Matthew Castagna: "Cattolici tra Europeismo e Populismo" – The challenge to nihilism
Of Lucia Rezzonico
Yesterday, our manager Matthew Castagna premiered his book “CATHOLICS AND BETWEEN Europeanism POPULISM – The challenge to nihilism” (SOLFANELLI editions pag. 243) at the national broadcaster, also visible abroad on satellite, Italy channel, host of the show “News Today” of the conductor Gianluca Versace.
Together with him, a well-known forty-year-old communist from Padua, the commentator Aldo Bianchini, the most conciliar journalist and writer Luciano Lincetto and the area beat singer of a sort “hippie left” Gigi Barrichello.
The guests of yesterday morning's episode: Chestnut, Bianchini, Barrichello, Lynx
It certainly cannot be said that Castagna played “at home”, anything but. But he himself explains to us the reason for choosing to go out with her first presentation in this context: “Today television is still, in Italy, the most used means of communication, as demonstrated by expert data and the audience, very high, obtained from the episode, which was followed by an avalanche of orders for the book. I specify that two types of presentations or conferences can be held: where we talk “in house”, and it is certainly a useful method. But if the aim is to reach those who don't think like you, the means is that of cross-examination. This time I was offered this and I gladly accepted. I have another one, simile, at stake, in Verona and three others, in September. Starting from October I am available for further presentations, always writing to christusrex@libero.it“. Read More
Count of miracles
FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
He will be a walk-on, but Giuseppe Conte makes an impression at Palazzo Chigi. So far in his seventy-day trip around the world he has never made a mistake, a phrase, a statement. The only gaffe belongs to his previous life, when he wrote CVs to bulk up a bit. Now there's no more need to argue, in two months he created an enviable CV, reality surpasses rumor. In his speeches perhaps he will keep to the obvious, on the generic, doesn't decide much, it merely entertains, repeat, simulate; but the little he said and the very little he did, he said it and he did it well, without ever going unbalanced. He kept himself on edge with a prodigious balancing act, than even the tightrope walkers at village festivals, those that in our Puglia we called tarall'e Zucchere. He managed not to displease Di Maio, Salvini and Mattarella, indeed he gave the impression of agreeing with each of them. It is Padre Pio's last miracle to demonstrate that nothing is impossible, even that a Count suddenly becomes prime minister, without firing a shot. And don't be attacked by anyone, print included. Read More
The League of Brothers of Italy
FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
When Salvini and Meloni were not yet born, was born in Italy, from the womb of The Bourgeois, the League of Brothers of Italy. The father was naturally Leo Longanesi. He dreamed of giving birth a national movement, conservative, popular and bourgeois, that he wasn't neo-fascist, liberal let alone Christian Democrat. But it was seriously post-fascist, since he noticed Longanesi: “Our democracy has only one evil, there is only one defect: that of existing as an opponent of fascism; to live it finds no other justification than that of fighting a dead fascism with Mussolini. Thus we witness a struggle of vertical corpses against a horizontal corpse.". Fantastic. It was the 1955 e 63 years later we are at the same point, even with the grillini in government.
Then and now, there was a need to invent oneself, a movement that represented a large and excluded world, or poorly represented, antagonist to the left, to clericalism and progressivism. We were in the Christian Democratic era, the communists had not yet been admitted into the antechamber of governments, Regions did not exist, Italy was recovering greatly at least in terms of well-being, he had found an acceptable compromise with the past based on oblivion, there was an economic boom and Italians were giving birth a lot, especially in the south. What should we say now, that the world has changed, we are in the European Union, debt is skyrocketing, the regions have destroyed us, we are full of migrants and empty of young people and elites, Italy is duller than then, they no longer have children and the dead outnumber those born? That we need a League of the Brothers of Italy... But the League exists and, if within a month the mood of this psychotic country still doesn't change, it is now even the first party. At his side, small and vainly looking for his visibility and his role, there is what remains of AN and the MSI, called Brothers of Italy, actually led by a sister from Rome, good and incisive on TV. Read More
Who from Rai hurts, of Rai perishes
Of Marcello Veneziani
Source: Marcello Veneziani
I don't know how the drama about the president of Rai will end, if Foa will remain at the helm anyway, perhaps as a senior advisor as happened in 2004 to Berlusconi's Alberoni or if Giampaolo Rossi takes over from him, competent in RAI and new media, in discontinuity with the previous Rai domination and in harmony with Foa's ideas. Maybe we'll figure it out today. But on a political level one thing can already be said: the final veto on a signature of Il Giornale as president of Rai is the worst conclusion of Berlusconi's parable. End up in resentment, burning Foa, align with the PD and the scattered left, separate from the League and the Brothers of Italy, only show the ability to cause failure, it is a miserable epilogue for Berlusconi. That decline that has been going on for years now, has reached a point of no return and breaking of B. with his people and his allies.
Nobody expected Forza Italia to align itself with the yellow-green government. That's right, and even useful, that Forza Italia maintains a critical line towards the economic choices of the Grillini, Di Maio's reforms, amateurism and underlying punitive pauperism, the grillosinistri type Fico or the half socks in power, genus Raggi. That opposition line responds to the nature of his voters, to the mandate received and to its economic and political line.
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Salvini quotes Him: "Molti nemici, molto onore". But the phrase is not from the Duce…
Of Antonio Pannullo
Now who knows how many they will tell Salvini: “Many enemies, so much honor!”. Deputy Prime Minister Salvini writes it, are Facebook, by posting a press article reporting news of the various attacks on the Minister of the Interior, in the past few days, from the Catholic sectors to those of the left. In reality Mussolini's motto was not "many enemies", but “many enemies”, however, that is the meaning.
And it is also not the first time that Salvini has used this phrase, and then it is a sentence of simple common sense: the leader of the League used it at least one other time, in February 2015, referring to the criticism of him by do-gooders who underlined that there were Italians in poverty while the State paid for hotels for illegal immigrants. The phrase, being sure to be effective, it has been used by many people, and is erroneously attributed to Julius Caesar, like many other mottos of the Duce. But it's not even his. This beautiful phrase was almost certainly invented by a man who had many enemies in his life: the German leader Georg von Frundsberg (1473-1528), obviously unknown in Italy. He was a general of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation who fought for the House of Habsburg, and in particular for Emperor Maximilian I. Georg spent his whole life fighting almost continuously for the Habsburgs, especially in Italy. It seems that right in Vicenza, fighting against the Venetians in the Battle of La Motta, Venetians who were in overwhelming numbers, the leader told his servant that he had pointed out the disproportion: “many enemies of von Frundsberg, much honour!”. It was the 1513.
Today there is a statue in his honor at the Military Museum in Vienna, commissioned by Franz Joseph, and during the Second World War a Waffen SS division was allowed to bear the title Frundsberg. The German leader has been forgotten, but the phrase remained, just as the phrases invented by the Arditi during the Great War remained and were used, mottos taken up by Mussolini and relaunched for their validity and for the message they conveyed. Among these, “He who stops is lost”, “Better one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep”, etc. In short, the sentences, the mottos, the slogans one would say today, they rarely belong to the person who made them famous, but the merit of Mussolini and other leaders is certainly that of having valorized those concepts that touch the emotional chords of man and which are ultimately eternal values. Returning to Salvini, we are ready to bet that the storm over his use of certain expressions will continue. But we also bet that Salvini, to stay in the metaphor, "don't worry".
P.S: this was also a motto of the Arditi of the Great War...
Source: http://www.secoloditalia.it/2018/07/salvini-cita-lui-molti-nemici-molto-onore-ma-la-frase-non-e-del-duce/ Read More
The Nazzareno plot starts in September
Of Maurizio Blondet
“Within a few months this government will end”, Silvio prophesied to his parliamentary remnants gathered in Montecitorio. Change the name of the party, it will now be called “Altra Italia”. “A new beginning awaits us!”, he reassured them. Where does he get so much optimism from?, with his 8 little percent left? The point is that Matteo Renzi said the same thing: “Salvini? It will not stand up to political and judicial pressure.", to his, in circumstances frighteningly similar to that of Berlusconi: he gathered his people in a Roman restaurant to revive them. «Enough whining. We have no reason to be discouraged. The government will fall soon. We have to be ready.".
http://tg.la7.it/politica/berlusconi-profetizza-questo-governo-dura-poco-conte-mediocre-26-07-2018-129888
http://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-3/politica/ldquo-teniamoci-pronti-caso-soldi-lega-esplodera-rdquo-179762.htm
Ready for what? In Rome, city that "knows everything and keeps silent" (said Tacitus), Many people seem to be aware of the conspiracy, that the rumors are faithfully taken up by Dagospia. Who defined what the Florentine Piddino tweeted as "a little prank" from Renzi: «A sentence – he wrote – says that the League must repay 49 millions to Italians. Salvini said that he, minister and leader of the League, He doesn't intend to do it. His, Minister of Legality, announces that he will not follow the sentence requiring him to return the money. We are at the most brazen illegality. And he doesn't answer. Salvini announces, but he doesn't answer". Read More
The enemies of Christian civilization
A masterful article by someone who is not Catholic, but it comes with the observation of reality, reason and culture, to describe the truth. (n.d.r.)
Of Marcello Veneziani
Christian civilization today has three enemies: the Islamic invasion, atheistic materialism and Bergoglio's church. In different ways and degrees they are uprooting the seed of Christianity from our lives, the link with its symbols, with his wedding ring and his tradition. They detest any attempt to give visibility and centrality to the Christian message, they can't stand the crucified in public places, they are indignant if someone raises the problem of safeguarding their living space, its cities, its rites and liturgies.
The former want to replace a religion that they feel is declining with theirs and submit Christianity to Islam. The second wants to erase every trace of spirituality and of religious presence from the public horizon for reduce man to his desires and his selfishness. The third wants to reduce Christian civilization to a place of welcome, humanitarian corridor, to the point of losing every living trace of Christianity. The first comes from below, from the south of the world, from boats and NGOs. The second comes down from above, from the great factories of atheism and nihilism that nest in the media, in the consumer society, in the sanctuaries of finance and ideology. Read More
STOP homoparenting: speech by Minister Salvini
TWO MOMS OR TWO DADDS DO NOT EXIST: APPLICABLE LAW MUST BE RESPECTED
ProVita e Family Generation express satisfaction with the response given by Minister Salvini to Sen.'s question. Pillon regarding the registration in the civil status of "two mothers" or "two fathers"
Jacopo Coghe (Family Generation) e Toni Brandi (ProVita Onlus) welcome the measure announced by Minister Salvini which will serve to put an end to the abuses of officials in charge of civil status registers: Why "the birth certificate must correspond to biological truth», as Senator Pillon said and Salvini reiterated to question time held today at Palazzo Madama. Even the minister Fontana he stigmatized the practices of selling gametes and renting the uterus, in today's hearing at the Social Affairs Committee.
«Two mothers must have bought the sperm to be fertilized, two dads must have bought eggs and rented a woman's uterus in order to have a baby: these are types of crimes envisaged by the art. 12 of the law 40 of the 2004», explains Coghe. «These are commercial practices that debase women and children as objects», Brandi points out.
Family Generation e ProVita I applaud the minister also for having once again clarified the Government's position in defense of the natural family and the values it expresses, from the attacks directed at it by powerful lobbies: these use mayors and judges to realize the economic interests that drive the "child factories" and to encourage ideological and nihilistic propaganda that would like to erase the reality of human nature: children are born to a mother and a father and have the right to grow up with the mother and father who gave birth to them.
Jacopo Coghe (Family Generation) e Toni Brandi (ProVita Onlus) welcome the measure announced by Minister Salvini which will serve to put an end to the abuses of officials in charge of civil status registers: Why "the birth certificate must correspond to biological truth», as Senator Pillon said and Salvini reiterated to question time held today at Palazzo Madama. Even the minister Fontana he stigmatized the practices of selling gametes and renting the uterus, in today's hearing at the Social Affairs Committee.
«Two mothers must have bought the sperm to be fertilized, two dads must have bought eggs and rented a woman's uterus in order to have a baby: these are types of crimes envisaged by the art. 12 of the law 40 of the 2004», explains Coghe. «These are commercial practices that debase women and children as objects», Brandi points out.
Family Generation e ProVita I applaud the minister also for having once again clarified the Government's position in defense of the natural family and the values it expresses, from the attacks directed at it by powerful lobbies: these use mayors and judges to realize the economic interests that drive the "child factories" and to encourage ideological and nihilistic propaganda that would like to erase the reality of human nature: children are born to a mother and a father and have the right to grow up with the mother and father who gave birth to them.
This was announced by the press offices of Generazione Famiglia and ProVita Onlus, as well as the press office of the Circolo Christus Rex-Traditio
Fontana on the children of gay couples: "Maternità surrogata è vietata, stop accolades"
“WE, PROUD OF A MINISTER FRIEND, WHO DOES NOT SEEK THE APPLAUSE OF THE WORLD, BUT HE WANTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMON GOOD, ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC DOCTRINE” (Matthew Castagna, National Manager of the Christus Rex Club).
The Minister of Family Affairs also announced news on foster care. Salvini: “We will defend the child's right to have a mother and a father”. Vendola: “No one will be able to erase our children”. And Hanger: “We will continue to record them”
ROMA – Stop the recognition of children of same-sex couples born abroad thanks to practices prohibited in Italy such as surrogacy. The Minister of Family Affairs underlined this Lorenzo Fontana, heard by the Social Affairs Commission of the Chamber on the programmatic lines of its ministry: “I note that the current structure of family law cannot fail to take into account what has been happening in recent months regarding the recognition of parenthood, for the purposes of registering the civil status of children conceived abroad by same-sex couples using practices prohibited by our law and which should remain so”, said the minister, that already on the day of the swearing-in of the Conte government he had dismissed the issue of the children of same-sex couples by stating that in his opinion rainbow families “they don't exist”. Read More