WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria, Nov. 23: This way (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

In the cradle of monotheisms war rages; it is also a religious war,
since this takes on a central role in the ongoing divisions and
conflicts, even if it cannot hide the real and material interests that
fuel an interminable conflict which is now leading to the decimation of
the Palestinian population, a real genocide carried out by the army of
the State which claims to represent those who experienced the Shoah,
armed by the West and always covered by international complicity. ----
The three monotheisms have always been the true cradle of bloody
conflicts, and the only moments of peace are those following violent
military pacifications. Within individual religions, then, other violent
divisions have caused wars and conflicts, such as between Shiites and
Sunnis in the Muslim world; but also within Israel, with the various
fundamentalist sects that push towards the elimination of the
Palestinian presence, with the expansion of the colonies and the
presence in the government with openly fascist positions; opposed by
other Jews with progressive and pacifist positions.

But the Gaza Strip now lives in terror and daily destruction, and all
this is turning into religious hatred which risks nullifying the real
issue at stake: the self-determination of peoples.

But I realize that addressing this question can lead us to slip into the
abstractionism of any pope; but while the Pope invokes the Madonna and
prayer as a means of resolution, admired by the Santoros on duty, for us
the enemies to fight, on both fronts, are first and foremost the
governments that claim to represent the peoples, and with them also the
religious beliefs. Here, abstractness in this case is transformed into a
perspective of struggle. And those who think this way are growing on
both fronts.

Attention! Attention! the sixteenth general assembly on synodality,
after 4 weeks of work, produced a final document which, after many
circumlocutions, manages to say nothing new! To justify the nullity they
defined the text as a "blueprint for the work to be carried out in the
second session of 2024".

Highlights: "accompany everyone, including those who have suffered abuse
and wounds in the Church". But take them where? to the police station to
report pedophile priests? or towards the tortuous path of time wasting?
It is no coincidence that "there is still a long way to go", which
"requires addressing the structural conditions that have allowed such
abuses and carrying out concrete gestures of penance". Translation: we
won't do anything. Also because there are those who fear "a debasement
of the hierarchical nature of the Church", and "the reasons for the
resistance to synodality" must be understood.

The reference to the poor who ask the Church for "love" is inevitable,
but "The most vulnerable among the vulnerable, in whose favor constant
advocacy action is necessary, are children in the womb and their
mothers". Regarding that special category of poor who are migrants,
attention to language is recommended: "For example, a word like
"mission", in contexts in which "the proclamation of the Gospel has been
associated with colonization and even genocide" , is full of "a painful
historical legacy" and hinders communion. "Evangelizing in these
contexts requires recognizing the mistakes made and learning a new
sensitivity to these problems." Damn if they're right! And while I'm at
it with the self-criticism, here's the direction to "identify the
systems that create or maintain racial injustice within the Church and
fight them." All work to do. As in the case of women, the point that had
created the most suspense.

Well, they too must be accompanied and understood. The women present at
the Synod say they spoke of "a Church that wounds". "Clericalism,
chauvinism and an inappropriate use of authority continue to disfigure
the face of the Church and damage communion". What is required is "deep
spiritual conversion and structural changes" as well as "a dialogue
between men and women without subordination, exclusion or competition".
Again with this "structural" to avoid calling things by their name:
chauvinism, misogyny, patriarchy.

Female diaconate? There are different opinions on women's access to the
diaconate: for some it is an "unacceptable" step, "in discontinuity with
Tradition"; for others it would restore a practice of the early Church;
still others see it as "an appropriate and necessary response to the
signs of the times" for "renewed vitality and energy in the Church".
Then there are those who express "the fear that this request is the
expression of a dangerous anthropological confusion, by accepting which
the Church would align itself with the spirit of the time". For this
reason, the participants in the Synod ask to continue "theological and
pastoral research on women's access to the diaconate", using the results
of the commissions specifically established by the Pope and the
theological, historical and exegetical research already carried out: "If
possible, the results should be presented at the next Session of the
Assembly". Everything postponed... to September, even if cases of
employment discrimination and unfair remuneration loom large, including
those in the Church where "consecrated women are often considered cheap
labour". Male abusers will take care of it, of course! they are the only
ones who have the right role to do it.

Another nice reference: the abuse issue "places many bishops in the
difficulty of reconciling the role of father and that of judge", it is
suggested to "evaluate the opportunity of entrusting the judicial task
to another instance, to be canonically specified". However, the theme of
emotional and sexual education must be explored in depth, but to
accompany (again!) young people (those in the seminaries) on their path
of growth and to support the emotional maturation of those who are
called to celibacy and consecrated chastity". Amen.

Do you remember the case of the Antonio Provolo Institute in Verona?
that "home" for the deaf and dumb and other disabled young people where
for at least fifty years priests and carers committed the worst tortures
and the most disgusting sexual abuses on children? Twenty priests and
clerics reported, on whom abuse was proven, following the report of 15
former students, took advantage of the statute of limitations. Not so in
Argentina, where the same bad things happened in the Provolo branches of
Mendoza and La Plata: here the Buenos Aires court proved to be much
quicker than the Italian one by inflicting 45 years in prison on the
priest Horacio Hugo Corbacho Blank former director of Mendoza; 42 years
old to the Italian priest Nicola Bruno Corradi Soliman, already very
active in Verona; 18 years to Armando Ramòn Gòmez Bravo, employee of the
religious institute, while the other Italian priest, Eliseo Pirmati,
fled from Argentina and took refuge, do you know where? at Provolo di
Verona!

Brother Doubtful

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