A PRECISE AND DECIDED NOTE FROM THE BISHOP OF VENTIMIGLIA-SAN REMO ON THE SONG FESTIVAL REDUCED TO A PORCINO EVENT

«The painful performance of the first singer once again he mocked and profaned the sacred signs of the Catholic faith by evoking the gesture of Baptism in a dull and desecrating context ".

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S. AND. Mons. Antonio Suetta, Bishop of Ventimiglia-San Remo

S. AND. Mons. Antonio Suetta intervenes today on the Song Festival now reduced to a porcine event. We limit ourselves to introducing the text of the Bishop of Ventimiglia – San Remo with a question: if a comedian had done a satire on the world LGBT, what would happen from the next day to follow? Because these pseudo-artists don't make provocations, for example on the founder of Islam Mohammed represented in ambiguous poses with a camel? It would be hilarious, how hilarious the shots would be Kalashnikov that the following evening would hit the Ariston Theater with perfect aim … .

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A sad opening of the Festival of the Italian Song 2022 unfortunately confirmed the ugly turn, that, for some time now, took this singing event and, in general, the world of entertainment, public service included.

The painful performance of the first singer once again he mocked and profaned the sacred signs of the Catholic faith by evoking the gesture of Baptism in a dull and desecrating context.

The piece presented, already in the title - Domenica - and in the context of a gospel choir, alluded to the day of the Lord, celebrated by Christians as a day of faith and resurrection, placing it in an environment of words, of attitude and gestures, not only offensive to religion, but above all for the dignity of man.

Not surprising moreover, that the dramatic artistic poverty constantly resorts to makeshift means to make people talk about the character and the event as a whole.

Undecided whether to intervene or not, at first I thought it was convenient not to give further evidence to such an indecent havoc, but then I felt that it is more necessary to give a voice to many believers, humble and good, offenses in the most cherished values ​​to protest against continuous and ignoble attacks on the faith; I felt it was my duty to denounce once again how the public service cannot and should not allow such situations, still hoping that, at the institutional level, someone intervene; I felt it was clear that one cannot declare oneself a believing Catholic and then endorse and organize similar exhibitions; Finally, I felt that it is important and urgent to stem the serious educational drift that threatens especially the youngest with the ostentation of inadequate models.

I am aware that my dispute it will find little echo in the media world dominated by single thinking, but I am even more certain that it will reach clean and courageous hearts, capable of reacting in everyday life to such rampant and poisonous aggressions. Above all, I am convinced that I have to fulfill my duty as a pastor so that the Christian people, also entrusted to my care, do not suffer scandal from a silence interpreted as indifference or, even worse, acquiescence.

True and, as the saying goes, that rdonkey garlic does not rise to heaven, but I think it opportune to urge consciences to seriously reflect and believers to the duty of reparation in prayer, in the good witness of life and in the courageous denunciation.

Sanremo, 2 February 2022

✠ Antonio Suetta

Bishop of Ventimiglia - San Remo

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