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BEGGING THE POPE: "HOLINESS, DO NOT GO TO RENDER HOMAGE TO THE BAD TEACHER LORENZO MILANI "

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Pass bishops mediocre and those pimps, which they represent a serious and depressing phenomenon, because a private visit to Barbiana promoted by the Archbishop of Florence Giuseppe Betori and Michele Gesualdi, student of Milani and President of the Foundation headed to the Prior of Barbiana, It could turn into a real “beatification” of this bad teacher, with political consequences, social and pastoral worse.

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Among our many readers, in increasingly frequented this island marching for some time on an average of a million visits per month, There is a Florentine, Pier Luigi Tossani. Tossani is a Catholic who an interest, albeit not as professional or specialist, of religion, culture, politics and society, He has conducted research on the figure of the prior of Barbiana, his personality and the fruits of his pastoral activities. Our reader sent us the fruits of his labor, joined to supplication he sent last Wednesday 14 June 2017 by e-mail to the Holy Father Francis, by the Vatican Secretariat of State, in which he asks the Pope to do not go on a visit to Barbiana, Tuesday 20 next June, to pray at the tomb of don Lorenzo Milani. The Pope evidently would thereby its unequivocal endorsement and its approval to a figure of a priest and "dramatically negative educator", as revealed by the same words of the Prior Barbiana, regularly cited by the Tossani supplication. The supplication it is directed, as well as to the Roman Pontiff, also three cardinals who are, for various reasons, involved in the affair milaniana.

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I consulted Cavalcoli with Father John and the young philosopher and theologian Jorge Facio Lince, reaching all three to the same conclusion: none of us understands the figure of don Lorenzo Milani. Ours is a largely superficial knowledge.

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Research Pier Luigi Tossani We impressed us, because it took place first of all very seriously. It is in fact a study is not intended to denigrate a controversial figure, but rather to shed light on it; especially to separate the true from the unlikely, dall'alone reality of legend created around the priest and educator. Tossani, analyzing the figure milaniana, out with Christian and charitable care of the error to report to the people, dall'errante to correct, to recall the state of grace and then to forgive.

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After premise and admitted my ignorance, esprimo one Pensiero in hesitantly, which soon will summarize: I started middle schools between 1974 and the 1975. I always remember that one of the first readings of the Italian teacher suggested there was just one of Letters by don Lorenzo Milani. It was just a teacher out before the season of forbidden to forbid and of imagination in power, who expressed his visceral anti-clericalism with the use of false historical coarse, transmitting black legends about the Catholic Church instead of objective historical data. But was he loved beyond measure the figure of don Lorenzo Milani. Later I learned years later that this teacher had been, and it was at the time of his teaching, a militant in Lotta Continua file.

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The figure of don Lorenzo Milani It was revived in the third of middle school class, where it was even being considered. Then again after the grammar schools.

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For the third time I repeat - at the cost of being long-winded -, I have never in-depth knowledge of this figure who never aroused my special interest, But one thing I remember well: teachers who proposed don Lorenzo Milani as banner, were all militants in the then Italian Communist Party, except in the most extreme fringes of the radical left; and don Lorenzo Milani as proposed in a more or less subtle as a flag against "ecclesiastical power" and against the system at the time said "catholic-fascist".

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Taking as an example myself - but only because in this speech I could not help it -, I ask our readers: How many times, of these columns, as before elsewhere, including a book which in its time had a certain echo and diffusion, I have written and talked about naked and in no uncertain terms of the moral decay, doctrinal and spiritual clergy? How much it is, and in such harsh tones, I pointed out the flaws of the visible Church? And with that I ask: How come, the enemies of the Church of yesterday and today, They were never used as their flag? So let me give that answer that many already know: why certain critical evidence based, born from my love for the Church of Christ and by the knowledge that I am a priest forever; I will never accept to become a lone wolf in the Church surrounded by a retinue of fawning or would-be intellectuals of the Left, in praise of myself as a 'breaking priest ", as a "priest against the trend", to a "priest outside the box '. Today instead should be all the rage "street priest", and "suburban priests', but the old story is always the same: He comes from a part don Luigi Ciotti for the show one of its Messe sociopolitical, and rushes at once jubilant and sculettante Niki Vendola with her in tow to applaud the 'base priest ". Because, The Vendola and his, do not come to applaud me, that as well, with the clergy and Church hierarchy, I was often a heavy severity? … Because they know very well that first of all I would urge them to repent of their sins, from that of sodomy. And with this it is obvious because these people need various don Luigi Ciotti mentioning that with the tear to the eye “great prophet” Milani noted as' basic priest " …

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I hippies the Left Radical-chic, need of Andrea Gallo, of Paolo Farinella and Vitaliano Della Sala, but not an Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, who would never make their game, indeed unmask their games, in case anyone had the stupidity - but did not - to invite me to debate with some people in a live television. Indeed, Masons, need the unctuous words of Gianfranco Ravasi [cf. WHO], they need a Alberto Melloni and a Marinella Perroni that go to a symposium organized by the Grand Orient of Italy in false and pretentious honor of the Holy Father Francis [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO pag. 6], they do not need an Ariel S. Levi Gualdo would say in their faces that Freemasonry is esoteric pay as well as denial of those principles of freedom, equality and fraternity of which they fill the mouth for the sole purpose of infinocchiare fools, including the wealthy on the one hand, and eager to brilliant careers, clinical and academic, followed by an army of Freemasons who aspire to gain more commercial conveniences, business and political. And with that I said in short that I - that I speak well of immorality spread among the clergy and the Church drifts visible -, are not a donciottesco "Priest of rupture" which praise, because I am a priest ready to “break the head” at anyone who tried to split the communion of the Church, or to make the Church of Christ more by what it is.

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Alberto Melloni has already done far too much damage, by going directly or through an intermediary to Martha's House sactæ with lists of new bishops to be appointed, and its output has entered another subject no less harmful with the same list: Andrea Riccardi. The results of the bishops melloniani But we are already seeing a short distance from their appointments, as Archbishop of Palermo who recently, in this world without memory did news that pass the next day, he had chosen as his auxiliary bishop a subject discussed so that various parts of Italy, after the official announcement of his appointment and the papal decree signed by Pope, They came to the Holy See reports accompanied by awe for that choice. And so it was first requested a diplomatic 'further investigation' [cf. WHO], then, a month and a half later, the newly elected Auxiliary wrote - in a completely spontaneous, is intende! —, that it renounces to the appointment as bishop. While in, his worthy Capuchin Province, he tore his clothes pained, with the friars its members in the role of vestal virgins grieve as they suffered from poor brother. But in doing this they were wrong, because if their high brother to the episcopal dignity was spotless, He should never have to give up the nomination. Doing it ran the risk of giving to understand that perhaps he was not so immaculate, always with due respect of the vestal virgins of the Capuchin Province of Sicily [cf. WHO], probably unaware that the Holy See the most serious reports sull'eletto auxiliary bishop of Palermo, They came just as many Friars Minor Capuchin, by religious of other religious families and from various religious who complained about his questionable psychological methods. And before that we have to give a reason to the old nineteenth-century anti-clerical, when the columns of the newspapers spoke anticlerical and ironizzavano the proverbial ingenuity of the Franciscan Friars …

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Among these lines, we painted one of the most illustrious sons of the Episcopal Melloni and his School of Bologna, that is the school of the speakers of the Left political salons and conference rooms with super luxury accommodation in five-star hotels at which speak of "poor Church for the poor" and "epoch-making revolution to Francis'. We painted a Melloni pauperistic ideological, who dares to speak of "injustice remedied" - that went to don Lorenzo Milani -, by the great compassionate heart of the Holy Father Francis. Now, one wonders: Melloni has no idea of ​​the suffering and injustice are ever to many priests, Dissenting from that firm by the thought of Giuseppe Dossetti and Giuseppe Alberigo, the founders of the School of Bologna, which it was the Venerable Father Divo Barsotti, who spent all the first years of his priestly ministry in the house of his parents, without any pastoral task entrusted to him by the Bishop of the Diocese, that of San Miniato? At least, a don Lorenzo Milani, after the damage he had made in a Florentine parish, They gave the parish church of Barbiana, but at this holy man of God Don Divo Barsotti, They did not give even that! Because, Melloni, not invoke that restored justice for the wrongs suffered by this authentic man of God? Simple answer: for the Father Divo Barsotti was not one that was left by then manipulate or big and powerful Italian Communist Party, nor those pacifists seventies that with iron bars in hand shouting "make love not war", "Put the flowers in your guns" and so to follow. All this shows just how much the Melloni is a figure of dubious honesty, he measure seeming injustice with different meter, according to the tendency of political victims, real or alleged that they. And that subject as Melloni, even exert influences on Pope, It is very serious thing that can not but disturb us …

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… but because the pieces are worse than tears, After this unfortunate statement by the Primate of Sicily, favorite son of the Bologna School, that the choice of an auxiliary bishop has embarrassed the Holy See, in addition to the Sicilian bishops who approved the proposal that candidate, here it is that the Sicilian bishops tried in recent days to rebuild their virginity before the reigning Pontiff with a gattopardesco attempt to lure: the granting of Communion to remarried divorcees after careful discernment [cf. WHO, WHO]. Which is to say: “Holiness, do not think bad, because we, mythical children of the Leopard, for this reason we are even more avant-garde of the same German episcopate!”…

… therefore just peek, as we did, under the tablecloth in appearance linda dell'altarino, to see the fat crust that is underneath and understand that all this, if it were not tragic, it would be really funny. How tragic that, while the Melloni comes and goes, directly or indirectly from Domus Sanctae Martha, It has time, in the circumstance of “delivery” to all Italian schools reading of don Lorenzo Milani by Minister Public Education Valeria Fedeli, throw mud, in a venomous speech, the memory of the great Archbishop of Florence Ermenegildo Florit, already diocesan ordinary Prior of Barbiana. And here I correct amicably Tossani: the speech Melloni [the text of which is reproduced in full WHO it gives The Republic], It will not be pronounced next Tuesday in Barbiana, in the presence of the Supreme Pontiff, but it has already been held in the occasion of the solemn "delivery" of don Lorenzo Milani by the Minister True to Italian school. That's what l 'event to which it refers The Republic, not the Holy Father's visit to Barbiana. The substance of the speech, moreover, does not change one iota.

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Of course, pensavamo - wrong! —, that even the flattery gattopardesca there was a limit, but in fact we were wrong, because in reality there is always those who believe - just like the Sicilian bishops have just taken as a paradigm -, that the world is made up of people completely unable to understand, discern and analyze the real reasons that drive certain events, some cloths placed on altars, and finally some colossal licking ... what you know [those wishing to deepen this read my previous article, WHO].

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Pass bishops mediocre and those pimps, which they represent a serious and depressing phenomenon, because I fear that the social consequences, policies and especially pastoral for a private visit of the Roman Pontiff in Barbiana promoted by Cardinal Giuseppe Betori and Michele Gesualdi, as mentioned pupil of prior and President of the don Milani Foundation, resulting in a real “beatification” this bad teacher, They could be much worse.

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We therefore votes so that the supplication our Florentine friend is accepted, that the Pope Francis I and the Archbishop of Florence Giuseppe Betori - the supplication It is in fact also been paid to him! – do not go next Tuesday in Barbiana and that they want to censor strictly Melloni - Tossani as required -, for defamatory accusations launched by him to Cardinal Ermenegildo Florit, described as un'assetato power and ruthless vessatore the "prophet" don Milani [see article by Alberto Melloni, WHO], whereas today, the Archbishop of Florence, of blessed memory, He is remembered as a true man of God, many of the faithful of the Church in Florence.

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I invite you and leave you to read supplication to Pope signed by Pier Luigi Tossani, inviting you to also read the exhaustive dossier, also sent to the Pope and to the three Cardinali, in which he explores in detail the reasons for his request, without any prevention regarding Don Lorenzo Milani, for which we ask that God may have had mercy on his soul, as he said Blessed Paul VI learning of his death: "We hope well!…». But here lies the heart of the problem: Paul VI and Giovanni Paolo II have them beatified and canonized, But we have not heard …

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By doing so our clarifying a happy expression of Marcello Veneziani, we believe we can say with him that don Lorenzo Milani "is not a bad teacher, but a bad master " [cf. WHO].

 

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from The Island of Patmos, 17 June 2017

Feast of Corpus Christi

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To those who want to explore the theme, refer to a publication of the 1977 a distinguished Dominican theologian:

TITO S. cent, ON – "ENCOUNTERS AND CLASHES WITH DON LORENZO MILANI" [ed. Civilization Brescia, 1977]

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Pier Luigi Tossani

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Most Holy Father,

Eminenz respected,

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it is known that, as part of celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of don Lorenzo Milani, It is expected on Tuesday 20 Next June Pope Francis coming to Barbiana, privately, Prior to pray at the tomb.

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In the face of such an event, the undersigned There transmits an articulated dossier from which are multiple characteristics of thought, teaching and the prior of Barbiana works, which suggest that visit out of season. In particular, It can be inferred from the words of the prior, even in his most famous, that:

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1. Don Milani, far from being the "obedient rebel" to the Church, as it is currently defined, He lived instead in a state of permanent mutiny towards it [cf. capp. 1, 3, 6, 10 the attached file], to the point, for instance, to describe his superior, Archbishop Ermenegildo Florit, in a letter to his pupil Francesco Gesualdi, come "A man possessed deficient '.

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2. The prior proves supporter of revolutionary violence of Jacobean mold [cf. capp. 3 e 4 the attached file]. For example, he writes in the famous Letter to John : "But tomorrow, when farmers wield a pitchfork and submerge in the blood along with that bad even large asset values ​​accumulated by the university families in their minds and in their specializations, remember that day not to do injustice in the historical evaluation of these events. Remember not to mourn the loss of the Church and science, of thought or art for the destruction of so many heads of thinkers and scientists and poets and priests ".

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3. The prior is also a supporter of the class struggle of the Marxist-Leninist [still chaps. 3 e 4 the attached file]. If ban, eg, when he writes in Letter to the Tuscan military chaplains : «…And if you have the right, without being attracted by the Curia, to teach that Italians and foreigners can lawfully indeed heroically squartarsi each other, then I claim the right to say that the poor too can and must fight the rich ".

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4. Don Milani explicitly supports the shedding of blood of the enemies of the people, as stated in Chapter. 4 the attached file, when in the Letter to Ettore Bernabei he writes: "... For the good of the poor. Why do street without blood flow. And even if the blood would flow again, because at least it does not flow in vain for them as hitherto all times ".

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Lastly, don Milani also manifests homosexual impulses and pedophile [see the cap. 5 the attached file], when in a letter to Giorgio Pecorini he writes:

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"How could I explain that I love my parishioners more that the Church and the Pope? And that if I run a risk for my soul it is certainly not what he had little loved, but rather to love too (ie even take them to bed!)». and that "... And who will ever love the guys to the bone without ending up with even stick it in the ass if not a master with them also love God and Hell theme and desires Paradise?».

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The undersigned argues in detail in the attached dossier:

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– The set of disturbed aspects of the prior psyche has obviously influenced his educational project [see the cap. 2 the attached file], attributing to it an ideological character and class, which has severely affected the level in the quality and content. This has turned into a loss, paradoxically against the poor and those last he said he had at heart and want to help, ie in the first instance his students. Secondly to all those, teachers and students, which were inspired by his example educational. It is apparent from the fact dossier, even in chapter 2, that all Italian schools has been widely contaminated negatively led by milaniano, which as you know has had many admirers and promoters.

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– The unfortunate legacy milaniana, as well as having had a negative impact in the social and religious fabric, in particular in that Florentine [see chapter 9 the attached file], it was also translated into negative experiences that it is explicitly mentioned, as that of Forteto [Ed. WHO, WHO]and that of the chaplain Florence Community of Piagge, don Alessandro Santoro [see the cap. 8 the attached file] [Ed. WHO, WHO]

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The undersigned takes this occasion to report to His Holiness and to Their Eminences the possible alternative to the class and revolutionary thought milaniano, as well as the thought of the Servant of Dio Giorgio La Pira (question just mentioned in the dossier attached to this, in the chapters 7 e 9), unfortunately politically it characterized by statalism, welfarism and the accession practice to perverse mechanisms of consumer society. this alternative, illustrated in the cap. 7 the attached file, It consists in the idea of Participatory company according to the Social Doctrine, admission drawn up by Pier Luigi Lombard scholar Zampetti, already he appointed a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences from San Giovanni Paolo II.

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Lastly, he teacher. Alberto Melloni, Secretary Foundation for religious sciences John XXIII, He was in charge of a speech to be held next Tuesday 20 June to Barbiana, the presence of His Holiness Pope Francis. In this speech, already made public in the press, Melloni, Prior supporter, attacks vehemently Cardinal Ermenegildo Florit, former Archbishop of Florence and upper Don Milani, portraying him as a sadistic vessatore, power-hungry. Whereby, according Melloni, In his speech on Florit repeats the same words don Milani, well made prior to characterize it in terms of "a moron possessed" [see the cap. 11 the attached file]. The reality is rather obviously - apart from insults Melloni – his don Milani, both the Archbishop Florit that his predecessor, Venerable Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, They were right. The undersigned speaks in the attached file with this, the chapter 1.

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In the light of all the above and further elaborated in the attached file, I am obliged to myself to His Holiness and to Their Eminences the following

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– A Pope Francis, humbly he asks to want to check out His judgment on the figure of don Milani and, way if the grounded arguments in the dossier attached to this, not to go to Barbiana to pay homage to the memory of what the examination of the facts shows unmistakably like a bad teacher. If this happens, if the figure of don Milani should still be presented as an example to the people by the highest authority of the Catholic Church, it is evident that the consequences would be extremely serious, and protrarrebbero for many years.

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To His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop Giuseppe Betori of Florence, the undersigned humbly proffers the same instance: if the arguments of the dossier were convincing for him, a pro the good of the people, asks not going to Barbiana, I want to dispose of the spread of the unfortunate lesson milaniana, e, the undersigned allows in circumstance, also that La Pira. For the good of the people there would, if anything, to promote the rich social teaching inspired by the principles of subsidiarity and participation, expressed by the Servant of God don Luigi Sturzo and Pier Luigi Zampetti. Finally, the undersigned begs Bishop. Giuseppe Betori that wants to also cater to the people of Piagge, which has already suffered too much in the past, and it is still suffering.

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– At the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, His Eminence Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller. From each of the revaluation of the figure milaniana, It shows that it was prompted by a favorable opinion of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, about the rehabilitation of the book by don Milani Pastoral experiences. For that work, at the time of those events there was a notice given by the Congregation Archbishop of Florence, Elia Dalla Costa, in which it was suggested to withdraw from the market the book, and not to reprint or translate. Today it appears that for the Congregation "circumstances have changed, so that intervention has no more reason to exist". In light of what is mentioned in chapter 6 the attached file, then the undersigned humbly begs the Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, want to check, and where appropriate withdraw, His positive assessment.

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A Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, recently appointed as President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, known estimator of don Milani and La Pira. The undersigned takes this unusual opportunity to extend also humbly to Him the same petition addressed to Cardinal Betori, for the disposal of the spread of milaniana lesson and that La Pira. rather promoting in their stead, for the good of the people, the social teaching expressed by Sturzo and Zampetti.

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In the end, in all four authoritative recipients, the undersigned humbly appeal one last plea for an immediate and severe censure of prof. Alberto Melloni, who has so shamefully besmirched the memory of our was Archbishop of Florence Ermenegildo Florit.

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The undersigned, for transparency, inform the SS.VV. that the dossier attached PDF, that is sent today by e-mail and by express recommended, It is a preview of what will be published tomorrow on the website The philosophy of the TAV, he managed, and also informs that the dossier and the same plea to revolt They will be announced at media at a press conference to be held tomorrow 15 June in Florence, at 11.30, at the Gran Caffè RCMP in Republic Square.

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Florence, 14 June 2017

Pier Luigi Tossani

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