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The DISTURBING of Medjugorje PHENOMENON AND THE DIRECTOR OF RADIO MARIA FATHER LIVIO Fanzaga: A gOSPAR FANATIZZANTE THINKING TO CONVERT WITH FEARS THAT ARE NEGATIVE OF THE SAME HOLY GOSPEL

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Tell us, father Livio, enlighten us and make it clear to all of us: but what makes cash speak with the "Madonna postman" of Medjugorje? Never in fact I would have imagined to find myself a front sorrowful day Mater Dei turned into a cross between a profitable company and a successful multinational company. I believe that a priest should not give credit to the pseudo prophets who on the venerable name of the Blessed Virgin have built their wealth, living lives of luxury and expenditure dell'ostentato. And for this you will have to give an account to God, every last dime, He asks you to giustificargli even the few Euros that the good old lady has stolen every month to his small pension to send to Radio Maria, while the pseudo seers through which your company lives and works, They bivouacked in villas, swimming pool, sale fitness luxury cars and fruitful hotel properties, except talk every day at 18 with the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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one of the four corners of the villa of the pseudo visionary Ivan Dragicevic, with park, pool and lounge fitness. These and other images should be shown to the grannies every month fleeing from his meager pension a bit’ the euro to be sent to Radio Maria that spreads daily data messages from Our Lady of Medjugorje seers to pseudo.

Sand doctrine, the magisterium and Mariology, were those common to Radio Maria Father Livio Fanzaga, I would have left the priesthood idiot for giving me the error. Then I would go in the pleasant city of San Salvador de Bahia, where young girls would have made me recall the time lived in chastity through the free choice of priestly celibacy, the result of a mistake made in good faith Total. This would have done, If the Church's magisterium, his doctrine and his Mariology were those published by this medjugoriana radio. Paradoxes aside, because what they teach the magisterium, doctrine and Mariology know, I shall never cease to be in love faithful and chaste spouse of the Holy Church of Christ until the last breath of life, then remained priest, indelibly, for eternity.

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So it is not a light heart It accuses the brother Livio Fanzaga not to be a proclaimer of faith, but a diffuser that fideism that proceeds through forms of disturbing Mariolatry-medjugoriana. Forms and expressions that have nothing to do with the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Word of God incarnate, that in the mystery of revelation and in the economy of salvation has its own specific role. Tear the Blessed Virgin to the role assigned to it, means to turn it into an idol.

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There are thousands of hours of radio recordings where Father Livio attributed to the Blessed Virgin salvation, stating ambiguously that Madonna saves and that we must ask you to save us. We clarify certain ambiguities: though in some cases it can be recognized to simple ignorance beneficial move to the root of good faith, similar to the priests the benefit can not be recognized, because in this second case one must speak of deviations from straight doctrine and adulteration of the mystery of salvation, mostly supported by continuous obsessive references to daily data from posts Madam the self-styled seers of Medjugorje. The Virgin Mary can participate in valuable way, determinant, also wanting entirely unique to our salvation, but attention: interceding for us with her Divine Son. The Virgin Mary can intercede - and intercedes - for our sins, but she can not forgive our sins, this is quite clear, because this is the Catholic faith. So that, when they throw ambiguous phrases referring to the fact that the Virgin Mary saved, or it is very clear the doctrinal and catechetical, or better to remain silent and avoid confusing the people of God.

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Father Livio went so far as to state that "his" Madonna has opposed necessary Ecclesiastical Authority, substituting to it and carrying out motu proprio functions performed by the Church, that the mandate to teach, sanctifying and governing the People of God has received him - it should be remembered - by Christ, God himself. The Father Livio blunders came at times to grotesque levels, for example, when ignoring that it is the Church to proceed with the canonization of Saints, upon recognition of their heroic virtues, He said that a monk had been canonized by the Lady herself, stating among other things: «[…] watch, is the Madonna says no, there is no bishop who takes, there is no pope who takes […]». Just listen to a video a few years ago to see what levels is able to reach Father Livio [see WHO], grossly ignorant than ever, the Mater Dei, It would replace the Authority of the Church, She is herself the first to revere, if necessary even to obey the Church of Christ, thereby giving example to the whole People of God, not least because she, of always, It is also a great educator.

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To obey the Church it means to obey Christ's God who has also set up as a visible hierarchical structure based on the primacy of Peter and the apostolic authority given to him at [cf.. Mt 16, 18]. Christ, God has not built the Church on Madonna, even though the Church is a mother. The chief prosecutor of the keys, together with the power to bind and loose, He has granted to Peter and to his successors [cf.. Mt 16, 19]. And that although Peter was born not only with the stain of original sin - as opposed to the Immaculate Conception preserved from all stain of sin -, but although he denied Christ lying, imprecations [cf.. Mt 26, 74] giving himself and then fled the scene. O to be clear to the bottom: Holy Church of God in Christ-is totally pure essence of his absoluteness, It is not madonnocentrica. When at the Last Supper Christ God he instituted the ministerial priesthood and the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary was not present with the Apostles in the Upper Room [cf.. Mt 26, 26-28; MC 14, 22-24; LC 22, 19-20; 1Color 11, 23-25]. Present with them it was at Pentecost, When the Apostles already priests, ministry, custodians and stewards of the Holy Eucharist and the sacraments of grace was sent down the Holy Spirit [At 2, 1-41].

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Salvation, in all its uniqueness and absoluteness, resides in the mystery of God's Word made flesh in the womb of a virgin, died for our redemption, resurrected and ascended to heaven, where today sits at the right hand of God the Father [cf.. Declaration Lord Jesus, 2000]. The being and existence of eternal Mater Dei It is contained in the mystery of Christ God, as we learn from the Holy Doctor of the Church Bernard of Clairvaux, that sums up this mystery with a few short words: "Virgin Mother daughter of thy Son […]"Continuing a little further"[…] thou 'one who such nobility To human nature, ensure that 'its Creator Did not disdain to your invoice ". In these few words it is contained the essence of Mariology: the Immaculate Conception exists and lives according to the Divine Son. No one gave change ambiguously God in Christ "accessory" of the Blessed Virgin, from which it was given to the world the generated Divine Son not made of the same substance of God the Father.

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Although to date I subtracted from expressing any opinion on the phenomenon of Medjugorje, today I feel in good conscience say that I never believed in these data messages in a continuous stream, but above all I consider alas, the self-styled seers, charlatans in the etymological sense of the term, not according to the derogatory meaning of spoken vocabulary.

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To clarify the concept of redemption, especially to clarify who is the source of salvation, enough that the devotees of the Blessed Virgin Mary thought the history and significance of the litany Lauretane, instead recite a nursery rhyme as more or less not including. These litanies born around the twelfth century, but are rooted in very old traditions, they have all the trappings of the highest official, was in fact the Holy Pontiff Pius V in the sixteenth century, after the victory of the Army Santa Muslim League at the Battle of Lepanto, He added them at the end of the recitation of the Holy Rosary, inserting in the sequence of the litany of the invocation help Christians. A few years later, In the 1587, the Pope Sisto V the he approved with the bubble reddituri.

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I fear that many naive believers, so in good faith how little prepared the catechetical plan, while also acting as rosaries a day, are unfortunately not able to understand the theological structure of this litany that begins with a trinitarian invocation through which God Father, the begotten Son not made of the same substance as the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, we turn concluding each prayer with the invocation: «Have mercy on us» [have mercy on us]. After this supplication, begin intercessory prayers to the Blessed Virgin, ending each with the invocation "Pray for us» [pray for us]. This is the role of the Blessed Virgin in the economy of salvation: pray and intercede for us. It is not by chance, in praise Hi Regina, invoking her intercession we ask her how 'Advocate». It is therefore with his prayers and his precious intercession, that the Blessed Virgin work for our salvation. Here then is another hymn of praise in which we invoke her protection:

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«Fly to your patronage, holy Mother of God; despise not our prayers in our necessities, But from ever deliver us, O glorious and blessed».

[Under your protection we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God: despise not our petitions of us who are in trial, and deliver us from all danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin].

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Someone wondered because we ask God to deliver us from evil, and in prayer Our father It is synonymous with sin and thus purification from sin, while we ask the Blessed Virgin to assist in testing and free us from the danger that can lead us to a logical consequence of sin? Simple answer: it is God who forgives our sins, not the Madonna. According to at least sacramental absolution formula in which sins are forgiven in the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Or perhaps it is that the Holy Trinity is also added the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary?

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Question asked not so much to Father Livio, but to ginners rosaries medjugoriani, since many of them fear that they may not know what to pray and how to pray. This is the question: because the triune God is begging mercy and forgiveness, while the Blessed Virgin asks to pray and intercede for us, for the remission of our sins and our salvation? Simply because it is not the Madonna that purifies souls from sin, She intercedes with great effectiveness for the forgiveness and salvation of souls. And among all the Angels and Saints, certainly it is the creature who can intercede for us as effectively as, being the one who was born without any stain of original sin gave birth in this world the Word of God incarnate, becoming privileged abode and only the Holy Spirit in the history of humanity. But, as you should understand, saved by the remission of sins and interceding for the forgiveness of sins are two different things, but not in pure form, but precisely in the deepest substance. To this was added that God loves, while the Blessed Virgin is venerated. And the difference that runs between worship and veneration, It is no small thing, least of all it is a "small" semantic nuance.

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Terminate the litany in which every call or title invokes the Blessed Virgin with the phrase "pray for us», this prayer ends with the invocation to 'Lamb of God, addressed to Christ Redeemer God becoming man who has turned into a lamb without blemish who with his sacrifice he washed the sin of the world [cf.. GV 1, 29]. At that point no longer responds: «Pray for us», but back to beseech Christ invoking God: "Forgive us Lord ... Hear ... Lord have mercy on us". Why we are addressed not to the begging Madonna to forgive us and have mercy on us, where the litany these invocations are all related to the forgiveness of sins addressed to the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world?

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Because these basic elements of faith They are not explained by the good people of devotees on Radio Maria? Simple and sad the answer: for the Father Livio and his member gOSPAR they do not want a devout people, but a people devotional, fed through the emotional element of the worst Mariolatry medjugoriana. Needless to say: the whole thing has gone on for years and years under the eyes powerless Ecclesiastical Authority and under the deaf ears of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that if it could be sponsored as a department, it would not exist for better advertising than that of Amplifon, agency leader in the production and sale of equipment for people with serious hearing problems.

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To lock people fideist it is necessary to resort to sensationalism and especially the fear. Educating people to the true faith is complex and difficult, because despite the best will and the most strenuous effort by the evangelizer, the results are more than ever uncertain. A certain combinations fideistic the ignorant are always comfortable, since the days of the legendary Friar Cipolla narrated by Giovanni Boccaccio in his memorable novel. Without the ignorant fideists certain people could not survive, nor could their existence. For this we avoid explaining to enchanted by Friar Cipolla and its relics, so amazing and improbable, that true faith is that illustrated by the Author of Hebrews: "Faith is the foundation of the things that are hoped for and the proof of those that are not seen" [EB 11, 1]. Affirmation this not exactly easy and smooth to explain, why say that to understand what it takes a long journey and an authentic evangelization, It could almost sound like a euphemism. Also because most people, if you put before really difficult paths, They turn their backs and run away even before you try to move a single step. It is written:

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"Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life! And few there be that find!» [Mt 7, 13-14].

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Which path offers the director of Radio Maria? The easiest one: emotional fideism played on the hidden and intimate contempt of reason, indicated by doctors Saints of Anselm and Thomas Aquinas Church as an element necessary to bring the faith. Indeed, without reason, which then it is synonymous with the exercise of more mature and wise freedom, you can not arrive at the true experience of faith, only the worst of its surrogates: fideism built on irrational emotionality. And to stand, fideism, over emotionalism illogical and irrational high true, It needs another indispensable element: fear. Here is a picture of a Madonna that more or less openly, speaking from the mouth of the pseudo-visionaries of Medjugorje, It contains in its messages of non-explicit content, but that its interpreters change in announcements of catastrophic events, the cry of "the time is at hand", "The end is coming" … Then there is the magic of secrets, because the hidden secret, psychologically feeds the army of fideists, that is stimulated by fear change themselves in fanatizzanti fanatics who sow fear. By implementing these mechanisms as banal as evident, forget the poor, pace of the river data messages from Madam of Medjugorje, that the Holy Gospel it is written:

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"In love there is no fear, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and he who fears is not made perfect in love " [The Gv 4, 18].

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What theological significance, mystagogical and eschatological have, for the Director of Radio Maria, these words? Or are they words that invite somehow stimulate fear among the faithful, because "the time is near" and why incumbent upon humanity the elusive "secret data from nine Lady" to the pseudo-seers?

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In the radio transmission 26 February Father Livio said various things on the Coronavirus, first bringing what for him, probably, It is a kind of irrefutable evidence: The message that would be given by the Blessed Virgin in one of the pseudo seers of Medjugorje, in this case Ivan:

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"Nature is now hostile to us and with this coronavirus have opened the eyes, because it came at a propitious moment, just listen to the message of the Madonna of Medjugorje given to Ivan the 17 September, which states that it is implementing the period of Satan ".

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If Father Livio knew the content of the revelation foundations in the Scriptures, It should know that nature has become hostile to man not by God but by the will of free choice made by our first parents, Adam and Eve, They are rebelling against his Creator altered the perfection of the original nature of man and the universe created, so by sending a corrupt nature by original sin [cf.. GN 3, 1-24].

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Of the Book of Genesis, allegorical is only the structure of the narrative style, not the fact represented with this allegory, similar in style to the pedagogical parables used by Christ the Lord in his preaching. Original sin is therefore a fact, not an allegory, or clarify: depicted is a real fact and narrated through an allegory. In this allegorical literary language also includes expressions such as 'cursed', "condemned", "Punished", "You will suffer ' … In truth, to curse, punish and condemn himself was the man who is excluded by choice free from the state of holiness and perfect communion of grace with God. Hence the same hostility of nature created is a logical consequence that is born of a vindictive God's punishment, but from a free choice. And every free choice always has consequences, positive o negative.

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As for the realization of the 'period of Satan " which alludes Father Livio referring to the "sacred word" the talkative Ivan, It remembers that the evil is present in human experience ever since man rebelled against God. Or maybe forget, the valiant director of Radio Maria that Satan, in its total arrogance and conceit, dared even groped the Word of God made man? And to tempt he started the speech and repeated several times defiantly: "If you are the Son of God ..." [Mt 4, 3-6].

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To assert, imply or terrorize with the announcement of imminent divine punishment and trembling secrets, means groped desperately to sow the fear from which he can never rise to the true faith, but, as we said before, fideism. Faith, as we learn from the aforementioned Blessed Apostle John, It is in fact the negation of fear:

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"In love there is no fear, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and he who fears is not made perfect in love " [The Gv 4, 18].

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By identifying faith with love, these words are equivalent to saying that those who are motivated by fear and who have "faith" because they fear punishment, faith does not have one at all, nor can they have it, because the assumption of the faith is the absence of fear. Other than to terrorize the people and children-fideist with veiled threat of trembling nine secrets jealously kept by the pseudo-visionaries who soon will be realized, and which will shake the whole of humanity, in virtue of the fact that their logorroica Madonna said that ...

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Among the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit is that of awe of God. As we shall soon see, know the true meaning of the words is essential. Therefore fear, which is part of these precious gifts, it has nothing to do with fear, indeed is its total negation. Lest it means deep filial devotion to the mystery of God. The fear is based on love and steady throughout the son who worships his father, not on fear or terror.

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The people in general, but to them our faithful, that because of us priests today I am suffering from abnormal ignorance on the fundamentals of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is our duty to explain first what the words mean, indicating what they really mean in the biblical vocabulary, evangelical and theological. With the passage of time and changes etymological, In fact, certain terms have been cleaved from their original root and today are used with entirely different connotations, one of these is the word punishment. This consequence: if any person in the street express the concept of "punishment" or "punish", she deemed something punitive and severe, if anything, by connecting it to a punitive-vindictive action, other word that has also lost, as we shall soon see, its true meaning.

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In the Christian lexicon, the word "punishment" It is another matter. The term comes from the Latin pure act and does not mean severely punish, quite the opposite: literally it means to purify, make me clean, restore a state of lost purity. So if we do not start first by explaining the meaning of words, the other party, including the educated and cultured, deemed quite another, with the consequent and inevitable burst of unpleasant controversies that come to life because of who uses words from the Catholic side that you do not know the meaning, the other secularists who take up certain words according to what they mean in today's spoken vocabulary. In this regard, I suggest reading the article my wise brother, our author cappuccino Ivano Liguori, published on these our columns and in which he explains how, in human history, after great and tragic events, as the great bubonic plague of 1347 that he killed more than half of the European population, shortly after there was a great revival of the old European continent, because the fruit of that event terrible and catastrophic, a few decades later it was the Renaissance [see WHO].

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Many other examples would, think of revenge, from Latin revenge, derived from the term avenge, whose real meaning would: free an innocent unjustly suffered an injustice. From this correct etymological meaning comes the expression linked to the concept of "God's vengeance" or "holy vengeance of God". Example: in the texts of the Church's social doctrine inaugurated in the late nineteenth century by Pope Leo XIII [cf.. Of the new things, 1891] not paying a fair wage to the worker is referred to as a "sin that cries out to God for justice". Today though, though without explaining the etymology of certain words or expressions Biblical, We were to say that in front of a grave injustice is a Christian moral duty to invoke the vengeance of God, It will definitely happen that most of the people, if not all of those who have heard - including among them bishops and priests -, They remain so much scandalized by the judge advocate as a violent forcaiolo. Little would be worth groped to defend against such accusations, saying that, if they no longer know the meaning of words, the problem is all theirs. Unfortunately not, because if people no longer knows the meaning of certain words or expressions Biblical, giving them different meanings from their original etymology and literary significance, those who use them for what they really mean is in danger of falling into the lack of communication, if it does not explain precisely what they mean certain words and literary expressions.

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The so-called medjugoriani, Father Livio Fanzaga head, event to support the authenticity of Medjugorje in its entirety, then the reported messages from these self-styled seers who would daily apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, immediately put forward the many conversions that took place at this location. Similar evidence from them reputed irrefutable, in truth it is not a test, if anything, it is proof that the phenomenon in question is mostly holds on irrational emotionalism and an immature faith, not to mention the enormous damage caused often by various translated or assumed, behind the fiercest of which are hidden and dangerous self-taught authentic faith do it yourself. So let us explain to medjugoriano-type boasting amazing conversions presented as irrefutable evidence magical, the essence of the mystery of grace. In the Saints Church history and experience life themselves, conversions have also occurred in situations and really most unimaginable places. There are stories of people who have converted after taking part in a satanic ritual, or coming out of a brothel where they had had a sexual relationship with a younger underage prostitute their daughter, or while waiting on the street corner with a charged shot in the barrel to cool the victim with a gun. No one, however, has never told or taught that to really convert you must participate in satanic rituals, attend underage prostitutes in brothels, or kill people on commission as killer professionals. Now, If in extreme situations of this kind they took place the great conversions, how could they not be conversions in a place like Medjugorje, where people pray, they confess, receive the Sacred Body of Christ and express their sincere devotion to Mater Dei?

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Of course, if at Medjugorie occurred conversions, sincere and authentic, but these conversions are not proof of the authenticity of the event and above all of the messages in daily continuous stream of pseudo-clairvoyants who say they see everyday Madam. And in this committee it was clear, denying the authenticity of these daily messages. Like it or not to gentlemen and Father Livio who spreads them by Radio Maria, these messages, the Committee called them "not authentic" and in a very good-natured also "repetitive" and "trivial". Therefore, that many people are going to be converted in Medjugorje, or listening to daily posts "repetitive" and "trivial" data from self-styled seers who claim to speak every day with the Blessed Virgin, He is not evidence in itself and of itself nothing, including fruits presented as irrefutable evidence, because these are not. That said overflight then on the damage caused by Medjugorianism of entire groups of laity, of new priestly fraternity and new experiences of religious life recognized by several diocesan bishops unwise, from which they were born problematic priests often results in later clinical psychiatric cases even serious. In this story you can not open a theme into the theme, therefore supersedes. But, of all this, they know something the ministry of the Holy See in charge of institutes of consecrated life, if we consider that many of these new realities medjugoriana impression with medjugoriane vocations and priests and religious, born from the so-called "charism of Medjugorje", over and over again they have to suppress due to serious doctrinal problems, balance sheet and, sometimes, even for unpleasant questions of moral character. And these are facts and acts, no assumptions driven by malice.

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In conclusion I want to explain why I used the term "pseudo-seers of Medjugorje", clarifying that the commission, albeit with languages ​​and very sweetened ways, He has judged the first seven apparitions as credible in that town in the early eighties. Anyone who today cries approval, We have to remember and explain that at the time the Church has not given any official recognition to the phenomenon. Not only, He has not acknowledged the veracity Day messages, because so cleverly caustic reigning Pope even made explicit allusion to "Madonna postman", [See. see WHO]. Even more so I am free to say that the director of Radio Maria sells fake widespread Marian messages from as many false seers, all in serious damage of the Catholic faithful, in particular of the simplest and psychologically vulnerable.

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Then pay attention: as he says in an ambiguous way the Director of Radio Maria, The study of Medjugorje commission established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 and he completed in 2014 their work, He does not have any attested authenticity, it is limited only to express an opinion as a result of investigations and studies carried out. The reigning Pope, responding in May 2017 reporters, He explained that the Commission has studied the phenomenon of dividing it into two parts: The first concerns the seven initial appearances, that seemed credible. The other one, that of appearances that still seguiterebbero, Instead he left very puzzled the Commission. A work of the commission concluded, every decision now falls to the Supreme Pontiff, that for now he has not failed to prove all his skepticism alluding to this "Madonna chief telegraph office" that sends messages continuously, who talks too much and that would appear at scheduled times. This is the truth, namely a somewhat bitter pill that the Director of Radio Maria, between ambiguity and smoky and unclear expressions, trying in every way to sweeten sugar sprinkling. Simple reason: Radio Maria is a company on the pseudo messages of Medjugorje seers live there over the past three decades, with all the consequential implications for economic and financial.

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To make these self-styled seers unreliable, I think it's their way of life marked by the luxury and the accumulation of material goods. The same committee that for years has studied this phenomenon, could not omit, with all the embarrassment of the case, to say that the relationship with them money and material goods arouses considerable misgivings. It is known that it ranges from villas with pool at hotel properties to luxury cars donated to his daughter for twenty years and so to follow.

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The Director of Radio Maria He never clarified whether Ivan, Madonna, He appears and speaks to the pool in the garden of his mega-villa while he sips a drink, or while he is in his private gym, time is devoted to the painstaking care of their bodies and of their physical appearance, not to mention the refinement of his clothing, to the point of being dubbed by different organs of the international press as "the seer playboy». It would do well to clarify these things, the good Father Livio. It should clarify, these things, especially to the poor grandmother who with simple generosity and faith subtracts each month tens of euro from his meager pension to send them to grande gOSPAR Business Radio Maria. Company to which the devout Catholics should not send instead a penny.

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Given the complexity of the long speech, I prefer to stop here and remind Father Livio, diffuser made of the new religion medjugoriana, that the mother of the most tender Maria Goretti, He died following an attempted rape in 1902, saying in his last breath before dying words of forgiveness for his murderess - then he converted and later present in 1950 the canonization of the Blessed Maria Goretti nell'arcibasilica St. Peter - when he died in old age, his burial and his grave provident Holy Church. Indeed, mom Goretti, He was poor and died poor peasant of the Pontine Marshes. Different story, than that of the rich pseudo seers of Medjugorje that, between Pharaonic villas, the edges of the pool, la sala fitness private, luxury cars and hotel properties, every day at 18 speak with Madonna.

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Tell us, father Livio, enlighten us and make it clear to all of us: but what makes cash speak with the "Madonna postman" of Medjugorje? Never in fact I would have imagined to find myself a front sorrowful day Mater Dei turned into a cross between a profitable company and a successful multinational company. I believe that a priest should not give credit to the pseudo prophets who on the venerable name of the Blessed Virgin have built their wealth, living lives of luxury and expenditure dell'ostentato. And for this you will have to give an account to God, every last dime, He asks you to giustificargli even the few Euros that the good old lady has stolen every month to his small pension to send to Radio Maria, while the pseudo seers through which your company lives and works, They bivouacked in villas, swimming pool, sale fitness luxury cars and fruitful hotel properties, except talk every day at 18 with the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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father Livio, if you do not have anyone told, In this case, I tell you: hai 79 year old, you're always on time, take a step back, withdrawn from profitable azienda gentleman, shut yourself in a monastery and try to save your soul, because they are thirty years that poison the true devotion to the Blessed Virgin on which they have written memorable pages Sant'Agostino, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, San Tommaso Aquino, St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Blessed Duns Scotus, Sant'Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori, St. Louis Marie de Montfort ... saved the soul! And you, faithful worshipers, do your part and your duty: do not send longer even a penny bid to Radio Maria. What Father Livio and his clan, the money to prop up this azienda gentleman, if they do not give them to those of pseudo prophets who got rich with Madonna ...

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I conclude by clarifying that if tomorrow, the Roman Pontiff, close to ongoing discussions acknowledging with all the trappings of officialdom the first seven appearances deemed "credible" by the commission he appointed to study the phenomenon, or even if it decides to recognize authentic all data messages daily in a continuous stream to the current pseudo seers, per me, from that moment to follow, the Medjugorje phenomenon will be authentic without any penalty can thread. For me it is indeed true that what is said by the Holy Church and the Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter, the mandate of which comes to it by Christ, God himself. So does anyone serving the Church with faith and reason, unlike those who use the Church to give vent to their emotional and irrational dimensions.

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- Church in the world: short essay by a priest who loves China and its people -

I UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNIST CHINA AND HIS FEAR TO CATHOLICISM, RATHER NOT UNDERSTAND THE REASONS OF THE PHANTOM OF THE HOLY SEE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF BEIJING … AN OLD ARTICLE FOR EVEN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM CORONAVIRUS

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Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So that, the political power that tried to strengthen itself using Christianity as an element of unity and unification, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived Empire Roman keeping inside traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. This is what frightens the Communist government of China, and they are right, on the political level, to be scared, then to act accordingly. It is the Holy See that maybe did not understand the reason for these fears..

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STUDIES OF MEDIASET TELEVISION THAT ARE "MONTE" FROM ABOVE WHICH, AS PRIEST AND Theologian, I'll settle for FAR TOO SHINE THE LIGHT OF ONE MATCH ON, SO THAT YOU SHINE FOR… STRAIGHT AND REVERSE

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If in this time of great crisis and ecclesial and ecclesiastical decadence I try to also turn on a single match, perhaps I deserve the support from those Catholics who do not know what he's like a mountain, how we rise above and, above all, as it turns a simple but valuable match from the television studio of a network of Mediaset. Often God just very little, because even through the light of a match, soul may decide to be saved, through the mysterious gift of freedom and the free will given to man by the Eternal Creator.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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episode of 13 February, last block of the evening. To view this information click on

It should reply for those having never found before the red light of a camera that sends live, They have written to me to give me advice. To respond is however necessary premise that narrates the "behind the scenes". Reading some tips they understand that they are given by people who ignore what is the complex structure of the drafting of a television program designed and conducted to fine-class professionals. Example: in an already-planned day program changes can occur due to unforeseen circumstances that require you to mount a service in a few minutes, revolutionizing the entire lineup studied in previous days of painstaking work.

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The screen viewers see Paolo Del Debbio that leads, assisted in the study of transmission by journalist Giorgio Tosi who gave the floor to any member of the "public speaking" for comments or questions. We often see on the screen the connecting services of Henri Kociu, Another good professional that along with the good Ilaria Mura and their colleagues treat the exteriors from various parts of Italy. Few know, however, that for these professionals, realize connections implies displacements, often long journeys, if anything, to broadcast live the answers to two questions addressed to an individual party, or to document, in fifteen seconds, images that serve to support what is being debated in the studio.

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Always behind the scenes I witnessed a change dictated by sudden emergency: during the episode of 17 January Paolo Del Debbio was seized by an illness due to a leg problem, replaced on the spot by Marcello Vinonuovo, responsible for directing and producing the program, who brought forward the entire live television with all the professionalism to him their.

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I saw the young journalist Edward Dallari quickly maneuver in achieving in a few minutes a link from the study of Milan Spallanzani Hospital in Rome to allow the conductor to put questions to a distinguished virologist, after he received news of a new case of coronavirus infection. Needless to say: among the spectators who followed from home, no one can know or imagine that working brings to improvise at any moment that lasted three minutes and then link, not to say how many people worked for those three minutes live link in the interiors and exteriors.

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Also in the episode of 6 February the program underwent changes: it was necessary to include in prime time news of the train derailed Frecciarossa in Lodi. Even in that case they were marked by services and connections in a short space of time, searched and then picked up and taken to some witnesses studio. Even at that time I was in preparation to participate in the program and I could watch live how everything went and how fast and professional skill has been achieved. This is to explain to the readers, in my capacity as a witness and a participant, that behind this program is a job that few imagine; job that requires excellent professional skills, place an incompetent could cause enormous damage similar contexts, especially at a company like Mediaset, who do not benefit from any compulsory television license fee, to be clear that the same as saying: you like it or not, I'll put it ... the electricity bill, so you have to pay it by force.

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Mediaset lives of plays, of advertising. And to produce advertising that produces money, Listens are indeed necessary. This complex set of things in which market information and merge together of necessity, It involves precise rules which also extend to those who will participate as guests or commentators to these programs.

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People my age remember how I was born the three television networks RAI and as years went on. Rai has always been a politicized company in which the first channel was the Christian Democrats, the second channel of the Socialist Party, the third channel of the Communist Party and its friends minority parties. As a result, subject to various professionals of undoubted excellence, This state company has always brulicato an army of inept and parasitic figures that had the sole merit of being friends of friends of that powerful politician who had placed them at the Rai. All of this, a large private company is not if you can afford. Of course, Also the largest private company assumes the friend of the friend of the powerful political, but provided it is capable, because paying with your own money and not with public, enter within itself unable or-nothing parasites in the good graces of politicians, it would not be a simple damage, but a danger that could lead to real failure.

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One of the criticisms addressed to me it was: "Why do not you talk high and theological way as you do in your other writings or different your video-conferences?». another critical: "You must animarti and raise your voice". Finally the drastic and decisive advice: "No, do not go there anymore, it is useless, It's all useless" …

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We leave for order with the answers: first of all, I note that in a "high" and "theological" no longer even speak our existing Italian bishops, sad emblem of a precipitate episcopate in a bleak mediocrity, whereas the Italian Church in particular, the concept of "friend of the powerful friend" - which in our case is not "politically powerful" but far more damaging powerful bishop or cardinal -, It is applied in the worst way as applying the old Christian Democrats, Socialists and Communists with their men or their-nothing parasites placed at the Rai. Indeed, Angle of the chairs of their cathedrals, our supreme masters of faith and doctrine - in case some of my critics they have not grasped -, Far from speaking of the great Fathers and Doctors of the Church and their wise theological teaching, now speak only of migrants and a watered-down and adulterated charity that has nothing to do with what the Bible teaches the Blessed Apostle Paul [cf.. The Cor 13, 13]. Sad and bitter truth: episcopal pulpits most renowned is now also marketed mostly a social concept that has nothing to do with the theological virtue of charity, lot instead with the suicide philanthropy blood volume b'bene.

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Clarified that do good It does not imply exercise the supreme virtue of Christian charity, it should be recalled that following Christ God, those who practiced doing good in ancient Judaea two thousand years ago, He said clearly: "Do not even the Gentiles?» [cf.. Mt 5, 47]. And he added: "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect" [cf.. Mt 5, 48]. Namely: charity is not in emotional quirks of the world, or what is the world like, resides in the Father's thanksgivings, of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Faith, as he learns from the author of the Letter to the Hebrews, far from being emotional impulse "[…] is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen " [EB 11, 1]. So why, in a television studio, I should make those teacher's lessons high theology that our bishops, in their conformist and low art homiletics, do from the pulpits of their churches cathedrals during the great liturgical solemnities of the year, place that Holy Christmas and Easter, for years now, instead of being their celebrations of the Word of God incarnate and risen Christ who defeats death, seem to become emotional obsessive-theater of the most fashionable and philanthropic migrantopoli?

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In the episode of 6 February I was very clear in explaining in a few words that it was necessary to turn in a simple and understandable to an audience who in increasing numbers, Catholics included, no longer he knows even the basics of the Catechism. An objective and sad problem before which, think you can do "high theology" from a TV studio, really it means to live outside of the real world, or at least have with it a bad relationship.

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My critics have not caught that in contrast to some of my brethren radical chic, I granted in the areas I have never failed to make reference to the doctrine, morals and teachings of the Church, with simple words and short phrases that are not allowed to me, but anyone involved. On the contrary, complain that "they did not give you room to explore that theme», as some have written, What it is unjust and false. It is true in fact the exact opposite: They have always given me ample space, along with a sincere respect paid to my figure of a priest, both live and behind the scenes populated by beautiful human beings, with several of them have established a sincere friendship, including people who for many years not exchanged a word with a priest. Said this is taken into account that the program is divided into four blocks whose duration is approximately 40 minutes each. In parterre There are usually four to six guests, each of which must speak at least once. At this time there are presentations to the theme through introductory films, there are almost always several external links, some people who comment or address questions from the public and some commercial breaks. Any mind with common sense and minimum spirit of analysis, should be understood that if one of the guests of parterre unable to speak for a total of three minutes, really he had a great space, to me which are always granted, for which I am grateful to Paul Del Debbio and Drafting.

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With regard to the invitation I addressed to me "not to yell", I want to clarify what are the mechanisms of fast communication targeted to the essential requirements. First of all, alive and raise your voice as I did on a few occasions, it was not an excess but a necessity. It may be that before certain sensitive topics, one or more parties attempt to deviate from the subject in order not to make you talk, preventing you from putting forward a message, for example by clarifying what they teach in this regard the Catholic doctrine and morals, or what really happened in history. In a similar situation, if I did not take the right to conclude a speech or a brief reply saying what is true and what is false, I would do the figure of the subject not only yielding, ometterei but just to clarify what the Church is wrong. Having said that it takes into account that in this delicate context, for those who are listening to me from home, I'm not the freelancer's own personal opinion, but a member of the Catholic Church and her Priests College. I ask then to my critics so sensitive before a priest who in case of need comes alive during a speech: for you, it is more important to say and make clear what is right or wrong, what it is true or false, or, to a distorted view of clerical etiquette, silence while one or more interlocutors say things historically misleading or incorrect? Having said that I add: how to live a priest in a Church that is going through a terrible decline in the ecclesial and ecclesiastical plan. A Church in which I have seen too many priests from, bishops and cardinals implement genuine injustices and abominations which cry before God, all with diaphanous smiles etched on the faces, Voci yeast, tones content and persuasive words. Maybe this is it, the kind of clergy "measured" and "stiff" that appeals to some of my critics, or that some of my critics wish the Church of Christ to be able to have or continue to have?

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People who invited me to "go no", because they say 'no use', are the same as they then complain of the figures of certain media priests of the past and present that, Of pleasure in pleasure go hand in hand with the world, to which always show acquiescence, it cost well say, as it has often happened in front of millions of viewers: "… it's true, the Church says this, But I think otherwise, I have another opinion ». Well, There is perhaps that before the television audience I have also issued a single sigh contrary to the doctrine, morals and teachings of the Church? So some critics should understand that if I do not participate, You are saying that you can tell by the times and rules of the slots, the so-called scene will only be trodden by those priests in sweater and sneakers that give the public an image of a priest secularized and not terribly uplifting, which often he does not transmit to the teaching of the Church, but what he thinks from the egocentrism, often, unfortunately, from the top of his ignorance on the fundamentals of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, so widespread today, even among our clergy. What good, then shut himself, how does the Catholic depressed, in the ghetto made madonnas and self-styled seers announcing impending disasters, while outside everything collapses around us? Rather it needs instead to reflect on the profound affection that Christ God proved to the crowd of people who appeared in his eyes like sheep without a shepherd:

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«[…] and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things " [cf.. MC 6, 34].

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Now more than ever, how many are these "sheep without a shepherd" that we expect, indeed often implore, just a simple word of good comfort?

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Christ the Lord invites us in clear words to be "the light of the world", and in this regard explains:

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«[…] It can not be hidden a city set on a mountain, nor is a lamp lit to put it under a bushel, but on a stand where it shines for all who are in the house. So let your light shine before men, they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven " [Mt 5, 14-16].

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I do not get how some Catholics read the Holy Gospel, which it is not a closed ghetto phenomenon excluded from the world, is the light of the Incarnate Word, as explained by the Blessed Apostle John in the Prologue to his Gospel, where light is used as a metaphor for the "light from light" who is Christ the incarnate Word of God [cf.. GV 1, 1-18]. And that Christ is not a light that lights up "and put it under a bushel", search depressed Catholics ghetto, that among madonnas and self-styled visionaries who will excite you with listings of upcoming disasters, forget - or perhaps you do not know - that the Book of Revelation of John the Apostle Blessed encloses the greatest message of hope. It would be enough to know the simple meaning of the words: the word of Greek origin, apocalypse, means "discover", "Uncover" what is hidden. The apocalyptic message reassures us that the good has already won over evil, Christ God has already triumphed. The Apocalypse is the message of the joy of faith, not the gloomy excitations use of chronic pessimists irredeemable that abound in the Holy People of God.

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What in gifts of grace was given to me in light of Christ's God which it is "Light from Light", I must make it shine in every way, as it is written in the stern warning which is the Parable of the Talents [cf.. Mt 25, 14-30]. If necessary, going quietly with my lamp on the "mountain" of Mediaset and also trying to light a match just inside the studio number 11 from which it is transmitted by direct Straight and Reverse conducted by Paolo Del Debbio and organized by a team of excellent professionals. Because, with the times we live, able to render the world see the light of only one match, It is a genuine grace of God, for people like me try Christological tenderness for all of you, It always seemed more like "sheep without a shepherd".

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For this I am grateful to the friends of preparation of the program Straight and Reverse for giving me the opportunity to be myself, ie a priest, if necessary we can go against the trends of this world, to exercise the right to the political incorrectness that it is written and shown the whole word for word in the Holy Gospel, of which I am a teacher and preacher for the sacred mandate through priestly consecration. All this in a society in which, the priest and the Catholic faith, it now tends to give an image grotesque and distorted. It is indeed notorious that we, to deserve to be treated grotesquely, We worked long, often giving the world the best of the worst of the image of the Church and clergy who could give. And today, the world, It is paying off upsetting the best of ridicule on our worst miseries.

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If in this time of crisis and ecclesial and ecclesiastical decadence I try to also turn on a single match, perhaps I deserve the support from those Catholics who do not know what he's like a mountain, how we rise above and, above all, as it turns a simple but valuable match from the television studio of a network of Mediaset. Often God just very little, because even through the light of a match, soul may decide to be saved, through the mysterious gift of freedom and the free will given to man by the Eternal Creator.

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the Island of Patmos, 17 February 2020

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