Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
May 15, 2019
On May 12th, Cardinal Konrad Krajevski, Pope Francis’s Almoner,
reactivated the electricity in an illegally occupied building on Via Santa
Croce in Gerusalemme, in the centre of Rome. In order to do this, he had to break the seals
put there by the Public Electricity Corporation (ACEA) which had disconnected
the electricity because of the
occupants’ unpaid bills (more than 300.00 Euros) over the last five years, .
The responsibility of this
non-payment, along with the illegal occupation of the building, belongs to the Action-Diritti in movimento association, a social centre, headed by an
extreme-leftwing militant, Andrea Alzetta, known as “Tarzan”, repeatedly denounced for trespassing, building
devastation and resisting a public official. Pope Bergoglio’s representative, committed an
act graver than we might imagine. In
Italy, Article 349 of the Penal Code, punishes whoever violates seals affixed by
the authorities with a 6-month to 3-year
prison sentence. Furthermore, the connection being illegal, the action
of the Papal Almoner consists in the crime of stealing electric energy.
Cardinal Krajevski, then, has transgressed the law and boasts of it publically,
declaring, in a challenging tone, that he is ready to take responsibility for
it. But apart from the penal aspect, we find ourselves faced with the
canonization of the idea whereby it is licit to violate the rule of law in
one’s own interests or in that of social groups. In short, it is the idea of “proletariat
expropriation”, practiced by the Tupamaros, the Red Brigade and the No-Global.
The certainty of the law and respect of it are the only barriers that
protect civil society from anarchy and violence. But what Cardinal Krajevski (hailed by La Repubblica as a new Robin Hood)
the former-Mayor of Riace, Mimmo Lucano (welcomed like a star at the La
Sapienza University), or the leader of the “disobedients” Luca Casarini (recently
under investigation for favoring illegal immigration) have in common, is
disdain for State laws, in the name of a political ethic which has little or nothing
to with the Christian ethic.
(Dear Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the new Robin Hood, instigating theft is a grave crime, not only for Italian law, but also in the Commandments)
In the case of a contrast between positive law and the natural law, it
is certainly the latter that takes precedence. But our society denies the
existence of an absolute, objective morality to appeal to, in order to refute
the civil laws that contrast it. Today
judicial positivism prevails, hence the only ‘right and proper’ is what the law
establishes as such. The cardinal furthermore, not only did not act in the name
of the natural law, but violated it, since the Decalogue forbids stealing and
theft transgresses this commandment.
On Saturday May 18th the ninth edition of the March for Life will take place
in Rome to renew the protest against law 194 of May 22nd 1978, which has
claimed six million victims in forty years.
This law negates a commandment of the Divine Law, which forbids killing
the innocent. The response of the abortionists is that 194 is a law of the
State, and as such, should be fully respected. If to save a baby from abortion
even the slightest illegality is committed, there would be no justification
whatsoever for the offender. For
militant pro-lifers it is even forbidden to try to desist women from abortion, as is happening in
Canada, where Mary Wagner has totaled five years of imprisonment simply because
she tried to bring red roses, information and prayers into the abortion
clinics.
To justify the illegal act of the Pope’s Almoner, Art.
54 of the Penal Code was invoked whereby “those who have committed an act
having been constricted out of necessity to save themselves or others from
actual danger of grave harm to the themselves or others are not punishable.” No cardinal or bishop however, calls for
disobedience against Law 194, which enforces State murder. Yet taking the life
of innocent human beings is very much graver than disconnecting the electricity
for a week to the residents of an illegally occupied building.
Translation: Contributor Francesca Romana
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