Antonio Socci
Libero
January 6, 2019
What is going on in the Catholic Church? The situation
is not only catastrophic - it’s absurd.
We hear of churches emptying dramatically in the West and Christians
being cruelly persecuted in the East. We hear of the disappearance of
traditional Catholic movements, of internal clashes in the Curia, of continuous
scandals, of immense confusion among the faithful as a result of Pope Francis’
revolutionary feats ( recently he even “forgot” about the dogma of the
Immaculate Conception).
Yet the churchmen are not addressing any of this.
They are not worried at all. The shepherds are not interested in the sheep
going astray and being scattered.
The hierarchical class is completely taken up by
politics. It’s a real fever. That in itself is already surreal, but not sufficiently. The fact is, they don’t want
to bring the “social doctrine” of the Church into politics nor the “non-negotiable
principals”, as one might like to
believe they would. Following the “Bergoglian
teaching” they have only one theological-political theme to insist upon and in
fundamentalist tones: migrants.
As a result, the migrants have now become their ideological
banner, yet also a sort of messianic subject to depose the Christian message,
even in Nativity Scenes: as if the angels had proclaimed the arrival of “Jesus,
the migrant” to the shepherds, instead of the Birth of the Son of God.
According to the perceptions of ordinary people, the
ecclesiastics are only interested now in migrants - they talk only about them. And in effect, the ecclesiastical hierarchy
are plunging into politics with the precise intent of going to war with Salvini: he
is the Satan to whom they shout “Get behind me!”, as “Famiglia Cristiana” had plastered infamously over their front cover.
It is precisely Salvini - the one who even publically
declared his desire to defend our Christian roots - that is the ‘Evil’ the clerical world is
mobilizing and raging against.
Yesterday, Salvini in Abruzzo, replied: “I’m a sinner,
but no fool. This year instead of 120 thousand, only 20 thousand arrived: 100
thousand fewer[than last year] saving a billion Euros and [resulting in]far
fewer deaths and crimes.”
This means that the Deputy Prime Minister, is not
surrendering and doesn’t want Italy going back to being the Refugee Camp of
Europe and Africa. The majority of Italians and Catholics think the same as he
does.
And it is precisely for this reason now that the “call”
to political action against Salvini continues from the Bergoglian
establishment.
Responding punctually
are the clerical newspapers, the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) and the Catholic associations (those that are
still around).
Yesterday, even the former President of the CEI (today
the President of European Bishops), Cardinal Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa, who, until lately, had been considered one of the
few still in line with the magisterium of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, took
sides and made the headlines which “La Stampa” opened its front page with: “Conscientious
objection”. The Church’s move against the security decree.” The reference was
precisely to the Archbishop of Genoa: “The charge is sounded by Cardinal
Bagnasco” who – according to the Turin newspaper – “ is marshalling the Church
on the [matter of the] security decree:
yes to conscientious objection.”
Referring to the case of “the migrants of the Sea
Watch”, also Monsignor Guerino Di Tora , President of the Commission for
Immigrations of the CEI, intervened, thundering: “Those who balk do not have a
clear conscience”. The Archbishop of Palermo, Monsignor Corrado Lorefice, is
railing as well, with an appeal “not to remain in silence in the face of
inhuman decrees which aggravate the sufferings of those who are oppressed by
poverty and war”.
It doesn’t
appear that the same mobilizations were seen, nor such bitter denunciations by
the Bergoglian church over the last six years [were heard] when - thanks to the
Euro, the politics of the European Union and the Italian governments aligned with
it - here in Italy, poverty and unemployment exploded - with thousands and
thousands of companies closing.
We don’t
remember papal mobilizations and searing words in favor of the
earthquake victims and their freezing winters. These are only two examples (we
could add the law on civil unions and other feats by prior governments that should
have made the Church intervene).
In their (many) ecclesiastical, political rants, you
never find criticism of the European Union.
On the contrary: explicitly the E.U. (not to be confused with Europe
which is another thing entirely) seems to have become the anchor of political salvation
for this clerical hierarchy. Explicitly this
European Union, which has become the most secular and most anti-Christian,
political reality in the West. The clergy speak of it with the same enthusiastic
arguments as Emma Bonino.
What, however, that
upsets the ecclesiastical class is the fact that the Catholic people are
not following them. Actually, they seem to be making the opposite choice, preferring
mostly the Lega and other ‘sovereignist’ groups.
The most devout Catholics and even the not so
devout, like better referring to John
Paul II and Benedict XVI i.e. to traditional Catholic teaching.
So the disappointment in the clerical elite is palpable.
They are generals without an army. This is understood in the words of Father
Antonio Spadaro, Pope Bergoglio’s strategist: "[…] We make reasonable and
enlightened discourses, but the people are elsewhere”.
The people are elsewhere alright. Catholics are dissenting
from the Bergoglian hierarchy, and applauding Salvini. Even if Pope Bergoglio
whips them by declaring that it’s better to be atheists than Catholics who refuse this migrant invasion
(to boot, Muslim, hence, not at all easily integrated).
The Catholic faithful, (along with all the others)
understand, through firsthand experience, that this discombobulating of peoples
which enthuses the elite (also the U.N.) is devastating for both the host
countries and the countries of origin. The African bishops think the same
thing.
Well then, Father Spadaro would like to bring the
people, ‘who are elsewhere’, back ‘into line’. So a few days ago he took the
floor to draw up a sort of Political Manifesto, publishing it in the Jesuit magazine
[ La Civiltà Cattolica].
If the Decalogue given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai
is called “the ten words”, Father Spadaro wanted to do better: for him “Seven
words for 2019” to illuminate the peoples (so he hopes) are sufficient.
Unfortunately, however, they are words that have been
heard time and time again, for years, in
interventions by exponents of the PD (the Socialist "Democratic Party") and in articles
by “La Repubblica”: fear, immigration, Europe, populism, democracy, etc…
The feeling is that all this railing then will not
bring about the formation of a Catholic list in the [upcoming]European
elections; counting on it would be exceedingly counter-productive.
Most think that everything will be resolved by
ecclesiastical support of the PD, even better if it is led by Zingaretti,*
since, - as they say in the Vatican – the ecclesiastics in the Bergoglian era,
get along better with the post-Communists than with Renzi**.
Translation: Contributor
Francesca Romana
