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THE SENSE OF THE FAITHFUL AND THOSE CATHOLIC ALABARDIERS GUARDIANS OF THE TRUE FAITH WHO ARE IN FACT LUTHERANS AND MODERNISTS WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING THAT THEY ARE

The outlandish theories of the Catholic halberdiers reach terrible practical and pastoral conclusions, but above all they end up being, in concrete facts and in their approach to faith, of the perfect Lutherans, without realizing it is, unaware that many of their critical reasons are the same as Martin Luther's. Certain subjects fall into Lutheranism in one way, in modernism on the other hand, except to feel and believe the only ones, alone and authentic guardians of the true faith and the authentic Catholic tradition.

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Lately I've been reading several theological proclamations around the net. A little’ it's my fault, because I'm a cyber preacher friar, so cyber teologo who surfs the net and often comes across rather strange theological theories. I tend to let it go, because they are funny theories and I read them with the aim of laughing a little’ after a day of preaching or academic research.

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Recently some bizarre theories of the “legions of misunderstood only bearers of the true Catholic faith, apostolic, romana ”have raised doubts even in the most devoted and balanced lay faithful. Therefore I thank these halberdiers who are the only holders of the Catholic faith, because they provided me with a assist to make a brief review of ecclesiology and to provide genuine reflections on a theme that perhaps has escaped a bit’ out of hand; precisely for this reason it can be proposed to those who perhaps want to deepen it for the first time. The theme in question is the sense of the faithful.

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With this Latin meaning, translatable into "the sense of the faithful", it means the feeling of all the faithful, that is, their subjective faith and therefore their reaction on the arguments of the faith proposed by the bishops or by the pope or by a council that are expressed in the Magisterium. Now, according to the halberdiers of the authentic faith, I would be a liar and an ignoramus on this issue. But it gets worse: I would lie not knowing that I lie. So it was necessary that these super masters, a great day, the sleeves had to be rolled up, get on the chair of their personal blog, take their virtual chalk and write on the smart-saccenza blackboard to explain to me that the sense of the faithful has an almost genuine role in the interpretation of the Magisterium and its development. This consideration is the foundation for one of the halberdiers to be able to claim that, in all this genuineness, his sense of the faithful it almost played a fundamental decisive role also in the evaluation of the acts of the ordinary magisterium of Pope Francis, such that rejecting them all together would be - listen, hear! - a prudential act, because all those who obey the Pope would do nothing but align themselves with anti-Catholic positions.

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These sentences thus written they can mean everything and the opposite of everything. Also the reference to the magisterium of the Second Vatican Council, cited several times both in this case and in various telematic exchanges, it is so labile that it seems non-existent. In short, the basic ambiguity of the cybernetic theologians halberdiers of the true faith consists precisely in avoiding defining precisely what the sense of the faithful. Subsequently, this non-concept is filled with subjective interpretations e, at least for what I read on the net, charged with a certain feeling of defiance and distrust towards the ecclesiastical authorities when they exercise the authentic or ordinary magisterium. Therefore the cat-space halberdiers venture into theological and liturgical interpretations vitiated by fallacies and basic prejudices, gives real anti-dogmas. The basic theory, in conclusion, it seems to be the one for which a group of faithful is enough, also conspicuous, that strong in their being fully faithful to the Church and exercising a correct one sense of the faithful, only for this reason should they be able to correctly offer the correct analysis of the Magisterium documents, even to establish in a definitive and no longer questionable form, which document of the Roman Pontiff is of the ordinary Magisterium, extraordinary and authentic and which is not.

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Theologians still debate these issues today, trying to understand the value of a certain papal and conciliar document, ma, net of a few exasperations, they would hardly proclaim their personal views as absolutely true and authentic, and starting from these to proclaim oneself i Catholics, apostolic, Romans than their opponents who would be incompetent, of heretics who understand nothing. In short, without the halberdiers even noticing: we are in the liberal democratic system of the parliamentary republic, complete with majority elections and proactive and abrogative referendums. Only the solemn formula is missing: "In the Church, sovereignty belongs to the People who delegate it to the Supreme Pastor and to the bishops".

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I also add that clearly, in today's world where freedom comes before any other right, everyone thinks and says what they want, nonsense and falsehoods included. The right to say and think nonsense about the Catholic faith is one of those inalienable rights approved and even encouraged by the secularist and atheist culture. Halberdiers too, on this liquid and secular line, they say and think what they want. I take the liberty of asking him: for case, on your sites, you are organizing the fair and the supercazzole contest and you are competing for the first place? This is just to clarify, because I would gladly leave it there without any doubt.

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The introductory irony phase is over (which I took from reading the splendid Adverse Heresies of Sant’Ireneo, neo-doctor of the Church), I pass a bit’ to clarify to the faithful Catholic faithful what is meant by sense of the faithful which they too have and offer to the Church as a service and path in truth.

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Già San John Henry Newman he had dedicated a theological essay on this subject entitled «On the consultation of the faithful in matters of doctrine». The English saint and theologian, careful student of the fathers and of the history of the ancient Church, shows some heroic examples of faithful groups who in their sense of faith transmitted and preached the correct faith; this especially in the very first centuries, these faithful, resisting Arianism, until martyrdom, they rebelled against bishops and priests opposed to the Nicene doctrine. And here is already that the aforementioned halberdiers will be there to rub their hands, grinning in front of the screen and saying “Ah! You see I was right?”.

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Obviously the meaning of Newman's study - converted to Catholicism in 1843 - was that of a Catholic theologian who wanted to provide dignity to the conscience and coherent profession of the entire body of the faithful, and therefore also of the laity. Why in fact write an essay of controversy towards the Roman Church, see Newman yes 16 years he was an attentive apologist and scholar of the sources of the faith, in an Anglican environment always ready to criticize him and hopeful to see him return Anglican again to prove the absurdity of Roman Catholicism?[1] And above all, why never offer arguments contrary to priestly authority and its teaching within the Roman see, even if Newman himself after his conversion had been validly consecrated a Catholic priest 12 years before that essay? The answer must obviously be sought in the words of the author himself, when it states: "There is no doubt that in this case they were not asked for advice, opinions and judgments, but we only wanted to ascertain a factual situation, that is, their beliefs were used as a testimony of that apostolic tradition on which alone any doctrinal definition can be based "[2]. What Newman then points out is that:

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«By saying this, so, I am certainly not denying that most bishops were Orthodox in their internal beliefs; nor that there was a certain number of clergy who stood alongside the laity and acted as their centers and guides; nor that the laity actually received their faith, in the first instance, by bishops and clergy; nor that some portions of the laity were ignorant and other portions eventually corrupted by the Aryan masters, who took possession of the seats and ordained a heretical clergy; but I still want to say that in that time of immense confusion the divine dogma of our Lord's divinity was proclaimed, applied, maintained and (humanly speaking) preserved, much more from the Church of the learned that from church docent; that the body of the episcopate was unfaithful to his office, while the body of the laity was faithful to his baptism; that the Pope, sometimes, the patriarch, the metropolitan and other large offices, sometimes the general councils, they said what they shouldn't have said, or they did what obscured and compromised the revealed truth; while, other parte, it was the Christian people who, under Providence, it was the ecclesiastical strength of Athanasius, Ilario, Eusebio di Vercelli and other great solitary confessors, that without them they would have failed "[3].

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I still imagine halberdiers rubbing hands again, squeak louder than before “Ah! I am still right so now I will make the act of faith to fill in the social and all my speeches of insults and rude responses against those post-council pretexts!" What to say: a person who can be said to be sufficiently familiar with the basis of the history of the Church knows very well that over the centuries there have also been popes, bishops and cardinals who have not always behaved in the odor of sanctity, rather, not a few have had reprehensible moral conduct. Sometimes even at the level of exercising their role as pastors they have not been perfect, or to be honest: they were real disasters as far as making concrete decisions e, in some cases, also in the ways of communicating some important dogmas of our faith, what this of which the Supreme Pontiff Honorius I and the Monothelite question of 634 it was a classic example.

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All these examples in no way can they be adduced as evidence of a certain superiority of the sense of the faithful with respect to the ordinary Magisterium. Indeed, those that Newman quotes and that I take back, they are pastoral choices and ways of life that are absolutely deplorable; but the English theologian acknowledges that, beyond these reprehensible actions, the faithful are formed in the faith by the overwhelming majority of priests, bishops and popes who are wholly orthodox to the correct doctrine of dual nature. Because in their consecration the bishops received the character of the fullness of the apostolic priesthood, hence the state grace that allows him to express himself, under certain conditions, places and times, as authentic and certain teachers of the faith. The imposition of hands that the sacred order confers does not confer an aura of holiness and preservation from future very serious sins, it was not even a sort of sacramental space shield that parried any kind of moral and spiritual imperfection. Therefore these teachers of the faith need at the same time to consult the faithful, because clergy and faithful together contribute to the development and knowledge of Catholic dogma and doctrine. Newman himself - in spite of the exploitation that the indomitable halberdier can still make of him - explicitly writes:

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“I certainly think the Church teaching he is happier when he has such enthusiastic partisans around him as those represented here, that when he cuts the faithful out of the study of his divine doctrines and the sympathy of his divine contemplations, and demands from them one fides implied in his word, that in the educated classes will end up in indifference, and in the poorest in superstition ".

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Here then is cooperation and collaboration in consulting the faithful it is the focal point of Newman's entire essay. There is no Church docent without a church docta: the development of correct faith therefore always takes place as a path of ecclesial unity, without creating schisms, false dilemmas and who knows what other devilry, in order to babble nonsense about the primacy of common sense against the "heretical" magisterium of the Supreme Pontiff Francis, of which some brain-disconnected subjects come to maintain that his own election to the sacred throne is invalid. Yes, because the halberdiers continually write against the magisterium, establishing with factual and concrete arguments that the sense of the faithful it is superior even to the details offered by it. That is, in their odd theory it seems to me that I can clearly infer that the sense of the faithful it is a kind of epistemological force that, linked to baptismal grace, it can also come to affirm authentically and indisputably which document can be called authentic magisterium and must therefore be obeyed, and at the same time which document is instead the pure opinion of the pope or the bishops and which can be disregarded if not indeed attacked on social.

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In tal modo, perhaps not realizing it, they fall into the Protestant error of free examination: only while Protestants apply this theory to Holy Scripture, these free defenders of Catholicism and of the one faith with a spatial halberd, they apply it to Tradition and to the Magisterium texts. If these are all hoaxes in what way, At that time, the faithful walk with the teaching Church (who teaches the truths of faith) without falling into the extremisms seen so far? Let's see in synthesis precisely how the Second Vatican Council defines the meaning of the faithful. In particular he talks about it in the The light in the part dedicated to The sense of faith and the charisms in the people of God:

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"The holy people of God also participate in Christ's prophetic office by spreading his living testimony everywhere, above all through a life of faith and charity, and by offering God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips acclaiming to his name (cf.. EB 13,15). The totality of the faithful, having the anointing that comes from the Saint, (cf.. 1 GV 2,20 e 27), cannot be mistaken in believing, and he manifests this property of his through the supernatural sense of the faith of all the people, when "from the bishops to the last lay faithful" shows his universal consent in matters of faith and morals. And indeed, for that sense of faith, which is aroused and sustained by the Spirit of truth, and under the guidance of the sacred magisterium, which allows, if he is faithfully obeyed, to no longer receive a human word, but truly the word of God (cf.. 1 Ts 2,13), God's people unfailingly adhere to the faith transmitted to the saints once and for all (cf.. Gdc 3), with right judgment penetrates it deeper and more fully applying it to life " (LG. N. 12).

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Starting from this text, let's try to clarify the gross errors mentioned above. The first mistake made in the aforementioned "ecclesiological theory" was that of distinguishing the bishops, the cardinals, dad, in short, all the clergy from the simple lay faithful. An error that was not even committed by Newman as we have seen. In short, the lay faithful do not have a different sense of faith than that of the clergy, which would be more genuine or more true, even if the clergy, in its totality, continually complied with actions contrary to Catholic morality. And here is how I anticipated, the beauty of Catholic doctrine which, in terms of receiving the Truth from the Holy Spirit, places the entire ecclesial body on the same level.

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The second mistake it consists of contrasting the Magisterium and the Sense of the Faithful: this is outside Catholic logic and theology precisely because of the sole origin of the revealed data: the Trinitarian God in his ad extra missions. God does not offer the truth in pieces, crumbling it according to the people, of times and needs, from which it would follow that God offers, to the Holy Father Francis, the whole Catholic truth about the dual nature of Christ, while to Mr. Rossi of the parish of Tor Lupara he teaches that Jesus is only God or that he is only man, so Mr. Rossi can oppose his personal sense of faith against the Pope's Magisterium. The council teaches precisely that the sense of the faithful comes from listening to the sacred magisterium, which offers guidance on Sacred Scripture and Tradition. Hence Catholic doctrine as regards the authentic teaching of the faith and the interpretation of biblical texts, precisely for the task entrusted by Jesus himself to the apostles and for the power of the keys offered to Peter and his successors, it places the bishops as the first teachers of the faith, and not on the same level as the lay faithful. Which obviously will be able to rightly be formed, study books on exegesis and theology, but they will never be able to assume definitive and authentic interpreters of these texts: it is not the task assigned to them by God.

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Finally, here is a practical consideration and daily to propose. The penetration of the whole Church to the divine mysteries, as the council writes, clergy and lay faithful who are guided by the Magisterium, it has no military or, on the contrary, only organizational value: in fact, following the Magisterium is what is needed to transform the Word of God into a lived word. To pass from professed faith to lived faith and therefore to active Charity.

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Follow the Magisterium therefore it does not consist in the act of mimicking the words of others, like puppets or Sicilian puppets, but listen with devout reverence and a critical filial spirit to the word of Jesus to be incarnated today to give the face of Christ to the suffering and those who are far away. For this that once again a sense of the faithful who stood as the definitive interpreter of everything, it would create a fragmentation and fragmentation of the same data of faith, generating as much confusion and chaotic vision of charity. Indeed, again Mr. Rossi might believe that since Jesus has only divine nature and is not really risen because God cannot die, then it would do well to act accordingly and then stop believing in the resurrection of bodies. As a result, also to stop taking care of his body and hurting himself, because if he believes that the body does not rise again, Mr. Rossi can also mutilate himself.

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This chaotic vision which at the same time would not help to actualize and concretize even the spiritual works of mercy, including that of advising the doubters. In fact, if the Magisterium is no longer an authoritative source of Truth, Mr. Bianchi in his staff sense of the faithful he could also consider it a duty to invite his best friend to carry out a schism and a distancing of the Church and to distance himself from Jesus, when faced with a doubt, for example, about the Trinitarian nature or even about a single and daily moral action.

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The bizarre theories of the Catholic halberdiers - for which I pray a lot that they convert and soon return to full personal compliance with the doctrine - they reach terrible practical and pastoral conclusions, but above all they end up being, in concrete facts and in their approach to faith, of the perfect Lutherans, without realizing it is, unaware that many of their critical reasons are the same as Martin Luther's. This is why I wanted to dedicate an article to him, to try to avoid a form of the "dictatorship of relativism" disguised as a more genuine expression of the Catholic faith, to prevent certain subjects from falling into Lutheranism on one side, in modernism on the other hand, except to feel and believe the only ones, alone and authentic guardians of the true faith and the authentic Catholic tradition.

Rome, 17 February 2022

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[1] I write it in a note as if it were said in a whisper. Now a doubt arises after these considerations: indeed the praetorians of the faith know the figure and the historical context of Newman? Or they confuse him with the best known actor and performer of The Spaccone? To me honestly the doubt remains.

[2] John Henry Newman, On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine., [Rambler, July 1859.], EEook Edition, paragraph 1.

[3] Paragraph 3.

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THE GREAT PONTIFF DA FABIO FAZIO AND THE DILEMMA OF THE DAY AFTER: BETWEEN TWO, WHO WAS THE OLD PROFESSOR AND WHO THE BLUE ANGEL?

I don't want to dwell too much on the image of the elderly professor in the film The Blue Angel with the legendary Marlene Dietrich in the role of the dancer Lola, I leave it to anyone who knows a little about the old cinema and the plot of that dramatic film masterpiece to evaluate, who between the two was the Professor last night and who the Blue Angel, I don't know how to answer and I don't even want to answer, rather: I don't even want to think about it ...

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Two days ago ho ho published an article harsh and severe to comment on the announced participation of the Roman Pontiff in a talk show always known for being a flag of the worst hipster and politically correct Left: What's the weather like, hosted by Fabio Fazio, who for years has been supported by Luciana Littizzetto who has mocked the Catholic Church in every way, the doctrine, the morality and pastoral care of the Bishops of Italy. This is the container - and no one can deny it - in which the Supreme Pontiff has decided to put his contents. Applying the justifying principle that the person is responsible for the contents expressed and certainly not for the container in which he expressed them, in that case I could easily publish an article on the mystery of the Holy Spirit in the magazine Playboy, without anyone daring to tell me anything, because I would only answer for what I write, regardless of the close-ups of the splendid naked models that fill the pages of that monthly magazine. Exactly like the Roman Pontiff guest at What's the weather like responsible for its own contents, certainly not a container that for years mocked the Catholic Church through the armed wing of Luciana Littizzetto, or not?

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That of Fabio Fazio it is not the Left of workers' demands or struggles, policies and trade unions of the old, glorious and also lamented Italian Communist Party, to whom Italy has owed so much since the time of the Constituent Assembly and of which he was the last leader that great gentleman Enrico Berlinguer. Fabio Fazio's is the Left - as I explained and as I will reiterate - with the super-penthouses in Parioli and the villas in Capalbio. A left that has nothing to do with the demands of the Supreme Pontiff, or as I have strictly defined them: obsessive-compulsive neurosis on poor people and migrants. Indeed, for us, the true poor whom we must assist by divine mandate are the poor of Christ, the real migrants to be welcomed or recovered are those far from the Church, or emigrants from the Church. Otherwise, the severe warning of Christ God risks ringing out: "Do not even the Gentiles?» [Mt 5, 47].

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In my humble opinion the presence of the Supreme Pontiff was inappropriate, introduced, as I imagined, from the comments of a court of secularist leftists headed by Roberto Saviano who, like a vaudeville theater before the opening of the big curtain, they attempted to legitimize - succeeding in the eyes of many, Alas! ― their not-being-Catholic, always adverse to everything the Catholic feels on the doctrinal level, of faith and morality. The one I call Gianluigi Nuzzi strategy, with whom I had a debate on live television in 2020, even though he immediately understood in the space of a few seconds that he wasn't attacking me and, like the intelligent person he is, he immediately pulled the oars into the boat.

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Simple yet dangerous and terrifying the split made by these people between Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Church and the Papacy. Only those incapable of understanding and wanting, or those who do not want to understand and want, they can tear their clothes before my words and not notice how these sinister subjects have been presenting Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a "great revolutionary" for years, a "lonely and misunderstood" man, but above all "hindered". And who, would be misunderstood and hindered? Soon said: from the Church, by the very evil Roman Curia and by unspecified conservatives who do not want the great "revolutionary epochal change". Soon said: through this game it ends up being broadcast to the masses, including the army of simple and fragile Catholics, a terrible subliminal message: Bergoglio Yes, Church no, Bergoglio Yes, Papato no… We just need the icing on the pastry chef's cake: Bergoglio Yes, christ not.

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Exactly the Gianluigi Nuzzi strategy who has written about the Church and the true and presumed wrongdoings of the clergy for over a decade about everything and more. From the 2013 however, it does so with a strategy that has something diabolical in it: separates Jorge Mario Bergoglio from his sacred office, he detaches him from the Church and from the clergy of which he is supreme head by divine mandate, it changes it into an unspecified one “misunderstood revolutionary”, it elevates him as a victim and then as such defends him from a corrupt and corrupting system, that is, the Church of Christ. Having done this, he feels so entitled to dump all the worst mud in the world on us. As if Jorge Mario Bergoglio were nothing more than a simple Jorge Mario Bergoglio, while for us he is the Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter and the legitimate Vicar of Christ on earth to whom the Word of God has given the power of the keys [cf. Mt 13, 16-19]. And as such all of us Catholic priests and faithful venerate and obey him, always. Regardless of some of its limitations and defects about which one is not required to remain silent, even more so in the name of the most sinister and blind clericalism which would even have the comical claim of criticizing clericalism, like: can a burglar perhaps criticize and condemn burglary?

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It may be that the solons of the Holy See and those responsible for the Vatican Media have never noticed this dangerous game? Yup, who noticed it, but the problem is that the Supreme Pontiff rejected the old one, consolidated and all in all functional machine of the Roman Curia, which with all its strengths and weaknesses has always fulfilled its delicate primary task: protect the figure of the August Pontiff and his public image. Unfortunately, the problem is known: the Holy Father does not listen to anyone and acts on his own mind, after having turned away numerous faithful and valued servants to surround himself with mediocre subjects and complacent pimps, with the results we have under our eyes today.

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We also want to talk about its obvious inconsistencies? Also the Blessed Apostle Peter, chosen by Christ, God himself, appeared inconsistent and fragile, it is written in the Holy Gospels, in the Apostolic Letters and in the Acts of the Apostles. So explain to me, or clerical novices who ridicule clericalism in a ridiculous way: we can speak of the limitations of the Blessed Apostle Peter, preach and write, while on those of the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio no? Interesting, this new authentically anticlerical ecclesiology is really interesting … and while for years, From speech to speech the Holy Father was pining for migrants, that great man of God and faithful servant of the Cardinal's Church Carlo Caffara he died without ever being received. I don't pay for this, a short time later the Holy Father left the elderly and heroic Chinese cardinal outside the door like a stray dog Giuseppe Zen, over 80 years old from Hong Kong, who for a week waited in vain to be received. In return, But, received that proud and unrepentant atheist Eugenio Scalfari, founder and director of the newspaper The Republic, who for years has written editorials and articles on the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II often bordering on the most sinister anti-Catholic infamy. Perhaps some intend to deny it, or worse, call me inappropriate for daring to report historical facts that are both public and documented? Since when has the truth become inappropriate in the Church?? Or perhaps someone intends to attack me by saying that we need to evaluate the form, or rather evaluate how the truth is told? In this case I will respond immediately in advance: read the Holy Gospels, because these were the reasons of the ancient Pharisees.

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The Holy Father spoke about the chatter of gossip and clericalism. It's a shame, however, that he didn't explain that the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura could easily be closed and its large building transformed into a hostel for Roma, because in the beautiful season he inaugurated the certainty of law, together with that of a fair and impartial judgment, of an acquittal or a just sentence, in concrete facts they no longer exist in this visible Church cloaked in an unspecified and identified mercy. There have been ecclesiastics ousted from their offices overnight after having faithfully served the Church for several decades within the Roman Curia, without ever knowing why. Their legitimate questions remained unanswered and were answered: "Order comes from above, so it's just like that!». Matters of mercy! Not to mention the numerous canonical judicial proceedings that were closed with a peremptory phone call from Domus Sanctae Martha because the suspect for very serious crimes was a friend of the friends of the "magic circle" of the Holy Father, as the Cardinal called him Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, great man and theologian and for this reason unworthily defenestrated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. And in the face of all this and much more, we even had to put up with the sermon on "gossips", "chatter" and "clericalism" pronounced from the unfortunate pulpit of Fabio Fazio's living room. So let me say that if this were not tragic it would be truly comical.

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All this to those who benefit? I really can't find any other questions that could better justify the appearance of the Roman Pontiff on last night's television program. It definitely benefited that talk show, to its handler, to all that plethora of ideological intellectuals who love visibility and who will finally be able to include the Holy Father in their tiaso as a simple first among equals. But as a simple priest I ask myself a question: last night's intervention will benefit the Catholic faithful, to the sacred shepherds, to priests, to the holy people of God who are increasingly disoriented and in need of certainties? I'm afraid not, because last night left many with a sense of emptiness that will end with a question destined to remain unanswered: it was really needed? No, there was certainly no need because we did not understand different things - in terms and substance - of those trite and coy pronounced in an obsessive-compulsive way in nine years of pontificate: migrants, migrants, still migrants, environmentalism, clericalism, rigidity and mercy. Nothing that does not already feel abundantly with every blessing Urbi et in the days of Christmas or Easter and which has already tired even the most devout Catholic papists.

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It couldn't be otherwise, given the editorial line of Fabio Fazio's program which, through Saviano, invests the Supreme Pontiff with the title of "last socialist", something that will surely drive the blessed soul of the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIII mad with joy, of happy memory, than in the first part of his memorable and prophetic Encyclical Of the new things defined Socialism as a "false remedy". A socialist Pope who raises a smile by saying that as a child he wanted to be a butcher and that in front of television screens he is unable to argue a simple theme of theodicy which touches on the mystery of innocent suffering and which has its model in Christ crucified and in the Holy Innocent martyrs a path of real sanctity that is repeated daily in millions of abortions considered as social achievements by the friends of the factional Fazio, whose attendance at New Horizons Community it should at least allow for some healthy crisis of conscience, between one Saviano and another. Mystery of innocent pain and of the little ones that the Holy Pontiff John Paul II masterfully argued in his Apostolic Letter Saving pain and which is inextricably linked to the mystery of iniquity of sin in which forgiveness is certainly not a "right" - as the Holy Father stated and repeated, causing the theologians to fall to the ground under the television screen - but a grace that Christ offered us in his blood and which at every confession is renew.

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The guest was there, for a few more days we will talk about this event which will then fall into oblivion as we usually do on Monday after a Sunday match between amateurs. All this will leave nothing, not a desire for conversion, nor a desire to discover Christ, not even the desire to love the Church more. Indeed, our enemies will say more than ever «Bergoglio is one of us!», so let's take the Holy Father and use him as a club to beat the non-revolutionary Church of Christ, political opponents and those who espouse anti-sovereignist ideas. That's why I'm worried, more than for what was not said last night and for what with skillful manipulative sense the Supreme Pontiff will be told in the following days of what he has never said.

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After last night the Papacy was struck and desecrated, perhaps the only religious leader cloaked in ineffable dignity remains Queen Elizabeth II of England, that as head of the Anglican Community he would never dream of going to any Fazio to be interviewed, because you know: before the King they expect to be called, you keep your head down and answer only and exclusively if he speaks to you and asks you questions. It is the King who questions and who asks, no one can question and ask questions to the King. This is why I say that we have witnessed a traumatic reversal, to a terrible twist of roles, one of which, that of the Roman Pontiff, it is a sacred role by divine institution and mandate. And I honestly don't want to dwell too much on the image of the Elder Professor in the film The Blue Angel with the legendary Marlene Dietrich in the role of the dancer Lola, I leave it to anyone who knows a little about the old cinema and the plot of that dramatic film masterpiece to evaluate, who between the two was the Professor last night and who the Blue Angel, I don't know how to answer and I don't even want to answer, rather: I don't even want to think about it ...

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THE DELICACY OF THE ANCIENT SCORPIO: A PRAISABLE IRONIC COMMENT DE THE OSSERVATORE ROMANO ON THE SANREMO FESTIVAL

An ironic teaching on transgression offered by the official organ of the Holy See to little beginners who try unsuccessfully to transgress …

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Source: L’Osservatore RomanO

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REFLECTIONS ON THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC: AFTER A FEW DAYS OF PENIOUS THEATER, IN THE END, RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY PREVAILED

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I know that you will be able to make a careful analysis of what happened and you will start again from it to try to mend that relationship with the Italians who, after the little theater these days, they find it hard to recognize themselves in you. Know how to start from here and know how to find in yourself the reasons for your commitment. If not, you will be able to find them, return home, because Italians deserve the best. They deserve honesty.

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Anna Monia Alfieri, I.M.

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The President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella

At the end of a truly impressive week for each of us, during which even those who have “the head on the shoulders” he felt lost, I think of you young people in a particular way. Perhaps you too are disoriented, sorry, and think that, at the bottom of, it is of little use to commit oneself to public affairs. I myself have experienced a sense of profound disorientation, but the words of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella last night, so essential, linear, without any claims, they communicated a feeling of harmony and peace and perhaps they helped us to recover certain fundamental elements.

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The collective reaction was positive, so that of Europe; there was no lack of yellow card celebrations of some politicians who tried to ascribe the success and salvation of the country, just as there was no shortage of improvised constitutionalists, Alas! The non-knowledge hoisted into the system is intolerable and no one thinks that the citizens are distracted, or who are spectators to be made fun of, they forget so much.

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To tie up the threads of a delirious week let's start from the words of the President of the Republic: «Respect» for the Institutions, "Responsibility" for the country and the citizens who will certainly have felt disconcerted and perhaps even impressed. These had already been key words in the President's way of proceeding. Let's go in order then:

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1. In the 2018 the difficulty of composing a Government, as no party significantly won the elections, had cost him the accusation of impeachment. Even then, "respect" for the institutions and a sense of "responsibility" towards the citizens saved the situation from disaster. First the yellow-green government is launched, then the yellow-red;
2. In the 2020 Covid like a black swan, while dragging the country into an abyss, makes it clear that a competent Guide is needed, credible and courageous. It is still the "respect" and "responsibility" for the institutions that keep democracy and credibility on the outside. Thus we arrive at a Government of National Unity at the helm of Premier Draghi;
3. In the 2021 you have the try again, with the rejection of the Zan bill in Parliament, how much the two keywords were missing, having the same author declared in the following days that those articles so controversial could also be excerpted. Wasted time and declaration of incompetence.

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In these three symbolic events we can see how fundamental respect and responsibility towards citizens are. Otherwise, each of them should say: "I'm not there", in the Scalfaro-manner.

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a first lesson under Italian law: the President of the Republic and the highest state offices in Italian law are figures who, when they are established, for their high office, they are in a position above the political parties. Instead, what happened? there, in summary what happened:

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4. a part, Thursday 27, accuses the other of behaving like children, resorting to abstention, except then, out of a sense of respect towards the institutions, do the same on Friday 28. But in what sense abstention for the sense of the institutions?
5. And then the circus of it's my turn he was born in it's up to you propose names. But let's joke?

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In front of all this it is reasonable to think that there is no fracture within the coalitions, or presumed to be so, not even among the opposing parties: there was simply a need to keep the salary for another seven months. Like this, to give a semblance of credibility, it was necessary to demonstrate that one was trying, naturally a favor of camera, to speak to their voters. Therefore, reaching up to the eighth session - which strictly became double on Friday - so that on Sunday free everyone, the alarm was clear: the country doesn't hold up, we are in times of crisis, President Mattarella will not be able to escape, because he certainly has respect and a sense of institutional responsibility. In fact, here it is, with a huge sacrifice, also from a human and personal point of view, the President did not hold back and, Once again, puts duty before everything.

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In speech these two words are truly the key to understanding this farce that has been set up. And now what to do? We move forward, unable not to thank President Sergio Mattarella for having once again saved the country from irresponsibility, Premier Draghi who has proven to be a grandfather in the service of the country. Two high-calibre figures who, however, impose a "U" turn on the political class.

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Having said that, I would like to leave on a positive note and a teaching that gives me so much comfort. In the most dramatic moments of life, we need to look at the positive that is always found in every situation: if nothing else, certainly the awareness of the difficulty is healthy. The 28 January 2022, for the first time in the history of republican and democratic Italy, the candidacy of a woman for the presidency of the Republic was proposed and voted for by over 380 Big Voters (more than 400 abstained). Evidently the country has expressed a healthy maturity, in line with the election of the Honorable Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, four years ago, to the Presidency of the Senate. This candidacy is certainly a good message for the younger generations.

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Beyond any partisan consideration ― the role of Alberti Casellati is super parts and it will remain so in any case - as intelligent opening detects, thus the internal jealousies and resentments that have miserably prevailed are evident, clearly preventing the valorization of a colleague… Paraphrasing: «A woman is a wolf». Despite it all, we need to move forward with courage. Nothing is lost that happens for a good that surpasses us.

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A sincere thanks, At that time, goes to President Alberti Casellati who agreed to lend his figure super parts to offer us hope which is not a question of categories but of contents. Certainly the whole story allowed us to measure ourselves against the struggle of many men to welcome a woman leader, the real difficulty of many women in valuing their colleagues. Battles of gender equality ultimately hide a painful truth that we must call by name: men and women are more inclined to give solidarity and support to others who are in an inferior position but are still incapable of valorising them. This is true in politics as in many secular and ecclesial realities, nemo prophet in patria, because envy kills resources. Therefore, after an initial moment of discouragement, we look at the positive and thank these three people who have once again saved the country, given to each of us elements to hope that good wins. Myself, every time I feel discouraged in doing good, delegitimized, attached and I would like to say: “Make do”, I will think of these people who have truly restored dignity to two important words "respect" and "responsibility". Those who live moved by these values ​​will never be able to betray them even if the other does not deserve it because good is never a reaction but an action, a conscious choice. Perhaps this allows most people to live irresponsibly.

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With Sergio Mattarella the history of the Quirinale continues its glorious journey, in the wake of the past: the sense of the institutions, the preparation of the President have averted the collapse in our recent past. In all of this I see, with Father Cristoforo, a "thread of Providence" (The betrothed, cap. IV). But Providence is not enough, or better, Providence needs us, of men and women who freely choose to fulfill their duty: «We are useless servants, we did what we had to do " (LC 17, 10). This phrase has much more value for those who say they place themselves at the service of citizens through public affairs. Men and women of politics: you know it, I have great faith in you. Ma, I admit, that today this trust of mine is put to the test. So, other parte, that you will be able to carry out a careful analysis of what happened and you will start again from it to try to mend that relationship with the Italians who, after the little theater these days, they find it hard to recognize themselves in you. Know how to start from here and know how to find in yourself the reasons for your commitment. If not, you will be able to find them, return home, because Italians deserve the best. They deserve honesty. Sergio Mattarella and Mario Draghi deserve today, as Aldo Moro deserved in the past, Amintore Fanfani and Enrico Berlinguer. These names are written in their hearts, the others have been cancelled.

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Milan, 31 January 2022

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