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THE OCCASION OF THE DEAD, A REFLECTION ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS A PILGRIM OF HOPE

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The meeting point between the pilgrim Church on earth, we mortals, and the triumphant Celestial Church made up of the Saints in Paradise, and the Church purgative, that is, the souls in Purgatory who are preparing for the beatific vision. For this we can learn and see what is the relationship between the Church and Death.

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Gabriele Giordano Scardocci, o.p.

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The Island of Patmos is pleased to present to the readers his new Author, Roman theologian Gabriele Giordano Scardocci, Order of Preachers, younger brother of the Dominican theologian Giovanni Cavalcoli and co-founder of this our online magazine. Father Gabriele, a talented teacher of catechesis, It is particularly sensitive to the theological issues fell in apostolate concreteness and pastoral reality.

I always remember a strong apostolic experience in Naples. I was a novice: at the Spanish Quarter, in a house of sisters, Fraticelli us we were with the children for after school. In one of the first meetings, one of the children cared for the sisters', one of the most talented and diligent at school, that day could not concentrate. Suddenly, affectionate with his Neapolitan accent, he said looking into my eyes:

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"Brother, the other day my grandfather died '.

"I'm sorry".

"But now you think where is? It was so good to me ".

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This was one of the best questions feel that my little pupil could make me. How did that Roman child to Pope Francis, who replied:

"Your grandfather to me, if it was good being in Paradise!»

I replied hoping.

Continues the little boy Neapolitan:

"But according to you, he sees what I do?»

I replied a bit 'hasty:

"Who is with Jesus in heaven, He sees those he loves ".

The small smiled, He looked sideways and said nothing. Then, but with a little 'hard work she resumed its quadernino said:

"I hope to be happy that I'm good at school!»

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On this episode I prayed and meditated a lot. I still remember the name and the whole family situation of that child. After six more years that theme reminds me that it is also important to reflect, pray and study the theme of the Church in its earthly and heavenly nature also, and with its specific purpose: the goal over earthly and eschatological.

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Even in these moments of great suffering for the Church, I think back on these issues will help the people of God to rediscover the beauty and spirituality of our faith. These reflections may also be a proposal for a reflection also to provide a complete overview with respect to the generation of active nihilism, as he called Umberto Galimberti. Indeed, according to this philosopher and psychologist, the generation of active nihilism is opposed to that of the passive nihilism. The first is a small percentage of those who "do not ignores and does not remove the heavy atmosphere of nihilism without purpose and without it, but not resigned and is promoted in all directions in a very determined effort not to turn off their dreams ". [1]

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So welcome the idea galimbertiana that there is a generation capable of bringing forward ideals and values ​​tending to overcome the classic nihilism and lack of sense. But we would also like to add that these values, Catholicism, It proposes the values ​​of hope and eternal life. These tend to create a strong anthropological tension from the experience of a concrete living immanent, ports man to transcend to orient the proper sense in a historical destination condition and eschatological.

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DEATH AND THE CHURCH

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The Church on earth or visible, also called pilgrim, SUA has eschatological character: that tends to the Kingdom of God and to form the Celestial Church. This is his ultimate goal. The The light It reiterates in Chapter VII that the Church has this eschatological. The Second Vatican Council did not express much about this: chapter actually is quite short. At the same time, the theme is enormous and fruitful theological reflections. As we will see shortly, already in the Middle Ages, Saint Julian of Toledo [642 – 690], it consists Everlasting prognostic, first treatise of systematic eschatology in which phosphate taboo and eschatological typical errors of his time. It was critical theological work, mostly inspired patristic-Augustinian. Just like San Giuliano demitizzò these realities, We can do the same with the Church. The figure dogma that the Christian community has eschatological character, he has not ruled out the use of literary images to describe those otherworldly. These realities remain true while the images - for example demons with his trident, angels with heavenly robe, il Flegetonte, Orfeo ed Euridice and so on - are just images that evoke in us this reality.

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This same discourse of certain theological knowledge but still in progress can be applied to the entire theological matters. For this is also the theory of Karl Rahner, the basic Axion, whereby God reveals himself totally in his manifestation [2], It raises many Trinitarian and Christological issues: as in Christ, true God and true Man, truly God has revealed Himself, However, we do not know fully God. So the dogmatic conciliar definitions give us some small revelation - I repeat again -, real and credible, But the whole Trinitarian reality escapes us. The expression It will be wholly desirous, but not completely maybe you can even apply to the state of eschatological life. That's why eschatology has always been very sober and "stingy" definition. All this on the other side opens the field to study and theological research which helps the Church on her path of research and life according to the teachings of the God man Jesus Christ.

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The Magisterium in any case it is expressed not too long ago on the subject of eschatology. A first document is that of the 1979: Letter on Certain Questions Concerning Eschatology [cf. text WHO]. Citing paragraph 7 we observe that neither Scripture nor tradition offer sufficient lights for the hereafter representation beyond. Only poets and writers - think solely Dante Alighieri -, and a little liturgy, They try to describe some characteristic eschatological. While theologians rejected the idea that the eschatological theology was a reportage the Beyond; instead he sought to purify theology from fairytale image, as already mentioned. So all the theological treatises have to base the councils and I believe, and they can be assembled or systematically revisited with the aim to grow an eschatological sense in the people of God. Effectively, a Christianity that is not eschatological, It is not Christianity. That the Church has an eschatological goal: the Church today, earthly or visible, It will end and will reach the Kingdom of God. We can say from the outset that the meeting point between the pilgrim Church on earth, we, Celeste and the Church Triumphant, Saints in heaven, and the Church purgative, that is, the souls in Purgatory who are preparing for the beatific vision. For this, then we can investigate and see what is the relationship between the Church and Death.

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A LITTLE 'TEACHINGS AND RELIGION ON THE THEME OF DEATH

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church It offers several suggestions for meditation on these issues. First it know that "Death is the end of earthly life" [n. 1007] and further, that "Death is the consequence of sin, and was therefore not a phenomenon routinely expected in the creation " [n. 1008]. But Death does not have the last word, because thanks to Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning: "For me, living is Christ and dying is a gain" [Fil 1, 22]. What it is essentially new about Christian death: through Baptism, the Christian is sacramentally "died with Christ", to live a new life; and if we die in Christ's grace, physical death completes this "dying with Christ" and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act [n. 1010]. So death itself is transformed because Jesus suffered death, as a man like us. Christ took upon himself the death and transformed it in a total way. The death of Jesus was then the way in which God called us by Christ himself. So if we die in Christ, we relive Christ: that we obey Christ to God's plan and in such obedience resurrected. We could almost say that death is one of the "intimate contact" with God himself. However, only in the light of the paschal mystery it unfolds the Christian meaning of death: there is an exile of the body [CF. II Cor 5,8] while the soul goes to live with God. After the death occurred, the man makes her final decision: self excludes or cars includes the presence of God. This is the last act, to use terminology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, who often used effective figures typical of Greek theater in his exhibitions [3].

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In this very delicate moment, when man enters eternity, here is who takes over the Church: "The Church encourages us to prepare ourselves at the hour of our death to ask the Mother of God to intercede for us" at the hour of our death " [Ave Maria] and to entrust ourselves to St. Joseph, patron of a happy death " [n. 1014]. By the terms good death we mean that the Church prays that each of us will die in a state of grace.

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SAN JULIAN OF TOLEDO AND ESCHATOLOGY ecclesiological

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Saint Julian of Toledo he also wanted to describe the link between the Church and Death, and in particular between Church Earthly, purgante, Celeste. The Spanish author introduces the topic of eschatology ecclesiological for the first time in its history in his treatise Age future prognostic.

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First Giuliano speaks of so-called Remedy of the Dead [Lib. I. Cap. XXII], ie the possibility of suffrage for the dead, commenting on the Second Book of Maccabees. Here it shows that the Levites offer prayers for the dead, After some impurities: It is the sacrifice of Atonement a day [Yom ha-Kippurim, day of expiation]. There is already the possibility that the dead improve their condition purgatives. Moreover, It is a consolation for those who remain alive, know to give relief to loved ones. Julian talks about the implementation of the damnation of the damned. [4] For this you can already talk, in this century, Of soul livelihood: In fact, according to Giuliano, the purging souls are purified through the fire. While the souls of the blessed go to Christ in heaven. Here, then, that the soul separated from the body subsists. [5] We certainly derive that the soul has its own activities: effectively, according to the Toledo theologian, the blessed do not see immediately in a total way God: it awaits the resurrection of the body: They will see him more perfectly after. The souls that have the desire to be reunited with their bodies. After Christ's descent into hell, souls go immediately to heaven. [6] While the souls of sinners immediately go to hell [7] and here they remain forever.[8] Now Giuliano may reiterate its position on the soul post mortem. They, recovering Gregorio Magno, He argues that the soul after separation from the body, however, retains its sensitivity and is not dormant. The soul has a resemblance to the dead body: for this reason feels the rest and the torments. [9] Taking up a bit 'one of the loci classics of medieval theology, Giuliano says post mortem there is a purifying fire [cleanser fire]. [10] Already in the work early Christian Shepherd of Hermas [The Shepherd of Hermas] dating from the second century, is exposed theology of Purgatory. So the souls undergo this fire during the intermediate state, that is, before the final judgment. Therefore according to the Toledo theologian, carnal death is already part of the Tribulation that provides for the purifying fire. [11] Now, a point which we will discuss shortly systematically, and already our author introduces: Indeed Giuliano believes that the blessed, if they pray for the salvation of their living loved ones: live the communion of saints. [12] Perhaps the theological research so far carried forward comes at Giuliano to ask questions extremes: for example, if the blessed are rattristino or have joy for loved ones living. [13] Of course it is also comfortable in the certainty that Giuliano, all those who are already blessed - and here is no mention of the Patriarchs and Apostles -, They expect us to reach them and grieve for our mistakes and sins. [14]

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All these steps lead us to conclude that there is no eschatology, ecclesiology: the Church is extending the redemptive mission of Christ and the saving, accomplished in the power of the Spirit. For this, the Church is the rally of believers who walks ahead of the final consummation and universal that is the Second Coming or Return of Christ in the end times. So again with Giuliano also we confirm the vertical-transcendent dimension of the Church: the Church is being initiatory and irreversible.

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As also wrote Yves Congar: "God is like" bound "to the Church, and the Church is diffuser member of salvation, through the sacraments that spread and actualize the Word of God: both give life to the life of the believer ".

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THE CHURCH AS THE PEOPLE OF HOPE TO ETERNAL LIFE: THE PILGRIM CHURCH AND THE VIRTUE OF HOPE

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Even the Second Vatican Council It was involved in this eschatological tension of the Church, wanting in our view clear the field by wrong ideas that unfortunately, Sixty-eight and in the wake of the worker priests would still caught later, as if to transform the Church into a merely earthly realities, ever tending to the supernatural good.

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The conciliar document The light deals with these issues in chapter VII, entitled precisely "The eschatological character of the Church". The chapter consists of four paragraphs. In issue 48 we remember that, all mankind has an eschatological vocation; the Church finds its fulfillment precisely in the final heavenly glory, and thus he accompanied the man to his perfection. [15] The Church founded by Christ as his apostolic body, to whom he gave his life-giving spirit [16], It is thought to be the "universal sacrament of salvation". This salvation has already begun in Christ, together with the Church we can reach it, through faith, the exercise of charity and virtue of hope that little by little and day by day leads us to eternal life [17]. This is primarily a first certainty: the Church is on the way to a different state than the current one. The Church helps us to hope to move from temporary, from momentary up eternal. Anything that distracts us from the exercise of the cardinal virtues and the sacramental life and therefore that makes us walk towards the Lord must be avoided and taken away: "If your eye causes you to sin, horse: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, that with two eyes to be thrown into hell " [MC 9,47].

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But on this journey, we are not alone. In fact paragraph 49 Of The light It describes a profound communion between the pilgrim Church, that is, each of us wanderers on this earth, and the heavenly Church, that is, those who are already dead and are in the phase of purification or bliss [18]. Between us, however, there is a heterogeneous partition: our union, in faith in Christ, it never broke [19], indeed we are even more united in particularly improvement way with the Church to be cleansed. Effectively, today again, during Holy Masses we offer suffrages for the souls of our deceased loved ones [20]; especially when we venerate Mary, the Apostles, Saints Angels, and all the saints of God, they too are united with us in Christ [21]. This really can be comforting: each death and loss of a friend and a dear one is shock which generates a very long and difficult mourning to process on a psychological level. Only with time and the help of grace it may be able to find a deeper meaning to this necessary step. Difficult, if not impossible, therefore,, again, He thinks of the Church as the only earthly militia that does not deal with this guide to the certainty of the presence of deceased loved ones through faith; charity which then operate towards them, every time we offer a suffrage for their, and hope one day to meet again all together, on Sunday without end in the Risen Jesus that shines in our hearts.

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So the Eucharist It is that place where you really can be in communion with the dear departed souls and saints, the most important time of all our experience of believers. Every time we partake of the Holy Mass " [in it] the virtue of the Holy Spirit acts upon us through the sacramental signs, in fraternal exultation we sing the praises of the divine Majesty all " [22]. It seems to me the most beautiful and important step, with which to conclude these reflections. Just as we saw in the first paragraph that the final act of union between God and man, deathbed, needs of necessity of the presence of the Church, So also all our moments of perfection and of holiness as it very presence of communion in Jesus Christ. As she is written by his father Sergio Stancati, the final subject of our communion is Jesus Christ himself as ἔσχατος [eskatos]. With eskatos we mean the way in Christ, which it is the subject in which the ultimate purpose of the world and of man has already accomplished, the new absolute of the new creation has already begun [23].

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Rome, 2 November 2018

Commemoration of All Souls

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Of our brothers, ancient popular song of the deceased for the suffrage of the Souls in Purgatory. Choir of St. Mary of Mercy – Lastra a Signa Florence [text anthem WHO]

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NOTE

[1] U. Galimberti, The word to the young people - Dialogue with the generation of Active Nihilism.

[2] K. Rahner, The Trinity.

[3] H. U. from Balthassar, Teodrammatica The last act.

[4] See Julian of Toledo, Prognostic Forever, The foreshadowing of the world to come, I KNOW, Naples 2012, Introduces., Translate. and theological commentary by T. Get tired, o.p.

[5] In the same place, Lib. (II), Cap. VIII.

[6] Lib. (II), Chapter X.

[7] Lib. (II), Cap. XIII.

[8] Lib. (II), Cap. XIV.

[9] Lib. (II), Cap. XV. Erroneously attributed to Giuliano Cassiano a reflection of Gregory the Great, cf.. Moralia in Job, VIII, xv.

[10] LIb. (II), Cap. Nineteenth.

[11]Lib. (II), Cap. XXI.

[12]Lib. (II), Cap. XXVI.

[13] Lib. (II), Cap. XXVII.

[14] Lib. (II), Cap. XXVIII.

[15] Lg 48, 1.

[16] Lg 48, 2.

[17] Lg 48, 3.

[18] LG 49, 1.

[19] LG 49, 2 – 3.

[20] LG 50, 1.

[21]LG 50, 2.

[22]LG 50,3.

[23] S. Get tired, eschatology death and resurrection, I KNOW.

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IPAZIA ROMAN CAT IN CONVERSATION WITH THE CROW OF ENZO BIANCHI, TODAY AT THE SYNOD PARTICIPANT TO INDICATE THE WAY TO YOUTH, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE ...

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[…] I have a crow, as I believe that in fact it is Enzo Bianchi, despite not having the pens. Our sound is similar, he croaks like me when he speaks. Either we turn to the world in search of some pearl or jewel to steal. I try and steal the jewels and pearls materials, He steals but those souls who listen to him after having already stolen pearls and jewels of Christianity and the Catholic Church.

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THE SYNOD OF THE YOUNG. THE CHURCH, AFTER THE SHOAH OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD, WILL BE JUDGED TO THE NEW PROCESS OF NUREMBERG, WHERE CARDINALS AND BISHOPS WILL REPLY TO THE JUDGES: “I ONLY OBEYED THE HIGHER ORDERS”.

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In the most inappropriate historical-ecclesial moment, a Youth Synod is taking place, while the visible Church, after the Holocaust of Catholicism, is about to end up in the Nuremberg court, which will issue a sentence that will remain written in history. In the course of this process, the culprits who brought the Church into the court of justice before the eyes of the world will be judged for committing great crimes against the Church, the mystical body of Christ [cf. With the 1, 12-20]. And as happened seventy years ago with the Nazi leaders, we will hear cardinals and bishops, respond to the judges: “I only obeyed the higher orders”.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo
Italian presbyter

The impression one has is that the synods are probably set up as the Assembly of Deputies of the Soviet Union, or as it is now the Parliament of North Korea. We admit that we can also discuss within the synods, as happened during the Synod on the family. Naturally, that we proceed to discuss, the synods are celebrated precisely for this purpose. What is the purpose of the discussions, however, when in the final document, previously, we have seen the approval of what the Synod Fathers have rejected decisively and with a broad threshold? In fact, if the Court of Miracles, as I call it, or the Magic Circle, as Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller calls it, already has a ready and approved program, what is the usefulness of synods? Perhaps saving the appearance of collegiality in the same way that the young dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong, wants to have a semblance of parliamentary democracy? And what happened to the dissidents of Korea, maybe they ended up tied on the missiles and then launched during the experimental tests?

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We come to the agenda of the Court of Miracles or the Magic Circle : the Youth Synod will have to serve, as already amply demonstrated, to offer some recognition to the LBGT lobby. And although the youth representatives have never used or mentioned this acronym in their programmatic documents, the mention was made by His Eminence Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisserri, without neglecting to express himself in an imprecise and contradictory way, which in some way is tantamount to lying [see HERE]

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The use of the acronym LGBT, which means: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual, is first of all a question of form and law, which later could have implications in the doctrine and the magisterium. Let’s try to understand: if in the work Ai organizations Commentary — which has nothing to do with gays, but with the famous jurist Gaius who compiled his comments the year 180 a.C. — the problem of oral sex had been inserted according to the jurisprudence of the principality of Augustus, dating back to 30 b.C., this erotic practice would then have a legal status in the system of Roman law. However, considering that the problem of oral sex does not exist in the law, it can not be inserted as a legal institution, even applying other laws in the most extensive form. And it does not exist because, in the law, there is no such thing as the legal institution of oral coitus. Jurisprudence can not treat or regulate what for the law does not exist. That’s why in any kind of juridical system, both in Roman law and in common law, the use of words and terms is always very delicate, because the law, long before punishment, which is only the final act, aims to recognize , establish and then adjust. And a term inserted into juridical language automatically becomes a juridic term.

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To this must be added, as an example, a fact that few in the visible Church of today can deny: in many Catholic theological institutes, when we speak of the Most Holy Eucharist, the theologies and terminologies drawn from Lutheran lexicon, are increasingly used; for example, the Lutheran terminology of consubstantiation. If in some Roman Pontifical universities one dares to refer to scholasticism and Thomism, then to the theological term of transubstantiation, one risks being derided or indicated as pre-conciliar (!?). And the mockers, whose prerogative is the most stupid ignorance, will continue to ignore that one of the two Supreme Pontiffs of the Second Vatican Council, the one who managed it, has brought forward and then closed, the Blessed Pontiff Paul VI, that soon will also be canonized, he defined as opportune and not replaceable this theological term of transubstantiation [Encyclical The Mystery of the Faith, no. 47, text HERE]. Or perhaps we must deduce that Blessed Pontiff Paul VI was actually a pre-conciliar? As I have written several times: in the visible Church of today the decrees of beatification and canonization of the Roman Pontiffs are signed with one hand, with the other the documents that strike, or in some cases annul, their supreme magisterium.

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Today we live in a visible Church where we can define the term of transubstantiation as scholastic-archaeological, then reject it in the halls of the pontifical universities. However, at the same time, we can insert ecclesiastical lexical terms such as LBGT, with the risk that this acronym luciferian assumed by the vocabulary of the Magisterium of the Church. And all this, cannot disconcert only the Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, with all the coryphaeum of journalists True Pontifical, for which never, as «at the time of this epochal revolution», things had gone so well. The facts show that things, at the height of the Pontifical Russian Revolution, are so good that the churches are increasingly empty, the disappointed faithful, the depressed clergy and the missing vocations. The abandonment of the priesthood has never been as numerous as in the last five years of the history of the Church, even if the Congregation for the Clergy is silent on the statistical, because it is presided over by another friend of the Court of Miracles, or Magic Circle.

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His Eminence Cardinal Charles Joseph Chaput, Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia

Thanks be to God, His Excellency Mons. Charles Chaput, Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia, made his voice heard and recalled the importance of using correct words [cf. chronicle: HERE, HERE], because at the level of Catholic doctrine, substance is linked to words. And this should be known by all those who have studied, even in a non-exhaustive way, the first great dogmatic councils of the Church, where, to define the nature of Christ God, we have resorted to precise terms modulated by terminology of Greeks philosophers, such as concept of ὑπόστασις [Hypostasis or hypostatic nature].

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Someone, to define today — and therefore clarify — the various forms of exercise of human sexuality, since “male and female God created them” [Gen 1, 26-27], perhaps wants to insert into the ecclesial lexicon terms such as LGBT, thus giving life to a new quatripostatic human nature: to the lesbian nature, gay, bisexual and transsexual?

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The Synod on the family has left a divided and disoriented Church, as well as several deaths due to sudden infarcts in the ranks of the Lord’s vineyard. And after the attempt to erase adultery, today the Synod of Youth has opened up, which seems to want to legitimize the various practices of sexual expression, without clarifying — as Archbishop Charles Chaput laments holyly — that LGBT Catholics cannot exist, and the Church cannot legitimize their existence. With another paradoxical example, we can ask: can a subject be defined as Catholic-atheist and claim, as atheist, his full membership in Catholicism? Yes, he can do it exactly to the extent that, a one transsexual proud of his transsexualism, he can call himself a catholic-transsexual and claim full right of citizenship in the body of the Catholic Church and claim full legitimacy of all his demands. Because if the enthusiastic singers of the «epochal revolution» had not noticed it, is completely new figure of Catholicism is born: the Catholic atheists. And these atheistic Catholics have a diabolical prerogative: to persecute the faithful believers fiercely.

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Of the Archbishop by Philadelphia we invite you to read the article «Charity, clarity, and their opposite» [article, HERE]

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We will see how this Synod will end, but above all we will see if, as in the previous one, what will be rejected by the Synodal Fathers will then end in the final document, if anything hidden, once again, in some ambiguous expression or footnote, which is equivalent to saying … “I am intelligent, you are stupids!”. But what counts is listening to everyone, giving the impression of being synodal, collegial and above all democratic, just like the Korean dictator Kim Jong, who first calls the puppet Parliament of North Korea, then does exactly what he wants.

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After this Synod, opened with the insertion of the LGBT quatripostatic dogma, not required by anyone in the Instrument of Work, in 2019 the Amazonic Synod, will also open, for to discuss the granting of the priesthood to married men. Attention, everything only … to experiment. Meanwhile, in the Diocese of Rome, even if the fact has not made any news, the general rehearsals are already underway: a few days ago he was appointed “parish priest” of a metropolitan parish — of course: to experiment — a permanent deacon, arrived in canonical with his wife and four children. And this family nucleus, from the official page of the Deacons of Rome, which is also a filial of the Neocatechumenal Movement, has been indicated as … «diaconal family» (!?) [CF. service: HERE]. Having said this, I would like to know: can the members of my family, who have a presbyter in their family, be called the “presbyteral family”? And my mother and my brother can be called “presbyteral mother” and “presbyteral brother”. Obviously extending the title to my “presbyteral sister-in-law” and to my “presbyteral nephew”? And perhaps we want to forget my cat, which would have the title of “presbyteral cat”? Needless to say that the speech would be really long, because those who do not know the story is condemned to repeat it in a pejorative form. It is worth remembering, even if briefly and rapidly, that the diaconate, now called permanent, fell into disuse as an autonomous order and became a step in the process of presbyteral ordination. In fact, in Rome, between the eighth and tenth centuries, the deacons had acquired a pre-eminent role. The deacons were at the head of the main churches and did not even want to be ordained presbyters, because then, from these prestigious churches, they became directly bishops. The permanent diaconate will thus be restored only after a thousand years, by the Second Vatican Council. And note that not all the dioceses of the world have ordained permanent deacons, who are absent, for example, in most African countries, in order not to generate confusion among Catholic populations; and especially where, for anthropological and cultural reasons, the rules relating to the chastity of celibacy by priests are not always applied. In the heart of Europe, in Poland, the first two permanent deacons were ordained only four decades after the Second Vatican Council, in 2009.

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Married priests have always existed in the Eastern Catholic clergy, but they could exercise their ministry only in the dioceses belonging to their rite; a rite regulated, among other things, also by the Code of Canon Law of the Eastern Churches. However, since great general tests are under way, many of these priests and their families have been received in various Italian dioceses, beginning with the Archdiocese of Perugia, whose archbishop is not a bishop among many, but the president of Episcopal Conference of Italy. Faced with this, I limit myself to asking: in the event of disputes involving a married priest, what right will be applied, the Latin or that of the Eastern Churches? Obviously I know well that the canon law has been replaced by pure free will, which then turns into authentic arrogance that comes to life from the lack of any rule, but the rhetorical question sounds good, and even if it is useless, I do the same. Regarding the possible incardination in the dioceses of the Latin rite, as may happen, the incardination of married priests of the Eastern rite, specifically Latinized, since they are useful for the general tests under way, which aim to please the Head and the circle of his most trusted advisors? All this could be explained by His Eminence Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, who is metropolitan archbishop of Perugia and president of the Italian bishops, and which houses two married priests in his diocese, to anticipate the decisions of the Synod of the Amazon, which we remember: the decisions have already been taken before the opening of the Synod [service HERE].

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Having said this, a question arises: for the region of the Amazon, an experiment is asked to consecrate priests married men, because there is lack of clergy. In Rome, instead, for to entrust a parish to a permanent deacon, what a dramatic lack of clergy there is? Because looking at the diocesan yearbook we find that the metropolitan parishes are 332. The Roman presbytery has 1,256 presbyteries, to which are added 2,929 presbyters of other dioceses residing in Rome. To these secular priests, 5,317 members of the regular clergy (the presbyters of the various religious orders) and 87 other priests belonging to various personal prelatures are added [Official Yearbook of the Diocese of Rome: HERE]. In Rome there are therefore a total of about 9,580 presbyters, among Roman presbyters, presbyters residing in the diocese and presbyters of various religious families. The Diocese of Rome has about 2,350,000 baptized. If we divide the number of Catholic faithful with the number we will have this result: one priest for every 250 faithful. And all this in a Rome with increasingly empty churches. It is also good to specify that the territory of the Diocese of Rome is limited only to the Capital of Italy, because out of the city, in the Municipality of Rome, arise the suffragan dioceses. Question: was it therefore necessary, as an exotic experiment, to entrust a parish to a permanent deacon in the Mother and Mother Church of all the Catholic Churches? Therefore we note that while the Synod of Youth is being celebrated, the general rehearsals for the Amazon, from which the married priests will have to go out, to experiment, are already underway, because everything has already been established. I repeat: only to experiment and after convening the Pontifical Parliament of North Korea, where presumably dissidents end up on the heads of missiles fired during military exercises. Things are worse in Rome than in North Korea, never in the history of the Church has mercy made so many victims! A new term has also been born, not easily translatable: “the misericordiati“. And this term “be merciful” rhymes with “executed“, the sentenceds to death.

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If Cardinal Gerhard L. Müller, in a recent long interview with Raymond Arroyo, has returned to various topics: on the speech of the evil friends who surround the Roman Pontiff, who were sought by him with the lantern of Diogenes; therefore on the argument that His Excellency Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò, did not say anything other than the truth [cf. HERE, HERE], this happened because the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is a true man of God. Add to what the Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, at the anthropological level, contains in himself the strength of the Teutonic barbarian, in the noblest sense of the term. In fact, we remember that when the barbarians descended from northern Europe while the Roman empire was in agony, they found the holders of power, drunk and made up by women, engaged in playing inside the alcoves with young men [cf. my previous article, HERE]. Or, in other words: the Romans, during the decadence of the Empire, lived a LBGT lifestyle that had long absorbed the S.P.Q.R. lifestyle, an acronym that once summarized the concept and foundation of The Roman Senate citizens and later SPQR [Senate of the Roman People]. The difference, as I have often emphasized, was that the barbarians, struck by the virile temperament of the great Fathers of the Church, in that climate of total decadence, they were converted, in mass, to Christianity. In today’s Rome, the new barbarians, from whom should they be conquered to Christianity? Perhaps by four homosexuals clinging like polyps to the throne, to which all in all they are very useful, being the most devoted ruffians, the most interested servants, the most efficient spies, as well as easily managed and manipulated by the sovereign, who knows, one after the other , all the rotten corpses that remain locked up in their graves? And their tombs are very different from those of the ancient Pharisees [cf. Mt 23, 27-32], because the tombs of the Pharisees were at least well painted on the outside.

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I am afraid that no one has analyzed the historical relationship that links the psychology of Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller to the history of his native country, which is Germany. Today the situation of the visible Church is comparable to the defeat of Germany in 1945, with Adolf Hitler locked up in the bunker of Berlin, along with the restricted court of his faithful, while faced with the defeat, the German army continued to fight, up to enlist teenagers of sixteen. To deceive the German people, word spread that the Great Secret Weapon would soon be completed and used. In the same way, today, the main propagandists of Pontifical Truth, not so much defend the indefensible — which can also be understandable and even justifiable on a human and psychological level — but show total insensitivity, while knowing all the details of the lives of many saints priests who have been totally marginalized and ruined, for not having accepted to become accomplices of a diabolical system of corruption, preferring to go to great suffering, without betraying the Church of Christ and coming to terms with evil. And this makes some Italian journalists of True Pontifical, unscrupulous men, real criminals deprived of basic Christian sentiments. So it is good to inform these people that the bridge over the river now overflows with patients spectators who await the passage of their bodies dragged by the current, when with an ease that would scandalize even the lowest level whores, after the next conclave, like chameleons they will change skin color. The is that instead they will not have to change color, they will have to change jobs, because in the face of every sigh, all the writings with which they have sustained the untenable and defended the indefensible, to the detriment of the truth and the innocent affected and injured, will be taken and thrown publicly on their faces. These journalists of Pontifical Truth have not even hesitated to falsify facts and news. They spread false news and concealed the truth to the detriment of the victims and the suffering of many holy priests. They “licked the ass” of the executioners, showing total indifference towards the victims affected and persecuted within the Church, of whom they knew very well the stories and the great sufferings. And all this, it is not simply inhumane, because it is really satanic. And the devil can never be allowed to enter through the window again, having thrown it out the door; and if by chance the Devil asks for forgiveness by pretending to be repentant, one must absolutely not believe him, because he is the Supreme Prince of Lies and deception.

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After Adolf Hitler’s death, Germany was hit by a wave of suicides; whole families committed suicide. The most common phrase that ran between the good Germans which we remember were many — was: «I’m ashamed to be German». I have already heard this kind of phrase in private from bishops and presbyters many times: «Faced with this situation, I am ashamed to belong to this Church», implying that this shame is entirely linked to the ecclesial and ecclesiastical structure of this visible Church, certainly not to the mystery of the Church, which is the mystical Body of Christ.

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As we know, from the Berlin bunker, we then moved on to the Nuremberg trial, where the main Nazi leaders were judged and condemned on the charred body of the Führer, but above all on the ruins of Germany. And many of the Nazi leaders were sentenced to death in that trial. Seventy-three years after the last great world war, the New Church of Mercy has removed the more remote and exceptional hypothesis of the death penalty from the Catechism. Therefore, if tomorrow something similar to the Nuremberg trial were to happen, we will be “merciful” to those responsible for the death of millions and millions of people, and we will entrust them to social services [cf. our previous articles: HERE, HERE, HERE].

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The Nuremberg trial is about to be repeated in the Church. Tomorrow, sooner or later, on the disastrous ruins of destruction, while bishops and priests will tell the world «I am ashamed to belong to this Church», we will see before the judges an army of cardinals and bishops who will try to justify themselves by saying: «I only obeyed higher orders!». While the journalists of the former Pontifical Truth, who can no longer recycle themselves, will say on their side: «We have only written what we have been ordered to write!». Then the judges will ask: «Your Excellency … Your Eminence … Monsignor … but you realize that your obedience to the higher orders has covered the perpetrators of serious crimes and has seriously affected the innocent, subjected to every kind of suffering and anguish?» At that point the answer will be: «But I was bound by the pontifical secret!».

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The death of Christ the Lord, in its substance, is renewed, and over time it is proposed in different ways. Not by chance, his glorious body, after the resurrection, still lives with the signs of passion. So today Christ died again on the cross because bishops and cardinals have «obeyed the higher orders», and when in the day of their judgment, God will ask them: «why did not you act in defense of the Church and of the People of God?». They will answer: «But I was bound by pontifical secrecy!».

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It’s just a matter of little time. We let this monster give the last dangerous and deadly blows, because soon we will be in the great hall of Nuremberg, to listen to those directly responsible for the Holocaust of the Catholic Church that they say: «I have only obeyed the higher orders!». And we, precisely because of profound and authentic mercy, will guarantee them the expiatory grace of the gallows. Because we who today are suffering, anguished and persecuted in our home, we are the salvation and the future of the Church of Christ, of the pilgrim Church on earth. And no one will ever prevent us from fulfilling our mission for Christ, with Christ and in Christ. Because the church is of Christ, it is not of Peter, who is the Vicar of Christ, not his Successor. And the power given to Peter is not at all total and absolute as some would have us believe, indeed: it is a very vincolated power. The power of Peter is strictly vincolated to the deposit of the Catholic faith, of Tradition and of doctrine. Peter is not the absolute master of the Church, on the contrary: he is his first and faithful servant, called to guard the truth and to confirm his brothers in faith [cf. Page 22, 31-34]. Peter’s mission, is not to convene the “democratic” Parliament of North Korea. Peter’s mission is not to confuse the People of God, using ambiguous and unclear words, because Christ teaches us: «But let your statement be, “Yes, yes” or “No, no”; anything beyond these is of Evil» [cf. Mt 5, 37].

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In the Holy Gospels, everything is very clear, no any “sly” has ever inserted ambiguous small footnotes. Having said this, it is still necessary to clarify: it is true, no priest, bishop or cardinal is obliged to be a hero. But for a priest, a bishop or a cardinal, it is certainly not a great human and Christian honor to be a rabbit who, opposite the judgment of history, replies: «I only obeyed the higher orders».

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Rome, 7 October 2018

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I UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNIST CHINA AND HIS FEAR TO CATHOLICISM, RATHER NOT UNDERSTAND THE REASONS OF THE PHANTOM OF THE HOLY SEE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF BEIJING

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

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Rome 2010 – Father Ariel S. Levi to Gualdo Way of the cross the Colosseum in memory of the Blessed Christian Martyrs, along with one of several Chinese confreres with whom he lived in contact in the Capital

I have long wanted spender two words on the Chinese question, but I refrained from doing so because many experts are now self-elected than on the Catholic press, to follow along with the plethora of websites and blogs Catholics, give us valuable pearls of wisdom. Most commentators accredited they just published showgirls to their past by some officer of the Secretariat of State, thus giving continuity within the Catholic Church in what was the relationship between the official organ of the Communist Party, the newspaper Truth [in Italian Truth], and the Moscow Soviet. Moreover, in the Russian language, Truth It means Truth. And what makes you smile, like today makes you smile the name of the newspaper of the Italian bishops: Future. Because at this rate, the future of the pilgrim Church on earth, short unfortunately will not be among the most edifying.

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I have known over the years leading scholars, including several missionaries, who despite having studied the Chinese phenomenon for decades and having lived in that great country, when they named China were imbued with a kind of awe, as aware of its historical and social complexity and its ancient and glorious culture. Above all, since my formation for the priesthood, I have known and lived closely in Rome with several Chinese; and I can assure our readers that the "little" that lived by their lives I may have learned, I may have learned something more than velinari from the true Pontificia, to which some monsignorino of the Secretariat of State, who he has never set foot in China, passed some tissue papers to write that the Venerable Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, chinese ancient lineage, eighty-six years old and already the Hong Kong Archbishop, he is just an angry old man prejudiced against the atheist-communist government of that country. Word of velinari, all at the instigation of some curial, that perhaps has got to much better known both far deeper China, if anything, the sifting of the Secretariat of State of His Holiness cards.

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If a venerable man like Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, Instead of always all kinds of failure on the part of the Holy See to the Government of China, He says "They're giving the sheep to the wolves," and that this is an incredible betrayal ", and finally adding: "The signing of an agreement with the Beijing atheist regime undermines the credibility of the Pope» [Reuters, service WHO], someone, He wants to ask for the case at least of the questions? The problem is that the Church of the surface, dell'approssimativo, but most of the emotional, dialogue over everything cost even destroy everything, He has long ceased to listen to the experts; and after having been more or less settled amicably, decided to go ... Follow your little heart Subjective beating.

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We smile so tenderly both on velinari from sacred palace is on those who improvise experts of this ancient and giant complex, This is China, speaking of which humility has always been the prince instrument used by his real and great scholars, that if anything, at the tender age of eighty, after half a century of studies dedicated to it, with typical candor of connoisseurs tell you: "After half a century of in-depth studies, I learned something China, its history and its ancient culture but ..., of course: just something!».

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A LITTLE COFFEE HISTORY THE GREAT CHINA

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Rome, 2010 – Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo with a Chinese confrere

The first written historical records of China have ancient roots in the Shang Dynasty dating back to the years 1.800-1100 a.C. While the Zhou Dynasty, which will occupy the scene for more than twelve centuries of history, between the year 1.500 and year 250 circa a.C. date back to the first writing characters imprinted on oracle bone, pieces of bone or shells of animals on which were engraved the paintings and inscriptions in its present form evolved match Chinese writing characters in use today. To this we might add that, a technical and architectural level, in greater China were the works that is accurate in both size, but in many ways even in perfection and beauty, outweigh the great works of the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans. Just think of the Great Wall of China, whose construction begins in the fifth century B.C.. Moreover, In the 2009 the archeology department of the Chinese government made it known that the Great Wall was not long, as believed, 8.800 kilometres, ma 21.196,18 kilometres. In any case always known that China has built the largest architectural and engineering feat in the history of all humanity. E, said this, who wants to hear …

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The West today is the product of the little that remains of the greek-Roman culture, to follow with Christian culture. The bases on which will develop over the centuries, the law and politics have their fundamental basis in the philosophy of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle; and as a historical era, We are between the fourth and third centuries B.C.. China begins instead to have a philosophical development from the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.. through Confucianism, Moism and so-called legalism, thoughts from which will come to life and a legal structure entirely different policy, compared to that of the West.

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The right cineif it is old 4.000 year old and since ancient times used to encode its own laws written. For the Chinese culture, the law, It is an absolute rule and a rigid pattern of behavior. As for the law and its application, it should first be given that Chinese law has certainly not assimilated what are the principles of Christianity then transfused in post-Constantinian era in Roman law, where it takes shape the concept of punishment still targeted to the recovery of the convicted offender. As today some things are difficult to understand when analyzed with contemporary analysis criteria, through the same penalty of death was given the opportunity to condemned to expiate the guilt of his crime, then to return to a state of purity through a death penalty that was precisely espiativa, applied not for punitive Revenge, but as an act of mercy aimed at the preservation of the soul's eternal salvation of the condemned.

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In Chinese legal culture, certain concepts are alien: the sentence, whatever it is, action is purely punitive and definitely imposed for a crime committed. Only in Maoist era to life, for purely socio-political reasons, element in itself alien to Chinese culture, for example, the public repudiation of the errors and re-education. But this is items that have nothing in common with the Roman-Christian law, but with Marxism modulated for use by the Chinese regime during the Maoist revolution.

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That alone could be enough to outline two cultures that are born, They take shape and develop through the centuries on the foundations quite different; but above all who speak two completely different languages, thereby generating a different feel and a different experience.

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The western-European, It is a decadent society sick of hatred towards themselves and towards their origins. And those of Europe - with all due respect for the large representation of gays and lesbians who clamoring in the Strasbourg Parliament - are eminently Christian origins, non origins LGBT. It is not by chance, the idea of ​​Europe, and its name, It born within the monastic, from the eighth century, after the fall of Roman Empire.

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If Europe is an old continent less and less identity taken to fight with the very negation of their roots, that Chinese is rather a society that lives an ascent marked by a continuous development, but above all is a company deeply rooted in their ancient and noble origins. After saying this is suddenly the first question: a Catholic church daughter dying of a Europe that denies itself, afflicted internally by a moral crisis without historical precedent, with powerful gay and lesbian lobby through the total subversion of natural law claiming the right "sacred" to the destruction of our civilization; a Europe which for half a century has been weakened by a crisis of the internal principle of authority from which he then came to life the destruction of authority itself ... how can, This kind of Europe, think you can talk to and deal with a culture like China? Or someone can imagine a big Gay Pride in Beijing, with the usual masked pranksters, if anything, from Xi Jinping, severe President of the People's Republic of China, depicted in the form of a pink bunny covered with pajettes? Or need to explain that the case for such a thing, in China, He was sentenced to death within a maximum of forty-eight hours after being beaten up in a public square? In China the government considers homosexuality "a clear sign of “Western bourgeois decadence ". Add to this that the Government of China, requiring parents to be able to adopt a Chinese baby, It imposes to be united in strictly heterosexual marriage and prohibits the granting adoption of children to couples LGBT. The PRC law defines marriage as a union only between a man and a woman and does not recognize any legitimacy to homosexual couples [III Session of the Fifth National People's Congress, 10 September 1980]. Very restrictive even legislation on sex change, which by law can not take place before and after twenty accurate medical reports attesting to the absolute necessity. Very rare in China so are the sex change, by surgical interventions and related hormonal treatment. Said this, someone thinks they can tell the Government of China: … who are you, to judge gay and prevent them from realizing the right to their love, and to crown with the adoption of a child, or with his purchase by a surrogate mother?

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The Orientals in general, Chinese in particular, they do not even conceive that authority and the principle of authority can be separated from the authority of the person who exercises the authority. And here lies the second question: i Merlin of the Secretariat of State of His Holiness, with all due respect to showgirls published by the journalists of true Pontificia, just as the ecclesiastical structure is experiencing its deepest crisis at the global level authority, how they plan to deal with those on the authority principle is based rather any kind of social relationship, political and economic?

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The Chinese system shape and raises its summits of champions almost always trained from childhood in a very meticulous and strict, to be able to play certain roles. And the exercise of certain roles, in Chinese culture not the good-natured principle that applies err it is human, but rather the opposite: in a certain role it is impossible to go wrong, especially when a mistake compromise - even if that happens so mild - the image of the authority and the honor of their country. This is to reiterate that talking about the rising China whose socio-philosophical system is the Confucian roots, so decadent Europe whose socio-philosophical approach, albeit from the same despised and denied, It is greek-Roman and Christian roots, we we compare two worlds and two totally antithetical companies, especially with regard to the concept of man, society, and rights. A single example: in European culture, not only Christian, but also in the lay of which is affected by the Christian root that also denies, pardon and clemency are in fact signs of civil superiority; testing is something that almost all the constitutional and legal systems is expected to act of pardon by the Head of State to also convicted of serious crimes against the state itself. Otherwise, the social culture and Chinese politics, forgiveness and mercy can be a sign of weakness that svigorirebbe unheard of in certain special situations the authority and credibility of the entire social system, political and legal, especially for those who are considered crimes against the People and the State. E, said this, does not lead astray the way between the fifties and the seventies of the twentieth century was modulated by the regime of Mao Zedong's public repudiation of errors against the People and the State, so the re-education of those we call "repent". All this was in fact the sole purpose of converting them into more active propagandists of the Communist Regime, reborn from error and so become witnesses of the truth. A striking example in this regard? That last emperor of China Pu Yi, interned in 1950 in a re-education institute for war criminals, from which he was released from prison in 1959. Once re-educated and become faithful and respectful to the Communist Regime, he worked as an officer in the collection and classification of historical material and as a gardener Beijing botanical garden, until his death in 1967 [cf. Pu Yi, I was Emperor, by Francesco Saba Sardi. Milan, Ed. Italian Bompiani, 1987].

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Let's turn to another example exhaustive: think of what was the 28 august of 2008 the inauguration of the Olympics in Beijing. The whole world was stunned by those sets and the synchronized movements of thousands of extras who gave evidence of what is the kind of perfection that does not admit mistakes. But most of all, behind those unique settings and up to now unique to any other people in the world, It is enclosed in a socio-cultural element that is another foundation of that culture: the concepts of people, state and nation are above the individual. In European society is rather the individual above all, while that of China, above all, there is the concept and identity of the people. And here lies the fourth question: reduced the Catholic Church to an old mare who gives birth to little mice, within which quality and talent are penalized with destructive ferocity, where the mediocre people who have come to power for thirty years now impose categories of authentic under-mediocre as their collaborators and then successors - all on the basis of the principle that chickens scratching around in the hen house certainly cannot surround themselves with golden eagles -, how you can think of to deal with the subjects that have been selected, grew up and trained to be rather true champions of high talent? When the Chinese are put into play, but especially, When any title is at stake is the dignity and honor of their country, only they need to excel and rigor; and they always manage to excel in everything, children how to have a culture that never, and in particular in certain positions and roles, no room for error, and least of all forms of mediocrity.

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An example for even better clarify: Once a Chinese priest of the underground Church come from a few days in Rome, after I had tried to speak to him in English greeting, then in French, while I was wondering inside of me which language he spoke in addition to the Chinese, these turned me so: «Venerabilis Frater, Grace and peace be with you. Ego sum sacèrdos Sìnicus. I do not speak Italian language. Tamen, Senex EPISCOPUS sinicus, He speaks Latin language, He taught me Latin» [Venerable Brother, Grace and peace to you. I am a Chinese priest. I do not speak Italian. But, the elderly Chinese bishops who speak the Latin language, I was taught to speak Latin]. That said I do not want to be disrespectful, but I'd be tempted to invite anyone to enter the classroom of the Italian Episcopal Conference, then to turn in Latin to some’ in the case of bishops, especially those of the last generation who pose as intellectuals sopraffini, and then see what happens, but above all to ascertain what they understand …

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Having clarified the concept of non-wandering which applies to certain social and institutional levels in Chinese culture, Finally we can add one more question, aimed at both Merlin Secretary of State of His Holiness both velinari publishing amenities, namely, the following: the Secretary of State of His Holiness, in which they teem with the foolish people who go unpunished if they make mistakes in their seats, or worse, if they make mistakes never admit their error, especially if their hierarchical level is especially high, it cost well punish the innocent in order to defend the perpetrators of serious damage ... Well, how can they think that we can deal with people in certain public and institutional levels do not admit error, up to consider it an unforgivable damage and a huge disgrace, Chinese place in the socio-political culture does not prevail the defense of the individual, but the maximum protection of honor unitary institutional body?

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In the current historic moment, the Church has neither the strength nor the diplomats appropriate to liaise with the Government of China, to converse with whom it would take to ecclesiastical figures in first able to hit them with their great authority and especially with their great authority. And we today, while we wander from one another grotesque scandal, similar characters, where we plan to take them out?

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PUBLIC IMAGE, CONCEPT OF FORM AND SUBSTANCE IN CHINESE CULTURE

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… this is a government of Cape minister of the Catholic Church – because that on the political level is considered a cardinal by any international governmental authority – committed to illustrate the washing machine and a clothes dryer to the Roman Pontiff, all under the watchful shooting of a cameraman, a clear proof, if anything you need it, this skit knew nothing at all to leave the private sphere, but make their own public …

Since we live in the world of images, then we try to give two completely different images, although today many, too many, do not want to accept the idea that the form, in his own way, contributes to making the substance, or at least put it in the right light. deliberately failing to indicate the person and also the year, so even through the date it goes back to the character, I remember, Years ago, an in-depth documentary in which he was shooting a plenary meeting at the United Nations. With dismay I noticed the representative of the Holy See, that at the UN building has a seat as permanent observer. The representative of the Holy See was dressed with a sloppy clergyman that betrayed the shiny torn by television, with ill-combed hair, Visible white dandruff on the shoulders of the shots in the foreground, and an air somewhat clumsy. Shortly after he was framed - I do not know whether by accident or on purpose - the representative of the People's Republic of China, accompanied by two employees. All three with a bearing authentic princes of their oldest historical dynasties, haute couture clothing, comb your hair, shaved and pulled a shiny better and perhaps more than three actors in Hollywood during the big Oscar night. Before the Chinese, for which the form and substance are inseparable and that not even conceive that in the absence of an appropriate form can be any substance, what impression could do, the sloppy person who represented the Holy See at 'O.N.U? Then, We are having said that we point out that at the material time have just narrated, all in all not do badly spent ancòra like today, I think it said everything, or at least he said he was all you had to say. Species considering today, a Chinese delegation he came with his official style in Vatican City, entering or exiting the Leonine walls could cross the Cardinal barista that comes with terms, a plastic bag, his sleeves pulled above the elbows, to bring the evening coffee to the homeless under Bernini's Colonnade.

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… This is instead a Minister of the Government of the Republic of China, S. AND. Wang Yi, charge of the department of foreign affairs from 2013 al 2018, Today the Council of State, apparently descended from the dynasty of the last Emperor of China. Please note whether in an official public occasion, between “a washing machine and a drying room”, It has a single hair out of place …

Without respect for the figure and age, the journalists of the true Pontificia they instilled poison on Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, who in addition to being Chinese, after being Archbishop of Hong Kong, eighty-six years it presumes know China more than certain velinari it's theirs owner-operators. Yet veiled criticism of him we read that they portrayed as a stubborn senile. No one has focused this cardinal who declares himself an enemy of an atheist government, by members of the Communist government is recognized as a genuine authority. Because this is another feature of Chinese social psychology: recognize the profound value of the enemy. And Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun is a respected and deeply honored enemy of that atheist-communist government with which he, uselessly, It reiterated that the Holy See did not treat, or that at least he shouldn't have negotiated hastily and at all costs, because those of the great China are always very slow tempos praxis.

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THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS ALL THE HISTORICAL REASONS TO FEAR THE CATHOLICISM

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Rome 2009 – Ricordi fraierai …

We come to the heart of the problem: we who presume to trattar with the Chinese and to draw up agreements with them, we know neither the Chinese culture nor China, while the Chinese senior government leaders, selected since childhood, grew up and trained to become the golden eagle, no chickens, instead we know; with us familiar Christianity, more than you can imagine.

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First of all, in Catholicism, unlike various other Christian communities belonging to Protestant Movement, which we know is not a unitary phenomenon, the same goes for Islam, the Chinese Communist government sees a force that is dependent on a foreign power; What this unacceptable for a socio-cultural and political system like China. It is from this fear, Now let's try to analyze and understand the fundamental fear that China's government has Christianity, but especially of Catholicism, because if we want to make a serious and impartial analysis, we must admit that it is a fear completely understandable and above all historically established. In history, Christianity, It has created a unifying effect it has produced but later devastates, in many cases absorbent. most striking case of the story is the fall of the Roman Empire. In the dying empire, since the time of Constantine, Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So that, the political power that tried to strengthen itself using Christianity as an element of unity and unification, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived the empire maintaining in-house traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. If we want to go from antiquity to modernity, take for example the case of Poland of years early seventies of the twentieth century, in which the Christianity, at the level of aggregation, It constituted not only a front against the communist regime, but through Domino effect It originated its subsequent crumbling in all countries of the former Soviet bloc.

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When we are speaking of Catholicism in China, They are mentioned immediately, alone and almost always the Jesuits, who came there to the middle of the sixteenth century. Unfortunately, however, a gross historical error, because the first to bring the Gospel in China were around 1246 the Franciscan Friars, two and a half centuries before the birth of the Society of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. So that, when after the 1260 The Polo Brothers came as merchants and were finally received at court by the Great Khan, who was in Beijing today, they heard the sovereign asked for "news of the Roman Pontiff and the conditions of the Roman Church and the customs of the Latins". Figure factor was a few decades after that of the Franciscan Giovanni da Montercorvino, who managed to win the trust of the Great Khan, and to start a genuine evangelization. Thus the Pope Clement V replied to requests for Brother John, who asked to organize the ecclesiastical districts, China sending another group of Franciscan Friars, along with seven bishops. The group of bishops and religious arrived in China around 1310, After several years of traveling. The bishops had received orders from the Pope to proceed to the episcopal ordination of Brother John, who was the first bishop consecrated in China and the first Archbishop of Beijing [cf. AA.VV. The Franciscans in China. 800 years of history. Ed. Porziuncola, 2001, an extract is available WHO]. Well ... with all due respect the blessed memory of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci [Macerata 1552 - Beijing 1610], Jesuits came over two centuries and a half later. And wanting - always to be historically honest - we can say that they came not least also do damage, besides the doubtless well they work. And passing with a jump of centuries to modernity, we can not omit to mention that the main development of Catholicism in China between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, yes it is also due to the Jesuits, but it is noted that the Jesuit missionaries arrived in the wake of the French and all of them, for greater, They were of French nationality. France, in China, She had indeed many consulates for mainly economic reasons; and the communities and activities of the French Jesuits arose around these consulates. Being able to then arrange for its activities of considerable economic resources, In the 1903 They opened the Aurora University, in present-day Shanghai, which he ceased to be a Catholic university in 1953. Later it was opened in 1905 Fudan University and 1926 the prestigious Fu Jen University in Beijing, now based in Taiwan. The purpose of these institutions, especially Peking University, was to train the future ruling classes of China, all in periods in which the Jesuits ancòra did not show any symptoms of wanting "a poor Church for the poor".

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Previously the Jesuits, by Franciscan missionaries and Dominicans they had been accused of laxity, of the power and prestige Search, but above all to encourage idolatry and the so-called Worship of the Ancestors. The Jesuits tried to justify himself by replicating it for them, bids placed before the Tablets Ancestors, they had no religious ritual significance. Not at all persuaded by their justifications, In the 1645 the Pope Innocent X - to say the least unconscious with those who had to do and then what would have produced - these customs condemned as incompatible with Christianity. The Emperor is outraged by such imperious interference in Chinese affairs, as well as to life the "dispute over rites".

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In 1704 the Pope Clement XI he made matters worse by issuing a decree condemning the practice of Confucian rites and the Worship of the Ancestors, sending a legate watched over him so that application. The emperor, already perplexed by the struggles and rivalries between members of various religious orders present on its territory, He felt deeply offended by papal decree and the manner in which the supervision of its implementation had been established, all followed a decade later by the Bull Ex illa The the 1715 in which the missionaries imposed the renunciation oath to the dissemination and practice of certain superstitious rites. The Emperor replied through their ambassadors: "What would the Pope of Rome, if the Emperor of China were allowed to judge and to reform the ceremonies of the Apostolic See?». And in 1717 Empire forbade Christian proselytizing and preaching the Gospel. Simply said,: If on the one hand, among the members of the Society of Jesus missionaries in China, there was a caste of Jesuits who acted like mandarins and also public that covered political and administrative roles, on the other there were the Dominican missionaries, suffering on the other hand by not less severe myopia, indeed perhaps even worse, They thought they could unleash theological disputes and to launch accusations of heresy, just as if they were in some so-called Catholic country of her time. E, very soon, the serious damage was, producing effects not easily repaired until today …

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Having said that we must clarify, always for the historical and political duty, who was following the work of the joints below the French Jesuits, which began to form the idea that Catholicism was the long hand of a foreign power. It must also be remembered that the first to accuse the foreign priests, and in particular precisely the Jesuits, were Chinese priests, not least for the fact that several times, the missionaries of the Society of Jesus who ran numerous apostolic vicariates, They did filibuster in Rome for the appointment of local bishops, then for the canonical erection of dioceses, stating that it was not suitable subjects, while the truth was that they did not want to lose their jurisdiction over these vicariates, as it would have happened if it had been erected a diocese and appointed a bishop, and particularly if the bishop had been a priest of the place. Needless to say, similar situations, in the same years, or a few decades later, always by the Jesuits, They came to life in the territories of evangelization of the Latin American Continent, with as many missionaries Dominicans and Franciscans to an opposite pole of the earth, but at the same identical manner, they accused the Jesuits of mixing the old local rites with Christianity, the so-called religious syncretism.

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When exploded the Great Cultural Revolution which then he brought to power Mao Zedong, the reason to proceed, the best scenarios, the expulsion of all foreign missionaries from China, It was already so beautiful and packed for about two or three centuries: missionaries and foreign priests were the emissaries and servants of bourgeois power, capitalist and imperialist of the West. A quel point, missionaries who had the better, They fled to Hong Kong and the Philippines, others, including especially those who did not intend to abandon the faithful without priests and pastoral and sacramental care, instead they ended up in prisons, where in the space of a few meters they were crammed numerous people, so much so that to be able to get some sleep 'at night it had to take turns and unwind a bit' each. The suffering of these missionaries were terrible, Why, What we know, none of them agreed to be subjected to re-education programs to become faithful devotees of the Maoist Regime. Programs that were accepted instead of several Chinese priests, jailed on charges of having served foreign powers. In this regard it should be noted, however, that the acceptance of rehabilitation programs loyalty towards the regime, Chinese priests were induced not by the desire to save themselves and their lives, but that of their family. Indeed, the members of the secular and regular clergy who were missionaries in China during the upheaval of the Great Cultural Revolution, their families had them in the various countries of the West, while imprisoned Chinese priests, before being killed, they would have had to witness the murder of their parents, siblings, sisters and grandchildren, then would have been finally executed their.

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Under the government of Mao Zedong, It is approved in 1954 the new Constitution of the People's Republic of China where the Communist Party control is established on any kind of organized activity. Anticipating what this would entail, Pope Pius XII issued shortly after the encyclical Nations to China, condemning the creation of a Catholic Church split from Rome. Incidentally: the text of this encyclical, which is an authentic pastoral masterpiece and at the same time of diplomacy, should read, but just read it on your knees, is today velinari from the true Pontificia, both their owner-operators Secretary of State who instruct them in the publication of their pearls of wisdom [see the text of the encyclical, WHO] …

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… the answer was that the following year, one of the largest dioceses in the country, to Shanghai, governed by Archbishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, It was quickly devastated. At the end of 1954 foreign missionaries still in the area, including two bishops, were just sixteen, between them fourteen in prison. In 1957 the last Catholic religious institutions were closed e created by the Communist Regime the church detached from Rome Patriotic totally subservient to the State. Paradigm of this persecution was the tragic fate inflicted on monks of the Carthusian monastery of Our Lady of Consolation, in the district of Beijing, located about 180 kilometers from the capital. The charterhouse was attacked several times by communist gangs in the 1940s and finally set on fire in 1957. The monks were captured, bound hands and feet with wire and forced to make forced marches under winter temperatures. Most of them lost their lives during these forced journeys, while the few survivors, after being subjected to the great farce of so-called Popular Maoists processes, put to death for refusing to recant and be subjected to re-education processes [cf. James T. Myers, Enemies no shotgun – The Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, cit. pp. 31 e ss. readable text WHO].

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It should also be noted that globally, a Catholic Patriotic Church, He came to life only in China; in various other parts of the world, different regimes, They have attempted to carry out similar operations, but without ever succeeding. Because what were permitted in China? This has been possible because of the strong aversion that the Chinese have a socio-cultural level towards foreigners. This does not mean that China is not hospitable, quite the opposite! The Chinese have a very deep sense of hospitality and the welcome of the stranger, and it is also well disposed and happy, to collaborate with foreigners, provided that deeply respects the ancient and noble Chinese culture and dare not groped to insert elements within his society as completely unrelated. Obviously, this created huge problems at once as for evangelization. But some say, more or less triumphant tones, that "to be successful only were the Jesuits'. Always be honest we must reply that if successful the Jesuits, It means the religious syncretism, or Confucian philosophy mixed with the Christian philosophy and vice versa, then, then we are talking about the biggest failure in which it can fall any missionary work of evangelization, always with due respect of the blessed memory of Matteo Ricci.

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CHINESE COMMUNISM NOT ANALYZE WITH THE WESTERN CRITERIA

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Rome, 2009 – fraierai Ricordi …

Communist China can not be understood if we apply to Chinese Communism Western categories. A fundamental element must therefore be clarified: Communism China has something to himself, Communism Chinesized being a part of a culture that is born of greek-Roman-Christian roots but from Confucian roots. That Soviet and the Chinese have a common basis only red communist flags. An example exhaustive: the Catholic Church was severely persecuted in the Soviet Union, always based on the principle that it was owned by a foreign power. Less he was persecuted the Orthodox Church of Russia, albeit also subjected to persecution and restrictions. That said just remember - always to trace the difference which exists between these two different communism -, that shortly after the fall of the Soviet regime was found that, almost all Communist Party members, from those of higher rank, they were baptized, they had their children baptized and had celebrated the religious wedding in secret. And for the baptism of their children, senior Soviet leaders they had not even settled for a Pope, they had been baptized by some Metropolitan, if not directly, at the very highest levels, personally by His Beatitude the Patriarch of Moscow.

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Said this, I think there is more to with regard to the substantial difference that exists between a Communist regime born of the Great October Revolution in Russia Cristiana, and the Communist regime born of the Great Cultural Revolution in the ancient and noble Confucian China.

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In China Communism, although today completely transformed, It stands firm as a system of government; and paradoxical as it may seem, especially if he said by me, we should also auspicarci that this government can stand the system as long as possible, transforming itself in a very slow and gradual. Simple the reason for this hope: in China there are hundreds of different ethnic groups who harbor ancestral forms of hatred towards each other. The Communist regime is a deterrent and especially brake on the struggles of fierce blast and internal wars. A comparison level we could use the former Yugoslavia, in which were present different ethnicities animated by fierce hatred toward each other, but kept at bay by Josif Broz regime, said Marshal Tito. We then saw what happened in the brutal heart of Europe, at sunset of this regime; the tuna fishing in those years were consumed, They were so violent that the international press reported and described the facts, but he avoided to publish photographs depicting deaths in the most violent. Perhaps someone can imagine, or worse to hope, if anything in the name of Western principles of democracy - as if the fetish of decadent Western democracy were always applicable everywhere and to all cultures -, a Yugoslavia case multiplied to the power of a thousand?

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FROM A “GHOST AGREEMENT” TO THE PROBLEM OF THE MARTYRS AND PERSECUTED

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a painting sent to Rome from Beijing by a Chinese priest Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo the day of his priestly ordination

Unlike velinari from the Truth pontifical and sapients raging from the printed paper to the telematic network, I have no answers to give, but only to ask questions. We start from the first: at a time when the Communist government of China has tightened restrictions against Catholics, up to prevent access to the churches to underage [cf. service WHO], and in a time when the Catholic Church, a planetary level, pour in a state of decay and profound crisis of credibility, as we have been able to reach an agreement? Also because until now, This "ghost Agreement", apart from comments and subsequent warranty speeches, But they do not know the contents, they just follow the vague news papers. How then to blame Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun who complains: "The press, long awaited, the Holy See is a creative masterpiece in so many words to say anything "? [cf. service, WHO]. We do not know in fact what do you think the Chinese government of this agreement, nor do we know what do you think the so-called Patriotic Church, let alone what do you think the underground Church has always been loyal to Rome at the price of blood.

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All we know at the moment It is that there was an agreement with the Government of China for which you do not know the contents. In practice, as if in 1929, to end Roman question, They had been signed the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the then Kingdom of Italy, no but no one knew the contents of those pacts, the manner of their application and then all the commitments and the possible consequences for the two parties that had signed them. But most of all: how many were the bishops of the Patriotic Church legitimized after this agreement? How many have been excluded from the legitimacy instead, for example, for serious reasons, from those bishops who have lovers and children? Or maybe, not to irritate the Communist Regime, They will also be entitled them, Myer before other? And those who were excluded from the case legitimation, it will be because, but especially for those who desire to? How it will work, after this "ghost Agreement" the mechanism of appointment of bishops? Does anyone really think that the Government of China, after this "ghost Agreement", will grant freedom to bishops for the exercise of their sacred ministry and equal freedom to the faithful? For case, after this "historic agreement" of "epochal", as we have defined certain velinari from the Pradva Pontifical, It was accidentally revoked by the Government denial of access in the churches to underage, complete with a prohibition and conduct any pastoral work with young people? But most of all: It never happened, in the two thousand year history of the Church, somebody to make arrangements with the persecutors and the persecuted were in progress? It is by chance someone that Pope Marcellinus [296-304], when the Emperor Diocletian unleashed the last great persecution of Christians, He ran to agree with him? Things did not go in this direction, according to the chronicles that narrate the martyrdom Marcellino, occurred on 25 October of the year 304, by beheading, executed on the orders of Emperor Diocletian. His successor, The Pope Marcellus I, He had to address the issue of so-called child, those who during the persecution disowned the faith in Christ and asked to be readmitted to the Church. Marcello's claims for their admission of repentance path, But not everyone accepted, to the point that it was he, in the end, to be condemned to exile, as we learn from the inscription written by Pope Damasus I in his tomb:

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"True Shepherd, because he appeared to the child the requirement that they had to expiate their denial with tears of penitence, It was considered by those miserable as a terrible enemy. Hence the fury, hatred, The discord, sedition and death. Because of the murder of one that even during peace denied Christ, He was deported Marcello, victim of the cruelty of a tyrant ".

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I am not a velinaro let alone a spin doctors, so I have no answers to give, because in lavish answers and explanations of what you do not know, may provide only velinari from the Truth pontifical; but responses based on the fact nothing. God forbid that someone, just to ask a tin medal on the chest in the decadent Rome, has played clumsily with the persecuted faithful and with the bishops who have spent a large part of their lives in prison or forced labor; because they are the martyrs to whom you can say four words of circumstance, while they, for a lifetime, they paid their loyalty to Rome and the Papacy.

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However if we see now on the basis of an agreement made ghost that we do not know the contents, We will try to get out of this mess by saying: what matters is only the unity. But without explaining what this unit very subjective and very little corresponding to the principles of unity contained in the Holy Gospel resulted in price to pay, It considered that the goods purchased is not clear, and it is unknown the price paid for it, but above all to be paid in the near future. God forbid that the price paid for a tin medal has been paid on the skin of the martyrs and the persecuted Catholics in China, to which inter alia, if you do not take seriously irritate the susceptibility of the Communist government and an atheist, you can not even turn to them as "martyrs" and "persecuted", precisely because it would be grossly offensive to the persecutors with whom you made an agreement and persecution are increasingly being.

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the modern era, the Holy See has signed more agreements of understanding and mutual recognition with countries of culture not only, not catholic, but their non-Christian culture. Just go and see how many countries with the Holy See has diplomatic relations. From year 2007 the Holy See has diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates. The Holy See has diplomatic relations with Turkey, Country where he was apostolic nuncio to the future John XXIII; with Iran, l’Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, the Libya, Algeria. The Holy See has diplomatic relations even with Turkmenistan, where they reside just five hundred Catholic. Well, we who are not subtle minds and high diplomacy specialists as it they are the best elements of the Secretary of State of His Holiness, we wonder: place that the Holy See has diplomatic relations even with countries which have imposed as the state law Sharija and where proselytizing by other religions is prohibited and prosecuted by law, how can you talk, but above all to establish agreements of any kind if they are, the first step, is not that of mutual recognition? Because all countries cited earlier, recognize the Holy See as head of the world's Catholic Community, enough to have established diplomatic relations with it.

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In short: I can talk, I did something which has often, with people not only non-Catholic, but with non-Christians, nor related in any way to any Christian cultural roots, as long as, these my interlocutors, first of all recognize the right to my life.

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That being said I wonder and then ask therefore: how can you talk and establish agreements with those upstream does not recognize the right of your existence, or that the limit, acknowledging your existence, It considered a danger to keep the more and how much better under control? Because it is with this kind of people that the Holy See, theme, It has established a "ghost Agreement". But I am sure that velinari from the true Pontificia They will not hesitate to even clarify this no small dilemma, let's give him time only to receive tissue the hallowed halls, and we will have some enlightening pearls of wisdom, it cost well go beyond the boundaries of reality, but especially over the blood shed by the martyrs and persecuted, place in China, the persecution of Catholics faithful to Rome, They are far from finished. And do not even let us ask ourselves the dilemma, entirely rhetorical, rather than, Rome, these persecuted martyrs has proved authentic and faithful mother ...

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In the final footnote I will explain why I cherish deep respect for the Communist government of China, while instead I have no respect for certain Madame populating and devastate the Holy See, those, to be understood, that the velinari from the true Pontificia do not see, as they are insensitive to the persecution of the Church and clergy who really suffer. Well, the Communists of China, not only have an ancient and noble dignity, but they also ennoble the persecuted and the martyrs. So for me it would be a real honor, being persecuted as a priest for the persecutors so highly honorable and noble, end up in their nation's prisons or worse ancòra; and between the two sides, even in ferocity, there would be a mutual respect between persecutor and persecuted. What respect I should rather feed, for those two or three monsignorini fennel protected by some Cardinal sodomite, that feeling before me discovered, They haunt you for life with a real ferocity menstrual hysteria? I hope that some velinaro from the true Pontificia refer all friends of the Secretariat of State - even though I always read carefully - and especially the August of the Tenant Martha House Sancthae, whose sensitivity and high sense of justice, everything seems to run out with the ice creams sent as a gift to the poor and migrants of Rome, including alleged refugees, however, fled on the spot just come to the reception center of the Italian Episcopal Conference in Rocca di Papa [cf. chronicle, WHO, WHO, WHO]. The whole, obviously, complete with ample photographic and journalistic, so that makes a noise charity and news, as well as political provocation against the current Government of the Italian Republic [cf. chronicle, WHO].

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Which holy envy try for the Chinese persecuted because faithful to the Church of Rome, while i, leaving home to go to do shopping, risk of finding myself with a twelve or thirteen brat that seeing a black cassock you go screaming behind two blasphemies against the Virgin Mary! In Beijing provinces do not scream behind you, if anything will stop at two in the morning while sneaking celebrated Mass for a group of faithful. And this is much more dignified, and for those who stop for both arrested. Even so, China is a great power, while Europe, who is now the mother of all is permissible and granted beyond good and evil, it is just a poor continent to total political defeat, social, cultural, moral and religious [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO etc ..].

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God bless Great China and its noble People !

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the Island of Patmos, 29 September 2018

Feast of Saints Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael

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