Actuality | Policy | Non-fiction

Elections 2018: winners and losers
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Reporting of Roman correspondence
Of Wolf Gori
Boom of the “League” and the “Movement 5 position” (M5s), limited growth of “Fratelli di Italia”, sharp decline of "Forza Italia" and historic collapse of the "Democratic Party". Cyclone “Burian”, after hitting the streets of our country, it bursts into political buildings, changing the characteristics of the Parliament which emerges shocked by the latest electoral round.
The vote of 4 March 2018 in fact it marks the end of classic bipolarism, bringing to the surface the feelings and requests of the "real country". In that sense, it represents a memorable watershed for the political history of our country as seen by Italian voters, in the wake of a now consolidated European trend, definitively turning our backs on the Europe of Brussels and the traditional "moderate" parties to embrace and reward the two main sovereignist and anti-system groups, “League” and “Movement 5 position” (M5s), led by two leaders pointed out by the local and international establishment as "unpresentable" and whose political affirmation, until recently, it was considered entirely utopian. Below we report the overall statistical data divided by Chamber and Senate.
Chamber of Deputies
The centre-right “Lega” coalition, “Forza Italia”, “Brothers of Italy” and “We with Italy”, with the 37%, got it overall 260 seats; the “Movement 5 position”, the most voted party with the 32,68% of preferences, he got 221 seats; the “Democratic Party” with the 22,85%, 112 seats; last, “Free and Equal”, slightly exceeding the barrier of 3%, he managed to win 14 seats. Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

Elections 2018: the fixed nail
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Of Marcello Veneziani
The fixed nail
Source: Marcello Veneziani
Now that the election campaign has ended, instead of having to do the servant's calculations on the vote, we prefer to draw a different balance and ask ourselves if there was a battle over values, a conflict over ideal themes, historians and politicians.
There was no clash between progressives and conservatives, between right and left, between political cultures, between liberal ideas and social or even socialist ideas. Every reference to the Catholic vote has disappeared.
The only clash was over fascism and anti-fascism. To resume the catchphrase of the electoral campaign, the Republic he entrusted the anti-fascist obsession to the psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati, summed up in a title that seems written by the school of fascist mysticism: “The immortal desire of fascism”.
An apparently apologetic title, which seems to have been written by someone obsessed with fascism as a category of spirit and perennial value. In reality Recalcati - as his surname suggests - followed the pattern of eternal fascism, set by the ideologist Umberto Eco; a theme that in Stalin's time was called "the eternal lurking reaction".
Immortal fascism as an alibi for immoral anti-fascism. Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

Elections 2018, Matthew Castagna: "il centrodestra cercherà una maggioranza in Parlamento"
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The care of Nicola Pasqualato
I created and put online some interviews on the outcome of Sunday's vote 4 March to political leaders, journalists, commentators, political scientists. I thought it appropriate to also ask for a quick comment from Matthew Castagna, who responded to me yesterday afternoon and made these statements, interesting because it is understandable, even between the lines, that this is a person who knows what he's talking about. Then, one may or may not agree with him, but it certainly cannot be said that it is not clear. E’ the opinion of a “worker”, with experience:

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CLEAN HANDS | Policy | Non-fiction

Renzi is finished? Ok, but spare us Prodi, Veltroni e tutto quello che c'era prima
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You may like it and you may (very legitimately) don't like Renzi's style. But if the alternative is a return to the old guard of the left, then it means that the Democratic Party deserves grillism and anti-politics
Of Francesco Cancellato

That Renzi is in bad shape, politically, it is a fairly incontrovertible fact. That the Democratic Party around the 22/23% in pre-bloc polls is objectively a party in a devastating identity crisis, pure. That the future of the main Italian center-left party – assuming that it will have a unitary future – must be something different from Leopolda, it is self-evident. Let no one think of it, but, to go back, to the pre-scrappage ruling class.
We say it, reading about noble fathers like Prodi who position themselves, of hypotheses of Veltroni secretariats, or Franceschini. Of returns to the fold, as protagonists, by D'Alema and Bersani. No, Thank you. If there is something that could be even more harmful than Renzi bolting to the Nazarene, it is the return of the Second Republic-model Democratic Party.
We say it by remembering – to them, above all – That the Renzi phenomenon was born precisely from a crisis of rejection of a large part of the democratic electorate towards them, of that immobile power block, self-referential, exhausted, incapable of building a political vision that was such, let alone make it attractive in the eyes of voters.
Even the Five Star Movement, in conclusion, it began to germinate precisely on the radical criticism of the centre-left ruling class of the second republic, unable, according to Beppe Grillo, to constitute a real alternative to Berlusconi and centre-right governments. The Monti government, the first great coalition, it was an all too welcome gift that produced the exploit of 2013.
Agree, Renzi has not reversed course, and the Democratic Party continued, with him too, its unstoppable fall. But if Renzi hadn't been there, probably, we would be talking about even worse numbers. Without Renzi, for example, the Letta and Gentiloni governments would have been perceived for what they really were, two inconclusive and excessively timid executives, without any idea – right or wrong – on the future of Italy. Without Renzi we would be talking about a Christian Democratic and seaside legislature, of pure management of the existing, without any spectacular failure, Perhaps, but without any planning impetus.

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Policy | Non-fiction

A new Salvini and a new Di Maio: whatever happens, Italy is in their hands
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Of Marcello Foa
A new Salvini and a new Di Maio: whatever happens, Italy is in their hands
Source: Marcello Foa
For some years now, elections have been decided in the final sprint, in the last week, trusting in the moods of the so-called “liquid voter” that is, that part of the electorate that is determined to go to the polls but is not motivated by deep convictions. The other day, for example, in a bar in Milan I heard two young people , sitting next to me, who were undecided whether to vote for Salvini or Bonino. How is this possible? You say. The alternative is extreme and profoundly contradictory but plausible in that part of the electorate that does not constantly follow politics but develops judgments by listening to them here and there and that in the end, without admitting it publicly and least of all to himself, vote instinctively and subliminally, convinced by the personality of the political leader, more than his ideas, by the ability to recognize oneself in him or by just one aspect of his program.
Let's be clear: at this point the majority of Italians have already made up their minds and it is significant that the polls have been recording minimal fluctuations for weeks; but precisely because the outcome seems obvious, It will be precisely the liquid voters who will determine the great turning points of these elections, four in particular:
– The Movement 5 Stars will end above the 28%?
– The Democratic Party will close under the 20%
– The center-right will obtain an absolute or only a relative majority?
– Who will end up in the lead, the League or Forza Italia? Read More

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Catholicism | Non-fiction

The Eucharistic Miracle of Arquata del Tronto
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Written and reported by Don Curzio Nitoglia

Let us go with confidence to the Throne of Grace!
Arquata del Tronto (province of Ascoli Piceno) it is a small village of approx 1.600 inhabitants, which almost climbs 800 meters above sea level. The earthquake of approx 2 years ago he destroyed it almost entirely.
After the earthquake, rescuers found an intact tabernacle under a collapsed church, which was placed by the Carabinieri in a warehouse so that it would not be lost.
A few days ago (more than a year and a half after the earthquake) the Carabinieri returned the tabernacle (which had remained locked) to the parish priest, who after opening it found the pyx still closed with approximately 40 hosts completely intact, without any trace of mold or aging of the Sacred Species. Read More

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STUDY CENTER FEDERICI | Non-fiction

L'impero della Chiesa
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Reporting of Federici Studies Center

Against every form of secularism and anticlericalism, we republish a text by Monsignor Umberto Benigni on the role that the Catholic Church has had and must have in society.
The empire of the Church
The Church and civilization have, without a doubt, their own element, indifferent to the other: the dogmatic question of whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from or through the Son, it is alien to civilization; the establishment of the international telephone is foreign to the Church. This happens because there is a dogmatic element in this, absolute and transcendent; and a simply technical element enters civilization.
However, all this does not take away or diminish the great principle at all: true religion is the basis and defense of true civilization, because true religion is true morality without which civilization can only be partial and material, therefore lacking in the most and best of social life.
True and perfect civilization results from an organic set of principles and moral and material facts: together extremely complex and multiple, which ranges from the correct functioning of political and domestic authority to the public communications network and the good sanitation service. But how much would it be worth to deserve the title of civilian to a people, that in it hygiene and comfort reached the perfection existing in the palace of a North American millionaire, if morality was lacking in that people; so are its institutions, laws and customs were immoral or even amoral, that is, they made or allowed immorality to triumph? Such a people would give the spectacle of one of those stately stables, where you can admire the cleanliness, convenience, the luxury in which elegant and expensive draft and racing beasts live.

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Catholicism | Non-fiction

God does not like Jews
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Written and reported by Don Curzio Nitoglia

Introduction

This is not a Rosenberg phrase, neither Hitler nor Goebbels, but it was written by Saint Paul (1a Tess., II, 15-16) and therefore it is divinely revealed, inspired and unfailingly true.

The text of S. Paolo

The whole sentence, in two verses, it sounds like this: "Which [Jews] they even put the Lord Jesus to death [“They killed the Lord Jesus”] and the Prophets and they persecuted us too; they do not please God [“Deo non place”] and they are enemies of all men [“they are opposed to all men”], preventing us from preaching to the Pagans so that they can be saved. In this way they fill the measure of their sins! But now the wrath of God has reached its peak on their heads [“for the wrath of God came upon them to the end”]”.

The Commentary of St. Tommaso d’Aquino

Let's see the comment made by S. Tommaso d’Aquino: «It doesn't matter if the Romans killed him, because it was the Jews themselves who with their cries asked Pilate to crucify him. […]. Then the Apostle speaks of the Prophets of the Old Testament about whom it is also written in Acts of the Apostles (VII, 52): “Which of the Prophets did your fathers not persecute?? They killed those who foretold the coming of Christ, of whom you have now become traitors and murderers [“traitors and murderers”]”. Therefore they do not please God [“Deo non place”] because they do not operate with a right faith and "without faith it is impossible to please God" (Ebr., XI, 6). Infine S. Paul shows that the Jews “are enemies of all men [“they are opposed to all men”]”. In fact they are enemies because they forbid and prevent us Apostles of the New Testament from preaching to all men and thus hinder their conversion. […]. So they live until they reach the point where God allows. Indeed God, after the passion of Christ, granted the Jews a space of 40 years for penance, but not only did they not convert, but they added sin to sin. And God no longer tolerated it. […]. However, do not think that this divine wrath will last forever 100 years, but it will last “until the end” of the world [“until the end” mundi], when all the Pagans have embraced faith in Christ" (Thomas Aquinas, Exposition and reading on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle. A Lecture on the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Reading II, caput 2, verses 15-16). Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

Who is Italian, and who doesn't
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Of Francesco Lamendola
Who is Italian, and who doesn't
Source: Francesco Lamendola
We talk a lot about citizenship and we tend to identify citizenship with nationality: if a person has the citizenship of the Italian Republic, then that person is certainly Italian; Ultimately it's very simple, no? Precisely: And too simple. Yet it is clear that things are a little more complex, just think about it for a moment. The Italians who couldn't, or they didn't want to, leave Venezia Giulia, In the 1947, at the time of the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the definitive cession of those lands to Yugoslavia, they no longer deserved the name of Italians, despite having lost, evidently, Italian citizenship and having acquired Yugoslavian citizenship? Of course not: so much so that, at least on paper, in Yugoslavia they enjoyed the recognition of a certain cultural and linguistic autonomy, however, it soon remained a dead letter. And the Swiss citizens of the Canton of Ticino, who have never been Italian citizens, nor of the Kingdom, nor of the Republic, they do not deserve to be called and considered Italian? Of course yes: so much so that Italian is recognized as one of the four official languages ​​of the Swiss Confederation. Evidently, you can be Italian, incontestably and truly Italian, despite not having Italian citizenship: This point seems to us to be sufficiently clarified. Read More

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