In defense of state sovereignty: we have a Cardinal-electrician who does not know the Criminal Code of the Italian Republic, together with those who sent him …

IN DEFENSE OF THE STATE SOVEREIGNTY: WE HAVE A CARDINAL-ELECTRICIAN NOT KNOW THE CRIMINAL CODE, TOGETHER The WHO SENT …

Of one thing, the Cardinal-electrician and whoever for him can be quite certain: with this operation gave to someone at least a million votes, without the need to spend time and energy to do exhausting and expensive election campaigns. And this can even call: farsighted Church of the new course. Indeed, Italian disadvantaged families often pay with decent sacrifice supplies, if anything, wondering at times the rescheduling of the amounts due to suppliers, friends of Tarzan Okkupatore and those who support him, The vote will give him not even to die. Or to put it precisely clear who it was hard to understand: Matteo Salvini, the terrible naughty boy of the so-called populism, Thanks to the Holy See from the heart!

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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They asked the Pharisees: "Tell us then, what you think: it lawful to give tribute to Caesar?». But Jesus, aware of their malice, He answered: "Hypocrites!, Why tempt ye me? Show me the tax coin ". And they brought him a denarius. He asked them: "Whose is this image and the inscription?». They answered: "Caesar's". Then he said to them: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and to God what is God's"

[Gospel of St. Matthew: 22, 17-21]

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Usually we write about serious things, but every now and then it can happen to deal with things in the balance between the tragic and the comic.

The fact: Konrad Krajewski Polish-born, of years 55, citizen of the Vatican City State and resident there, cardinal profession and papal chaplain, May 11 has committed a crime on the territory of the Italian Republic: tampering with seals affixed by the company supplying the meters light of a whole building Roman, everything after users had accumulated about 300.000 euro debt for unpaid supplies.

The building it is not the property of the ecclesiastical estate [see WHO, WHO] but of’I.N.P.D.A.P (Institute National Social Security and Welfare Administration's Public Employees), and it has been busy over 2013 Project, and the instigation of individuals who turn out to be the employment professionals. At the head of this committee there is San Filippo Blacks but the anarchic anti-system Andrea Alzetta, said Tarzan, reported numerous times for the crime of trespassing, to follow along with the devastation offenses building and resisting [see, WHO].

The fact is narrated in detail the now-official organ of the Holy See, The Republic. We invite you to read the detailed account of this daily, whose reliability is as such, if not higher, to that of The Osservatore Romano [see WHO].

On the territory of the Italian Republic governed by a sovereign state, including Rome its capital, that is no longer the capital of the State governed by the Pontifical er Cardenal Nepotc - having as only merit that of being the grandson of the Supreme Pontiff -, but by a municipal authority elected by the citizens, It applies the following law contemplated by the provisions of article n. 624 of the Criminal Code:

"Whoever takes possession of movable property [c.p. 631] of others, subtracting it from its holder, in order to gain profit for themselves or others, It shall be punished with imprisonment from six months to three years and a fine of € 154 a euro 516 [c.p. 29] (3). For the purposes of criminal law, It shall be deemed movable thing also electricity and any other energy that has an economic value [c.c. 814; c.p. 625, 626, 646, 647, 649; c.n. 510, 593, 1146] (4). The crime is punishable upon complaint by the injured person, unless one or more of the circumstances referred to in articles 61, number 7), e 625 (5) (6)»

We therefore await to know if the public prosecutor of Rome, after having learned from the newspapers the news of crime, will open a file to be paid by Konrad Krajewski, citizen of Vatican City State, asking if necessary for international rogatory his extradition to Italy to meet the crime committed.

If not, in this pleasant country of ours where almost always out of turn and for trivial matters to say the least we shout to secularism, it means we went back to Rome ruled by er Cardenal Nepotc, but especially, starting today, all delinquent in similar situations will be able to break the seal and breaking the law in such a way, without that the Public Prosecutor can proceed against them, all based on the principle that destructive Caesar on his part owes everything, while Caesar, by subsidiaries that form the body of citizens, is not due yet nothing.

Of one thing, the Cardinal-electrician and who for him It can be quite sure: with this operation gave to someone at least a million votes, without the need to spend time and energy to do exhausting and expensive election campaigns. And this can even call: farsighted Church of the new course.

Indeed, Italian disadvantaged families who often pay with decent sacrifice supplies, if anything, wondering at times the rescheduling of the amounts due to suppliers, friends of Tarzan Okkupatore and those who support him, The vote will give him not even to die. Or to put it clear who was just hard to understand: Matteo Salvini, the terrible naughty boy of the so-called populism, Thanks to the Holy See from the heart!

To get out of this yet another poor showing, the Holy See has only one solution: put your hands in your pocket and pay to Caesar about 300.000 euro bills in back by those who Caesar believes not having anything, or, if not, Free give away a million votes to Matteo Salvini.

In short: to Caesar, except by what is due, He takes it back, forever and penalty with interest.

the Island of Patmos, 12 May 2019

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The decadent suffering Church has entered its Good Friday, submerged by the chorus of servants opportunists who scream yesterday as "Barabbas today, Barabbas! And shortly after, Peter denies Christ three times …

- Good Friday of Holy Easter 2019 —

THE DECADING SUFFERING CHURCH ENTERS ITS GOOD FRIDAY, SUBMERGED BY THE CHOIR OF OPPORTUNIST SERVANTS WHO SCREAM YESTERDAY AS TODAY "BARABBA, BARABBA!». AND SHORT TIME LATER, PETER DENIES CHRIST FOR THREE TIMES …

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We are at fall of and in a few years the Catholic Church as we have known and understood it up to now will no longer exist; exist "other". Our ecclesial and ecclesiastical system has already smashed from the inside, and is currently in progress a disturbing transformation. Unfortunately, both in the College of Bishops in both the Priestly College we do not have even a minimum number of elements able to cope with this progressive decay. For the suffering Church it is so began the painful Good Friday.

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This article was posted on 16 February, again present today, with all the news of the case, as a meditation on Good Friday this Easter 2019. .

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

When criticism, in itself legitimate, It can not produce anything, because certain special historical situations, social and ecclesial prevent it from generating any effective, It is always to be avoided, because in that case the criticism is drowned in a vicious circle in which only end up feeding itself, increasing the great confusion and great disorientation, rather than squander. And those who exercise this kind of criticism fruitless and harmful, especially if a priest and theologian, could seriously stained with gross negligence.

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In certain occasions, instead of resorting to the ineffective critical, you can resort to irony, or to greet sneer, I myself have not hesitated to do it, I recognize it and I admit, also because some of my writings that are soaked in irony and mockery, remain public and accessible by anyone today. In fact, when I began to perceive how scientific criticism was ineffective and unproductive, in an attempt to dislodge certain ecclesiastical conscience action are repeated times the weapon irony, up to launch the so-called campaign: "I seriously pigliateli, take them for the ass ". And after this call effect by hovering boundaries between Boccaccio and Pasquino, It specified that in certain contexts and situations around the outlet, the sneer, far from being an end in themselves they end up being an act of perfect Christian charity [see article, WHO]. My fear is that many escapes in what way Christ the Lord resorted He himself all’ironia making use of the expressive style of the time. And not only resorted all’ironia, because the terms of certain invectives used by him are of extraordinary hardness. For if certain expressions riots in dialect of Aramaic by Christ to God zealous teachers of the law and scribes, They should be translated with vocabulary of today's Roman, we would find that the terms loosely equivalent "grannissimi fiji de whore» o di «pockets full of shit», not be able to make in hardness as expressed by the Savior toward certain subjects of his day. Audition eminent exegetes to explain what it meant at the lexical and expressive level contact of the high Jewish dignitaries telling them in an ironic and takes shape: ' Verily I say: the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God " [Mt 21, 31]. Expression this in which there are both the irony is linked to the severity of a deep morale booster. Indeed, this expression, It is equivalent in every way to say today, to the present day members of the College of Cardinals, that the whores working along the Via Casilina are the most respectable of them, but above all most deserving of them to enter Paradise. If then nobody explains it, then I take care of me explain: accusing ups and zealous religious notables to be like whitewashed tombs "beautiful to behold, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness " [Mt 23, 27], in the expressive vocabulary of the time, What it was far much worse than telling them "you are of the greatest pieces of shit". Indeed, with corpses, not to mention the rotting corpses, the devout Israelite was not and could not be defiled, especially the members of the priestly caste, who it was forbidden from Gone [halakha, the equivalent Canon law era], to get close to the burial places even remotely, all for issues related to the maintenance of the purity.

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So that, comparing certain senior religious notables of rotting corpses, It is greatly much more offensive than simply tell them “shits”. This was Jesus Christ, certainly not the doll androgynous presented in his film Jesus of Nazareth by Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, I can not help but omosessualizzare aesthetically everything it touches, below will continue to mutate into a missy languid even that virile Umbrian male of Francis of Assisi in the film Brother Moon. What about the actual figure of the Seraphic Father, much better than I has spoken recently of one of the Fathers The Island of Patmos, our author cappuccino Ivano Liguori, that is a member of the Franciscan Order, and that of St. Francis of Assisi is the son [see article, WHO].

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In this regard many readers of our magazine and they laugh always remind, when the columns of The Island of Patmos It was announced my appointment as Archbishop of Naples. Behind to that’burlesque opera emerged in fact the episcopate today's drama, in particular those of the new careerists, or if you want modern whitewashed tombs, that to reach the coveted appointment of bishops were blanketing the poor and poverty. A funny sneer but very sad that article aimed at those newly appointed bishops come to the episcopate after the prostrate New Theology of the poor and the migrant, now placed above the theology of the Word of God incarnate [see article WHO].

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Between the end of December of 2018 and the beginning of the new year 2019, magazine devoted several of our readers have sent me many messages in which they ask: "She is no longer what it once was", "Where is his scathing and ironic vein?». Then there are also the provocateurs irreverent, some of them asked me: "At the end of the games, they frightened and silenced, vero?».

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You can defer on many things, on others not, because when someone, like myself, He has always risked everything and everything in defense of truth, paying almost always very high prices, not least in order to have always indicated, and called the "whited sepulchres" spade, it is appropriate to provide all the necessary explanations, avoiding that come to life and they spread rumors not true, as well as unjust towards me, of the type: “... eventually they made him take fear and have silenced!”. No, it's not true. And now I will I explain why the same is not true: because the positions and the line for some time I have taken are the result of freedom, then what I hope is within the grace of the wisdom of the heart.

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With all the devotee than necessary, but with more tones sometimes also quite strict, in the past I have directed harsh criticism not only current course of the Church, I am wishing I could "boast" that he also made harsh and detailed criticism that no ecclesiastical authority has until now never denied. Following some of my public complaints, the scars and teasing from hysterical housewives more or less dressed in red, I've got to galore, but private, or worse than public denials, until now I have never received even a. As for my articles, written between 2014 and the 2018, are all preserved in the archive of the magazine The Island of Patmos, then be consulted by anyone who wishes to read them.

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In terms of pure theological speculation I even expounded on a completely hypothetical question: "Can a Roman Pontiff legitimately elected and legitimate Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter to be deprived of the grace of state?» [see article, WHO]. And on this hypothesis, that you know has never occurred in the history of the Church, I thought about it a lot, because Christ the Lord, Peter - as I will explain later in much more detail -, before saying "strengthen your brethren in the faith", he said: "That may not fail your faith", and added, "he has turned again", only after these two premises urged him saying 'strengthen your brothers in the faith " [LC 22, 31-33], but we will deal with this later …

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THE TRUTH AND THE SYNDROME Pontius Pilate: WHEN A TRUTH CAN SAVE A SOUL AND WHEN IT COULD HARM IT FOREVER

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Another thing on which it is seriously questioning the concept of truth. It is obvious that we must tell the truth, we pastors in the care of souls in a very special way, the truth that we are devoted servants and preachers faithful, provided that the truth might bear fruit and generate salvation. Therefore when you speak and, speaking, one is exposed without hesitation even at worst ire, it is crucial to question the very way of speaking and proclaiming the truth, because a truth expressed poorly or inadequately presented loses effectiveness, and in that case it is the mission of both do justice to the truth, It is resulting in a major failure, if not worse in damage. Dramatic and more relevant than ever so they sound the words of Christ the Lord given by the Blessed Apostle John who reports on his conversation with Pontius Pilate's question to which he responds: «[…] for this I was born and for this I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Whoever it belongs to the truth, hears my voice ". Hear the words, Pontius Pilate replication: "What is truth?» [GV 18, 37-38].

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Therefore, if on one hand Pontius Pilate wanted to know and ascertain the truth, on the other hand he, rather than being unable to transpose, he just could not understand the concept of truth. Having said that I add: qualcuno think today, what could be termed as syndrome Pontius Pilate, is probably extinct, if anything, thanks to the decadent and a crystallized neo-Thomism neo-scholastic, argumentative and aggressive, place St. Thomas Aquinas - the authentic one, of course -, What was the truth explained to him the length and breadth, up to earn the titles of Angelic Doctor and of Doctor Common? Unfortunately, the neo-Thomist crystallized, argumentative and aggressive, put to the test today ignores what the truth is much more unknown than it was yesterday Pontius Pilate. Indeed, decadent in our post-modern society, vero e truthful is just what individuals feel and perceive a pure emotional subjectivity level; and treat such metastases with neo-Thomism, it would be like treating cancer with homeopathic pills of positive thinking that, today, It constitutes a real socio-psychological pandemic. So that, the sad reality with which we have to deal - unless otherwise withdraw into the world of the unreal -, It is the fact that the emotion has replaced the truth that that limited Roman soldier of Pontius Pilate knew at least not, or that he was not able to know, to the point of asking: "What is truth?» [GV 18, 38].

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More than the metaphysical concept of truth itself and by itself, then I'll try to clarify those that can sometimes be the effects or the results produced by a truth that bad or worse expressed. All I will try to depict it with three different examples: the first, linked to the figure of the Holy Father John Paul II, the next two, linked to cases of two different patients affected both from the same brain tumor.

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He ran the now distant year 1981 when to the Holy Pontiff John Paul II on an apostolic journey to Germany, during a private meeting took place in the presence of several priests and lay people in Fulda City, He was asked why he had not been revealed to the text of the Third Secret of Fatima, that should have been made public in 1960. The future Holy Pontiff, expertly placing the finger on the wound of pruderie media and worldly, curiosity and sensationalism search, He gave this response:

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«[…] Many want to know merely out of curiosity and taste for sensationalism, but they forget that knowledge also entails a responsibility. It seeks only the gratification of their curiosity and this is dangerous if you are convinced that nothing can be done against evil and at the same time if you are not willing to do something against it " [Voice of faith, n. 10 the 1981, My translation from German].

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fundamental prerequisite for the truth is the knowledge, which follows the full acceptance of this knowledge, ie the truth. You can claim the knowledge of the truth out of sheer morbid curiosity, but did not accept all the consequences that entails knowledge of the truth? If so, the truth is the most beautiful and precious gems, who can forget the admonition:

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"Do not give what is holy to dogs and your pearls before swine do not throw, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn again and rend you " [Mt 7, 6].

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And how many are now the pigs that claimed the "right" to have the pearls of truth, then step on them and turn to tear it to him who thoughtlessly dates?

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The other two examples are related to a tumor pathology: brain tumor. A short time away from each other I have known in the past cases of two men with both on the same brain tumor, positioned in such a way as not to make it operable. But most of all, the tumor, were both diagnosed when metastases were already spread, making unnecessary the various therapies, from chemotherapy. The first of these patients was a merchant, husband and father of three children. The oncologist who diagnosed the evil explained in detail what were the consequences of that incurable disease in the near future, including a state of total loss of consciousness and the inevitable reduction to a vegetative state. This man, people understood that he was going to his death and before the arrival of it lost their mental faculties, He tried to arrange his practical things and to stay as close as possible to his wife and children. He went even attending church, from which it was a fugitive for many years, He met several times an elderly confessor and returned to receive the Sacraments. As soon as the evil began to degenerate he asked to receive the sacred anointing of the sick, It was always present and shiny. Then the disease took the course that had been explained, and in the grace of God he died, leaving a tender memory of his wife and children.

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A little time away the same oncologist He diagnosed the same tumor to an own colleague, distinguished surgeon and university lecturer, presenting to it in the same way that it is impossible to intervene surgically and the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy, because of widespread metastases. The distinguished clinician, husband and father of two children, knowing the evil that had to die and how they would die, Instead of returning home he went with his car on the motorway where there is a high bridge a few hundred meters connecting one hill to another, He parked the side of the machine with the four position arrows lit and lunged below. Contrary to the case have just narrated, his wife and children he left at a tender memory, to the point that one of the two sons, then also become surgeon, a decade away from the parent's suicide, he said: "My father did not die of cancer, He died of cowardice ".

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The very same truth effects and can produce results quite different on the basis of diversity of human subjects: it is the only itch to want to know all about worldly and media costs pruderie, or whether it is very bitter to accept the truth.

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"THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 'BEFORE WHICH THE SERVANTS opportunists SHOUT YESTERDAY AS TODAY" Barabbas, BARABBA!»

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I did not fail then to express all my human suffering, for example, when I found myself witness unimaginable opportunism of some Catholic journalists, I knew that if anything, and attended by nearly twenty years, and I considered true and sincere friends. That was perhaps my greatest suffering. but do not, as some might think, for they have become more clerical than in fact it is these clerics; weaknesses and these are things that you can safely forgive. In regards opportunists must in fact exercise some leniency, because often they lie behind opportunism only profound weakness and a sense of great insecurity. My reproach - as a result my deep suffering -, It was not moved by these peccadilloes, but a sin of unprecedented severity that compromises in this kind of people the Christian charity itself, for they know well and deeply tragic stories almost always good and the few clergymen who continue to survive in the Church, that have not been simply abused, but exposed to the authentic psychological torture, which as we know are the worst, why more and rigor exercised the most cruel viciousness.

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Showing themselves totally indifferent to human suffering for reasons dictated by cynical opportunism, these individuals have denied any kind of defense to the truth by acting in total disregard for the blood of the innocent poor. This makes them modern Judas kissing Christ to indicate to the soldiers who have to arrest him [cf. MC 14, 43-46], It makes them modern troubles that face the question of Pontius Pilate, "Whom shall releases, he or Barabbas?», towering over every other voice yelling loudly: «Barabbas, Barabbas!» [cf. Mt 27, 17-20]. And for these things, God do not even waste time to condemn us to Hell, because the highway to six lanes on the straight towards it if the esplanade are these people from themselves, if you do not convert, if they do not repent and if you do not do proper penance [see article by Hypatia Roman cat, WHO].

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There are many things to which we have witnessed over the last five years of Church history, characterized and marked by a radical and profound progressive collapse. We discovered suddenly old friends how come we'd imagined them, many of us have confided their doubts and misgivings as to friends and loved estimated over, from which they were betrayed by them and then delivered to the modern Sanhedrin, with the kiss of Judas.

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OUR BIG TEST OF FAITH BEFORE THAT PASSAGE TO MANY THAT UNCOMFORTABLE ESCAPES: BEFORE YOU TELL PETER 'CONFIRMS THE BROTHERS IN FAITH "CHRIST THE GOD SAYS" turned again ". AND SHORT TIME LATER, PIETRO, DENIES CHRIST GOD FOR THREE TIMES, MUCH WAS repentant …

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Explaining the concept of point of no return, in a recent article I suggested: "Faced with a visible Church suffers from a doctrinal and moral decay irreversible, you must open as soon as the seed bank " [see article, WHO]. While in an article published earlier this year 2019 I wrote: "In this terrible dark night, for the New Year 2019 the work program has been dictated to The Island of Patmos by Blessed Apostle Peter: “Your enemy, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, looking for someone to devour. Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that your brothers around the world suffer the same sufferings as you " [The Pt 5, 8-9]» [see article, WHO]. In these pages that touch on different topics, by doctrinal lost the moral crisis, until the real apostasy which manifests itself more and more disturbing in the Church, in the words of the Wisdom literature explaining to readers:

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«[…] I have neither thrown in the towel on ring Boxing, nor do I have raised the white flag before the enemy, least of all by roaring lion have become a castrato of the eighteenth century Baroque singing with the voice of a soprano unvoiced. quite simply, in tracing a work plan for the new year, I reflected on the fact that: “there is a time to tear and a time to sew, there is a time to be silent and a time to speak ...” [cf. Ec 3, 1-8]. And today we have to measure well, talk about what, to prevent the talk, but above all to denounce and criticize, it's just an end in itself, the only result of not the slightest dent in the acolytes of Satan, but at the same time, however disorienting ancòra more God's people very ill and lost, that needs to be sustained in the great test ' [see article, WHO].

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After this long series of explanations, with reference to the words of that article in early January 2019 Here we are at the aching heart of the explanation; and the heart is the Catholic and priestly heart survived to more heart attacks, then to a stroke, and now it kept alive by the grace of God after a great save heart surgery that saved it with the application of some by-pass.

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Today, Holy Church, He is experiencing a crisis that has no historical precedent. In most historians and theologians have tried to identify some previous similar, but we were unable to locate the two thousand year history of the Church anything like. We groped to make comparisons with the period Arian heresy of the fourth and fifth centuries, or the great decay of the ninth and tenth centuries, with the moral and doctrinal crisis of the previous clergy celebrate the Fourth Lateran Council under the pontificate of Pope Innocent III, or with more or less similar crisis, also it characterized by a frightening widespread ignorance in the clergy, which preceded the great Council of Trent held under three different pontificates over eighteen long years. But the comparative efforts that do not lead to anything that might be similar to what we are experiencing today. Modestly, on my part, groped for a comparison I compared our era to that of the big decline and then to the Roman Empire [see article, WHO]. I admit that even before this comparison - as I write this article -, the historical comparison and socio-ecclesial holds in very weakly, to the point of visit forced to affirm:

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«We are at fall of and in a few years the Catholic Church as we have known and understood it up to now will no longer exist; exist "other". Our ecclesial and ecclesiastical system has already smashed from the inside, and is currently in progress a disturbing transformation. Unfortunately, both in the College of Bishops and in the Priestly College we have not even a minimum number of elements that can cope with this progressive decay ' [see article, WHO].

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«[…] in this unprecedented situation, by analogy comes to mind the descent of the barbarians from the north of Europe. The profound difference, before this vague resemblance, It is the fact that the barbarians were converted to Christianity, and also thanks to their Christianity was saved and spread among the same barbarians. And from what the barbarians were hit? What drove them to conversion? Soon said: their conversion is linked to extraordinary figures of bishops, priests and monks, which barbarians recognized manly hardening, courage, authority, so great authority. Their, barbarians, who they based and that held all the power, recognized the force resulting from the status grace of the sacramental character of the sacred order and then the grace of God […] Before the fall of the great empire under the blows of apostasy from the faith, It can neither repair the damage nor outrun for cover, you can only salvage, then depart tomorrow from a small nucleus small shed for the world to rebuild over the ruins of the great devastation. A quel point, in a couple of centuries, reborn a small church formed by a few faithful, that starting from scratch will try to explain to the people of the world of the unknown words that no one will know the true meaning: Christmas, Jesus of Nazareth, Easter of Resurrection, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Revelation, Redemption, Grace of God, Trinity, Immaculate Conception … […] Our process of rebirth, however, will be very long, and at the end of the opera it will produce only a small flock of faithful around the world, thereby giving full fruition so the word of God's Word: "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am in their midst " [cf. Mt 18, 20]» [see article, WHO].

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By making a clear analysis of the current pontificate and impartial, It must be made clear, More times as I did and wrote during these last four years, that the current reigning Pope, although far from being free from defects, sometimes serious, But it is not the responsibility of certain tendencies that start and that develop from afar. He is only the heir, or better: the last heir. All this I explained with an example repeatedly stated in the past to his right and legitimate defense:

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«[…] he is only the last of the customers come in the restaurant and that crossing the threshold was attacked by waiters who demanded from him payment of the accounts of all those before him had had lunch and dinner without pay, but leaving fine suspended accounts' [see articles WHO, WHO].

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Certain superficial ecclesiastical, sometimes they lovingly call me back and told me that toward the Supreme Pontiff had expressed severe criticism too. In a way quite contrary, the few clerics animated by the wisdom of God that they continue to survive, however few, indeed unfortunately always less, Instead they untilled by far my criticisms element, understanding and then saying: "Few, Comets, really defend the Supreme Pontiff ".

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Interloquendo in the past with an old friend, famous Vatican, who tried to tell me once, in a calm and friendly manner, that in some of my criticisms of certain pastoral choices of the Pope he saw a certain arrogance, I replied and explained several times:

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"If before the people of God confused and bewildered want to be credible, then if necessary defend effectively the Pope, I must first highlight its objective defects. If not, if as do others can introduce as the most wonderful Pontiff and perfect the entire history of the Church, up to deny the evidence of the same facts, at that point, then when I corrected in defense of his sacred person and his high apostolic office, I would not be credible and above all I would not be listened to by anyone believers of Christ».

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In fact, I can not only testify, but try it at any time as often as in the fulfillment of my apostolic ministry I explained to the faithful the unquestionable legitimacy of the reigning Pope and the sense of filial devotion and obedience which in any case is due to him, the faithful I have always listened, first moved by this certainty:

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"If he tells you there, that if any did not hesitate to criticize harshly certain pastoral decisions of the Holy Father and some of his unhappy expression, then it means that this is true and that this priest tells us the right, because it is impartial and so intellectually honest ".

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Every time due to my work I received various attestation of faithful who have told me, "if I had not followed your advice and if I had not placed in the right light, the Supreme Pontiff, Today I would be out of the Catholic Church ", inside me I always said: tonight, the recitation of Compline, I can say with particular serenity the words from the song of the saint and sage Simeon "Now let your servant, Dominated, according to thy word in peace;, Your eyes have seen thy salvation because they have seen. Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;: light for the revelation of the nations, and the glory of thy people Israel» [now let, o Lord, thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word, because my eyes have seen your salvation, you prepared in sight of all peoples: light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people, Israel].

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I do not know if this old friend, for which I then suffered much later, he understood everything, from my human and priestly honesty in this regard, and always paid the penalty with a high price with the group of convicted innocents to slaughter. Indeed, his apparent defense at all costs of the Supreme Pontiff, especially against the evidence of the same facts, until the actual use of fake, It has finally revealed to target a place and a high institutional prominent role within the Holy See, to reach which did not hesitate to affirm without any ridiculous penalty which Caligula had the tender heart of San Filippo Blacks, that Agrippina and Aspasia were more virgins of Sante martyrs of Agnes and Cecilia purity, Stalin was the great founder of the liberal-democratic state …

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Under the pontificate of the Holy Father John Paul II and the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI, who also were not exempt either from government or from errors proved choices and even lethal in subsequent years, we experienced the birth of many fine Christian and priestly friendship; we joined in many values, common aims and missions, even in our human and intellectual diversity. Inside the church she talked and debated, sometimes so also lit, but remaining essentially united still being a Christian and a Catholic Holy People of God, the Priestly College and the College of Bishops, free to speak and to serve the Church. This is because, the Chair of the Blessed Apostle Peter, men were far from perfect, including John Paul II, today revered saint for the heroic nature of his virtues; heroism that have not implicated but never perfection. And these Popes have guarded with jealousy wise Church unity. Under the last two pontificates, Holy Church has known the maximum number, first of all in episcopal appointments, instead that the bishops are the driving heart of the Church Body, together with their priests. In the various bishops' conferences, in those days they gathered bishops who were - to use the terms of improper everything taken from the lexicon of journalists and not from that of ecclesiologists -, of conservative personalities, other progressive personality, other ultra progressive personality. And all, united by a common end, They were alive and active part of the College of Bishops. Well, after having examined the reality that today shines before our eyes, ask ourselves what is reduced in principle the episcopate, from the Italian. It is reduced to emulators that mimic the exotic pastoral spun-off by doctrine and placed above the doctrine itself. The homilies of the bishops have a painful plethora of platitudes on a surreal idea of ​​the poor and poverty, followed by equally surreal idea of ​​migration. The bishops have now abdicated the proclamation of the Holy Gospel, to devote himself to make the politicians and the social and political scientists. And all this, I say it and write it for years, always at my own risk. That's why I welcomed as valuable as dew recently expressed and clarified bitterly Emeritus Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, about the bishops who instead of proclaiming the Holy Gospel which politicians [see article, WHO].

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Because, during the past meetings, The bishops did not hesitate to discuss certain pastoral decisions of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, while today, in this climate of so-called great pastoral opening, opening towards dialogue, collegiality, the acceptance of diversity, the includenza and so to follow, no one dares to make half the contrary sigh? We know this because no one dares utter a sigh contrary, but in any case I remember: because today in the Church reigns terror comparable to that of the Venezuelan regime Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivian Evo Morales and why it has established a real state after a colossal blow. And in the Church was in place a colossal blow, I wrote and explained in 2010, always at my own risk, is intende.

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A striking example so to speak: in my book written between 2008 and the 2010 and published early 2011, now about to be reprinted from our editions, I was also long and in-depth analysis on "omosessualizzazione of the Church" and explained that those between the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century capeggiavano within the seminars pious gay fraternity, not only they had become priests, but one after another were becoming bishops. Well, know that several of those prelates who were now called upon to solve the problem of gay epidemic Finally exploded publicly among the clergy, nine years ago they accused me of having used an "unacceptable definition and highly blasphemous expression" to have written that "the Church has broken a genuine nubifrossing universal, but that no one would notice it ' [cf. So Satan He Trino, 2011, work in print]. Indeed, the same ones who yesterday denied the existence of the problem and that picked on me that instead I tried to fling it under the eyes this problem Mephistopheles, today are those who ridicule paradox, the problem, They were called to solve it (!?), after having protected the armies of homosexual priests and have encouraged the promotion to the episcopal dignity of some of the worst of them and after having inserted a number of other offices of the Roman Curia. Today they have finally discovered the hot water, while i, years and years ago, already I warned that the Church was in place a blow homosexualist [see this article 2013, WHO].

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It is a fact, not an ungenerous judgment and irreverent: today, the divisive, for unspeakable paradox, It takes its life from that summit of the Holy Church that unity is the guardian. Today, to cause confusion in matters of doctrine and faith, It seems to be just the person to whom the mandate to "confirm his brothers was given by Christ in faith God ' [cf. LC 22, 32]. And also in this regard, debating time ago with a theologian specialized to cut the sentences of context to support their interpretations and thus elevate them to the status of a dogma of faith, I remembered that Christ God, to Peter, Before urge him to "confirm his brothers in faith", She warns him saying:

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«Simone, Simone, behold Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat; but I prayed for you, that thy faith fail not:; and you, turned again, strengthen your brothers in the faith " [LC 22, 31-32].

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The Word of God is clear the first to warn against the pitfalls of Satan, to which Peter is not free, if anything, it is even more exposed to everyone else. Then he prays that no less is in Peter's faith and, above all, clarifies: «again». Only after this clear call to repentance, God says Christ to Peter, "Strengthen your brethren in the faith", always with respect to those who jump at the bottom of all these basic steps, to enunciate so de-contextualized and facts completely false and then falsante, Peter has given a mandate to "confirm his brothers in faith", and that's! Of course I received this mandate, but all previous warnings preceding this invitation to confirm, what happened to make it do, or better: how we read them? And after Peter received this mandate, perhaps he not found better things to do than deny Christ three times? We also remember the way, where Peter denied Christ: She made him "swearing" and then, getting angry, also "cursing" [cf. MC 14, 66-71]. It said it is well to remember that Peter, its mandate, not received following the election occurred within a conclave of cardinals, because its mandate Peter received it from Christ God himself.

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Whoever departs from the great metaphysical and theological speculation to drown finally, before unexpected problems, never occurred in the history of the Church and almost impossible to solve, in the lake of the blind fideism uncritically, She has unfortunately chosen in such a way to waste his life, providing a false view of faith and falsante, all to defend themselves from their ghosts but above all to have and to give an answer at all costs and whatever the cost, up to distort the Holy Gospel by cutting from it phrases, He is taken and isolated from the whole context, become a big lie by the work of some counterfeiters, just like the phrase cut and de-contextualized: "Strengthen your brethren in the faith" [LC 22, 31-32]. In this case we have to prove holy envy for the illiterate, for those who ignore the existence of Aristotle, who do not know what the school, who have never heard of Saint Anselm of Aosta and St. Thomas Aquinas, but with half Ave Maria acted with evil act of simple and strong faith, They will end up in Heaven, while we, who it has been given the intellect and science well, if intellect and science we have used them to distort and falsify the Word of God and groped thus to manipulate the people of God, Because God is merciful end up in purgatory until Doomsday.

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This is obvious as the People of God today, along with its bishops and priests, must more than ever to protect Pietro, away from him the wiles of Satan and pray for his repentance, affinch'egli can then proceed to the fulfillment of the mandate conferred on him by Christ God, that is to confirm the brethren in the faith. And anyone, Bishop or Priest, that before this reality so evident choose to withdraw into fearful silence dictated by reasons of expediency staff, It should take into account that "the master of that servant will come on the day when he least expects it, and at an hour he does not know, and will punish him with rigor assigning it the unfaithful " [LC 12, 46]. And we, Bishops and Priests, not do we get away before the judgment of God through the benefit of not knowing or unavoidable ignorance, as the poor servant, while not knowing the will of the owner "he did commit things worthy" and "shall receive a light beating" [LC 12, 48]. To us, Bishops and Priests, that both have received from God for the gifts of grace, Christ the Lord warns us: "To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " [LC 12, 48].

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To then place everything in the light of true mercy, it remains clear that no one is obliged to be a hero, as no one is obliged to accept the martyrdom, which not coincidentally is within the particular gifts. God can give man the possibility and the gift of dying a martyr for the faith, but he can not accept all, without compromising the eternal salvation of one's soul. The Blessed Apostle Paul we encounter is then explaining:

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"Accept among you who is weak in faith, without discussing this hesitation. One believes he can eat anything, the other instead, that is weak, eats only vegetables. He who eats not despise those who do not eat; those who do not eat, don't misjudge who eats, for God has welcomed him " [RM 14, 1-3].

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Even this Pauline warning needs to be read and then including for what really sends: the weak in faith, or one who does not eat or who can only eat legumes, can not - nor ever he must be allowed -, to attack by the destructive spirit of those who are strong in faith, nor can steal food to those who can feed, who eats and who needs vital nourishment.

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Therefore, if Peter, paradoxically or test of faith given to us by divine mercy, instead of being the point of end units with the element to be used as the split point, in that case, more than ever we must be united to Peter, to which today it is necessary to show our loyalty to the Church through our faith. The reigning Pope, in the situation that has arisen and which he first is a prisoner with all the vagueness and lexical and doctrinal ambiguity of the case, It can not in any way be helped by our criticism, including those based on the truth of the facts, because in this situation of decline degenerative no longer serve any good, but above all they can not produce anything. But, sooner or later, he might instead be touched and led to repentance by our faith, after we, with our work - not with our useless criticism -, we will have shown our faith [Ge 2 1, 18].

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The current pontificate can only be interpreted in the light of the deepest Mystagogy. This moment is in its way a great gift of grace, because maybe God, after the huge disasters we have operated for generations, He is testing our faith right through the Chair of Peter, who at times seems to wobble after being eaten away by termites. For generations, We wanted to play to make all that moot, unstable, insecure and relative; Perhaps God is trying to make us repent showing us the fruits of this ancient degenerative process now than a century, revealing the questionable, the unstable, insecure, and its the same Chair of Peter. Therefore, our demand, should not be much or if the present Pope is or is not a good Pontiff, why else should be our question: we, during all the decades of history, what have we done to deserve a Pontiff Magno? And if God was mercifully repaying us with the same coins that by the time we're spending, to lead us to repentance, the forgiveness of our sins and our true conversion?

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Today, many children suffer, not feeling cared for by a loving father. Impute to his father the responsibility not to protect the mother and not to care properly family, sow between their children grudges and quarrels, instead keep them together in loving harmony. Let's say this is unfortunately the father, what to do: attack it, or perhaps deny it? No child can deny the fact that the father who generated both his father, regardless of all those who could be his worst demerits. Wanting, in cases of necessity, the son can stay away from his father and live as if the father did not exist, but never destroy the figure of the father and the legitimacy of the father himself.

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This is the test of faith: maintain the integrity of the father figure and protect, so that this legitimate role to be played tomorrow as a wise and loving father. Those who rant against the alleged "cowardice" and "shameful silence of the few good bishops and cardinals who we are and who remain silent", They may not realize that their senseless war cry against the father would only lead to the inevitable destruction of the entire family unit?

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THE PARADIGM OF THAT TITANIC SINKS, ON WHICH IN A FEW THINK THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS

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Over the last few years, speaking and writing repeatedly on the crisis of the Church, like every great crisis becomes irreversible at the time that has passed point of no return, from 2014 I have referred several times to the Titanic paradigm, sunk in the year 1912 [see WHO]. Using the image of the Titanic struck by 'iceberg I have written several articles in which the priorities to which indulge in such times of emergency before the major catastrophe were explained and indicated. Today, we Bishops and Priests, we are on the Titanic leaky in the holds after being hit by 'iceberg. Faced with this terrible tragedy, there are different reactions, there offer a realistic overview. For instance: There are those who having risen in senior management roles in the ferry company White Star Line, they move for the various salons of the ocean liner saying that it is not true that it is taking on water and that it risks sinking, but that is the whole a colossal lie put about by enemies of the naval societies and those who hate the captain, which he has one and only one defect: to be simply and totally perfect.

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Then there are people indifferent inside the party room - type the increasingly surreal tenants of buildings of the Roman Curia, to be clear -, who continue to celebrate as if nothing had, convinced that this transatlantic so perfect it can never sink; and that if you really sank, the matter concerns those that are piled in the holds of the third class.

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Then come those who, aware that the liner is sinking and that most of the passengers to die shortly thereafter, begin to criticize the shipyards in Liverpool where the Titanic was built, while others responded with criticism of the Captain, they say real culprit, not having given orders to turn in the right direction after the sighting of 'iceberg. The discussion will follow the divisions into factions and groups and the consequent quarrels, up to those who are beginning to support the captain in truth it is not the real captain and that's actually never been named, because the real captain was what, to a conspiracy of British Freemasons in cahoots with the Mafia of Wales hostile to the shipping company, He was forced to retire early. Meanwhile the water level rises, but little it cares, indeed not interested in anything, because what they are pressed about who is to blame, why and why. And we fly over the "masters of logic" that attempt to explain that if 'iceberg It hits this ship can not sink, all for the simple fact that the captain can not go wrong and never under any circumstances, any kind of maneuver face.

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Finally we are there, Mindful that happened was induced to push the engines to the maximum to beat each crossing record and be able to arrive before all the other transatlantic earlier in the port of New York, so aware of the sinking underway, to which is added the fact that the lifeboats are not enough for everyone, and that those who end up in the sea, knowing swim, will not survive help arrives, once immersed at a temperature of zero degrees in the icy waters. And in this, we men of faith, we see the realization of the warning:

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"Wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:; how narrow is the door and how narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find!» [Mt 7, 13-14].

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Like this, rather than waste time arguing about the navigation choices unintended or taxes to the captain, or instead discuss on the transatlantic building materials, or instead reassure that the captain can never and in any way wrong maneuver, we move between the cargo holds with water that is rising more and more, inviting men and women to repentance and purification from sin, acting head in the head in full absolution article died:

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«Ego, Faculty which the Apostolic See, And I grant remission of sin. In the Name of the Father, and sons, and of the Holy Spirit» [For the faculties granted to me by the Holy See, I grant you the remission of all your sins. In the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit].

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And while the aristocrats and members of the upper class Yesterday and today, they continue to be pleased the ferry company White Star Line in the party room and to consider the ship absolutely unsinkable, we continue to recite from faithful to faithful: «I absolve you …». As long as the water it will not have to hand over submerged purified, through this sacramental sign of Baptism - the water -, the prize of eternal life.

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there, my beloved and respected brothers de The Island of Patmos and me, We have choosen, as devout priests of Christ, to operate for the salvation of believers of Christ up to our drowning; and if we drown, we intend to drown pronouncing the sacramental formula: «I absolve you ... "until the water has submerged us and our mortal body transformed into the image of the glorious body of Christ [cf. Eucharistic Prayer III, Memory of deceased].

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THERE IS NO WAY UNLESS OBEDIENCE TO PETER, WHEN TO OBEY THE SPECIES CAN BE PAINFUL. THE GREAT LESSON OF POPE BENEDICT XVI obedience AND LOYALTY

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The story of Pope Benedict XVI what it is all yet to be written, but above all to know, because we do not know the real reasons for his act of renunciation. We know only that it was a free act, valid and entirely legitimate. It is he who has repeatedly explained. The reasons now unknown, maybe someday emerge, maybe in time or maybe in a long time, do not make void his act, and least of all the valid election of its legitimate successor.

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Unfortunately, while all are wondering more or less fanciful issues, advancing hypotheses mostly surreal, none captures the solemn lesson given to us all by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, which is this: He has moved away from the Vatican City before the opening of the Conclave, already saying before his election his "unconditional obedience" to his successor. Soon after, his successor elected who called him to announce him in person his election, he said: "Holiness, even now I promise you my total obedience and my prayer ". And if the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI, whose ministry, Exceptionally, instead cease with his death ceased with his free act of renunciation, He professed with such faith and all their obedience to His Successor, we, perhaps we should follow his example and do the same, instead of arguing, raising absurd questions and reduce this gesture of extraordinary historical significance to a sleazy chatter internetico seasoned with oil and salt science fiction and conspiracy?

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It provided a unique case in which a priest must, not only disobey the bishop, but it is required to do so: just in case the bishop to require or command the priest things contrary to the Holy Gospel, al deposit of credit and the perennial Magisterium of the Holy Church. Repeatedly, during recent years, I explained and reiterated that none of us, during such a solemn act is the consecration of a priest through the Sacrament of Orders, He never promised that the bishop would always be nice or that he would always respected. All of us, present before the priests and the people of God have publicly promised to the bishop filial respect and devout obedience. This is what the bishop must: filial respect and devout obedience. No priest has ever promised it would be a perfect pimp or that would be competed in the art of to lick, to use a poetic understatement of Gaius Valerius Catullus [Carmen 97, verbatim: “ass licking”].

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He said once a bishop in snappier tone: "You seem not to be missed opportunity to show your almost total lack of respect towards me '. Said this, already before continuing I want to clarify that he was not one of the two bishops whose jurisdiction have so far depended canonically and happily. Remaining somewhat perplexed replied: "Your Excellency wants to tell me which church law or as a solemn promise provides that a priest should estimate a bishop? The Authority of the bishop I obey, because obedience is due to him and I Did I solemnly promise. Instead, with regard to the estimate, that is not due, therefore, If the bishop wants, as far as I though must deserve and earn ».

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Needless to say: if the size of priestly life, which it is inserted into a precise sacramental hierarchical structure, takes over the emotional worm “I do not like then do not obey”, or “I do not like then do not recognize him as an authority”, at that point the Church, depicted in the symbolism like a boat driven by Pietro, in this case it could easily sink without even having to hit a iceberg like the Titanic.

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There is no other way, if not obedience to Peter, together with our prayer so that he mend his ways, and it has turned again to fulfill what is its main and high apostolic ministry: "Confirming the brothers in the faith". Meanwhile we, in this climate in which the division and disunity seems to come to life right from the figure of Peter himself, more than ever we must unite in a sort of holy league and always keep the words of the Apostle Paul Blessed very clear in mind:

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"But if you bite and devour one another, heed that are not consumed by one another!» [Gal 5, 15].

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The People of God lost and disoriented, no need of quarrels triggered by blogger Looking for follower; It needs holy pastors in the care of souls and lay people involved in spreading the gospel truth, who share the teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, come noi of Padri The Island of Patmos we have been saying for years and as recently reaffirmed the Cardinal Gerhard Muller Ldwig in full awareness that the Church is going through a profound moral and doctrinal crisis [see article, WHO]. This is our mission, Based exhortation of Blessed John the Apostle:

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"And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given them, that they may be one as we are one. I in them and you in me, that they may be perfected in unity that the world may know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me " [GV 17, 22-23].

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Try, therefore,, Dear Faithful and dear Readers, of the safest islands where ads and transmitted the revelation. Do not jump to nurture controversy, sterile and so-called critical scoop surreal around the various blogs that swarm on unreliable computer network, many of whom do not even have the names of those responsible or those who write some nonsense, not to mention the serious insults to the reigning Pope and those bishops and cardinals from which, these people do not even have with your face and your name, They would claim, however, acts of "heroic rebellion", unaware that rebel against Peter would result in the tragic destruction of the Church.

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How many of you act in this way harm themselves, their faith and the Holy Church. On the contrary, for the pastoral and doctrinal protection service that for years we offer on the columns of this our Patmos Island, try to offer your support and your financial contribution as well, because as you know our work has, however, harsh living management costs, besides the fact that:

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"Do not you know that those celebrating the cult, from the cult get their food, and those who serve at the altar, receive their share from the altar? So also the Lord has commanded that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel " [The Cor 9, 13-14].

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The good shepherd, if they really are, they must above all and above all be supported, is following them, It is contributing to the needs useful to fulfill the onerous work of their apostolic ministry. And the good shepherds, are primarily those who work in the Church and for the Church, with Peter and under Peter, to protect the Church and the Holy People of God. Who invites to rebel against his father and to destroy the father figure, or worse to deny the father, unfortunately he did not understand anything about the mystery of salvation, because this mystery is not realized through the emotional sentimentalisms, but through that obedience which eventually leads to the cross:

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« […] appeared in human form,
he humbled himself
and became obedient unto death
and death on the cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted
and she gave him the name
that is above every other name;
that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend
in the heavens, on earth and under the earth;
and every tongue
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father "

[Fil 2, 7-11].

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But if anyone knows other ways different from the cross indicated by Christ the Lord to achieve salvation, to me indicates, because unfortunately, until today, to me are totally escaped. Also because when Bishop, consecrating priest, He handed the book of the Holy Gospels to announce the mystery of redemption, and the bread and wine offered by the Holy People of God for the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, it may be that I have not really understood what I needed to do and how I had to do? Or should I perhaps instruct me to carry out properly the sacred ministry and to preach the Holy Gospel properly, dai blogger Anonymous scattering quarrels, odes and poisons in the telematic network? Should I let me explain the angry internet users who attack the reigning Pontiff of sites and blogs, so almost always anonymous and rigor, But except reclaim the heroism of others, they say not guilty of rebelling publicly to Peter?

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Then, Dear Faithful and dear Readers, place a pastor in charge of souls, He was also a very bad priest and limited, however it remains forever most trusted and reliable sacramental grace of a blogger more or less anonymous with a vision totally distorted and fanciful of Church and Catholic doctrine, as I expressed earlier this year [see article WHO], Treasure it and follow with Christian scruples and where necessary, to sacrifice the warning of the Blessed Apostle Peter:

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"I exhort the elders among you, which elder myself, witness of the sufferings of Christ and partaker of the glory to come: feed the flock of God that is entrusted to you, not by constraint but willingly, according to God; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not dominating the people entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief shepherd appears, You receive the crown of glory that does not fade. Equally, butter, young, be subject to the elders. Put all of humility towards each other, Why God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, You may exalt you in due time, throwing all your worries into him, because he cares for you. Keep sober, watch. Your enemy, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, looking for someone to devour. Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that your brothers around the world suffer the same sufferings as you. And the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, after a brief suffering will strengthen you and make you strong and steady. To him be the power forever. Amen!» [The Pt 5, 1-11].

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For those who do this is not clear, despite all the more precise and lucid explanations, in such a case you can always retreat to Pontius Pilate company and spend their lives wondering with him: "What is truth?» [GV 18, 37-38]. And while the dogs bark at the moon, the caravan passes … [old Arab proverb], and together with the caravan also passes the possibility of entering the mystery of salvation, as it tells the parable of the virgins foolish, that when finally came groom, They were left outside the door [cf. Mt 25, 1-13]. And outside of Christ "leads the sheep" [GV 10, 7], there is the "fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" [Mt 13, 42].

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In Paris laicist and dechristianized is burned only an empty shell: the Notre Dame Cathedral

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IN PARIS AND secularist dechristianized You BURNT JUST A CASE EMPTY: THE NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL

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[…] hold on your Europe, your devilish utopias: said abortion rights and intangible social achievement, euthanasia indicated as an act of mercy, marriage between same-sex couples may adopt children, or buy them from the wombs for rent … The languishing Christianity is Notre-Dame in flames, and is therefore the Christianity to claim in every way Notre-Dame, not the secularists that Christianity they killed her.

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Notre Dame was burnt down at the end of the eighteenth century on the stage of the guillotine that gave birth to freedom, at the equality and to fraternity, through thousands of severed heads

Our magazine It has many readers scattered across Europe and the world, and one of these yesterday, from Paris, as he followed on live television the fire of Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, He has written a few lines then sent to the Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, who showed them to the Fathers de The Island of Patmos, who have decided to publish these few introductory words: the man is no longer able to read the signs. Everything seems to be due to chance, or even fortuitous coincidences. So we have to take as purely fortuitous that the country from which sprang to life two centuries ago one of the fiercest process of de-Christianization of Europe, at the beginning of Holy Week, just days before the memorial of the passion and death of Christ the Lord, the fortuitous event He has given life to this terrible fire … everything and anything but fortuitous … About "fortuitous", a dear friend, longtime catechist, yesterday published a very interesting comment that we invite you to read " Magnificat di Paul Claudel Notre Dame " [see WHO]

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Wax Museum in Paris: French Revolution, depiction of severed heads on the guillotine

Find Padri de The Island of Patmos,

At the beginning of Holy Week, Notre-Dame burns. It collapsed the time, It collapsed the pinnacle, in the flames. I am writing while in front of the windows of my house, which it is located a few hundred meters air line from the cathedral, Witness to a depressing sight, while on television are transmitted shooting up close.

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However, Notre-Dame has already been wound the late eighteenth century by abhorrent violence of the revolutionaries, that with a blasphemous procession lead inside and lay on the altar a half-naked woman who symbolized the goddess Reason. It is still desecrated with the blood of a madman who committed suicide under the main altar in 2013. Then again hurt by Flash of tourists cameras that can see nothing in those marbles if not beauty grotesque and proud of a dead civilization.

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They cry! They cry and cry for a long time, those little men, They will cry scandal, the tragedy. Shriek Emmanuel Macron: "... Sad to see burning a part of us". Bercia below the mummy of the Quirinale: "... An exceptional artistic heritage of immense significance for France, for Europe and for the world culture […] the entire Italian tightens with sincere friendship and lively participation ... " .

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the presbytery with the high altar on which in November 1793 It was carried in procession and raised over a half-naked woman who represented the cult of the goddess reason

Adolescent not grown Elysee to the mummy of the Quirinale, these and other liars, because Notre-Dame venerate the marble casing and bas-reliefs; the monument French identity, It not what was visible work of faith. They worship a tangible sign of victory: the monument to the dying Christianity, of which they are the executioners.

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Maybe someone among them today rejoices in secret. The small church monument, Now ashes and rubble. More consistent of all more or less radical Islamists, who at once celebrated “felice” event.

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They have no right to cry Notre-Dame, which it is not that secular France which has long evicted God and Christianity, but the People of Christ, languishing and cries from well before the flames licked the cathedral.

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three birds circling above the flames, because three and not two or four? Like the three lightning struck the cross on the dome of St. Peter in 2013, because three and not two, she quattro, or five ?

If the Lord permits that one of his churches to catch on fire, even the smallest and unguarded parish churches, It is to remind us that Christianity is on fire. And those flames did not arrest the firefighters, not arrest the hypocritical tears of politicians and bureaucrats, no time.

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Those flames will burn forever, until the Lord wills it, and the serpent's head will be crushed by the woman [cf. Gen 3, 15] woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars [cf. AP 12, 1].

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But Christianity does not die with Notre-Dame devastated by flames. He died with sold and demolished churches every year on French soil, in Belgium and the Netherlands. The Cathedral of Utrecht, refuge of a minority faith and threatened among the sand dunes of the North Sea, soon no longer belong to his Church, because it was put on sale by the diocese, that can no longer keep it.

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But they did not, do not cry Utrecht. Do not mourn the remains canonical houses of Lorraine who become night club and community centers, professional studios and museums. Do not mourn the faith that dies. Mourn the marble catafalque that reminds them of the triumph, as the ghetto of Prague, intact on the orders of the Führer, he reminded the Volk in a Europe hitlerizzata, the “race” defeated and annihilated.

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Notre Dame will not become museum a defeat faith. In those flames, indeed, Christianity triumphs. In those flames Christ triumphs. supreme Nell'oltraggio, as in the blood of the martyrs, the triumph of the Cross.

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Is not it that today "we are all Paris'. Oh, lukewarm, you need the fire to cry. But even you will become hot: "You are neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot! But because you are lukewarm, that is, you are neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth " [AP 3, 14-16].

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No, stay at home, hold on your Europe, your devilish utopias: said abortion rights and intangible social achievement, euthanasia indicated as an act of mercy, marriage between same-sex couples may adopt children, or buy them from the wombs for rent …

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Christianity languishing is Notre-Dame in flames, and is therefore the Christianity to claim in every way Notre-Dame, not the secularists that Christianity they killed her.

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To seal threads on the essay dedicated to offer a Neocatechumenal “expertise” illuminating a luminary of psychiatry, which it was read at the time by John Paul II in St. 1998

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To seal DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WISE DEDICATED TO OFFER A Neocatechumenal “EXPERTISE” LIGHTING OF THE PSYCHIATRIC LUMINARE, THAT WAS READ IN AT THE TIME OF JOHN PAUL II IN 1998

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"Formulated on Messrs Argüello and Carmen Hernández a diagnosis in which I focused in both the presence of a narcissistic disorder of severe type personality and particularly acute in Mr.. Arguello, while Mrs. Hernández he was suffering as a consequence for submission to dell'Argüello personality. That relationship was read and appreciated in person 1998 by St. John Paul II "

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After publication on the columns of our magazine of the essay on the Neocatechumenal Way [cf. text WHO] I had a long talk with a psychiatrist friend of renown. At the end of the interview I asked him if he could write a report that I published assumendomene me all personal responsibility. We could not have done differently, it is a scholar recognized by the international scientific community and especially considering the possible risk - not to mention the guaranteed risk - that instead of focusing on content, many people would end with polemics on his person and on psychiatry in general with laughable arguments, just as happened to my essay, and as anyone can see by scrolling to the end of that my text joints comments from several members of the Neocatechumenal Way, who intervene by denying the facts and trying to manipulate reality in a way that is sometimes irritating [cf. see WHO].

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LETTER OF AN EMINENT psychiatrist

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I never intervene on forum, of any kind are, But I do except for Friendship estimate that binds me to Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, whose association I and other psychiatrists we have often made use, for example, when some Catholic lay groups or even some uneducated priests and not authorized by the bishops, They have ventured into exorcisms, causing the deterioration of physical and mental state of people suffering from mental disorders, and at the same time confirming the family, unable to accept the reality of mental illness of their joint, that it was the fault of the Devil.

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In several of these cases, He has often been of great help to me and several of my colleagues. Indeed, where there is a disturbance or mental illness, one of the worst things to do is to transfer elsewhere the causes, in order not to accept the mental illness itself, thus legitimizing the patient and his family in the rejection of psychiatric disorder. Like this, father ariel, which at the time had a well formation as an exorcist and considers that certain exceptionally rare cases, indeed very rare, several times he helped various psychiatrists by severely recalling both lay Catholic groups who staged liberating prayers, and some priests esorcista-do-it-yourself, or so-called freelance, but also it has repeatedly requested the intervention of the bishops, before the damage caused by such persons to persons with psychopathology sometimes even severe type, and not a few of my colleagues him for this still very grateful for the invaluable assistance.

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Father Ariel, priest and scholar of recognized reliability, It is the guarantor of my "real life", since for professional and institutional reasons I am obliged to choose the formula of Letter Signed. It goes without saying, however, that, father ariel, has my autograph letter registered together with a copy of the report I delivered to the Holy See in 1998 and on which below will detail.

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They are specialist in psychiatry, specialist in neurology, director of clinical research on mental disorders and ordinary emeritus; for my skills I had and I have collaborated with various governmental and non-governmental institutions: with the National Research Council, with several North American associations for the recovery of psychologically damaged by the so-called psycho-seven people, with various international psychiatric clinical institutes that have sent me to hold several masters also to illustrate the dynamics and recovery techniques of this type of patient to colleagues and trainees.

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A Father Ariel I performed a document at the time protocollato to the Holy See, and along with it a private letter reached me months later and dated 12 January 1999, sent to me by a prelate of the Curia is now a senior cardinal, who informed me of his own free initiative that my relationship had been "personally read and appreciated by the Supreme Pontiff to which I myself handed holding me with His Holiness for a private interview 25 minutes ».

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Premise:

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  1. after my meeting took place in 1998 with Mr.. Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernández the defunct, favored by some prelates who introduced me not as a friend but as a psychiatrist and "modern philosophy scholar" and that entertained me to dinner with the two and the rest of the evening for a total of 6 hours;
  1. after consideration of numerous video-documents that were recorded public speeches of these two founders of this Catholic lay association;
  1. after consideration of several written testimonies from people living in different parts of the world, out of this aggregation and sent by them to the Holy See and to me it provided by the prelates who had contacted me to ask expert opinion;

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formulai sui Sig.ri Kiko Arguello and Carmen Hernandez one diagnosi where I focused in both the narcissistic disorder of the existence of the serious type personality and particularly exacerbated nell'Argüello, Hernandez while he was suffering as a consequence for submission to the dominant personality dell'Argüello.

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To the layman precise in the short and said disorder is characterized by grandiose ideas (the so-called megalomania), with all the consequences and variables, hypomania included, nell'Argüello present in severe and characterized by high peaks of inflated self-esteem and manic verbal. In these types of narcissism personality generates sense of superiority sometimes immoderate, with the further peculiarity arrogance and disregard, the propensity to lie and especially to alter and to induce others to the alteration of reality.

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If these types of clinical subjects choose it as a ground for their manifestation and realization the religious sphere can generate serious damage, exercising an authority on the subject that transcends the human being as deriving from their divine. People with these psychopathological disorders end up in fact to legitimize itself before others by putting: "I do not want me, He wants and God commands him ", thus producing even incalculable harmful effects on the fragile psychologies, on psychos, about suffering from various depressive syndromes, but also on other patients like them as narcissistic personality disorder.

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By divine investiture of self-attribution the pathological narcissist justify before his followers the subversion of reality and any kind of practical real data through denial of strong emotional charges broadcasts bring, the effect in the subject, the year inhibition of critical sense also most elementary. It follows the danger produced by the so-called "plagiarism" effect and its manipulation of weak personality, or encumbered in turn mild or severe disorders who end up finding, in these leaders and combinations they create, self-legitimation and safety. If you detached from these associations and their subjection to the personality of leader, these people lose self-legitimation and all kinds of security and, assuming the "best", fall into depressive syndrome endoreattiva, which it is typical of loss produced by mourning, but also from other situations of loss experienced by the subject so traumatic as bereavement.

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In my report Seven or are drawn up at the express request of some prelates of the Holy See, I dettagliai that in these lines I have just summarized very quickly for explanatory discursive level.

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I believe that the injured persons, including more families, are a widely documentable reality, no false rumors spread by those "inevitable enemy" figures that constitute them always necessary; of the "enemies" whose imaginary actions of hostility need certain types of leaders and certain structures to be able to declare "victims of persecution", imputing to them persecutory actions against them, all in a closed environment and characterized by the irrational collective. Not a few are my colleagues who participated in caring for each other psychotherapies so-called "leaked", or entire families treated with group psychotherapy for the whole family.

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The ecclesiastical authorities have been informed several times over the years, but it seems to have chosen not to listen, despite having agreed with me and my other colleagues. In fact, I understand that also asked the opinion of other specialist, including an experienced Spanish psychiatrist, Member of 'The Work of God, with whom I had a long private talk in 1999 and following various exchanges.

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In that year 1998 I also gave reason, when I illustrated the kind of alterations and fractures that may of arising when these aggregations, which they tend to branch through employment forms involving the exclusion of non-aligned, taking hold in the various ecclesiastical structures that vary by individual parishes to the diocesan curia until the offices of the Holy See, to follow orders and religious congregations, male and female within which, on the lessons from documentation provided to me, They tend to put their young followers, purpose of which is growing in numbers to approve of her entire religious communities or transforming them from snaturandole. Among the documents provided by the Vatican prelates I quote only one dating back to 1992: the General Council of a congregation, This perceived risk, He imposed religious to choose between the charism of their founder and belonging to this lay association that was taking place inside of of their communities. I entered the religious congregation of pulse or indication of the founders of this lay aggregation, as soon as he was made to understand that never it would be allowed to alter and transform the internal structure, enabled to choose between this and lay religious congregation aggregation, They chose the first, and did not hesitate to leave the religious congregation.

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I am pleased to have been persuaded to provide these explanations, because then it was given opportunity to put this politely hope: I hope no clergyman, the violet and purple, try tomorrow to claim that the Holy See had not been advised well and on time by the most competent specialists in various fields of scientific knowledge. Also for this, considering my age, I left all the documentation in the original copy to my good friend Father Ariel, and together with my that of other specialists, like me who they were interviewed at the time by some prelates who required our advice informing us that they were acting in the name and on behalf of St. John Paul II.

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Sleepers. From dreamers to the repentant prostitute, through the path of true mercy of Christ God

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SLEEPERS. DREAMERS FROM THE PROSTITUTE repentant, THROUGH THE WAY OF THE TRUE GOD MERCY OF CHRIST

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In confession Jesus, through the priest, He gives us His confidence. When we are acquitted, Also we return free from the spiritual chains that come from the sins committed. Once free, God puts his Father's merciful love in our hearts and calls us with confidence: goes and donalo. And even if we are weak, and despite the efforts we will fall back on other sins, we never stop to ask his forgiveness and to open ourselves to His confidence. In fact, the writer Ernest Hemingway said: "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust him".

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Movie poster Sleepers (1996)

the theme of sin and guilt that emerges on the page of the Gospel of this V Sunday of Lent [texts of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO], It is part of our faith and it is not always easy to talk about it properly or simply. The great medium of television presents a daily reality that not only, does not help to understand the sin, but that enhance their, sin as a lifestyle.

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More than two decades ago It was produced and distributed a film that maybe someone will remember: Sleepers. The cast is made up of first-rate actors: Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt e Jason Patric [cf. see card WHO]. In this film set in the popular quarters of Americans 1966, four teenagers perform a prank, just moved by the intention of committing a harmless prank, but it is likely to end in tragedy. This history: i quattro, near the stadium, flee with the cart of a salesman hot dogs, with which ever they come in front of the ramp of subway stairs; the cart escapes their hand and falls down the stairs, at the risk of killing an elderly man who was going up the ramp. The four were tried and sentenced to eighteen months in juvie.

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The whole plot is a tissue of violence and revenge, including sexual abuse of minors by several prison guards. As if this film wants to tell us from evil and guilt, you have no way out. Mistaken, instead. Our Lord teaches us how he loves sinners and helps them get out of their weaknesses. Starting in fact right from the first reading of this liturgy, read this prophetic song:

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"There, I will do a new thing: […] I will make the wilderness a highway, rivers in the desert " [Is 43, 19].

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by film Sleepers: The prank ends up touching the tragedy …

The Prophet He writes in the second exodus of the Babylonian captivity, the sixth century. a.C, When the Israelites were releasing oppression of Babylon. In these verses, God comforts the Jews and indicates a fertile desert road in the desert. Desert and steppe are places where donate its river, that is, his love alive and real. And all this we send something important: even before our behavioral weaknesses, that they seem to be sand dunes where we get lost, we must not be afraid to ask for the water of love of God. Defects whitewash the beauty of our uniqueness: We are not discouraged. On the contrary, in front of them let us trust in God with a spontaneous prayer too loud. Also God is with us not only in weaknesses, but also in the experience of falls or major sins.

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Sleepers, reformatory

In the passage of the adulteress we read that the Pharisees and scribes had tried to entrap Jesus with a dilemma, using for this purpose the technique of a rhetorical device that is typical in the hearings of criminal trials since the ancient greek and roman criminal law. The trap consists precisely in the response that is expected bystanders, namely that: if you say to stone the woman, go against your teaching of love. If you say not to stone her, go against the law of Moses and Roman law, that applied at the time in the Judean colony. Indeed, Rome while allowing the legitimacy of the rabbinical courts and the Great Sanhedrin on religious matters or related to the ancient Temple, if it was a question of issuing certain sentences, the power could be exercised - or the approved sentence carried out -, only by the Roman power, exactly as in the case of the execution of the death sentence of Jesus Christ.

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Faced with this question-trap, Jesus gives the answer in order to overcome the dilemma. The Pharisees can not apply the law of Moses with her. At this point the Lord Jesus can instead apply the teaching of Love:

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Sleepers, Robert DeNiro, in the role of pastor of four teenagers, during deposition in court

"Then Jesus stood up and said,: «Donna, where am I? Has no one condemned? […] Neither do I condemn; will’ and from now on sin no more " [GV 8, 10-11].

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We note: Jesus stands up and he brings forth his act of forgiveness: tender and tenacious love that woman. Not at all he says that adultery is a righteous act, understandable, acceptable, or to understand by virtue of trends or social costumes. That sin, It remains a grave sin. What matters to Jesus, Now you see in the eyes of the adulteress that true repentance: when he sees the repentant look, God welcomes the sinner in his divine heart, and accepting it destroys his sin. At that ponto Jesus speaks directly to women, which shows to be so desirous of love. Now she can also raise her and take her in his merciful heart. The Divine Redeemer, destroying that sin, He gave women the freedom to walk the path of God; and showing and giving confidence to the woman, He makes her a daughter repentant.

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Sleepers, Rober De Niro in the role of the good shepherd

So it is for us too: in confessing Jesus, through the priest, He gives us His confidence. When we are acquitted, Also we return free from the spiritual chains that come from the sins committed. Once free, God puts his Father's merciful love in our hearts and calls us with confidence: goes and donalo. And even if we are weak, and despite the efforts we will fall back on other sins, we never stop to ask his forgiveness and to open ourselves to His confidence. In fact, the writer Ernest Hemingway said: "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust him".

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The Lord give us the joy of his look full of confidence to be ourselves witnessing a greater hope.

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Amen!

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Christ forgives the repentant prostitute telling: "We’ and from now on sin no more ", He does not tell her at all to continue as before and more than before …

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CHRIST FORGIVE THE PROSTITUTE he regretted telling «VA 'AND FROM NOW ON SIN NOT MORE », NOT THE DICE ANY PROCEEDING AS BEFORE AND MORE THAN BEFORE …

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'Go', and from now on sin no more "are the words of Christ and as such they cannot be questioned by anyone, even by the Church and by her ministers. Freedom of Mercy is a divine freedom that is inconceivable except in relation to the salvation of souls. God allows everything to man, except that which deprives him of grace and exposes it to damnation. The ban that man must do just then, is to live in sin, never a sin can be good, santo, desirable, excusable, tameable, to move with the times, modern and so to follow.

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Maddalena, Yesterday and Today …

The Gospel from John of this Fifth Sunday of Lent [see Liturgy of the Word, WHO] it is perhaps equal to that of the Merciful Father, the most famous and known Gospel passage. So much so that became proverbial and popular expression of Jesus: "Which one of you is without sin, cast the first stone ".

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Even in the analysis of this text and in its correct exegesis, we must not be satisfied with a reading merciful that, while we are having the merit to satisfy all through a renewed apocatastasis, may belie the substance of Jesus' teaching about sin and authentic sacramental practice of reconciliation in the Church. In fact nexists on an exegesis admits that the criterion of political correctness or personalism, but the authentic exegesis is always done in the Holy Spirit is the one who guides and directs the whole truth [cf. GV. 16,13]. The same Spirit that blows on the Holy Church and the blessed masters and doctors, It allows us to scrutinize and learn the true meaning of the sacred pages of the Word of God.

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The context and the setting this Gospel passage very reminiscent of the theme of Luke's mercy and forgiveness that Christ grants to sinners, and in a particular way to some women issues [cf. LC 7, 36-50; 8,2-3]. The sacral setting of the Temple, in which the episode takes place, significantly it emphasizes the power of authority of Christ in introducing an innovation in the worship of the Father. It is no longer to offer an animal sacrifice as a form of sacrificial atonement - on the basis of ancient Israel - but through the way of mercy to the Lord becomes worship: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice " [cf. Os 6,6; Mt 9,13].

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the Servant of God Father Oreste Benzi [Rimini 1925 – Rimini 2007]

The summit of the mercy is the death of God's Son, person who becomes a sacrificial offering to the Father for the sins of all mankind, at all times:

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"It was like a lamb led to the slaughter […] But the Lord is bruise him. If he offers in a guilt offering, see his offspring, will live long, It will be accomplished through him the Lord's will " [cf. Is 53,7; 10].

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Divine Mercy is reached through the sacrifice of the Son, through Christ fact will arise in the world an offspring of rescued and pardoned you repudiate the sin and compromise with evil, to live in the freedom of God's children. Living without sin is not utopian but real possibility because it is a gift that has already been granted in the passion and resurrection of Jesus, It is a gift of grace that is rediscovered. The man is not his sin, but even an animal from saddle ridden by God or the devil, as she claimed by the heresiarch Luther in his wretched teaching.

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We understand: mercy that the Lord has on the world it is in view of a final redemption from sin - Sother souls that the Church in her ministry work -, He continues in the wake of the mercy cult, through which the man is redeemed. The medicine of mercy, It needs truth and justice so that it reaches the soul's health. So the adulteress episode helps us to understand this divine practice, now so disregarded and mistreated.

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Father Oreste Benzi visiting Saint John Paul II with a prostitute sick with AIDS

The adulterous the Gospel of this Sunday, goes about the sin of prostitution and adultery, It is a public sinner and perhaps already known to his accusers. It thus becomes a tool and pretext to accuse Jesus and put him to death as a troublemaker Law. The woman, in this context, It makes the experience of truth and human justice which unfortunately prove imperfect.

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Moses, although remembered as the supreme legislator of Israel, He should also take note of sin and human limitation and that sclerocardia that hinders live according to God's plan, giving the law also grants the exemptions that mortify [cf. MC 10, 4-5]. The law should protect man does not save, It not justified as it had to fully understand St. Paul during his preaching. In Jesus, which it is greater than Moses, it fulfills the law, perfecting it through his person: "You have heard that it was said … but I tell you " [cf. Mt 5,21-ss].

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Christ does not intend to quibble against his enemies, He does not want to hear the judges of a poor woman guilty, He wants first of all to bring the truth so that there is a genuine justification for both guilty that his accusers. So down the position of these men and forces them to look truth within themselves and to see themselves in relation to sin, in any sin: "Which one of you is without sin, be the first to throw the stone at her " [cf. GV 8,7]. Now, sand the woman is a sinner, one who has transgressed the law, they can perhaps be said to be above the law or unable to transgress? Jesus powerfully puts before them a disconcerting truth that the evangelist John has already introduced us in the previous chapter to this page: "It was not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you seek to kill me?» [cf. GV 7,19].

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Father Oreste Benzi, a true priest of the road because the true path of Christ …

These men They are not immune from the contagion of sin, want justice, but do not tolerate submit before the light of truth. The effort to discover sinners and pain for the discovery of their pitiable condition leads them to abandon the attitude of condemnation: "Hearing this, they went away one by one, beginning with the eldest to the last " [cf. GV 8, 9].

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Jesus' statement It brings forth the truth in the souls of these men and leads to a justice that restores balance, for them there will be a justification only when, like the publican in the Temple, They will recognize themselves in need of forgiveness and cleansing, by ceasing to use the law as a weapon of accusation [cf. LC 18,13]. Thus removed the accusers "only the two of them remained: the miserable and mercy ", St. Augustine comments as well this time. The story of the woman has not clarified nor resolved, what will be the decision of Jesus? First, Jesus calls, It puts it in the middle, He wants to re-make the truth so we've got to justify. He calls her "woman", the restoration of the dignity that his accusers had taken off his, she is a creature of the Father, can not be defined by his sin, but by the love that God used to call her to life. The question of Christ emphasizes the lack of conviction not on guilt: "Has no one condemned?», This happens every time we put ourselves before the Lord, which does not ignore certain sin but want the sinner himself is aware of his condition of infirmity desiring healing.

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This woman does not express a visible repentance, full of love and emotion as the sinful woman of Luke's Gospel [cf. LC 7,36-50], yet Jesus uses with her a totally exaggerated kindness as opposed to that of the Pharisees: "You judge according to the flesh; I do not judge anyone " [cf. GV 8,15]. The final of the Gospel makes it clear why this particular exercise of benevolence and mercy from Jesus: 'Go', and from now on sin no more ". But what they want to say these words? First of all, be firmly stressed obtained freedom from sin that comes to us through the grace of Christ and his sacrifice: yes she is free to go, but not to sin again.

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Let us remember that these are the words of Christ and as such they cannot be questioned by anyone, even by the Church and by her ministers. Freedom of Mercy is a divine freedom that is inconceivable except in relation to the salvation of souls. God allows everything to man, except that which deprives him of grace and exposes it to damnation. The ban that man must do just then, is to live in sin, never a sin can be good, santo, desirable, excusable, tameable, to move with the times, modern and so to follow. Sin is always sin and was the cause of all suffering of our Divine Redeemer: "He was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities;. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with his stripes we are healed " [cf. Is 53,5].

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There are many houses and fathers: the prodigal son returns home to the one of the only true Father who is the source of grace and the center of the mystery of salvation

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THERE ARE MANY HOMES AND FATHERS: THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS TO THE ONLY HOME OF THE ONLY AND TRUE FATHER WHO IS THE SOURCE OF GRACE AND THE CENTER OF THE MYSTERY OF SALVATION

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The prodigal son returns to his father's house where waiting for him there is no sociological fashion, above all, no political correctness. Because God is always beyond any fashion, but above all human political correctness, because God is all without beginning and without end, why not end it is his love, for this eternal is his mercy, for this one is his home, not many; and the only home of the one Father remains in the base centuries, source of grace and the center of the mystery of salvation, culmination and perfect center of unity.

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The Prodigal Son, work of the sculptor Arturo Martini, 1927 [Rest Home Jona Ottolenghi, Acqui Terme]

In this Sunday glad the fourth week of Lent, the liturgy gives us one of the pages of the Holy Gospels of the best known: the Parable of the Prodigal Son [see text of the liturgy, WHO]. To claim to have legitimate paternal inheritance while the father was still alive was a terrible outrage in the Jewish world, but not only in it. It would be like saying: "I have no time to wait for you to pull the bucket, what to give me right away what belongs to me ". Here then it is that the father gives an initial and a final response: Start the answer is the action that fulfills the son's request, confirming him master of his freedom and owner of the goods which he claimed; the final answer is an act of pure love, which in itself contains a lesson based on the maturity and true mercy; the mercy that comes from God, who has no fear to welcome sinners and eating with them, with all due respect to the scribes and Pharisees of yesterday and today.

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The prodigal son of a far country and he squanders all loose living, until it starts to feel the pinch. "He would gladly have fed on the pods that were fed the pigs, "But no one gave him anything". Honestly it is hard to think that the boy did not have a chance to take for themselves the husks; and this should call our attention to the phrase: "No one gave him anything", referring to this young man who had lost everything. That is to say that no one fed him with love. He devoured his substance with many prostitutes, but he had not been devoured by love sincere and passionate about a single woman. So it is the lack of love generates in him a strong crisis, because most of the physical needs he suffers for human needs. The love which until earlier had received, It generates in him a feeling of fear, resulting in tender nostalgia.

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We do not know if the young man begins to understand that you have lived a life devoid of love, or to understand that out of love had lost their freedom to enter into the spiral of fear, hidden anguish and guilt. The man, which itself remains a mystery, He can not live without love; his life is senseless, if he meets the love from which it can come true freedom: "In love there is no fear, but perfect love casts out fear " [GV 4, 18-19].

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At that point the young man begins to question: "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and I perish with hunger! I will wake up, I go to my father ... ". In these words prevails not have a sense of pain for the father abandoned, or for its inability to give and receive love; It seems to prevail rather the situation of hardship and extreme need that push him to go home, Perhaps even more folded on itself. For a selfish need is for a party and selfish need decides to return. All this marks his first start and, albeit moved by discomfort and need, and he moves back to his father. "While still far away his father saw him, he took pity on him, He ran to meet, and he fell on his neck and kissed him ". These five words we open their doors on the essence of true love. Seeing someone still far means that in our hearts we were waiting for him. Try compassion means that you do not think more to injury received, on the contrary it is willing to open their hearts and to think of the suffering, no matter what happened. Christian The eternal challenge is in fact to humanely accommodate those who have hurt us, raising the evil from the ground when it falls, instead of raging at him with that spirit of revenge that has nothing to do with justice, even with the right and sometimes necessary punishment to compete for the best good of the person, but above all for its recovery.

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running meeting to the other equivalent to removing it from any uncomfortable taking the first step that breaks the deadlock, This prerogative typical of the great, certainly not of little men who live by grudges, spite and revenge. Throw to a person's neck, in the Jewish culture of the time was not a gesture of circumstance but of deep warm love and extreme confidence.

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Here is the big brother who "became angry and refused to go», beginning to list their merits and demerits of the brother to his father, complaining they have not received anything from his father. "Son, all that is mine is yours ", He reassures the father for his due. In this way the parable stresses that reasoning so also the elder son, in a different but similar moves away to his left and out of the house as the youngest brother, showing a clear rejection of the action of grace. Therefore the Father, that "emotional" meeting was going on at the prodigal son, Now comes a new meeting to the eldest son, explaining both his love for children is free. No One, it has the right to be loved; from any page of the Gospel you get this kind of law, if anything, it yields a duty: to love. From the various steps and articulate the Gospel we can also derive how often love is tragically one-sided, He donated one side with divine power, not accepted and welcomed other human aridity. God loves us not because we deserve it, but because he is the source of love. God can not help but to love, It is not capable; we are, able to help but be loved.

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Like the prodigal son has lost the love of the Father away from him, the eldest son does not have the Father's right to love because it has not strayed. In this same mistake we fall we children of the Church, we priests first, that much of the People that God has entrusted to us to serve, We acquired no right to salvation, only a duty to respond much more and much better than others for what Christ has given us, through the mystery of his participation in the ministerial priesthood.

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How many times do we suffer the Father who can not help but love, feeling like the eldest son of an injustice parable his love and mercy toward his brother offender? How much it is, especially in these times of serious crisis through the Church, We run integral with heat to embrace all that is not Catholic, But at the same time showing little love, sometimes even open rebellion against our Church, turning his back to the brothers and sons of the living members of Christ, which it is the Church, his mystical body? And on this earth, the Christ, He has established only one Church, worth remembering from time to time, considering that soon we will proclaim in the profession of faith, the unity of the Church, not the multiplicity of churches [the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed]; reminds without the possibility of erroneous theological interpretations one of the main documents of Vatican Council II, the The light.

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This is also a way to meditate on the parable of the prodigal son who returns to the house of his father, where waiting for him there is no sociological fashion, above all, no political correctness. Because God is always beyond any fashion, but above all human political correctness, because God is all without beginning and without end, why not end it is his love, for this eternal is his mercy, for this one is his home, not many; and the only home of the one Father remains in the base centuries, source of grace and the center of the mystery of salvation, culmination and perfect center of unity.

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In the unity the Father created us, and awaits you with open arms, the perfect unity of his body which is the Church, the beloved prodigal son hidden inside each of us, so that his children can be "completely one that the world may know that you sent me and have loved them even as you loved me" [GV 17, 23].

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Once upon a time the Eucharist and the Catholic priesthood, Then came Kiko Arguello and Carmen Hernandez founders of the Neocatechumenal Way … and heresy became flesh and dwelt among us

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THERE WERE ONCE THE EUCHARIST AND THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD, THEN CAME KIKO ARGÜELLO AND CARMEN HERNÁNDEZ FOUNDERS OF THE NEOCATECHUMENAL WAY ... AND HERESY BECAME MEAT AND CAME TO LIVE WITH US

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INDEX: I. Heresy is not an indecent word and giving a heretic to those who fall and remain in substantial and formal heresy is not an insult, but a simple statement of fact - (II). The first misconception to dispel: if the Neocatechumenal Way was developed under the pontificates of two Popes Saints, This makes the case for holy and untouchable dogma of the Catholic faith?III. The Neocatechumenals come to life on the crisis of authority of the Church and develop under the pontificate of John Paul II after presenting him with the family of The White Mill - IV. The Neocatechumenal Way has made the old heresy of the Albigensians current again, without the ecclesiastical authority putting a stop to the fact that the Eucharist is not a private good that they can dispose of at will - V. When the Church finds all the excuses not to listen to victims of various kinds, eventually he ends up being left with the Cardinals to the bars of the criminal courts, but even in this case she continued undeterred not to listen - WE. The Lie of the Neucatecumenale Way leaders: to affirm that the Church has recognized and fully legitimized their liturgical and catechetical antics - VII. The many good people who make it up are enough to make a movement healthy? They are enough testimonies of those who say: "The Way I converted", "The Way I returned to the Church"? VIII. The reigning Pontiff did not take long to launch it too precise references to kikos and the mega-catechists of the Neocatechumenal obtaining the effect obtained by its three predecessors: deaf ears - IX. The Neocatechumenals are the negation of the wise missionary spirit of the Church, ed instead of bringing new people to Catholicism they make new followers to Neocatechumenalism - X. The Neocatechumenal Way is a psycho-sect in which the critical sense is canceled after having invaded the conscience of the followers and changing the crass ignorance and pride into a gift of election of the Holy Spirit - XI. To the serious problem of the wrong perception of the Most Holy Eucharist is added the wrong perception of the Priesthood, especially between the common priesthood of the baptized and the ministerial priesthood of Christ, which involves only the ministers of the sacred equipped with a gift triple: to be taught, governing, to sanctify XII. Conclusion.

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Before you get going in the long speech it is necessary to clarify the meaning of the word heresy. The need for clarification is due to the fact that within the Church itself has been undermined by time Newspeak, And it came to explain how years ago in one of the first items on this our Patmos Island [2014, see WHO], and then follow in my so-called keynote [see video, WHO]. Newspeak is not just create new words, or called neologisms, but perform an operation even worse: giving the words a meaning different from that etymologically have ch'esse. The emptying of the words from their meaning filled with completely different meanings, is a grave danger that the phenomenon takes development before, during and after the French Revolution. An exhaustive example is the concepts of freedom, equality and fraternity, which they are suffixes of the founding of Christianity, not an invention of the French Revolution. Principles, however,, the late eighteenth century, and following the course of the nineteenth century, They will change into principles antithetical to Christianity, what's more used to attack and groped scuttle of Christianity itself […]

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The patience and mercy of God are aimed at our salvation, non-clearance of sin as a lifestyle

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PATIENCE AND MERCY OF GOD ARE AIMED TO OUR SALVATION, NOT THE CLEARANCE OF SIN AS A LIFESTYLE

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Let us understand this first: may God be merciful and magnanimous certainly does not exempt the sinner from the effort of leading a path of truth about his own life. If I do not look at the truth in my heart and I do not recognize the garbage that accumulates there, I'm just a hypocrite who hides the dust under a nice carpet.

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The Mercy of God is therapy that transforms sinners into saints e, like all therapies, need patience, of time, Constancy and effort. There is no divine mercy cheap without a healthy acknowledgment of personal guilt and a genuine desire for change.

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Let us understand this first: may God be merciful and magnanimous certainly does not exempt the sinner from the effort of leading a path of truth about his own life. If I do not look at the truth in my heart and I do not recognize the garbage that accumulates there, I'm just a hypocrite who hides the dust under a nice carpet.

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In the Gospel of this Third Sunday of Lent [cf. text of Liturgy of the Word, WHO] Jesus reacts vigorously to the so-called Theology of Retribution which consists in considering the misfortunes as the consequence of faults, more or less known, committed by men. In John returns this type of theological vision in the episode of the man born blind: "Rabbi, who sinned, he or his parents, that he was born blind?». Jesus answered: "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but so might be made manifest in him the works of God " [cf. GV 9,2-3].

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Obviously this theological vision is busted, God likes to punish men, But Jesus has the chance to make some useful considerations. The Lord makes it clear that the conversion is necessary in order to make a true experience of God. The problem is not the disgrace or death - that can affect everyone in every moment - the real problem is that he does not want to convert to God and does not want to return to him with all my heart.

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The conversion, We know it is the Holy Spirit, but it occurs only when man is able to maintain a certain fear of God. If there is no fear but audacity and insolence, our life is a goner! Natural death is the logical consequence of that death to the grace we have experienced with the distance from God.

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Since the conversion involves the fear of God, the Lord gives us time so that our lives can repent as much as possible. God expresses patience so that the sinner may be fertilized by the Word, from the sacraments, by trusting prayer and experience of ecclesial communion. Jesus is the factor that daily application to the Father the time for each of us to be converted. We are irrigated and fertilized by the blood of Christ, waiting to bear fruit for change.

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Inside the Liturgy of the Word this Sunday, there is the proclamation of a proclamation of mercy and patience, but this is put as an objective need for a fruitiness and a conversion. We can not affirm that God in His mercy and patience does not look on sin, He pretends not in front of the sins, He closes his eyes becoming our accomplice and blanketing everything with a thick layer of dull gooders.

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God the Father never tires of welcoming sinners, but repentant sinners! He conosce our weakness, nevertheless asks us to leave Jesus to save you from sin does not become an incurable cancer that leads to death. God does not want any man to be lost, does not want the sinner to die but life in abundance, you must always believe in the good news.

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Scripture assures us that there is sterility and death it can not be strengthened or rehabilitated, Today not dwell on the greatness of our sin, but on the greatness of the Father who only he asks us to fill our distance from him, just as he had the courage to do the prodigal son.

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The transfiguration. the incarnation memorial, passion, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ the Lord, We should not celebrate with Assyrian-Babylonian dances around the altar reduced to totem

L'Angolo di Girolamo Savonarola: Catholic homiletics in lean times

The Transfiguration. MEMORIAL INCARNATION, PASSION, DEATH, RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF CHRIST THE LORD, IT SHOULD NOT BE CELEBRATED WITH AXIRO-BABYLON DANCES AROUND THE ALTAR REDUCED TO TOTEM

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Often, in the name of their own exotic and arbitrary "traditions" that hide only the excessive self-centered personalisms of some of their founders, our lay movements risk losing sight of the Catholic tradition of the universal Church; and certain pitfalls you understand from their own way of praying. It is not uncommon that at the center of some liturgical actions end up being placed man and not Christ. Like this, the centrality, It is no longer given dall'Eucarista, but from everything around it it has been put into circulation: by so-called "resonance" - which not infrequently are real emotional rants riddled with doctrinal and theological errors - until the Assyrian-Babylonian dances performed around the altar mutated into a kind of totem.

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Assyrian-Babylonian dances around the totem [to open the video click on the image]

This IIª Sunday of Lent The Holy Gospel narrates the Transfiguration of Christ the Lord [cf. LC 9, 28-36, text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO]. After the passage of the temptations which Jesus, true God and true man wins the presence of Satan [cf. WHO], the Lord again to the mountain salt. Joining him is Peter, James and John, the columns of the first Church. On Golgotha, Jesus is transfigured, changes in appearance. His face shines like the sun and his clothes became white as light. The Blessed Evangelist Luke, unlike the Blessed Evangelist Matthew, He has it that Lord Christ was praying [cf. LC 9, 29].

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It is precisely in prayer we discover different, if we truly pray to God. If we pray ourselves and praying we love our religious traditions or lay passed for God, confused with God or worse often put above God, This is another matter. Actually it is also a very dangerous business, This insidious and always in the areas of religious life and lay movements that often took their own lives on the rubble of religious life. Often, in the name of their exotic and arbitrary "traditions" that hide inordinate self-centered personalities of certain founders, our lay movements risk losing sight of the Catholic tradition of the universal Church; and certain pitfalls you understand from their own way of praying. It is not uncommon that at the center of some liturgical actions end up being placed man and not Christ. Like this, the centrality, It is no longer given dall'Eucarista, but from everything around it it has been put into circulation: by so-called "resonance" - which are not infrequently rants emotional riddled with doctrinal and theological errors - until the Assyrian-Babylonian dances performed around the altar mutated into a kind of totem.

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The problem is that today a large number of faithful no longer knows what the Holy Mass, reason for which they have been inserted in it so-called quirks and malvezzi better known as liturgical abuses, that are designed precisely to make up for this lack of knowledge, so that all fall and drown nell'emotivo subjective or group. We try then to say it in a few short and precise words: Mass is the sacrifice of grace is at the center of the mystery of redemption. In the First Eucharistic Prayer, O Roman Canon - that in many churches is falling into disuse, replaced almost unique use of the shorter of the Eucharistic Prayers, the second -, after the People of God acclaimed "The mystery of faith", the priest, that is not simply "the president" but a old christ which it acts as such In persona, followed by reciting:

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"And now, Sir, you served us, But also your holy, Son our Lord same Christ Our Lord, and also of His Resurrection from hell, But the ascension into glory: cellent Majesty, of touched given, bestowed upon us, pure sacrifice, this holy, stainless, Bread of eternal life and the Chalice of everlasting ».

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[In this sacrifice, or Father, us your ministers and your holy people celebrate the memorial of the blessed passion, the resurrection from the dead and glorious ascension into heaven of Christ, your Son, our Lord; and we offer to your divine majesty, the many gifts you have given us, pure victim, holy and without blemish, holy Bread of eternal life and the cup of eternal salvation].

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Already from these brief words it should be understood that in the celebration of all sacramental actions, which I am a Trinitarian action taken in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we realize our encounter with the Risen Christ. In the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord is present - through the Holy Eucharist - with his whole life: from his incarnation in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary until the descent of the Holy Spirit - the Comforter - sent by the Father and the Son in the Upper Room at Pentecost the Apostles.

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With the resurrection, the passion and death of Christ It is far removed, is something proved by the fact that the Risen One showed himself to the apostles with his glorious body in which the signs of the passion were always impressed. And the glorious body of Christ, followed today in bringing impressed upon him the signs of the passion.

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When the celebrant recites "... this holy and living sacrifice", It indicates those words redeeming action of the passion and death of Christ the Lord. One might therefore wonder: to someone who is on Calvary, under the cross, the Blessed Virgin Mary, along with Mary Magdalene and the young John the Apostle, They were dancing in a circle joyfully embraced in a passionate circle around “totem cross“? Faith and tradition they hand down anything, for instance:

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Stabat Mater Dolorosa
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He danced the playful mother

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When you pray really, even in the total loneliness and isolation, please always in communion of faith and love with the universal Church; not in communion with a particular group or with his personalistic style of prayer. And when you truly pray, alone or with siblings, after a while’ time you have this exact feeling: it changes in appearance, it is less rigid, the thought flies toward a real infinite and one experiences a feeling I would say mystical. The experience and the dimension of prayer necessary part - and so should be - from a physical dimension through which we will be led into a whole metaphysical dimension of experience.

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This is the predicament in which Christ the Lord communicates with Moses and Elijah according to a faithful chronicle of the Holy Gospel. Moses represents the Law of Sinai, Ten Commandments, the Jewish Torah. Elia, the Prophet ascended to heaven in a fiery chariot of which the Jews await the return at any moment. The law and the prophets, the ancient and first covenant dialogue in communion with Jesus, the Word of God who became incarnate not to abolish the law of the ancient prophets, but to bring it to full fruition [cf. Mt 5, 17-19], and the fulfillment is he: the Word made flesh [cf. GV 1, 14].

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Tender way over the figure of Peter, Mediterranean and fiery as ever, who would like to stop this time putting it in a nice picture frame. Would that life would stop there at Tabor, without going to Calvary.

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The cloud finally envelops the three disciples entering inside. A cloud that is God that envelops the man every time the man decides to become enfolded. And after this winding is heard the voice of the Father: "This is my Son, the beloved. listen to him " [cf. MC 9, 7].

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The Father proclaims Jesus to his disciples his beloved Son, that we are called to listen, acknowledging adoring in him the word of the Incarnate Word.

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In front of these words the disciples fall down with his face to the ground and are afraid. The Gospel does not say that they are afraid, but who fear. That holy fear of God of which we very much needed today. A holy fear that is ineffable gift of the Holy Spirit of God, who does not want our fear, but our free and adoring respect. For as he wrote the equivalent, and almost contemporary Thomas Aquinas Jews, Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides: "The fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom". .

Jesus, It does ultimately awaken the disciples fallen to awe on his face to the ground; and straightens them using precise words: "Arise and be not afraid ' [Mt 17, 7]. They are advised to remain silent.

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Only after Easter will be able to understand what happened. Jesus revealed his future glory in the transfiguration, But that will happen only after the death on the cross. There will only be the Mount Tabor, that of the Transfiguration, the disciples will have to discover another very bitter Mt.: Mount Calvary. Among these mountains there is another even in the experience of Jesus' human life: the mountain on which previously has retired for forty days and where it is attempted by the Demon. Monte, the latter, depicting the terrible reality of the mystery of evil, following us since the beginning of time.

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Life is suffering and joy who will compete in a constant battle in our history. A life that is full of wonderful moments and very sad moments, sometimes intersected with. But just when it seems that everything vanishes, God comes to save us, to support us. When conversely everything looks positive, When is life to live us instead of us to live life, sometimes that negative event occurs that we did not expect.

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Life is basically this: continuous Easter through which Jesus, rising again, It gives new hope to all of us, inviting us to climb the mountain and not to fear God, but to feed free and loving fear of the mystery of God's love, which is realized through the incarnation, the life, passion, the death, the resurrection and ascension into heaven of Christ the Lord, whose glorious body still lives bringing the passion imprinted signs. That's why, The holy Mass, The sacrifices; It is the bloodless sacrifice of the cross that is renewed, not a joyful banquet, a canteen between cheerful diners, more or less dancing, more or less according to the drumming antics dictated by a gypsy Spanish was not hurt by decades of impunity ...

 

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From the island of Patmos, 17 March 2019

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