Of Roberto PECCHIOLI
The adventure of a poor Christian was Ignazio Silone's last literary work, the author of Fontamara. Exit with great success in the fateful 1968, recounts the convulsive Roman and Neapolitan months of Pietro di Morrone, the monk who ascended to the papacy in 1294 with the name of Celestine V after infighting of a corrupt church, returned after a few months to his hermitage in the Maiella mountains following the abdication that Dante called "the great refusal". Silone intended to represent the opposition between the individual and the Church in his fellow countryman Abruzzo, even more so the irreducible gap between the honest man and power.
Following the paths of disarmed Catholicism has become the daily adventure of poor Christians. We believed that nothing could surprise us more than what comes out of the mouths of members of the hierarchy, but we were wrong. In recent weeks, two significant episodes have caused new disturbance and renewed dismay. The first is the phone call between Gianni Vattimo, marxist philosopher, proclaimed homosexual, standard bearer of postmodern nihilism in the insidious form of so-called weak thought, and the tenant of Santa Marta Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Between the two, whose approach was perhaps favored by the class's common condition as conscripts 1936, the most concrete was the Turin thinker, which, according to the reconstructions, he would have proposed to his successor (or better, to the impostor, n.d.r.) of Pietro to put himself at the head of a sort of international against the excessive power of money. Vast programme, commendable and widely shareable, but certainly distant from the religious mission.
The other is the interview on the sidelines of the pro-immigrant anti-government initiative promoted by various members of the clergy, granted by the bishop emeritus (conciliate, n.d.r.) from Caserta Raffaele Nogaro to Repubblica. The prelate verbatim stated the following: “morally and as a man of faith I would be ready to transform all churches into mosques if it was useful to the cause and if it allowed us to save the lives of men and women, poor and unhappy, because Christ did not come to earth to build churches but to help men regardless of race, from religion, by nationality. And instead there are politicians who continue to preach expulsions in their rallies and the worst thing is that they do so with the crown and the rosary in their hands and taking the name of God in vain, a very serious sin. “
The passage was read by another bizarre cleric (conciliate, n.d.r.), Alex Zanotelli, long-time globalist with rainbow vestments, during the demonstration held near the Vatican. The words of the former missionary also deserve to be reported. “We are here in front of St. Peter's, not so much for the basilica but for its proximity to Pope Francis, that we encourage him to say the strong words he is saying in favor of migrants, and we are here with this lamp for Francesco. If there was a man passionate about the poor it was him.” It is inferred that Pope Francis for the time it is more important than the basilica, therefore of the apostolic see, symbol of two millennia, while the saint of Assisi is only Francis, downgraded exclusively to champion of the poor, forgetting his gigantic testimony of faith which even brought him before the sultan of Egypt to convert him.
The improvident words of the bishop emeritus of Caserta, aspiring ayatollah of the city of the palace, have not escaped the international press. The headline from the Spanish newspaper La Gaceta is a real punch in the face: an Italian bishop willing to transform all churches into mosques. Respect for Nogaro's serious age, eighty-five years old, does not detract from the drama of his statements. It really costs a lot to understand the thought processes of those who make such statements as Catholic prelates. This is the evidence that a notable part of the hierarchy, with the favor of the Vatican dome, is possessed by the same masochistic and suicidal spirit that has invaded the politically correct and "right-thinking" public opinion of the continent.
Let's make a double premise: it is obvious that the Church has the duty to call for respect for the dignity of every human being, rejecting ethnic hatred. Likewise, we recognize Nogaro to Italian citizens, Zanotelli, Ciotti the right to express political opinions different from those of millions of fellow countrymen, Catholics and non-Catholics. They can, as private citizens, being indifferent or even hostile to the cultural and national roots of Italy, prefer new immigrants to the old faithful. We know it, we take note of this and have the right to consider them political adversaries. What leaves the average Italian with Catholic roots astonished - the vast majority of the nation - is the desire they express for the dissolution of the faith, one of the cornerstones of Italian and European national identity, as well as the reason for their life choices.
Declare that you are willing, as men of faith (Christian, philanthropic, or whatever?) to transform every church into a mosque, perhaps starting from St. Peter's Basilica, that Zanotelli cares less than Francesco (the Argentine one) corresponds to an implicit admission. It's underway, they tell us between the lines, a Muslim invasion. However, not only do they not intend to oppose it, but they are even ready to make bell towers into minarets. Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Byzantium, Istanbul is evidently the model they tend towards. The Friulian ayatollah of Caserta also informs us that his wish is valid if useful "to the cause." His is not that of the Italian people, and that's fine, but even less is that of the religion to which he has consecrated himself, the Catholic faith, therefore universal, but also apostolic, aimed at converting every man, and Roman, rooted in a city symbol of a specific civilization, as well as the historical capital of a nation of which Raffaele Nogaro is also a citizen and son.
At the very least, following Carl Schmitt's lexicon, we clearly know who is a friend and who is an enemy of our homeland. The cause of the priests, from today we cannot ignore it, it is not spreading the Word and saving souls in a transcendent perspective, but it is "saving the lives of the poor and unhappy". There is no doubt that saving lives is the task of every man of good will, but we were convinced that souls were the objective of the Church, all the more so, according to Jesus Christ, man will not live by bread alone, but of every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matteo, 4,4). The ayatollah has moved forward and no longer reads the Gospel. On the other hand, its protagonist, Jesus, founder of Christianity, of the Church, e, implicitly, of much of our civilization, “he did not come to earth to build churches but to help men regardless of race, from religion, by nationality.”
The adventure of the poor Christian here becomes the Via Crucis, since the confusion that grips us is too great, to the point of eroding faith. The man from Nazareth would be a kind of general coadjutor, a material helper of humanity. Nogaro will have taught for decades what Jesus revealed with utmost clarity, of having come to save the world in the perspective of eternity, and his kingdom is not of this world (Giovanni, 18-36). As for building churches, which he indignantly opposes, Jesus, the Savior, not the helper, said Simone: “you are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church”. (Matteo, 16,18). The meaning is first and foremost spiritual, but Peter was not tasked with transforming the nascent church into something else. But the survival of the faith seems to matter nothing to certain ministers of the Church. The idea that desecrating our churches by turning them into mosques can help save lives is indicative, as well as a certain mental disorder, how little they care about the latest arrivals.
We are well beyond the "anthropological choice", who enthroned man to put God in the background, Karl Rahner's concept of the "anonymous Christian" is also outdated, according to which anyone can be saved even without knowing Christ. The Church chooses to be part of the anthropological engineering project aimed at a single globalized world, his cause coincides not with that of the damned of the earth, but with the dirty interests of those who direct migrations with the aim of destroying more structured civilizations, while at the same time having a critical mass of human beings to exploit on the markets, the legal ones and the more unclean ones. Furthermore, part of it is crossed by a self-destructive impulse with a thousand aspects, one of which seems prevalent to us, the lack of faith in the mission of salvation indicated by those who have been considered children of God for two thousand years. Evidently, For neomodernist clerics, Jesus is a powerful healer, a prophet, a model of man, a revolutionary or social agitator, but not the Savior. Nogaro explains it clearly: he is the great helper, the greatest Helper of humanity, uninterested in temples, to be converted into mosques.
The new preachers will be i muezzin, Sunday will be replaced by Friday, the word of God will be the Koran. Jesus will be honored as a prophet together with his mother Mary, always better than a generic auxiliary of humanity. It's scary, in fact it's horrifying, the joy with which they run towards dissolution, the foolish optimism with which they throw twenty centuries into the sea, the principles that Jesus preached and the civilization that welcomed them, widespread, based on one's vision of the world.
Sometimes we feel envious of those, non-believer, indifferent or agnostic, he doesn't suffer from what he sees. In the city of men, we have the right, the duty to defend our nation, the principles received, the identity we want to pass on to our children e, goodbye, also the churches where two thousand years of our people have received the sacraments and were led to burial in the hope of the Savior.
If many men of the Church (Today, Therefore, men of the Counter-Church, n.d.r.) they have become enemies of our reasons, of our feelings, of our principles, so much the worse for them. We won't follow them; we will keep this nation standing, this continent, even against them. In an extreme lyric in the Friulian language, marilenghe, mother tongue of Raffaele Nogaro, even Pier Paolo Pasolini urged Fedro, the young man he was addressing, to three imperatives: defend, conserva, pray. We will preserve the churches that ministers don't care about. It's about ourselves, the adventure of the poor Christians does not end.
Source: The adventure of a poor Christian.