know how many children were born around ».

A boost perversion the intended sex as sin of sins, which is in itself something far more sinful adultery or cohabitation of divorced and remarried, are lay people without Christian humanity supported by some theologian specializing in pulling the stone, withdraw the hand and instigating people quite ignorant of theology - and therefore easily manipulated - to "arm themselves and go". Is this, in my language, It is called cowardice, sometimes typical of priests who have spent their lives to speculate on the clouds of the greatest subjective intellect systems, up to sink into authentic mother of all heresies: replace ' "I"Of his own thought thought of" God ", which is no longer, through the Incarnation of the Word Mystery, the beginning, the Centre and the ultimate goal of our entire humanism, but the pretext on which to build their own homocentrism intellectual. And it was John Cavalcoli to give us the columns of this online magazine dedicated to an extraordinary item Apology of pride [CF. WHO], that sin by myself several times as a diabolical queen and charioteer of the Seven Deadly Sins; a sin - pride - that the list occupies no coincidence that the first and that as such it is to be feared more than lust, that it is not neither the queen nor the charioteer of the Seven Deadly Sins, for this is placed fourth in the history of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Some dark Catholics very similar to the Sadducees and Pharisees, basically They grew up with an idea of ​​the dead Christ, but not resurrected, with an idea of ​​sexuality whole Manichaean; I am fixed on arid legalism and concepts imbued with Pelagianism, and similarly to Luther they have serious problems on the Pauline concept of predestination, then on the theology of justification that often threaten to reduce to an idea the whole Calvinist, albeit in the form of Catholic moral rigor.

If before articulated pastoral themes with complex theological and doctrinal implications certain characters should be quiet, for no other reason that modesty stemming from an objective lack of deep knowledge; some reference theologian who behind the scenes had to charge them modesty and do not open their mouth, unless it is unable to prove that he really made the priest for life. And to a priest she does not mean to have split between academic classrooms, conference rooms and libraries, pastorally speaking because a priest does not mean having celebrated a Mass daily, but having spent much time in the confessional, He has taken upon themselves the pain and the discomfort of individuals and entire families, He has attended the oncology departments of hospitals, be entered and exited from prisons where young people in their early twenties, for a "stunt" or worse for "madness", They have taken a sentence of twenty years for murder; and so on.

By experiencing the pastoral dimension, the undersigned, while devoting myself to insights and theological speculation, I do not accept the pastoral lessons accountancy by certain characters that are, I repeat, the eminently political figures; as I do not accept certain theaters staged by purely academic priests who unlike me do not go to look for a young face ill with cancer in terminal phase, to administer the anointing of the sick, to celebrate Mass in his home because he can not get out of the four walls within which is awaiting the death overnight, and to whom it is not possible to offer as consolation a few lessons on good epistemology as an alternative to morphine-sulphate-based painkillers. Not to mention the fact that this poor young sick has the "terrible guilt" of being married to a divorced. But, given the irreversible disease severity, not being able to have sexual relations peccaminosissimi, she and her divorced and remarried husband, They can be considered more or less in place a moral level? What only it counts so essential and "absolutely" unavoidable in some legalists is that there is no middle the sin of sins: sex. Though, at the level of morale epistemica it was not yet clear if the sin is represented by the member that penetrates the vagina or if you just wish to consider the orgasm, because in this second case, we could establish that the genital penetration is granted, provided, however, that there is no ejaculation, but especially that there is no part of both no pleasure, because certain moralists rendered immoral by their inherent inhumanity, You can expect this and much more, as they are able to create on one side of the impossible dream manuals Sexual Ethics, the other to deny the mystery of man's creation, because basically they are always, still the same incorrigible:

Woe to you too, lawyers!, you load men with unbearable burdens, and those weights you do not touch with a finger! [cf. LC. 11,46]

And in recent weeks of the liturgical year we read in the Gospel of St. Luke feria, where shows diatribes and criticism of Jesus with the Pharisees; well if we read those lines seem to find ourselves in front of the inhumanity of certain characters fragrant legalisms, before the motivations of which comes back to mind the wise motto of a great Father of the Church, St. Gregory of Nyssa, who said that "Virginity of heretics is more impure adultery ', and is an impurity that through the street and spit-Pelagian eventually leads to atheism clerical, to the atheism of religious beast, atheism understood as a denial of the mystery of God Incarnate Word destroyed in the worst way: through its reduction to a purely speculative phenomenon and legalistic.

With a zeal that rivals the Highway Code of the Federal Republic of Germany, those who think in those terms stated that the divorced and remarried should live as brother and sister, in perfect chastity; because of course - it goes without saying - the whole mystery of evil resides, as far explained, in sexuality. Who indulges in such statements and decided to read first so tragically lost sight of the fact that chastity is not a stoic sustainable waiver using only the power of the human will - and what I really think it can be said for direct concrete experience -, but a gift of grace. And who has studied in depth the Of nature and grace of Sant’Agostino, which it is a big debate against that Pelagius in his own way that we could consider the father of a precursor voluntarist, He knows what we're talking about. Therefore, a married couple that was closed to the action of grace but applied with care and zeal all the moral rules, by natural methods until the perfect continence, It could result in all and for all worse than a cohabiting couple, while he is living in sin, first of all aware of his sin, But they moved by a sense of openness towards themselves and towards others. It's right in front of these people which the Lord Jesus warns:

Truly, I say: the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God. Is John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe; the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him instead. Butter, on the contrary, though she had seen these things, you do not even repent and believe him [cf. Mt. 21, 31-32].

If we instead focus everything on genitality as many are doing in this debate and also in ways flush with the obsession, It is likely to slip into unclean virginity of heretics. Or as he wrote Blaise Pascal in his thoughts about some nuns: "Caste as angels, superb come demoni ".

And I, as a man and as a priest, I should perhaps take lessons from that certain gentleman who thunders against the divorced and remarried and ranting against adultery: Holy Communion for divorced and remarried no, never, no, otherwise it will eventually be schism? All with following the theologian of confidence before some objective evidence of immorality, however, suspended by magic all kinds of judgment and also beating his feet on the ground he says that "these are other issues" and that "our task is to speak of theology and not socio-political issues "? I will do therefore, understanding: if one dares to touch the highly immoral life of certain moneyed and powerful munificent, those matters are "socio-political" that "does not concern the theologians', the duty of which, and especially on the level of moral rectitude, It is perhaps to take a thrashing instead only the weak who can not lavish on our rivers of money works and foundations?

Like it or not like it, It remains a fact that certain institutions of hard-core moralists have kept up with the money donated by the American extreme right made up of people who - the most moral absolute - are married at least a couple of times and made merry with girls below twenty years younger of them. Or do we really want to relegate in questions without theological and pastoral interest, but above all the moral interest, the fact that these characters, between one and the other revelry, then bear with the halberd chivalrous in his hand and with the tear to the eye to the Mass in the ancient rite, for thunder between a we pray and the other against adultery, concubinage and the Communion for divorced and remarried, as if everything were luxuries that can not be granted to ordinary mortals from low-income, but only to the great profligate with accounts to nine zeros, before which one side takes, the other did not even see those sins which really cry out for vengeance before God, far as to assert that "certain issues do not concern the theologians' and feeling spite of the consciousness epistemic ed aletica shipshape?

Giovanni Cavalcoli, than as a man, priest, confessor and theologian has the purity of an angel, before the sins related to the Sixth Commandment is always sinners with great humanity, never throw at them the burning arrows of moral judgments merciless. I that I come instead from another experience, and that in a previous life to the priesthood I walked the affective and sexual dimension in the length and breadth, before the confession of sins, much lighter than that at the time I was committing, always reflect with joy on grace, finding myself today ineffable mystery to fulfill through the ministry of sinners Church, on which deep as devout instrumentum Gods Christological tenderness and mercy.

Come to the grace by different routes: the Father Giovanni by the angelic purity, I through the in-depth knowledge of certain sins, we both live the perennial charm of God's grace. This is the reason for which each day, in US, do not renew certain concept the supreme law of the highest injury [the supreme law is supreme injustice] but the charm of the Paschal Mystery: «or felix blame, , which gained for us so great a Redeemer» [O happy fault that we did deserve for us so great a Redeemer]. It is in this that lies the substantial and formal difference which exists between the small Pharisees made ruthless in the heart for their closure homocentric to grace, the shepherds in the care of souls and men of God made pure in heart to the extent that they have received and made fruitful in himself the gifts of grace that has thrown them into a being and becoming all focused in a Christ-centered dimension, within which harbored feelings like love, pity and mercy.

the Island of Patmos, 19 October 2015

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