Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
June 28, 2017
There is this rumour going around in the
Vatican. One of Pope Francis’ collaborators asked him if it were true that a
commission had been set up “to re-interpret” Humanae Vitae and he responded “It
is not a commission, it’s a study group”. This is not only a linguistic ploy
to hide the truth, but a play on words which reveal how the cult of
contradiction is the essence of this pontificate. Monsignor Gilfredo Marengo,
coordinator of the “study group”, sums up this philosophy well when he says we
need to avoid the “polemical game - the pill - yes - the pill - no, just like today’s – Communion to the divorced - yes - Communion
to the divorced - no” (Vatican Insider, March 23rd 2017).
We need this premise to present a new
confidential document, it also, the product of another “study group”. It is the
“working paper” of the Congregation for the Clergy “On Concelebration in the Colleges and Seminaries of Rome”, which is
circulating in an unofficial way in the Roman colleges and seminaries. What emerges clearly from this text is that
Pope Francis wants to impose Eucharistic Concelebration in the colleges and seminaries of Rome, de facto, if not in principle, affirming
that: “the celebration in community must always be preferred to
individual celebration”.
